

He grew up in Texas watching Doak Walker, and he couldn’t see himself playing for any other school than SMU. Weber was an honorable mention All-American member of the 1957 Mustangs. And if realignment works out of that, fine, if not - if it stays like it is - we want to be competitive in whatever conference we’re in, and a facility like this requires it.”Īnd that facility wouldn’t be within grasp without one of SMU football’s own. “We’ve tried to couch this by saying is a very important component for us to stay competitive and successful in Division I athletics. “It’s really hard to know what that’s going to be,” Turner said of the college landscape. Five years later, the Big 12 added four new schools, including three American Athletic Conference rivals of SMU: BYU from the Mountain West Conference, and Cincinnati, Houston and UCF from the AAC. In 2016, SMU expressed interest in joining the Big 12 Conference. This would go a long way to helping make the experience a bit more realistic but also would mean your legacy at the club will last forever.Additionally, as the last couple years of college athletics have shown, the landscape is changing. I’m not talking about putting the Sims in Football Manager 2023, but just some options that let you decide things like capacity, the shape of the ground, how it looks etc. Lastly, and this is a very popular demand amongst Football Manager fans, the ability to build your own stadium would be amazing. It can’t be long until it is in Football Manager, we just hope it is in Football Manager 2023. Just imagine looking at your social feed during the transfer window and you see a Fabrizio Romano ‘here we go’ about one of your players, it’s weird but it is now a huge part of the sport. The outlets already exist in the game, but being asked questions by the Football Ramble, yet it isn’t actually a member of the Ramble, does feel slightly disappointing, yet it is an easy fix. They play such a huge part of the footballing landscape now, if you’re into football you know who they are. It would also be a welcome addition if there were real journalists in the game. It’s incredibly likely this happens, as they do get a few small tweaks year on year but a bigger change for Football Manager 2023 would be nice. It’s actually heartbreaking when your player puts in an incredible performance, but when you praise them, they just get upset with you.Įveryone loves a pat on the back, yet in Football Manager all your players are so hard to compliment.Īnother small change we would love to see in Football Manager 2023, would be more variety with questions. The biggest one is probably how players react to positive praise. There are a few quality of life improvements that we need to see in Football Manager 2023. It would offer you a lot more challenges as a manager, whilst also being much more about the actual tactics than the transfers. Then you would need to replace this player, but quickly and without making signings, it’s a fascinating proposition. If some of your players start performing too well, then they could be called up to the first team or even go out on loan to get better experience. It would also give you new things to worry about as a manager. NOW READ: The best teams to manage in FM23 Plenty of managers start out as a youth coach in real life, and it would go a long way to making the experience feel authentic, but also change up how your career can progress. It would feel very realistic if you could manage the youth teams.

This could even be done via bringing in a set-piece coach, something teams like Liverpool and West Ham have famously done during the last few seasons. Going forward you could set up multiple different routines, and choose which one you want before your set piece is about to be taken, it would certainly add some versatility to your attack. You will score a few throughout a season, but it relies more on the players you have instead of the routine itself. Essentially plonking your big lads on the near and far posts is all you need to do. They’re effective in Football Manager 2022, but normally you set it up, find what works and then leave it at that. Set PiecesĬorners could do with a bit of spruce up too. If in Football Manager 2023, you could do something similar, it would help give you greater control on where players are on the pitch, as well as deciding how you counter attack. Read More: When should we expect Football Manager 2023 If you take Manchester City as an example, they attack in a fluid 4-3-3 but when they defend it is a high pressing 4-4-2.


As football has continued to progress and the modern game keeps growing more and more complicated, it makes sense to introduce using an offensive and defensive formation in Football Manager 2023.
