History Main / TooQualifiedToApply

* The NCAA still uses a similar amateurism rule, in their case specifically in order to prevent professional athletes from being brought in as "ringers". (In this case, it only applies to the sport in question, so, for example, a person who'd played professional baseball would still be eligible to play any sport in the NCAA ''except'' baseball, though in practice this rarely comes up.) A long-awaited rule update in the early 2020s narrowed the scope of the rule's exclusion to only apply to direct payment for participation in sports and not the use of their "name, image, and likeness" (in other words, sponsorship deals and similar), as prior to this update, ''any'' money made in relation to sports, even if it was just trading on their sports reputation without actually competing (e.g. being used as a big name in an ad campaign), would render them ineligible. For many athletes this wasn't a huge deal, as college is often a precursor to playing professionally in major sports leagues anyway, but it turned out to be a huge problem in the world of women's gymnastics, as many female gymnasts hit their peak years early and therefore would have to choose between accepting sponsorship deals or doing NCAA. While this particular conundrum is best known as the reason that some of the world's top gymnasts -- names like Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, and Simone Biles -- couldn't compete at the college level, the greatest impact was felt by those who made the same decision but ''didn't'' reach the same heights (Rebecca Bross is probably the most notable example) as those gymnasts forfeited their NCAA eligibility for sponsorship deals that came out to only a small fraction of the value of an athletic scholarship.

* ''Fanfic/PoundTheTable'': Noa Schaefer's second major case as a lawyer involves her proving that the defendant, a professional tennis player named Jacques Canter, is not a mutant as he's been accused of being… [[SoreLoser by the man who lost to Canter in the U.S. Open]]. Noa is able to get plenty of video proof from dozens of amateur tennis players doing the "impossible shots" and "enhanced physical abilities" that the defendant insists in alleging could only be the result of mutation, and the snowballing HumiliationConga only gets worse when the plaintiff's analysts that gave sworn statements of the same [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere refuse to testify]], which leads to the judge declaring the lawsuit frivolous and orders him and his sponsors to pay reparations to Canter.

* ''Fanfic/PoundTheTable'': Noa Schaefer's second major case as a lawyer involves her proving that the defendant, a professional tennis player named Jacques Canter, is not a mutant as he's been accused of being… [[SoreLoser by the man who lost to Canter in the U.S. Open]]. Noa is able to get plenty of video proof from dozens of amateur tennis players doing the "impossible shots" and "enhanced physical abilities" that the defendant insists in alleging could only be the result of mutation, and the snowballing HumiliationConga only gets worse when the plaintiff's analysts that gave sworn statements of the same [[ScrewThisIAmOuttaHere refuse to testify]], which leads to the judge declaring the lawsuit frivolous and orders him and his sponsors to pay reparations to Canter.

** People with superpowers are [[SuperRegistrationAct legally required]] to hide them. Thus, Dash's parents don't let him compete in sports because they [[CoverBlowingSuperpower don't trust him to restrain]] his SuperSpeed enough to maintain their cover. By the end of the movie, however, Dash's superheroics leave him feeling accomplished enough to [[DeliberateUnderPerformance willfully restrain himself to taking]] [[SecondPlaceIsForWinners second place]].