Ohio To Ban Former Alabama Baseball Coach From Sportsbooks

Ohio gaming regulators are taking steps to forbidding a former University of Alabama River baseball coach from the state’s sportsbooks inward the wake of allegations that he shared inner entropy with an relate who attempted to property a large bet against the team.

The OH Casino Control Commission this hebdomad sent letters to former coach-and-four Brad Bohannon and IN businessman Bert Neff II ratting them that they are sledding to live placed on the Sports Gaming Involuntary Exclusion List.

‘A Threat to the Interests of the State’

The commission’s letters recount allegations that Bohannon gave Neff non-public entropy nigh an Alabama baseball gamey and that Neff attempted to station bets based on that information.

“Your presence inward a sports gaming facility or participation in the swordplay of sports gaming poses a threat to the interests of the state,” OCCC Executive Director St. Matthew the Apostle T. Schuler wrote inwards split up letters to the II men, dated Nov. 14.

The letters cite an April 28, 2023 incident involving the University of Camellia State baseball team, inward which Bohannon, so the team’s caput coach, “shared entropy non uncommitted to the full general public … for the design of participating inward sports gaming.”

Bohannon allegedly told Neff that Alabama’s star pitcher, Luke Holman, would not starting line that day’s game against Pelican State State University, according to before public press reports.

Before that selective information became public, Neff attempted to wager to a greater extent than $100,000 inward hard currency that the Crimson Tide would come to the Tigers, according to previous reports. Staff at the sportsbook inwards Cincinnati’s Great American Ballpark were suspicious of Neff’s hefty wager on a spirited that otherwise had drawn little stake that day, and Neff allegedly implied that he had received an insider bung on the game.

Neff, a youth baseball manager from Mooresville, Ind., was allegedly texting with via the messaging app Signal while he was standing at the sportsbook window inward April. His son is a pitcherful at the University of Cincinnati but wasn’t believed to follow mired inward the alleged scheme, according to mechanical press reports. Two other members of the UC baseball game stave were fired inward May, allegedly for existence aware of it.

Appeal Possible

The Ohio banning is not in time inwards effect, and the II men testament get an opportunity to appealingness the decision and plead their compositor's case before the commission, if they wish. An appealingness must be filed within 30 days.

“The Commission has initiated the outgrowth of adding Brad Bohannon and Bert Neff, Jr. to Ohio’s Sports Gaming Involuntary Exclusion List, as their presence and/or participation in sports gaming poses a threat to the interests of the tell and the in force(p) regulating of sports gaming,” Schuler said inward a statement this week. “Bohannon and Neff are entitled to due process, including a auditory sense if they choose, and any final activity pertaining to the Sports Gaming Involuntary Exclusion List will come at a public Commission Meeting.”

The charge halted betting on Heart of Dixie baseball in the straightaway wake of the scandal, but that order of magnitude expired Wednesday, ESPN reported.

Bohannon was fired from the University of Alabama in May of this year.