If you’ve got a better use for old issues of GQ, I’ve yet to hear it.

The advertisers who sponsor the College Football Championship and the NCAA Tournament should pressure the league to change its stance. A bunch of rich old dudes profiting off of young athletes, who aren’t allowed to profit themselves, is pretty hard to defend.

Touche. Maybe they should put Saban in charge of the whole government, you know, get their money’s worth.

I think it depends on the school and the profile of the school to some extent. And then on the student. I was fortunate to go to a school that prioritized academics, even with a competitive athletics department. It was hard, you missed out on a lot of “normal” college stuff in order to fit in studying and practice,…

Just for athletes.

Hey I didn’t say it was good or fair or even the correct position for them to take, but those are the facts, they’re telling him he can’t make money off his student-athlete status. I’m sure if his channel was about him doing toy unboxings or D&D, they wouldn’t care. I don’t agree with it, but that’s what they’re…

No I think if the athlete is in any way having compensation it’s illegal. You see it all the time with universities having players sit down and take time to film day in the life stuff and photo shoots and stuff like that and they never see a dime for it but as soon as this guy takes control and makes it his own it’s a…

Yeah, no prob. He just has to treat it like his NCAA job - hours of work for no pay.

Burn down the NCAA and salt the remains.

2 stars and a Papa Johns pizza, thank you very much.

50k people vs. 2 stars.

*raises hand*

Former NCAA student athlete here - all jobs have to be run by and approved by the school’s compliance department. Hourly jobs have to be tracked, salaried jobs over a paltry sum ($1200/year when I was in school in the early 00's) have to be vetted by the school and NCAA to ensure they’re above board... I had a…

If that athlete has a full sports scholarship, maybe.

I’ve definitely heard stuff about kids being unable to work, but don’t know enough to say it’s a rule definitively.

Either way, it’s bullshit. Let them make some cash. Lord knows they put in the work.

He doesn’t even have to shut down his channel, he just has to not monetize it from ad revenue I think.

Student Athletes can’t have jobs while in college?! That’s a rule?

And if he played at Michigan or Alabama or something.

I love that he made this video calling out the NCAA (and to a lesser degree UCF) on their threat. Even if he chooses to shut down his channel for whatever reason, at least this is out there to once again raise awareness of how shitty that machine is.

*Incoherent ramblings of foreigners holding soccer balls *

You mean, if a family member was running the YouTube/banking account, then would it be allowed? I’m sure the NCAA has some sort of “anti-exploitation” bylaw against that, under the (granted, legitimate) protection of the players against that same situation happening without the athlete’s consent (for instance, if any…