GAINESVILLE — It’s the first question that arises after the final whistle in a college football players’ final game: So…what’s next?

EA Tiburon, known best for video games like Madden or EA College Football, uses collegiate and professional sports leagues as a training ground. Not for athletic activities, though. For the next line of product developers.

Former Gator quarterback Larry Richart found his calling four months after playing then-No. 18 Syracuse in the Orange Bowl in Miami. An ad in the student-run newspaper listed a job opening for a quality assurance tester for EA Sports.

Richart attributes getting his first job to luck; the rest of his career at EA Sports resulted from hard work and a PhD in coach Steve Spurrier’s “Run ‘N’ Gun” offense. The technical knowledge he memorized

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