NCAA Football 13 Will Not Include The University of South Alabama

[DaTwolves21]

Should close this already, the FACT is that South Alabama will not be in the game until 2014. It doesn't matter who's fault it is. Mods, do everyone a favor and close this.

[Skull]

Quote: Originally Posted by moylan

even more proof that this had nothing to do with laziness or lack of effort on EA's part. Again give me one sound reason why they would put any effort at all into the other three school's and then just quit when it got to the Jags. so far in this thread I haven't heard one.

the DB in the game is brittle, each team you add is a time sink, they probably ran into problems with 124, said "the university screwed up"

[TDenverFan]

One thing people don't seem to get is EA does not have the rights to UoSA, thus they could get sued by putting them in.


One thing EA could have done is made a generic UoSA to put in. Woukd have looked odd, I'll admit, but it could easily be replaced by a TB team.

(Ex. Southern University Jaguars instead of UoSA Jaguars)

Edit: Well, ironically Southern University Jaguars are a real FCS team.... EA could have made a team like Mobile University Jaguars or Southeastern Alabama Jaguars or something like that. I think 2K did this with UC Calcutta in CH2k8.

[PowerofRed25]

Quote: Originally Posted by TDenverFan

One thing people don't seem to get is EA does not have the rights to UoSA, thus they could get sued by putting them in. One thing EA could have done is made a generic UoSA to put in. Woukd have looked odd, I'll admit, but it could easily be replaced by a TB team. (Ex. Southern University Jaguars instead of UoSA Jaguars) Edit: Well, ironically Southern University Jaguars are a real FCS team.... EA could have made a team like Mobile University Jaguars or Southeastern Alabama Jaguars or something like that. I think 2K did this with UC Calcutta in CH2k8.

That's actually a really cool idea. The game already has FCS West, East, etc. They could have just done something like FBS Southeast or FBS Gulf Coast with generic uniforms in a generic stadium. Then people could either play against them or replace them with USA.

[SincerelYourz]

I didn't realize those other transitional teams made it into ncaa 13

[coogrfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by SincerelYourz

I didn't realize those other transitional teams made it into ncaa 13

UTSA and TX State are both eligible to win the WAC title this year but cannot participate in the postseason. USA cannot compete for the Sun Belt title or participate in a bowl game until the 2013 season; UMASS is in the same boat in the MAC.

[pjburrage]

Quote: Originally Posted by Suntan Superman

It depends. If the game was already built for 123 teams, there would be a lot of programming involved to fix it to 124. Then its cost-to-profit ratio. Even with all the man hours put into to reprogramming them in, plus the cost of going through the networks will enough people WANT UoSA to pay say 320 MS points for it. If not, it doesn't make sense from a business standpoint. As far as consoles holding consoles back, yup, you're right.

This is the one aspect you can blame EA for. iirc there was a big statement about the scheduling logic some point last year or early this year, and how it had been reworked. I think they reworked it for 123 teams, but possibly didn't consider the future and plan ahead for 124+ teams (which is looking more and more likely in the future). If when they re-worked the scheduling logic, it could have been a great opportunity to implement the feature of adding teambuilder teams to the current NCAA teams rather than replacing them.

The fear is that when more teams move up to FBS/Div1-A they will have to re-work the scheduling logic each time.

[nhill76]

Quote: Originally Posted by eagskerfan

This whole thing could have been avoided if we were allowed to add teambuilder teams without having to replace other teams.

True that, I'm going to download someone's South Alabama team from team builder and replace Univeristy of Louisiana Monroe.