SEC, Pac-12, Big Ten Won't License Trademarks in Future Video Games

[Swamp Swagger]

Quote: Originally Posted by xcrushx

Couldn't we end all of this if we just pay the players? It's starting to get a little silly as to how far we are willing to go just to avoid paying players.

No, and its not that simple as simply handing out some cash. Not every player is a star and many many players sit on the bench.

Not to mention not all schools are just flowing with money like the big ones are. Maryland just as a example lost 20 something million dollars last year and are in debt just like many other schools.

That all being said it sure seems to be a sad day for the college football game. I've been playing there games as far back as I can remember good or bad

[GisherJohn24]

Team creator and roster share fixes all problems with this or am I missing something?

[Soonerfan09]

playing devils advocate here but if these schools that are cutting track and field programs took some money away from football couldnt they then afford track and field

[mva5580]

Quote: Originally Posted by awill25

And to be honest, Thinking that Alabama and a school like UAB should be on a "level playing field" is also a complete joke. Those schools aren't equal, so why make them equal.

Here in lies the problem with the whole thing. The first question people have to ask is do you WANT them to be "equal?" Because if the answer is yes, then you can't do down the route of paying players. Ever. Because once you get into that, it's game over for the smaller schools. Any kind of system put in place to compensate players outside of a scholarship will open up so many loop-holes, so many ways for people to work around it, etc, that the schools with unlimited funds and unlimited network of boosters, alumni, and whatever else will just completely run over the schools who don't have that.

Now if someone is of the opinion that you don't care whether or not things are trying to be equal....then so be it. But at that point you're essentially talking about squeezing out close to half of the teams that are in the NCAA right now (football) and the rest basically being told "You can't play with us anymore." So are people ok with that? Would they care if the SEC/Big 12/Big 10/ACC/Pac 12/Notre Dame essentially split from the NCAA and formed their own football league and started paying their players? If you answer Yes to that, then I guess all options are on the table in regards to paying players. If you answer No to that.....then I'm just not seeing a pay-for-play system that solves more problems than it creates.

[lere2001]

Quote: Originally Posted by awill25

It's sickening really.....how much the NCAA makes off of college athletes. Anyone who argues that college athletes should not be financially compensated automatically loses credibility to me. Free education blah blah blah.....If that's the argument then a kid on scholarship in the band should not be allowed to make money using his musical talents while in school. SAME THING! And because the NCAA is a sham, we are going to lose a great video game. It's not EA! The real criminal is the NCAA. I 100% agree with O'Bannon. We are just caught in the crosshairs of a storm!

It's not just that the NCAA is capitalizing on the player's assets, aren't the student athletes capitalizing on the NCAA's assets as well? Training facilities, meals via professional nutritionists, exposure and media attention (Which is huge), and a platform to propel themselves into professional sports. They don't need to play college sports? If they want to get paid and play football after high school, the CFL doesn't have an age requirement. If they want to get paid and play basketball, the Italian Leagues don't either. And after that they can enter the NFL/NBA draft. The biggest asset playing college ball gives you is that exposure that is more valuable than anything. They need to stop complaining.

[awill25]

Quote: Originally Posted by Soonerfan09

playing devils advocate here but if these schools that are cutting track and field programs took some money away from football couldnt they then afford track and field

Nothing to do with finances. Everything to do with Title IX.

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by Husker_OS

To blow your mind.. The founder and former CEO of CLC is the current AD at Alabama.

Mind blown. LOL.

[kbones21]

Quote: Originally Posted by Playmaker76

Thinking EXTREMELY optimistically about this, they could just do what PES does and make the generic teams COMPLETELY customizable to the point of importing the official logos, fight songs, uniforms, etc. into the game. Sadly there is a better chance of Half life 3 releasing as an XBOX One exclusive in 2015.

or just releasing Half Life 3 in general.