U.S. Integrity Educating SEC, Big Ten Schools On Betting

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 - US Integrity doing education

00:04 to very big conferences in college sports.

00:07 Another college football season is coming.

00:09 It does feel good, Mike,

00:11 that they're getting ahead of this

00:12 in the Big 12 and the Southeastern Conference.

00:14 Clearly the SEC in particular,

00:17 the biggest moneymaker in college sports.

00:19 - Right, so Matt Holt,

00:21 the founder of US Integrity, the CEO,

00:24 told me about a week ago that starting,

00:26 I believe July 15th through September 1st,

00:28 they're gonna be on the road going to various

00:30 Big 12 and SEC campuses, having in-person, on-site,

00:35 excuse me, educational programs,

00:39 which last about an hour with these student athletes.

00:41 Telling them, what is insider information?

00:44 You and I both have done the insider game, right?

00:46 What kind of information should you not be telling people,

00:50 either it's your parents or your cousins or whoever,

00:53 that would, that various information could give somebody

00:54 an advantage in terms of betting.

00:56 And then they've talked, you know,

00:57 he talked about match fixing, right?

00:59 It's not necessarily point shaving anymore.

01:01 It's really more, could be the first point

01:02 of a tennis match, could be the, for, you know,

01:04 who turns the ball over first in a NCAA college football

01:08 game, so you don't, you know,

01:09 you don't necessarily need 11 bad actors.

01:11 You just need one or two.

01:13 That's something he talked about with those athletes.

01:14 So again, Craig, you know,

01:15 there's 17 active investigations in terms of sports betting

01:18 when it comes to the NCA.

01:19 Charlie Baker sent a message to Rep Titus about this

01:24 in terms of what the NCA is facing.

01:26 We know about the Alabama baseball scandal.

01:28 We have, you know, the Cincinnati father with the,

01:31 with the, excuse me, the Indiana father with that,

01:35 you know, Brad Bohannon, like the coach Alabama,

01:37 given that inside info, they caught him on camera.

01:39 He was very obvious about it,

01:41 that he wanted to bet a hundred thousand dollars

01:42 on that Alabama LSU baseball game at the,

01:44 bet MGM sports book,

01:45 a great American ballpark in Cincinnati.

01:47 He got hit, you know, US integrity was, was vital in that.

01:50 So, you know, these, there's NCA's facing all the,

01:52 these scandals.

01:53 We don't know what's going to happen in Iowa.

01:55 The, the DCI has told me, you know, there's,

01:57 there's no finality in that case.

01:58 It's still ongoing,

01:59 that investigation into those student athletes at Iowa

02:01 and Iowa state in terms of potential sports betting

02:03 violations.

02:04 So yeah, you know, the NCA is dealing with a lot.

02:06 These education programs are super important.

02:08 You have, you know,

02:09 athletes asking very valid questions about, you know,

02:12 what's legal, right?

02:13 Is this just an NCA violation

02:14 or could I potentially go to jail for this?

02:16 You know, in different jurisdictions, you know, you,

02:18 if you can, that's on your own sport,

02:20 but on your own team, you know,

02:22 you could potentially looking at criminal prosecution.

02:24 I believe Colorado is one of those states.

02:26 So, you know, it's good for those athletes, you know,

02:28 student athletes, right?

02:29 This is a new era kids that are coming up that are 18 to 21,

02:33 22 need to know, right?

02:35 If you're a practice, right?

02:36 With that Iowa thing, don't go on, you know,

02:38 don't log into Fandula DraftKings

02:40 because the regulators are going to wonder why on a

02:42 Wednesday afternoon with no game or anything, you know,

02:45 are those athletes logging on, right?

02:46 We talked about prohibited better lists that,

02:49 that could potentially be something in the NFL,

02:50 potentially in the NCAA where the regulator is able to pick

02:53 it up in real time, who's on these things.

02:54 And, you know, are they on their friend's account?

02:56 Are they 21 years old?

02:57 Are they of legal age?

02:58 These are all the questions that are being asked in Iowa.

03:00 As these teams have been cleared one by one,

03:02 there hasn't been any criminal proceedings in that case.

03:05 And hopefully no nefarious activity in terms of, you know,

03:08 match fixing or anything like that.

03:10 But, you know, this is an issue that is very pervasive.

03:14 It's a new era.

03:15 And so, yeah, good on us integrity.

03:16 And, you know, the big 12, Brett Uremark,

03:18 their commissioners talked about the need to have these

03:21 programs, make athletes aware and make sure you don't have

03:23 what's going on in the NFL, you know,

03:25 and you don't have what's going on in Iowa and Alabama where

03:27 coaches and athletes are under investigation or getting fired,

03:30 losing their jobs.

03:31 I mean, again, for the integrity of the sport and, and,

03:34 and for, you know,

03:35 these sports books themselves that have money on the line,

03:37 you know, this stuff cannot happen.

03:38 And so it's good that U.S. integrity is going to these SEC

03:41 and big 12 schools and giving these athletes some in-person

03:44 education, correct?

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