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Is it a combination of both?
But we've got Senator Ted Cruz from Texas saying that he wants to have a hearing about sports integrity in the wake of Brendan Sorsby, who was the quarterback who had just
transferred in the portal to Texas Tech and was getting a bag.
He has entered a gambling rehab facility for bets that he was making when he was a red shirt at Indiana.
Today, news from David Perdom at ESPN that Tara Rozier, new files being charged by federal prosecutor, new charges being filed by federal prosecutors saying that Tara Rozier solicited and accepted bribes
as part of his gambling scheme.
Simon, do you feel like, let me go to the original question, because these are all related to the same thing.
Is it opportunity leading to more bad actors?
Is it more bad actors being caught because of the tracking?
From your point of view, which direction do you think it leans in in terms of a weight?
Well, it's interesting to me, the Sorsby story and the Rozier story.
feel like two sides of the same coin.
Sorsby is about accessibility, meaning he was able to admittedly make many, many, many, many, many bets to the point where it became a problem for him because of all of a sudden the access to being able to bet on your phone, right?
The Rozier thing is different because that was about
him manipulating allegedly and working with other parties who wanted to profit off of that manipulation, that's kind of an old school scam, right?
Like that's going back to the days of baseball being invented in 1876 and guys getting paid to throw games in 1877.
And that's been around forever.
The argument about
the ability to track that stuff and identify that stuff, that's directly related to Rozier.
We know why that was discovered.