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College BBALL Coach – Sports Game Review
College BBALL Coach is a Sports/Sports/Simulation game from David Zolnier, first launched in 8th December 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 226+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes College BBALL Coach Stand Out
Be a college basketball coach in this unique entertainment sim!
You could actually call College BBALL Coach an "Entertainment Sim" of sorts. You'll manage your team, recruit new players, play over 20 practice drills and simulate your game outcomes based on how well your gameplan and players match up against opposing teams.
Pretty simple, but you'll see that it can be quite fun and challenging when it comes down to it! Do you have what it takes to win a National Championship, coach? Let's find out!
*** After over a year in design, development and testing, I'm proud to bring this great game to all of the college basketball fans out there! Please enjoy the game and share any ideas, feedback or bugs (hey, I'm human after all) that you encounter to help make this the best game it can be! Thanks and welcome to College BBALL Coach!
This Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, College BBALL Coach is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th April 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Fixed a bug where certain coaches could not retire. Talk about an endless job!
Various tournament game sim tweaks.
Bug fix on View Player screen.
Tweaks to various display items.
Download & Availability
College BBALL Coach is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get College BBALL Coach on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We found this game in 2017 and we have been playing it ever since. Unfortunately a few years ago we got a new phone and lost this game and was sad to hear it was no longer on the App Store. We are so happy it is back so we can play it again. This game is nothing like we have found before and it has all the aspects of college basketball without all the analytical parts. We really enjoy the simplicity of this game and we definitely would recommend.
This is the best game we have ever played thank you for creating just a great game for us.
This is the best college basketball game ever and maybe one of the best basketball games ever on mobile. You guys should make a baseball game and football.
The game is really fun and addicting but in our save the screen went black and we couldnt do anything and its corrupted now it seems.
Ive honestly played it so much and we love it but one thing we would like to see is an option for you to play on some plays of the game this could make the game more fun to play and will become more exciting.
To anybody that actually reads these reviews, many people are complaining about a lot of things. Some complain about practice, which you can simply aim if its that bad. Others complain about the in app purchases, which are completely unnecessary and our team has been Gods each year without it. Theres no lag and its just a simple great overall game. The only thing we would like to see happen is something similar to new soccer star, where you can actual buy stuff with the money you have earned for coaching. Other than that this game is awesome and its definitely worth the price.
We love this game it is so addicting and fun, however all of our friends play and we wish there was a way we could all get into the same league, like an online mode or something along those lines. We will continue to play either way but we always argue who is better and we wish there was a way to prove who is. Anyways great game.
We also would like a online mode to put our all time great teams to the test.
We used to play years and years of dynasty mode on EA games just to play the elements of what this game captures. When is the football version coming out.
You can make the best college team ever and make a collage team edit the players.
We love this game should definitely make a college football version of it too.
Have you thought about making a college football and/or baseball game? You should really consider with the same style of play, recruiting the whole nine yards. Great game.
Absolutely love this game but it would be twice as fun if positions were added.
This truly is a good game but we think a few things could be added. You could add customizable recruiting to players. You could add recruiting mid season as well.
A great game that was exactly what we wanted. Great use of a dollar. Its simple, fun, and easy to use. Ive had some small bugs, but nothing that didnt fix itself by closing the app. It was fun and semi-addictive. Great work.
We love this game. Thank you for making a college basketball game when they are very hard to find. You definitely worked very hard on this and it shows. A few suggestions to make it even better 1. More realistic job offers. If your team is bad, the national champions shouldnt be offering you a job, yet that happens sometimes. 2. Better all conference teams. Ive had our whole team as first and second team in the conf. Even when some guys on the second team only averaged 5 ppg. This is unrealistic. Those are really the only two things we can think of right now. Other than that, this game is great, and we play it constantly. Thanks for all your hard work.
Ive played many sports sim games and this one is by far the best! We recommend it to anyone looking to play a fun and addictive game! We just cant stop playing it.
This game is fun they should try making one for college football.
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We absolutely love this game and we wouldnt change one thing except we had a very good coach that we had to retire after 10 years because every time we tried to play our game it would black out.
Its the only game that we have stuck with. We do wish that you could look back at Championship banners or something when you look at your career.
We literally have mental orgasms every time we join a new team.
Seriously keep updating with new things! This game is a lot of fun for college basketball fans.
Didnt find this game till now but Im glad we did! One thing we noticed was that it values SOS a lot. We went 30-4 one year and missed the tourney due to an SOS of 324, although we did edit the schedule a little. Also, are there any plans to add rebounds/assists/etc? Not that big but after a while it would be nice. Again great game.
This app is great. We got it because we were bored and was watching the NCAA college basketball tournament and we wanted to play a game that sort of replicated the tournament. We stumbled upon this app. The app didnt look so appealing at first glance but it turns out that its VERY addicting and fun too. Though the players and arent accurate and are made up, and the teams are no name teams, its still fun never-less as a coach for your team. You can also recruit your players which we love to do. Occasionally, the game may black out for no reason but other than a few minor bugs, this game is great and totally worth it.
Hey, all we really play in our phone are a couple of online games and sports sims, this is by far in contention for the best on iOS with OOTPs MLB Manager 17. The only thing it lacks in our opinion is some strategic depth. For instance, having positions. This would be awesome to have a legit starting 5 and have to play/ plan that way. This would make recruiting more strategic; instead of just going to best available, you may need a C and have to get one who is 7 overall instead of going for the mass of 9s available in the current system. Another would be adding measurables, ie height and weight for starters. We really do enjoy this game, and our last suggestion for now would be the option to turn off some purchases, as we have noticed that the game is too easy after buying the recruiting boost. Thanks for the great game, and we know this isnt a small ask, but Im a hardcore sports fan and these additions would put this game over the top.
We love this app and have used it everyday since we bought it. We noticed sometimes the seeding in the tournament can be off where a team that should be much higher up ends up as a 17 seed. Also, the job openings are very unrealistic, we once had the national championship winning team offer us a job but the team we were on barely made the tournament. Usually there is way to many ranked teams who need coaches especially too many if the user is controlling a smaller school. Recruiting could be more realistic and harder. We once had the number 3ovr recruit list our unranked, 2 Star, small conference school as his second choice and we thinks thats incredibly uncommon. It should be harder for small schools to get better recruits.
Greatest sports game we have ever played.
The game is great we really like it but we wish we could listen to our music while playing this game and we had the number 1 ranked team 3 years in a row and didnt get past the sweet sixteen so is there any tips to winning the National championship? But the game is really good its worth the buy and we play this game all the time its really addicting we love it.
Dont restore our purchases didnt mean to push it but we bought the full game you should too beat basketball app out.
We Love The Game And we Wonder If You Could Add Rebs, Assists, Steals , and Blks to the stat line and not just only points.
The single best game on iOS!! Our son and we would play this all year round! -just a little note. Its happened twice (in no way is it a deal breaker. Still the best game ever!) this last time we were Durham, NC in 2023 coming off back to back national championships and we went undefeated through the regular season and acc tourney but was a 17 seed in the big dance?! Must just be a little glitch. Wanted to bring it to your attention. Thanks for this amazing game! We love it! Wish youd make a football and baseball one too! All college.
We have played the mess out of this game, and we honestly love it. It brings not only a college basketball game in a time where they are hard to come by- but it does it in an amazing way- with a simple yet quality interface. The game can be addicting. The only things that can be improved on are how easy the game is- we won 4 straight national championships on multiple occasions and the recruiting is easy. Also we know its kind of late to add this but the advanced player stats- we understand that the simple part of the game makes it so great- but there is far more to a quality basketball player than just scoring. With those two being said we really enjoy the game and we hope you keep updating it- we have all the addons(except the recruiting bonuses bc its already easy) with hope that more features come to the game. Thanks for making this :).
We do not have any problem with anything in this game. We have not run into any bugs. This game gets so addicting and fun. You have to truck through the first year and then it gets better. We hope the person who created it, makes another one for football soon. Great app! Worth the $1. In order to get real colleges you will have to spend another $1 and get the code for it.
Love the app, probably the best college sports game app. One suggestion we have is making it able to listen to music from another app while playing the game thats the only thing we dont like about the app.
We love this game you guys did a really good job. But can you make a college football game like this. We know its a lot to ask for but it would be really cool.
Game is awesome. Only thing we would address immediately is the keyboard. It doesnt register our presses very well and we hate keyboards that arent QWERTY. This should be an easy fix and we hope is addressed.
David Zolnier we really hope you read this. This game blew us away as a college basketball fan. It has so many things that invest us so much in this virtual basketball world, and it is realistic to the point that the last names are even realistic. It makes it feel more like the players are real rather than just a ton of Smiths and Johnsons. It is hard to field together a good team which makes it even more fun. Upsets happen a very realistic amount of times and it really makes each and every game exciting. It even has a leaderboard for point leaders within conferences which makes it awesome to see how high up the leaderboard your players can get (our all time leader in scoring currently is M. Long). Please keep updating this game as we see that it hasn't been updated in a while. This game is absoulutely incredible.
Update: Still waiting on the full stats pro simulator!!!!!! Still an amazing game! This game does all it says. It's a quick sim, based on player match ups, not a "deep", star driven simulator. While we'd love to see more stats on players (height, position, etc), it wouldn't lend itself to this game. We'd like a fast/multi game sim option (for those seasons you're not in or eliminated early on in the national tournament). All in all, we very much enjoy this game.
This is hands down the best mobile sports simulation game out there. Would love to see the developer make one for other sports.
Very fun so far, seriously the best sports sim on iOS it has a realistic schedule not forced to play cruddy online "tournaments".
This game is super addictive and is very simple but fun. It is definitely worth the 3$ and it would be awesome if there was a college football version of this game.
We're am in love with this game but there are two things that really bug and that is the Keyboard and not showing positions… Things we wish would be added are positions and having the ability to redshirt for instance having 12 active players maybe being able to only redshirt 2 one last thing that we think would put this game over the top is in season recruiting so your not having to recruit 5 different players and give the different prestige levels like a 4 star prestige gets more recruiting points and bonuses.
This is a great, in-depth, clean looking sports sim. Perfectly created for mobile. We look forward to any future releases from this developer.
We love this game and it's just what we were looking for, but we don't know what to do with the money the coach makes, top recruiting team loses at the last time, and add more competition to the game to make it interesting. We would already give this game 5 star and after some more updates this game would be the number 1.
Just what we have been looking for. Now please do baseball and football. Just live the app.
You did a great job on this game. We think you should make a college football game.
Great all around game there's some stupid things like being ranked #1 and getting beat by an untangled team but that's basketball. PLEASE MAKE IT SO we CAN LISTEN TO OTHER MUSIC FROM APPS LIKE SPOTIFY WHILE IN GAME.
This game is really fun and addicting to play. But we would really like for the colleges to have actual names instead of just the cities. Also it would make the game a lot more interesting if the recruits had positions like center or point guard. It'd make the game more interesting. And during the season it'd be nice if you could simulate all of the games instead of having to click them each individually. Can't wait for more updates to come out.
Since you did this so well. You should create a college football game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.10
- Size: 83.06 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: David Zolnier
Last updated: 5th April 2017 | Genre: Sports, Sports | Developer: David Zolnier