It’s really that simple. EA offers a generic likeness contract to every FBS player. If they opt in, they get to be in the game with some minor compensation. If they opt out, they’re not in the game and get replaced by a generic player.
No honor among thieves. You expect a kid who only came to your program because you paid him to honor that deal if things don’t go his way? When you’re operating outside of the law, you can’t expect everyone you do business with to be law abiding. It’s like dudes who get into drug dealing. You...
Pay attention to the schools most against players getting an opportunity to make money off their likeness and the schools most against the transfer portal. Those are the schools dropping the most bags. They don’t want a kid to have any options. “Take our bag and play for us because you have no...
I hope they bring back whoever picked the soundtrack for NCAA 06. When nobody was looking some sound engineer added a whole bunch of punk bands to the soundtrack. Bad Religion, NOFX, The Clash, Lagwagon, Mr. T Experience. It was pretty sweet
Unlikely. The article I read was pretty up front about EA specifically using generic players. Although I’m sure in a year or two, there will be a whole system regarding players and their individual likeness rights.
According to EA, players, numbers and attributes will be 100% generic. All rosters can be fully modified though. There will be no mention of the NCAA or any of their logos. Each featured team will have an individual contract with EA.