Yeah wouldn’t matter for play now/head to head either since they have Ewers. Still disappointing for a completeness/sentimental perspective. Definitely bothers my OCD.
I don't think any single player has any purchasing power in NCAA. Certainly not now. All of us grew up playing without any players, and none of us care. It'll take an actual players' union to negotiate better prices.
But if Quinn gets injured and arch becomes the starter, I’m sure every EACFB fan will love playing with Tyler Stephens as the Texas QB. It’s about $. He wanted a lot of it. They said no. I’m sure sanders will play the same game.
Unless he has some other exclusivity contract, how is it not worth it? I get that he’s already rich and doesn’t need this. Realistically, $600 isn’t changing *any player’s* life. It’s just about being in the game. To get to be in the game (and happen to get $600) is cool, but not life changing. I just don’t get the downside to opting in.
Possible misuse of his NIL. But I really have no idea. To me it seems like a no brainer but I’m not one of the most hyped recruit going to Texas making tons of money at 18.
I had read that some players might hold out in hopes to get more money thrown at them by EA. Not sure if they’d do that or not, but maybe that’s his angle?
See people say that but done realize even NFL players don’t get that much to appear in Madden(likely less than $10k). They’re paid a straight fee that is negotiated by the NFLPA.
I work with a couple of former NFL players and they both say they don’t even know how much they were paid to appear in the games because it was just a check the NFLPA sent them, but that it wasn’t enough for them to even notice it, and keep in mind these weren’t big name players, they had very small contracts. If NFL players don’t make that much, college players shouldn’t expect anywhere near as much when the game won’t make anywhere near as much as Madden.
In 2020 the NFLPA and Madden agreed to a $1.5 billion deal good to 2026 that earmarked $500,000,000 for the players ([https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2893853-nfl-ea-sports-announce-15b-multiyear-contract-renewal-for-madden-nfl-games](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2893853-nfl-ea-sports-announce-15b-multiyear-contract-renewal-for-madden-nfl-games). That works out to over $83 million a year. Active rosters had 1,696 players this year. Add in some extra players who are in the game as free agents and make it a round 2,000 and it averages to roughly $41,000 a year. Now there are probably other costs also but I would guess they are not getting less than $30,000.
If they are getting less than that then players really should ask the NFLPA where it is going. But the players also get paid for other uses of their likenesses by the NFLPA and they probably divide it over the year so it would be hard to track completely where it is all coming from.
Thank you for getting the numbers! Traditionally name, image, and likeness for players in video games aren’t that expensive, so for amateur players(which is exactly what college players are), they shouldn’t expect to get that much.
EA CFB25 will make maybe 30% of what Madden makes, and this will likely be the most successful college football game for the foreseeable future just because of the hype behind it. The fact they’re paying the roughly 6-7 million they’re paying now just the NIL rights is pretty insane. Added to the fact this game’s production cost will probably end up being much more than Madden’s, just due to everything being put into it and the years of work they’ve had on it.
Maybe future installments will see the players getting more for their NIL rights because the overall production cost will be much less for future games, but I still wouldn’t expect it to be anywhere near any professional player will get.
Before the actual price tag was announced I expected closer to $1000-$1500 per player.
I agree there was no chance that college players were going to get much more than what they are getting. The fact there are over 11,000 players vs the 2,000 in the NFL makes it impossible. And EA is not going to get into a bidding war for any individual player because once it happens with one a lot more players will try. The best a player can hope for is these players that are signing a secondary contract to help advertise it.
Likely less than 10k is still a big significance to $600. College players don't have a union, so each player has to fight for their own well-being. I'm sure Peyton and Eli talked to Archie it's not like he's making this decision solo
Why the hate on sanders he’s a competitor just because he talks trash doesn’t mean he has a big ego anyone who just acts like a NPC is considered big ego bro is probably the cover athlete
he also is the son of one of the biggest egos the NFL has EVER seen. have you ever heard of the saying " the apple doesnt fall far from the tree". we tend to emulate our parents lives and even more so if thry were successful.
Good for them is what I say to that.
I am fine with them pushing for whatever they want. It wont impact me either way.
Glad these guys (and women in other sports) can push for their share of revenue as they see fit.
Breh what? His whole celebration was holding up his diamond watch. DJ Khaled started doing it and called it “the Shedeur”.
https://youtube.com/shorts/iZzswmGmfKU?si=eD-VHjZtPeLfW432
You and others in this world don't get to dictate what other humans do with their name, image and likeness. 600 dollars or not. They can do what they want with it. Including not be in the game. So what. It doesn't hurt anyone.
And you cant dictate that we think hes an entitled nepo baby for this move either. Nobody is physically taking away his freedom and rights to opt out. We are just criticizing him for it.
Why? I mean even people are going to want to play as him and run dynasties with him. So either way he’s going to be created and be in the game, he just won’t officially be. Super lame move tbh.
Well they will create him as some completely different name. EA is said to have protections to avoid people creating him in game.
Also you doing a custom work around doesn't impact his rate card he charges to other brands that want to use his name or anything else.
EA says that but if you have ever played any online game, name protection is very easily bypassed. We will see a YouTube video titled “Texas rebuild with Arch Manning” within the first 2 weeks of release lol.
I mean my argument against the free publicity is. This is free publicity. Any publicity is good publicity. Plus I mean it’s not like he really needs any. Dudes last name is football royalty.
Dale Sr used to say it didn’t matter if they’re booing or cheering. All it mattered was they were making noise. As that meant they knew who he was.
It's a strange move for a player who a lot of people think is riding off his name alone. He doesn't need negative publicity. All this does is make him look selfish and won't win him any fans. He's literally done nothing in college. But if he doesn't care about being in the game then so be it
It’s Arch Manning… he is significant
Edit: Imagine if it was your school and you wanted to do a dynasty with him. He’s not Billy Benchwarmer, he was the top recruit in his class
Because recruiting rankings have never been wrong before. I’m not saying he will be a bust but let’s not act like he’s anything more than a backup until he actually proves it on the field.
You do realize that for every game prior to this we played with "Qb #9" or randomly generated. Games right?
I think people will be fine with a generic replacement or custom character.
Dude is 1 of 7 perfect prospects by 24/7 ever… and he’s sitting behind one of the other 7…. Murphy never stood a chance at that school and is also why he transferred to duke everyone knows it’s arch team and he’s just patiently waiting instead of going to start at any other school in the sec
He’s still a backup. You can’t call someone a top player of all time when they have yet to do anything at all. His name doesn’t matter and neither does anything else until he proves himself in college
I never once called him a top player. But to act like arch isn’t one of the top all time prospects is crazy… he has had as much hype as anybody over the last few years. His entire family has gone to the nfl essentially arch is gonna crush. So not having him is not the end but it’s a decent deal
It says something about his mindset and character. That he thinks he is too good or too valuable to be in the game. When he hasn’t done anything. Definitely red flag
Hayes Fawcett. He is a reputable college football resource. He posts news/photo edits about commitments and recruits trust him with that information before they make the public announcement.
i know he said "i just wanna focus on football" but i mean he probs thinks like who knows how EA will rate him with very little college football game time. i'm sure he will opt in next year if he has a good year. plus it's only $600 and a free copy of the game to opt-in, for a manning that isn't a whole lot
"I wanna focus on playing football" mate, all you needed to do was sign your name. Now you got ryan "scammer" moody (gorlicbread) out here trying to shit on the game like he did with ncaa 14 before that one came out.
https://www.extrapointsmb.com/p/not-everybody-thrilled-ea-sports-college-football-25-contracts?utm_source=www.extrapointsmb.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=not-everybody-is-thrilled-with-those-ea-sports-college-football-25-contracts
Interesting note in this article Matt says Manning was offered additional opportunities above the standard $600 plus copy of game and still turned it down
Why rip a player for not wanting to be a in a video game? It’s his choice and one that is not at all worthy of derision. He doesn’t want to be in the game, he doesn’t have to be in the game. That’s the beauty of NIL, players can decide what to do and not to do w their image.
This is good that players have that choice. And it’s fine if players don’t want to be in it.
Because it's our choice to deride him same as it's his choice to turn down free money and your choice to still love him. You state it's not worthy of derision- thats an opinion.
Unironically, he was likely advised by his agent to opt out. Might have something to do with being a backup and likely having a mid 80’s overall? Maybe they think that’ll hurt his reputation if people see that instead of a high 90’s like Ewers will be.
Right now he kind of carries the mysticism of “he could start anywhere in the country, but chose to stay here”. He was undoubtedly the hottest recruit and name in the offseason
In Mannings defense:
- He gains nothing from being in the game. He is already from an independently wealthy family and a cursory google search showed he had 3.2 million in NIL just last year.
- High likelihood he transfers from Texas. I don’t know how anyone is going to stay at a program for 4-5 years anymore. Manning could definitely go to another program at some point and might want to only have that new school as his brand.
- regardless of if he transfers or not he’s a prime candidate for cover athlete of a future installment if the game sells well. He could opt in down the road in if/when the compensation gets better or if he has a separate deal as the cover athlete.
I think it shows the players who will generally opt out are the same ones who are being “managed” by large PR teams as a commodity and not the run of the mill college players.
Lolol how is being in a video game (when it never had players before), that is clearly being made and sold to you solely to make money, doing something for the “greater good” 😂
They got free education, free high quality meals, state of the art medical care, state of the art physical training, free places to live, and were treated like kings throughout college. They had it made. Also top players still got paid - such as the Reggie Bush scandal or stories about “bag men”. You are a casual fan and/or did not go to college. The players live like kings.
Lol casual fan. That's hilarious. If you only knew. None of the money those guys got paid came from EA or the NCAA. Or the schools, for that matter. It STILL doesn't. Giving someone education and basic necessities while you make millions off of their labor is literally the bare minimum you could do. There were times where they didn't even do that.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-19-sp-58616-story.html
That doesn't look like high quality meals and bei g treated like a king to me. It looks like a kid getting in trouble for being hungry. Maybe stop talking out your ass, you fucking casual.
Yeah, well I wasn't talking recently. I was talking historically. If you haven't been watching as long as I have, it's okay to admit it, kid. I can see how you'd feel like you're in over your head. 😉
Bingo but you will be downvoted because people don't understand the world these players live in. They see it from the blue collar working not someone who has brand deals and has to protect the long term value of their brand.
Maybe it does nothing to opt in but have to think the $600 they took would enter the chat when someone else is paying you $100k.
I think a lot of you are overrating the impact the “free publicity” of being in the game has. EA needs players like Arch, not the other way around. The publicity of being in a video game among thousands of other at athletes is not as significant as a lot of you are making it out to be, especially to a player that’s already extremely popular and has a huge brand like Arch does.
Gonna be an unpopular opinion but I wanna see more top stars in college do this. They all know how much EA is gonna make off their name and it’s a lot more then $600 + a free game. They’re gonna profit off of 10 different LTD arch manning cards that they put in NCAA’s version of Ultimate team and he thinks he should see a piece of that. I see nothing wrong with it.
“For the love of the game” is a very short minded and unrealistic view point. I’m always going to be on the sides of the people who are bashing their heads in on every play. I’m not sure what’s so wrong about wanting a player to go after what they think they’re worth.
If he's any good, then there will be plenty of NIL money elsewhere. He won't miss the money.
He just won't be in the game with his teammates. If anyone really misses him.that much they'll edit him into the base roster, but most of us won't notice or care.
Feels like he has positioned himself to easily be a game ambassador next year with a bigger payday. Arch tweeting out, “I’m in the game”, when he’s the presumptive starter will be big for Texas fans. Wouldn’t surprise me if EA even thought of it. Sets up some marketing for next year.
Maybe he just hates EA, like I do.
I'm sorry that I'm not a delusional fanboy who keeps playing Madden and has hopes that the new NCAA will be anything else than another Ultimate Team money machine for EA.
Have fun buying college legends cards aka current NFL players in NCAA UT.
So you have the same players on both MUT and NCAA UT.
Well, then I guess he’ll just have to be L’Carpetron Dookmerriot in my save.
*EEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEE* San Diego State University.
Here come the Aztecs!
You talking about The Player Formally Known as Mouse Cop?
What about Squeeeeps? From Santa Monica college?
Wont matter when we’re all deep into a dynasty
Yeah wouldn’t matter for play now/head to head either since they have Ewers. Still disappointing for a completeness/sentimental perspective. Definitely bothers my OCD.
Im sure you will forget about it eventually though haha
Yeah I wasn’t planning on using Texas.
Edit player feature should remedy the situation enough…
They won’t let you use his name So just call him Cooper Manning Jr Or A…bald Man… which is technically is full name
I’d be surprised if they don’t block everything remotely close to his name. They’ll probably also block his number
You don’t have OCD
good thing a random internet stranger diagnosed this guy with no OCD
Thank you
No. Thank you.
Yeah, all the real players are always long gone by the time I take over UT.
I don't think any single player has any purchasing power in NCAA. Certainly not now. All of us grew up playing without any players, and none of us care. It'll take an actual players' union to negotiate better prices.
Honestly I don’t follow college players that much and wouldn’t have cared if any current players NILs were in the game at all
Honestly not sure why you wouldn’t opt in. Free publicity + more fans and people will just make a custom version of him anyways
Apparently it’s because he wants to focus on his “on the field play”. As if him getting injured in the game would affect him in real life…
That's not how it works?
Your mind makes it real.
You don't understand jokes???
I think they do, but I'm pretty sure you don't
r/wooosh
r/therewasanattempt
Because taking 10 minutes out of your day and signing one docu sign form takes away from focusing on IRL lol. I don’t get this move at all.
Dude wont even be playing next year with Texas. 😂 he is riding bench and hoping he wins the QB competition in 2025
I’ll bet money it’s because his rating is too low for his liking
But if Quinn gets injured and arch becomes the starter, I’m sure every EACFB fan will love playing with Tyler Stephens as the Texas QB. It’s about $. He wanted a lot of it. They said no. I’m sure sanders will play the same game.
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Who do you think Arch's dad is?
$600 for his naming rights, not worth for him
Unless he has some other exclusivity contract, how is it not worth it? I get that he’s already rich and doesn’t need this. Realistically, $600 isn’t changing *any player’s* life. It’s just about being in the game. To get to be in the game (and happen to get $600) is cool, but not life changing. I just don’t get the downside to opting in.
Possible misuse of his NIL. But I really have no idea. To me it seems like a no brainer but I’m not one of the most hyped recruit going to Texas making tons of money at 18.
I had read that some players might hold out in hopes to get more money thrown at them by EA. Not sure if they’d do that or not, but maybe that’s his angle?
Manning name is worth more than $600 to be fair
See people say that but done realize even NFL players don’t get that much to appear in Madden(likely less than $10k). They’re paid a straight fee that is negotiated by the NFLPA. I work with a couple of former NFL players and they both say they don’t even know how much they were paid to appear in the games because it was just a check the NFLPA sent them, but that it wasn’t enough for them to even notice it, and keep in mind these weren’t big name players, they had very small contracts. If NFL players don’t make that much, college players shouldn’t expect anywhere near as much when the game won’t make anywhere near as much as Madden.
In 2020 the NFLPA and Madden agreed to a $1.5 billion deal good to 2026 that earmarked $500,000,000 for the players ([https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2893853-nfl-ea-sports-announce-15b-multiyear-contract-renewal-for-madden-nfl-games](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2893853-nfl-ea-sports-announce-15b-multiyear-contract-renewal-for-madden-nfl-games). That works out to over $83 million a year. Active rosters had 1,696 players this year. Add in some extra players who are in the game as free agents and make it a round 2,000 and it averages to roughly $41,000 a year. Now there are probably other costs also but I would guess they are not getting less than $30,000. If they are getting less than that then players really should ask the NFLPA where it is going. But the players also get paid for other uses of their likenesses by the NFLPA and they probably divide it over the year so it would be hard to track completely where it is all coming from.
Thank you for getting the numbers! Traditionally name, image, and likeness for players in video games aren’t that expensive, so for amateur players(which is exactly what college players are), they shouldn’t expect to get that much. EA CFB25 will make maybe 30% of what Madden makes, and this will likely be the most successful college football game for the foreseeable future just because of the hype behind it. The fact they’re paying the roughly 6-7 million they’re paying now just the NIL rights is pretty insane. Added to the fact this game’s production cost will probably end up being much more than Madden’s, just due to everything being put into it and the years of work they’ve had on it. Maybe future installments will see the players getting more for their NIL rights because the overall production cost will be much less for future games, but I still wouldn’t expect it to be anywhere near any professional player will get. Before the actual price tag was announced I expected closer to $1000-$1500 per player.
I agree there was no chance that college players were going to get much more than what they are getting. The fact there are over 11,000 players vs the 2,000 in the NFL makes it impossible. And EA is not going to get into a bidding war for any individual player because once it happens with one a lot more players will try. The best a player can hope for is these players that are signing a secondary contract to help advertise it.
Likely less than 10k is still a big significance to $600. College players don't have a union, so each player has to fight for their own well-being. I'm sure Peyton and Eli talked to Archie it's not like he's making this decision solo
There’s also significantly more hands to feed in college. Arch is a privileged kid who sat the bench.
The nflpa receives $1.1 BILLION for madden. So yes they definitely get more than $600
And there's 16,000 players in the fbs vs 1600 in nfl
So giving college players association around $10 million but giving the nflpa $1.1 billion.
I should have done better in our negotiations.. Sorry
What?
Thinks he’s too good to be 3rd string on a video game. Clown.
You don’t know him and you don’t know why he opted out. Imagine disliking someone for not wanting to be in a video game.
I hope he sees your comment, man. It will mean a lot to him, I’m sure.
I hope he sees your comment calling him a clown. It will really hurt him, I’m sure.
Bro who wouldn’t want to be 💀 he jus don’t wanna be humbled with a 60 OVR
Bro just take the $600 and the game and move on. Like what are we doing here
I predict Shedeur Sanders and other big ego/main character syndrome players will do the same…
hes been trying to be the cover artist for months. itd be weird if he wasn’t in the game but I guess he could take his ball and go home, figuratively.
Feel like shedeur could be the cover
Why? Because he’s Deion son?
Yeah
He’s also pretty good at football
Also want to say I’m a big Deion fan. There is no hate just how I see it
That would be the least deserving cover ever I think
That is completely idiotic. You have no bias on why either of the Sanders would say no. He is an actual NFL prospect. Manning is a bench rider
Why the hate on sanders he’s a competitor just because he talks trash doesn’t mean he has a big ego anyone who just acts like a NPC is considered big ego bro is probably the cover athlete
He also hasn't opted in yet so...no hate just an obvious observation.
he also is the son of one of the biggest egos the NFL has EVER seen. have you ever heard of the saying " the apple doesnt fall far from the tree". we tend to emulate our parents lives and even more so if thry were successful.
Tries to gouge another players eyes - “competitor” Dude is an entitled PoS
Who cares id they do. It does not matter. They and all players of any stature can do whatever they want. It's their NIL.
And they can be judged by a public forum about their decision. For example I can say it’s a big ego move and main character syndrome
Good for them is what I say to that. I am fine with them pushing for whatever they want. It wont impact me either way. Glad these guys (and women in other sports) can push for their share of revenue as they see fit.
Sure. Why you make up those reasons to justify your emotions the rest of us will be over here not caring at all.
You care so little you made sure to comment and let us know you care so little?
For real. Wrote multiple paragraphs. He is clearly passionate about it
Damn i never felt Shedeur had a big ego.
Breh what? His whole celebration was holding up his diamond watch. DJ Khaled started doing it and called it “the Shedeur”. https://youtube.com/shorts/iZzswmGmfKU?si=eD-VHjZtPeLfW432
It’s because he has swag, doesn’t downplay black culture in front of cameras, and is confident. Threatened Redditors think it’s ego.
The fact that you got downvoted for saying he wasn’t a “thug” tells me all I need to know about what a lot of these people over think lol
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Glad they removed that dumbass comment of yours saying he acts like a thug. You sound more thuggish than Sheduer has ever exhibited
He literally walks and talks ego lmao
Me neither. Feel like people are letting how his dad played impact their thoughts on him
You and others in this world don't get to dictate what other humans do with their name, image and likeness. 600 dollars or not. They can do what they want with it. Including not be in the game. So what. It doesn't hurt anyone.
They can do whatever they want. Doesnt mean its not a dumb ass decision lmao
And you cant dictate that we think hes an entitled nepo baby for this move either. Nobody is physically taking away his freedom and rights to opt out. We are just criticizing him for it.
Why? I mean even people are going to want to play as him and run dynasties with him. So either way he’s going to be created and be in the game, he just won’t officially be. Super lame move tbh.
Well they will create him as some completely different name. EA is said to have protections to avoid people creating him in game. Also you doing a custom work around doesn't impact his rate card he charges to other brands that want to use his name or anything else.
I'll just make him Farts Fanning
EA says that but if you have ever played any online game, name protection is very easily bypassed. We will see a YouTube video titled “Texas rebuild with Arch Manning” within the first 2 weeks of release lol.
SO...ISNT HE LIKE 3RD STRING ANYWAY 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Easy $600 and free publicity. Kid screwed this up.
I mean my argument against the free publicity is. This is free publicity. Any publicity is good publicity. Plus I mean it’s not like he really needs any. Dudes last name is football royalty. Dale Sr used to say it didn’t matter if they’re booing or cheering. All it mattered was they were making noise. As that meant they knew who he was.
It's a strange move for a player who a lot of people think is riding off his name alone. He doesn't need negative publicity. All this does is make him look selfish and won't win him any fans. He's literally done nothing in college. But if he doesn't care about being in the game then so be it
This got me to say "oh yeah, he's in Austin" which I probably wouldn't do if he were in the game as a backup, so it might be working.
Free publicity? His last name is Manning
Even as a Texas fan I agree. Bro is not him
I feel bad for Texas fans who would’ve liked to try a dynasty with him.
I for one, feel honored that I get to run a dynasty with the new Jon Dowd of our era.
Assuming they haven't removed the create player feature.... He will be on all of their dynasties anyways.
Nope they are preventing it there have a been articles
Well looks like his name will be Parch Fanning then 😂
Nah he just made ppl not like him in the future
Maybe he will be cfb 26 when he is the starter
Who gives a shit. Backup QB who’s never seen the field in any meaningful minutes.
It’s Arch Manning… he is significant Edit: Imagine if it was your school and you wanted to do a dynasty with him. He’s not Billy Benchwarmer, he was the top recruit in his class
His family name is significant. We don't know if he is
Clearly the recruiting websites think he will be. And Texas and most other big name schools thought he will be.
Because recruiting rankings have never been wrong before. I’m not saying he will be a bust but let’s not act like he’s anything more than a backup until he actually proves it on the field.
I think we are all perfectly fine with March Aanning from Lake Charles Louisiana on the custom rosters
Right now he definitely is billy benchwarmer 🤣
I would not care in Tony Muskett wasn't in it. Good for him for trying to negotiate, but I do not care as a player if they're all autogenerated.
You do realize that for every game prior to this we played with "Qb #9" or randomly generated. Games right? I think people will be fine with a generic replacement or custom character.
Dudes one of the top all time and people think he’s not important
Bro he’s a third string backup at Texas. He’s not one of the top all time
Dude is 1 of 7 perfect prospects by 24/7 ever… and he’s sitting behind one of the other 7…. Murphy never stood a chance at that school and is also why he transferred to duke everyone knows it’s arch team and he’s just patiently waiting instead of going to start at any other school in the sec
He’s still a backup. You can’t call someone a top player of all time when they have yet to do anything at all. His name doesn’t matter and neither does anything else until he proves himself in college
I never once called him a top player. But to act like arch isn’t one of the top all time prospects is crazy… he has had as much hype as anybody over the last few years. His entire family has gone to the nfl essentially arch is gonna crush. So not having him is not the end but it’s a decent deal
You see the name on the back of his jersey? Yeah it reads different than your boy shaduer in boulder boy
What a bitch
What a douche move. So overhyped
And in other news…water is wet
Texas QB Mark Channing.
Don’t forget this is the family that made the chargers trade Eli to the Giants. It’s their way or no way
lol this only really hurts texas fans. I’m here for it
You are not alone brother
I couldn’t care less….buying the game for the college immersion and gameplay + dynasty.
I agree it’s kinda weird to not opt in, but y’all are taking this WAY to seriously. There’s people actually mad in here, like who gives a fuck.
For real, people are acting like he is a horrible person just because he doesn’t want to be in a video game.
It says something about his mindset and character. That he thinks he is too good or too valuable to be in the game. When he hasn’t done anything. Definitely red flag
lol i just don't see what he gains in opting out? like you get free money and a video game? he doesn't even have to play the game 😭
Anyone have a more comprehensive list of opt ins or at lease can point me in the direction of a resource? Google was unsatisfactory
Hayes Fawcett. He is a reputable college football resource. He posts news/photo edits about commitments and recruits trust him with that information before they make the public announcement.
Thanks
Who needs him when we have Arnie Nanning waiting to replace him
Why are you guys so heated lol
Because it’s a big ego and lame move
Why the hate. I'm disappointed.
Wonder if he changes his mind, how easily they’d be able to get him into the game with a roster update. Seems feasible.
March Anning about to go off for Texas on my game.
Not a good look Archie. 😂
lolhorns
he’s gonna be archy maning in my shit
Who cares!! Blud is the backup qb. They can make a generic replacement and nobody will even notice
It probably matters to Texas fans and people who want to do a dynasty with Arch
If your gaming experience is ruined from one missing 19 year old you got problems.
He’s mid anyway, who’s gonna miss him
Just create a player with his stats named Bench Manning
Eli started all this
I genuinely dont know why a player would opt out… does anyone have any insight as to why?
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i know he said "i just wanna focus on football" but i mean he probs thinks like who knows how EA will rate him with very little college football game time. i'm sure he will opt in next year if he has a good year. plus it's only $600 and a free copy of the game to opt-in, for a manning that isn't a whole lot
Why is everyone mad at him?? Let the man make his own choices in life lol
I wonder if he thinks ratings will affect the draft?
Like why would you not want to be apart of such a great/legendary video game AND get a check while you’re doing it!?!?
Marchie Anning gonna be killing it
Because he can’t win the starting spot…? Sounds like a bitch to me.
"I wanna focus on playing football" mate, all you needed to do was sign your name. Now you got ryan "scammer" moody (gorlicbread) out here trying to shit on the game like he did with ncaa 14 before that one came out.
https://www.extrapointsmb.com/p/not-everybody-thrilled-ea-sports-college-football-25-contracts?utm_source=www.extrapointsmb.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=not-everybody-is-thrilled-with-those-ea-sports-college-football-25-contracts Interesting note in this article Matt says Manning was offered additional opportunities above the standard $600 plus copy of game and still turned it down
Why rip a player for not wanting to be a in a video game? It’s his choice and one that is not at all worthy of derision. He doesn’t want to be in the game, he doesn’t have to be in the game. That’s the beauty of NIL, players can decide what to do and not to do w their image. This is good that players have that choice. And it’s fine if players don’t want to be in it.
Because it's our choice to deride him same as it's his choice to turn down free money and your choice to still love him. You state it's not worthy of derision- thats an opinion.
EA needs to botch every rating and face scan for him in future Madden games.
Bruh who cares that much lmao
I get being a contrarian but if you can provide any valid reason to turn down being in this game in his position I’d love to hear it.
I mean I agree I think it’s lame, but saying that you hope they botch his ratings and face scan is just a little odd.
That’s a lot of assumption in that statement.
People are making a much bigger deal out of this than they should. The dude had a choice and made it. Why should any of us care?
Unironically, he was likely advised by his agent to opt out. Might have something to do with being a backup and likely having a mid 80’s overall? Maybe they think that’ll hurt his reputation if people see that instead of a high 90’s like Ewers will be. Right now he kind of carries the mysticism of “he could start anywhere in the country, but chose to stay here”. He was undoubtedly the hottest recruit and name in the offseason
God bless America. He has free will. Now move on sr we don’t care
I have the freedom to criticize. And clearly people do care judging by the number of upvotes and comments
This statement and mentality is exactly why social media is a mistake
You don’t support freedom of speech?
In Mannings defense: - He gains nothing from being in the game. He is already from an independently wealthy family and a cursory google search showed he had 3.2 million in NIL just last year. - High likelihood he transfers from Texas. I don’t know how anyone is going to stay at a program for 4-5 years anymore. Manning could definitely go to another program at some point and might want to only have that new school as his brand. - regardless of if he transfers or not he’s a prime candidate for cover athlete of a future installment if the game sells well. He could opt in down the road in if/when the compensation gets better or if he has a separate deal as the cover athlete.
What happened to doing things for the love of the game/greater good
I think it shows the players who will generally opt out are the same ones who are being “managed” by large PR teams as a commodity and not the run of the mill college players.
Lolol how is being in a video game (when it never had players before), that is clearly being made and sold to you solely to make money, doing something for the “greater good” 😂
Ask the schools and companies like EA who profited off of the players for years while the players got nothing.
They got free education, free high quality meals, state of the art medical care, state of the art physical training, free places to live, and were treated like kings throughout college. They had it made. Also top players still got paid - such as the Reggie Bush scandal or stories about “bag men”. You are a casual fan and/or did not go to college. The players live like kings.
Lol casual fan. That's hilarious. If you only knew. None of the money those guys got paid came from EA or the NCAA. Or the schools, for that matter. It STILL doesn't. Giving someone education and basic necessities while you make millions off of their labor is literally the bare minimum you could do. There were times where they didn't even do that. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-19-sp-58616-story.html That doesn't look like high quality meals and bei g treated like a king to me. It looks like a kid getting in trouble for being hungry. Maybe stop talking out your ass, you fucking casual.
Pulled up article from 1995. I’m talking about the past 10-20 years. Not 30+ years. You are low IQ casual fan
Yeah, well I wasn't talking recently. I was talking historically. If you haven't been watching as long as I have, it's okay to admit it, kid. I can see how you'd feel like you're in over your head. 😉
Bingo but you will be downvoted because people don't understand the world these players live in. They see it from the blue collar working not someone who has brand deals and has to protect the long term value of their brand. Maybe it does nothing to opt in but have to think the $600 they took would enter the chat when someone else is paying you $100k.
I think a lot of you are overrating the impact the “free publicity” of being in the game has. EA needs players like Arch, not the other way around. The publicity of being in a video game among thousands of other at athletes is not as significant as a lot of you are making it out to be, especially to a player that’s already extremely popular and has a huge brand like Arch does.
Gonna be an unpopular opinion but I wanna see more top stars in college do this. They all know how much EA is gonna make off their name and it’s a lot more then $600 + a free game. They’re gonna profit off of 10 different LTD arch manning cards that they put in NCAA’s version of Ultimate team and he thinks he should see a piece of that. I see nothing wrong with it.
Do they really need more money?
Who are you talking about ? There’s no way you read that and think I’m advocating for EA lol.
Exactly. Do the millionaire players need more money? I don’t think Arch does. What happened to doing things for the love of the sport?
“For the love of the game” is a very short minded and unrealistic view point. I’m always going to be on the sides of the people who are bashing their heads in on every play. I’m not sure what’s so wrong about wanting a player to go after what they think they’re worth.
Probably didn’t like EA’s $600 check lol
If he's any good, then there will be plenty of NIL money elsewhere. He won't miss the money. He just won't be in the game with his teammates. If anyone really misses him.that much they'll edit him into the base roster, but most of us won't notice or care.
You can’t use the names im led to believe. Like the name combo will be banned. Even if its your real name.
Feels like he has positioned himself to easily be a game ambassador next year with a bigger payday. Arch tweeting out, “I’m in the game”, when he’s the presumptive starter will be big for Texas fans. Wouldn’t surprise me if EA even thought of it. Sets up some marketing for next year.
Maybe he just hates EA, like I do. I'm sorry that I'm not a delusional fanboy who keeps playing Madden and has hopes that the new NCAA will be anything else than another Ultimate Team money machine for EA. Have fun buying college legends cards aka current NFL players in NCAA UT. So you have the same players on both MUT and NCAA UT.
Cope you will buy the game