Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne said he found out about the suspicious wager on the Crimson Tide baseball program as the public did when ESPN published an article on May 1.

Speaking ahead of the Regions Tradition celebrity pro-am on Wednesday morning, Byrne faced questions for the first time since the betting probe into the program was launched. In doing so, Byrne explained how the University is dealing with its latest controversy as well as clearing other Tide baseball players of wrongdoing in what he called an “ongoing investigation.”

“We have nothing that has shown us to believe that there’s anybody,” Byrne said, “we don’t have any information that shows that any of our student-athletes are involved.

“Obviously, like any time you have some challenges you get the information that you can, you deal with it in the most appropriate way that you can with the information you have at the time, but it’s something that when I tell you the kids have been really good in having the news come out on gameday was obviously a challenge. But at the same time, too, it’s a really good group of young men.”

U.S. Integrity, an independent, third-party monitoring firm that sportsbooks use to track bets, flagged a significant wage placed on LSU to beat Alabama on April 28. Video surveillance later connected the bettor, a former high school coach, to Bohannon, who was then fired hours before the Tide hosted Vanderbilt for a three-game series last weekend.

Pitching coach Jason Jackson was elevated to interim head coach in Bohannon’s place. Alabama won two of three against the Commodores and Byrne later said he expected the team to be eligible for postseason play.

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At least four states have halted betting on Tide baseball while sports gambling permeates the news. Two days ago, student-athletes at Iowa and Iowa State were implicated publicly for their involvement in a betting scandal.

“We’re going to continue to support anybody that needs to look into it,” Byrne said of potential next steps.

“Gambling and the acceptance of it has changed dramatically, right? Online gaming, that’s a societal decision,” Byrne continued. “It’s a societal issue and we have obviously a lot of things that we train our student-athletes and coaches and our staff about on a daily basis or when we meet on an annual basis. I do think, from an integrity standpoint within the game, to make sure our student-athletes, our coaches, our staff understand that there has to be a separation. It’s critical. We’ve seen some schools be pretty aggressive with embracing gaming outlets. We haven’t done that as much and I do think it’s something important.”

Nick Alvarez is a reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @nick_a_alvarez or email him at [email protected].

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