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Gambling Penalties
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| The Super Bowl is arriving this weekend. Some of you may be enticed to participate in activities that would constitute gambling by NCAA standards. This tip will provide you with an understanding as to how serious gambling is and what prescribed penalties have been imposed on individuals in the past. |
| Current Sanctions Include: *The possibility of losing all remaining regular-season and postseason eligibility in all sports. *The possibility of being ineligible for all regular-season and postseason competition for a minimum period of one year from the date of the report. *Multiple violations in regards to gambling will lead to permanent loss of eligibility in all sports. |
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| Over a five-week period, SA placed 25-30 bets valued at $625-$750 on collegiate and professional football contests through a high school friend, who the institution determined is not a bookie. | Eligibility reinstated after the institution withholds the young man for a total of 50% of the season. |
| Student-athlete (SA) wagered approximately $10 on the outcome of a professional football contest. Specifically, SA watched a professional football game with friends at a mutual friends apartment. SA either gave a friend around $5 or did not require a friend to pay for his share of the food for the party. | The institution suspended SA from a regular season contest for the 2004-05 season and required SA to perform 10 hours of community service. Eligibility reinstated based on requiring SA to perform 10 hours of community service. |
| A baseball student-athlete (SA) wagered $20 on the outcome of college football bowl contests. SA provided one of his friends with $20 in order to participate in the pool and then completed his choices of teams to win the bowl contests and provided the same friend with his choices. | Eligibility reinstated with the condition that SA be withheld from the first 10 percent of regularly scheduled contests of the season. |
| Student-athlete (SA), a freshman football SA, engaged in Internet gambling on intercollegiate and professional basketball contests. The Web site indicated that it was "legal." SA used his debit card and established an account. SA bet $365 overall. | Eligibility reinstated based on SA being withheld from all regular-season and postseason competition for a minimum of a period of one year from the date of the institution's determination that a violation has occurred and charged with the loss of a minimum of one season of competition. |
| During the 2003 fall semester, a men's track and field SA solicited bets on professional and collegiate contests. | The SA has been dismissed from the track team and his scholarship has been cancelled. He has been declared ineligible for practice and competition for one calendar year. The SA is ineligible for intercollegiate competition. |
| The SA organized a betting pool on the 1999 NCAA men's basketball tournament and entered himself for $5. He subsequently won the pool of $50. | The SA donated his winnings to charity prior to discovery of the violation. The institution will withhold the SA from the next two contests. |
Freshman SA placed five bets on college and professional football games through an Internet gambling service. |
Eligibility reinstated for the SA , and after he is charged with a season of eligibility. |
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