Mississippi State Athletic Director: College Athletes Will Lose A Year Of Eligibility If Caught Playing DFSPosition Fits With Long-Established Anti-Gambling Policy |
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Daily fantasy sports are legal, but that doesn’t mean the NCAA is going to let athletes under its control play the games, no matter how small the stakes.
Mississippi State Athletic Director Scott Stricklin tweeted Tuesday that the NCAA’s stance on the games, even though they are skill-based, is clear.
“Listening to NCAA’s Oliver Luck speak this morning in Dallas,” Stricklin tweeted. “He reminds that any athlete found to be gambling on college sports (includes daily fantasy such as DraftKings) automatically loses a year of eligibility.”
The comments come not long after the top college football conferences asked the top DFS sites to stop running contests on NCAA football games. The request doesn’t appear enforceable.
According to a report from The Washington Post, the NCAA actually determined a couple of years ago that roughly 20 percent of its athletes play fantasy sports for real money. Enforcing the policy against the games has proven difficult, the report said.
The DFS industry is expected to grow to $2.5 billion over the next four years, and that has prompted individual U.S. states to take a look at the business to ascertain its legality under their respective gambling-related laws. Fantasy sports are explicitly legal by the federal government’s standards.
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