Here's another perspective/opinion from @bluroptimo on Rivals
"Everyone knows, don’t text and drive. Don’t play on your smartphone while you drive. How would we all feel if geo location technology was used for the last year and today you found out you had to pay for all of those texting while driving offenses? And it could get ugly. f you were going over 84mph while texting, suspended license. Multiple violations, habitual offenders, five year suspended license.
How many of you would change your smartphone habits if you knew they’d be monitoring your cell phone use while driving? Would it be more acceptable if they said explicitly, “for the next year you’ll be watched via technology and issued warnings. After that fines and suspensions.”
And to those saying this isn’t a good analogy to this gambling situation, I agree. Smartphone use while driving is a much bigger problem. More lives lost, more injuries. Much larger scale.
But yet here we are talking about college athletes, none involved in organized crime or point shaving, being “monitored” and penalized."