Is this a case of 'be careful what wish for?'. God I hope not. Bookmaker so much better than DK in New Hampshire
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Beacon Hill can't agree whether to include college sports in the bill. Meanwhile, you can go over the border to RI, NH or CT if necessary and bet the college menu. Either way, they'll phuk it up, whereas betting legally in Ma. won't be worth it.Comment -
Betting on college except Mass. teams is included in the bill.
But you CAN bet on Mass. college teams if they get into a tourney, because, players only take bribes in the regular season
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Agreed 100% on them mucking it up.....they muck up everything else. One need only compare the experience in a Mass casino opposed to a well run operation like Foxwoods or Mohegan. At least the sportsbetting tax isn't ridiculous like NY......they're talking somewhere around 20%.Comment -
that part about not being able to bet home college teams is laughableBetting on college except Mass. teams is included in the bill.
But you CAN bet on Mass. college teams if they get into a tourney, because, players only take bribes in the regular season
https://www.masslive.com/politics/20...e-package.htmlComment -
Hard to believe but this WILL actually affect me a bit. The tongue-in-cheek joke around here is "right, everyone is lining up to bet BC or UMass." Well, I can attest that betting AGAINST UMass has been and will continue to be, tremendously profitable. Doesn't matter if the spread is 45 you can pretty much guarantee they won't cover. Guess I'll have to use my old New Hampshire account for that.
Correct me if I'm wrong.... isn't that the way it is in Jersey? No bets on Rutgers? There are a chitload of colleges in Massachusetts, only a couple are FBS level. And if there were ever a case for a team to get relegated back to FCS, UMass is it.Last edited by Natty68; 08-02-22, 05:24 PM.Comment -
stupid ass rules.Comment -
That is the way it works in New Jersey.
No Rutgers for College Football
No Princeton, Rutgers, NJIT for college basketball
The NCAA football futures are priced without Rutgers, literally say NCAAF Championship Winner 2022-23 w/o NJ Colleges
Rule change was on ballot last election, to allow it. It failed.Comment -
Ryan Bamford has decided the FBS specials like UMass at Michigan, Texas Tech and Georgia, for example, far outweigh them going back to play the Delaware's and New Hampshire's of the world. Those big pay days, no matter how brutal the score, balance a lot of athletic budgets, like at UMass, is his logic. To date he's made one good hire, Greg Carvel, who brought them an NCAA Hockey Championship in 2021. But Amherst and Massachusetts are destinations for hockey and that's unfortunately, for Bamford, not a major revenue sport.
No football or basketball player with ANY talent, especially football, will look at UMass, that has a stadium that can't compete with many Texas high school fields.
You'll have to stay offshore if you want to continue to squeeze the UMass cash cow Natty.Comment -
The ONE time they were respectable (the Marcus Camby/Calapari) basketball teams they had to vacate their tourney wins. I understand the cash grab angle for the college presidents but I believe they are putting those kids at serious bodily risk scheduling some of these power 5 schools. Of course the college pres doesn't care....he just cashes the checks.Comment -
And the Cal/Camby thing will likely never happen again, at least like it did. That was pre internet/social media days and Cal somewhat flew under the radar in comparison to how it would go down in the 2010's or 2020's. With instant highlights (You Tube and Twitter and such) someone like Cal exits UMass far quicker than he did back in the 90's.Comment -
Not at all.......Comment -
Yep.
The rule applies to all states.
I can't bet on Yale, or UConn, or Fairfield
If you live in NY you can't bet on St. John's or Syracuse.
If you live in NC, you can't bet on Duke, or Tar Heels...
... you get the point.
This, being 2022 and all, it's time to eliminate all that.Comment -
Whipple is a good coach. He did a very good job at Pitt, but wanted out for some reason, so they made up a retirement story. Then, the next day he gets hired at Nebraska, lol.
Whipple was QB coach for the Steelers under Cowher, but for some reason Tomlin didn't keep him on staff. He was apparently in line to be the new OC for Pitt if Cowher didn't retire, once Whisenhunt was going to get a head coaching job. He'd probably be a head coach in the NFL if Cowher didn't retire.
Interesting how careers are impacted by decisions like that. I bet he hates Tomlin's guts.
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TYPICAL MASSACHUSETTS USELESSNESS.........everyone ready to expedite so the peeps can start betting this Fall, even the the sportsbooks are already built in Boston and Springfield. I mean turn-key ready to go. AAAAAnd of course the two female legislators that were opposed to it are slow playing and jamming everything up. NOW they're saying no betting til 2023. They need to look at this and look at that and blah blah blah. Kinda like a stupid twitch visiting an island and pushing the world to the brink of war just so she could have her petulant childish, look-at-me moment. The world could burn and she COULDN'T CARE LESS. Even the bright pink suit she wore screams egomaniac. This is so focking typical of Mass. They like to make fun of how backward New Hampshire is but THEY had it up and running very quickly.Last edited by Natty68; 08-07-22, 06:22 AM.Comment
