SEC College Football Adopts Injury Reports Ahead of Season

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00:00Now, college football is just a couple of weeks away.

00:06SEC football, I don't believe, is on the 24th of August.

00:10I believe it's the following week, Labor Day weekend,

00:11when they get started.

00:13And their sort of view of college football

00:16is going to be a lot different this year, Sam.

00:18You know, they've added teams to the conference.

00:20And what they've also added is an injury report.

00:23And people may be confused with this

00:25because, again, during the week when coaches talk,

00:27you sort of get an idea for who could be in

00:29or who could be out.

00:30But we've seen so many players, Sam, an hour or two

00:34before games being declared either ineligible to play

00:37for injuries or other reasons.

00:40And the Southeastern Conference is diving in and saying,

00:42hey, look, we're going to give you some updates

00:43and more detailed updates on this.

00:46Is it just for sports bettors?

00:49Yeah, I don't think it's entirely for sports bettors,

00:52but it was really interesting in the reporting

00:54that CBS Sports did earlier this week,

00:56saying that mandatory injury reporting

00:58was going to come to the SEC,

01:00which would bring it in line with the Big Ten,

01:02which kind of started to do this last year.

01:05It was really interesting.

01:05They said that the changes

01:06revolved around betting concerns.

01:09You know, in sports like the NFL and the NBA,

01:11you have these injury reports that go beyond

01:14what the coaches say in the middle of the week.

01:16And bettors know who's going to play,

01:18who's not going to play.

01:19But in college football,

01:20a lot of that is really a mystery.

01:22And that's put a lot of the pressure

01:24on the student athletes.

01:25According to the NCAA,

01:2715 to 25% of high-profile college athletes

01:30receive some sort of abusive message related to gambling.

01:34So that's been a big priority for the NCAA.

01:37They actually considered adding injury reporting in 2018

01:40after the Supreme Court allowed states

01:42to legalize sports betting.

01:44In lieu of that decision,

01:45adding injury reporting to create further transparency,

01:48especially because they make so much money

01:50off of the game as well.

01:51So, you know, obviously you want to be consistent

01:53with what you're putting out there

01:55and what you're getting from the sports books,

01:56but they actually declined to do it

01:58sort of at the last minute.

01:59It was a really weird situation.

02:00The Big Ten had really pushed for it,

02:02but then the NCAA seemingly at the last minute

02:04came out and said, you know what?

02:05We have concerns over sharing player data,

02:09player health, all this stuff when they're amateurs.

02:11That certainly didn't stop them

02:13from sharing that data with the sports books.

02:15They have a deal with Genius Sports

02:16that gets all the player tracking data.

02:18So now in this situation,

02:20if the SEC comes out, adds injury reporting,

02:22that would seem to add the kind of extra layer of protection

02:26between the athletes and the sports bettors out there,

02:29because this information is really invaluable

02:31when you don't have it publicly.

02:33And if the SEC does it, the Big Ten's already doing it,

02:36I'm sure the rest of the Power Five would likely follow.

02:38So it's nice to see this kind of no brainer thing

02:41finally get done or close to be done from this standpoint.

02:44And it definitely has some big, big ramifications

02:47with sports betting.

02:49Yeah, people would be paying more attention to that

02:52going into a game than they ever have been.

02:54Real quick, Sam, what did you make of the big fine

02:56given to Bet365, $500,000?

03:01I thought it was just an example

03:02that you have to follow the rules.

03:04A lot of the time, sports books can adjust the payouts

03:07if there's an obvious error on odds.

03:08They do that in so many states.

03:10But New Jersey is one of the few

03:11where you have to get the permission first.

03:13So I think it's an example that, you know,

03:15when you launch a new sports book,

03:16you have to follow every state's rules,

03:18not just kind of, you know,

03:19think that there's a blanket protection for all states.

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