Val and Matt discuss how sports gambling has led to mandated injury reports in college sports.
Virginia basketball fans may wonder as to the injury status of Christian Bliss, a four-star point guard who redshirted last year and was supposed to be the point guard of the future. Yet ten games into the season, he hasn’t dressed out once. New coach Ron Sanchez is as maddeningly reticent to talk about player availability as the old coach. Beat reporters know that asking about Bliss’ timeline will not get an answer.
Even Tony Elliott, who I view as one of the most forthright coaches in college football in terms of providing in-depth status updates on injured players every week, has had his moments of being misleading in those injury reports. Earlier this season, wide receiver Trell Harris was listed as “day-to-day” for a few weeks before Elliott finally announced that Harris was undergoing surgery and he wound up missing eight games.
Now, the NCAA, or what’s left of its burning carcass, is trying to stay pure, and resist the siren call of easy money, but we all know that that is a losing prop. If A.J. Dybantsa is getting $7 million this year to play for BYU, every school, everywhere, needs more money.
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