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When the NCAA changed its rules in 2021 to allow limited types of payments to players\u2014a long-overdue decision, since those players generated billions <\/em>in revenue for broadcasters and colleges\u2014it cleared the way for players to be paid to appear in a video game, and EA were quick to announce EA Sports College Football<\/em>, a game that won\u2019t carry the NCAA branding itself but which will feature most of the nation\u2019s biggest and most popular programs. <\/p>\n

Details are now emerging about how those payments are going to work, though, and the College Football Players Association are not happy. College sports news site On3 are <\/em>reporting<\/span> that the CFBPA are urging players not to sign away their likenesses for the game, pointing to an outrageously low sum being offered by EA and the company they\u2019ve hired to handle this legal stuff, OneTeam Partners. <\/p>\n

On3 says \u201cthe cash pool for athletes was in the $5 million neighborhood\u201d, which sounds like a lot but when you factor in the number of teams and the huge rosters, that adds up to roughly $500 per player, while Sportico\u2019s <\/em>reporting adds <\/span>that there would be no additional royalty payments either. <\/p>\n

Justin Falcinelli, vice president of the CFBPA, says players should refuse the deal<\/span>:<\/p>\n

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All current players should boycott this deal. It is an opt-in deal, and they should not opt into it. It is just a ridiculously low amount of money. Given the context and the hype that surrounds this game. When we first heard the number, we\u2019re like, \u2018Alright, that sounds low. Let\u2019s go figure out if it is low.\u2019 And started talking to guys, talked to some of my friends, some guys who are still playing in the NFL. \u2018So, what are NFL players getting paid for Madden?\u2019 And the numbers we were given were from 2019, it was disclosed that they got, I think, about $17,000. And then a current NFL player told us that he got a check for $28,000 this year for Madden.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nobody is saying that college players should be paid the same<\/em> as NFL players for Madden<\/em>, because EA Sports College Football <\/em>is not going to sell like Madden <\/em>does. But $500? <\/p>\n

Falcinelli says the reported pay offer fits a pattern they\u2019ve seen since the NCAA brought in NIL (name, image and likeness) rules in 2021. \u201cIt\u2019s another one of those things that seem to be the pattern in college football. Like, \u2018Oh, there\u2019s one thing that\u2019s happening that sounds great.\u2019 But then you dig into it, and you\u2019re like, \u2018Alright, maybe a step in the right direction, but it\u2019s still just exploiting the players.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For the first time in a decade, EA Sports will be releasing a college football game this season. The main reasons for that 10-year hiatus was a conflict over player payments (which weren\u2019t allowed under NCAA rules) and likenesses. Those had presumably been resolved in the lead-up to EA Sports College Football\u2019s release later this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_center,h_675,pg_1,q_80,w_1200\/2512d7d3aa68c2d881874a6d927efd25.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc"],"yoast_head":"\n