New Jersey State Sen. Kristin Corrado presented legislation today that would forbid sportsbooks in New Jersey from using or accepting wagers on player-specific proposition bets in college sports.

Corrado sponsored S-3080 with the belief that "proposal bets have actually led to an increase in the harassment of student-athletes and have threatened the stability of college sports." She likewise stated that she has actually "become aware of many people who have been the victim of online harassment because they didn't perform to the expectation of a wagerer" and that she hopes the bill will help suppress that "terrible behavior, and make college athletic occasions much safer for all participants."

New Jersey sports wagering is among the most popular markets in all of legal sports wagering. Sportsbooks in New Jersey simply set state records for sports betting handle and income numbers in January, earning $1.7 billion and $170.8 million respectively.

New Jersey would sign up with a growing list of states that have carried out restrictions on college gamer props. Ohio, Maryland, Louisiana, and Vermont eliminated them from their sports wagering brochures in the last couple of months.

NCAA urging all states

NCAA president Charlie Baker has actually been crusading versus college player props, mentioning harassment of student-athletes, coaches, and officials as a risk to the sanctity of college athletics. He released a declaration in late March getting in touch with all states to ban college prop bets "to secure student-athletes and to secure the stability of the video game."

With sports banking on the increase, the NCAA is acting to protect student-athletes from harassment and working to secure the stability of the video game - today reveals why it's so important to act. pic.twitter.com/krATwpS4hZ

Baker also verified this week that the NCAA has a third-party company that's offering social media monitoring to identify and respond to instances of harassment.

"If they see anything they believe is inappropriate, they inform the platform and ask them to shut those people down," Baker told reporters at Monday's males's basketball national championship. "If they see things that they're really worried about, they alert the authorities. Which's occurred in a couple of circumstances."

Montana is bucking the pattern and has respectfully declined the NCAA's request to prohibit college player prop wagering. The Montana Lottery was called by the NCAA in early April regarding the organization's campaign to prohibit college player prop wagering. Montana Lottery director Bob in a letter on April 3 saying that the state supports the NCAA's efforts to suppress student-athlete harassment, however they are not ready to take college gamer props off the board at the Sports Bet Montana.

Here's the letter. The Montana Lottery spoke with the NCAA last week and states it supports the company's efforts to lower harassment of student-athletes by sports wagerers. However, Brown states Montana has actually not seen any of the issues that might have taken place nationally. pic.twitter.com/PXv9J4J3S3

With Montana's courteous refusal, there are still 20 states that use college player props in some kind in their wagering brochures: Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Scope of the problem

As legal sports wagering grows throughout the United States, so has public image problems and the prospective harassment of college athletes is not an excellent look for the market.

Armando Bacot, a star for UNC males's basketball, informed press reporters after his team's second-round win over Michigan State that he "overcame probably 100 DMs from individuals simply telling me like, 'you suck, you didn't hit the over!'"

He even said that a DoorDash shipment person complained "y' all screwed up my parlay."

Interactions like this are exactly what Baker and the NCAA want to eliminate from the world of sports that now has legal sports wagering extremely intertwined. According to a report from investment banking firm Citizens JMP Securities, nearly $200 million in yearly video gaming earnings might be "at risk" with extra college player prop wagering bans. College sports accounted for $1.6 billion of U.S.