re: TTU QB Brendan Sorsby likely to be permanently banned by the NCAA for sports betting

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He will sue, because everyone does with the NCAA now.

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he won't win that lawsuit. Sports betting is explicitly banned. There is no grey area like there is with other eligibility issues. He needs to worry about not getting charged criminally and having any sort of future in football ever again.

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When did that general rule start? Because it wasn't like that in 2012.

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They’ve been slowly shifting their personal conduct policies for a while to be less extreme. That’s why you don’t hear about the commissioners list much anymore, they mostly stay out of it until the legal process is resolved and then they come in with punishment if any, but even the punishments have gotten lighter. It’s bad PR and their involvement only brings more attention and scrutiny in their view.

From what I can remember I think Tyreke Hill was the last guy to get punished by the league for what happened in college, and that was nearly a decade ago

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From what I can remember I think Tyreke Hill was the last guy to get punished by the league for what happened in college, and that was nearly a decade ago

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Tyreek played all 16 as a rookie. Last I can think of is when Goddell fricked over Terrell Pryor and Jim Tressel and suspended them for the Ohio St trinkets "scandal". Incredibly stupid in retrospect.

If it's not games he played in (or his team, giving him insider info) then he may file a suit and who knows.... if he bet on games with him playing, or his team while he was an active team member, then thats potentially a criminal matter and there won't be a lawsuit with him as anything other than a defendant.

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Tyreek played all 16 as a rookie.

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Ahh I misremembered. I think they cited that as a mark against him when he had a later offense, so they used it as a basis for a harder first time punishment.

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Last I can think of is when Goddell fricked over Terrell Pryor and Jim Tressel and suspended them for the Ohio St trinkets "scandal". Incredibly stupid in retrospect.

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Wild how different the league an CFB was back then such a short time ago this was also around the time they banned a few NFL players from going to a fantasy football convention because it was set up next to or in a Casino and they didn’t want to be seen as promoting gambling

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If it's not games he played in (or his team, giving him insider info) then he may file a suit and who knows

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again, this isn't the same. The NCAA has a black and white policy on sports gambling.

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NCAA Division III Bylaw 10.3:

The following individuals shall not knowingly participate in sports wagering activities or provide information to individuals involved in or associated with any type of sports wagering activities concerning intercollegiate, amateur or professional athletics competition:
(a) Staff members of an institution's athletics department;
(b) Nonathletics department staff members who have responsibilities within or over the athletics department
(e.g., chancellor or president, faculty athletics representative, individual to whom athletics reports);
(c) Staff members of a conference office; and
(d) Student-athletes.

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There is no loop hole around that. They aren't allowed to gamble on pro sports either. I have a buddy who is an assistant AD at a D1 school that doesn't have a football team. He doesn't frick around with it and won't even do fantasy football. The NCAA doesn't mess around with gambling.

I'll believe it when I see it.

I stand by my position that players should not be punished for gambling, especially when you consider how corrupt the leagues are with game fixing, etc.

Everyone is gambling. It is obvious. Every commercial is for gambling. Hell, the only reason many of my friends still watch this WWE sport is fantasy football or gambling.

Yet we are going to punish players for doing it.

Gambling is trashy. Don’t be trashy