NCAA Will Not Renew EA Sports Contract, NCAA Football Series is Dead in Name Only

[Quint75]

Quote: Originally Posted by Herky

I really hope 2K picks up the license but we are probably looking at a 2 year cycle before that is polished.

SMH. There is no license to pick up. The NCAA did not decide to forego renewing the license just to sign a new one with someone else. They want to get out of gaming (at least for now) because of possible liability in lawsuits like the one now pending.

[seasprite]

Quote: Originally Posted by killrnut

. Another problem is that once you start paying the Football, or Basketball players, you have to pay EVERYONE, all the way down to Women's swimming and other sports no one cares about. I want to hear that conversation where the soccer team finds out they aren't being paid but the football team is. Or at Iowa where the wrestling team that's been national champs 4 times since 2000 isn't being paid but other sports are. and so on....

Agree with many points that you made in your post, but these points I quoted are a bit off IMO. The reason that I think it is off is that I believe atheletes could be paid on a basis of a scale dependant on what their sport brings in as far as revenue. College wrestling, soccer, golf, or other collegiate sports dont bring in a fraction of what football brings in. When is the last time 100,000 paying customers showed up for a college soccer game? Thats just my different angle at looking at it. At the very least, players should be paid some off of their uniform sales IMO.

[seasprite]

Quote: Originally Posted by Quint75

SMH. There is no license to pick up. The NCAA did not decide to forego renewing the license just to sign a new one with someone else. They want to get out of gaming (at least for now) because of possible liability in lawsuits like the one now pending.

Will be interesting to see how the CLC handles a license with EA, whether that be exclusive or not.

[inkcil]

Bah! University Greedy-Greed Nets the following annually:

A.) $50 million off its football program
B.) $10 million off its men's basketball program
C.) $100,00 off its men's tennis program

Now, "who in the world" would still be confused as to who should get more than who?

Calculations 100 times more complicated are made in offices, institutions and markets ev'hour by people on their lunch break with their eyes closed. And *gasp* some of those people even work in Division One front offices.

On top of that, the "value" of an education is HIGHLY subjective and is valueless without a job which is valueless without money, which is used to get the things people need like food and water and shelter and clothes and videogames. And let's face it, college diploma don't = job no mo. This ain't the 1970's.

[bluengold34_OS]

Why do I feel like if you start paying players now, then former players will file lawsuits wanting restitution

[gogators]

If schools had to start paying athletes, you would see MANY universities drop athletics. There are about only 50 or schools that could afford to do it.

[inkcil]

Quote: Originally Posted by bluengold34_OS

Why do I feel like if you start paying players now, then former players will file lawsuits wanting restitution

Ha ha I agree they would try. Even Booger from Revenge of the Nerds would suit up to represent Lamda Lamda Lamda (I think the football team was all Lamda at the end of Part 1).

My wife had a full ride, D-1 for track, and she had to sign a contract which basically said this is what you agreed to get, this what the school gets to do to you and this is what we can't do. However, without ever seeing one of those contracts firsthand myself, I'm guessing maybe the language indemnifies the school against further claims for compensation in the context of a student's athletic obligations.

[bluengold34_OS]

Quote: Originally Posted by inkcil

Ha ha I agree they would try. Even Booger from Revenge of the Nerds would suit up to represent Lamda Lamda Lamda (I think the football team was all Lamda at the end of Part 1). My wife had a full ride, D-1 for track, and she had to sign a contract which basically said this is what you agreed to get, this what the school gets to do to you and this is what we can't do. However, without ever seeing one of those contracts firsthand myself, I'm guessing maybe the language indemnifies the school against further claims for compensation in the context of a student's athletic obligations.

Well it's been 15 years since I signed an LOI for baseball, but you pretty much hit the nail on the head. For those who think all you get is an education, are sorely mistaken. You get treated like a king for 4 years and whether others will admit it, you get "special consideration" from the school themselves....and much much more.