“He grew up on a small farm”. Would love to know what the acres are on this “small farm”. great baseline for developing the mindset that money is free though.
ISU Gambling Megathread
- Thread starter Cyclonemaniac
- Start date
“He grew up on a small farm”. Would love to know what the acres are on this “small farm”. great baseline for developing the mindset that money is free though.
How many parents let their high school kids and their friends drink alcohol in the basement?
"As long as I know they are home, they are safe"
It's a similar train of thought.
I probably would allow the gambling before the drinking.
The extended Dekkers families from Hawarden, IA has received $1,555,xxx in ag farm subsidies the past 25ish years. Hunter's parents aren't listed as owners, so probably crop sharing on grandparents' land.
For comparison sakes, my mom operates 200 acres and has received $68,xxx over the same time frame.
Using a simple proportion would imply the extended Dekkers families operates about 4600 acres
That's funny. Sometimes you just gotta laugh at yourself.
True, however drinking in the basement doesn't leave an electronic trail or affect the integrity of an entire sport either.
That's a pretty dumb generalization.
We’ll never know because Duggan did not want to sit behind Brock Purdy. Easton Dean was the QB commit in 2019. IMO they were thinking a change of position for Dean. So we took 2 QB’s in 2020 as we had another spot in QB room available. JMO. Dekkers was highly rated and committed in June 2019 as a member of 2020 Class.
Throwing up the hail mary, will it be caught!?
**** the DCI for trying to use the media spectacle as a future deterrent and forcing all these guys to lawyer up.
This has a “we made our point now plea down to a small fine your main punishment is going to be in the court of the media and public opinion” feel.
I'm on board for this. I've been curious to the legality/justification of the Geofence to begin with and especially if they were selectively targeting individuals to investigate it could get sketchy quick. If any court agrees with the defense here, you could be looking at millions in damages against the DCI for this. An illegal search the result of which got this guy fired from a million dollar job? That's not even including the rest of the athletes.
What a shot in dark.
I bet this lawyer doesn't think cops should survel drug dealers when trying to stop drug trafficking and should instead apply their resources equally to the general population.
Would you post a picture of the "drug dealers" so we know to whom you refer?
This would do nothing for the suspensions er anything along those lines, nor does it remove guilt on what these morons did. But it could get them out of the legal trouble.
Someone got a real lawyer.
Completely different set of circumstances, and I actually think the attorney is making a solid argument.
For the crime they are charged with, their status as athletes is completely irrelevant. I'd venture to guess if they did the same diligence they did towards the athletes towards the general population you'd turn up thousands of people who are using their parents identities for gambling accounts. I'd imagine it's extremely prevalent. But to only target your investigation into male athletes at the two major D1 schools is legally problematic.
The truth is an absolute defense in any case these players could bring against the state. This may or may not work to get them out of their legal issues, I have no idea. That's it though. It will not work to avoid punishment by the NCAA or the NFL.
