OT: NCAA Seeks to Ban Prop Bets
- Thread starter Knight Shift
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Single player bets over/under on yards, pts, catches, assists etc
But wait, how could sports gambling possibly cause any problems ??
And society decides it will need to re-learn another lesson from its past.
The players most people are likely betting on are now professional athletes. They are getting paid for their performance. So why not allow betting in what they can/cannot accomplish, just like the NFL?
The biggest problems recently have been prop bets, and the betting has not always been done by the players themselves.
The new basketball scandal is a minor player who had bets placed on getting below a certain number of points, rebounds, etc. He went into the game and played a little, then complained about an injury and was taken out of the game, making all of those “unders” hit.
In soccer there is still an open investigation into a certain player getting a yellow card late in a game. He hadn’t ever gotten a lot of yellow cards, but for some reason for the game he took one there were a lot of bets placed in his home town in Brazil that he would get one.
Long story short, prop bets are more dangerous because it is a lot easier to fix one player’s actions in a game than it is to fix the result of the game or its point total.
Gambling in sports is now an absolute joke. Player prop bets are just the tip of the iceberg. Everything is so contaminated now. Pro and college players can be gotten by someone to take a strike, fumble, backhand a shot, shoot a puck into the stands, etc. Prop betting is awful for the world of sports competition and not “knowing” what’s going to happen next.
Then you have sports leagues and sports media companies all partnering or creating their own betting companies. You can’t even watch a sport event, sports reporting or listen to objective sports analysis without mention of a betting line, over/unders, plus this minus that with the commentator admitting they put money on this team or that team. It’s sickening.
I’m waiting for a sports channel to come out that doesn’t mention betting lines so I can subscribe. Not to mention the problem with teenage and degenerate gambling on everything from a college lacrosse game to two cockroaches fighting.
People are always going to gamble but the integrity of college and pro games is questionable now and prop betting is example number one on why so.
GO RU
Then you have sports leagues and sports media companies all partnering or creating their own betting companies. You can’t even watch a sport event, sports reporting or listen to objective sports analysis without mention of a betting line, over/unders, plus this minus that with the commentator admitting they put money on this team or that team. It’s sickening.
I’m waiting for a sports channel to come out that doesn’t mention betting lines so I can subscribe. Not to mention the problem with teenage and degenerate gambling on everything from a college lacrosse game to two cockroaches fighting.
People are always going to gamble but the integrity of college and pro games is questionable now and prop betting is example number one on why so.
GO RU
LOL at the ncaa…poor clowns are in desperate Hail Mary mode! 
Think it’s a better situation today where it’s legal and closely monitored… pushing further underground takes away a lot of those controls. (Though I’m certainly slightly biased on it due to the free $ that some of them are today, and fewer options cuts that off)
Like Russilo, will check that out.. Actually prefer him with Bill Simmons vs Simmons solo, who gets too douchey sometimes.
Yep. It’s fing disgusting. The love of game has been taken over by the love of money.
GO RU
I think you're misreading my post. If the NCAA is worried about players fixing/throwing prop bets then say it. Don't hide behind the mean tweets aspect.
To protect the integrity of the game.
I find it amusing that the NCAA is now going to start trying to "protect the integrity of the game."
The NCAA"s relationship with integrity is akin to a hooker's relationship with celibacy.