The University of Missouri Faculty Council discussed potential policies that could ban all faculty, staff and students from betting on Mizzou, and any UMSystem, sports Thursday afternoon at Cornell Hall.
While Missouri voters narrowly approved Amendment 2 in the November general election, legalizing licensed sports betting, Missourians are still not able to place sports wagers.
In order for people to place sports bets in the state, The Missouri Gaming Commission has to open license applications for sportsbooks, which are websites or buildings where a gambler can wager on sports competitions.
Online sportsbooks, like Fanatics, DraftKings and FanDuel, have to receive a license from the state in order to accept Missourians’ sports bets.
The commission hopes to have those applications open by mid-May, according to its website.
Pam Bruzina, the National Collegiate Athletic Association Faculty Athletics representative, gave a presentation to the faculty council at its Thursday meeting addressing sports wagering in colleges and the impact it has on student athletes, staff, faculty and the overall student body.
The main proposal Bruzina brought forward was the idea of the university prohibiting students, staff and faculty from betting on Mizzou athletics.
“It’s consistent with some policies put in place by other universities, it’s been a point of discussion in NCAA meetings, in the faculty athletics representatives meetings,” Tom Warhover, MU Faculty Council Chair, said.
Bruzina mentioned Purdue University’s current sports betting ban as one that MU could potentially mirror.
Purdue University’s sports wagering policy prohibits Purdue “faculty, staff, students and independent contractors from placing, accepting or soliciting a Sports Wager (on one’s own behalf or on behalf of others) on any Purdue team, student-athlete, coach, statistical occurrence, contest or event.”
While sports wagering is legal in Indiana, Purdue has implemented this policy as the university calls on its faculty, staff and students to act to a higher standard than what the law requires, the school’s website says.
The Purdue ban includes sports wagers made off of campus and even in other states or countries.
“It’s really more a statement of value in cultures, than, we’re going to be out policing this,” Bruzina said in the meeting.
The proposal would be strictly at the UM system policy level, not needing state legislature, Warhover said.
“This is simply, ‘How do we conduct ourselves at the university?’” Warhover said, emphasizing Bruzina’s point.
The ban was only introduced as a potential proposal at the meeting, and there are still lots of steps the university would have to take for this to happen.
“It’s just an idea at this point,” Warhover said. “There’s nothing firm yet.”
The university would not have to go through state legislature as this is only a policy change, Warhover said.
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