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[doublewing]

Point shaving scandals have occurred a number of times in college sports history - a few of the big ones:

Northwestern's Point-Shaving Plot​

Just days before the 1998 Final Four, Northwestern, known for its academic prowess far more than its athletic acumen, became associated with a shameful point-shaving scandal.
Two former starters for the Wildcats, Kenneth Dion Lee and Dewey Williams (pictured above), were charged with fixing three games during the 1994-95 season. The two were charged with point shaving while they were connected with two other men who paid the players for their attempts at fixing the games. That season the Wildcats finished 5-22.
Both players spent brief time in prison.
Later that year, the Wildcats' football program came under scrutiny after four other football players were charged with perjury in regards to betting on their own games during the 1994 season.

Boston College's Point-Shaving Scheme​

In a point-shaving scandal that significantly trumps the arrangement at Northwestern, three Boston College players became embroiled in a betting scheme conceived by gamblers Henry Hill, Rocco and Tony Perla, and Paul Mazzei. Some had connections to various upper-level gambling circles and some were connected to the mob.
Ultimately, BC players Rick Kuhn, Jim Sweeney and leading-scorer Ernie Cobb were implicated, though Cobb was acquitted of sports bribery and Sweeney was never charged. As the plan went, each player was to be paid $2,500 for each game the Eagles successfully failed to cover the spread throughout various pre-determined games in the 1978-79 season.
In essence, the gambling side would bank on Boston College’s ability to win, but to win by less than the betting line predicted. In total, the group had fixed or attempted to fix nine Boston College games.
After both parties made substantial gains, Hill was eventually arrested and became a government informant in hopes of immunity. Thanks to him, we have this piece from Sports Illustrated in 1981.
Kuhn, the point man on the BC side, was sentenced to a 10-year prison sentence, which was later reduced to 28 months.

Tulane's Point-Shaving Scam​

A point-shaving scandal involving gambling, drugs and thousands of dollars engulfed Tulane’s basketball program in 1985, forcing the president to drop the sport entirely from its athletic program.
Five players, including future NBA center John “Hot Rod” Williams (above) became consumed in the plot to fix two games—one against Southern Mississippi, the other against Memphis State.
Perhaps more damning than the players’ bribery scheme, it was determined that Ned Fowler, then the head coach of the Green Wave, had paid players throughout the season, a clear violation of NCAA conduct. According to the Los Angeles Times, Williams had received $100 dollars a week, but he’d also received substantial cash during his recruitment.
Fowler, two assistants and the school’s athletic director all resigned. The basketball program was eventually reinstated for the 1990-91 season.

1950's Point-Shaving Scandal​

No college point shaving scam has ever been as widespread as what transpired in the early 1950s.
Seven schools, including hallowed programs such as Kentucky and City College of New York (the only team to ever win the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year), and 32 players were implicated in the extensive scheme.
Gamblers bribed dozens of players to shave points, not throw games, a distinction that perhaps salvages some of the players’ pride. In total, the scam involved 86 games, spanning from 1947 to 1950.
Two Kentucky players, guard Ralph Beard and center Alex Groza, were embroiled in the scheme and had their promising NBA careers derailed after the league banned the two for life in 1952. As the final hammer, the NCAA suspended the entire Kentucky basketball program for the 1952-53 season.

Arizona State basketball in the 1990's. Documentary on it called "Hoop Schemes."

 

[Frogsker30]

Point shaving scandals have occurred a number of times in college sports history - a few of the big ones:

Northwestern's Point-Shaving Plot​

Just days before the 1998 Final Four, Northwestern, known for its academic prowess far more than its athletic acumen, became associated with a shameful point-shaving scandal.
Two former starters for the Wildcats, Kenneth Dion Lee and Dewey Williams (pictured above), were charged with fixing three games during the 1994-95 season. The two were charged with point shaving while they were connected with two other men who paid the players for their attempts at fixing the games. That season the Wildcats finished 5-22.
Both players spent brief time in prison.
Later that year, the Wildcats' football program came under scrutiny after four other football players were charged with perjury in regards to betting on their own games during the 1994 season.

Boston College's Point-Shaving Scheme​

In a point-shaving scandal that significantly trumps the arrangement at Northwestern, three Boston College players became embroiled in a betting scheme conceived by gamblers Henry Hill, Rocco and Tony Perla, and Paul Mazzei. Some had connections to various upper-level gambling circles and some were connected to the mob.
Ultimately, BC players Rick Kuhn, Jim Sweeney and leading-scorer Ernie Cobb were implicated, though Cobb was acquitted of sports bribery and Sweeney was never charged. As the plan went, each player was to be paid $2,500 for each game the Eagles successfully failed to cover the spread throughout various pre-determined games in the 1978-79 season.
In essence, the gambling side would bank on Boston College’s ability to win, but to win by less than the betting line predicted. In total, the group had fixed or attempted to fix nine Boston College games.
After both parties made substantial gains, Hill was eventually arrested and became a government informant in hopes of immunity. Thanks to him, we have this piece from Sports Illustrated in 1981.
Kuhn, the point man on the BC side, was sentenced to a 10-year prison sentence, which was later reduced to 28 months.

Tulane's Point-Shaving Scam​

A point-shaving scandal involving gambling, drugs and thousands of dollars engulfed Tulane’s basketball program in 1985, forcing the president to drop the sport entirely from its athletic program.
Five players, including future NBA center John “Hot Rod” Williams (above) became consumed in the plot to fix two games—one against Southern Mississippi, the other against Memphis State.
Perhaps more damning than the players’ bribery scheme, it was determined that Ned Fowler, then the head coach of the Green Wave, had paid players throughout the season, a clear violation of NCAA conduct. According to the Los Angeles Times, Williams had received $100 dollars a week, but he’d also received substantial cash during his recruitment.
Fowler, two assistants and the school’s athletic director all resigned. The basketball program was eventually reinstated for the 1990-91 season.

1950's Point-Shaving Scandal​

No college point shaving scam has ever been as widespread as what transpired in the early 1950s.
Seven schools, including hallowed programs such as Kentucky and City College of New York (the only team to ever win the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year), and 32 players were implicated in the extensive scheme.
Gamblers bribed dozens of players to shave points, not throw games, a distinction that perhaps salvages some of the players’ pride. In total, the scam involved 86 games, spanning from 1947 to 1950.
Two Kentucky players, guard Ralph Beard and center Alex Groza, were embroiled in the scheme and had their promising NBA careers derailed after the league banned the two for life in 1952. As the final hammer, the NCAA suspended the entire Kentucky basketball program for the 1952-53 season.

Can’t forget when Paul crewe was shaving them points

 

[1HuskerDad]

Can’t forget when Paul crewe was shaving them points

 

[HerbRedman]

Brian got thrown a lifeline by his daddy because he really doesn’t want to fire his son which is understandable because it’s his son. If I remember right he has to reach 28 points a game next year which would still be a shitty offense. I don’t think this alleged gambling scandal has anything to do with it.

It's 25 pts! LOL

Brian Ferentz gets pay cut & points per game incentive added in contract

Cockeye offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz had a 5.5 percent pay decrease and now has incentives for the Hawkeye offense to score at least 25 points per game, acc

cbs2iowa.com

 

[HerbRedman]

It could be true, but it is more likely than a conspiracy theory arising from the fact the Cockeye offense was historically bad - what could explain that, I wonder? Must be they were intentionally bad. Can't be the fact that they didn't, for example, have any WRs.

I'm just saying, as an Cockeye hater I'd rather it be true that the offense & Brian Ferentz are truly THAT BAD.

That's the worse reality for Hawkeye fans IMHO. Getting a couple guys suspended and a slight gambler stigma attached to the program (that most people will probably forget) is not that bad an outcome.

 

[Carm]

this excerpt from a story in The Athletic about recent events, the timing of the rumors and how things are detected strongly suggests to me it is Cockeye baseball, not football​

The SEC, Big 12 and Pac-12 are among the college sports groups that have contracted with U.S. Integrity, which was founded in 2018. The company, which also partners with the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB and UFC, works with sportsbooks to monitor numerous factors that could generate a red flag, such as an abnormally large bet or the history of a bettor and their account. If a red flag pops up in U.S. Integrity’s computer system or a sportsbook reports suspicious activity, warnings go out to state boards and sportsbooks to look into it.

Holt said his company’s system flags 15 to 18 incidents per month, resulting in an average of 10 suspensions or arrests per month.

A scandal happening in college baseball was not a surprise to people in the gambling world. While large-scale bets around the biggest sporting events like March Madness and the College Football Playoff garner the most public attention, smaller sports are equally vulnerable. A large bet on a low-profile game instantly raises suspicions at the sportsbook level.

“You learn there’s a lot more gambling on volleyball, softball, baseball,” Sankey said last month.

Holt said college softball has seen a spike in money wagered after March in recent years because the softball season runs beyond the NCAA men’s basketball tournament’s early-April conclusion and just as the NBA and NHL move into their postseasons. Bettors need new action, and smaller sports provide new opportunities.

“A big misnomer is that these match-fixing or game-manipulation or misuse of insider information schemes are big multi-million dollar schemes. That’s the biggest misnomer of all,” Holt said. “Oftentimes, these are a couple thousand dollars with student-athletes who are in a vulnerable position at the time. It’s almost never some multi-million-dollar scheme. It’s almost insignificant money, like $1,500, $1,200 to manipulate certain portions of matches of the activity or to provide certain information not available to the public.”

The rise of prop bets and in-game betting opens up far more possibilities of scandal, anything from a quarterback throwing an interception to missed free throws. Holt said e-sports and tennis are the biggest outliers; tennis gamblers can bet point-by-point.

“You don’t have to fix a game. That’s passé,” Keith Whyte, executive director of the National Council of Problem Gambling, said on the Lead1 panel. “You just have to fix a particular play. It might be missing a shot, hitting a shot, getting a foul on a particular play, something that is utterly undetectable.”

In 2018, English soccer player Bradley Wood was banned from the sport for six years after a tribunal ruled that he intentionally committed two yellow card fouls and had told people ahead of time. Winning bets on him picking up the fouls paid out around 10,000 British pounds.

 

[Carm]

The article also said US Integrity just launched a new program last Friday that allows

a league or team to submit a list of players, coaches, staff and others into an encrypted database. If any of those names attempt a bet with a domestic sportsbook that uses U.S. Integrity, it’ll instantly be flagged.

 

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@Yolo Bomb did some investigating

I love sports betters. Have yet to meet one that loses consistently. They can all outsmart Vegas.

 

[LoudHogRider]

If Spencer Petras is driving around in a new Maserati then this all checks out.

That may be the most disturbing avatar I've seen on this - or any other - board in quite some time. Congrats????

 

[vailhusker]

Can’t forget when Paul crewe was shaving them points

 

[Cash68847]

I'm just saying, as an Cockeye hater I'd rather it be true that the offense & Brian Ferentz are truly THAT BAD.

That's the worse reality for Hawkeye fans IMHO. Getting a couple guys suspended and a slight gambler stigma attached to the program (that most people will probably forget) is not that bad an outcome.

You know especially in those early games Cockeye is going to do everything they can to score points. Even if they are up by 20 late they will probably leave the starters in trying to score more. Cockeye being Cockeye it probably won’t matter though.

 

[Wasatch Husker]

Irving says hello.

 

[HuskeRuss]

Irving says hello.

That's why Irving fryer should never ever be welcome back in the stadium that was so obvious it's ridiculous. He cost us a national championship

 

[HerbRedman]

That's why Irving fryer should never ever be welcome back in the stadium that was so obvious it's ridiculous. He cost us a national championship

Correct

 

[Kaladin]

Wow how am I just hearing about this Irving Fryer stuff

 

[Pepe Silvia]

That's why Irving fryer should never ever be welcome back in the stadium that was so obvious it's ridiculous. He cost us a national championship

Nebraska scored a TD 2 plays later, so unless Fryar did something else besides that drop it ended up having no impact on the game

 

[doublewing]

Cockeye is an OG school when it comes to point shaving. He wasn't convicted of anything, but Ronnie Harmon fumbled 4 times and dropped a TD pass in their Rose Bowl loss to UCLA in 1986. Ex mafia member Michael Franzese said he was on the take years later.

 

[God is a Husker]

@22*43*51

 

[MtnHusker]

That's why Irving fryer should never ever be welcome back in the stadium that was so obvious it's ridiculous. He cost us a national championship

Didn't Mike Rozier also admit that he had beers with an agent on game day before the game?

 

[CybrrMonky71]

Irving says hello.

That's why Irving fryer should never ever be welcome back in the stadium that was so obvious it's ridiculous. He cost us a national championship

Nebraska scored on an electric Gilll/Smith option run a couple couple plays after this
But my dad (farmer who really didn’t follow football) immediately when Fryar dropped that pass said “he dropped Thst on purpose”
My 12 year old brain at the time couldn’t wrap my head around that & argued with him about it
He was right, it was intentional

&it’s just as obvious Nevraska has been tanking mens sports for the last near decade
The way we have lost & never cover the spread is as close to a sure thing in sports as there has been