Oklahoma Sooners’ QB John Mateer Denies Allegations Of Sports Gambling After Internet Detectives Went Through His Old Venmo Transactions
John Mateer is a QB in his first year with the Oklahoma Sooners. Before now, he was a QB at Washington State for three years. Last year, he threw for 3,139 YDS, 29 TD's, 7 INT's & 826 YDS RUSH. He's pretty good. In 2022, at the time these screenshots are dated, he was a redshirt freshman.
On Monday night, screenshots of what people appear to be John Mateer's personal Venmo hit the internet. They are incriminating. Almost unbelievably incriminating.
Since his Venmo leaked, John Mateer has deleted all his transactions. But for a time there, multiple people were allegedly visiting his account and verified that they did in fact exist.
First off, having public Venmo transactions on is crazy. Why are Venmo's public in the first place? Why is Venmo trying to be a social media app? I've had this argument with my wife since we first started dating. She thinks it's shady for me to have my Venmo set to private. But I can't for the life of me understand why ANYBODY would want those public in the first place. The fact that Venmo is set up like fucking Twitter is nuts. The fact that NOT providing the world with a public ledger of people you've exchanged money with somehow makes you look "shady" is beyond preposterous.
Secondly, scrolling through a college quarterback's possible Venmo account in search of incriminating activity is borderline pre-crime behavior. There's gotta be a better use of your time, man. I mean... thanks for doing it. I'm literally benefiting from you doing so right now. And clearly the internet eats this shit up. But is that really worth trying to fuck up John Mateer's life?
Who am I kidding? It's college football. Of course ruining the life of a rival quarterback is worth a 10% greater chance of winning a regular season game. If college football fans suddenly had access to a button that if pressed killed 100,000 random people in the world, but it meant their team would make the college football playoffs, within 5 minutes there would be zero people left on Earth. Because fucking everybody is pressing that button. Immediately.
But even if the transactions are real, and are for what they say they are, if this is the only evidence of gambling they have against John Mateer, that can't be enough to officially incriminate him, right? Connor Stallions had incriminating Venmo transactions leak as well, but he also had plenty of additional evidence against him. Considering John Mateer came out today and said this...
Regardless of whether it's true or not, unless his friend plans on turning against him, or the NCAA is sick and tired of getting pushed around by the NIL era, and wants to flex their muscles by subpoenaing John Mateer's email address and phone records... just to remind people that they are still in fact power hungry assholes. I don't see how John Mateer can't just deny his way out of this.
And who among us hasn't paid a friend for dinner and captioned the transaction, "Black Tar Heroin & Human Trafficking". Just as a goof. Something so incredibly over the top that you'd have to be an idiot to think that's actually what the money is for.
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It doesn't get more super over-the-top obvious than "Ultra sports gambling fifa World Cup". And on top of John Mateer's gambling transactions, people also allegedly dug up the following…
Haha nice. See, he's a jokester. I like this guy. In a straight way. For those "Sports Gambling" transactions to genuinely be a couple friends making an ill-advised joke because for whatever reason it made them laugh in the moment, that's not shocking at all.
On the other hand, Venmo is definitely one of those things that a lot of people don't fully realize is as public as it is. There are certainly a lot of people who caption Venmo's all the time without realizing that anybody can search their name and see who they've been paying. And a UCLA vs USC caption on a day that they actually played is remarkably specific. So who the hell knows what those transactions were really for. But unless there's another shoe about to drop, I would be shocked if anything more came out of it.