feiyawei said:I just looked it up and there are roughly 20,000 scholarship athletes in D1 NCAA Football. Multiply that by the $500 EA made a deal with "One Team Partners" (which EA says represent the NCAA FB athletes) for and you get $10 Mil. That's for the athletes.
EA reportedly made $1.62 Billion from MUT in 2021 (sorry that's the figure I found quickest). I suck at math, but that is 0.617% of EA's profits from Madden 20. A little more than half of 1% is literally next to nothing. EA is a greedy ass corporation. 10% or about $162 Mil to the schools, 0.617% to the athletes.
Seems about as EA Fair Play as it gets. I hope EA never gets to make an NCAA FB game with players NILs.
Should it be more than $500, you bet. But how many players in the world of college football are actually worth paying? Not talking about the 5 star programs, but the little guys from "is that even a school?" That's the issue here, the disparity and the lack of a strong union to negotiate with.