“The SEC presidents and chancellors have expressed strong support for NCAA national office efforts to seek federal legislation that will regulate sports gambling,” Sankey said. “Ideally, there would be uniformed practices applicable across states throughout the country governing gambling on college sports, particularly eliminating specific in-game betting and proposition bets on college sports.”<\/p>\n
The American Gaming Association, the gaming industry’s leading lobbying group in DC, has said an added regulatory layer will only allow offshore sportsbooks to thrive.<\/p>\n
Bowlsby was asked about mandatory roster reporting prior to each week’s kickoff of games.<\/p>\n
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Due to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) \u2013 and the fact that college football players are still considered “amateurs,” they’re entitled to health privacy. But there are widespread concerns that keeping status quo will allow a player or person close to the team who has unpublicized knowledge of a star player’s inactive status to share that news with rogue outside influences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“The case for doing it is really a protectionist case,” Bowlsby said. “There will be lots of people around who are talking to assistant trainers or kids on the football team or friends in the dorm or others that may think have information.<\/p>\n
“Mandatory reporting would eliminate people skulking around trying to find a leak that could give them inside information, so there could be a case made for it,” the Big 12 boss concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The NCAA football season is just around the corner, and at this week’s media days, the discussion of legal sports betting expansion across the country took the field. The SEC and Big 12 \u2013 two of the Power Five conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision \u2013 opened their media days Monday, and reporters in attendance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":109313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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