Remember this UCF kicker?
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- Jan 6, 2015
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He'll be making more money doing YouTube. Sucks his career has to end like this, but he's on to bigger and better things anyway.
- Jun 11, 2014
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He "could", but there's no guarantee. YouTube is demonetizing a lot of channels where the content goes against the grain (ie anti-SJW, anti-feminism, anti-socialism, basically anything that doesn't fit the liberal narrative or is seen as "advertiser unfriendly" is being demonetized. They could be looking at a huge part of their community moving to other platforms soon. I have no idea what this guy's content is, nor am I interested in looking to find out. Wish him luck, but I think his decision wasn't the smartest one. He could have had the best of both worlds while he got his education, but refused the terms.
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How are they restraining trade? It seems to me they said:
1. He can make money off of any video that does not mention his AMATEUR athletic participation.
2. He can post videos that mention his athletic ability as long as he does not make money off of them.
3. If he mentions his AMATEUR athletic career in a video he makes money on, then he is no longer an amateur but rather a professional.
So they have allowed all of his commercial activity. They do not as they never have allowed professional athletes to play college sports.
You can debate whether or not a non-need based scholarship turns an amateur into a professional. You can debate it even more in the case of full cost of attendance scholarships. It is to my mind pretty clear that if you make money outside of your scholarship off your athletic participation, you are no longer an amateur.
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I supported him until reading the statement. He could still do it as long as not trying to profit off being a college athlete. He chose not to compromise with a group I have never seen make this type of offer before.
- Jun 11, 2014
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Dislike for your obvious twist. Anti one opinion (even if it's yours) does not make one hateful.
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Sounds like a job for SWAMP DONKEY!!!
- Jun 9, 2014
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I wouldn't mind. Did just a bit (like 3 months) of antitrust and related business torts in a business boutique as a student once, just enough to whet my apetite.
However, I am currently occupied otherwise.
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I think you can get paid in pro sports other than the one you are still playing in college.
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When did that change. Remember, I think his name was Jeremy bloom, who played WR for Colorado around 2004. Was also on the Olympic team and had eligibility pulled due to skiing sponsors.
Edit: never mind saw they changed this a few years after screwing him over so that athletes can now do this.
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Well, before 2004. Doug Johnson got paid for baseball before playing for us, I think beginning in 1996.
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That's always been my understanding, too. If I'm not mistaken, Deion Sanders played pro baseball while still playing football at FSU. I believe there are other examples of this through the years, too.
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Stinky Weinke, too, for the Toronto Blue Jays before returning to play QB for FSU.
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Right, you can be a pro in one area and an amateur in another. You just can not make money off your name in the sport you want to be an amateur in. Ironically a UF player a while back figured out how to beat the NCAA in all of this, but surprisingly has not been copied.
- Jun 11, 2014
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Johnson may have been on the field in uniform but he never played for the Gators.
