A lot easier to gamble with all the online access.

remembers him. Nusbaum also has an office in Richmond...good people to deal with. As for on-line gambling...that has the potential to really wreck some lives.

For all student-athletes, coaches and athletic staff. So they cannot bet in any college sport or provide information that might be useful to those who can or are gambling. The rules make sense. College sports has to maintain a level of integrity. As you note, the temptations to 18-25 year olds to get caught up in gambling is real, and the NCAA has to prevent its athletes from getting intertwined in every they can. ** Edited by Hokie1992 at 1/25/2025, 7:08:00 AM ** Edited by Hokie1992 at 1/25/2025, 7:10:12 AM

the idea that an NCAA rule, a rule from an organization that has lost every defense of every rule it has attempted to defend over the last decade is going to stop kids from gambling is laughable. Right now college athletes are second only to politicians in entitlement and invincibility. The idea that players are not gambling and that there haven't been games effected by gambling is just silly. There is too much money involved and too many young people with invincibility complexes for it not to. I agree with TH, gambling is going to cause a massive problem in college sports and likely sports in general, but it won't matter because people are stupid and gambling is addictive. The ultimate proof of the hypocrisy of sports is that there is a sports book inside the stadium the Cincinnati Reds play in and Pete Rose is not in the hall of fame for gambling.

live in Virginia, so that prohibits me from placing bets on any Virginia school, our Hokies or UVA, for example, but I got friends that live outside the borders of the Commonwealth. I haven't done it much, and I wish I had done it more, but I'll have to do is make a phone call and venmo the money, and have somebody place the bet for me. I wish I would have started doing it earlier, because I could have made bank when Fu was here betting against us. Anybody that thinks the NCAA and it's "rules" keep it in check, athletes gambling or being influenced by it, is living in a fantasy world. It's one reason why I never bet the spread on anything. I think an athlete is less inclined to throw an entire game, a win versus a loss, but that spread is fair game. Don't ever touch it.

Point shaving, Blacksox scandal, SMU paying players...all legal (or will be shortly)