By Jeff Moss
DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com
December 6, 2014
Earlier today, the online wagering site SportsBook.ag sent out the following Tweet:
Jim Harbaugh 2015 Coaching odds suspended after a stream of bets on Michigan moved them from 8-1 to 2-1 yesterday afternoon
— Sportsbook.com ® (@Sportsbook_com) December 6, 2014
The announcement led some news-starved Michigan fans to believe that someone might have inside knowledge that Jim Harbaugh is heading to Ann Arbor, so I contacted the gambling website for some further information.
This is what I learned from the people at SportsBook.ag about their decision to remove the prop bet from their wagering menu:
Hi there….our limits for this market were $2k max win per bet. Its a volatile high risk market where the public may know more than us. It was a novelty bet so none of the bets were there sizable, it was the amount of bets that got our attention as it didn’t matter how low we went, they just kept coming in…
We’ve been researching it more and more we can’t explain the action other then (sic) someone might know more about his coaching situation than us. We might consider opening it up again, but at this point it’s off the board.
Take that information however you would like.