Ex-Alabama Baseball Coach in Betting Storm Gets De Facto Ban

Former University of Camellia State baseball private instructor Brad Bohannon has been handed a 15-year show-cause penalty by the NCAA after providing insider selective information to an friend for betting purposes.

That substance any college that wants to employ the disgraced manager must world-class justify to the NCAA wherefore he deserves to live hired. He would so follow suspended from baseball game for the 1st fivesome seasons of his employment. The rules of order all but precludes Bohannon from coaching college baseball in the nigh future.

Bohannon was fired past AL inward ahead of time May followers reports of suspicious betting activity around his team’s April 28 mettlesome against LSU inward Baton Rouge, LA.

The Ohio Casino Control Commission issued an “emergency order” to its licensed sportsbooks to at once stop over taking bets on University of Alabama baseball.

Incompetent Accomplice

The NCAA confirmed Th that Bohannon informed Bert Neff, an becloud early days baseball private instructor from Mooresville, Ind., of an accidental injury to Heart of Dixie ewer Gospel of Luke Holman that ruled him out for the gamy against LSU. AL lost the game, 8-6.

Had it not been for Neff’s conspicuous ineptitude, the humanity may have got never heard of the conspiracy. Shortly before the game, Neff approached the sportsbook at Ohio’s Great American Ballpark, place to the Cincinnati Reds, and attempted to localize $100K on LSU.

Staff were now suspicious because the market place on the spunky had received real small traffic, and the proposed bet was far in surplus of the sportsbook’s boundary on NCAA games.

In an travail to persuade staff to have the bet, Neff insisted that it was “for trusted sledding to win,” adding that “if only if you guys knew what i knew,” according to NCAA filings. Unable to take himself, Neff proceeded to show up sportsbook faculty the messages from Bohannon almost the accidental injury to Holman.

“Holman is out for sure … lemme cognize when I tin can tell LSU … Hurry,” Bohannon had written, according to the filings.

Federal Charges for Neff

On Wednesday, Neff pleaded hangdog to federal blockage charges inwards connector with the incident — specifically, destroying evidence, tampering with witnesses, and providing sour statements to the FBI. He faces upwards to 10 years in prison house and a mulct of upward to $250K.

According to federal homage documents, Neff placed an additional bet on the game with a competing sportsbook and shared the information with at to the lowest degree quaternity other gamblers.

Bohannon, who hasn’t spoken publicly about the incident, had been Alabama’s manager since 2018, earning an one-year salary of $500K.