Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) agrees with NCAA President Charlie Baker that collegial player props shouldn’t live allowed at regulated sportsbooks.

In late January, the NCAA submitted a asking to the Ohio Casino Control Commission (OCCC) asking the body politic gaming regulator to amend its sports betting rules to prohibit participant props involving college athletes. The nonprofit organisation that regulates athletics at over 1,000 colleges and universities believes college player props threaten the refuge of student-athletes.

On Friday, DeWine issued a statement inward agreement.

One year into sports play inward Ohio, we get seen a market develop where a figure of unfit actors get engaged inwards unaccepted behavior by making threats against student-athletes inwards Ohio and across the country,” DeWine wrote. “By amending rules to sharpen bets on the team up and away from single athletes, i trust we can improve the market place in Buckeye State and break protect student-athletes from unnecessary and potentially harmful threats.”

Baker, in a Jan 31 letter to the OCCC, which regulates casino sportsbooks and their third-party online sportsbook platforms, said “sports betting without appropriate controls poses tangible risks to the well-being of student-athletes and the wholeness of collegial competition.” Those risks, Baker explained, are heightened by case-by-case player props.

Regulator Fielding Comments

The OCCC acknowledged receipt of both Baker and DeWine’s letters in keep of amending the state’s allowable Event and Wager Catalogue. The regulator said it would admit comments from its licensed sportsbooks on the dependent until February 12.

Legal sports betting in the Buckeye State began on Jan. 1, 2023. Oddsmakers took to a greater extent than $7.65 one million million inwards bets during the year and kept $937 jillion on a take hold place of or so 12%. The state’s sports gaming revenue describe doesn’t specify how much of the palm and 144 income retained past the books was generated by college player props.

DeWine and Baker’s supporting deals only if with college sports, non professional sports. Both men said they’ve been told past university officials nigh college athletes beingness “harassed” by bettors via societal media.

During his January “State of College Sports” address, Baker highlighted the importance of student-athlete safety inward the backwash of expanded sports gambling. Baker announced the NCAA’s contracting of the Signify Group and the company’s Threat Matrix tool to study, detect, and respond to online insult and threats made against players, coaches, and officials.

The NCAA’s encompass of effectual sports play is on the shape that such wagering doesn’t jeopardize the wholeness of the sports it sanctions. Baker and NCAA plaque believe player props allow for the door unresolved to badness actors sounding to gear up an outcome or threaten, harass, or assault a player who doesn’t do as they wish.

College Player Prop Legality

Nearly 40 states hold sound sports betting, with nearly all allowing bets on college sports. Many states uphold to take into account college participant props despite the NCAA’s strict opposition.

Along with Ohio, allowable college player prop states include Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, and Wyoming. Washington, DC sportsbooks tin can also facilitate college player props.

College participant props are also allowed inward Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, so long as the players included inwards the prop don’t child's play for colleges set inwards those states.