Really NCAA..? (w/ apologies to Seth Meyers)
You are really going to punish Delaware because we have sports betting? Really?
You have playoff games in Las Vegas Nevada, but you are really going to punish Delaware?
Really?
Delaware sports betting is going to harm the purity of sport…really?
When you run Division 1 football and basketball like feeder programs for the NFL and NBA, you really think that?
Really?
According to Laird Stabler who was on the Al Mascetti show this morning, that has always been the law. It has nothing to do with punishing Delaware.
Just saying what I heard…..
Montana, which has sports betting in 200 bars and taverns, hosted 2 NCAA games during 2008 playoffs, 11/29 and 12/6.
http://www.montanagrizzlies.com/pages/event_archive.aspx?e=30&m=18
and the WAC has its tournament in Reno. The winner gets to go to the NCAA tournament. So the NCAA keeps a spot in its tournament that you can only take if you’re in the WAC and win a championship in a betting mecca:
http://www.wacsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10100&ATCLID=3632435
What they’re going to tell you, Jason, is that the Las Vegas Bowl and the conference tournaments for basketball are not NCAA championship events. The bowl games are separate entities, while the conferences (in this case the Western Athletic and the Mountain West) can decide where they have their tournaments independent of NCAA input.
Technically, of course, this is true. But it is also true that the NCAA could persuade the conferences to hold those tournaments elsewhere and persuade football teams to not play there. They could, but they don’t.
In fact, the NCAA allows the Las Vegas tourism bureau to advertise on its telecasts of NIT games, including last night’s between Notre Dame and Kentucky.
Just read a stat that 40 million Americans will wager $12 billion during the men’s basketball tournament. Delaware is able to get a piece of that action, and it should. As I said on the WDEL blog, if the University of Delaware is so concerned about the effects of losing home football playoff games, let it drop its exemption from open-government laws and show us why this will be such a hardship. Otherwise, gimme the Steelers minus the points in week 1.
While I have no problem with sports betting (really, I don’t), I also would have no problem disallowing non-professional sports from legal wagering. A college kid (yeah, I can call ’em kids now) is way more corruptable with a back-door payout than is a pro. I’m not going to suggest how much more corruptable, but I will say they are easier.
THEN AGAIN, if I am to believe what I have heard before, the likelihood of fixing games for favorable/dis-favorable outcomes tends to come more from the black-market of wagering than it does from the Vegas sportsbooks, so take that and suck it, NCAA!!!
Hmm…another thought. Maybe the NCAA is concerned about people making money off the backs and hard work of their student athletes, while those athletes make squat. 🙄 Oh yeah, my bad. Take that and suck it, NCAA!!!
what we lose from U of D we will gain in other sources. No way it happens
NCAA is on firm ground here. It selects the site of its own contests, and claims of “inconsistency” are way off target.
I don’t think we’ll lose all that much if we don’t host playoff games. It looks like, according to what was in the newspaper, that playoff games are not that profitable for UD anyway.