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.