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

Corrado sponsored S-3080 with the belief that "proposal bets have actually resulted in a rise in the harassment of student-athletes and have actually threatened the stability of college sports." She also stated that she has actually "heard about numerous individuals who have actually been the victim of online harassment since they didn't carry out to the expectation of a wagerer" which she hopes the costs will assist suppress that "terrible habits, and make college athletic events more secure for all participants."

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

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

NCAA prompting all states

NCAA president Charlie Baker has actually been crusading against college player props, pointing out harassment of student-athletes, coaches, and authorities as a risk to the sanctity of college athletics. He provided a statement in late March contacting all states to ban college prop bets "to secure student-athletes and to safeguard the integrity of the video game."

With sports betting on the rise, the NCAA is acting to secure student-athletes from harassment and working to safeguard the integrity of the video game - this week shows why it's so essential to act. pic.twitter.com/krATwpS4hZ

Baker also verified today that the NCAA has a third-party company that's offering social media monitoring to identify and react to circumstances of harassment.

"If they see anything they believe is unsuitable, they alert the platform and ask to shut those individuals down," Baker told press reporters at Monday's men's basketball championship game. "If they see things that they're actually concerned about, they notify the authorities. And that's occurred in a couple of instances."

Montana is bucking the trend and has respectfully declined the NCAA's request to prohibit college player prop betting. The Montana Lottery was gotten in touch with by the NCAA in early April relating to the company's project to ban college gamer prop betting. Montana Lottery director Bob Brown responded in a letter on April 3 stating that the state supports the NCAA's efforts to suppress student-athlete harassment, however they are not about 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 organization's efforts to reduce harassment of student-athletes by sports gamblers. However, Brown states Montana has actually not seen any of the problems that may have occurred nationally. pic.twitter.com/PXv9J4J3S3

With Montana's courteous refusal, there are still 20 states that offer college gamer props in some form 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 across the United States, so has public image problems and the prospective harassment of college athletes is not a great search for the industry.

Armando Bacot, a star for UNC males's basketball, told reporters after his group's second-round win over Michigan State that he "overcame most likely 100 DMs from people simply telling me like, 'you suck, you didn't hit the over!'"

He even stated that a DoorDash messenger grumbled "y' all messed up my parlay."

Interactions like this are exactly what Baker and the NCAA hope to remove from the world of sports that now has legal sports betting extremely intertwined. According to a report from investment banking company Citizens JMP Securities, almost $200 million in annual gaming income could be "at threat" with extra college player prop betting restrictions. College sports accounted for $1.6 billion of U.S.