At a time when many NCAA rules fell, another could go.
Pat Forde of Si.com reports that “(m) Built“Towards the NCAA raising its ban on playing on professional sports.
The Board of Directors of Division I took initial measures in this direction last month. He is pending before the Division I Council, which should discuss it this week.
The current rules prevent athletes, coaches and staff from betting on professional sports who are played at the NCAA level, including football.
It is a clear difference in relation to the way in which the NCAA obsessed with the rules operated. Perhaps after a series of antitrust losses in court, the body director of university sports is afraid.
Development raises two potential concerns for NFL, if the ban is lifted. First, each new recruits harvest will have been authorized to bet on the NFL. It will become essential for the League to make sure it makes cold turkey.
Second, college players have relationships with NFL players. It opens another avenue so that interior information goes to university players who will seek an advantage – in particular with regard to propeller bets. All you need is an SMS, a friend to a friend, and a Saturday player will know something that could be very useful on Sunday.
Allowing betting on professional sports considerably rationalizes the efforts to apply the NCAA, because the only concern will become if university athletes bet on university sports. Likewise, the Sportsbooks with which the NCAA is associated Will be happy to pocket part of the zero money that college players are earning now.
Until the government closes the tap, that is to say.