What sucks the most is hearing the developers talk about what they had worked on for PS4 and XB1.
Upgradeable stadiums, AD mode, better and more customizable equipment. I get where the athletes are coming from. But hell, if I was in a videogame that's reward enough for me.
Upgradeable stadiums + AD mode would have been awesome. My favorite part of OD mode is actually the offline stuff. Creating playbooks, recruiting, etc. To be able to expand some of that to upgradeable stadiums, finances, booster/fundraising activities, sponsorship deals and equipment, etc would have been great.
Honestly, I would be more than happy with a game with the most jumbled random rosters imaginable. We all use custom edited rosters anyway, make the players look like the Incredible Hulk for all I care. I wish the two sides could have just come to an agreement like that rather than drag it out into a year(s) long lawsuit where no one wins except the lawyers. None of the players are going to get paid and no one gets to play the game. I will also say that the players IN the game were typically the first people in line at Walmart at midnight of release day to GET the game. Walk in to Nebraska's players lounge during the season and you'd see multiple TVs with NCAA being played on it. The only people that seem to care are lawyers and scrubs who saw a quick buck.
EA, the NCAA and the players should have just come together and said okay we will create completely jumbled rosters going forward if the NCAA fully licenses it and in exchange, EA and the NCAA will split the damages to all previous players involved in the class action lawsuit. Everyone wins. The money saved on lawyer's fees alone probably covers the initial cost, never mind the amount of money follow up games would generate.
The whole thing is just stupid. The only people who won are the lawyers.