Go Vote for Herschel

to be on the cover of NCAA Football 13 with RG3. The only person left to beat is Barry Sanders.

https://t.co/1LwCYRMp



Just do it! It only takes a few seconds.

Help put Herscel on thel cover of NCAA 13

http://www.facebook.com/easportsncaafootball?sk=app_308086065920467

EA Sports has a poll up that is letting the fans pick the NCAA football legend to appear on the cover of NCAA Football 13 with RG3. One of the potentials is the immortal Herschel Walker. Spread the word, vote, and let's make Herschel the first Dawg to appear on the cover of a video game.

NCAA Football 11: Georgia Covers

As MT mentioned yesterday, NCAA Football 11 was released yesterday and features Tim Tebow on the cover this year. Here are some custom covers featuring Georgia players you can use:

Rennie Curran

AJ Green

Brandon Boykin

Washaun Ealey

Former Athletes Still Suing Over Video Game

Today is one of the few days during the achingly slow summer months when college football fans get something new to digest and blog about: NCAA Football 2011 (sorry, I just couldn't use the '11 Tebow cover) is now on a store shelf near you. On this momentous day, the Washington Post also feels the need to remind you of the continuing legal struggle of former athletes over the use of their likeness.

Former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon (great current profile), former Nebraska/Arizona State QB Sam Keller and other athletes have consolidated their lawsuits against the NCAA, Electronic Arts, et al, fighting for a piece of the monetary pie from the continued usage of their names/likeness/jerseys dating back to their college glory days.

I don’t have a law degree (yet), but wording from a 2009 University of Arizona athletic form makes it sound like a large part of the ex-athletes’ legal case isn’t the strongest (assuming it is a standard form, used for many years), as it gives the school the right to the athlete’s image "forever and throughout the universe, and to license others to use them, in any manner and in any and all media now known or hereafter discovered, for commercial purposes." (h/t above linked Fanhouse article).

Now, even though I will be attending law school this fall at one of our rival SEC schools, I don’t want to hammer on contract legalese. Everyone always throws out the gaudy revenue numbers that the major football programs generate, but an estimated 44 percent of major college football programs don’t generate enough revenue to cover their operating costs, forcing a rather large number of universities to directly subsidize their athletic programs. For football, 85 offsetting scholarships have to be budgeted/allotted to female athletes due to Title IX considerations before the players can even line up for a snap, and that’s before accounting for operating costs within the football program. In reality, a lot of the revenue dollars being fought over in the lawsuit just don't exist at the end of the process.

While I do appreciate the viewpoint of a current Oregon tight end weighing in on the issue, the reality is that the NCAA and its members will fight any sort of payments/trust fund/stipend setup to the bitter end, since any alteration in that will inevitably trigger a review by the IRS on whether the NCAA would still qualify as a tax-exempt amateur sports organization.

Shouldn’t we still be expecting that just about all of the NCAA athletes will be going pro in something other than sports?

NCAA Football 10: Custom UGA Covers

Found these online and thought I'd share them. Who wants to look at Michael Crabtree everytime you want to play the game on your Xbox?

Knowshon Moreno


Matt Stafford

AJ Green

EA Sports Team Builer - Creating All-Time Georgia

For the upcoming release of NCAA Football 10, EA Sports has created a new feature to the game which allows you create a team. In previous versions of the game, this feature was on the game itself and was rather limited. This year, they have totally changed it up and moved it to the Internet. You can create your team on the web, down to some very small details including players names and attributes. The team will then be available for download through the XBOX Live (or whatever Play Station's Online system is called).

I was thinking about creating an All-Time Georgia team. Previous versions of the game had an All-Georgia team, but I seriously disagreed with some of the player choices (Quincy Carter was the backup QB for crying out loud) and it had not been updated since about 2002. I will post my team once I finish creating it.

If you want to try it out for yourself, check it out at http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/ncaafootball/create_a_school

No News..is Good News?

We are now one week removed from G-Day and 3 months away from summer practice. The best we can hope for over those next three months is to hear very little out of Athens. Last year, most of the news was concerning player arrests or great expectations. This year, I will welcome a little silence as we prepare for the 2009 season.

Here is a glimpse of some other stories that are taking place in the Georgia athletic world right now:

- The Georgia gymnastics team won its fifth consecutive national championship. I repeat, 5 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS in a row. Can you imagine the excitement level of the Dawg nation if the football team won 1 NC, let alone 5?

- The Diamond Dawgs took 2 of 3 from Arkansas to remain atop the SEC standings. At 2-2 for the week, I expect the team to fall out of the #1 ranking in the Coaches' Poll.

- The NFL draft is this Saturday and it looks like Stafford will indeed go #1 to the Lions. The real steal of the draft will be whoever picks up Knowshon in the 20-30 range.

- Speaking of Knowshon and Stafford, both are candidates to appear on the cover of this year's version of EA Sports NCAA Football. They begin announcing the cover athletes today on ESPN College Football Live and will do a different system's version of the game each day. I expect Stafford to grace the cover of either the XBOX360 of PS3 version.