re: Do the handicappers have it right?

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Certainly none of the geniuses on TD

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Yep.

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Mfricking brutal....

The oddsmakers ever since Bob Martin, Sonny Reizner, Roxy Roxborough, Kenny White, LVSC, etc..have made solid lines, and they have become even sharper in the computer/information age. As the regional lines, information gaps, and delays/relays, that were once a cottage-industry and playground for the well-connected sharps and their followers, have been practically eliminated.

But, often, many people give all the credit to lines, and/or their drifts, and settling/closing numbers, all to the Linesmakers and BMs, when it is quite often the early cappers, syndicates, and wiseguys, that are the ones that shape them up and down, on Sunday nights and early Monday mornings offshore and in the streets of LV, when first released.

Many of the biggest and best sportsbettors and cappers, etc..are native southerners, Billy Walters, Billy Baxter, etc..

Though it seems that old-school seaboarders up north..out west..and offshore, midwesterners, and the left coast sharps based in LV, seem to get all the hype in wiseguy lore and circles.

For decades now, NYC, LV, and Offshore's sharp lines on deep south football, SEC, etc..is quite often based upon it's tentacles and connections into the Sunbelt..just the same as other region's teams and insiders too. Be it scouts, cappers, whale bettors, local BMs,etc..and their connections and proxy to it's teams.

AU was actually 50:1 before the season last year.

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Bama was the fav in 09, UF in 08, LSU in 07

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UF was a heavy favorite in 09.