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NCAA Examines Harassment Amid Sports Betting on Students
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10/11/2024
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All right, now this is a study that nobody wants to see, hear, or read.
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This is about the NCAA looking into some potential harassment for their student-athletes surrounding
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sports betting.
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And Matt, I just think eventually we're going to get to a point where even though the players
00:17
are now being paid through NILs and everything else, in the end they still are student-athletes,
00:21
still young, most under the age of 21, you know, I mean eventually maybe there is a chance
00:27
that sports betting from a props perspective on these players goes away.
00:31
You're never going to eliminate games, and I'm not suggesting they should eliminate that
00:35
either.
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But player props is really what's the driving force, I think, behind this.
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Yeah, you're right, Craig, and you're right.
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It's not, you can't just look at these kids now, they're still kids, you know, 22, 23
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in college, what do they know about the world just yet, right?
00:52
I mean, there's, it's hard to sit back and say, you know, well, now they're being paid,
00:58
so you can say whatever you want about them online.
01:00
No, you can't.
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And this study showed some real ugliness that comes out from people online.
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Sports betting happened to be the third most common topic for abuse targeted toward NCAA
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athletes, coaches, or officials throughout the tournament and championship period of
01:20
a number of sports, volleyball, softball, baseball, but, and football was in there,
01:26
but really, Craig, it was basketball, 80% of these, about 5000 harassing comments that
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they found, 80% of them came during March Madness, men's and women's from the second
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round on.
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And, Craig, I'm not going to get into the specifics of what these messages said, they're
01:47
pretty rough.
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They're, they're pretty terrible, some of them.
01:52
And it's, it's interesting to see how the study by the Signify group, they, they dive
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into whereas, you know, for, for the male athletes, people get angrier for them not
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cashing their bets, whereas for female athletes, they talk about, you know, cheating or potentially
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match fixing or the sexist comments.
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The sexist comments, unfortunately, they were second.
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Sexual abuse was the overall top thread for, for abuse comments.
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It was really a shame and you, and you mentioned it, Craig, that the NCAA is asking states
02:32
to stop accepting these props on college players and states have tackled college differently
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when they've rolled out their laws.
02:44
Some of them don't allow you to bet on in-state teams.
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Some of them don't allow you to bet on props.
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Some of them don't allow you to bet at all, like Oregon.
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But I think that we probably will start to see more states adopt this no prop betting
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on college kids thing.
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We already saw a couple of states have done it since the NCAA asked for it.
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And when Ohio broke it out, they actually had a little study that went along with it.
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And it was like 1% of handle or less came down to these bets.
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So it's easy to find that money elsewhere.
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It's easy to pivot away from it.
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And I, I agree with you that I think we're going to be doing a little bit more to protect
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these students going forward.
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