Sports betting has taken the country by storm.
The simple anxiety and hope that a wager, parley, or over/under will or will not hit are changing people all over the country including on college campuses where sixty-seven percent of college students living on campus are bettors, according to the NCAA.
Sports betting is now legal in over two-thirds of the United States, meaning that even more college campuses around the country will have college students engaging in sports betting.
According to the NCAA, sixty-seven percent of college students living on campus are bettors.
In fact, the most common wager amount was between $ 10 and $ 20, with 24.5% of students claiming their largest wager loss in a day was between $ 50 and $ 100.
“I don’t see much issue with betting on college campuses,” states Danica Pedone, a senior CDM major here at Neumann. If you’re an adult who can legally bet, it shouldn’t be frowned upon.”
Sports betting can still be an addiction, but most apps will have restrictions depending on the area that you live in.
Pedone has seen this addiction in full force surrounding some of the people in her life. She believes some people all over tend to have the mindset of, “It’s just a fun game that wins me money sometimes.”
This becomes “very dangerous,” as Pedone describes it. “It becomes scary how someone becomes so obsessed with the thrill.
However, as long as “you’re smart with your money,” she believes there isn’t any harm in doing sports betting.
Pedone categorized herself as more of a safer bettor. She only sports bets if she’s at a professional game or if she likes the odds a lot. For example, a small wager that pays out a decent amount.
If she hits, she’ll cash out, but keep the previous amount she put in back for the next wager. Once she loses, she “won’t play for a while”.
Although Owen Brown, a 3rd year transfer from Camden County College, has a slightly different viewpoint on this issue.
“You can bet on whatever you want, whenever you want.” Said Brown. “It’s become a real problem”.
Brown finds this to make it very hard to catch a gauge on. It’s very “convenient,” which builds the addictiveness.
Being a transfer student, he doesn’t notice much of a difference in the usage of sports betting apps from Camden to Neumann.
“I think it’s the same everywhere you go,” commented Brown. “And it’s only getting worse”.
“Gambling too much and/or too often will never end well,” advised Brown. He says that we need to take sports gambling in moderation. This allows for people to allow the apps to take advantage of you.
Sports betting isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Therefore, we have to live with the consequences and other factors it brings to college students across the country for years to come.
