Oh wow. Thank you for your service. Ya'll were true heros. Lol
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Oh that's awesome. They're definitely giving him some $$$ to appear in Ultimate Team promo or w/e.
I also think he probably saw his teammates all on there, talked to his uncle (who was the infamous #16 on the back of the box of NCAA College Football '98 throwing a TD), and is takin the bag.
If you can become an Ultimate Team star I can definitely see it helping these guys witl future NIL money
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Wonder if we see more big name guys hold out a bit next year. EA will be careful with that.
At the same time, it's Arch Manning
At the same time, it's Arch Manning
I think we will see more opt out, but not for long. There is definitely wide sweeping NIL changes coming. Its the wild west right now.
"I'll sign your 600 dollar deal if you also make me a separate marketing deal"
Some will be able to demand it
Some will be able to demand it
I was listening to the Bombcast today, and Dan Ryckert echoed similar sentiments to this thread. He's had multiple interactions with people who say they're buying a console for this game. Grubb was fully expecting it to be one of the top five best selling games of the year. I suppose it's a side effect of me being Canadian, but I have zero frame of reference for how popular this sport is lol
It is the largest sport in the US by far. There are so many different teams (134 in the highest tier) so it doesn't get the TV ratings like the NFL does because the fanbases are so spread out, but every weekend there are multiple 80,000-100,000 seat stadiums that are full and raucous.
Every thread I say it
It's going to be a massive uptick in console sales
I have never seen more people say I'm buying one for this game this generation
Granted most of my friends/contacts are into college football but it's still the only time
It's going to be a massive uptick in console sales
I have never seen more people say I'm buying one for this game this generation
Granted most of my friends/contacts are into college football but it's still the only time
That's wild to me, Canada doesn't have anything nearly on that level. I wish I could find an approachable onramp to this game, it feels a bit unapproachable considering I know essentially nothing of the sport and have no team affinity
Honestly it reminds me of the EPL but for college football. Tons of teams from varying sized towns who have alumni and local fans (and of course the national brand teams). It's huge. Especially in the southeast of the US.
The biggest teams in college football have way bigger stadiums than the pro teams have to play in.
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If you want a crash course, watch this video from an older Stephen Fry documentary series. This is a game between Auburn and Alabama, the two, huge public universities in the state of Alabama. The call this game "The Iron Bowl". Its a rivalry game, but its not for a tournament or championship or anything, technically just a normal game during the season.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuPeGPwGKe8
Hell even Iowa (homer here, shouts out), a B+ Tier team in a state with 3.2 million people has a stadium that holds 70,000 people. It regularly is at 90%+ capacity, even in bad years.
Yeah, as much as I hate to admit it, we're mid-tier SEC (except for the glory years of 2010-2013!!) and even we're pulling in 70-80K at our stadium. Although our athletics dept has done an awesome job in making our gameday experience so much better (light show, etc.).
South Carolina always has a raucous stadium though, thats on your fan base. It is important to note not all fan bases are as rabid as others.
I did watch this and enjoyed it, thanks for sharing! Maybe I'll pick it up and just pick a random team to pretend to be a fan of haha, role play a bit.
I know there's a Vancouver in Washington, do they have a team? Then it can be kind of like my home town team lol
With this in mind it's crazy there was no video game for so long. Feels like money left on the table year after year.
There were issues with paying players for their likeness that shut the game down.
Yeah, I can imagine with that many teams, stadiums, players, etc the level of complexity raises significantly
Unfortunately a lot of schools outside of Division 1 (FBS) are not in the game. I think Team Builder is in the game though, so you should be able to design your own team, it its anything like the old games.
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Feel free to be like Girls' Generation (the KPop group) and support the Iowa Hawkeyes (for some reason, probably cause the Tigerhawk is sick)
View: https://youtu.be/TGbwL8kSpEk?si=grrwqAwIKs41Isfh
A couple of jagweeds sued the NCAA over their "likeness" being included in older NCAA football and basketball games, even though their names were not used. It caused the football game to be cancelled by the NCAA as they didn't want to pay the players (Basketball stopped being made a couple of years earlier). Eventually the NCAA got sued by players and the court ruled that they cannot prevent players from being paid for the NIL (name, image, likeness), which allowed a College Football game to be made once again and players to be paid crazy amounts of money to "play" or go the a school. NCAA is no longer involved in the game and EA Sports has been working on this for 3-4 years now by making deals with schools, conferences, players. etc, and it is finally coming out next week.
Interesting how it finally came together. I guess just with how much money is on the line I'm surprised it took so long for everybody to figure it out but with so many different parties involved it makes sense that it was a logistical challenge to get all the approvals and get everybody on board. Glad it happened finally.
To be fair its been in the works for a while, the American court system is just incredibly slow. The ex-player in the case against the NCAA in that 2021 legal ruling played CFB from 2008-2012. His career ended before the game stopped being made in 2013. The preceding case, O'Bannon vs NCAA, was first argued in 2014 https://wvusports.com/sports/football/roster/shawne-alston/6959
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There's been mention of it's not coming at launch but nothing beyond that. I'm just assuming it'll be a selling point for a future game
Well students couldn't be paid at all back then. But now we have NIL deals college students can make.
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I bought one for this game
I guess for others too, but in a week when this game is out I will be there playing it all day
edit: I guess looking at my username and avatar it is not surprising that I love college football!
Do we need to call players fighting for their rights to not be exploited for corporate gains with no compensation "jagweeds?"
I'm an auburn fan. I grew up about 30 minutes from there and my last Iron Bowl was in Tuscaloosa in…. 2014. Where auburns rival plays. Lmao. Dawg. That is literally my last Iron Bowl there at least. I was wearing a Cam Newton jersey. (An old QB that won Auburn a national championship) and keep in mind. I'm not drunk. I'm late 20s. I'm not looking for any trouble. I had COPS talking shit to me. I had like gangster ass dudes smoking blunts rolling up in their car telling me to take the fucking jersey off. I had drunk dudes hopping out of bushes acting like they were gonna beat my ass.
I don't hold any of that against them. People in my section, stand up fucking Alabam fans. Nothing but class. Knew I wasn't there to cause trouble and neither did they haha. I just know I don't need to go back to Tuscaloosa lol. I'm sure there are nasty, scary people in Auburn too. But shit. College football is crazy here.
Well I guess never say never though. My girl is actually a bama grad. We're gonna need one of those "HOUSE DIVIDED" signs or something.
That's just the current challenge which they seemingly overcame. Until recently, the NCAA was a massive burden on the sport that prevented players from profiting on their own name, so the court case that changed all that is ultimately what allowed a CFB game to come back and potentially be better than ever now that it has real players. The sport is far less exploitative now and that's allowing it to grow into what I think is a new golden age for the sport. My irl team that I've had a season ticket to since childhood has 10k new season ticket holders this year alone.
The stadium environments being captured so well is also really key in this game despite it being a huge task. The NFL is so sterile and corporate compared to CFB, which is super obvious if you ever get to attend a game in a packed CFB stadium.
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Don't think so. The NZ release is on July 16th at 8am I believe. Looks like a global release.
Yeah that's what I figured. Oh well, at least Monday's almost here
Nice, thanks for the heads up. Just got it for $49 and change for PS5 with the code HELLO30 for new accounts.
So you are saying that Shoresy is a lie? Kidding kidding.
It really replaces soccer in the rest of the world as it is such a communal sport for the universities and surrounding areas.
Yup, both my username and avatar stem from my college team
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Ohio St. with two 90+ overall RBs and Oregon with two 90+ overall WRs with big speed and acceleration numbers.
Big Ten going to be a gauntlet.
Big Ten going to be a gauntlet.
