The last version of EA Sport’s NCAA Football was released in July of 2013. In June of 2014 EA stopped making it. Up until 2019, Allen Robinson was still playing it.
Despite being outdated by more than half a decade, it’s so beloved that Robinson – who will sometimes play as himself, because why wouldn’t you – kept it in rotation until this year (before eventually replacing it with Madden).
Now, after the NCAA announced plans to allow collegiate athletes to be compensated for their likeness, the odds of an updated NCAA Football, not to mention a return to Robinson’s rotation, are looking good.
“I think that should have always been the case,” Robinson said on Tuesday. “I think it’s good for college sports.”
The NCAA’s move comes on the heels of the California’s Fair Pay To Play Act, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom back in late September. The legislation sets a path for collegiate athletes in the state to benefit off their likeness, whether it be from sponsorships, appearances, video games, etc. And while that was set to go into effect in 2023, the NCAA’s proposed allowance would begin in 2021. It’s a step in the right direction, but now comes the hard part.
“I think that it’s going to be difficult to be fair for all the student athletes,” Chase Daniel said. “I’ve seen some of the arguments back and forth, and you know, are your best players paid more? Are they all paid the same? How does that affect the booster status? Will schools that are more of a rich-booster school get a lot more players because they can pay more? I don’t know. It’s a slippery slope.”
Among those who talked with media on Tuesday afternoon, there was universally-strong support for systemic changes within the NCAA. “I think nowadays, student athletes are smarter,” Daniel said. “I do think they, for the most part, want to be paid.” Commitment to playing college sports is a full-time job, and the scholarship money that many defenders of amateurism point to doesn’t exactly go as far as you’d think.
“I went through it, a lot of guys went through it,” he added. “We were getting scholarship checks that were seven, eight hundred bucks a month in Columbia, Missouri. When rent is $450, after groceries and everything else, you’re left with 200 bucks to spend.”
There’s also the question of fund allocation. Just how much revenue is generated? Who’s actually collecting it, and how far does it stretch?
“I think they’ll find a way to distribute everything equally. I think they’ll figure it out,” Robinson said. “I think it’s one of those things where you look at the Power 5 conferences bringing in a boatload of money.”
Bilal Nichols, who played outside of the Power 5 in the FCS, also said he loved the decision. Especially when it comes to benefiting off your own likeness, players like Nichols, who was drafted out of Delaware, can still see some benefits. It’s also a helpful recruiting tool, but most importantly, according to Nichols, it’s just the right thing to do.
“I feel like they deserve it,” he said. “They work hard, and I feel like they put in the work for it, so why not enjoy the fruits of their labor?”
Neither Nichols, Daniel, or Robinson had much of an idea of what the pay scale could look like, or how the NCAA planned to even approach it. There was, though, an outside-the-box suggestion from Trey Burton.
“I’m a big believer in when you’re done with college, there being a fund for you to be able to draw from,” the tight end said. “I don’t think it should be a couple thousands of dollars, I think it should be a couple hundred a month. And then, at the end of the careers, when they’re done – whether they get their degree or play for four years – there’s a fund of X amount of dollars they can draw out yearly.”
Burton said that a fund like that would be useful to undrafted players – like himself – as they try to sort through their options. Such a tiny percentage of college players continue on at any professional level, much less being taken in the NFL Draft.
“I understand the argument of amateurism,” he said. “You don’t want to have to pay these guys because then it turns into who gets to pay who more, and recruiting. I understand that, but I do think that they do need more money than they’re getting currently.”
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