College Wrestler-Cum-Porn Star’s Second Chance
I dont understand why this kid was kicked off the wrestling team. He didnt pose under his own name or advertise the fact that he was a wrestler for Nebraska, so how was he commercializing himself? He had a job–same as if he was flipping burgers or selling clothes at the Gap. Now if the NCAA has some sort of b.s. “morality clause”–which Im pretty sure they don’t–that’d be a different story. I think Donohoe should get a lawyer and sue the school and/or NCAA. Sadly, even if he got reinstated, i think his teammates and opponents would still give him hell.
I dont think he should feel humiliated, since he didnt do anything illegal or immoral. He didnt even have sex–just displayed his nude body. SHEESH!
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At the beginning of every season, NCAA athletes sign their rights away to the NCAA in order to be allowed to compete. We can, in no way, receive compensation for the use of our images. Our images for that year, become part of the NCAA’s brand. The rule is intended to draw a clear line between amateur and professional athletes, but it clearly applies here. I know from personal experience that schools across the country addressed this issue specifically in their fall meetings.
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What a study in contrasts:
Donohoe reaches the top of a relatively small-time sport and has the balls to continue say, “What do I have to apologize for?” because he doesn’t have much to apologize for. Yeah, it was a violation of the NCAA rule on compensation for using one’s image. But, hello, that rule is primarily to prevent known starts from trading on their fame while they’re still amateur athletes. Clearly, he wasn’t violating the intent of that rule — he was using a false name for chrissakes!
Then there’s Michael Phelps, who as of last week with Matt Lauer, is STILL on his fabricated shame tour. He’s another one who should be telling the world he doesn’t have anything to apologize for, but the corporate overlords will have none of that.
Congrats to Donohoe — and an aside: thank you for wearing your gay cult hero icon status with pride.
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“The pair were kicked off the squad in August under the NCAA’s rules of disallowing college athletes from promoting themselves for commercial gain — a petty and pretty ridiculous conclusion that reeked of homophobia.”
Um, not really.
The site advertised that they were college wrestlers. They were hired with such promotions in mind. They were paid. I think that pretty explicitly falls into the category of promoting themselves for commercial gain. I have a few friends who play NCAA basketball and this rule is common knowledge. Just because they jerked off on a gay porn site doesn’t mean the treatment they received was homophobic – it just means they broke the rules and paid the price. I’m not sure why everyone wants to make martyrs of them.
These guys deserved to get kicked off their wrestling team. And if the wrestling team was paying for them to be at their school, a violation of those rules (which they knew) is a slap in the face to the people who funded their educations.
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Good for him! He flies in the face of homophobic shame, loud and proud, and he is straight too! This guy clearly knows the difference between sexuality and gender. Something that his former, narrow, colleagues, clearly lack in sophistication. Perhaps they were jealous of his sex appeal? Most men are afraid of other men who know the magnitude of their sexualities. Mr. Donahoe knows his!
I love common sense guys like him! They’re simply refreshing, and wonderful!
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If you wanna see Donahoe unedited, hit http://fleshbot.com/photogallery/fratmennash/ because they still have the pics up. SOOOOOOoooo NSFW but soooo yummy.
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@Mike n dabq
I have to squarely disagree with both of you. They did not break the intent of the rule, nor did they do it for fame gain. Those studs would have been hired by FratTV regardless. Saying you’re a wrestler is not giving all your past history of wins with hopes of making cash back advertisements. If it had been straight porn the whole thing would probably have been shoved under the rug. Most likely with a pat on the back and a quest for free DVD’s. The coach, of course, would most likely have been first in line.
Regarding that pic; that shot is what cute is measured by.
Thanks David
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I KNOW THIS GUY. HE’S BEEN ARRESTED BEFORE! Just saying.
He’s your standard douchebag jock… and let’s just say he isn’t always so nice to gay kids either.
I’m not condoning the conduct of the school since clearly they wouldn’t have kicked him off the team had he been in straight porn etc… but he isn’t the perfect guy he’s making himself out to be.
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He’s hot. He looks just like this guy I know from school who plays football, that I’m crushin’ on real bad. Anyways good for him, still sucks what happened, but then again rules are rules.
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Why is OK to be lesbian or indulge in bisexual sex if you are female but not do similar with a man if you are male? There is clear cut bias here and no one seems to want to point this out. Women are allowed their “phases”, dalliances, experimentation or just outright open indulgences, but men have to walk this “straight” line without fail. One supposed slip and he is marked as less than human, abnormal, perverted or far worse, less than a “real man” as many a straight female will point out. It’s about time someone spoke out and I feel for this young lad and though his statements were not strong enough for my blood, they will do. His school supports him and hopefully his loved ones. If he had posed for Playgirl or stripped at some club and allowed ravenous women to paw him, no one would say a word. However, he posed solo for a gay oriented web site and suddenly his world crashes to a halt. That is in our faces anti-gay and anti-gay male!
The fix for this is easy. Let’s stop making it a big deal when a male says he is or has had intimate relations with another guy, or in this case when a guy poses naked for the pleasure of a primarily male audience. It’s no big deal. Women pose for women; women look at women; women compliment women; women kiss women, and it most societies approve. It’s about time we put our feet down and start being 100% human as opposed to 50%, regardless of opinions from our own gender or the opposite gender!
Kudos to this young wrestler!
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Why is OK to be lesbian or indulge in bisexual sex if you are female but not do similar with a man if you are male? There is clear cut bias here and no one seems to want to point this out. Women are allowed their “phases”, dalliances, experimentation or just outright open indulgences, but men have to walk this “straight” line without fail. One supposed slip and he is marked as less than human, abnormal, perverted or far worse, less than a “real man” as many a straight female will point out. It’s about time someone spoke out and I feel for this young lad and though his statements were not strong enough for my blood, they will do. His school supports him and hopefully his loved ones. If he had posed for Playgirl or stripped at some club and allowed ravenous women to paw him, no one would say a word. However, he posed solo for a gay oriented web site and suddenly his world crashes to a halt. That is in our faces anti-gay and anti-gay male!
The fix for this is easy. Let’s stop making it a big deal when a male says he is or has had intimate relations with another guy, or in this case when a guy poses naked for the pleasure of a primarily male audience. It’s no big deal. Women pose for women; women look at women; women compliment women; women kiss women, and it most societies approve. It’s about time we put our feet down and start being 100% human as opposed to 50%, regardless of opinions from our own gender or the opposite gender!
Kudos to this young athelte!
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Why is OK to be lesbian or indulge in bisexual sex if you are female but not do similar with a man if you are male? There is clear cut bias here and no one seems to want to point this out. Women are allowed their “phases”, dalliances, experimentation or just outright open indulgences, but men have to walk this “straight” line without fail. One supposed slip and he is marked as less than human, abnormal, perverted or far worse, less than a “real man” as many a straight female will point out. It’s about time someone spoke out and I feel for this young lad and though his statements were not strong enough for my blood, they will do. His school supports him and hopefully his loved ones. If he had posed for Playgirl or stripped at some club and allowed ravenous women to paw him, no one would say a word. However, he posed solo for a gay oriented web site and suddenly his world crashes to a halt. That is in our faces anti-gay and anti-gay male!
The fix for this is easy. Let’s stop making it a big deal when a male says he is or has had intimate relations with another guy, or in this case when a guy poses naked for the pleasure of a primarily male audience. It’s no big deal. Women pose for women; women look at women; women compliment women; women kiss women, and it most societies approve. It’s about time we put our feet down and start being 100% human as opposed to 50%, regardless of opinions from our own gender or the opposite gender!
Kudos to this young athlete!
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SFW clip of them and a garden hose. They have shorts on the entire time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ3GYbhh4Rk
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I just think it’s unfair that the have to sign away the right to use their image to make money in order to be on the team, whatever the sport. The rule should be about being paid to WRESTLE or play basketball or whatever! THAT is what would make them a professional. I don’t see how this college has any right to ask for that kind of agreement… it’s THEIR image.
As far as whether it would have been such a “big deal” if they’d done straight porn, etc., we’d have to actually find cases of that to know. I don’t think that you can just assume the college wouldn’t care if it was “straight porn”, although it’s a definite possibility that they are biased… I’m just saying, we don’t know this.
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Sorry, I disagree. “There are crimes worse than mine” is not a valid reason for doing something wrong. Posing for porn would seem to be a clear violation of school rules. If you’re worried about athletes getting away with drunk driving, then attack that on its own merits.
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these schools make so much money off of these kids by ticket sales and clothes sales!!! And most of the kids get little in return (only a few can turn professional- not counting education). If these kids were paid some money, boosters would be taken out of the equation and the kid wouldn’t have to have sold pics of his cock. Dudes who don’t need money aren’t on these tyoe of sites.
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Now and then a Puritan remnant rears up and sounds the naked body alarm. Some people were apoplectic when Janet Jackson’s errant nipple made a brief debut on tv during the Super Bowl. “The children will be traumatized”, some claimed. If one’s kidlet is “traumatized” over an innocent nipple, then the parent has much more to be concerned about than Ms. Jackson’s nipple. The lengths that some colleges go to in order to shield star athletes’ illegal experiences from the public are shameful. But usually a big amount of money is seen to be at risk if a college falls out of favor with the NCAA so the schools typically take their cues from NCAA in re: reactions over real or perceived rules violations. So then good for this guy- take his obviously talented wrestling skills to another college and enjoy the trophies and admiration that he has earned.
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how is this homophobic? the dude was caught posing for PORN. gay or straight, i’m pretty sure that goes against NCAA standards of being all wholesome and shit.
this is not really a gay rights issue, more of an issue about general sexual prudness. im sure this kid would’ve been ousted even if he was posing for women. the problem is that americans are ashamed of sex all around, whether it involves homosexuality or heterosexuality. you can show someone getting stabbed, blown up, violently shot, or thrown of a cliff in a children’s movie but heaven forbid you say the word “penis.”
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What a bunch of assholes. Stories like this infuriate me. The whole ‘sex is evil and naughty, we must punish those who think otherwise.’ is so pathetic and so prevalent. I hate that people feel the need to judge and punish other people. I hope Paul continues to do well and that Kenny is okay. I notice that the article doesn’t mention Kenny at all, not a good sign.