ISU Gambling Megathread

Jesus Christ neither Campbell nor Pollard deserve even an ounce of blowback from this
You are wrong. Managers are judged upon the people they recruit/hire. You are judged by the company you keep. You are judged upon the results of their performance. At minimum, these are distractions, and how it affects the overall goals.
 
I'm SOOO done with KXNO! All they ever talk about on their shows is gambling. BetFred this, Draft King that. All their shows are sponsored by these online gambling platforms. And people wonder where the players get these freaking ideas.

Even before all this broke in May that ISU was potentially losing players to the gambling investigation, all Miller talks about is his gambling and the sports lines. Heather and Sean haver their betting segment every show also.
Wait till I tell you what CF and Iowa Everywhere is sponsored by
 
Right. Bu they said he wagered $45K. So, in your example he wagered $300. If he’s only betting in those increments, he’d have to make a LOT of bets. You make a good point on some bets have great returns, but those are generally losers.

IMO, to have wagered $45K over the time period, he would have had to put up $25K+ of real money (not just winnings), because it isn’t realistic to think he was a good enough bettor to be able to wager $45K with a small bankroll (no one is).

That’s why I think a.) those numbers are wrong b.) he’s making bets for others or c.) he’s got a sugar mama somewhere to have that kind of cash on hand.
If he got 50% of his bets right at -110 odds he would need to have put in $2k.
 
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You are wrong. Managers are judged upon the people they recruit/hire. You are judged by the company you keep. You are judged upon the results of their performance. At minimum, these are distractions, and how it affects the overall goals.
Couldnt agree more. How dare Campbell not be more thorough in recruiting? He should have asked up front if Dekkers was planning on making a decision that would get him kicked off the team, and if his parents would help hide it. Absolutely unacceptable.

Give me a break dude. Do you expect him to babysit these guys 24/7? There 18-22 year old kids that are going to make mistakes. Nobody is judging Campbell or Pollard on this. Except maybe you.

Using this logic, Jeffery Dahmers high school tennis coach should be held responsible for his decisions too
 
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You are wrong. Managers are judged upon the people they recruit/hire. You are judged by the company you keep. You are judged upon the results of their performance. At minimum, these are distractions, and how it affects the overall goals.

You do understand how sports gambling works, right? It takes all of 10 second to place a bet. You can be at home. You can be in your car. Heck, sometimes I like to do it while I'm taking a ****. How on God's Green Earth do you propose that Matt Campbell should have stopped these 3 people from placing bets from their phone?
 
You do understand how sports gambling works, right? It takes all of 10 second to place a bet. You can be at home. You can be in your car. Heck, sometimes I like to do it while I'm taking a ****. How on God's Green Earth do you propose that Matt Campbell should have stopped these 3 people from placing bets from their phone?
It's obvious. CMC just has to watch everyone when they take a ****
 
People angry at pollard and Campbell are being dumb as hell. The only thing they could really be blamed for is if they didn't educate their people on not gambling or covered it up. Neither of these things happened. Some times people are dumb and do dumb things and the institutional control is punishing them and moving on from them.
 
Isn't he just the auditor? He's just in charge of auditing state contracts and finances.
He would have nothing to do with DCI unless it involved investigating the state government.

I don't want to get political, but look at his party affiliation, compare it to the rest of the state government and then you'd have a pretty good idea of the party affiliation of the people mitchforcy has been talking to.
 
IDK but that's just what someone told me. I would be surprised if that were the case. IDK who this but I did find this tweet. That account seems to be off their rocker though.

Anyone who says they are an "alpha male" is by definition not, and likely insane. The auditor exists to audit the state government. If anything the auditor would be the one to criticize the gambling commission for spending money on this! This is nothing but an idiotic conspiracy theory.
 
I didn’t read this whole thread but just wanted to say, a few young men made incredibly dumb decisions and are paying dearly. Hunter Dekkers went from starting QB at a power 5 conference with the potential to developing into an NFL player to career over. Maybe he will get a chance in arena league.
 
@FancyRex instead of dumbing my post why don't you prove my post to be false?

Here's the Iowa Code if you want to read it. https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/725.19.pdf

see item 2
If you want to keep sending messages because you are butthurt over a dumb rating then go ahead but I’m done with this conversation because I have more important things to do than nurse your injured ego from a dumb rating.
 
You do understand how sports gambling works, right? It takes all of 10 second to place a bet. You can be at home. You can be in your car. Heck, sometimes I like to do it while I'm taking a ****. How on God's Green Earth do you propose that Matt Campbell should have stopped these 3 people from placing bets from their phone?

you are of course correct. There's a limit to this of course (if 50 players were shown to have bet on ISU football, that's almost a lack of institutional control situation)

A handful of players out of a hundred isn't anywhere near fireable IMO.