Once news of the NCAA’s decision to endorse student-athletes ability to profit off their name, image and likeness was released on Wednesday morning, you can read more about that here if you missed it, many college football fans naturally expressed their excitement in regards to what that could mean for a potential return of the EA Sports NCAA Football video game series.

Unfortunately, Val Ackerman, Big East Conference commissioner and co-chair of the NCAA working group associated with the name, image and likeness decision, doesn’t see that happening anytime soon.

Here’s what Ackerman had to say on the media call following the NCAA’s decision to endorse potentially profiting from name, image and likeness:

“It was the group’s conclusion that group licenses, which would combine school trademarks with student-athlete NIL in products like video games, replica jersey and trading card collections are unworkable in college sports, largely because of the absence of a collective bargaining agency to manage the terms of group NIL use on behalf of the student-athletes.”

That’s certainly a downer for all the fans out there of the NCAA Football series but that may not be the final verdict when it comes to the game’s return.

Attorney Darren Heitner shared his thoughts on that “unworkable” comment and offered up this glimmer of hope.

Those statements may contradict one another but for fans of the NCAA Football game, they’ll take any and all positive information they can get while they wait around for the return of the series to consoles.