This was the most foreseeable epidemic ever.
Wow, he has a problem. Agree on UK warning these kids all the time to avoid gambling especially now that they have a lot of NIL cash in their pockets.
No joke. I like to gamble here and there (lotto ticket, poker, etc) but nearly 35K?! That's an addiction folks.
We as a society haven't done enough to educate college aged students about what gambling really is. With it becoming so much more accessible, and with places like Barstool promoting the heck out of it - I've felt like we might be creating a generation of gambling addicts. I say this as someone who has seen how ugly it can truly get.
I agree but that only averages to like $19 bucks a wager.
I would agree if it’s the same sport you are playing in. But I am curious what the ruling would be if a college basketball player bet on a college football game.
Hope our guys aren't part of your numbers but who knows. NIL, you would think, would keep them happy with money but some folks are just addicted or attracted to betting.
And officials.
Neither is smoking weed. I bet once that legalizes it’s really gonna take off among the college aged kids. I’m pretty worried.
Weed won’t be legalized in KY until it gets federally legalized unfortunately. Too many idiots in charge.
That’s ridiculous. It’s less than $30 a game. If the win rate is roughly 50% (it’s prolly less), you’re talking just betting a bunch of micro bets and losing like $500
I mean it's 2023 and WE just got sports betting and medical marijuana.
I don’t think to many players are rushing to bovada and trying to make sure they get their checks from winning from a third world country.
And should be. I mean in the modern era, how easy would it be to text your buddy that plays on another team and be like, "Hey man, I bet on you guys to win, but keep to a margin of 5." or something similar. It's manipulation of the game and violates the spirit of the sport.
If they don’t bet on their games I don’t see why any of these players get in trouble for
Guys, I took care of the average many posts ago. Jesus. Does nobody read the dang thread? Lol
As said below only $19 a wager, he prolly hit a few of those bets for a couple hundred or a grand and kept it on there to keep placing bets. When you can bet on your phone now it’s easy to bet daily on a couple games. 4 bets a day is over a 1000 for the year.
They are concerned about players getting down big and then using their games to get out of the hole. Or the bookies cutting a deal with having a player throw a few games.
That could be a problem but if it’s just a couple of bets on games that aren’t their own team then I don’t see the problem. I have no idea if these Iowa and Iowa state players went overboard and got out of control with the bets or not
That's nearly 1800 bets a year at that clip. That's a lot of gambling.
I wonder what time-frame that covers? It's not like he was making huge bets if he made more than 1,800 bets to get to that 35K. He's basically making 20 dollar bets, which isn't a big deal. There's no getting away from that 1800, though. That's a big number. You could place a bet a day every day for, what, 4 yrs. or so?
If it's over a year it's about 36 bets a week. At about 18.80 that's nearly 680 a week.
