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South Dakota’s gambling problem
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A latest research has claimed that South Dakota is the 2nd most playing addicted state within the union primarily based on playing friendliness and therapy statistics, noting that South Dakota is among the many states with the very best per capita numbers of casinos and gaming machines.
Whereas such research have to be taken with a grain of salt, that doesn’t imply that playing habit is just not an actual drawback in South Dakota.
In response to the Nationwide Council on Drawback Playing (NCPG), an estimated 1.4% of South Dakota adults, greater than 10,000, are believed to manifest a playing drawback.
Matt Walz is a consultant for Keystone Therapy Heart, the one inpatient playing habit therapy heart in South Dakota. He says that by the point an individual with a playing drawback is available in for therapy, they sometimes have a mean playing debt of about $250,000. “Typically it’s far more — we repeatedly see sufferers getting into therapy with over 1,000,000 {dollars} in debt.”
“There are various individuals who gamble, and so they get leisure worth from playing, and that’s high quality,” mentioned Walz. “However there’s a line many individuals will cross the place it turns into an issue and it’s not leisure. That’s the place therapy is available in.”
“Revenues from the state of South Dakota [from gambling] are roughly $120 million a yr,” mentioned Walz. “About half the take is from video lottery alone.”
Walz says that whereas a few of that income comes from vacationers travelling via the state, a big portion additionally comes from South Dakotans who can’t afford to spend that cash, or who’ve a playing dysfunction. He says sufferers typically speak about a extreme sense of desperation they really feel after they’ve gambled away massive sums of cash.
“They converse to us about their habit — they typically speak about a extreme sense of desperation they really feel — after they’ve gambled away their paycheck and so they don’t find the money for to pay their lease, meals, different requirements,” mentioned Walz. “Perhaps they really feel disgrace — which can be their choices?”
Walz says that almost all gamblers getting into therapy really feel they’ve two choices: committing crimes to get cash, or consideration of suicide. He says the commonest crimes dedicated are theft, housebreaking, theft or embezzlement.
“As for suicide,” Walz continued, “compulsive gamblers have the very best price of suicide than every other habit.”
Walz says most compulsive gamblers go to nice lengths to hide monetary secrets and techniques. “Once they lose actually huge, they face that time of desperation, and on the level of desperation, they think about suicide at a a lot larger price than folks with alcohol or different drug use issues do,” he mentioned.
State Rep. John Mills (R-Volga) has been working for a number of years within the state legislature to attempt to handle the problems he sees with playing in South Dakota. “Predominantly from making an attempt to ween the state from the state’s habit to the playing income, notably video lottery,” he mentioned.
The state of South Dakota has collected over $2 billion in income from video lottery because it was established in 1989.
“Video lottery is only a very harmful and aggressive type of playing,” mentioned Mills. “It’s extremely addictive — essentially the most addictive type of playing there may be.”
Mills says that he feels it’s fallacious for the state to advertise video lottery gaming. “It’s a state run enterprise, and it hurts folks. I simply discover that unconscionable that our authorities is within the enterprise of wounding folks with a view to get their cash.”
South Dakota was the primary state within the nation to permit video lottery in 1989, and since then, solely seven extra have adopted go well with; Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Montana, New York, Oregon and West Virginia.
“I believe the opposite states [that have not allowed video lottery] simply have watched and acknowledged that it’s a really damaging type of playing.”
Mills went on to quote analysis that claimed that video lottery can produce an issue gambler in lower than a yr, versus conventional playing.
Prior to now Mills has launched payments that vary from growing the quantity of income the state claims from video lottery machines, to permitting native municipalities to ban them. None of his payments have made it via. He has had just one success.
“The one factor I’ve been in a position to get via is a decision,” Mills mentioned after a quick chuckle “that legislators acknowledge that there’s an issue.” A decision has no power of regulation, nevertheless.
There additionally seem like ties between playing habit and different substance use issues.
Walz says it is extremely widespread to have playing addicted sufferers additionally produce other addictions. “They could have a playing dysfunction, however in addition they have an alcohol or drug use dysfunction,” he mentioned. “So that they’re ingesting and so they’re playing on the on line casino whereas they’re ingesting, after which instantly there’s a playing drawback.
Walz mentioned that purchasers with drug addictions have additionally mentioned that the primary place they purchase meth is at video lottery casinos.
Mills can be involved concerning the societal price of playing. “I can’t assist however consider the youngsters which can be hungry as a result of dad stopped off on the on line casino and spent his paycheck — there’s simply all these points with it — it’s tied up in partner abuse; it’s tied up in drug habit — it simply preys on society.”
In terms of therapy for a playing dysfunction, Walz says that quite a lot of issues are concerned.
“One is withdrawal and detox from playing,” Walz mentioned. “Most individuals don’t notice compulsive gamblers undergo detox after they cease. That’s why it’s very arduous for a lot of to cease fully.”
One other facet is trauma knowledgeable therapy. “Many have skilled trauma of their lives or stress — generally because of their playing,” Walz mentioned.
“Within the therapy subject, we’ve seen nearly every part,” Walz mentioned. “We consider in hope for restoration; we consider that restoration is feasible, irrespective of how far down an individual has gone; in the event that they’re nonetheless respiratory, we now have hope for them.”
For those who or somebody you recognize is battling a playing habit, you will discover assist on the following assets.
Gamblers Nameless
Helpline Heart
Keystone Therapy Heart
South Dakota Lottery Drawback Playing Helpline
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STILLWATER — The Oklahoma State football team beat South Dakota State 44-20 on Saturday to start the season 1-0. After the game, Mike Gundy, Ollie Gordon, Alan Bowman, De’Zhaun Stribling, Collin Oliver, Korie Black and Trey Rucker met with reporters to recap the game.
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South Dakota State vs. No. 17 Oklahoma State live stream (8/31/24): Watch college football, Week 1 online
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The South Dakota State Jackrabbits face the No. 17 Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 (8/31/24) at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Fans can watch the game with a subscription to ESPN+.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: NCAA Football, Week 1
Who: South Dakota State vs. Oklahoma State
When: Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 (8/31/24)
Where: Boone Pickens Stadium
Time: 2 p.m. ET
TV: N/A
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Live stream: ESPN+
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Here’s a college football story from the Associated Press:
Y’all ain’t played nobody!
It might as well be college football’s slogan. Debates about strength of schedule are part of the fabric of the sport, like marching bands, cheerleaders and tailgating.
With the size of the College Football Playoff tripling in size from four teams to 12 this season — including seven at-large bids — expect the arguments over the relative difficulty of teams’ schedules to increase exponentially.
The posturing and politicking has already begun.
“This is the NFL of college football in my mind,” Nebraska coach Matt Rhule said during Big Ten media days. At Southeastern Conference media days, the NFL was also invoked when the topic steered to schedules.
“As coaches we want to play the best. People forget that when you’ve spent time in the NFL, every week was like that,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. “So when Texas and Oklahoma came into the conference, every schedule was going to get harder.”
The debates aren’t just about which conferences are the best. With super-sized conferences of 16-18 teams, the differences in strength of schedule within leagues can be significant.
The CFP selection committee uses a strength-of-schedule rating provided by SportSource Analytics that includes components such as wins and losses, scoring differential and game location.
Balancing who you played with how you played will be harder than ever.
“There’s a weight on the committee that’s new. I want to see how the committee processes that,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said during spring meetings. “And my encouragement is that this, ‘Well, we have an undefeated team so they’re in’ is not the standard. It never was the standard. Obviously, that stirred up controversy last year.”
Toughest schedules in the Power Four
There are dozens of data-based rating systems to measure the relative strength of college football teams, and all have some type of schedule-rating component.
The AP took three systems — ESPN’s SP+, FEI and KFord Ratings — and averaged their strength of schedule rankings for all 134 Bowl Subdivision teams to determine where each Power Four team’s schedule ranks nationally (all games, not just conference games, are factored in).
Using those projections, SEC teams on average will be facing the toughest schedules this season.
The average strength-of-schedule ranking among the 16 SEC teams is 11.2, from Florida (a unanimous No. 1 among all three systems) to Missouri at 36.7.
Half the teams in the SEC have schedules with an average national ranking of 10 or better, including No. 1 Georgia at 3.7. No. 11 Missouri is the only SEC team with an average schedule-strength ranking below 25.3.
Rating the rest
The Big Ten, now including Southern California, UCLA, Oregon and Washington, is next with an average strength-of-schedule ranking of 26.9 among its 18 teams.
Purdue’s 7.7 average ranking is the highest followed by No. 23 USC at 9. Big Ten favorite No. 2 Ohio State’s average is 34. No. 3 Oregon’s is 26.7.
The ACC and Big 12 are about the same. The 17-team ACC has an average strength of schedule ranking of 49.9. The 16-team Big 12′s average ranking is 47.3.
Assessing strength of schedule
Straight up rankings can be deceiving. How to quantify the difference between facing the sixth-ranked schedule and 26th?
Brian Fremeau, the creator of FEI, does it three ways, asking three questions: How many games would an elite team lose facing a particular schedule? How many would a good team lose? How many would an average team lose?
AP used FEI’s strength of schedule ratings based on good teams in its composite rankings, since good teams are going to be the ones in the CFP race.
Based on FEI projections, the difference between playing Georgia’s schedule (rated 3.4 among the hardest in the nation) and Ohio State (34) is about one more loss for a good team against the Bulldogs’ slate. The difference between Alabama’s schedule and Big 12 favorite Utah’s is about two losses for a good team against the Tide’s.
If these schedule strength projections held — they will change throughout the season — it would then be reasonable to compare an 11-1 Utah to a 9-3 Alabama.
Reasonable to compare doesn’t necessarily mean the one with the tougher schedule should automatically be ranked higher.
“I don’t judge a team on its schedule. I judge a team on how it performs against a schedule, or my system does. And that is a little more of a nuanced take then, ‘Well, we played a tougher set of opponents than you did, therefore, we’re better,’” Fremeau said. “There’s a bit of a balancing act between the two.”
Intraconference debates
The SEC and Big Ten are both bigger and division-less for the first time. That necessitated new tiebreaker procedures to determine which teams qualify for conference title games featuring the top two teams in the standings.
Within the guidelines is an acknowledgment that the rigor of conference schedules will vary when teams are playing barely half the league. After head-to-head and record vs. common opponents are used to break ties, both leagues go to results that favor the team that fared better against the better conference opponents they play.
The ACC, a year ahead of the the SEC and Big Ten in abandoning divisions, has a similar nod within its tiebreakers to strength of schedule.
ACC Associate Commissioner Michael Strickland said the conference used 10 years of data that measures the success of its football teams to help create a new schedule rotation that would be competitively balanced. But the ACC also to had weigh travel now that Stanford, California and SMU are members, as well as protecting some traditional annual rivalries.
The ACC’s fourth two-team tiebreaker is combined winning percentage of conference opponents.
“Our head football coaches suggested that we insert that during our review process,” Strickland said.
The CFP choices
The CFP field announced Dec. 8 will be comprised of the five highest-ranked conference champions, regardless of league, and seven at-large selections. There is no limit to the number of at-large bids a conference can receive.
The most interesting comparisons for the CFP selection committee might end up being between the many conference rivals that do not play each other in the regular season.
What to do with a 10-2 Missouri and a 9-3 Alabama (composite strength-of-schedule ranking, 9.3)? Or Iowa (37) at 10-2 and Michigan (16) at 9-3? Over in the ACC, what would happen while assessing a 10-2 Virginia Tech (68) and a 9-3 Florida State (30.3)?
“Especially when we’re picking (seven) teams now, we’re looking at the loss column with a bit more scrutiny,” Fremeau said. “They’re going to be debating teams like that with a one or possibly two-game difference in record, but a comparable difference in expected schedule rating and they’re going to have that debate about which one they value more.”
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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