Bob Scucci
Bob Scucci
Robert "Bob" Scucci is the Director of Race and Sports for Boyd Gaming Corp. and was formerly the Assistant Race and Sports Book Manager at the Stardust Resort and Casino. Scucci authored the book The Odds and hosts the Behind the Bets Scooch Pod with his sidekick Chad Millman...
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Seattle was expected to win. Pittsburgh went through the one, two, and three seeds, and a lot of people think the AFC from top-to-bottom was a lot better conference than the NFC.
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I picked Carolina at the beginning of the season to get to the Super Bowl. Seattle does not impress me.
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It was the only show that focused on sports betting, and it was a pretty brave move because no one had put sports betting out for mass audiences before. It was kind of frowned upon. But it paid off for the exposure.
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Every year sees more and more of a trend of underdogs upsetting the favorites. (This year) the underdogs are live underdogs, meaning they have a chance to win the game straight up.
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Sometimes your fate in this profession is decided by a field goal. Two of our biggest games last year we're decided by safeties. Safeties.
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I'd like to take a mulligan on that game. We put up a bad line.
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I felt if there was a time for the Colts to be ripe for the picking, it was this game, and I said it before the game. It was almost a month since they played a meaningful game with all their starters, and you risk losing intensity going into the playoffs.
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The radar was more up on them after their run last year. But going into the tournament, they didn't play too well down the stretch.
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It's scary when you first put them up because you don't know where you're going to get hit. You might do a great job and put up solid lines on 98 games, but get pounded on two games.
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It's a great amount of responsibility and it's not something that we ever take lightly. All the other books in Nevada look to our opening numbers, and there's a lot of money that gets bet on those lines.
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We'll be having a lot of meetings in the coming months to determine exactly what will happen.
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We know it carries a great deal of responsibility. It's not something we take lightly.
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Not only is it tough to do, there's not a whole lot of people who want to do it.
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I'm excited about the possibility. It's a huge promotion for me. Opportunities like this come only once in your career.