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Message: [QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 2718713, member: 1026"] This is a college hoop board and somehow the legalized gambling debate has morphed into a discussion of the long term health benefits of pot and analyzing demographic data to win most detrimental impact on lives theory? I think there is a real good chance that legalized sports betting brings us closer to paying NCAA athletes and/or helps bring down the NCAA. The NCAA and schools are able to box out players from TV and advertising revenues and came up with not using players actual likeness as the forearm to the chest in this box out. And there simply no way to get to the rim from there, players cannot sell their own likeness or access TV or advertising dollars in any meaningful way (signing autographs is about it and its small potatoes) But these gambling revenues are big, widespread & likely more insidious $$ and when the large stakes become known it'll be very hard to have players living modest college existences not try to cash in. Previously a gambling conspiracy needed to involve lots of people, most of whom were criminals. Now you can essentially do it yourself or with one other person involved tops. Way easier and way harder to catch or prove. Similarly refs in all sports pro or college are going to be really tempted. Need to study how they keep things on the up and up in other countries. [/QUOTE]