NCAA finds new creative way to be absolute worst organization in all of sports as they crack down on betting
The NCAA is incredible. If there's a way to make the wrong decision on something they're sure to go in that direction. Player compensation? Nope. The NCAA made sure any earning potential was stifled for players until they were quite literally legally forced to stand down. Player transfers, movement, and eligibility options? Nope. The NCAA […]
The NCAA is incredible. If there's a way to make the wrong decision on something they're sure to go in that direction.
Player compensation? Nope. The NCAA made sure any earning potential was stifled for players until they were quite literally legally forced to stand down.
Player transfers, movement, and eligibility options? Nope. The NCAA made sure that players wasted an entire year of their lives if they ever wanted to move schools until just a few short years ago.
Now they want to ruin sports betting for any and every person on the planet. What about just leaving it up to individual state governance and staying in your lane? Nope. That would make way too much sense. NCAA has to make sure they stay on brand as the worst sports entity in existence.
Today, NCAA President Charlie Baker released a statement concerning sports betting (and specifically player prop bets) as you can see in the post below from John Fanta of Fox Sports.
"Sports betting issues are on the rise across the country with prop bets continuing to threaten the integrity of competition and leading to student-athletes and professional athletes getting harassed. The NCAA has been working with states to deal with these threats and many are responding by banning college prop bets. This week we will be contacting officials across the country in states that still allow these bets and ask them to join Ohio, Vermont, Maryland and many others and remove college prop bets from all betting markets. The NCAA is drawing the line on sports betting to protect student-athletes and to protect the integrity of the game – issues across the country these last several days show there is more work to be done."
Typical NCAA. Rather than having any sort of proactive or clear plan, they simply overreact, overreach, and embarrass themselves on the national stage. Just a useless attempt to act like they care about integrity, as if they ever understood what the word meant in the first place.
Sports betting might be perceived as an issue to some, but that box has been opened and it will be never be shut. Since 2018, when the Supreme Court overturned a federal ban on sports betting, 29 states have already adjusted to the new normal, legalizing various forms of sports betting across the country. As of spring 2024, state governments are already raking in about a half billion (with a "b") dollars every quarter from sports gambling. Some sad old man in an NCAA office yelling at a cloud isn't going to stop what's making states significant money and is already widespread and available to over 200 million Americans.
This is just yet another sad attempt made by the NCAA to act like they have any relevant function left in the world of collegiate (or any) sports. And the funny part is that the NCAA can't actually do anything. Charlie Baker and the NCAA are going to be "contacting officials…to ask them" to ban prop bets.
Sorry Charlie, your toothless request disguised as a demand will likely be denied.
