EA Sports NCAA Football: Post Mortem / Rosters
With the World Cup finished, NBA free agency winding down, the second half of baseball underway, and The Open looking like a one-man race, the sports calendar has finally hit a dead spot. Just six weeks from today the college football season begins in earnest, but an old staple of this time of year is missing this year.
For about the past decade, I remember counting the days until mid-July for the release of the year's new EA Sports video game about the sport we love most hear: NCAA Football. Obviously with the O'Bannon lawsuit and pay for players debate raging throughout the country, it's unclear when the series will return. I would expect some wholesale reform in college football that allows for a return of sanctioned video games someday, but for now we are stuck with last year's version. The relief of all this is that we zealots retain $60 rather than buying what's usually a highly similar product with a fresh coat of paint and new rosters. Yet, I will miss popping in the new game all the same.
What does the (for now) death of the series mean to college football and its fans this year? Some may return to past entries, but the appeal of letting EA Sports setting up mostly analagous schedules and rosters will certainly scare many away from this avenue.
Also, I hope to find some fresh roster update on the internet in the coming weeks, but this year that is exceedingly more challenging as it involves not only tracking down the correct players and inputting names, but projecting both improvements and new players. Is anyone crazy enough to do this, probably not for the whole game (yikes) but perhaps just for Michigan or even the Big Ten?
Looks like its in their locker. I don't have the latest game so I don't know how accurate it is for michigan or the big ten.
Yeah I realized that, but I probably won't download anything until near the season starts as there is a little more information. Plus, I am much more interested in how Michigan people would rate Michigan and its opponents than some LSU fan.
I'm always pissed that they don't have 85 man rosters, though.
For PS3 i downloaded updated rosters for the upcoming season..I forget what the locker was and the guys at Operation Sports i believe deserve the credit..you can get them from my locker michiganman24
Thanks for the tip, Operation Spots looks like a pretty good place to look with multiple perspectives.
yeah, I will wait until mid August to download the OS rosters off EA locker. There is too much training camp changes coming down until the start of the season. Perhaps we can get another mgoblog season going again on X box live. I remember last season, it fell through half way through the season due to individuals flaking out.
September needs to get here fast.
...because he should be.
And JMFR is Lawrence Taylor.
I don't even wanna know who's Bo Jackson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB4l9twTzZw#t=29
My good friend from HS was DE #60 on Dartmouth for a few years back in the day. He would constantly go back and forth between 1) being happy to be playing himself in a video game, and 2) being annoyed because his ratings were in the 50s and 60s (again, DARTMOUTH).