Get to work, NCAA: Return of football video game makes sense
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There is nothing quite so boring as a bloated bureaucracy forming something called a working group, so let me begin by cutting to the chase: This is a column about a video game. OK, it’s not entirely about that, but it kind of is. We are now nearly 10 yearGet to work, NCAA: Return of football video game makes sense
There is nothing quite so boring as a bloated bureaucracy forming something called a working group, so let me begin by cutting to the chase: This is a column about a video game. OK, it’s not entirely about that, but it kind of is. We are now nearly 10 years removed from a former UCLA basketball player named Ed O’Bannon filing a lawsuit against the NCAA because he was allegedly depicted in a video game without his consent; we are more than five years removed from EA Sports ceasing to publish its wildly popular NCAA Football game because of the complications that arose from lawsuits by O’Bannon and others. And after all this time, we are perhaps finally edging closer to the moment when that video game might actually be able to return. This is, of course, not exactly the primary reason why the NCAA has decided to form that working group to study the notion of whether college athletes should be able to benefit off their name, image and likeness. I’d like to think it was driven by the tide of public opinion and c Read more