For now at least, yes.
A few months ago it was hoping to see Joey Freshwater flame out at LSU but that's died down a bit.
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A few months ago it was hoping to see Joey Freshwater flame out at LSU but that's died down a bit.
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Oh he finally gets the freaking clue Hu? I’d be shocked if he’s really aggressively gone after tbh.
Also, how fucking dumb does TT feel right now???
Also, how fucking dumb does TT feel right now???
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I am sure he will be drafted in the 3rd or 4th round. Whatever team drafts him will tell his agent he needs to assign a baby sitter to make sure he is not gambling.
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Must have been some behind the scenes dealings/threats. I would guess Sorsby just lost $3M+.
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Technically only 90k at a minimum but he’s earned this fucking loss.
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So a TT fan thinks because he didn’t gamble at TT he should’ve been ok to play. If they can’t freaking see that it’s bad for a player to gamble then I don’t know what to tell them.
Thankfully this guy is going pro. He tried to come back but the push back was so universal and unanimous that he couldn’t chance it. Screw this kid, he didn’t go pro because it was the correct thing to do. He went pro because he couldn’t afford to gamble his future. So it’s ironic that once again he bet on himself.
Good freaking riddance.
As for TT, no one will forget this bull shit. You had the chance to do right but buckled down. Enjoy spending 40+ mil for a 8-4 team.
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Oh, look at Texas Tech cowering now and pretending like they were put into a difficult position and had no choice but to act like a bunch of twats due to their predicament. Like it wasn’t entirely of their own doing.
This is what happens when you punch a fake-ass wannabe bully in the mouth. They back down and beg for leniency. Maybe we should try that more often instead of always letting the loud-mouth cocksuckers win?
This is what happens when you punch a fake-ass wannabe bully in the mouth. They back down and beg for leniency. Maybe we should try that more often instead of always letting the loud-mouth cocksuckers win?
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Pat Forde: Brendan Sorsby’s College Career Is Over Because of the Big 12’s Mounting Pressure
The conference’s firm stance that the quarterback should not play this season could be a blueprint for future league activism.
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Pat Forde: Brendan Sorsby’s College Career Is Over Because of the Big 12’s Mounting Pressure
The conference’s firm stance that the quarterback should not play this season could be a blueprint for future league activism.The Big 12 Conference did what the Lubbock District Court would not and the NCAA could not. It closed ranks, exerted pressure and helped persuade Texas Tech and Brendan Sorsby that there is no longer a place for the quarterback in college football. This was a master class in taking care of your own neighborhood.
Maybe it’s even a blueprint for other conferences in handling members who try to skirt NCAA rules by running to court.
Monday night, after a week of mounting outrage over Sorsby’s dubiously gained temporary injunction to play for the Red Raiders in 2026, he decided to move on to the NFL supplemental draft. It’s the right move for college athletics, even if it now tosses the hot potato into the hands of Roger Goodell & Co. The NFL is hardly a league full of choir boys, but welcoming in someone who compulsively gambled on his own sport and own team is not to be taken lightly.
Hopefully Sorsby has a full recovery from gambling addiction. Playing for Texas Tech in the fall didn’t need to be part of it, and might actually have run counter to it.
Thus an embarrassing chapter in the sport ends without turning the Big 12 season into a sideshow. Kudos to commissioner Brett Yormark and the campus leadership of 15 schools that refused to go along with the scam. They backed up their outrage with a mix of conviction and pragmatism—not backing down in the face of threatened lawsuits, but also not overreacting with a bad plan for retribution.
A series of league meetings last week made clear that the Big 12 was intent on applying sanctions to Texas Tech if it played Sorsby. That stance never wavered as Texas attorney general Ken Paxton and Sorsby’s lawyer, Jeffrey Kessler, threatened legal action. It never wavered as Tech put out a marathon PR video that tried too hard and still said too little. It never wavered in confronting the billionaire booster who is disrupting college sports, Cody Campbell.
It helped when other attorneys general, from the states of Oklahoma and Kansas, came out in support of the Big 12. But the bigger statement came from the league itself, which filed a fierce and detailed complaint against Texas Tech and Paxton in federal court Monday morning in advance of an executive board meeting. That was a powerful punch that changed the terms of engagement.
“The Big 12 has removed any doubt that they aren’t playing around,” prominent attorney Tom Mars told Sportico on Monday. “Now that Texas Tech realizes this isn’t some junior high school disagreement and that they’re in federal court, it will be interesting to see how much hubris and swag they still have.”
The answer: not much. When enough people stand up to the loudest guy in the bar while he is flexing his muscles, a confrontation can end before anyone gets hurt.
Give the Big 12 membership credit for doing what seems increasingly rare in college sports—looking out for their collective best interests. This is a league that survived the SEC poaching Texas and Oklahoma because everyone else stuck together, realizing that its strength came as a group and not individually. Similar teamwork was in play here, with a unified stance in favor of what was right.
And also give credit to Yormark, who came into the job in 2022 as a brash, outsider businessman and now looks like a strong, smart leader who understands his constituency. He’s had a few gimmicky ideas, some of which were better than others, but his handling of this hot-button issue shows his substance.
It isn’t easy to load up resistance against the defending league champion and overwhelming league favorite if Sorsby had stayed at Tech. The Red Raiders were becoming what the Big 12 had hungered for: a flagship power that could compete nationally, rising above the league’s sprawling middle class. But the case against Sorsby was so clear that even after a crackpot ruling let him out of NCAA jail, the Big 12 wasn’t going to roll over for its top football program.
Does this set a new precedent for conference activism? That’s to be determined, but it’s a bold step. As one program after another has gone to court in hopes of finding a compliant judge who will make a convenient eligibility ruling that handcuffs the NCAA, that program’s conference peers have passively fumed. Some complaints might have been heard, but often anonymously and rarely leading to significant conference action.
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Pat Forde: Brendan Sorsby’s College Career Is Over Because of the Big 12’s Mounting Pressure
The conference’s firm stance that the quarterback should not play this season could be a blueprint for future league activism.Pat Forde: Brendan Sorsby’s College Career Is Over Because of the Big 12’s Mounting Pressure
The conference’s firm stance that the quarterback should not play this season could be a blueprint for future league activism.
The Big 12 Conference did what the Lubbock District Court would not and the NCAA could not. It closed ranks, exerted pressure and helped persuade Texas Tech and Brendan Sorsby that there is no longer a place for the quarterback in college football. This was a master class in taking care of your own neighborhood.
Maybe it’s even a blueprint for other conferences in handling members who try to skirt NCAA rules by running to court.
Monday night, after a week of mounting outrage over Sorsby’s dubiously gained temporary injunction to play for the Red Raiders in 2026, he decided to move on to the NFL supplemental draft. It’s the right move for college athletics, even if it now tosses the hot potato into the hands of Roger Goodell & Co. The NFL is hardly a league full of choir boys, but welcoming in someone who compulsively gambled on his own sport and own team is not to be taken lightly.
Hopefully Sorsby has a full recovery from gambling addiction. Playing for Texas Tech in the fall didn’t need to be part of it, and might actually have run counter to it.
Thus an embarrassing chapter in the sport ends without turning the Big 12 season into a sideshow. Kudos to commissioner Brett Yormark and the campus leadership of 15 schools that refused to go along with the scam. They backed up their outrage with a mix of conviction and pragmatism—not backing down in the face of threatened lawsuits, but also not overreacting with a bad plan for retribution.
A series of league meetings last week made clear that the Big 12 was intent on applying sanctions to Texas Tech if it played Sorsby. That stance never wavered as Texas attorney general Ken Paxton and Sorsby’s lawyer, Jeffrey Kessler, threatened legal action. It never wavered as Tech put out a marathon PR video that tried too hard and still said too little. It never wavered in confronting the billionaire booster who is disrupting college sports, Cody Campbell.
It helped when other attorneys general, from the states of Oklahoma and Kansas, came out in support of the Big 12. But the bigger statement came from the league itself, which filed a fierce and detailed complaint against Texas Tech and Paxton in federal court Monday morning in advance of an executive board meeting. That was a powerful punch that changed the terms of engagement.
“The Big 12 has removed any doubt that they aren’t playing around,” prominent attorney Tom Mars told Sportico on Monday. “Now that Texas Tech realizes this isn’t some junior high school disagreement and that they’re in federal court, it will be interesting to see how much hubris and swag they still have.”
The answer: not much. When enough people stand up to the loudest guy in the bar while he is flexing his muscles, a confrontation can end before anyone gets hurt.
Give the Big 12 membership credit for doing what seems increasingly rare in college sports—looking out for their collective best interests. This is a league that survived the SEC poaching Texas and Oklahoma because everyone else stuck together, realizing that its strength came as a group and not individually. Similar teamwork was in play here, with a unified stance in favor of what was right.
And also give credit to Yormark, who came into the job in 2022 as a brash, outsider businessman and now looks like a strong, smart leader who understands his constituency. He’s had a few gimmicky ideas, some of which were better than others, but his handling of this hot-button issue shows his substance.
It isn’t easy to load up resistance against the defending league champion and overwhelming league favorite if Sorsby had stayed at Tech. The Red Raiders were becoming what the Big 12 had hungered for: a flagship power that could compete nationally, rising above the league’s sprawling middle class. But the case against Sorsby was so clear that even after a crackpot ruling let him out of NCAA jail, the Big 12 wasn’t going to roll over for its top football program.
Does this set a new precedent for conference activism? That’s to be determined, but it’s a bold step. As one program after another has gone to court in hopes of finding a compliant judge who will make a convenient eligibility ruling that handcuffs the NCAA, that program’s conference peers have passively fumed. Some complaints might have been heard, but often anonymously and rarely leading to significant conference action.
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