I think we have coddled kids way too much recently. I don't give a **** what you do if you are 18 then you are an adult, and you have a responsibility to know the rules and follow the rules. Stating that 18 year olds are dumb and need guidance is not relevant that's obvious. However, it does not excuse behaviors that are stupid or dumb that's how you learn. Unfortunately some mistakes kill you and some don't either way a lesson needs to be learned
Paniro named in ISU gambling probe
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I'm not a lawyer in Iowa, no, just a lawyer in NY who routinely advises on media law issues including defamation. But even if I wasn't, I'm also fully capable of asserting easily ascertainable and researchable facts about Iowa law.
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So the others are only a little bit pregnant? The amount doesn't matter.
It sucks how they got caught, however, they did indeed get caught breaking the rules that they were made aware of. The reason why gambling infractions are taken so seriously is that it gets to the integrity of sporting events. The University of Iowa turned them in.
There isn't really a need to adapt to how it is today. There are a few guides to being successful in life, no matter the time that are timeless. Things like accountable for your actions, being on time, doing what you are told, etc.
To echo another poster, I too am glad that I did not grow up in a time where every stupid thing I did was recorded and broadcast to the world. But that has nothing to do with you are not allowed to place bets on sporting events involving your own university.
Now only if the NCAA did something about a program knowingly, willingly breaks rules and winning a national championship as a result or consistently applied its rules.
So when football players have been punished by missing the first couple meaningless non conference games all these years, they really should have been held out of title and bowl games?
Yes, if the “punishment “ is to actually be a real consequence for their behavior.
Edit: Football is a bad comparison as athletes are now skipping bowls. Bowl games, for the most part, are not analogous to NCAA championships
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We need a meme for moving goal posts.
Drugs were a season suspended.
Tobacco use was kicked out of that particular match/game/tournament.
Gambling is a career ender.
It's so easy to understand. All one had to do was be half awake for these mandatory meetings and they would get it.
I still rember from the 90's .
We get it. You want to crucify the agent(s) you suspect of being overzealous and violating the law. But your hyper focus on their perceived misdeeds in a discussion about wrestlers losing eligibility for gambling in violation of ncaa rules suggests you can’t see that you’re conflating separate issues despite your claim to the contrary.
Your repeated posts on this subject suggest otherwise.
Ah yes, the 2 weeks between the end of the dual season and the start of the postseason: a distilled postseason's worth of people getting all hot and bothered over the law, morality, and medical speculation....
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Actually the answer is yes! 🙌
So you missed the lectures just like Brands?
I must have been busy watching you preaching the good news in the courtyard of the ethics class from your rather large bully pulpit. So likely I did miss it. Maybe next time.
How about when you were 24 and were entering your 6th year of service? Did you get the same slack as an 18-year-old E1, or were you expected to have grown up by them? How many of the gambling offenders in these cases were 18-year-old freshmen? Hint: it is the same number of times that Bo Nickal lost to Iowa.
Their careers were not ended. They lost 1 year of eligibility. If they happened to be seniors, tough. But the punishment was not ending their careers, it was 1 year lost.
Somehow the request says NCPsuFan when it should say hlstone. I just found the internet yesterday so forgive me. Sorry!!
This is a very fair point. And I do consider that. I still do not agree with the way this information was found out. It allows NCAA full autonomy impose action against individuals when the information should have never seen the light of day.
If the IRS finds out from the NSA who decides to surveillance me, that I overstated my deductions due to an email etc. then that information was obtained illlegally. All of you who are maintaining the NCAA should continue to have this unchecked authority blow my mind. But we are all allowed to disagree and that’s fine.
For the sake of not ruining my Saturday, I’m going to go golfing with my little 11 year old girl and remove myself from these conversations. Have a good day fellas. Cheers 🍻. NCAAs in two weeks
Three weeks!This is a very fair point. And I do consider that. I still do not agree with the way this information was found out. It allows NCAA full autonomy impose action against individuals when the information should have never seen the light of day.
If the IRS finds out from the NSA who decides to surveillance me, that I overstated my deductions due to an email etc. then that information was obtained illlegally. All of you who are maintaining the NCAA should continue to have this unchecked authority blow my mind. But we are all allowed to disagree and that’s fine.
For the sake of not ruining my Saturday, I’m going to go golfing with my little 11 year old girl and remove myself from these conversations. Have a good day fellas. Cheers 🍻. NCAAs in two weeks
I’ll take a stab at this.
I don’t have all the facts but I’ve consumed much of what has been published and have a good knowledge base in general on gambling and gambling as it relates to college athletes .
Meaning I do not think it’s as simple as they broke the rules therefore ban the athlete forever. And clearly the ncaa didn’t either as they modified the punishment mid stream . One reason people protest is to modify existing rules not to absolve the rule breakers themselves.
I believe the betting that was done was harmless , no point fixing , no inside knowledge was used to change the results of a game etc.. etc.. However I do remember one punter or player who I think bet on the under in a game he played, that would have harsher penalties in my mind than my answer below.
1. Two match suspension for wrestlers.
2. Community service with a gear towards gambling, whether it’s working a hotline or helping gambling addicts in some capacity
3. Participate in the schools gambling presentations to all athletes
I might also add that I’d prevent the athlete from making posts like you see above from Brands were the athlete does not assume 100 percent responsibilities for his/her actions.
I’ll spare you my personal opinions on the NCAA , NCAA rules as they relate to gambling, and I’ll spare you the overall countless statistics on how many college athletes gamble. I’ll just say for me when I put it all in context 1 year is too large a penalty.
Well heck if that’s all those boys did they’d still be wrestling!
Sure people in their 20's are idiots. The only thing they are good for is looking better than people in their 30's and 40's. If i had my way they would all just strike a pose and shut the hell up. It doesn't get them off the hook for their actions.
I use a VPN when I look for porn, and there are no misdeeds to be found in my accounts. I am, however thoroughly impressed by your righteousness.
Nelson Brands is 25 years old with a wife and a house. He’s not a kid in even the broadest interpretation of the word.
Hell, at that age I was living and working in Indonesia. I don't understand 20 somethings living in the basement. The 20s can be the best years of your life before settling down.
Ummm.. I ran a small gambling ring as a college athlete. I sold batches of the football betting tickets.
I was a broke student wanting a few bucks to take girls to dinner and a movie. I knew the risks 🤷♂️
was it really only to take them to a dinner and movie? Be honest with us. We are your friends here.
I only needed the cash to pay for dinner and movie. After the movie... that didn't cost any money. We had a ping-pong table in my dorm and i always had a sleeve of ping-pong balls.
Be honest with us. We are your friends here.
Well... I was the 3rd string punter. 😎
And you know the girls love that guy. The 1rst and 2nd string are ugly. The 3rd stringer is there for photo-ops.
Speak for yourself! I'm better looking at 40 than I was at 20. Just ask my wife.
And my girlfriend
Surgery can be a difference-maker, for sure.
So you are saying he is WildTuck.?
What they were told the punishment would be during their annual training.
What a slacker. At that age, Bo Jordan had a wife, a house, and 2 kids. He did well with the hand he was dealt.
I feel far worse for the seniors who lost their opportunity to compete in the 2020 NCAA tournament due to COVID when every other college wrestler got a free year out of it. Those boys did nothing wrong.
Only surgery I've had is a meniscus scope for my knee. Vasectomy is next followed by Carpal tunnel on my wrists and new boobs for the wife..
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