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Canes are 100-1 to win NC in 2016

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Thank you all for being concerned about my safety while driving. I posted that before I left the house and was too lazy to post the link. Rest assured I was not on I-4 looking at a bunch of madness on this website
 
I might get on that bet. We have QB, new staff, a HC hurt feelings and something to prove. Mark should have a 3 game season -- FSU, ND, and ACC title game. That gets him to playoffs. It is next year, but I think he has shot against anyone but Bama and OSU. If one of them miss the cut, like this year, and the other gets beat by someone else in playoff, we can seek one in. We don't have the menfolk for Bama and OSU yet, but if Oline could improve, we have shot at the girls left.
 
407cane said:
Thank you all for being concerned about my safety while driving. I posted that before I left the house and was too lazy to post the link. Rest assured I was not on I-4 looking at a bunch of madness on this website
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So you were driving and not being safe or not driving and not telling the truth? Interdasting!
 
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I know we really aren't at a point right now where our Roster is "Championship" level, but with who we having coming back, our schedule and Richt at the Helm, 100-1 seems really high IMO. Especially if UF is really 50-1. I don't get that at all.
 
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Dingaan1828 said:
Cool, I wonder what we were in 1983.
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Nothing. Those odds didn't exist at the time. Online offshore books obviously didn't exist and sportsbooks were prohibited from booking action on outcomes that weren't decided on the field of play. Sporting "elections" like the AP Poll or UPI Poll or Heisman Trophy were not bettable.

That didn't change until the BCS came up with the matchup of the final two teams. At that point future odds were offered on who would win that game.

When I worked in a sportsbook I can't count how many times I had to turn away tourists who wanted to bet on this or that. They'd have a list that Uncle Fred wants to bet $20 on the MVP award, and similar. When I told them there was no action on those categories they would be miffed, if not stunned. They were under the false conventional wisdom impression that, "You can bet on anything in Las Vegas, honey."

Only in recent years has it loosened up a little bit, primarily to allow the Nevada books to take action that otherwise would go elsewhere.

In 1983 there probably were published college football championship odds from guys like Danny Sheridan looking for publicity for himself, but those numbers were invented and not actually on the board anywhere.

Anyway, future odds are a ripoff, far more often than not. Sucker pools with incredibly high house take. And the take only goes up. When somebody makes a sizeable bet on some team, that team's odds will be lowered while the others are rarely raised to balance things.

Every time you look at a future book number it's wise to realize it could probably be doubled and you still would have the worst of it. That's why the sportsbooks trot those numbers out there immediately so they can draw a steady stream of small wagers throughout the offseason.
 
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