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Big Ten official allegedly tied to gambling, abuse

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BuckeyeParalgl;1032420; said:
I think the most damning thing about this guy is not that he filed bankruptcy. People file bankruptcy all the time. That's no big deal. What is a big deal is that this guy's liabilities were over $400,000, with a lot of it being owed to casinos. Wow. That's a gambling problem. The article says that the guy never had money on games he called, and I just hope that holds up. If he did bet on games, that's the only thing that could make this thing worse.
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Agreed, but I'll take it half a step further.

Any gambling debts are unacceptable for an official of any sports contest that attracts gambling interest.

As with any debt, you need to think about:
  • To whom you owe the money *yikes*
  • What might they ask you to do to make good on it...
If you have enough neurons to make a synapse you'll see that it doesn't need to be any worse than having gambling debts for this to be very, very serious. This is a situation where anyone who "should have known" needs to be fired. Yesterday.
 
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BuckeyeParalgl;1032420; said:
I think the most damning thing about this guy is not that he filed bankruptcy. People file bankruptcy all the time. That's no big deal. What is a big deal is that this guy's liabilities were over $400,000, with a lot of it being owed to casinos. Wow. That's a gambling problem. The article says that the guy never had money on games he called, and I just hope that holds up. If he did bet on games, that's the only thing that could make this thing worse.
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It is not necessary for him to have money on games he called. Instead, the wiser path is to let your associates bet on the game and then collect a fee or obtain debt forgiveness for calling it a certain way.
 
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NastyDogg72;1032441; said:
It is a bitter enough pill to swallow that we lost that game as it is. If that loss would have cost tOSU a title shot with how bad the officiating was and with what is coming out now we would have a huge black cloud hanging over our conference right now.

Along these lines alot of WVU fans that I have been talking to online have been throwing around some stories about an investigation into some very suspicious bets placed at the last minute on the PITT - WVU game, one was for 2 million dollars alone. I'm going to do some digging around and see if I can find some more info but apparently the Big East has been investigating since the day after and has been looking into possible official and player connections. I had passed some of it off as the WVU fans disappointment over Rich Rod leaving, but this development sure makes me think this wouldn't shock me at all now.
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I don't know what the WVA folks think, but in the 4th quarter of their game with Pitt I thought WVA got one call after another. As I watched I thought the Big East officials were doing there best to get a Big East team in the NC Game. WVA lost to a 28 point underdog dispite the help from every call made.
 
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stowfan;1032550; said:
I don't know what the WVA folks think, but in the 4th quarter of their game with Pitt I thought WVA got one call after another. As I watched I thought the Big East officials were doing there best to get a Big East team in the NC Game. WVA lost to a 28 point underdog dispite the help from every call made.
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Two holding calls against Pitt come to mind. One caused a Pitt TD run to be called back and the other nullified a Pitt run for a first down in the 4th quarter when they (Pitt) was trying to run out the clock......
 
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It was pretty obvious that the refs in the Illinois-OSU game were trying their damnedest to give Illinois the game. I still cannot forget the series of blatantly missed holding calls against Illinois on 1st and 2nd down before a ref was basically forced to throw a flag on 3rd down because Tressel gave him an "evil" eye. I cannot forget it for two reasons: the terrible calls... and, more importantly, how freaking awesome our defense is to STILL stop Illinois.

I had my suspicions then... and this more than vindicates them for me. I give all the credit in the world to Illinois, but castrate the jerks responsible for "fixing" that game.
 
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Multiple penalties on Purdue on one drive alone, caused Tiller to literally hold his nose on the sideline.

Late in the game - with clock time being critical to Purdue's chance of staging a comeback, Purdue receiver runs out of bounds - officials do not stop the clock. Precious seconds countdown while Tiller and crew try to get attention of officials to call TO.

Others probably that I have not listed.
 
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