Here’s Video of the South Carolina Safety That Blew a Cover and Cost Gamblers an Estimated $30 Million

All, College Football, Gambling, Video Jason McIntyre October 15th. 2011, 4:50pm

South Carolina was favored by 3.5 at Mississippi State today, and considering the Bulldogs hadn’t won a game in the SEC yet this season, the betting public loaded up on the Gamecocks. Leading 14-10 with :04 left, the Gamecocks faced a 4th down from their own 4-yard-line.

QB Connor Shaw ran out of the back of the end zone as time expired, resulting in a safety and a 14-12 win for South Carolina. RJ Bell, who runs PreGame.com, estimates that the safety cost gamblers $30 million.

An estimated $50 million was bet on the game worldwide (estimated $40 million on S.C and $10 million on Miss St.) Meaning the safety on the last play COST bettors an estimated $30 million dollars!

Previously: A Day After Stephen Garcia is Kicked Off the Gamecocks, Here Come the Point Shaving Rumors

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31 Responses to “Here’s Video of the South Carolina Safety That Blew a Cover and Cost Gamblers an Estimated $30 Million”

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AssaultWithAConcreteDildo Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 4:52 PM
And to think people were speculating that Garcia was point shaving…
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PL StabbinKabin Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 4:56 PM
And to think people were speculating that Garcia was point shaving…
I was right behind with this here. Wow, that was bad.
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Breesus Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 5:20 PM
It was the right call. Fuck the gamblers.
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Jason Lisk Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 5:32 PM
It was the right call. Fuck the gamblers.
exactly, and if you lose a cover on a last second strategic safety, then it wasn’t that great of a pick to begin with.
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TheBigLead Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 5:44 PM
It was the right call. Fuck the gamblers.
Breesus, as usual, is short and sweet.
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FredSanford Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 5:45 PM
That this is being discussed shows what is wrong in college football.
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scripty Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 6:02 PM
There’s a guy out there somewhere who was 4-0 on the day and had this as his 5th pick in a 5-team parlay. Oops.
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Breesus Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 6:02 PM
I would never place a bet on South Carolina. You NEVER know what you’re gonna get week in week out.
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RolloTomassi14 Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 6:09 PM
you always hear of this shit crushing someone’s bet. but what if you’re the guy with money on MSU? isn’t this your greatest gambling story ever?
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Breesus Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 6:09 PM
That this is being discussed shows what is wrong in college football.
Still more relevant than Tim Tebow
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FredSanford Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 6:11 PM
New QB and Lattimore going out had nothing to do with it.
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Breesus Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 6:15 PM
New QB and Lattimore going out had nothing to do with it.
South Carolina could play Mississippi State 4 times and they’d split and the final scores would be 13-10, 51-44, 47-10, and 58-0.
/explaining comment 8
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rondoman Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 6:19 PM
People wonder why football is the most popular sport in America.
One word: gambling.
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traderjack21 Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 6:34 PM
I have no sympathy for gamblers.
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ButtersBC Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 6:35 PM
you always hear of this shit crushing someone’s bet. but what if you’re the guy with money on MSU? isn’t this your greatest gambling story ever?
indeed, i still tell tales of the time i hit a winner in a bowl where the qb was told to take a knee inside the 5 but his teammates convinced him to run a play and they scored
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scripty Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 6:35 PM
TJ? /
The guy who beat those people in McDonald’s has been arrested and fired.
End TJ/
#occupyWacarnolds
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Gaseous Clay Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 6:53 PM
#occupyWacarnolds
you can’t seriously think it was OK to continue hitting those women with a piece of metal after they were already down and out, right?
Whatever your thoughts on the initial part of the situation, he continued to hit those people well after they were hurt badly. That’s why the fat lady was screaming stop so loud, because he was going to beat them to death if he didn’t stop.
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Breesus Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 6:59 PM
#occupyWacarnolds
Your issue is probably with the police. McDonalds didn’t arrest him.
Also, what Clay said.
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Breesus Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 7:02 PM
And I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: this LSU team could beat 2003 and 2007 combined. It’s the best LSU team of my lifetime and there a very real chance that they won’t play for the NC.
Football is a lot about luck and Karma.
Also, if I’m not mistaken, LSU hasn’t turned the ball over since the 4th quarter of the Mississippi State game.
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Bob Chipeska Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 7:12 PM
Your issue is probably with the police. McDonalds didn’t arrest him
but they fired him.
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Breesus Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 7:15 PM
but they fired him.
Because he now has a criminal record.
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Gaseous Clay Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 7:15 PM
but they fired him.
because in their store, on video, he assaulted someone (2 someones) with a deadly weapon, in a demonized rage. He wouldn’t come to his senses and stop beating them even when people were screaming at him to do so. It’s pretty easily argued that he was attempting to murder them. So yeah, grounds for termination.
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Gaseous Clay Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 7:16 PM
Because he now has a criminal record.
that dailymail link above says he’d only recently gotten out of jail after serving 10 years for manslaughter.
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Breesus Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 7:20 PM
that dailymail link above says he’d only recently gotten out of jail after serving 10 years for manslaughter.
I didn’t read it and I didn’t want to assume he had one, but I suspected as much.
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Full Point (1000) Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 7:36 PM
So yeah, grounds for termination.
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorence on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon…
/costanza’d
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pigskin28 Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 10:06 PM
So this is what it’s come to. Calling out College players because drgenerates lost money on bets? Weak.
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Wide Word of Sport (?) Says:
October 15th, 2011 at 11:54 PM
That this is being discussed shows what is wrong in college football.
Nothing is wrong with it… you just grew up
/Dirt
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pigskin28 Says:
October 16th, 2011 at 12:19 AM
It’s obvious that the mcd’s employee went well above reason in “defending” himself.
I was gonna post to that effect, then it struck me. Cops can pull a gun, shoot a man to death because he is deemed a threat though it’s obvious he’s intoxicated. They are trained and are called into a situation. So how can this sociaty punish a citizen who is not trained and does not at all expect this when on his way to work?
How can a cop whose trained, use deadly force to stop an advancing drunk but an untrained employee is arrested for over exuberance and lack of reason in a more menacing situation?
Does not compute.
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Ryan Fitzpatrick hits Patrick Fitzryan in the end zone. BILLS WIN!! Says:
October 16th, 2011 at 1:58 AM
To me, the video looked like Rodney King’s. Each beating was justified, initially, but the guy(s) with the sticks couldn’t turn off the adrenaline (and who can?). Plus, how many times do you think this guy got jumped in the last 10 years in the joint? His fight-or-flight reflex may still be out of tune.
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The General Will Choke You Says:
October 17th, 2011 at 9:24 AM
A guy who runs one of the worst tout websites out there says it cost gamblers 30 million? Based on what, how does that piece of shit (RJ BELL) have any access to the cash intake on a game in vegas? I love how a tout throws out a number and multiple credible sites reference it like it is a fact.
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jetssufferer Says:
October 20th, 2011 at 12:41 PM
I actually had Miss. St. +3. I was stunned by what I saw. I can’t believe I was that lucky.