re: NCAA rules lesbian D1 athlete can keep Gofundme donations

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such as?

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Are you not going to admit that there are Assistant ADs across the country who are going to try and figure out a way to use this precedent to their advantage?

If not, there's no point in trying to discuss it.

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Really? If a football player at Alabama needs a car, the university will give him $25,000 for one?

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A redshirt sr who has saved their checks absolutely has been given that much. Sprinkle in some pell grants, you got yourself a charger.

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There have been plenty of stories of football players from hard-knock and impoverished backgrounds. And I'm sure free tuition and $500/month didn't exactly put them on easy street.

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No it didnt. And this girls 60k is much less.

How am I wrong, are we really concerned about the cross country program at ULM. What is the issue here?

There is a long-established precedent of allowing student athlete's living expenses to be paid by anonymous, online benefactors?

Or are you just ignoring the inherent problems with this arrangement?

The UCF kicker that was making money off of his YouTube channel a few years back... didn’t they rule he wasn’t allowed to do it unless his identity was not as obvious or something along those lines?

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such as?

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Are you really that obtuse? I am certain you can think of plenty... Some have already been pointed out in this thread...

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There is a long-established precedent of allowing student athlete's living expenses to be paid by anonymous, online benefa

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I dont know what the funds paid for, nor do I really care.

I dont know who buys the bar b que plate, I dont know who puts money in a bucket, I dont know who buys the raffle tickets, I dont know who funds the gofundme.

All the other fundraising methods that the NCAA have granted are also anonymous.

The girl had an unexpected event, coming out to your parents should not get you disowned. The NCAA viewed it as a hardship. They allowed a fundraiser.

If you dont think it was a hardship in THIS case maybe that should be what you are arguing.

The NCAA has screwed up bigly.

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The only negative here is that the NCAA may be having to deny hundreds of claims for this type of support per year because it has gotten publicity.

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But why?

Why should this girl be allowed to raise money when Ashley, who plays basketball at Tennessee and was raised by a single mom on welfare, cannot?

This is a white girl who is attending a private Catholic school. I'd be willing to bet money that her background is what might be described as "privileged." In fact, I'd bet that pretty, innocent white face sure attracted a lot of attention (and $$$).

So her sob story gets a pass, but Ashley's situation - which is surely MUCH more common, and is just as much of an economic hardship - does not?

And please stop treating scholarship benefits (tuition and room + board) as tangible cash awards. We both know that's not true.

If Harvard allows me to enroll for free and stay in one of their dorms for free, does that really mean they gave me $250,000? No. If I don't have two dimes to rub together, it's kind of hard to live and continue attending Harvard isn't it?

And I also at your $5000/year stipend "gotcha" argument. The poverty line for an individual right now is $12,140. Even if you factor in free room and board and free meals, you're probably not getting much higher above that line. It really wouldn't be that difficult to argue that $5,000/year is inadequate for an athlete who otherwise doesn't have any other money to their name (and who isn't allowed to have a job).

Like has been said, the NCAA done f'd up.