re: Remember the Ed O'Bannon lawsuit that cancelled the NCAA Football Video Games?

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"RB #7" from New Orleans who is rated 99

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We all know it's JaMarcus Russell in disguise

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throw each player a couple hundred dollars and have the same game we had before

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I always thought some solution like that would solve the problem.

That's a great point, but I'd argue that the best part of the NCAA Football series (IMO) is Dynasty mode. Downloading accurate rosters online give your dynasty's program a certain "realness" that beats online play (which is far too often a bunch of 12 year olds that never punt, always go for it on 4th down, always go for 2, and always kick onside kicks).

But a game w/ completely random players that have no similarities to the real life team would not be something i'd purchase. It would be like buying a copy of NCAA with every roster being exact replicas of what every team's year 8 dynasty roster looks like.

I'll pass on a roster of Lamar Curtis(QB#19, left handed, 52 speed, skin color: white), Tyreke Hill (RB#47, 6'3, 180 lbs, 80 speed, skin color: white), Pat Smith (K#1, left footed, speed 47, skin color black)

I feel like most dudes just liked being able to play as a guy that could be them.

Are we honestly going to say the images on that game actually resembled the player?

One guy ruined it for a lot of people. And he doesn't even play football.

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Personally I don't understand why they can't just make the games and just have random rosters and players.

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Isn't that what it was? Yeah OK some of the numbers matched the current players. You could just go generic. But would they disallow creation and editing of players?

I really don't think they had any good points. The real reason people buy that game was for the teams in the game. Not for a certain player. Not when they transfer or graduate.

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This episode of South Park brilliantly summed up how EA Sports and the NCAA treats the players

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Yes it did. I thought however that I read that EA was willing to pay the players for their likeness but the NCAA wouldn't allow it.

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or you have to use the standard generic roster where everybody is the same which also isn't fun IMO.

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Actually, that's the only "fair" way to do it and would reflect the actually "skill" of the person playing rather than a mismatch in level of players on the field. Like that old football game (I forget which one it was) that that one team had that running back that nobody could catch. He was literally unstoppable about 99% of the time. It was never any fun playing against someone who picked that team.

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O' Bannon and the rest were right to do this. The NCAA was making serious bank off of them from the video game companies and then would mickey mouse these guys for every dollar they got outside of the paltry stipend they got

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I haven't met a single football player, for Arkansas at least, that would rather have that small royalty check over getting to see and play as themselves in the game. It's a shame that O'Bannon's greed had to ruin it for all the players that won't get to the pros.

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It's a shame that O'Bannon's greed had to ruin it for all the players that won't get to the pros.

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They were using O'Bannon's likeness from when he played, in 1995 when he sued them in 2009.

Do you feel that he signed away the rights to his likeness forever by taking the UCLA scholarship?

Keep in mind he sued over a new product, not the one from 1995.

As is the argument that they should get paid. Do we really need to run down the long list of benifits they receive to play a sport?