EA Sports Will Not Publish College Football Game Next Year, Future Plans in Doubt

[Ky3217]

Quote: Originally Posted by RedSoxFox7

Because the scholarship argument is a crock of ****, AND the NCAA prohibits them from seeking pretty much any sort of employment. Ignoring the cost of education, the vast majority of these players wouldn't be able to get into colleges if it weren't for football, and they probably shouldn't anyway. We don't need thousands of new communications undergrads every year. It doesn't help them, and it doesn't help the country in general. The scholarships are utterly worthless in many cases. There is no free market here. If you feel your company isn't compensating you enough for what you generate, you can find employment in the same field for a better deal. College athletes can't do that. Hell, college athletes can't even get the second job you can get. The issue here isn't so much that the NCAA or schools aren't paying the players, it's that the NCAA is actively prohibiting the players from being paid by anyone for anything.

If they want to waste their free education, that's their own fault. Not the NCAA's.

Which is besides the free housing, food, clothing, and everything else that comes with the scholarship.

But hey, if the scholarship is so worthless, why hand them out. Let them have a job let them pay their own way through college like the vast majority of us. Then we'll see how "worthless" those scholarships are.

These kids have two options when they graduate. Either they will make a ton of money playing sports professionally, or they will enter the job market, debt free, with a valuable college degree in hand.

[CrimsontideuA]

Pay the players and stop all scholarships. They should not have everything just given to them.

[NEOPARADIGM]

I hope this means they'll focus on supporting 14 for a good while, like that thread about a playoffs DLC, continued uniform updates, patches, etc.

Cause I gotta wonder if this means the opposite: they're not gonna spend any more time on this game, short of keeping the servers running.

[Ky3217]

Quote: Originally Posted by laxman490

what does that have to do with creating a development league? you act like a free education means something to high caliber players. they don't go to school for the same reason as regular students. just pay them $50-$75K a year let them set up their own living arraignments, offer them free food during the season just like the nfl.

They shouldnt be complaining. They get enough as it is. That was my point.

Football isnt like baseball or even basketball. A kid just out of high school is most likely going to get seriously hurt, even at a minor league level. As an example, remember, not all MLB minor leaguers are guys in their early twenties. You're going to be sticking kids against fully grown men. It wont end well.

[mestevo]

Quote: Originally Posted by NEOPARADIGM

I hope this means they'll focus on supporting 14 for a good while, like that thread about a playoffs DLC, continued uniform updates, patches, etc. Cause I gotta wonder if this means the opposite: they're not gonna spend any more time on this game, short of keeping the servers running.

Once a decision like this has been made public I'd expect nothing.

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[laxman490]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ky3217

But hey, if the scholarship is so worthless, why hand them out. Let them have a job let them pay their own way through college like the vast majority of us. Then we'll see how "worthless" those scholarships are.

you are killing your own argument here. yeah lets take away scholarships and let them have a job...playing in a developmental football league ha.

regular students get an education because that is how we are going to make money. hig caliber players go to school because they want to hone their football skills to make money. the education thing doesnt mean the same. hell, your argument makes it seem like they should get rid of academic scholarships too...arent those an unfair advantage really smart students have over others?

[Valdarez]

Given the choice, I would have much preferred this happen to Madden than NCAA series from EA Sports.

[CrimsontideuA]

Plus they have the opportunities to become millionaires debt free out of school while other students are stuck with debt.