Source: Walberg's job safe, betting may have started prior to his arrival

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A root with cognition of the concern has confirmed to Sports Central that first-year Fresno State Men's Basketball Coach Vance Walberg has been told his occupation is harmless for the clip being.

The root says that Walberg alerted the due radical erstwhile helium got connection of the alleged betting going connected with respective of his players and has been afloat cooperative with the university's probe into the matter.

The root besides says the alleged betting by respective Bulldog hoops players whitethorn person begun erstwhile to this season.

Mykell Robinson and Jalen Weaver, the 2 players who person already been dismissed from the squad amid the betting allegations, were returning Bulldogs who were retained by Walberg connected his roster this season.

The root says the 3rd subordinate nether probe for alleged betting activity, suspended constituent defender Zaon Collins, is inactive officially listed connected the team's roster due to the fact that his alleged betting enactment did not revolve astir assemblage basketball.

Robinson had already been dismissed from the squad earlier the programme announced a abbreviated clip earlier their crippled past Saturday astatine Air Force that Weaver and Collins were "being withheld from contention arsenic the assemblage reviews an eligibility matter.”

Around the clip of the Air Force game, media reports emerged saying Robinson, Weaver, and Collins were being investigated for alleged sports gambling activity.

On Wednesday, Weaver was removed from the team’s men’s hoops roster online, and the programme confirmed that Weaver is nary longer with the team.

Collins is inactive listed connected the Bulldogs' men's hoops roster online.

At 5-23 overall, the Bulldogs person already acceptable the programme grounds for losses successful a season, and are presently riding a program-record 10-game losing streak.

Fresno State, which volition apt lone person 7 steadfast players available, hosts Boise State (20-8, 12-5 MW) Saturday astatine 4 p.m. astatine the Save Mart Center.