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The NCAA has a ‘Hot Girl’ problem
Posted on 6/13/23 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 6/13/23 at 1:48 pm
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For your trouble
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This afternoon, the Twins are debating how they should announce their new agreement with Bucked Up, which sells energy boosters like Woke AF dietary supplement and Rocket Pop (which “tastes like America,” according to the company website).
“We could just do a TikTok,” Haley says to Hanna, “like, ‘Just finished a workout with our Bucked Up.’ ” She pauses. “Or we could make it organic?”
Hanna chimes in: “Brainstorm!”
The Twins’ attorney, Darren Heitner, calls their stratospheric rise a “blueprint” for other college athletes trying to cash in on the new, multibillion-dollar market. That market is the result of a 2021 Supreme Court ruling that led the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the 117-year-old organization that governs college sports, with roughly 1,100 member schools nationwide, to change its name, image, and likeness (or NIL) policy—enabling student athletes to cash in on their athletic prowess.
Before then, student athletes could generate enormous amounts of money for their schools—in 2019, the year before the pandemic, top-tier schools earned nearly $16 billion in media rights, tickets sales, licensing, and so forth from their athletes—while making nothing for themselves.
Thing is, the athletes now profiting are not necessarily the ones with the most athletic prowess. Or at least that’s the case when it comes to female athletes.
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“If you look at the NIL girls, the first ones who were getting deals were the blonde girls,” Louis Moore, a sports historian at Grand Valley State University, told The Free Press. The Cavinder Twins, Moore said, have benefited handsomely from “their very blonde, girl-next-door looks,” posting videos of themselves in bikinis and tight-fitting dresses. Lots of their videos hint at the possibility of one twin having a boyfriend. Others wink at the male fantasy of group sex with identical sisters, featuring captions like “when he asks for blonde twins for Christmas” and “I want a girl with a twin sister.”
The Twins get their appeal. And even though they think it’s unfair that the mostly black top scorers in women’s college basketball make less than they do—including Louisiana State University’s Angel Reese and Flau’jae Johnson—that’s not stopping them.
“Obviously, everyone brings something different to the table. I think that all women should be empowered in a male-dominant world, especially minorities,” Haley says.
Hanna adds: “I mean, obviously, yes, this is a touchy subject, but I think that we are privileged, in a way. Obviously, we don’t deal with the same things that other women deal with or other people deal with, and that’s just how our world is, and it’s awful.”
Meanwhile, the NCAA is extra-sensitive to the optics. The organization made a point of singling out the Cavinder Twins when, in February, it announced that for the first time in the NIL era, it was fining a member school, the University of Miami, and putting the university on probation for a year—despite men’s college sports being rife with more serious improprieties, and widespread uncertainty about what is permissible.
For your trouble
Posted on 6/13/23 at 1:54 pm to hawgfaninc
I don’t see a “problem” here
Posted on 6/13/23 at 1:55 pm to hawgfaninc
The natural progression of things. First it’s not enough female athletes get attention and money, now it’s not the right ones. Like everything else the outcome of your attention needs to be perfectly engineered
Posted on 6/13/23 at 1:55 pm to hawgfaninc
Shocker it’s a racial issue
The authors mad the pretty blonde chicks are getting a majority of all the money
The authors mad the pretty blonde chicks are getting a majority of all the money
This post was edited on 6/13/23 at 1:56 pm
Posted on 6/13/23 at 1:56 pm to hawgfaninc
Oh no, pretty white chicks get a lot of attention. What a shocker.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 1:56 pm to hawgfaninc
Nothing pisses off women worse than other women getting more attention than them. A tale as old as time itself.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 1:59 pm to hawgfaninc
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The Twins’ attorney, Darren Heitner, calls their stratospheric rise a “blueprint” for other college athletes trying to cash in on the new, multibillion-dollar market.
We definitely need more vapid, stuck up white girls shilling for crappy products on social media. Thank goodness NIL is here to meet this need.
This post was edited on 6/13/23 at 2:01 pm
Posted on 6/13/23 at 2:02 pm to hawgfaninc
So I guess next step in “progress” is dividing NIL money “equally” across the team…and then eventually “equally” also won’t be fair so BIPOC should get a bigger share due to societal inequality
it’s the same playbook every time
it’s the same playbook every time
Posted on 6/13/23 at 2:03 pm to hawgfaninc
Darren Heitner is UF's most hated alumnus. There are rumors he caused the entire Rashada mess by signing Rashada up with a couple of college kids acting as his agents, who Heitner tried to use to scam UF into paying more directly to Heitner and the agents at the last second. Way too many scumbags around NIL right now, it's the wild west.
At least Larry Leo get's a lot of bikini pics out of these girls to use.
At least Larry Leo get's a lot of bikini pics out of these girls to use.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 2:11 pm to hawgfaninc
Why do they always stand like they are holding in a big fart?
Posted on 6/13/23 at 2:17 pm to FLTech
Olivia is pretty. Those Cavinders have bad faces.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 2:18 pm to saintsfan22
Nothing a 6 pack won’t fix
Posted on 6/13/23 at 2:20 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
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Like everything else the outcome of your attention needs to be perfectly engineered
Equal outcomes not equal opportunities.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 2:22 pm to hawgfaninc
Fat, ugly feminists will try to push through legislation to make things more "equitable".
Posted on 6/13/23 at 2:26 pm to hawgfaninc
Livvy all day and twice on Sunday over the twins!
Posted on 6/13/23 at 2:30 pm to uptowntiger84
I never gave ugly girls money either, just the pretty ones.
Posted on 6/13/23 at 2:36 pm to hawgfaninc
You linked The Free Press?
Even the Free Press had to dig deep to find academics that agree with them. They turned to an unknown professor at the prestigious Geand Valley State University.
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We believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse and independent ownership of media platforms, and journalism that holds leaders accountable and tells people what’s actually happening in their communities.
Even the Free Press had to dig deep to find academics that agree with them. They turned to an unknown professor at the prestigious Geand Valley State University.
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“If you look at the NIL girls, the first ones who were getting deals were the blonde girls,” Louis Moore, a sports historian at Grand Valley State University
Posted on 6/13/23 at 2:45 pm to hawgfaninc
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Blonde
“Blonde”
Come on, son.
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