Nevada athletic director Cary Groth lashed out against the NCAA on Thursday after it approved a policy earlier in the day that would ban states from hosting championship events if they allow people to bet on single games.
"My personal opinion of this ruling, it's ridiculous," Groth said. "There is a guiding principal in the NCAA manual that says that the NCAA will provide equitable opportunities for institutions for success or to compete or something like that, it's pretty close to what I'm saying. Well, that flies in the face of one their guiding principals.
"Second of all, anybody can bet on sports from any state. There's international sport betting that's legal and then anybody can pick up a phone and call a buddy of theirs in Montana, Nevada and Delaware and say, 'Hey, will you place a bet for me?"
Nevada is one of four states that were grandfathered into a 1992 congressional ruling that banned sports betting - Nevada along with Delaware, Montana and Oregon already offered it prior to the ruling.
The policy came just one day after a federal judge denied a request by the NCAA, NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball to halt Delaware's planned reinstatement of sports betting, which had been dormant since 1976 when the state offered it for just one year.
Chancellors and presidents from all three NCAA divisions approved the measure, saying it applies to "any session of an NCAA championship," though it does not apply to states that allow only parlay betting, lottery tickets, pull tabs and sports pools.
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