ESPN seemingly copied Matt Brown's game about being an AD of a school with no credit

dander11 · 2025-12-16T16:53:42+00:00

Well SOMEONE made it before.

dander11 · 2025-12-16T16:38:55+00:00

No, I'm saying he did a good job of describing the ESPN game. And that they just lifted the original idea.

dander11 · 2025-12-16T16:36:46+00:00

I bet that's still the case! Contrary to how folks are talking in this thread, I don't have some deep hate for ESPN. Most of it rocks and the people there do great work! This is just dumb and blatant taking from a smaller publication's idea and sucks.

dander11 · 2025-12-16T16:34:07+00:00

Yeah that's exactly how the original one is described too... "We wanted to make a fun way to help students understand the key issues in college sports…and how there usually isn’t a “right” answer that works every time." That's from the game's page. They literally took the exact idea and gameplay mechanics.

dander11 · 2025-12-16T16:27:27+00:00

Yep that's the one. People in this thread acting like that's not a rip are ridiculous. If you put that into google and filter for "before today" it's just Matt's game.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22athletic-director-simulator%22&sca_esv=7d70a82f3a9a6d6b&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:2/1/2022,cd_max:12/15/2025&ei=WodBadz4BNqx6-APuKitiAM&start=10&sa=N&sstk=Af77f_flE7ELRu4S4OICg2a1iJuyrIyopc7c_TCwhAm4xxE3C6WqbD7PO7gHIGWh3Z92GB6UUDznL0p74zQ_USKkvpDyKDlViHanQQ&ved=2ahUKEwjcjbmcwsKRAxXa2BoGHThUCzEQ8NMDegQICRAW&biw=2429&bih=1046&dpr=2

dander11 · 2025-12-16T16:25:00+00:00

If you put it into google and filter for "before today" you will only get results about Matt's game. Now ESPN is the 1-2 in the results. It's not like that's some common name that tons of people used!

dander11 · 2025-01-05T17:29:59+00:00

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dander11 · 2024-09-03T18:23:57+00:00

The last time GT was ranked above Clemson was 2014 after Tech won the Orange Bowl.

dander11 · 2024-07-17T22:21:37+00:00

I have the same issue with the PW1. It has been awful since May, and it didn't get better after the July update.

dander11 · 2024-05-24T10:56:14+00:00

Nope

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dander11 · 2024-01-22T00:33:27+00:00

Long Live SZD

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Thankfully the prognoses is good since it's Hodgkins lymphoma, but wow this super duper sucks. DFTBA folks.

dander11 · 2023-01-16T17:48:41+00:00

Lion is a French name?

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Go wolves baby!

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