I’m hearing through various people that those athletes at both Iowa and Iowa State that were involved with betting, supposedly, an example is going to be made and they are going to come down hard on those athletes. I’m hearing 50-70 percent of their season may be lost for those individual players. I’m hoping this is not true. This is going on across the country and why they would choose the Iowa colleges to set their example is beyond me. I heard it was more rampant at U of I than it was at ISU but some of the names I’ve heard would be a big blow to both schools if true. Because this is all hearsay I am not going to mention any of the names I’ve heard. I did hear it will be all said and done by the end of June.
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Man if only someone had warned them about this. who could have known.
A VA tech player got a 6 game suspension last year for bets less than $500. There is already a precedent. I think it's a ridiculously wide rule that should be eased, but it's also a ridiculously easy rule to follow. Either the players are at fault for disobeying such an easy rule or the coaches/staff/school are at fault for not ensuring the players understood last year. Just the VA Tech suspension last year should have been enough to scare anyone to not do it.
I love how some think online gambling is new. It's not. I knew college students off shore betting online when I was in college 20 years ago, and you didn't need to be tech savvy to do it either. If I remember right lots of people were using World Sports Exchange (WSEX) at the time. What's new is LEGAL online sports gambling. Lots of people have been gambling online for decades, and I'm sure that includes student athletes. It's just easier to catch now that it's legitimate and can easily be monitored.
Plus being able to do it all on your smart phone makes it easier and more visible. And zero hoops to moving money back and forth. I’m sure point shaving schemes can be really tempting.
So your saying we need to hope there are hundreds of not thousands of kids that get caught up in this mess so that every school is equally disadvantaged.
Or better yet, we need some kids at Bama, Georgia, LSU, Ohio State and USC caught up in this scandal and punishments will magically get minimized.
No, the NCAA should amend their rules, but if they don't, there will be suspensions.
The rule was probably so that athletes wouldn't get in debt to a shady bookie and be pressured to do something nefarious. Not really an issue with online gambling.
Hey. Totally easy to miss the info when you have to sit through a seminar, sign that you understand and then be given it again in a handbook that you also signed off on.
The kids are the victims here, obviously.
Should bode well for the UNI game. At least we play well early in the season.
If ISU does this, I am done with college sports. NIL is already ruining it, as long as they did not bet on their school or against their school, this should be none of the NCAA's business.
Have to make examples now, so when it’s found out at Ohio st. And Alabama, we can sweep it under the rug.
1) they broke a state law in addition to an NCAA rule
2) the players are WELL aware that they were breaking the rules. Blame the rules all you want, I think it’s stupid too, but they have no one to blame but themselves
Do you know of any student athletes at your time in college that were gambling? If not… this isn’t even remotely what’s going on here.
Slippery slope. Say an ISU football player is tight with an Iowa player, and he learns through hearsay that a lot of Iowa players are playing injured.
Imagine in this scenario that same player bets on Michigan playing Iowa that week knowing some knowledge of undisclosed injuries.....
Now - if it's an Iowa or ISU football player betting on golf or the superbowl or nfl, yeah I don't think that should be a wild multi game suspension, definitely not.
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