Nick has repeatedly had contestants express concern about NCAA rules and has repeatedly stated that he has them sign NIL contacts to address the issue. No issues have arisen from them. Nothing to see here.
You can believe what you want to believe…
I don’t be doing it, but if anyone had it out for the ducks or burns and sent this video to Oregon athletics compliance dept asking for an explanation there would be a problem.
I wouldn’t be taking the legal advice of Nick symmonds and risk my ncaa eligibility over $1000 let’s put it that way
A local high school kid won a $100 prize from Nick two years ago. His school forced him to return the money and document it so that he wouldn't be declared ineligible and also potentially lose his offer from a nationally ranked collegiate program.
Nick has repeatedly had contestants express concern about NCAA rules and has repeatedly stated that he has them sign NIL contacts to address the issue. No issues have arisen from them. Nothing to see here.
So this video was rigged/staged for this student athlete to win the prize money?
Nick was literally paying the other runners to leave the competition. Of course it was staged.
Burns didn't get paid to run. He was paid to stop running. You can even hear Nick say "$1000 to stop running" as he hands over the money. Thus, Burns was not getting paid to run and it is not an NCAA violation.
Nick has repeatedly had contestants express concern about NCAA rules and has repeatedly stated that he has them sign NIL contacts to address the issue. No issues have arisen from them. Nothing to see here.
So this video was rigged/staged for this student athlete to win the prize money?
or are you saying Nick had burns sign an NIL “just in case” he won?
which is it?
Signing an NIL isn’t a one size fits all blanket that gives you auto immunity from violations
1) Under Alston, the NCAA can't realistically try to punish people for winning prize money. The court didn't squarely address the issue, but the reasoning is pretty clear. The NCAA doesn't want this fight because it will lose. The Court basically said, "lol, the NCAA is an illegal antitrust conspiracy; bring us another case and we'll smack them down again." If a school decided that it wanted to straight-up pay athletes, it would likely win in court.
2) Even in the old days, NCAA athletes could keep prize money as long as they used it to defray training expenses. In practice, this meant athletes were routinely getting prizes in the couple hundred to thousand dollars range.
3) The NIL contract here isn't really a gimmick. Nick is literally using these people to promote his business.
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Yeah, wasn't it worded something like "up to the amount spent on the meet"?
I know someone who accepted a 4 figure check because of it - he did have to fly but the plane tickets would have been cheap, but he also counted his car as part of traveling lol. I also know somebody who claimed he received the $ in a paper bag from the race director but I feel like he may have been exaggerating.
I'm not sure if that was him. The photographer of the bathroom bullying photos (who was also a camper) was the one who seemed likely to be behind the burner account leaving bigoted comments. It's possible Connor also left gross comments early on and they got deleted before many people saw them or got screenshots, but I haven't heard or seen any proof of that.
Connor did concoct stories about top high school guys hooking up with each other to try to score laughs with a different teen-focused running account, though, so it seems reasonable to assume he sees being gay as the butt of jokes. Still, that was a separate situation.
I won one of Nick's events once and just gave the money to the second place runner. Who knows what happens off camera. Everyone involved knows the rules. You'd be surprised at how much of Nick's videos are rehearsed and edited.
I'm not sure about NCAA rules but Texas UIL states it only applies to distances that the state competes in, so it wouldn't apply to a track runs of 8 miles.
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