Accusations Continue to Pour in Against NCAA as Youtuber With 5.6 Million Followers Unveils Ugly Tactics

The NCAA is knee-deep in trouble with all the allegations and lawsuits being filed against them. As the alleged facade gets exposed by their players, even former ones, the organization faces the wrath of the NFL community and the nation’s judicial system. The domino of troubles set off when Tez Walker was originally denied a waiver, stating the reason as his multiple transfers. However, the decision was reversed later after North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein threatened the organization, after ‘new information’ came to light.

Following this, several high-profile waiver denial antitrust cases came into being of national importance, as several states were at gunpoint. West Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Tennessee were at the answering end. Amidst all of this, a new issue is taking form, emerging like another grave problem for the organization: the NIL. The face that brought it up has the potential to crumble the very foundations of the NIL deal.

Former UCF player raises allegations

With over 5.5 million followers, Haye Jr., the ‘destroyer,student-athletes’ would have had some of the highest NIL valuations under today’s NIL regulations as social media following is the key factor in any player NIL valuation, giving them the platform to create their voices and image so that brands could recognize them. Haye Jr. had all of it covered. Yet, things were not meant to work out for him a few years back.

An enthusiast for sharing his football journey through vlogs with his followers. Despite monetizing only pennies worth through them, the NCAA was not pleased with it. The result? Haye Jr. was forced to forfeit his college scholarship in 2017. This created waves as headlines across the nation, given the grave injustice the former placekicker was forced to tolerate.

When speaking about this Haye Jr. complained, “They went through my Instagram DMs, Instagram comments, YouTube comments, my whole back in on monetization, my life was changed forever.”

NFL Transfer Portals under severe scrutiny

The problems stemming from the waiver policy have left its impacts on the transfer policy, threatening its foundations. As the Northern District of West Virginia stands in front of presiding judge John P. Bailey, it questions the rules of the transfer portal after the seven states filed a lawsuit against the NCAA transfer rules. Judge Bailey’s ruling issued on Wednesday might temporarily lift the organization’s rules around second-time transfers, giving a ray of hope to all the student-athletes who were denied their waivers.

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All these proceedings have shed light on the underlying problem here, bringing it to the forefront. Member Schools viciously repelling from the very laws that they created a few years back, which has led the NCAA to be on the hook for $4 billion or more damages, as claimed by the attorney generals of the suit filing states.

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