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To a couple of items. A much requested item.
That we had was a review of college football 20.
Five and. I got the early access.
Version of this game. I paid for it, they didn't send
it to me directly, and so I've been playing it pretty
consistently. Over the course of the last.
Week and I wanted to kind of. Try to give everybody.
My reflections on what we've seen so far, it's, it's
interesting. I remember about a year and a
half. Or maybe two years ago.
When this first got announced? We did.
A segment on the. Podcast where we talked.
About whether or not this was. Something that we were excited
about. Obviously the concept of a
football game coming back at the college.
Level for any video. Gamer, especially if you're Gen.
Xer or Millennial, this was something that was exciting to
you because this was I think for people who listen to this
podcast and people. Who are of that particular age
this. Was always one of the.
Favorite sports titles had a lot more soul historically than
Madden did. You really felt like you were.
Building your own program in the dynasty mode and.
You know, I think for a lot of people.
Even if the numbers didn't. Necessarily reflect it if you
were a college sports fan at all.
This was the game you tended to gravitate towards, and
certainly. You know, I think for a a whole.
Generation now, about 10 years, it's been something you've.
Heard about if you're younger? But you didn't get a chance to
play. And so all of those things were
positive. But one of the things that we
tried to point out. Back a couple of years ago was
that. EA Electronic Arts, the company
that makes the college football game, hasn't always been the
most. Reliable partner, a lot of the
issues that we saw. In the college football game
series back in. The late 2.
Thousands and early 20 tens were things that should have been
addressed and weren't. You know, they were quality
control issues, there were issues with features not working
properly or there were issues. With the game not running.
Particularly smoothly. Like this was a pretty
consistent thing that we saw in really the last six or seven
years of the title. And we did talk at the time
about the concerns that I had knowing that, about EA being
able to actually. Pull this off.
And you know, that was at a time when it looked like the game was
going to come out last summer. It got.
Delayed a whole nother year, finally gets released in July of
this year. And.
I got to tell you. After playing it for a.
While there's things about it I really like, but there there's
also a lot of quality control issues.
Which do not allow me at this point to recommend that you run
out and buy it if you haven't already, if you have, I mean,
obviously. You're in the same boat.
As me and I don't. Think it's a lost cause of a
game but I had a. Lot of people messaging me on
social media saying. I'm thinking about.
Buying a whole new gaming system just for this game and
certainly. A lot of the hype.
That we saw around the game leading up to it, it looked like
it was going to be an automatic purchase.
And like, yes, if you've been on the fence about buying a next
Gen. system and getting yourself out there and starting a video
game again, this might be a great launching point.
So I'm. Going to talk about some of the.
Issues that we've seen also some of the good things and then
also. You know why or what?
I guess I would suggest. People do as we move forward
with everything. So let me start with the good
First off, the gameplay, the actual.
Playing of the football game. Is really, really well done.
The graphics are awesome, the the player movement is awesome.
The player movement I think feels natural.
A lot of people have been. Complaining a little bit.
Who have been, you know. People who are.
Veterans of the old game have been complaining about the
passing system because it did change, but frankly, I found the
passing system so far to be. Really enjoyable to use, it's a
little more intuitive. And maybe it's just the way my
brain works. But but I've really.
Found it to be a good one. I found that the.
The way that you control the receivers in the.
Passing game feels more natural than it did in the past, so a
lot of the actual gameplay is good.
The defense. Playing defense is definitely
hard in this game, a lot harder than I think any other football
game I've ever played. But I actually think that's a
good thing. It's it's one of those
situations. Where you're you're really.
Having to. Utilize football coverages the
way. That they are meant to be used
in real life. You can't just simply say that
you're going to. You know, blitz.
On every down or that you're going to use the same defense
consistently, you got to change up.
Your your coverages you got. To change up, you know what
you're doing with your players while using similar shells like
you basically have to confuse the computer offense and that's.
How it's supposed to be, frankly.
So I like. All of that and I I've found
that all of the. Games that I've.
Played have been fun. As I've tried to adapt to
learning how to play. Defense all over again, but.
Overall, I think they got. The gameplay itself, The actual
game. Of football.
Is is among the best representations that I can
remember. You know, it's not quite like
the, you know. The the.
Famed and, you know, NFL. 2K. Five the that ESPN game that
came out that. That still gets pointed to.
Is kind of the gold standard of football games playing wise.
It's not quite at that level. But I do think that overall,
once you get used to the settings.
It's a really. Enjoyable game of football.
The problem is kind of creep in everywhere else and this is
where I think EA. Was always potentially
susceptible. To not doing what they should
have done within the game. And what I mean by that is this
the what makes these sorts of games work?
Is. Not just that, you have the
names of the. Features, but that the features.
Actually have some corresponding reality.
That. Players can subsume themselves
into you know you want to be able to have immersion,
relatively speaking, when you ask somebody to play a dynasty.
Which you know, essentially. If you if you haven't played the
dynasty mode in the college football game before, you're
asking someone to take on a team.
To take on a coach. And to essentially.
Role play with that coach by building up certain.
Skills while simultaneously using that coach.
To recruit your own program to feel like you're part of the.
College football environment and to.
Move up the ladder. Either move your school up the
ladder. Taking a small school and
building it into a dynasty. Or moving your coach up to where
they're. Coaching a big school and then
you're forming a, a, a quote UN quote dynasty there and you're
you're playing multiple seasons. And so much of that.
Gets tied up in, not. Just the recruiting of new
players, but also the way that your current players are
progressing. And understanding like how they
fit. Within the larger structure of
your program, how they fit within the larger structure of
the college football. Environment at the time and I
think what one of the things that.
The historical college football series really did well.
And this was, you know, granted this was back in the.
PS2 PS3 era was it really did give you a.
Sense that you were part of a living, breathing environment
and that when you went out and you were recruiting players.
There was, you know, the. There were.
Personalities involved. There were reasons.
Why they were choosing your? School or not choosing your
school you know is it a realistic no it never has been
but I think the problems that I'm seeing right now in this
game are that there's a lot of things that the.
Game is really struggling with. And some of them are surprising.
Some of them are not surprising. The surprising things, frankly,
are things that the quality control team for the game
should. Have picked up early on there's
a real. Problem right now.
With the way that this. Game handles the simulations of
other games, not your own games necessarily.
But the way that like Georgia. When they're playing against
opponents, how they're faring what we're seeing and and this
has been, I've seen this in my own dynasty.
Play, I've seen this. Elsewhere we've seen situations
where. You know Georgia.
Will end up with like. Four or five losses.
During the season and look, I mean, could that happen?
Certainly. But it's the losses to like FCS
schools. Or, you know, not particularly.
Good schools in college football's FBS.
Division you know we've seen situations where you've got like
six or seven win teams in the College Football Playoff and
again while. That's theoretically possible.
It's happening. At a really, really prominent
clip and in a way that is essentially immersion breaking
for a lot of people, you know, even within recruiting, you
know, I I actually. Really like the new recruiting.
System. I think it feels more more
natural and realistic. But I it also kind of appears
that the way that. Recruiting is running.
There's, there's. It doesn't.
It's not very intuitive. For a lot.
Of people now. Part of that is players.
Still needing to get used to the new system and not being used.
To the old system. Or or being too.
Used to the old system, I guess you could.
Say, But it brings up another problem with this game right
now. Which is that there are.
Not that. At least to what?
I've seen there's no tutorials or explanations about how any of
this stuff works. You know, we got some.
Developer Diaries. We got some videos that kind of
showed. What features were going to look
like? And those are up on YouTube, but
they don't really explain how they're going to work.
Now we've seen some some vloggers go out and.
Actually figure some of this. Stuff out.
There's some really good tips on how to.
Effectively recruit, but the fact that there's.
There's nothing really that effectively explains how most of
these modes are supposed to work now.
Is a bit of. A of a confusing thing as far as
I'm concerned. We're also seeing issues.
With like scheduling like I've. Seen.
A lot of reports of people that have gone forward four or five.
Years in their dynasty and they're looking at other teams
and they're playing like. Four or five FCS opponents.
In the same season, which never would happen, a lot of that
seems to be tied to. The fact that we're we're.
E as video game is essentially trying to simulate an
environment that doesn't exist yet in terms of scheduling.
In that you now have a mega. Big 10 you have a mega.
SEC. You have a PAC 12.
That's in the game and has two teams in it, and and.
Obviously that's been utilized, you know, for people to go in
and like. Create a custom PAC PAC. 12 or
PAC10 or. Whatever.
But the game doesn't do that on its own, and So what you'll get
is people launching a dynasty and then things.
Are going really Askew because. There's not.
Really a logical scheduling. Pattern.
I mean, one of the things that was nice about.
The previous games was that. Even when you did custom
conferences, it would the. The game would largely match.
What you would see? In real life so far.
We're not seeing that in this game.
So those are the kinds of things where.
You know, it does appear that. You can go in do conferences
that look more. Like the old days where you've
got. Divisions and you've got, you
know, fully stocked conferences and the scheduling does work
better, but again. I think there's a lot of.
Users that don't. Realize that that's a
possibility. And so then they struggle with
some, I think, immersion breaking game issues.
There's also some other detail. Related items that really need
to be fixed online is already a problem from from what I've
seen. If you save your.
Dynasty Online. The servers haven't.
Been able to handle. The traffic, there's been
people. That haven't been.
Able to load their dynasties. I've had.
Problems with that on a couple.
Of occasions and yes. You've got the flood of new, new
players. Coming in and they'll probably
adapt the. Servers.
Least we hope, but. Again, it's tough with any with
any game company at this point. Struggling with a large influx
of users it it is a bit of a. Concern that that wasn't
something that was anticipated upon launch, and I do.
Worry a little bit about. The the long term ramifications
of an online save system for dynasties.
I would highly recommend everybody save their dynasty
offline, unless you're running an online dynasty yourself and
then you're kind of stuck with that details in some of the
other game modes. Outside of dynasty I've I've not
done a. Whole lot with Road to Glory,
but I've talked with people. Who have and it and it just kind
of feels like a limited games process at this point not.
Particularly well fleshed. Out some of the logic and it
doesn't seem to work that well the commentary in the game.
Is really bad I've. Been playing sports video games
for a long time and. You know the I don't.
It's easy to get. Bored with commentary
eventually, because there's only so many lines that commentators
can record. Realistically though, they're
normally a lot. Better aligned with what you see
going on in gameplay. Than.
What we're seeing in this college football game, the the
commentary just sounds hokey. In a lot of places.
It doesn't really match the excitement it's.
Over voiced in a lot of cases it the the the the.
Triggers for certain lines don't seem to line up with.
Reality in a lot of. Cases and.
It just kind of feels. Like a very sophomoric effort
for commentary and it's very puzzling.
Because, you know, you go. Across a lot of different games
in the spectrum and they've been able to.
Figure this out. And and do it very.
Well. In games that are faster paced
than football, You know, I think the NBA. 2K series has.
Done a good job with it NHL. Does a good job.
With it, you know FIFA. Has done an OK job with it.
It's. Weird that this game.
Has these struggles in terms of. How it's commentary sets up.
Is it game breaking? No.
It's annoying though, to the point.
That like the last couple. Of games I've played, I haven't
even bothered turning the sound on, I've just listened.
To music while I've been playing.
The game. So that's what probably what.
I'll do in the future like again, I would never say don't
buy the game 'cause the commentary.
Sucks, but man, after two years with a lot of other examples you
would have thought that they would have at least.
Gotten that down. So anyway, again, I I wanna.
You know, reinforce that the core.
Football game plays really good and a lot of these other items,
I think they're going to be. Able to fix?
It's a little concerning that you know, as of Saturday
morning, I don't there. I don't believe there's been any
kind of official note from EA. About Hey, a patch.
Is coming to fix some of these issues with simulations and
whatnot. But you know right now.
That hasn't happened and while I think they will be able to patch
things in the future, I am a little bit concerned that there
were so many like detail oriented items that were not
addressed in the programming of the game or the play testing of
the game that are clearly going to have to be.
Addressed through a patch or through.
Something secondary. The fortunate thing is that in
this era, you can throw. A patch out there, Pretty.
Quickly and fix. A lot of these problems, you
know, easier said than done, says Crowdstrike after they.
They crashed the planet yesterday.
But normally, like, I mean, I'll, I'll use an example of
another game that I've been playing lately called City
Skylines 2. Some of you may be familiar with
it. It's, it's about the opposite of
what you can get from a college football game.
It's a city. Builder but that that.
Game has been plagued with issues since it launched last
summer. That team.
Released a fixed pat. Like a patch to fix things and
then had to release another patch.
Immediately afterwards to fix. Some other items that broke.
They did though. And now that game runs pretty
well, and that settled down a lot of the complaints about the
game. So I think that'll happen.
With NCAA 25. I just hope that they're.
Conscious that there are some of these glitches and.
Again, like for someone like me and for a lot.
Of people, what people really want to play.
Is the dynasty mode in this game and you've just got to make?
Sure that you got the. Details down.
I know that's a difficult thing to do in an era where.
College football itself is. Changing the thing you're trying
to simulate isn't there. Like yet we really.
Don't have a lot of examples of it, but we know what it.
Should generally look like. Given how college football is
played in the past. That's where.
I'm a little bit hesitant. I would be hard for me to
recommend to somebody who hasn't bought the game that they go buy
the game, and I would. Absolutely put the stop.
Sign up on somebody who's like, I want to go buy a system and
also buy this game. Don't do that yet.
I would wait a couple of weeks. Let's see if they get this patch
sorted. I will say for those who.
Own the game now. It's not a lost cause.
I'm. Still having fun with recruiting
and dynasty and kind of. Learning the ropes.
I think some of the underlying fundamentals won't change and
what I'm essentially doing and frankly I do this with.
Every year that I've had a college.
Football game to play. I spend that first month
essentially running a mock dynasty to try to figure out the
controls and figure out the systems, and then I always
restart the dynasty when the college football season itself
starts. That's essentially how I'm
approaching this unfortunately. We've still got a.
Solid month plus until that happens, so I'm hoping that
they're able to take that time to fix some of those.
Issues so if you got. Questions, shoot them our
direction, happy to answer those questions, but that would be my
review right now of everything. Second and last topic for today
that I wanted to tackle is the nil settlement question mark.
We we've talked. About this nil settlement for a
while it got announced. A couple of weeks, I guess it
was. Almost like a couple months ago
now where? Supposedly there was this.
Settlement in the NCAA versus. House case.
It also folded a couple of other.
Cases into it and yet we haven't seen the settlement announced
yet and we talked about on one of our.
Podcasts about how there was a. Possibility that this might not
actually be a settlement that gets accepted.
By the courts or by the the. Parties involved, and I think
it's worth revisiting at this point.
There's an interesting article. If you haven't subscribed to
this yet and you're at all interested in name, image and
likeness related items or just kind of the changing business of
college sports, I highly recommend if you're on LinkedIn,
Darren Heitner, HEITNE. R Former Former.
Lecturer at Indiana University taught.
A. A.
Sports agency management class for me.
Back about a decade ago. Good guy.
Really. Really.
Sharp mind on on everything related to IP and sports and
entertainment, but he's been publishing.
This regular newsletter called Newsletter.
Image likeness is already up to the 89th volume and he had a
really interesting one. That he published a couple of
actually, this was. Yesterday, the 19th about how
this settlement being. Delayed is really, really weird.
And and fascinating and really. Odd, I think in general, because
the fact that it's. Delayed at this point.
Is. Is pretty peculiar.
This should have been something where the.
Parties involved were were, you know, ready to roll on it.
But there's a lot of things that are now getting wedged in to
this settlement that probably shouldn't be there in the 1st
place. And I think that there's a real
argument to be made that it is creating it could create some
real problems with the settlement overall.
So there was an article in. Sportico also a good
publication. If you're interested in anything
sports business related, by Daniel Libbit.
Which is. Titled NCAA House settlement
delayed by infighting. Per plaintiff's lawyers, I'm
going to just quote a couple. Of items from this this article
and we'll put the link for this in our sub stack if you want to
go check it out Jeffrey Kessler. The lawyer.
That's involved in this settlement had a telephone
interview on Monday morning and he he blamed, quote infighting
between the NCAA and its. Power League Co.
Defendants for the hold up and essentially back on May 30th,
both sides of this settlement filed a joint stipulation asking
for the court to pause deadlines to iron out a long form
agreement and some of these items in the agreement that are
being now debated that we're hearing are things.
Like what are scholarship? Limits for football going to be
and you know. There's also some other items
related to what are. What are going to be the limits
on what type of nil? Athletes in the college level
would be able. To take advantage of the NCAA
trying to essentially establish a litmus test for whether
something is pure NIL or pay for play, and trying to forbid
athletes from taking advantage of the.
Ladder and. The idea behind all?
Of this is ultimately. That all the athletes are
supposed to opt into this settlement because they're going
to get access to money, but that money is not all coming from
like the power. Five schools, it's also.
Coming from the rest of the NCAA.
And so there's like a corollary issue going on right now with
this university called Houston Christian University.
Who has asked? To intervene in this because
they don't feel. Like they should be a.
Party to the damages. So there's just a lot of messy
things going on, but it kind of comes back to this core point.
Which is there's two. Elements to it one Everybody
just assumed when this thing came out that the settlement was
going to happen but it. Requires a all the parties to
agree to a core set of. Items and B.
The judge to say. Yes, this settlement works.
The second item is. That it also requires that.
The NCAA and the Power 5 conferences be recognized as the
authorities in this and that. Everybody else has to go.
Along with whatever the settlement is and that's
creating a lot of problems at the NC.
AA level. And as as has been noted in in
Darren's newsletter. There's just a.
Lot of question marks about whether the NCAA.
Really has the authority to. Speak on this.
There's a quote from Richard Johnson, who's a lawyer, you
know, and. And I'm just going to quote
this. Verbatim, because I think it's a
really interesting quote. As far as this continuing fake
settlement. Not a single defendant.
Has authority to settle. In this case so.
It'll be awkward for the. Defense counsel to explain that
to the court. No, your Honor, the NCAA doesn't
or didn't have a member. Vote to approve this.
The NCAA board does not have the authority to do its own do.
It on its own. No, your honor, not a single.
Public university board of trustees.
Authorized their president to vote in favor of this at
conference meetings the. Absurdity of it all was.
Mind boggling. And so there's a real chance
that they're going to bring this settlement to court and the
judge is going to be. Like, do you have the authority
to actually speak on behalf of all the?
People that you're speaking on behalf of and they're.
The the parties. Are going to have to say no,
your honor, we actually don't which then will bring the whole
thing into question. The judge in this case is.
Not likely to allow this. Settlement to be used as a
backdoor methodology for legislating college.
Sports, but that's really what. These terms of the settlement
seem to be. That you're going to create.
This nil fund that all of these. Parties are going to agree to
that. All the athletes are going to be
required. Essentially to take part in and
that all. Schools, whether they're Power
Five or Power 4. Schools or not will be living
under. The whole idea that people keep.
Missing in this. Is that the?
Courts are forcing the NCAA and its member institutions and the
conferences that those institutions are a part of,
which are not the same thing as the NCAA.
The courts are forcing them to do things that they don't want
to do. And they've been dragging their
feet on those things because they don't want to do the things
that the court is telling them. And you know, even NIL.
That what kicked all of this off.
It was not the NCAA saying we're going to provide NIL.
It was the courts. Saying NCAA, you cannot forbid
your athletes from making money on name, image and likeness.
You. You can't do it legally.
And So what you've got now with this settlement is the NCAA and
its member. Schools at the Power 5.
Level and the conferences trying to use this settlement to
essentially legislate their own sport without actually going
through the. Process of what you would do to
legislate? Your own sport, and what I mean
by that is like when the NFL in the offseason wants to create
new rules or change existing rules about pass interference,
about when timeouts can happen, things like that.
Those things have to get. Proposed they go through a.
Rules Committee and then the owners have to vote on whether.
They approve or disapprove those.
Things you've seen? Stories about that before
they're supposed to be a process.
Internally through which you make changes.
You're not supposed to use. Court settlements that you know,
focus on the rights of individuals to make money off of
their name, image and likeness to then legislate your own
sport. Because you can't.
Do it through the means. That your sport itself,
actually. Employs and that's essentially
what's going on here, you know, normally.
What you would have? In in any kind of a circumstance
it. Globally with sport or locally?
In the United States, is you would take these items, you'd
put them in front of a a. You know the representatives of
each of the. Teams or each of the conferences
and they would have to vote on changes.
And the problem is that the NCAA as it's currently constituted.
As we've talked about before. Isn't just those top teams, it's
everybody. And so you either in that case
have to split the top teams from everybody else and let them have
their own set of rules and have them vote on those rules and
codify things. And then let everybody else.
Do things on their own, which would effectually break the NCAA
as an institution. Or you do it this.
Way which is. You try to backdoor.
Things and try to hammer them into a legal agreement.
It's essentially the difference. If I was going to try to to put
it into more like general terms, it's the difference between
Congress passing a bill and then the president signing it versus
the Supreme Court ruling that something's constitutional or
unconstitutional and that creating a new vacuum within
which things have to be built. It's almost as if the NCAA and
its member schools are trying to.
Do the latter rather. Than simply work out an
agreement amongst all parties. And the reason they're not doing
that is that they don't want to bring athletes to the table as a
bargaining entity. You know the the.
The colleges and universities, like there's just so many things
going on. You've got, you've got.
The the top conferences who want to separate themselves.
From the lower. Conferences and teams within the
NCAA, that thousand plus set of schools you've got.
The the you know. Kind of team stuck in the
middle. Who aren't quite at the.
Top level but want to get. There you've got athletes.
Who want to seat at? The table but also.
Just want to get paid for what they're doing and.
Ultimately, I don't know where. All of this lands, but I do
think that. It's a real possibility that.
A. The settlement might never get.
Hammered out to everybody's. Satisfaction and B.
Even if it does. That the court might say this is
not a settlement for these cases, this is something else.
Entirely. You have to go back.
To the drawing board, which could mean we don't actually
have a settlement until the end of the calendar year or beyond.
That was always a possibility with this and the longer this
goes. The more.
Likely that you know one. Of those two scenarios is going
to happen that either the teams in the conferences are just like
we're not going to sign on to. This or you'll get you.
Know universities like Houston Christian saying why are we
being expected to pay 2 or $3,000,000 for something that we
never did? And their, you know, and their
argument is essentially we've never restricted an athlete
from, from taking advantage of name image and likeness.
That was an NCAA thing. Now we're being asked to pay for
this. So there's all these different
factors that I think you're going to come crashing together
with this. And so here we go.
And, and I again, I do think ultimately what you're going to
see the NCAA continues to put all of its eggs in the basket of
Congress is going to go and they're going to give us a.
Bill. That's going to, you know,
codify amateurism and and basically say athletes can't be
considered employees. I still don't think that's
happening. You know, we heard noise a
little, you know, a few weeks. Ago that maybe there was
momentum, momentum for that. It's not.
It does not appear to be occurring anytime soon.
And again, Congress being in position to do anything on this.
Front to ride. It and save the day for the
NCAA. Doesn't look like it's going to
happen if you don't have this settlement.
That takes a huge chunk. Even out of that effort, and one
can only wonder at that point what ends up.
Occurring so we'll keep you posted.
On things, but a a fascinating space for everybody to be in
right now, and certainly not, not not looking like it's going
to get solved anytime soon. So anyway, we'll take a break
here. TuneIn next week we'll have some
more podcasts coming up and should be a fun next few weeks.
Obviously IU basketball alums playing in the TBT tournament.
They won their first game last night against.
I think the the Valparaiso. Alumni and I'm not sure who
they're playing next. They might be playing the Purdue
team next, so should be fascinating to.
Watch that. So check.
That out and I hope. You all have a good.
Rest of the weekend should be a a nice weather weekend here in
the Midwest. For most people.
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