UMASS Student denied $10K for made half court shot. Promo Company said his foot was on the line

[jayhovah]

Problem is they didn't stipulate that before hand and there's not rules defined half court shot by basketball rule, unlike threes or FTs .

If you're at the midcourt stripe, 99.99% are going to call that a half court shot.

It's 10k, not 1M. Pay him and avoid the negative publicity that's going to cost you waaaay more than 10k. But leave it to an insurance company not to want to pay out.

I’ve read the Odds On Promtions contract and all of the rules are clearly stipulated up front.

But OOP is actually not the sponsor of the contest and has no contract with the contestant. The school is sponsoring the contest. The school must decide whether to eat the $10,000 or tell the kid that he didn’t complete the task as defined. Then if they choose to pay him, then they can have a fight with the insurance company.

 

[oldsports_]

If his foot was on the line or passed it obviously it wasn't a half court shot

 

[PushupMan]

Yes, you get almost credit if your toe is on the line of a 3 point shot. 0.66666666667% of the credit to be exact.

There ya go! The $6,667 solution!

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

 

[Larry Skaggs]

UMass needs to give him half of they NIL money and make it right

 

[bthaunert]

As I predicted. Happens very time.

 

[ukcatz12]

As I predicted. Happens very time.

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This pretty much happens every time an insurance company denies one of these payouts. Whatever entity ended up taking out the insurance policy for the contest ends up paying for the good publicity.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

I used to go to a lot of games that had promotions like this. Almost always women shot. The exceptions were boys under 10. I have seen a bunch of half court shots make it to the free throw line.

 

[HeismaNole]

As I predicted. Happens very time.

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It would be pure idiocy to take the bad publicity for this. They got it right quickly.

 

[thack_kat]

Sounds like Pat Adams was on the call.

 

[Tf2217]

Does anyone know if the guy who hit the half court shot at Rupp Saturday actually got the money?

He was brought out during a timeout for the contest. Missed two shots (he was supposed to get 3 tries) and then the refs came on the court and shooed everyone off. The clock was at 13:08 or something like that, and I’m almost positive someone made a mistake and thought it was a media timeout when it wasn’t. Those things are done during media timeouts because there’s more time. This was just a random full timeout, so there wasn’t enough time to complete the whole thing.

As everyone is leaving the court the guy grabs the ball and just heaves it down the court and it goes in. But with all the commotion I have no clue if he was actually behind the line or not, and if there was supposed to be someone watching to make sure they definitely weren’t doing it because everyone was leaving the court.

Damn I would give it to him. Especially since he technically hit it. Good PR if nothing else.

 

[bbncal02]

As I predicted. Happens very time.

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They did the right thing.