Legalized gambling places unprecedented value on inside information and creates strong temptation to use it. The SEC is considering doing something about it.

Via the Athens Banner-Herald, the SEC might use “availability reports” for football games. Conference commissioner informed coaches this week about the possibility.

Georgia coach Kirby Smart said this about the possibility: “If it helps with gambling then I’m all for it. If it’s geared to getting knowledge out there that people are trying to get from our student-athletes and it protects them, I’m certainly for that.”

That’s the key. People will try to get the information from players, whether by offering them money or otherwise putting them in compromising positions and leveraging them into cooperating.

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