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What was the DOJ doing in Iowa? -Tom Brands

If one listens to the press conference; brands mentions 56 percent of students bet on sports or some such stat . He is referencing studies done by the NCAA .
Yeah, I heard that too, where is the data from some student poll?

Let's look at what we do know, in Iowa there has been both collegiate and Legal authority criminal investigations, across at least two universities and multiple sports. The result, far from Tom/NCSA's claimed 56%.

Maybe they should go back and take a closer look at his squad, since according to Tom, they must have missed at least 10 more kids.
 
If you really want, maybe we could talk to the State of Iowa and have them reopen the investigation and check out the betting records of the Iowa women's basketball team players. Since they didn't go after females originally, I think that would only be fair.
GIA has its own Compliance Specialist. I'm sure he is leading the charge.
 
Are UNI, Drake considered public institutions funded by the state? I am ignorant of how Iowa does this. If not, that could be an important distinction wrt the investigation.
Is the state of Iowa done with their investigation? Perhaps they're looking into the other universities and sports?
 
Are UNI, Drake considered public institutions funded by the state? I am ignorant of how Iowa does this. If not, that could be an important distinction wrt the investigation.
UNI is public Drake is private. However, the same laws of Iowa apply.

This selective enforcement (not yours) argument is garbage to me. It's like asking the cop why I got pulled over for speeding and not everyone else that was speeding too. The severity of the punishment is a different argument, but if that was already defined then there is less of argument.
 
Yeah, I heard that too, where is the data from some student poll?

Let's look at what we do know, in Iowa there has been both collegiate and Legal authority criminal investigations, across at least two universities and multiple sports. The result, far from Tom/NCSA's claimed 56%.

Maybe they should go back and take a closer look at his squad, since according to Tom, they must have missed at least 10 more kids.
That last part is funny , ie the 10 more kids part .

The how’s, why’s and origin of the investigation should be understood and answered albeit my reasoning isn’t to absolve the guilty .

But I’ll answer you even though I’m guessing you weren’t really asking …

Not 100 percent sure where the 56 percent comes from but if he said 58 percent it comes from an ncaa sanctioned survey. No clue how it was conducted but kids usually don’t tend to incriminate themselves . It was also not a poll of only athletes . The ncaa was going to release an athlete only poll but if they did I’ve never seen it .

The ncaa either doesn’t want to solve the gambling problem(s) or they simply don’t know how.

And fwiw brands is one up on all of us married folks. Cause if the most irrelevant conversation he has ever had with his wife revolves around wrestling and gambling he is a better man than me
 
You made some good points here and i don't agree with you much. Absolute B.S. what happend.

I recently brought up the fact that no women were targeted. I was met with a response of "Women don't gamble" LMAO.
Cherry picking all around.
How do we know no women were targeted. And why would they be. Obviously something happened where someone got caught and started talking or they found out one person was betting on a given site and saw other athletes were involved. That would lead to a targeted investigation and rightly so. Once they found the culprits it's not like they can say hey let's check and see if other athletes were involved they found out about a few and then investigated that's how it works. As far as doj they only reason they could get involved is if inter state issues were involved like betting across state lines illegally. In any event this has nothing to do with anything as nobody to my understanding has been charged except the Iowa State kid NCAA acted accordingly and now people are pissed.
 
Yeah they targeted male athletes at Iowa and ISU.
Because somebody talked it's not like they said let's look at Iowa or Iowa State it just so happened that's where the athletes went and they were male anything else is a bullshit excuse they knew better end of story
 
How do we know no women were targeted. And why would they be. Obviously something happened where someone got caught and started talking or they found out one person was betting on a given site and saw other athletes were involved. That would lead to a targeted investigation and rightly so. Once they found the culprits it's not like they can say hey let's check and see if other athletes were involved they found out about a few and then investigated that's how it works. As far as doj they only reason they could get involved is if inter state issues were involved like betting across state lines illegally. In any event this has nothing to do with anything as nobody to my understanding has been charged except the Iowa State kid NCAA acted accordingly and now people are pissed.
You are just talking our of your ass yet again. I'll just leave it at that.
 
You are just talking our of your ass yet again. I'll just leave it at that.
Sounds like you are the one talking out your ass I offer hypothetical s you on the other hand seem to portray some sort of reality that doesn't exist. Either way betting as a college athlete is dumb as shit and anyone who condones it has their head up their ass no matter what team it is. You are just butt hurt because it's Iowa I get it and I can assure you I'm not talking out my ass
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Sounds like you are the one talking out your ass I offer hypothetical s you on the other hand seem to portray some sort of reality that doesn't exist. Either way betting as a college athlete is dumb as shit and anyone who condones it has their head up their ass no matter what team it is. You are just butt hurt because it's Iowa I get it and I can assure you I'm not talking out my ass
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Do you you even read what you type before you press "Post reply"?
 
I guess you could say Franklin threw some assistants under the bus. Some of them should have been thrown on the bus. When was the last time PSU football had the best assistants? Manny Diaz was not thrown under the bus. When we do get top assistants the SEC poaches them. Alabama, LSU and MissSt have poached our assistants. It would be great if PSU could go out and buy an SEC OC. Georgia has three times the recruiting budget and probably pays coaches a lot more too.

PS. I believe Cael is the highest paid wrestling coach. He probably spends the most on recruiting too. Do you think PSU football should follow that blueprint?
The amount of money required to compete with the top spenders in college football is excrementally higher than to be the top spender in Wrestling. It's like comparing hundreds of pennies to hundreds of millions of dollars. Not even in the same universe.
NOTE: Yes, I know what excrement is.........it just seems so much more accurately descriptive here :)
 
UNI is public Drake is private. However, the same laws of Iowa apply.

This selective enforcement (not yours) argument is garbage to me. It's like asking the cop why I got pulled over for speeding and not everyone else that was speeding too. The severity of the punishment is a different argument, but if that was already defined then there is less of argument.
Who is making the selective enforcement argument? It is the selective investigation argument. If a speed trap was set up and the directive was to check the cars of only black people, white people, women, men, or whatever criteria you want it would be trouble. It was taken further here by setting three criteria. 1. male 2. athlete of a certain sport. 3. attend one of two public institutions. Throw in some tracking without a warrant and see how it plays out. The punishments are handed down and that won't change. There will be civil cases and at least a couple officials fired over this. It was bad form at best and highly illegal at worst how this was conducted.
 
Sounds like you are the one talking out your ass I offer hypothetical s you on the other hand seem to portray some sort of reality that doesn't exist. Either way betting as a college athlete is dumb as shit and anyone who condones it has their head up their ass no matter what team it is. You are just butt hurt because it's Iowa I get it and I can assure you I'm not talking out my ass
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I'm guessing you haven't been following this very closely. You are way off in your guess of how this started. If what you guessed was true it would be no problem. It was quite different. It started with an abundance of extra budget money in a "spend it or lose it" situation. Two rouge officials made a decision based on personal dislike of two Universities to try and hurt particular athletic teams. It was never about protecting the state or ridding us of crime. We have fentanyl flying into our state and young people are dying but this is how we choose to use our money. These two guys will be fired and very lucky if that ends up being the extent of punishment. The state will settle the civil suits for a few million, and things will move on as before. This isn't in any way to me about athletes being suspended by the NCAA. It is about the people we pay to enforce our laws deciding to go on a personal vendetta against a certain portion of our state. Basing an investigation on Sex,race, or religion in Iowa is frowned upon. I would be equally upset if they had decided to only investigate Catholic girls of Hispanic descent who attend private schools. Investigations are to be conducted within the law and for reasons that involve making our state a safer,better place to live. This investigation was neither within the law nor brought about because of a desire to protect Iowa's citizens. This will all be shown if the state doesn't settle before the trial. The surveillance without a proper warrant will be talked about plenty moving forward.
 
UNI is public Drake is private. However, the same laws of Iowa apply.

This selective enforcement (not yours) argument is garbage to me. It's like asking the cop why I got pulled over for speeding and not everyone else that was speeding too. The severity of the punishment is a different argument, but if that was already defined then there is less of argument.
I think you have it backward. The severity of the punishment is a well seasoned legal rule known and accepted for years. I have zero problem with the punishments handed down. If the cops were setting a speed trap with the directives ordered to radar only men driving Ford vehicles you would have an apples to apples argument. I don't think those directives would age well in our courts. When you are the one pulled over and ticketed no cop would ever admit that you were selected based on age,race,sex,religion, or university bumper sticker. This is pretty much what happened here. Keep following the story. What is done is done imo. The NCAA may want to look at the punishments for future violations, but I never expected them to remove a punishment that has been in place and well known. My beef is not at all with how the NCAA handled the information dropped in their lap. I have a big problem with unauthorized electronic surveillance for any reason. It has made some news worth following here in addition to the harvest reports and weather.
 
I have a big problem with unauthorized electronic surveillance for any reason.
Sadly, this is also the most lucrative way of doing business in human history (sometimes with the cover of a TOS, sometimes not).

Regardless—I’m feeling very uninformed about this mess when I read your posts. Got any links to articles that might correct that?
 
Sadly, this is also the most lucrative way of doing business in human history (sometimes with the cover of a TOS, sometimes not).

Regardless—I’m feeling very uninformed about this mess when I read your posts. Got any links to articles that might correct that?
Not a single article. I have personal information given to me from a very reliable source. I trust this source when he tells me some very loose use of the rules opened this thing up. It started very small with two agents in western Iowa. These two agents decided to target certain people based solely on gender and participation in several sports at two universities. This is the start (and finish) to my problem with the whole situation. The idiots should not have been betting on sports and the punishment was previously in place whether it was too harsh or too light isn't my issue. The ACLU and the ADF seldom take the same side on an issue, but this one may unite them. There are a ton of legal experts locally offering to represent these athletes in civil suites. There will be more coming soon enough. Brands was rambling between spit sprays about exactly what you seek. He isn't very polished but he was more or less saying what my friend who sits pretty high in law enforcement told me. Nobody has yet asked the right questions to the right people. A trial would bring those questions under oath which is why this will settle. I expect the criminal charges to be dropped in the near future. He told me " 2 agents will be very lucky if this only costs them a lengthy suspension" The only other thing I was told was it caught traction when they recognized a couple of names and decided to use Geofence for notable athletes to make a splash. They certainly accomplished the splash.
 
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I'm guessing you haven't been following this very closely. You are way off in your guess of how this started. If what you guessed was true it would be no problem. It was quite different. It started with an abundance of extra budget money in a "spend it or lose it" situation. Two rouge officials made a decision based on personal dislike of two Universities to try and hurt particular athletic teams. It was never about protecting the state or ridding us of crime. We have fentanyl flying into our state and young people are dying but this is how we choose to use our money. These two guys will be fired and very lucky if that ends up being the extent of punishment. The state will settle the civil suits for a few million, and things will move on as before. This isn't in any way to me about athletes being suspended by the NCAA. It is about the people we pay to enforce our laws deciding to go on a personal vendetta against a certain portion of our state. Basing an investigation on Sex,race, or religion in Iowa is frowned upon. I would be equally upset if they had decided to only investigate Catholic girls of Hispanic descent who attend private schools. Investigations are to be conducted within the law and for reasons that involve making our state a safer,better place to live. This investigation was neither within the law nor brought about because of a desire to protect Iowa's citizens. This will all be shown if the state doesn't settle before the trial. The surveillance without a proper warrant will be talked about plenty moving forward.
Is there a particular news source that is covering this? It does seem odd that there were zero athletes at other Iowa schools who were caught up in this. I just can't find anything about it.
 
Is there a particular news source that is covering this? It does seem odd that there were zero athletes at other Iowa schools who were caught up in this. I just can't find anything about it.
Dan Hendrickson from WHO 13 has covered it a little. That is why Brands is so pissed. Very little coverage. It also doesn't help that the authorities are of course mum and the athletes themselves are too busy crying to the public that the NCAA is the problem. It will take time but stuff will leak as more law suites are filed would be my guess.
 
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Not a single article. I have personal information given to me from a very reliable source. I trust this source when he tells me some very loose use of the rules opened this thing up. It started very small with two agents in western Iowa. These two agents decided to target certain people based solely on gender and participation in several sports at two universities. This is the start (and finish) to my problem with the whole situation. The idiots should not have been betting on sports and the punishment was previously in place whether it was too harsh or too light isn't my issue. The ACLU and the ADF seldom take the same side on an issue, but this one may unite them. There are a ton of legal experts locally offering to represent these athletes in civil suites. There will be more coming soon enough. Brands was rambling between spit sprays about exactly what you seek. He isn't very polished but he was more or less saying what my friend who sits pretty high in law enforcement told me. Nobody has yet asked the right questions to the right people. A trial would bring those questions under oath which is why this will settle. I expect the criminal charges to be dropped in the near future. He told me " 2 agents will be very lucky if this only costs them a lengthy suspension" The only other thing I was told was it caught traction when they recognized a couple of names and decided to use Geofence for notable athletes to make a splash. They certainly accomplished the splash.
When you post a bunch of sentences together and never a paragraph break it makes it very difficult to read. I want to read what you have to say about this but you lose me after three or four sentences when you don’t break up different points in different paragraphs. I’m guessing that when you come across someone that posts all their sentences together without a paragraph break that even you find it difficult to read. You might even get upset at people that post in a way that makes it seem that they didn’t read your entire post but the way you post without paragraph breaks causes this. Maybe give it a try and see if you find people engage with you better. Because it’s very difficult to get all the way through a long post that contains no paragraph breaks and read every word and every sentence and every point made in a long run on no breaks post. I mean don’t you think it is? Because I think it is and I’m guessing others think so too. We are trained to read brief ideas separated by breaks and when you post without it it makes it difficult to read and comprehend and then you lose your audience which I’m sure you don’t want. Now I’m going to go back and try to read all your posts on this topic but if you could try paragraph breaks going forward then I think those of us that want to read what you are posting would be most appreciative.
 
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Not a single article. I have personal information given to me from a very reliable source. I trust this source when he tells me some very loose use of the rules opened this thing up. It started very small with two agents in western Iowa. These two agents decided to target certain people based solely on gender and participation in several sports at two universities. This is the start (and finish) to my problem with the whole situation. The idiots should not have been betting on sports and the punishment was previously in place whether it was too harsh or too light isn't my issue. The ACLU and the ADF seldom take the same side on an issue, but this one may unite them. There are a ton of legal experts locally offering to represent these athletes in civil suites. There will be more coming soon enough. Brands was rambling between spit sprays about exactly what you seek. He isn't very polished but he was more or less saying what my friend who sits pretty high in law enforcement told me. Nobody has yet asked the right questions to the right people. A trial would bring those questions under oath which is why this will settle. I expect the criminal charges to be dropped in the near future. He told me " 2 agents will be very lucky if this only costs them a lengthy suspension" The only other thing I was told was it caught traction when they recognized a couple of names and decided to use Geofence for notable athletes to make a splash. They certainly accomplished the splash.
Sadly (to the peril of our society), investigative journalism is NOT a lucrative enterprise anymore—if it ever was. I guess we’ll have to pin our hopes on the lawyers for this to come to light. 😬 (apologies, tikk).
 
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Not a single article. I have personal information given to me from a very reliable source. I trust this source when he tells me some very loose use of the rules opened this thing up. It started very small with two agents in western Iowa. These two agents decided to target certain people based solely on gender and participation in several sports at two universities. This is the start (and finish) to my problem with the whole situation. The idiots should not have been betting on sports and the punishment was previously in place whether it was too harsh or too light isn't my issue. The ACLU and the ADF seldom take the same side on an issue, but this one may unite them. There are a ton of legal experts locally offering to represent these athletes in civil suites. There will be more coming soon enough. Brands was rambling between spit sprays about exactly what you seek. He isn't very polished but he was more or less saying what my friend who sits pretty high in law enforcement told me. Nobody has yet asked the right questions to the right people. A trial would bring those questions under oath which is why this will settle. I expect the criminal charges to be dropped in the near future. He told me " 2 agents will be very lucky if this only costs them a lengthy suspension" The only other thing I was told was it caught traction when they recognized a couple of names and decided to use Geofence for notable athletes to make a splash. They certainly accomplished the splash.
I don't necessarily doubt anything you're saying, but...

I've personally had my fill of "trust me, a law enforcement guy I know told me all about it, it will come out at trial, you'll see".
 
I think you have it backward. The severity of the punishment is a well seasoned legal rule known and accepted for years. I have zero problem with the punishments handed down. If the cops were setting a speed trap with the directives ordered to radar only men driving Ford vehicles you would have an apples to apples argument. I don't think those directives would age well in our courts. When you are the one pulled over and ticketed no cop would ever admit that you were selected based on age,race,sex,religion, or university bumper sticker. This is pretty much what happened here. Keep following the story. What is done is done imo. The NCAA may want to look at the punishments for future violations, but I never expected them to remove a punishment that has been in place and well known. My beef is not at all with how the NCAA handled the information dropped in their lap. I have a big problem with unauthorized electronic surveillance for any reason. It has made some news worth following here in addition to the harvest reports and weather.
If you keep saying it, maybe it will become true.
 
Not a single article. I have personal information given to me from a very reliable source. I trust this source when he tells me some very loose use of the rules opened this thing up. It started very small with two agents in western Iowa. These two agents decided to target certain people based solely on gender and participation in several sports at two universities. This is the start (and finish) to my problem with the whole situation. The idiots should not have been betting on sports and the punishment was previously in place whether it was too harsh or too light isn't my issue. The ACLU and the ADF seldom take the same side on an issue, but this one may unite them. There are a ton of legal experts locally offering to represent these athletes in civil suites. There will be more coming soon enough. Brands was rambling between spit sprays about exactly what you seek. He isn't very polished but he was more or less saying what my friend who sits pretty high in law enforcement told me. Nobody has yet asked the right questions to the right people. A trial would bring those questions under oath which is why this will settle. I expect the criminal charges to be dropped in the near future. He told me " 2 agents will be very lucky if this only costs them a lengthy suspension" The only other thing I was told was it caught traction when they recognized a couple of names and decided to use Geofence for notable athletes to make a splash. They certainly accomplished the splash.
What leads you to assert (in the post above this one) that there was unauthorized electronic surveillance?

Also, there is no such thing as participation-based discrimination for the purposes of civil rights law. There is of course a legitimate basis if gender-based discrimination is present, but the fact that only men were charged isn't meaningful evidence of gender-based discrimination, even if statistics supported that more women engaged in online sports betting than men (and of course the opposite is true) while more men were charged.

As I noted above, if selective prosecution is your only legal argument, you have no legal argument.
 
If you keep saying it, maybe it will become true.
Or maybe it just true ..

Honestly though you keep posting college girls don’t gamble regardless of how many times you’re confronted with actual facts.

You can keep saying that but it’s not going to become true .
 
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"I had lunch with Ira..."

"I know for a fact that people are paying people to write bad things about our program."

"The playing field is now level."

"You're not asking the right questions to the right people."

Keep 'em coming, I say.
 
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When you post a bunch of sentences together and never a paragraph break it makes it very difficult to read. I want to read what you have to say about this but you lose me after three or four sentences when you don’t break up different points in different paragraphs. I’m guessing that when you come across someone that posts all their sentences together without a paragraph break that even you find it difficult to read. You might even get upset at people that post in a way that makes it seem that they didn’t read your entire post but the way you post without paragraph breaks causes this. Maybe give it a try and see if you find people engage with you better. Because it’s very difficult to get all the way through a long post that contains no paragraph breaks and read every word and every sentence and every point made in a long run on no breaks post. I mean don’t you think it is? Because I think it is and I’m guessing others think so too. We are trained to read brief ideas separated by breaks and when you post without it it makes it difficult to read and comprehend and then you lose your audience which I’m sure you don’t want. Now I’m going to go back and try to read all your posts on this topic but if you could try paragraph breaks going forward then I think those of us that want to read what you are posting would be most appreciative.
Well in the defense of @James P. Whitters III he did reply to the same post twice. That is two paragraphs.
 
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Or maybe it just true ..

Honestly though you keep posting college girls don’t gamble regardless of how many times you’re confronted with actual facts.

You can keep saying that but it’s not going to become true .
Show me one FACT, just one. All the data I've found is of the age group 18 - 38 or 18 - 44. I want FACTS based on college age, you know, 18 - 22. Show me.

Here's a fact, I have two daughters. One graduated in 2021 and the other in 2022 both from PSU. I asked each of them if they knew any girls that had on-line betting apps and would place bets and neither of them could think of anyone.
 
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