The Ohio Casino Control Commission is taking action to bar former University of Alabama baseball coach Brad Bohannon and an associate over a scandal involving betting on the team at the BetMGM Sportsbook in Cincinnati this spring.
At the commission's monthly meeting Wednesday, Executive Director Matthew Schuler stated that letters have been sent to Bohannon and Bert Neff Jr., who allegedly received inside information from Bohannon. The pair were advised of plans to place them on the state's involuntary exclusion list. Neff, who is from Indiana, was banned similarly by that state's regulator in September.
Neff allegedly received non-public information from Bohannon on April 28 about the coach's change in pitchers for a game against Louisiana State University that day. Neff raised suspicions at the BetMGM Sportsbook at Great American Ballpark after placing one large bet on LSU and attempting to place another.
Behavior led to coach’s firing
Schuler said in a statement that action was being taken against Bohannon and Neff because “their presence and/or participation in sports gaming poses a threat to the interests of the state and the effective regulation of sports gaming.”