Maryland Discussing Geo-Tagging to Monitor College Sports Betting

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00:03 Is Maryland the only state that is trying to geotag campuses

00:09 in college from sports betting?

00:11 Because I guess I'm not understanding this.

00:13 Because if kids are in college, there are some, if not a lot--

00:18 maybe some kids just want to stay in college forever.

00:20 They're way over 21 years old.

00:21 But there are kids who are 21, right, who can legally bet.

00:25 So what's going on here?

00:28 Yeah, I mean, think about Van Wilder.

00:29 How many years would he have under his belt

00:31 to be betting on campus right now?

00:32 Look, this is an overreaction to what has happened in Iowa,

00:37 in my personal opinion.

00:38 In Iowa, you had a couple of different athletes

00:41 caught betting.

00:42 And so, yeah, maybe the easiest way

00:46 is to say, look, let's just lock down campus.

00:48 Let's put up a geofence so none of these can work on campus.

00:54 And look, this is the first that we're

00:56 seeing from a state that's offering this,

00:59 that's suggesting this.

01:01 I don't think this gets passed.

01:03 But it could, right?

01:04 I mean, you're not always talking

01:06 about the most educated people in sports betting

01:10 when you're talking about the legislatures

01:12 around the country that are making these decisions.

01:16 And so if you get the right people

01:18 and they're banging the right drums, saying the right,

01:22 let's face it, scary words, this could pass.

01:25 And it could become something that other states do.

01:29 I hope it doesn't come to that, right?

01:32 We have to do a better job.

01:33 The sportsbooks have to do a better job of making sure

01:36 that they're following up on potential sketchy accounts.

01:42 That includes when you have an account in one name

01:45 and a payment method in another name.

01:48 That wasn't necessarily scrutinized as much

01:51 as it should have been in Iowa.

01:52 So this is really overkill.

01:54 But it's something that the industry needs to wake up

01:57 and say, okay, look, we need to make changes

02:00 before others make the changes for us.

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