No, CMC didn’t do anything wrong here. No reason why he’s lose his job.
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No, CMC didn’t do anything wrong here. No reason why he’s lose his job.
The players can't bet online while in the state where it is illegal so that probably helps them.
JP already said we have to do a better job with the compliance efforts so that's where his boss sees the problem.
We didn't lose to Bama. The kick was GOOD!!!!
Obviously not going to lose his job but I don't agree with this at all. For all the talk of culture during his tenure, now we know the locker room was full of some pretty bad team leaders. He can't babysit everyone all the time, that's why part of his job is cultivating the right kind of player leadership to stop stuff like this from happening. He has a huge job in front of him fixing that now.
It prevents them from using Draft Kings, Circa, etc. They could be using offshore sites or bookies, but nobody is really looking for that.
Yep. If Bama was kicking for the win and Florida was needing a TD for the win, both would have been good. No respect.
I agree mostly. I would say there is definitely something ISU football could’ve done better. Clearly this is on the players, and they deserve no excuses.
On the other hand, between all the sports programs at the three universities this was most prominent within the ISU football program, and unlike Iowa for the most part, it is guys that are in prominent, if not leadership roles at ISU.
We’ve got the right guy leading the program m. He didn’t do anything wrong, but he will determine what can be done to keep this from happening again.
Goodbye Kevin Dresser then too. I've come to feel that CMC is a bit between a rock and a hard place. Seems the AD's ought to take some blame when the problem is spread over multiple sports. There are a lot more football players though, so...
Those players are gone. Good riddance. A few bad apples don’t spoil the whole bunch.
The '25% of our starters' thing is true I guess but it's kind of a take revolving around a class A Iowa high school team with 16 varsity players available.
People are really desperate for some kind of drama in their lives.
Unless it comes out that CMC helped players place bets and helped cover things up, nothing that has happened is a fireable offense.
Now as the leader of his program, it's on him to use this as a teaching opportunity and reinforce his expectations with the players. These players have disrespected the culture, but as someone posted previously, we've had so many good culture players (Purdy, Hall, Kolar, etc) that it doesn't appear to be systemic.
I'm sure CMC and the staff will use this when looking at their talent evaluation efforts. It was pretty clear Dekkers had the talent to be a P5 QB, but there were rumblings even before this that he didn't have the best leadership skills or mindset that would be expected of the starting QB. Even then, you're not going to catch all the intangibles when recruiting a HS kid.
TL/DR, Campbell should take ownership of this as the head coach and use it to better his program. But it appears the people saying he's at fault or should be fired just have an axe to grind because he hasn't won enough games the past couple years.
What about the players that were borrowing their teammates phones and also gambling in the football players lounge?
It should be noted that Iowa legalized sports betting in 2019 and like many things, it found its way into a young audience.
It's an extreme example but how long were performance enhancing substances around before coaches/legalities caught on to try to stop it or out in guardrails?
The rest of the team saw all this happen right in front of them. If there are further problems, it'll be triple stupidity.
Or what about the guy who bet his roommate 5 bucks on a game? They just have to not be stupid about it.