Clemson head coach Brad Brownell met with the media Wednesday ahead of the sixth-seeded Tigers’ Sweet 16 matchup against No. 2 Arizona on Thursday at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles (7:09 p.m., CBS).
During his press conference, Brownell fielded a question about the NCAA working to ban prop bets on individual college athletes.
Brownell was asked for his opinion on that, and he’s fully on board with it.
“People are extremely aggressive these days,” Brownell said. “We get phone calls in our office sometimes when things obviously don’t go a bettor’s way, and we get some nasty calls. So I know our players probably get that through social media. Obviously I’m for that. It’s a really unique time with everything going on in college athletics, and now the gambling piece is a whole ‘nother log on the fire.
“It’s really, this is so special, this whole experience as a young person is so special, that I know it’s professionalizing in a lot of ways, and I’m a little more old school. It worries me tremendously, and that’s another thing to be worried about.”