The NCAA this week introduced its punishment of a former ladies’s basketball head coach who revamped 400 bets totaling a minimum of $93K on collegiate {and professional} sports activities throughout a 26-month interval.
Former College of the South ladies’s basketball head coach Brody Curry admitted to betting on sports activities whereas teaching the Division III program. Curry has since moved to educate a women’ basketball program at a personal faculty prep faculty. (Picture: College of the South)
An investigation performed by the NCAA Division III Committee on Infractions (COI) decided that the ladies’s head basketball coach on the College of the South, familiarly often called Sewanee, in Tennessee participated in sports activities betting from January 2021 by means of March 2023. The infractions got here to gentle in March of final 12 months when the Tennessee Sports activities Wagering Advisory Council, a state company chargeable for regulating on-line sports activities betting, detected {that a} prohibited participant was wagering.
The NCAA didn’t title the person, however Brody Curry was the ladies’s head basketball coach throughout the interval in query. Curry was positioned on administrative go away in late April and resigned in June.
NCAA investigators concluded, and Curry acknowledged, that the coach made 407 on-line bets throughout the timeframe, together with $28K on faculty sports activities. Curry reportedly didn’t guess on video games involving his group, although 20 of his wagers have been on faculty ladies’s basketball.
The Sewanee Tigers compete within the Southern Athletic Affiliation, a DIII convention.
Decision Reached
The NCAA introduced a Abstract Disposition Report (SDR) that resolves the matter. The phrases have been agreed to by the college, the coach in query, and the collegiate sports activities governing physique.
Curry agreed to at least one 12 months of probation, a $1,500 fantastic, and a two-year “show-cause order.”
Throughout the show-cause order, any faculty that employs the coach should require him to bear month-to-month guidelines seminars on NCAA rules offered by the college. The settlement phrases moreover mandate that he be suspended for the primary 5 regular-season contests he coaches within the NCAA.
Given the prevalence of sports activities wagering actions on faculty campuses, it’s arguably much more necessary that these closest to student-athletes chorus from such behaviors to guard student-athletes,” the NCAA Division III COI stated in its resolution.
The NCAA Division III Guide Bylaws say people employed by member establishments “shall act with honesty and sportsmanship.” Bylaw 10.3 prohibits athletics workers members from collaborating in sports activities betting actions regarding faculty {and professional} sports activities. The handbook additionally stresses that coaches “promote an environment for compliance inside their program.”
“Sewanee, the pinnacle coach, and the enforcement workers agreed that the pinnacle coach violated NCAA laws prohibiting sports activities wagering actions,” the SDR concluded.
Coach Strikes On
Final June, Curry was introduced as the following head basketball coach of the ladies’ program at The Webb Faculty, a personal faculty preparatory highschool in Bell Buckle, Tenn. In response to Boarding Faculty Evaluate, a web based useful resource for personal colleges, tuition at Webb for boarded college students is $51,900 a 12 months and $22,900 for day college students.
From the surface wanting in, it’s straightforward to see that Webb is a particular neighborhood. I can’t watch for my household to leap in and construct new relationships. I’m wanting ahead to serving nonetheless I can,” Curry stated on the time of his hiring.
“I’m a relationship builder. I need you to know that I’ve your again and can battle for you till my final breath. I take advantage of basketball to assist train life and construct higher people. I’ll love the group and the neighborhood fiercely,” Curry added.
Since Webb isn’t a part of the NCAA, Curry isn’t required to serve the five-game suspension. The show-cause order runs by means of Feb. 12, 2026.
