Of course gutless NCAA won’t let Leonard Fournette donate his jersey for charity
By Josh Hill
The NCAA won’t let Leonard Fournette donate his uniform for charity, because that’s something Christ might do.
Remember that time there was a devastating natural tragedy in America and a college athlete tried to use his million dollar star power to help out, only to be cutdown by the people benefiting off his milion dollar star power? Of course you do, because it happened today in Baton Rouge when LSU star and Heisman hopeful Leonard Fournette tried to donate his game-used jersey for charity.
After a unique home game in Baton Rouge for South Carolina, Leonard Fournette tried to wrap a bow around the kind hearted afternoon the two teams shared by saying he was donating his uniform for charity. In this case, the charity was to benefit the victims of the devastating flooding that caused the Gamecocks to give up a home game and play it in Baton Rouge instead.
Of course, the NCAA remains a soulless organization and won’t allow Fournette to donate his uniform for charity. Because, ya know, that’s something someone who isn’t a greedy douchebag would do.
#LSU RB Leonard Fournette says the NCAA will not allow him to auction his jersey for the SC flooding relief. "Violation," he said.
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) October 10, 2015
At this point we can’t be surprised by this, as the NCAA has displayed in the past that if it can’t make a buck off of something they will shut it down. This even includes something they did make money off of, as they shut down the NCAA Football video game franchise after it was announced that they’d have to start paying players for their likeness.
Meanwhile, you can still buy a Leonard Fournette jersey and donate money with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the NCAA.
Like so many other issues in this country, nothing will come of this — which is just depressing as hell. We will all get mad and take to Twitter saying how bogus the NCAA is and how cheap and gutless the organization is. But at the end of the day, this isn’t the first time they’ve gipped humanity of something to make us not so depressed about college sports and it will hardly be the last.