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

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 87 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) Call/text the Until Saturday phone and leave us a question for a future mailbag and/or Sunday Sound-Off podcast: (316) 462-9852 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.0	E. Walsram and joined by two of my best buddies at the athletic,
0:36.0	two of whom are big NCAA football fans. Max Olson and Chris Vadini, how we doing this morning, gentlemen?
0:42.0	We're fired up, man.
0:44.0	Just got done watching the trailer.
0:46.0	What a time to be alive, guys.
0:48.0	The weight's over.
0:49.0	It's been long, it's been a long 11 years.
0:51.5	Yeah. We are recording. We get emotional. I'm just saying it now. I know there's a quick pod but I'm going to get
0:56.4	emotional. We're recording a new intro to Friday's podcast because the first EA Sports NCAA 25
1:02.1	trailer dropped this morning and we had to take a few minutes to talk about it.
1:05.4	After our conversation here, Chris and I will get with Manny Navarro to discuss NIL and how the
1:09.3	portal actually works based on some reporting that we did at the athletic. Chris, Manney, and several other of our
1:15.4	talented reporters interviewed players and coaches and agents about how the process actually works.
1:19.2	So we're going to shed some light on a very dark and mysterious cross section of the sport.
1:26.0	But first, before we get into that
1:28.8	in ACC Spring Meetings and a little bit more
1:31.2	in C. A. Talk.
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