{"id":46763,"date":"2025-05-13T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/46763\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:48:13","slug":"ncaa-considering-drastic-change-for-athletes-and-coaches-with-momentum-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/46763\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA considering drastic change for athletes and coaches with ‘momentum building’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The organization is looking into the possibility of lifting its betting ban for student-athletes, coaches, and staff members, with groundwork supposedly being laid last month\"NCAA\"The NCAA has reportedly laid the groundwork for a drastic change to its current betting policy<\/p>\n

The NCAA<\/a> could be on the verge of changing its rules on professional sports betting<\/a> in what would be a huge move for the organization.<\/p>\n

Under the current legislation, student-athletes, coaches, and staff members are forbidden from placing bets on professional sports<\/a>, including football, basketball<\/a>, hockey<\/a>, baseball<\/a>, golf<\/a> and tennis<\/a>, among other things. This means that college football<\/a> players, for example, cannot bet on NFL<\/a> games.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, reports claimed that three men’s college basketball<\/a> teams – North Carolina<\/a> A&T, Mississippi<\/a> Valley State, and Eastern Michigan<\/a> – were under federal investigation for game-fixing<\/a> after sportsbook accounts connected to a gambling ring, also being investigated for betting on NBA<\/a> games, bet against them.<\/p>\n

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In the ensuring chaos, a statement from the NCAA to Sports Illustrated read: “The NCAA takes sports betting very seriously and is committed to the protection of student-athlete well-being and the integrity of competition.<\/p>\n

“The Association works with integrity monitoring services, state regulators, and other stakeholders to conduct appropriate due diligence whenever suspicious reports are received. Due to confidentiality rules put in place by NCAA member schools, the NCAA will not comment on current, pending, or potential investigations.”<\/p>\n

Four months later, however, and the same publication is now reporting that the NCAA is considering a drastic change on its betting ban, having “laid the groundwork for such a rule change last month.”<\/p>\n

\"CharlieNCAA president Charlie Baker could be about to oversee a major change in the organization’s rules on student-athlete betting(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

According to a Sunday report from Sports Illustrated<\/a>, “momentum is building toward the NCAA removing its prohibition against gambling on professional sports”, with the aforementioned groundwork for the move already being forwarded to the D-I Council for further discussion this week.<\/p>\n

The report adds that the move could be “fast-tracked into existence by late June” should the council be in favor, with the NCAA recently voting to \u201cadopt legislation to deregulate the prohibition on wagering on professional sports.”<\/p>\n

A safe harbor, limited immunity, or reduced penalties for student-athletes who engage in sports wagering are said to be on the list of criteria for the proposed move, also allowing for the support of those who “seek help for problem gambling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ahead of this year’s March Madness, NCAA President Charlie Baker<\/a> outlined the \u201cvicious and brutal\u201d abuse college basketball players receive<\/a> as a result of bettors wagering on the post-season college basketball tournament, which was predicted to draw $3.1 billion in legal bets.<\/p>\n

\"AMarch Madness was expected to generate more than $3 billion in bets(Image: AP)<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the first things I did when I got here was a survey of 18 to 22-year-olds around sports betting,\u201d Baker told CBS. When asked about what the main issue has been, he said: \u201cProp betting on college sports.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baker continued: \u201cGo sit behind the bench at one of these conference tournaments and listen to the bettors yelling and screaming at these kids about their performance. \u2018You need to do better! I\u2019m losing money on you!\u2019<\/p>\n

“Or there\u2019s the stuff that shows up online, which we track at our tournaments, which is way more vicious and brutal than that. It really is a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The organization is looking into the possibility of lifting its betting ban for student-athletes, coaches, and staff members,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5270,6030,7,49,48,16104,16105,1418],"class_list":{"0":"post-46763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-football","13":"tag-notre-dame-baseball","14":"tag-notre-dame-basketball","15":"tag-notre-dame-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114500606671358599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}