Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame
3/25/2022 8:11 AM
Whose sense of morality do we use to define which endorsements are okay and which aren't?
It's downright silly to be clutching pearls because an NCAA basketball player signed a legal, above-board endorsement deal with a casino during a month in which literally billions of dollars will change hands through various forms of college basketball betting, both regulated and non.
Very funny to me that a completely legal endorsement deal between a player and a Casino is an indicator of foreboding "unintended consequences" of the new system. Meanwhile, the old system led to multiple point shaving scandals and well-documented instances of organized crime working with players to impact black-market gambling outcomes.
You have to have a pretty warped view to see a legal, above board, out-in-the-open endorsement deal as a problem, but a system that led to point shaving and illegal activity as worth fighting to save. We have decades of unintended consequences to look back at with the old system.
Last Edited: 3/25/2022 8:32:34 AM by Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame