I am pretty sure I saw him floating at the combine. The big question is if the team is willing to take a timeout when they get to the redzone so he can recenter.
And yet, this big bad program moving around would be met with a collective yawn when it comes what they add to the B1G or what the SEC is losing outside of a mindless army of yokels.
I love how everyone is conflating the fact that this was a report from Anwar fucking Richardson who did a shit job in giving a reason and likely never spoke to Arch or his family directly about it, versus Arch actually coming out and saying anything about it.
The NFLPA has the agreement with EA and they do pay all of their people for being in the game. The payouts are much larger, but not earth shattering. I have heard figures as high as 5-10K. Bearing in mind there are far fewer players and Madden has a much larger player base. And of course, there are players who receive more, particularly cover athletes.
Edit: Immamac may have a better figure. I havent seen it in a while.
This guy clearly doesn't know how video games work. Projects are generally segmented by studios. EA could shut down an entire studio and have it not affect other projects. He even said himself that other employees would be moved to other ongoing projects, meaning College Football could actually benefit from this by getting more manpower. I imagine the initial work of getting all of the minutia for each school loaded into the game is pretty overwhelming and can't really be solved by anything other than brute force.
This is really a very simple thing that the media is going to take and run with for no other reason than it is the offseason. He has declared publicly, as has his agent and parents, that he won't do any NIL deals until he is the starting QB at Texas. Is he the starting QB at Texas? *checks notes* no. I respect the decision. It also does increase the desire to see him in the game, and I could see EA going after him next year with a more lucrative package if he decides to not opt in again.
Besides, I anticipate that thousands of people are going to create a backup QB at Texas named Starch Tanning.
Worthy and Mitchell underperformed in our offense? Worthy went for 1000 yards last season and Mitchell had 845 yards and 11 touchdowns. All in a conference where every defense is designed to take away the deep pass above all else. But don't let facts get in the way of a good story I guess.