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Tom Osborne On sports gambling:

"The overall quality of life (in Nebraska) is really about as good as any place in the country right now. There's speculation it would bring in maybe $100 million in sports gambling, and a 7 percent tax on that would be $7 million. But in the greater scheme of things, $7 million isn't a huge amount, and what's going to happen is you will see an increase in dysfunction, more problem gambling, and as the governor said, the social cost will outweigh the financial benefits.

"It gets to the point where people aren't there to watch a great football game. They're there to win a bet. My experience over the years I was a coach, most of the really negative, nasty stuff that I ran into usually was involved with a fan who'd lost a bet. And I had fans who'd come up and say 'You lost me $1,000' and it was because I put the second team in. ... It will definitely make life harder for the players and coaches."

Tom Osborne On sports gambling:

"The overall quality of life (in Nebraska) is really about as good as any place in the country right now. There's speculation it would bring in maybe $100 million in sports gambling, and a 7 percent tax on that would be $7 million. But in the greater scheme of things, $7 million isn't a huge amount, and what's going to happen is you will see an increase in dysfunction, more problem gambling, and as the governor said, the social cost will outweigh the financial benefits.

"It gets to the point where people aren't there to watch a great football game. They're there to win a bet. My experience over the years I was a coach, most of the really negative, nasty stuff that I ran into usually was involved with a fan who'd lost a bet. And I had fans who'd come up and say 'You lost me $1,000' and it was because I put the second team in. ... It will definitely make life harder for the players and coaches."

That's the part I hate about college betting, those big lines, where the cover typically depends more on how the favorite actually plays out the end of the game than anything.  I'd love to see anything over like 21 points be off the board.  That would help with that.

Tom Osborne On sports gambling:

"The overall quality of life (in Nebraska) is really about as good as any place in the country right now. There's speculation it would bring in maybe $100 million in sports gambling, and a 7 percent tax on that would be $7 million. But in the greater scheme of things, $7 million isn't a huge amount, and what's going to happen is you will see an increase in dysfunction, more problem gambling, and as the governor said, the social cost will outweigh the financial benefits.

"It gets to the point where people aren't there to watch a great football game. They're there to win a bet. My experience over the years I was a coach, most of the really negative, nasty stuff that I ran into usually was involved with a fan who'd lost a bet. And I had fans who'd come up and say 'You lost me $1,000' and it was because I put the second team in. ... It will definitely make life harder for the players and coaches."

this is what I've experienced with legal gambling
I'm not for the government telling me what I can and can't handle, but some families will suffer