College Sports Marketing Departments team with Legalized Gambling Entities to prey upon students

[penlight]

My apologies if this requires a subscription to read.
From my vantage point this is quite disturbing.

How Colleges and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life

In order to reap millions of dollars in fees, universities are partnering with betting companies to introduce their students and sports fans to online gambling.

www.nytimes.com

 

[HRCJR]

If you do not subscribe to the NYT you can read the article here

 

[stl705]

I’d be heavily in favor of restrictions on online gambling advertisements. I’m all for the added revenue it brings, but I personally am disgusted by how willy nilly pro sports have jumped into taking AD $$. Game 1 of world series with a draftkings logo on the mound, what message does that send to kids and young adults?

I haven’t read much into the universities situations but it doesn’t surprise me they’d sell out their students for $$… after all look at how much the cost of tuition has skyrocketed in 20 years past inflation of any other good or service.

 

[penlight]

Guys,
My apologies.
Mentioned within is how Michigan State ($8m) & Colorado ($1.6 m) have inked deals.
University of Maryland & LSU are also mentioned as having deals but no dollar amounts are cited.
It claims that there are 4 other schools with similar deals.
The schools' Sports Marketing Departments are turning over their student email lists that the online gambling companies then bombard with too-good-to-be-true enticements to wager.

 

[ClownBaby]

I’d be heavily in favor of restrictions on online gambling advertisements. I’m all for the added revenue it brings, but I personally am disgusted by how willy nilly pro sports have jumped into taking AD $$. Game 1 of world series with a draftkings logo on the mound, what message does that send to kids and young adults?

I haven’t read much into the universities situations but it doesn’t surprise me they’d sell out their students for $$… after all look at how much the cost of tuition has skyrocketed in 20 years past inflation of any other good or service.

Why? Alcohol ruins more lives then gambling and we see ads for them at all over the place. There is nothing wrong with targeting students they are adults and should be treated as such.

 

[sporthog9er]

Got no problem with this. Nobody is forcing anyone to actually gamble. It's advertising...just like students see for alcohol and other vices.

 

[SiuCubFan8]

Got no problem with this. Nobody is forcing anyone to actually gamble. It's advertising...just like students see for alcohol and other vices.

I have a problem with the University giving them their student email list.

 

[Gene K.]

I had occasion to speak with a counselor who helps alcoholics and he informed me that very often persons with alcohol problems will also have problems with gambling. Many lives and families are ruined by alcohol and gambling addictions. College is to educate (mostly young) people not ruin them going forward.