Report: Former UCF kicker, YouTube star Donald De La Haye suing the school after losing scholarship
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The attention-seeking school from central Florida is in the news once again, although this time, UCF probably wishes it wasn’t.
Former UCF kicker Donald De La Haye is reportedly suing the school after he lost his athletic scholarship due to the success of his YouTube channel. The school took issue with the fact De La Haye was profiting from the videos.
Jeff Deal of WFTV 9 in Orlando broke the news of the lawsuit.
According to his lawsuit, the former UCF kicker is alleging the school revoked his scholarship because he exercised his right to free speech. His lawsuit also alleges he offered to demonetize his videos in order to keep his scholarship but that the NCAA requested he remove all videos that so much as included a football, including one of De La Haye throwing a football on the beach with his girlfriend.
Here’s one of De La Haye’s videos he published after finding out his scholarship had been taken away:
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