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

[RaychelSnr]

Quote: Originally Posted by HustlinOwl

this talk of CLC, then how come no other companies have made college games under this CLC whether its hoops or college football?

It's because EA Sports owns the exclusive rights, although the CLC license does expire this year: http://www.operationsports.com/news/...otball-license/

[TDenverFan]

Quote: Originally Posted by fballturkey

I thought they only payed individuals that aren't currently covered by the NFL contract?

That's what I thought, too.

[moose1234]

That couldnt be more wrong. Individual schools arent going to miss out on revenue because of a lawsuit they arent named in.

The lawsuit covers all ncaa represented schools . Tell me when you see a packers football game without the words nfl attached to it

[Dogslax41]

Quote: Originally Posted by elgreazy1

One thing people are forgetting here with the NCAA series: Team Builder. As critical as I am with EA, the company has done an absolutely amazing job with this asset. If EA is smart, they will leverage TB into a stand-alone game where the user supplies and curates content (team creation, logos, rosters, coaches, stadiums, etc), thus circumventing any NCAA (and even NFL) license. Additionally, lack of NCAA-centric design and implementation frees up a large amount of resources to apply towards gameplay, AI, and innovation - the things that should be foundation of any game.

Unless they go through the CLC expect teambuilder to be extremely limited and prevent you from creating anything resembling the college logos easily.

[BrandH]

Quote: Originally Posted by moose1234

That couldnt be more wrong. Individual schools arent going to miss out on revenue because of a lawsuit they arent named in. The lawsuit covers all ncaa represented schools . Tell me when you see a packers football game without the words nfl attached to it

What?!?!?!?

[OrangeCrush22]

Major schools the CLC doesn't have...

Baylor
Indiana
Iowa
Iowa State
Kansas State
Michigan State
Miss State
Navy
NC State
Ohio State
Oregon
USC
Southern Miss

I'm probably missing some more.

[LambertandHam]

Not too surprising with the recent lawsuit. Hopefully support for NCAA 14 will continue.

[gogators]

ESPN's Brett McMurphy tweeted "First non-NCAA affiliated EA Sports college football video game will be called "College Football 15" source told ESPN.

There you have it. I look at ESPN probably having an even larger presence in the game now.