Eastern Michigan basketball games under scrutiny for suspicious betting

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To add to this: Why do we never see players getting academically suspended anymore?

Are high risk athletes not being recruited as much? Are intervention programs and tutors helping? Or have academics taken a back seat in big time college athletics?
 

GopherJack said:
To add to this: Why do we never see players getting academically suspended anymore?

Are high risk athletes not being recruited as much? Are intervention programs and tutors helping? Or have academics taken a back seat in big time college athletics?
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While it may fall short of self-evident, I think we all know the answer.
 

This isn't just a college sports thing, and it's not limited to the athletes. There is so much money in sports and now so much money in sports wagering... When you take a step back and think about it, how could it be that corruption and cheating AREN'T widespread in sports? It's probably everywhere, and all one would have to do is open one's eyes.
 



Bad Gopher said:
This isn't just a college sports thing, and it's not limited to the athletes. There is so much money in sports and now so much money in sports wagering... When you take a step back and think about it, how could it be that corruption and cheating AREN'T widespread in sports? It's probably everywhere, and all one would have to do is open one's eyes.
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Yeah...it's like the glory days of CCNY!

I do find it funny that Michigan cheated their way to a national title in football with little consequence but Eastern Michigan is probably going to get punished more for gambling. Tark the Shark is smiling in the afterlife!
 
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Dave H said:
Yeah...it's like the glory days of CCNY!

I do find it funny that Michigan cheated their way to a national title in football with little consequence but Eastern Michigan is probably going to get punished more for gambling. Talk the Shark is smiling in the afterlife!
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"Cleveland State is headed for probation" Tark lol
 

there has been at least one notable point-shaving or game-fixing scandal in every decade since the 1940's.

one of my favorite tidbits - Henry Hill, the real-life mobster who was played by Ray Liotta in the movie "Goodfellas," was involved in the Boston College scandal in the 1970's.

so it's nothing new or different.
 



Bad Gopher said:
This isn't just a college sports thing, and it's not limited to the athletes. There is so much money in sports and now so much money in sports wagering... When you take a step back and think about it, how could it be that corruption and cheating AREN'T widespread in sports? It's probably everywhere, and all one would have to do is open one's eyes.
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I’ll offer friendly discussion. I think it’s less about the sheer amount of money in the game than it is about the proliferation and “normalization” of gambling at every aspect of society. Gambling is cool and any of us who know anything about the game should make easy money, right? Historically the point shaving schemes are not about the players trying get rich but dig themselves out of gambling debt. I have no idea how college sports polices gambling on an every day basis but it’s a really good idea that athletes not bet on anything for their own well being.
 

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