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Message: [QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 4661060, member: 8594"] Following the rules isn’t the issue. The rules themselves are the issue. Whether it’s major sports or cornhole, there’s no good reason to have a rule prohibiting betting on games an athlete does not and could not influence directly or indirectly. At least, not from an ‘integrity’ perspective. I suspect the problem is that the rule was created before the recent wave of legal sports betting. The NCAA needs to catch up. The NCAA, to my knowledge, does not prohibit athletes from gambling at casinos, online or in-person. If they have this rule to protect the athletes’ financial interests or mental health, or anything along those lines, the rule would not be restricted to sports betting. The rule feels like a moral judgement more so than a practical consideration. [/QUOTE]