What would a CFB betting scandal look like; Georgia's transfer portal usage & more 'Dear Andy'
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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In this latest edition of 'Dear Andy' (wherein Andy answers your questions submitted to him via his mailbag on The Athletic or on Twitter), Andy describes what a betting scandal in college football would look like. Why is an entity like the NFL more concerned with exercising a heavier hand against players who gamble on games than those who commit more serious offenses, a la Calvin Ridley? Andy also fields a question about Georgia's lack of transfer portal activity. Plus, which P5 Florida program will rise to the top first?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Andy. |
| 0:09.8 | And before we get to a great set of Dear Andy questions from you guys on a Dear Andy episode, |
| 0:16.5 | I just wanted to correct one thing I said. |
| 0:19.1 | The first question is about the Calvin Ridley case. |
| 0:22.1 | He's been suspended by the NFL. And I misspoke when I was discussing what he is accused of. |
| 0:28.8 | Calvin really, I said, placed a bet. And actually, he placed three bets according to the NFL. |
| 0:35.6 | Calvin himself got on Twitter and said it was for |
| 0:38.3 | $1,500 total. And I misspoke and said it was one bet for $1,500 total. It's actually |
| 0:44.5 | according to the NFL, three bets, according to Calvin early, $1,500 total. Small detail in the |
| 0:51.0 | grand scheme of things, but that does matter. |
| 0:54.4 | And also, one other thing I didn't mention in that answer that I did want to bring up is |
| 1:00.5 | Brian Flores accusing Stephen Ross, the dolphins owner of offering money so that the dolphins |
| 1:07.0 | could tank and get a higher draft pick a few years ago, that obviously would also require |
| 1:12.7 | a pretty harsh suspension. I would think if that could be proven that the other owners would |
| 1:18.8 | probably have to force Stephen Ross to sell the team. Now, I don't know how much of a punishment |
| 1:23.5 | that is exactly because he would get lots of money for the dolphins. And so he would still get |
| 1:29.7 | lots of money. But he would not be allowed to be an NFL owner anymore. I would think that would |
| 1:34.7 | be the level of punishment required if that were true. Now, they've got to prove it. But you'll see when |
| 1:42.2 | we get into that answer, we're talking about basically not just the punishment itself, |
| 1:48.0 | but how that compares to other punishments the NFL dolls out. |
| 1:51.2 | And I think quite a few of you guys would have been going, |
| 1:54.7 | wait, what about Stephen Ross? |
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