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Put me in the "this will be a sea change" camp. There's too much money to be made for most states to not jump on the bandwagon.
The two big impediments would be morality and the sports leagues themselves, but neither seems like they are going to stand in the way.
Gambling just isn't seen as the vice that it used to be, so I see only token resistance from the morality players.
And the (professional) sports leagues have taken positions ranging from neutral to eager. And all of them realize that this will be a way to get and keep eyeballs in a fractured entertainment universe. So they will be on board as long as they get a say in how it's done.
I do think that American culture has a lot invested in the myth of big time college athletics as "amateur," so I do see the future of legal college sports betting as much more up in the air than the pro leagues.
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