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Did I miss that the baseball players got suspensions more than a meaningless series earlier in the season?
The conspiracy theorist in me thinks the final investigation will amazingly coincide with whenever the team's baseball season ends. We lose FB starters for the Cy-Hawk game, their best players get suspensions that either don't matter or will never be served (if the guys graduate).
I don’t think the baseball players have been able to participate since it all started
None of them played again, including the best player on the team
Yep, I'm hearing that it will be mostly baseball players and wrestlers and past FB players for Iowa. I'm hearing that a player that transferred is in the mix. Will be interesting if it is true and what obligation the new school will have.
If he did it at the old school, the new school shouldn’t get punishment, should be the player and old school.
I agree. But if it is the player, it has got to suck to get in a transfer and then he can't play.
If the penalties for this are worse than the penalties for a DUI then i will be pretty sad.
Assuming proper compliance steps were followed by the old school in terms of drilling it into their head to not gamble i'm not sure what sanctions the old school should/could face. I know Iowa State compliance beats it into you to not gamble and I would assume Iowa is similar. So I would assume the player would be punished.
Considering that VT player got suspended 6 games for gambling on the NBA you can probably bet that they will be.
I agree the new school won't be punished outside of having a scholarship player be ineligible for a chunk of the season.
He was suspended longer than 6. It ended up at 6 after appeal. Totally sucks.
You know they will be. Look at the NFL and Ridley vs what domestic abusers get.
While I agree with the premise of all of this, gambling simply cannot be allowed by those people close to the game such as players and coaches. All of the players knew the rules and penalties and still decided to not follow them. I'm sure the NCAA will try to make an example out of them for this.
I think everyone is agreement that this is unacceptable if they are betting on college football. A harsh punishment if they were betting on EPL or NBA is stupid though.
I guess in the NCAA's eyes, it is a very slippery slope. I understand both sides, but it is hard to stick up for the player in this instance. They knew the rules and ramifications. It sucks, but it is what it is.
When you start making carve outs, it becomes harder to police. They may end up doing so to appease the advocates of allowing gambling but it seems much easier just say don’t do it.
Personally, I think it’s better they don’t make carve outs because that’s where you can just see the NCAA letting itself off the hook against the blue bloods. Much harder to do when things are more black and white.
Hassel vs Eickholt, Felts, and other TOE homers
Spicy for a Wednesday morning
Spicy for a Wednesday morning