NCAA Football 09 (3)

Now that you know what all your players can do, you have to cut your roster down to 75 players. Sometimes this is no easy task, especially when I had a roster count at 89 pre cut. So you’ve trimmed the fat off your roster, now you get to begin the preseason, and at the beginning of each preseason you get your first glance at this year’s recruits, and can select a few for your target board. Since you have to look the future, the next task is to redshirt players. This takes them out of the depth chart for this year, and next year they return as freshman again. This is helpful, to give the player an extra year of training camp, and also if you have a deep roster and the player won’t play anyways. After that’s done you get to set your depth chart. This is putting the players in order of how good each is by their positions. Finally the last thing for preseason is the custom schedule, where you get to choose non conference opponents to fill the rest of you schedule. Once that’s done you are ready for your next season.