NCAA Football Coming Back...
More developments today in the return of EA NCAA Football.
“We’ve wanted to feature collegiate athletes in a meaningful way from the start of our journey to bring an EA Sports college football experience back to our fans,” the company said in a statement. “We’re excited to have an agreement in place with OneTeam Partners that will enable us to include the names and likenesses of eligible collegiate football athletes at NCAA Division 1 Football Subdivision schools who opt-in to being featured in EA Sports College Football.”
Check out the full article and details on The Athletic.
Dynasty mode here I come!!!
Damn. I thought this was going to be JWG Wolverine's first "There are..." post of the offseason. Guess I still have to wait a little bit longer.
might as well start early pissing people off that dislike those posts
SanDiegoWolverine was being his usual charming self in the NBA lottery thread last night. He must be warming up to come and piss in everyone's Corn Flakes.
My bad for disking stupid sports takes and even worse conspiracy theories.. drjaws posting the same meme 500 times a year is just boring, that's all.
50 days until the season starts and let's talk about x is cool. Just doing it for as bit is well just a bit. Nobody ever responds.
People disliking Michigan sports? On a website dedicated to Michigan sports?
Better have a transfer portal
Okay, but dont get pissed when you lose your QB or TE to a team like Iowa.
It could happen...
That's going to be the most frustrating part of having a smaller school. Having a kid blow up and him just leave going into the next season. Like real life.
Like anyone's gonna leave Michigan to go play for Brian Ferentz? As if! Wouldn't happen!
I’m really hoping there is an “Emmert Mode”, where you can be NCAA president and play mini games where you can hand out debilitating infraction penalties to Division III schools.
Emmert couldn't even get that right. Mount Union and Wisconsin Whitewater have been cheating for decades with no repercussions.
Where PAC12 and BIG TEN teams get nuked (UM, PSU, OSU, USC) while recruiting juggernauts like Bama and Georgia are squeaky clean.
They still owe Denard $$$
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This is my game! I'll stick with it for now and wait for reviews before I commit to buying the new one AND the new gaming system I'd need to play the new one. I do love the '14 version. I'm playing later today--my undefeated Michigan team is set to play Oklahoma in the National Championship.
Have you tried the CFB Revamped mod for NCAA 14? It's pretty neat - some updated graphics and you can even do the playoffs through it. I recently downloaded it and am addicted.
I gotta try that! I already have the current B1G league set-up--I added Maryland and Rutger and renamed and realigned everything. I'd love to set up a playoff system. More importantly...is there a mod that gives me Michigan's blue pants? I must have those blue pants. The white pants would be nice too.
CB you have to try an athlete only dynasty. You can only recruit athletes and you gotta figure out how to field a team. Its a real adventure trying to fill out an offensive and defensive line. Every athlete over 270 gets scouted on my board.
God, you madman! I really can't see how you could build out the lines--the game doesn't produce many jumbo athletes. You've got to be bringing in a bunch of two stars to get that done.
When it comes to athletes over 270#s ill bring in anyone that wants to play. The goal is 25 recruit classes so they dont play until their 3rd year on campus.
Still remember playing the 2004 version. And the Michigan players magically running on the field from the north end zone.
”And I haven’t seen moves like that since my high school prom.” ~ Lee Corso
This was the last video game I remember playing at some length with my two older boys. And what I remember most was my then 9-10 year old would be playing against his 15-16 year old brother and me. And he'd love to go for it on fourth and 28 (or more) and then throw an absolute biblical melt-down when things didnt work out for him.
The game was fun. The meltdowns were pure entertainment.
I loved the game. But there were a couple instances where players had to do unspeakable things. Like Dynasty Mode (classic plays) where you, as Kordell Stewart, has to complete the Hail Mary to beat Michigan.
That’s right, EA. Take a traumatic event from my childhood and make me have to recreate it in a video game.
I too continue to be scarred by that. We may have a class action suit here WH.
That atrocity aside, I do miss the game.
I learned how to onside kick so well, that once I got the ball, no one got it again. My group had to make a rule that we couldn't onside kick unless it was the end of the game. When I first started doing it, it was so fun to make my friends get so angry, haha.
I still have not figured out how to block field goals or punts in that game
I still play the 2004 version.
Herbstreit: "I am not touching your car, that thing is bad luck"
Corso: "Lightning struck my car"
I still play the 2006 version (the one with Desmond on the cover). Love it!
This will be interesting to follow - and, I wonder if there's a "standard / base" fee for players who opt in, and - a bonus of some kind for specific player selections. It might be "low dollar", or even pennies per selection.
One million pennies is the same as $10K - or one hundred Benjamins.
A much more interesting item would be media agreement revenue sharing.
P.S. The references to Emmert are priceless - thank you.
So what happens when Northwestern opts out? A made up team that you can manipulate?
In that case, they'd probably suit up some dorks in purple jerseys for the "Worthnestern Mildcats". Any similarities to existing universities or athletes would be purely happenstance.
They could call them them the Evanston Purple Cats
No chance they opt out. There's a lot of posturing going on but none of them are going to follow through. This is free advertisement to kids across the nation.
Is there any new info in the article? We’ve known the game is coming back for a year or so now. Looking at a 2024 release from what I remember. Between that and GTA6, I probably will do nothing but play video games for several months straight.
I had the original Sega Genesis version.
Michigan’s RB #6 (Tyrone Wheatley) would dive for 12 yards. So fun!!!! the online.
Thoughts:
1) Opt in is a bad model, but I guess it's kind of forced until players have a union that can negotiate for the entire body and not some ad hoc group like OneTeam
2) People who play Madden say EA is super lazy and the game is comically buggy. I'd imagine these people would be using the same engine so that's a concern.
I hadn't really played a football game since NCAA was last made, but my son got a PS5 last year so we got Madden '23 for that and also just got a used copy for XBox 1. I don't know if it "lazy" because I don't know anything about the technical process, but it is crazy, the same issues that were there for Madden in 2005 are still there. The problems then are the problems now. Running backs can't cut without dropping speed and going backwards, so the run goes as far as the first defender. Plays that take any time to develop take forever to develop and it is an auto-sack/tackle for loss. No QB has the speed to get away from the defense. It is literally impossible to bring a kick back past the 25 yard line or get any return yardage on a punt.
These were never issues in NCAA football. I don't know what the problem with Madden is.
They have to use different parameters for actions. Despite both being made by EA Tiburon, the same years games of Madden and NCAA never played the same or felt even remotely similar.
I always wondered why they didn't release this game with just the permission from schools using completely auto generated rosters that had no tie in or connection to actual players.
I always preferred when I was playing with all recruited players over the programmed rosters anyway.
Same thought here. I play dynasty mode exclusively, so the current players only matter for a couple seasons. I don't mind the opt-in model, unless EA nukes the ability to upload rosters. BossHawgMichigan over at Operation Sports is the man and their roster ratings are more accurate IMO.
Corum on the cover please.
Or Will Johnson holding up his Heisman trophy.
I always wondered why NCAA Football game tried to get so close to real players, knowing full well, you could download a realistic roster with names within hours of game release. Seems they should have just put generic players in to begin with, not even close to the real player. Probably would never had to stop making the game.
Hell the 2014 game you can still download the 2023 roster for all teams.
very good news. but if won't matter when you're 45 years deep into a dynasty
SOme of my best memories are playing my kid when he was 6 or 7 just starting playing video games and we had a Sega Genesis playing NCAA 99? with Ron Dayne on the cover - I played UM with Henson and Anthony Thomas and David Terell and he played with Texas and we couldn't stop each other the games came down to who recovered an onside kick or made 1 more 4th down conversion. There were no punts or kickoffs - all onside kicks and going for it on 4th.