THE Texas The Sports Department has self -commissioned five NCAA violations in relation to sports betting which took place between July 11 and November 4, 2024, According to Austin American-Statesman.
The American Statesman obtained documents which censored the names of the parties involved. Texas self-assessment submissions have listed two football players, a non-student athlete who had links with the Women’s Tennis team, a student assistant and an employee of the non-classified sports department.
The five people totaled $ 14,885.76 in their inadmissible groups in a group. Wagers have been placed with the Daily Fantasy Sports Prizepicks website, where bettors can bet on a player’s statistics. Traditional sports books are illegal, but Prizepicks is legal within the limits of Texas.
According to NCAA rules, players, coaches and staff are forbidden to bet on any sport in which the NCAA sponsors a championship.
According to the American Statesman, the NCAA said that 50 sports betting violations were reported in 2023 and 100 violations in 2024.
In each of the five cases of Texas, the school used a service called Prohibet, which operates alongside colleges and universities to monitor the activity of sports betting. The service checks a person’s personal data – such as their name and birthday – against the data that individuals use to register for online sports books and daily fantastic websites.
Since the start of the 2023-24 season, the SEC has implemented a mandate forcing schools to use Prohibet technology.
Once Prohibit discovered inadmissible bettors, the Texas sports department discovered that the non -student athlete has placed betting on Texas sporting events. The role of the assistant with the sports department ended at that time. Meanwhile, the two non -students athletes received warnings.
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One of the longhorn football players was deemed ineligible, but was finally reinstated. This particular player was required to reimburse the value of bets to a charity of his choice.
Meanwhile, the other football player would have had a “problem” with sports betting, according to the documents that the American-Statesman received. He had placed about $ 9,600 from inadmissible Paris during his studies in Texas. In addition, two of his bets were placed in Texas basketball teams.
This player ended up leaving Texas and stopped his university football Career, therefore the Texas sports department did not penalize it.