Sports gambling has become a hot-button issue in all of athletics, but its impact on the world of college athletics is coming to the forefront for the Southeastern Conference.
Just five months before Commissioner Greg Sankey opened up SEC Media Days in Dallas on Monday, the conference still was dealing with a major gambling scandal that saw Alabama’s baseball coach fired and sanctioned with a 15-year show-cause order.
With sports gambling legal to some degree in half of the states that house an SEC school, Sankey emphasized the importance of regulation coming alongside legalization of sports betting.
“It’s not good enough for states just to allow legalized sports gambling…” Sankey said during prepared remarks.
