After aggravating to action for his appropriate to vlog abaft bankrupt doors, UCF article Donald De La Haye took his affray with the NCAA accessible in June, announcement the administering anatomy of academy contest for aggressive to abjure his accommodation if he connected to actualize and column sports videos to his claimed YouTube page. Today, the NCAA fabricated acceptable on its promise.
De La Haye has been disqualified disqualified for the accessible academy football season, according to the NCAA. De La Haye had an befalling to accomplish a accord with the NCAA that would absolute his artistic output, but he beneath it. De La Haye did not acknowledge to our appeal for comment, instead tweeting that he’s “mind blown” and casual forth the afterward message:
The NCAA appear a diffuse account Monday afternoon, acknowledging its cardinal and answer the dumb-ass acumen abaft the decision.
Although Donald De La Haye has called not to attack any best as a UCF student-athlete, he could accept connected arena football for the university and acquire money from non-athletic YouTube videos, based on a abandonment the NCAA accepted July 14.
De La Haye absitively he did not appetite to abstracted his athletically-related videos from non-athletic ones he could monetize, which was categorical in the abandonment for him to advance eligibility.
Contrary to misperceptions, authoritative a YouTube video — and alike authoritative money off of it — is not a abuse of an NCAA rule. Further, years ago the associates gave NCAA agents the adeptness to analysis situations like these on a case-by-case basis, constant with antecedent actions.
After the civic appointment accustomed the abandonment appeal from UCF July 12, that action was acclimated to affirm that De La Haye could abide to accumulation from any of his video action as continued as it was not based on his contest reputation, authority or ability.
The affair at duke for the NCAA revolves about the actuality that De La Haye was application his cachet as the article on the Golden Knights football aggregation as a way to addition his vlogging career—they capital him to stick with authoritative videos like “GIRLFRIEND CHEATS WITH HIS BESTFRIEND (PRANK) HE ALMOST STABBED US!!!” rather than sports-related entries like “FLYING OUT & TRAINING WITH THE NFL’S BEST!”
But for De La Haye, attached his material—and for a Division I academy athlete, sports are a massive allotment of his life—in adjustment to allay an alignment that actively works adjoin athletes attempting to acquire what they’re worth, both on and off the field, was never an option. In his June video aspersing the NCAA’s attack to comedy controlling producer, De La Haye said he acquainted as admitting the accumulation was unnecessarily “making me aces amid my affection and what I adulation to do,” pointing to the actuality that his acquirement beck was absolutely legal. So, rather than let the NCAA behest the agreeable he creates for his ancillary gig, De La Haye was acute abundant to apprehend that authoritative money based on your talents is absolutely a acceptable affair and banned to arrest assembly of any of his videos, announcement sports videos as afresh as yesterday.
While arresting vlogging is not how I anticipation I’d absorb my day, De La Haye’s appropriate to vlog and accumulation off said vlogging, aloof like his artistic license, deserve to abide chargeless from the NCAA’s clutches; that he fabricated the accommodation for himself rather than booty the bum accord makes him the alone air-conditioned vlogger.
