Unf'n believable. He broke a rule. All kinds of evidence. But he can sue, get an injunction and THEN get suspended for the rest of his career after his eligibility is up?
Brendan Sorsby has a gambling problem. Texas Tech may have a QB problem
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Unf'n believable. He broke a rule. All kinds of evidence. But he can sue, get an injunction and THEN get suspended for the rest of his career after his eligibility is up?
He wouldn’t really have been harmed by much. Probably would have went second round in a supplemental draft and been on a NFL roster this fall.
Yes. Duh.
Betting yourself or your team TO WIN (moneyline) should be not only allowed but encouraged (responsibly).
betting on other teams should also be allowed.
everything else should be an insta ban.
Let me guess. Judge is an alum??
If the NCAA can't win something as simple as this then the old college football we used to love is going to die off until some sort of rules can be enforced. It won't be long before people place bets on how many picks a QB will throw and the QB publicly betting the side that makes him the most money and then throwing that amount of picks.
It is, as a matter of fact. Sportsbooks have a vested interest in it. The technology exists and is in use today.That seems extremely easy to administer. What could go wrong???
Who do you think turns gambling players into the pro leagues? The books!
Their ad deals with these leagues are worth basically infinity more than individual athletes’s betting portfolios, so they are happy to partner (duh) because bad actors are dwarfed by rule followers. And leagues benefit from added revenue AND legality because of the exact same reason.
Classic Adam Smith stuff.
Your shortsightedness on this isn't surprising coming from you, but this isn't about gambling. Gambling is just the transgression that is being overtly ignored by a biased judge who happens to either be a Texas Tech fan, alum, or is being pressured by the community. How can you not understand the destructive nature of having a court in Lubbick decide on eligibility for a player in Lubbick? Lets say that a player decides they want to leave a team mid-season, and go to another team and plat for them. What keeps them from doing that? The NCAA will say they are ineligible, the player leaves the big 10(so they say they are ineligible), but the play moves to Alabama(SEC says they are eligible). Player sues to be eligible because of "mental health concerns", local judge in Tuscaloosa takes up the case and rules an injunction..allowing player to play while court system works it out. Straight mid-season free agency.
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You want “fair”. I get it.
But - to quote the great Clint Eastwood - fair’s got nothing to do with it.
And not only will TTU play their entire schedule, they may draw record eyeballs if they make the playoffs.
Tech was good because of their defense last year. They don’t have some dynamic plan on offense.
That's not the way overlapping jurisdiction jurisprudence and conflicts of law works, and we will see how it works on the appeal. Sit tight because this will be fun, at least if you like court jurisdiction and superiority battles. I'm guessing he won't play.
Seems kinda lame.
This thing is going to work itself out, no need to draw attention to yourself with that silly statement.
If he plays a single down this season , it will be on the mount rushmore of most shocking things in sports that's ever happened. I guess anything is possible though. Its just always been a given that you can't do this, and play. Guess we'll see if that still holds.
Courts are a back and forth I imagine this get's challenged. Will the injunction get overturned? Hard to say hopefully it's just a couple of weeks of bad press and not worse.
Honestly, does anyone actually care about this besides gamblers that will think that their 10 dollar parlay was "rigged"
Are there any rules that can be enforced anymore? If all it takes is one local judge to rule in favor of the local team?
And they claim the b1g and the $EC is the boogie man. We're supposed to trust government or activist judges. I think not. Curious if big 12 does anything or if they don't want court costs
I do. Care. I hope he loses his case. Sooner the better.
I guess I look at it like this, would/did you care when dude were juicing? Did you care if they "broke curfew", did you care if the smoked weed or took 500 dollars from a booster? Did you care if they had a grade fixed for them so that they could play?
I don't know, betting on games for your team to win just doesn't seem like an issue to me.
This is stupid.
They will play games against teams that cheated in recruiting, that had rapists on their teams, dudes that were takings drugs, cheating in the classroom and/or not even going to class...
But now they won't play against a team that has a dude that bet on sports?
NCAA is finished. They’ve done an unequivocal job of enforcing the rules that its member institutions have passed. But now when they do enforce rules individual players just file a lawsuit and judge decides said rules aren’t allowed.
The NCAA was never really in charge, the stupid schools just pretended to let them be in charge. Bigger "stronger" schools just pushed them around and/or made deals with them to keep themselves clean.
here in lies the problem, so he bets on teams to win the next elephant in the room will be point shaving because the kid Owes his bookie thousands of dollars or he get teamates involved. i know sports gambling is legal but it’s best to leave pandora in the box
I get this idea but most people his age are not betting with your old school back alley bookie.
It is all legit, you pay as you wager, you don't run up a tab.
I have an old school guy...about once a year we meet in a parking lot and we pay out (it is always me paying him because I am horrible at betting) but kid in his 20's is doing it that way.
So what happens when an official bets on games he is officiating, then claims he has a gambling addiction. It is a slippery slope. In this situation, purposely blowing a call that can affect the outcome of a game could cost schools millions of dollars in revenue. Hell half of yall think the officials already have a hard on for Nebraska. If they could cost the team a win and make additional funds on it. We aren't just talking about football here, this could involve basketball as well.
As far as proof Sorsby only bet on his team to win?? How do we know? He was using friends and relatives to place the bets as well as doing it himself. Heck I have placed bets for my son when he was in high school, no one would have a clue if the bet was for me or for him.
On a side note, I do know of college students who are friends with players and have knowledge that that player knew they weren't going to be playing in a game, but they weren't listed as out and those students placed bets with that knowledge. This doesn't exactly change the outcome of a game, but having that knowledge of injuries, as a player, before placing bets can be advantageous to the bettor.
You’re a fkn idiot betting either way sound be against the rules. But a POS like you doesn’t surprise me.