The old "everybody does it so it's ok" defense.
Bold strategy, Cotton
Bold strategy, Cotton
ISU Gambling Megathread
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QB Dekkers accused of betting on Iowa St. games
Hunter Dekkers has been accused of gambling on Iowa State sports, including football, and was charged Tuesday with tampering with records. Three other Iowa State athletes -- two current and one former -- also have been accused of gambling and tampering.
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The poster was talking spring 2023.
Yeah…. I don’t think that defense will work out very well for him.
Yeah, that's not exactly a denial, despite the initial sentence declaring him not guilty. If anything it seems like an admission.
"Everyone shares accounts so you can't make it a crime". There's a big difference between sharing a netflix account and sharing an account so you can engage in illegal activity
So let me get this straight. Dekkers et al bet on games when they weren’t supposed to. At least two bet on their own games. That is really stupid and they deserve all the punishment coming their way.
Having said that were they caught buying selling or using street drugs? No.
Did they commit armed robbery or anything related to gun violence? No.
Did they beat and/or rape fellow coeds? Or subject their teammates to sexual humiliation? No.
Did they concoct some phony grade system? No.
What I want to know is how is Campbell supposed to know about betting apps on personal phones? How could he possibly keep track of that? I don’t know.
In summation, it is all bad but perspective.
Having said that were they caught buying selling or using street drugs? No.
Did they commit armed robbery or anything related to gun violence? No.
Did they beat and/or rape fellow coeds? Or subject their teammates to sexual humiliation? No.
Did they concoct some phony grade system? No.
What I want to know is how is Campbell supposed to know about betting apps on personal phones? How could he possibly keep track of that? I don’t know.
In summation, it is all bad but perspective.
Netflix passwords and illegal underage betting are pretty much the same thing, obviously...
Not guilty of the crime he’s accused of, which has nothing to do with the bets. The court system doesn’t care about the betting.
Did he not do it, or does it not matter because everyone does it? I can't tell from that statement
What is the prediction? Is Dekkers done? If Campbell knew, he should have looked for a QB in the portal.
Hell, Dekkers and Trump using the same defense with their attorneys…
Dekkers is done…. and Campbell did go get a QB. Please catch up.
I am not condoning what Dekker's did but his attorney is correct, this is a matter for Iowa State and the NCAA. Under Iowa Code there is no law preventing him from placing the bets, the Iowa Code is specific to the gambling entity that they have to have controls in place to prevent such a thing from happening, but not the individual gambler themselves. I've posted the Iowa Code a few times in one of these threads.
Now the tampering with evidence is a no no, but can you really tamper with evidence of something that wasn't illegal?
Just way too much winning in the margins for me…
