And it’s because it’s pro football and it’s because it’s not only the right thing to do but the Pac 12 wants to mitigate running afoul of any given gambling regulation or other laws of commerce as they prudently should do.
This matter of disclosure will kick up all the more attention now that the masses are gambling no longer merely the “sharps and the squares” when they go to Las Vegas or offshore.
“The concept is, if we’re going to collectively be selling our data and that data is going to be used for sports betting, we have to figure out a way to be consistent – not just across my conference but across conferences with respect to how we share injury data,” Kliavkoff said.
Injury reports have long been a sticking point with college coaches and administrators. But now, more than 4 ½ years after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for states to sponsor sports betting, the subject has become the differentiator between professional and college sports in the gambling community.
Forget this "transfer portal" euphemism as if out of shame to admit that it's professional football too.
Remind all your friends who are fans of college football or basketball early and often too.
It's annoying when the establishment media coin a new phrase like "transfer portal" for a concept already known otherwise also beyond mere professional sports, and then it's worse when sheeple repeat the lingo without realizing it is something that's been there all along for pro sports.
Once requiring players to sit out a year but for those receiving a medical exemption and graduate students as began a decade or so ago, transfers have been loosely-regulated in the NCAA for years now anyway given far fewer transfer requests denied due to the heightened threat of litigation by especially the many who rightfully claim hardship when making the requests.
I always thought it was bullshit that coaches could jump ship on the drop of a hat or a big payday - but the players were trapped and might even get chased out by the new coach as he retooled the program - I have no issue with this being a wild wild west free for all -
Well it's a good thing the State of New Jersey was on top of this one though it took the state over a week to take notice.
I wonder how much more this sort of thing will happen and what will slip through the regulatory cracks in the other states with far less of a history of gaming regulation?
He became a PointsBet brand ambassador in 2021 and also received an equity stake in the sportsbook. However, PointsBet recently ended its partnership with Brees because of his involvement with Purdue.
he had equity stakes and even tho PointsBet ended its relationship with him, he may still have that equity. also, there needs to be a “cooling off” period between his departure from there to announcing his hiring as a coach (a year or season i would think). good on New Jersey for catching that.
The actions of Brees off the field have always been questionable. Not exactly a character guy in my opinion, one example being breaking ranks with his brothers on the whole national anthem thing.
I miss the old days of just watching sports and not being told that I need to place a wager on the Over/Under or how fun it is to bet on the passing yardage of QB X -
And I am not preaching against gambling because I used to love horse racing - had some buddies I used to hit the track with - spend all day there - usually spend more money on food and drink than I would loose gambling. But from a societal level I am going to plunk this gambling thing we are going through now in the same category as the pharmaceutical-grade opioid epidemic - See where we end up in twenty years.
Yeah I hear you. I used to enjoy a bit of casino gambling now and then about 20 years ago but haven’t really gambled for about 15 years. I saw too many problem gamblers. There is no drug that will cost you as much money as a gambling addiction.
I won’t say I’ll never gamble again but I’m just not interested and am content with small bets among friends and sports pools. All minor stuff. I have no idea how bad this on line stuff is for people but suspect that it is devastating to some. I was never a gambling addict but know quite a few of them. I’m not fazed at all by the advertising as a result, although I do find it irritating
in the same way that I find any cheesy repetitive ads irritating.
I love the way they frame winning as just getting some free money out of this magical pile of money that is just sitting there waiting for you to take it. Someone wins someone else loses. The house always wins - this is what the gambling addicts can’t process.
Betting apps have made things so much worse, for use of the phone is already addictive.
What I noticed that was quite telling over these holidays locally is gambling ads not only for sports-betting but also for casino games in general plus informercials all on local television.
They know people are indoors more avoiding the weather after Christmas, and so they amped up the ads in this last week.
Some might argue that those who want to play would just drive to the casino otherwise, and no that’s not true especially when the weather is bad.
It’s the height of hypocrisy, and hardly the first example, when the local news at some point will run some story about a “crisis” as if its breaking news when you can see this all go down so easily after they took that easy money for the advertising.
Yes really, good example, maybe it should be the law to have to show also the downside with, for example, a clip of Chris Farley by his trailer down by the river from back in the day?
Before I went to Vegas about 25 years ago my dad said, “when you get there, look at all those beautiful buildings and remember that they weren’t built on people winning.”