NCAA Gambling Probes (2023)

[BeauBenken]

If you have not been keeping up on this, it seems this will get fairly big after one bust has turned into potentially multiple at different schools.

It began with the Ohio Gaming Commission suspending activity on the Alabama - LSU baseball game for a suspicious bet placement. 100k came in late being placed on an LSU win. It was later found out that Brad Bohannon (Bama baseball HC) made a call to a guy in Cincinnati to place the bet that his team would lose during the game. Bohannon has since been fired and its speculated he will be banned from the NCAA for life.

Sources: Fired Alabama coach linked to bettor

Now the Iowa Gaming Commission is looking into things as well and Iowa/Iowa State have reported they knowingly have athletes that have broken gambling rules across multiple sports.

Iowa, Iowa State investigating athletes gambling

Iowa and Iowa State announced investigations into possible gambling by athletes across several sports on Monday.

www.espn.com

Now other schools are having massive meeting regarding gambling with coaching staffs and players alike as this may well continue to evolve.

 

[NDdomer2]

i mean good luck. ncaa prohibits them from gambling on sports PERIOD. a bunch of 18-20 somethings with money to burn who already like sports that can bet right from their phone. Yeah that's going to be a rule that gets followed really well.

 

[BeauBenken]

i mean good luck. ncaa prohibits them from gambling on sports PERIOD. a bunch of 18-20 somethings with money to burn who already like sports that can bet right from their phone. Yeah that's going to be a rule that gets followed really well.

Someone mentioned it on Reddit, but you hope the NCAA doesn't try to punish the harmless bettors despite the zero-gambling blanket rule which likely only exists to erase gray areas.

 

[Free Manera]

Yeah the blanket gambling ban is outdated and unrealistic. Gambling is like cannabis at this point. It's easy, it's basically legal everywhere, and the stigma is gone.

 

[notredomer23]

I'm fine with any league prohibiting the athletes from gambling if it in turn means that they won't allow the networks to profit billions of dollars in ad sales from gambling companies during their sporting events. I suspect the leagues will soften their stance rather than that.

 

[IrishLax]

You can't have athletes betting on their sport for obvious reasons. That's why every pro and amateur league in the world has prohibitions against it. Did less people give into temptation when they had to use bookies or go to Vegas? Yes, because it was a harder barrier to entry. You REALLY had to want to break the rules. With it on phones, you will see more people make casual mistakes without really thinking through the consequences.

 

[NDdomer2]

Yeah the blanket gambling ban is outdated and unrealistic. Gambling is like cannabis at this point. It's easy, it's basically legal everywhere, and the stigma is gone.

it still exists because insider information can still be gained for the other sports. Football player is good buddies with kid on the basketball team etc. Now football player has inside information on basketball team.

This situation always existed, what has changed is that the football can make an instant bet as well as inform a large number of people quickly.

 

[Free Manera]

it still exists because insider information can still be gained for the other sports. Football player is good buddies with kid on the basketball team etc. Now football player has inside information on basketball team.

This situation always existed, what has changed is that the football can make an instant bet as well as inform a large number of people quickly.

So what though. Plenty of non-athlete students are friends with athletes. They can act on that inside information but athletes can't. Oddsmakers can handle it just fine. The primary objective of outlawing gambling is to preserve the integrity of the sport, not to prevent "insider gambling."

 

[NDdomer2]

So what though. Plenty of non-athlete students are friends with athletes. They can act on that inside information but athletes can't. Oddsmakers can handle it just fine. The primary objective of outlawing gambling is to preserve the integrity of the sport, not to prevent "insider gambling."

you dont think they are one in the same.

I am not saying im opposed to any sort of better laws/rules. just saying why i think it still is the way it is.

 

[Jiggafini19Deux]

https://www.si.com/college/2023/07/10/inside-the-alabama-baseball-gambling-scandal

Fueled by hubris and, perhaps, desperation, Neff – an obscure youth-league coach from Mooresville, Ind., with a penchant for networking in recruiting circles—stood at the window and pleaded his case for making the huge wager to the book’s staff, the sources say. He indicated that he had inside information on the game—and he did, in the palm of his hand.

These are the dumbest of times we're living in. Make no mistake.

 

[IRISHDODGER]

https://www.si.com/college/2023/07/10/inside-the-alabama-baseball-gambling-scandal

These are the dumbest of times we're living in. Make no mistake.

I bet you’re right

 

[RDU Irish]

Betting on win/lose is one thing. Now that we have Prizepicks and sleeper out there betting on stats for every sport imaginable - I really don't trust a lot of things. Who in their right mind thinks WNBA or E-sports aren't putting the fix in on someone filling the stat sheet (or not).

 

[Plankton]

I bet you’re right

I'll take that bet!