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The influence of Vegas on sports has never been so obvious
Nov 29, 2024, 11:09 PM
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It's almost every game now.
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it's too easy, takes relatively no $$$ to influence a game***
Nov 29, 2024, 11:09 PM
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Re: it's too easy, takes relatively no $$$ to influence a game***
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Nov 29, 2024, 11:11 PM
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As long as you find guys will to think about serving federal time in the pen, lose their jobs, and destroy their own lives, for very little, it should be easy.
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Re: The influence of Vegas on sports has never been so obvious
Nov 29, 2024, 11:10 PM
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I think you're probably wrong about that. You think these refs are committing federal crimes and are all in on it together?
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They can call loose or tight regarding interference, holding, targeting, etc.
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Nov 29, 2024, 11:12 PM
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They can be influenced...as you can see tonight.
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Re: They can call loose or tight regarding interference, holding, targeting, etc.
Nov 29, 2024, 11:16 PM
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We don't know what we saw, if they were influenced, and if so what was the influence.
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Paw Warrior [4848]
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The blatant non calls are easy to see.***
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Nov 29, 2024, 11:19 PM
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Re: The blatant non calls are easy to see.***
Nov 29, 2024, 11:22 PM
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I saw what definitely looked like holding on Georgia offensive line not called at least twice in the last quarter
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Re: I don't think that's what he means ...
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Nov 29, 2024, 11:14 PM
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First of all, the idea of these guys committing federal offenses is no stretch whatsoever. None. Zero.
As for a monolithic conspiracy, I don't think that's what he means, I think he means tampering in particular cases. It's not like bribes need to be all centralized and systemetized. It would be less effective that way anyway.
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Re: I don't think that's what he means ...
Nov 29, 2024, 11:16 PM
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It's not a stretch, but less likely that you think. It's not common.
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Nov 30, 2024, 12:31 AM
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it's not at all less likely than I think. I'm not even necessarily convinced it happened here. My overwhelming tendency when I see poor officiating (which is increasing) is to assume incompetence and dereliction in training by the conferences, and I still think that. But shady stuff is definitely not as low-level of a possibility as the summary rejection about the reference to the violation of federal law indicated. Shady stuff happens very frequently in many sectors of society, and given how much the corporate interests increasingly have at stake for their brands, and Vegas to boot, it's not at all absurd to think refs would do that.
I still on average would say I'm hard pressed to be persuaded in any given instance. But still, it's not even remotely far fetched that some of these officiating clusterF's are stacked decks - even if we don't know for sure which ones.
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Its media money
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Nov 29, 2024, 11:15 PM
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Just listen to the announcers
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Highly unlikely...this would be far more manageable...
Nov 30, 2024, 12:51 AM
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on a Saturday on a lower profile game..still very unlikely..a book wouldn't attempt this btw Georgia had no chance of covering at any point from the 4th qtr on-
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Re: The influence of Vegas on sports has never been so obvious
Nov 30, 2024, 1:16 AM
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Just because refs repeatedly make (or don’t make) bad calls doesn’t necessarily mean the fix is in. It may just mean that they know who pays their paycheck. For what it’s worth to me GT was the recipient of as bad of a PI call in OT as the one called on them in the 4th.
The holding was a terrible no call but I think most refs go blind to holding - it isn’t right but happens far too often.
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