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Don't Pay For NCAA 09 Rosters

Thinking of paying for your NCAA 09 rosters or (worse yet) having to type in all those hundreds of names yourself? Forget about it. Thanks to the EA Locker feature in this year's NCAA Football 09, paying for rosters or spending all those hours entering the names in yourself (as I've done many years.. at least for the SEC) is a thing of the past. Sites like this one are getting prepped for next week's release of the game, and will have names of "trusted" accounts you'll be able to download free (and hopefully accurate) NCAA rosters.

If you aren't familiar with the process, downloading rosters is really simple in NCAA 09. To do so, you simply go to to the online menu, then go to the EA Locker. You'll be presented with a list of gamertags from your friends list from whom you can download any rosters they own. Or you can enter another gamertag of your choosing (Pasta from pastapadre.com is currently hosting his own roster--so his wouldn't be a bad place to start). After you've downloaded your roster file, you'll need to load it up in the game. That's all there is to it.

While I can't personally vouch for the accuracy of any of the rosters you might find out there, it's great news that the days of mailing out memory cards, paying money for the data-entry duties of others, or spending hours pecking out the roster names yourself seem to be behind us.

6 Comments

  • kily4kiss

    Posted Aug 22, 2008 7:48 am PT

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  • DT_Lindner

    Posted Jul 20, 2008 8:51 pm PT

    EArosters.com has fixed rosters. We are the only site with working Xbox 360 rosters that do not contain the glitch.

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  • RLJSlick

    Posted Jul 20, 2008 7:52 pm PT

    Here is the article:
    "A patch for NCAA Football 09 to fix editing issues is on the way. The expected time for the patch to go live is 5-10 days from now according to a producer post on Operation Sports. To make this time frame it would appear that Microsoft and Sony would be giving the certification of this patch priority. I wouldn't count on it being pushed out that quickly (seems awful optimistic) but it is good news to know that they are actively attempting to get it out as soon as possible.
    Only two things will be fixed with this patch. The bug that causes the game to freeze when editing players as well as how depth charts reorder after editing a player.
    Apparently this will not adversely affect any ongoing dynasties that have used named rosters. A patch to improve various gameplay elements and address other issues is planned for the future"

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  • RLJSlick

    Posted Jul 20, 2008 7:33 pm PT

    I think EA is still telling people not to download the roster, or editing it yourself until the patch comes out. There is a problem(bug) that makes the roster corrupt.

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  • rucr0401

    Posted Jul 17, 2008 9:02 pm PT

    is ea locker available for ps2 users? i don't have any other way of getting rosters without doing everything myself

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  • ruff_edgz

    Posted Jul 11, 2008 11:43 am PT

    This is a good point. I'm just happy EA did this because 2k Sports did this for College Hoops 2k8 which I loved. It's a great idea and just helps the college football lovers a bit more.

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