NCAA Will Not Renew EA Sports Contract, NCAA Football Series is Dead in Name Only

[MrMBrown]

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Get ready for the return of College Football USA

[BrandH]

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I'll wait until I hear this from a respected journalist, an EA employee or EA through a press release. I'm not trusting the word of a random poster on EA's board.

But I read it on the internet. They can't put anything on the internet that isn't true. hahaha This whole reaction has made my day.

[BenGerman]

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It will be interesting to see what happens next. As others have mentioned EA would probably be turning down money by not making a College Football 2015. But it would also make sense that they may just want to wash their hands of the series as a whole. We'll see.

[Marino]

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When I go to EA Forum, I do not see that. I don't see college football dying, they are just removing the name. So many schools are licensed with CLC, they could get a deal done with CLC. Could also open up the game for more FCS teams as well, as the CLC licenses them as well.

[AUChase]

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Do you think emailing EA in support could help?

If you want a very generic, useless response.

[tbennett54]

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Listen,if 2k bailed on college hoops, they're not getting back into the football market. end of story.

True, but college football is bigger than basketball.

[aholbert32]

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It does seem very quick. Unless EA knew this was coming there is no way they heard the news break from the NCAA and then immediately notified the NCAA team that Dec 1 was their final day.

I also noticed that I cant find that post anywhere on the forums and EA is deleting all "NCAA Football is dead" post on its forums.

[BleedGreen710]

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The NCAA no longer letting EA Sports put their name and logo on the game will probably have a similar effect as if John Madden declared he didn't want to be associated with Madden anymore. They just need to change the name and the logo, but they will still have a college football game with all the teams and logos and everything.

This is wishful thinking of course, but what I read from Owen on twitter, that's what my understanding of the situation is.

[The JareBear]

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from EA forum

it's officially done
NCAA Football staff just been told, last day of work for the dev team is Dec. 1

no reason to buy a next-gen system now

Did somebody just pull this out of their butt?

[GisherJohn24]

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Selfish people in here. Thoughts and prayers to EA Sports Team who will face layoffs from this. Some things more important than a video game folks.

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i don't show as much remorse for them because the game is still broken and would have been around longer if they wouldn't have taken shortcuts... I dont' blame the devs mind you, just corporate. It takes longer than 9 months to finish a football game.

[MrMBrown]

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Lets just all take a deep breath and see what happens

[videlsports]

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I'm floored about this, but I knew scince the Trial this might happen. I truthfully hope that all companies could make it also the CLC can still liscence games just not with the NCAA LOGO, no Bowls etc

[aholbert32]

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It will be interesting to see what happens next. As others have mentioned EA would probably be turning down money by not making a College Football 2015. But it would also make sense that they may just want to wash their hands of the series as a whole. We'll see.

It really doesnt though. They are already in the lawsuit. Walking away from the series when it makes a profit shows a potential jury that it believes the Obannon lawsuit has merit. It hurts them more to walk away from the series.

For the NCAA, they dont make a ton from this license. The schools and the CLC do. So it doesnt make sense for them to continue to license its mark to a game that lead to a huge lawsuit.

[mgsmith119]

You also have to count in the fact that some of the smaller schools get their brand out this way too. It's good for a schools marketing. They will produce them as long as it doesn't cost too much for licensing.

On the same note though, smaller schools don't have the legal budgets to defend themselves if some former player decides to take them to court over an O'Bannon like case.

[TexanCam]

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Did somebody just pull this out of their butt?

Think it was deleted with some other threads on the forum.