BATON ROUGE, La. -- LSU has a new, more "transparent" injury reporting policy that football coach Brian Kelly described Thursday as a "proactive" response to the proliferation of legalized sports betting.
For Kelly, one concern is the specter of gamblers hounding football staffs for insider information.
"I'm not saying that happened. I'm not saying that would happen," Kelly said. "I think it's better to be proactive in those situations and take away even the temptation to even have that in this building and not be that next school that goes down that path."
The new LSU policy comes on the heels of criminal charges against current and former Iowa and Iowa State athletes - including Cyclones quarterback Hunter Dekkers - that stemmed from gambling investigations at those schools.