For making the wait for college football worse. We could all be playing NCAA 2K19 right now but you wanted a piece of the pie.
Thank you Ed Obannon
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Thank the fetid, stinking, rotten to the core, NCAA.
I've come around on this. I blamed OBannon as well, but I've come to realize that it wouldn't have taken much for the NCAA to give that money to the players. If you're going to lose the licensing money anyway, why not win the PR battle and let the players get some?
Video game licensing would be the perfect way to get money to the revenue sports without getting into Title IX issues.
But yes, at this time of year I always regret selling my PS3.
Video game licensing would be the perfect way to get money to the revenue sports without getting into Title IX issues.
But yes, at this time of year I always regret selling my PS3.
I always get the updatedurosters for the last release.....but just not the same excitement of accurate schedules, field updates, player rankings ,etc.
AND in the last person the dang PA announcer always says "Iowa" not "Iowa State" and it grinds my gears every time.i hear it!!!!
AND in the last person the dang PA announcer always says "Iowa" not "Iowa State" and it grinds my gears every time.i hear it!!!!
I had gotten rid of my Ps3....but acouple years back boughht a used one just to play it again! Lol
I hate going back to my Xbox 360 to play NCAA 14. I believe there is a new college football game coming out in 2019. It wouldn't have the licensing that EA had but it will customizable.
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This. Or just have them sign a waiver in exchange for a free copy of the game or something. The vast majority would have done it in an instant. But the NCAA model is dependent on the notion that the players aren't part of the product, sonethsom that their own marketing proves is not true. Pure greed is all it is.
Never get this misplaced outrage. The NCAA killed it, not Ed O’Bannon. EASports was ready to pay players for their likenesses. NCAA stopped it.
It took someone to get the ball rolling so I'll always blame Ed O'bannon. Screw him and his lawsuit.
Screw. Him.
Screw. Him.
Agreed. I'm sure it would have happened eventually, but then I would have just hated someone else. Screw Ed O'bannon.
That's where I'm at... Get me wrong, the NCAA is ultimately the problem, but O'Bannon played a role.
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He wasn't doing it for the good of student athletes. He saw himself on a version of NCAA Basketball and was mad he didn't get his cut. Not like he didn't make any money while he was at UCLA anyways.
I don't have a problem with compensating players for their likenesses, but they will never find a way to do it without allowing schools like tOSU and Alabama pay their players more than everyone else and continue to game the system.
Giving college players money for being in a video game just opens the door for having to pay them for jersey sales, and autographs, and the landslide will continue until it further pollutes college athletics.
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Further pollute? Not sure that it can get more polluted. All of the stuff you described is already happening. There's a very healthy black market for autographs and merchandise. Letting players benefit from their own likeness wouldn't do anything that isn't already being done.