Kelly: LSU’s injury report result of sports betting

BATON ROUGE, La.– LSU has a brand-new, more “transparent” injury reporting policy that football coach Brian Kelly described Thursday as a “proactive” action to the proliferation of legalized sports betting.For Kelly, one issue is the specter of gamblers hounding football personnels for insider information.”I’m not saying that happened.

I’m not stating that would occur,” Kelly stated. “I think it’s much better to be proactive in those scenarios and take away even the temptation to even have that in this building and not be that next school that goes down that path.”Editor’s Picks 2 Related The new LSU policy comes on the heels of

criminal charges against existing

and previous Iowa and Iowa State athletes– including Cyclones quarterback Hunter Dekkers– that stemmed from betting investigations at those schools.Some of the Iowa and Iowa State players allegedly utilized online gaming accounts established under other names to place

bets on games, consisting of those involving their own teams.Kelly regularly has been upcoming in the past about different players’ injuries when asked, however said he desired a more consistent policy moving forward.”I thought it was necessary given the nature of what’s going on today out there relative to reporting and video gaming,”Kelly said after the Tigers’opening practice of

training school. “We wished to make certain that we were transparent with injuries, not putting any pressure on anybody here to guess who’s in, who’s out for a provided game.”Kelly said LSU’s injury reports will be launched twice during the game weeks and look comparable to NFL injury reports.”When we get to Saturday, if someone is uncertain, we’ll give you’readily available,’or’unavailable,'”Kelly said.Kelly stated his personnel currently has talked about that no one should even have a gaming app on their phone– one factor being that cell phones have geographical locators on them.”There should not be any of those(apps)on any of our players’phones or anyone in this building, “Kelly said.Kelly likewise minimized the possibility that, without consistent reporting rules across college football, LSU might be at a tactical drawback on the field by being more upcoming about injuries in the days leading up to games.Kelly stated the capability to keep challengers in the dark about certain players ‘availability is “overrated.””I can’t inform you the number of times we didn’t understand a specific quarterback was playing. You have actually got to adjust on the fly,” Kelly said.”So, I believe it’s much ado about absolutely nothing, and I believe we angst over the littlest things that don’t truly impact the game and make too much of it.”I do not want it to be a circumstance where it triggers something to the point where somebody loses their job or somebody loses eligibility,”Kelly added. “I suggest, that’s a larger issue than, well, we got a tactical benefit today due to the fact that we found out he was playing.”