The World of College Basketball

[1981 grad]

It is sad that we are having this discussion.  Sports betting will ruin collegiate sports if the NCAA does not ruin it first.  I respect Groce in that he recruits high class scholar athletes who know right from wrong.  I hope he can continue to have a pipeline to these athletes.

[kreed5120]

46 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

I believe baseball has to be the easiest to get away with. More so as a hitter, you can bet the outcome of the next AB of a player, if you are smart about it you go up there and strike out it would be so hard to tell. I still think Clase could've gotten away with it longer if they literally bet the over on his pitch speed O/U instead of the first pitch ball bets

 

It was the suspicious betting trends that did him in. Not the fact that he threw a ball or strike. The handle on micro betting is very small so if the typical handle is let's say $1k-2k on any particular pitch and over the course of a season a pitcher or batter has $200k bet placed on them 5-10 times then that will just stick out. If it happened just once then nobody would have probably noticed, but the trend repeated itself.

 

That's why spreads are more commonly bet on. Those are more likely to go under the radar as a $100k bet on something that typically sees $2M-$3M in action isn't going to stand out as much as a $100K bet on something people rarely bet on.

 

Still people get greedy and there are lots of mouths to get fed in match fixing. A $5k on that Kent - Buffalo game probably goes unnoticed. A $400k+ is a ton to bet on a MACtion game. A UNC-Duke game probably not so much.

Edited 1 hour ago by kreed5120