According to @MikeStrawMedia, many devs who knew about the stuff coming to College Football 27 were “livid” about it for months
He says “Even future single-player-only titles will have more monetization options enabled.” This is no longer about just CFB 27
This is about the future and direction of games coming from EA. I am speechless #CFBPlayDontPay
In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.
That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.
FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.
US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.
So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.
Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.
Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.
They will not.
BREAKING: Lars Tiffany has filed legal action against UVA, seeking compensation following the end of his tenure as head lacrosse coach.
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@mnestler40 Nest,
This Raiders team is must watch ball goin on in Alberta rn.
Here’s another clip of some more filth for your Wednesday lunch break.
Hope the summers been well for ya guys
-CP
We got ourselves a box from the @NLL and it just so happens that the FINALS start tonight!
It's from @TorontoRockLax and they have Game 1 of the Finals against Halifax TONIGHT!!
Good luck to Coach Sawyer and all of ROCK CITY! I will be rooting for you!!
Our own @ConnorJGilbert has earned a @CollSportsComm award for his story "Heart of a Champion" The Unyielding Drive of Habtom Samuel!
Gilbert placed second in the athlete profile category for District 6 (That's all Division I schools in TX, OK, NM, AR, MI, and LA).
#GoLobos
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Nice seeing Nicolas Shankland, former @jramountieslax teammate of Carter Linkletter and Ries Bower, out at Adelphi supporting his buddies at the NCAA DII Men’s Lacrosse Quarterfinals at Motamed Field today
Cody Janzen has called hundreds of huge moments over his broadcasting career, but his biggest call yet has come overseas.
The @SaskRushLAX play-by-play voice has purchased the Skopje Herd hockey team in 🇲🇰 North Macedonia.
@CKOMNews@CJMENews
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