EA Sports NCAA 25 features + trailer reveal! How NIL and the portal REALLY work: Players, coaches & agents weigh in
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Ari, Chris and Max share their instant reactions to the first EA Sports NCAA 25 trailer! Chris also shares what features fans can expect in the game. You may think you know how the transfer portal and NIL works, but Manny Navarro, Chris Vannini, and Ari Wasserman tells you how it REALLY works. Manny, Chris, and several other The Athletic reporters interviewed players, coaches, and agents about how two of the most prevelant yet perplexing topics in college sports. How do programs recruit players? Where do agents fit into all of this,are players only after a bag, and which programs spend the most? WE HAVE A RELEASE DATE FOR NCAA 25. An array of news came out of Florida at the ACC Spring Meetings. Dabo dropped another transfer portal comment, Florida St. vs ACC still rages on, even with both parties at the same hotel, and does the conference have a perception problem?
Read about how the transfer portal works:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5484900/2024/05/13/college-football-transfer-portal-nil-deals/
Read about how NIL agents fit into the picture:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5490748/2024/05/15/college-football-nil-agents-transfer-portal/
Read Nicole Auerbach's stories from ACC Spring Meetings:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5494186/2024/05/14/acc-college-football-playoff-perception/
Who's the Big 12 dark horse? Sign up and answer future Until Saturday newsletter's Question of the Day here: https://theathletic.com/newsletters/until-saturday
Rundown:
- EA Sports NCAA 25 trailer + features (:30)
- How does NIL/portal work? What we learned (15:00)
- So...tampering (24:00)
- Are players only after a paycheck? (28:30)
- Transactional programs (29:45)
- How do deals get done? (41:00)
- Biggest spenders (48:30)
- NCAA 25 release date (1:00:30)
- ACC Spring Meetings: Dabo, league perception, FSU + House vs NCAA deadline (1:08:00)
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| 0:48.1 | Welcome to Until Saturday. I'm Ari Wasserman, joined by two of my best buddies at the athletic, |
| 0:53.9 | two of whom are big NCAA football fans, Max Olson and Chris Vidini. How are we doing this morning, gentlemen? |
| 0:55.6 | We're fired up, man. Just got done watching the trailer. What a time to be alive, guys. The weight's over. It's been a long 11 years. Yeah. We are recording. We're going to get emotional. I'm just saying it now. I know there's a quick pod, but I'm going to get emotional. We're recording a new intro to Friday's podcast because the first EA Sports NCAA-25 trailer dropped this morning. |
| 1:16.1 | And we had to take a few minutes to talk about it. |
| 1:17.8 | After our conversation here, Chris and I will get with Manny Navarro to discuss NIL and how the portal actually works based on some reporting that we did at the athletic. |
| 1:25.8 | Chris, Manny, and several other of our talented reporters interviewed players and coaches and agents about how the process actually works. |
| 1:31.6 | So we're going to shed some light on a very dark and mysterious cross section of the sport. |
| 1:38.0 | But first, before we get into that in ACC spring meetings and a little bit more at CAA talk. |
| 1:44.7 | Let's talk about this trailer. |
| 1:45.8 | Let's talk about some of the features of this game. |
| 1:48.0 | Guys, when you saw the trailer this morning, our producer, Camelina, who never grew up playing this game, was underwhelmed by the trailer. |
| 1:56.0 | But I think that he was underwhelmed because his childhood didn't come rushing back the way it did with ours. |
| 2:01.9 | The part where I got the goosebumps guys was when they started playing like the band drums. |
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