The World Has Sure Changed

TheC said:

Pete Rose was banned from Major League Baseball for life in 1989 for betting on baseball. The all-time hits leader was barred from the Hall of Fame despite being one of the greatest hitters to ever play the game. Fast forward to 2026 where a Texas judge has just ruled that Texas Tech transfer QB Brendan Sorsby should have his eligibility reinstated after the NCAA tried to ban him for gambling on college sports including games of his own team while playing at Indiana and then Cincinnati.

I don't want to moralize too much, but I really hate the explosion of sports gambling and especially the way that teams have just fully embraced it. Sorsby has been receiving treatment for a gambling addiction as he has placed over 3,000 bets since becoming a student athlete. These gambling apps are invasive and destructive, especially to young people who haven't attained complete developmental control yet. I am not necessarily looking for Sorsby to be punished, but dammit, if the Hit King is banned for life, then so should this guy.

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.So if a player isn't satisfied with his NIL money he can take a bribe with impunity?

As a non-lawyer, this "temporary" injunction is very perplexing to me.

The injunction allows Sorsby to play through the 26-27 season because the trial is set for February 2027. Can a reasonable argument not be made that there is "imminent, and irreparable injury" to the entire sport by allowing him to participate that outweighs the potential harm brought to his playing career by sitting out this season while the matter is adjudicated? I would think when these two conflicting concerns are placed side by side, Sorsby's actions demand the NCAA's side be prioritized.

Also, I am willing to believe the very realistic possibility that he has a gambling addiction, but we don't allow pilots who are admitted alcoholics to fly airplanes (Or do we? I'm also not a pilot).

Either way, I'd say we are already too far gone with gambling vs. the integrity of any college sport. A bad actor doesn't need to spend millions inducing a player to take a dive in a prime time Saturday night game...they just need to find a kid at a poor G5 school who's making almost nothing from an NIL deal to engage.

Whatever your eligibility problem, all you need is a friendly local judge to issue an order. Too bad NU didnt do that for Carsello.

My idea for the Sorsby issue is for opponents to seek a friendly judge to enjoin him from playing in or entering their stadium. Then have the police enforce it.

phatcat_rivals223240 said:

Whatever your eligibility problem, all you need is a friendly local judge to issue an order. Too bad NU didnt do that for Carsello.

My idea for the Sorsby issue is for opponents to seek a friendly judge to enjoin him from playing in or entering their stadium. Then have the police enforce it.

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Really wish you’d swallow your pride and join the Rock. New developments regarding the Carsello situation being discussed.

I know his dad. And he doesn't charge me.

Also, at some point, I presume NU will eventually remove its head from its *** and give me a way to donate to NIL again. That seems more productive than discussing whether a 2028 three star long snapper is considering a visit.

CoralSpringsCat said:

Really wish you’d swallow your pride and join the Rock. New developments regarding the Carsello situation being discussed.

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phatcat_rivals223240 said:

I know his dad. And he doesn't charge me.

Also, at some point, I presume NU will eventually remove its head from its *** and give me a way to donate to NIL again. That seems more productive than discussing whether a 2028 three star long snapper is considering a visit.

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Are you a complete douche bag in real life? Or is that just your persona on the Internet?

phatcat_rivals223240 said:

I know his dad. And he doesn't charge me.

Also, at some point, I presume NU will eventually remove its head from its *** and give me a way to donate to NIL again. That seems more productive than discussing whether a 2028 three star long snapper is considering a visit.

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Here ya go!:

Major Props to Phil Mushnik of the NYPost who has been on this for years. One example, will cut and paste since it's behind a wall.


Sports media loves a gambling scandal — unless it can be ignored
By Phil Mushnick

Adam Njie Jr., who played for Iona as a freshman in 2024-25, is being held out of games by Dayton because of “eligibility concerns” related to an investigation into gambling-related activity in college basketball.

These are the greedy bosses who knew gambling would ruin sports — and cashed in anyway.

On nights that don’t necessarily include Halloween, Tom Waits has written boozy, flop-house encrusted prose and sung lousy-luck laments about such personal matters as investing in “fast women and slow horses.”

Waits also hoarsely sings of a world stuck in reverse, such as a business that “makes feet for children’s shoes.” Don’t know if he’s much into sports, but he seems to know in which direction they’ve gone.

The lift-the-barriers-on-vice legislation to legalize, invite and profit from human self-destruction has, inevitably, brought fixed sports gambling to the fore. At least, in the NBA’s case, for a couple of days.

The scandal line forms to the rear until their sensational status fades like school shootings, political assassinations and our sports subservient to money pumped from Communist China and Islamic despotic royals from the United Emirates (see the new ads carried on the backs of NBA refs).

This week’s back-of-the-newspaper, one-paragraph news — forget complicit ESPN — includes the investigation into three former Eastern Michigan University basketball players for gambling “irregularities,” and small news that Dayton is holding out transfer basketball player Adam Njie Jr. — who played for Iona last year — pending the completion of a gambling investigation.

Of course, modern nod-and-repeat sports media — journalists, to use the term recklessly — are far more concerned with national rankings that rise and fall with transfers of dubious literacy, fished and baited with NIL money to become “college” players.

But, hey, prostitution, certified and encouraged by our institutions of higher learning, is legal! Until the stuff hits the fan. And such scandals have quickly become, as a matter of sudden volume, ho-hum stuff.

Such is how it is, how it could only become, and how it will very likely remain. Making feet for children’s shoes. Carry on!