College Athletes suing Video Games

[bruin4life]

http://www.pastapadre.com/8376/lawsuit-threatens-future-of-college-sports-games

[sandiegojoe]

These guys have already been compensated in poontang. They need to quit whining.

[beasley for pres]

These guys have already been compensated in poontang. They need to quit whining.

So true, these guys are given a free education, free housing, women thrown at em, spotlight in the parties, and they want more? They're given pretty much 4 free amazing years, and all they have to do is play a game.

[bruin4life]

You guys are missing the point. Sam Keller gave us the most amazing years of college football we've ever seen and we were lucky enough to witness it unfold. He should be given a place to live and a starting job in the NFL no matter what, Goodell needs to step in and make sure this happens.


Did I change everyone's mind?

classic...

[Jcdawg23]

Are you kidding me? This would be like a student of one of the colleges on the game saying "there is a fan in the student section that looks like me, and was wearing the same jersey I wear to every game. I want money". What a loser, and I hope he wastes a ton of money trying to file this lawsuit.

[benton45]

Sam Keller was a jerk and a douchebag in high school. I remember how cool he thought he was when we played them. Looks like nothing has changed.

[benton45]

what about the guys who struggled in that department??? how do they get comp...

A $100,000 education for free sounds like pretty good compensation to me.

[bruin4life]

lets get real here........most those atletes probably come from lower income families and would get a free ride or significant financial aid anyways.



Not to the universities they have gone to. The reality is if you're going to use the lower income family having athlete as the reason on why they should be compensated by EA or any other video games then it needs to be pointed out that if it wasn't for football they wouldn't even be in school to begin with so the ends justify the means...

IMO, the video game makers need to only make payment to the ncaa and/or the universities. The athletes need to get any compensation they feel they are due from the ncaa/universities who do make the money off of them. A college athlete complaining about a video game using them is akin to an nfl player complaining about madden it completely ignores that they are part of a union (or the ncaa) and the video game makers are able to use them because they compensate the union they are apart of.

[benton45]

lets get real here........most those atletes probably come from lower income families and would get a free ride or significant financial aid anyways.

video games taking advantage of kids FTL!

So Jamal...froum bum **** Alabama, with a 2.1 gpa and a 900 on the SATs is going to a school like Florida or USC simply because he is low income?

While at those schools simply because he is low income he is going to get passed in college english, with his 5th grade english level, simply because heis low income?

He is going to be ensured a degree, one that he would have no way of attaining on his own, simply because he is low income?

Athletes, in particular football players get enough.

Then there are guys like Sam Keller, who grew up in Danville, CA. Whos dad works with professional athletes. A kid whose dad could afford to send him to any college in the country and a kid who is smart enough to get a degree...A kid who never panned out and now has to work for a living, but is lazy and has relied on his natural ability and his daddy all of his life...that kid is looking for an easy buck.

All EA has to do is change the numbers of the players and change their hometowns. they are not taking advantage of these kids at all either.

If I was getting a free ride to play football and the my likeness was in a video game I would be stoked....As I am sure most of these kids are...the problem is that you get one lazy stuck up ***** that thinks he deserves something.

[JaketheSnake]

I don't get it. Wouldn't you be way happy to have your likeness on a nationally advertised and played game just for playing a sport? Plus, if you have a problem with it, your real name isn't even in the game. Anyone can have that number, build, or hometown... So what's the case? It doesn't make sense.

If I went to college, and got myself on a video game, I could brag about that for a lifetime. Sam Keller is suing them. Where does this start to make sense?

[Jcdawg23]

I don't get it. Wouldn't you be way happy to have your likeness on a nationally advertised and played game just for playing a sport? Plus, if you have a problem with it, your real name isn't even in the game. Anyone can have that number, build, or hometown... So what's the case? It doesn't make sense.

If I went to college, and got myself on a video game, I could brag about that for a lifetime. Sam Keller is suing them. Where does this start to make sense?

Exactly!! I played ball for 1 year at a D3 school. Rumors started one year that NCAA was thinking about putting the tope D2 and D3 schools on the game. We were all so excited about the fact we might be on a game, not that we wanted to get paid for it. Keller is just mad he can't make it in the NFL.

[benton45]

well those are piss poor excuses. if you want to go that route then whatever college these kids went to they'd get a free ride. t doesn;t take much to get that financial aid. so to say 'they got into the school' or they 'got a free education' really doesn't cut it.

but that doesn't mean a company like EA should be able to exploit them for a profit.

I get what youre saying and it makes sense, but they are getting degrees for nothing. Financial aid is one thing. Being babied along to stay eligible and getting a degree in something when you dont really need to apply yourself or even learn the material is another.

What it will probably come down to is EA changing the numbers and hometowns of the players in the game...or even just changing the hometowns would suffice.

There is no way that EA is going to be stopped from making their games as they do, and no way the NCAA allows these kids to be compensated.

[9ertotheend]

EA Sports NCAA is by far the biggest recruit process ever. Thats the biggest evaluator of talent, i dont know what theyre complaining about.

Al Davis pushed L2 and picked a random team, couple months later, Michael Mitchell is a 2nd round pick. You dont think it was the scouts do you?

[bruin4life]

I get what youre saying and it makes sense, but they are getting degrees for nothing. Financial aid is one thing. Being babied along to stay eligible and getting a degree in something when you dont really need to apply yourself or even learn the material is another.

What it will probably come down to is EA changing the numbers and hometowns of the players in the game...or even just changing the hometowns would suffice.

There is no way that EA is going to be stopped from making their games as they do, and no way the NCAA allows these kids to be compensated.

Not gonna happen and what knobs fails to obviously understand is that as long as these kids have to register with the ncaa to play (they can chose an naia school) and EA has the rights from ncaa then these player numbers get used. Again the athletic students (lets' be real they aren't student athletes) need to take their not yet even close to unified fight against the ncaa in terms of uni's bowl games, televised games and video game pay. Like I pointed out it's the same as with the nfl and nflpa agreement. Individual players don't own their own football likeness it belongs to the union they pay their fees/dues to. This is why it's harder to get alot of guys into the boxing games and why hulk hogan was individually represented in WWF games back in the day. If you don't have a union or can be in your sport without a union then you hold the cards for anyone wanting to use your likeness until then...they have no lawsuit that they'll win with.

EA Sports NCAA is by far the biggest recruit process ever. Thats the biggest evaluator of talent, i dont know what theyre complaining about.

Al Davis pushed L2 and picked a random team, couple months later, Michael Mitchell is a 2nd round pick. You dont think it was the scouts do you?

lol...

[Hobbes2d]

Sam Keller was a jerk and a douchebag in high school. I remember how cool he thought he was when we played them. Looks like nothing has changed.

Where did you go to High School?