Texas A&M Runner and Youtuber Ryan Trahan is being forced to stop promoting his personal company in his videos

Love Ryan Trahan. and hate the ncaa. They are really wrong for this. He is just trying to earn some money while the NCAA profits off all of their athletes

He's making money off the platform the university provides for him. The university is paying for your education and you have to follow its rules if you want to stay there.

Go to road races and do the same thing but people have a much greater curiosity to the workings of an NCAA team than a than what happens at a road race .

Btw- you could start a direct competitor to UT/flotrack at A and M. Get paid to do a reality show for NCAA champs with that quarter miler as the lead character.

He could have run a mile, done some stretches, done some weight work, strides, while wasting his time making this video.

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He's making money off the platform the university provides for him. The university is paying for your education and you have to follow its rules if you want to stay there.

Go to road races and do the same thing but people have a much greater curiosity to the workings of an NCAA team than a than what happens at a road race .

Btw- you could start a direct competitor to UT/flotrack at A and M. Get paid to do a reality show for NCAA champs with that quarter miler as the lead character.

What platform is the university providing him? He has had his YouTube channel long before he went to Texas A&M. Just to be clear this is an NCAA rule and not a Texas A&M rule.

So if he was a walk-on and not receiving any money from the university would you still be ok with the NCAA not allowing him to promote his personal company on his personal YouTube account?

The logic behind the NCAA rule (albeit stupid) is saying we are providing you with an athletic opportunity and we don't want you "exploiting" it for $$$. It's almost like they want a royalty or something for using their brand, but instead just say "screw off".

The thing is, the NCAA generates all its revenue from attracting the most talented athletes that everyone wants to watch, hence why they sell so many tickets, get a ton of advertising $$$ etc. Their business model is giving kids a free education so they can use their athletic abilities to make $$$. So that's a fair exchange, and the athlete and NCAA should be considered boss and employee. If you provide positive press for the NCAA (ie. what Ryan Trajan does) why would they want you to not do that? Any other business would love that kind of advertising, instead now that they have this dumb rule, people hate them. The only reason they are still in business is because they are the only viable option as a link between high school sports and the pros. In other words, they are a monopoly.

Those arguments apply to football players not on revenue generating distance runners.

If any football player tried this they would have been on his @ss way earlier.

Crying about rules that were in place before you stepped on campus, boohoo.

Quit college and provide your own platform and see how easy it is lol