Greg Byrne speaks about Alabama betting scandal, says integrity can’t be questioned
By Keith Farner
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Greg Byrne broke his silence Wednesday about the Alabama baseball scandal, and reiterated that anytime there’s a challenge at hand, you try and gather the information you can. Then deal with it appropriately with the information available.
Byrne said the Alabama players have handled it well even though the news came out on a game day. And the Alabama athletics director said he has no evidence that players were involved a week after baseball coach Brad Bohannon was fired following bets on Alabama baseball being halted in 3 states.
“Gambling, and the acceptance of it has changed dramatically, right,” Byrne said. “With online gaming and that’s a societal decision, a societal issue, and we obviously have a lot of things that we train our student-athletes, our coaches and our staff on an annual basis. I do thing from an integrity standpoint within the game, to make sure our student-athletes, our coaches, our staff understand that there has to be a separation there.”
Byrne noted that some schools have embraced gaming outlets, but Alabama hasn’t as much.
“There just can’t be any question from an integrity standpoint that we understand there has to be a separation,” he said.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
