Ed O Bannon Trying to Change College BBall As We Know It

[FaTaL]

i hope he wins but ncca go too much money

now if richer athletes came out the woodwork and joined his team

then maybe

 

[KingJudah]

Been saying this for the longest.

Colleges selling jerseys of these players, making millions and billions in revenues, got deals with broadcast tv networks. Players get nothing. Most players never go pro .

 

[Yogi]

The NCAA is operating on borrowed time. They will be gone within the next 10 years.

 

[Grand Conde]

Where does all the money colleges make from sponsorship, clothes sales etc go exactly?

 

[Kings County]

Somebody else tried this a few years ago and it went away somehow.

ncaa slid him that 20 million dollar check to stand down he was like :wow2:

 

[PortCityProphet]

If one wants to state, "hey, these athletes are getting full-ride scholarships in exchange for playing, it's an even swap".....I'm cool with that.

But when EA Sports and the like are using an athlete's image - and it's CLEAR that's the athlete, because when you go to edit that player's attributes they'll have the same hometown, features and even their player ratings - and makes gazillions, and the SCHOOL gets money from the licensing of THEIR team's images in that arrangement, I think it's only right to start talmbout giving those PARTICULAR athletes a stipend at the very least.

Because at that point, you're trying to capitalize of an INDIVIDUAL's likeness.

What NCAA you playing? they don't have the correct hometowns or haircuts. Only thing they have is numbers, skin, and size.
And it's really nothing for NCAA to get around any problems they'd have. They'd make a game with random looking dudes and numbers then a realistic roster would "leak" that everyone would download just like people do now. They wouldn't have to pay out shyt

 

[PortCityProphet]

Where does all the money colleges make from sponsorship, clothes sales etc go exactly?

Maintenance, funding other sports. And a lot of schools ain't making as much as y'all think

 

[Jerz-2]

What NCAA you playing? they don't have the correct hometowns or haircuts. Only thing they have is numbers, skin, and size.

Well, I mean, I’m sure I ain’t tellin’ you nothin’ you don’t know (or mebbe I am?), but….

…..historically speaking, before you could download rosters online, you had to input the names yourself if you wanted that sense of “realism”. Like, go into that player’s profile and edit it…..and the way you could tell who the star players were on the team was by the number, and how their attributes matched up to real life, and hometowns and such were part of that (e.g., I remember a CB at Nebraska had cornrolls, and that's how I found him on the game to edit his info...that and the fact that dude was relatively the same size, as you said, and was from the same California hometown).

The fact that I knew who that dude was enough to put his name in, and that they HAD a player in there already with that info, goes to intent.

IMO, THAT'S why I ain't mad at players getting money for that particular aspect of it.

I used to spend hours “fixing” rosters on EA’s NCAA Football, or even on NBA Live or on the NBA 2K series, including the NCAA 2K series. Go in there, put the player's real name in there. In ALOT of instances, once you put their real name in there, their real attributes would suddenly "pop up" and replace the ones that were already there (especially on the old "legends" teams that you could unlock). I know I ain't the only person who used to do this shyt.....

Now granted, I ain’t bought NCAA College Football in about 2-3 years, so if they STOPPED doing that, then fine. But don’t tell me that didn’t USED to do it, because I wasted mad hours of my youth fixing themshyts.

So that's really my point. THEY KNOW that those are those players. The whole "using a number and closely-matching attributes" trick is just another NCAA ploy to avoid the complicated licensing issues that SHOULD result from using a student's likeness in furtherance of the school but done in a setting OUTSIDE the parameters of the scholarship agreement.

Just my deux.

 

[Jerz-2]

Sidenote...

As someone who has a penchant for older basketball games and who still owns and plays "NCAA College Hoops 2K8" simply because it was the last great college basketball game ever created - and who played it A LOT during this year’s March Madness Tournament – I edited the rosters of some of the teams on there by hand, most specifically that UCLA team that had Kevin Love and Russell Westbrook on it (and when you view their profiles prior to inputting their names, all the attributes match up to their real-life attributes). So I’m really speaking from very recent experience here, when I talk about using their likenesses.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Maintenance, funding other sports. And a lot of schools ain't making as much as y'all think

Yup. If this kills off college athletics, crime is gonna increase. Word to Ray Lewis.

 

[PortCityProphet]

Yup. If this kills off college athletics, crime is gonna increase. Word to Ray Lewis.

You never know. Programs will be cut. Bye to your track, tennis, volleyballs. All because maybe 5-6 dudes max at a school should be paid.

 

[Jax]

It’s short yardage from there to the NCAA’s doomsday scenario: schools bidding for the services of student-athletes.

This is such a shytty argument...students can't work but they can make a lot of money out of them...

 

[mozichrome]

Sidenote...

As someone who has a penchant for older basketball games and who still owns and plays "NCAA College Hoops 2K8" simply because it was the last great college basketball game ever created - and who played it A LOT during this year’s March Madness Tournament – I edited the rosters of some of the teams on there by hand, most specifically that UCLA team that had Kevin Love and Russell Westbrook on it (and when you view their profiles prior to inputting their names, all the attributes match up to their real-life attributes). So I’m really speaking from very recent experience here, when I talk about using their likenesses.

fans all know who these players be. no matter if 2k/EA doesnt use players names.

fans know them, they may hold a little back in term of fully making that player face the same, but folks know who said player be

 

[PortCityProphet]

man watching this OSU/Illini game on the b1g network. i really hope they cut Juice Williams a check for this rebroadcast

 

[Hammer]

why the fukk should ncca athletes get paid?

they go to school for free, and obviously the coaches give them money to spend