Sorsby Eligible

[LexingtonThoroughblade]

Not surprised by this ruling as the playbook has constantly been to run off to court and sue the NCAA any time it issues a ruling that you don't like.

This basically establishes precedent to athletes that they can bet on their games and you know many will look into it.

This might actually lead to the gambling lobby putting pressure on Congress to issue regulation. Those companies stand to lose $$$ if gamblers steer away from NCAA games because of questions about their legitimacy.

I also continue to see the same "Well, sign a CBA!" arguments online. However, there's ZERO incentive for the players to actually agree to a CBA. They can transfer when they want, make unlimited monies, and can basically do whatever they want without consequence. Just a matter of time before someone sues on academic eligibiltiy or unlimited eligibility. They have all the power. Only way to rein that in would be schools to shut down their athletic programs in a virtual lockout for all athletes to get them to come to the table. But I'm sure some judge would void that too, coming up with some constitutional right to play sports.

 

[Catlogic1552]

Coach doesn’t have to play him, or even let him on the depth chart.

 

[King1959]

This consistent behavior of the overstepping nature of judicial courts is why I don't bash the NCAA anymore.

NCAA rules a kid that broke black/white rules that undermines the integrity of the sports.....a judge just gets to override it regardless of an organization's best interest.

I believe the NFL wasn’t gonna touch him but he’s gonna play in college? This judge is corrupt!

 

[Anon668007]

 

[*Fox2Monk*]

Not surprised by this ruling as the playbook has constantly been to run off to court and sue the NCAA any time it issues a ruling that you don't like.

This basically establishes precedent to athletes that they can bet on their games and you know many will look into it.

This might actually lead to the gambling lobby putting pressure on Congress to issue regulation. Those companies stand to lose $$$ if gamblers steer away from NCAA games because of questions about their legitimacy.

I also continue to see the same "Well, sign a CBA!" arguments online. However, there's ZERO incentive for the players to actually agree to a CBA. They can transfer when they want, make unlimited monies, and can basically do whatever they want without consequence. Just a matter of time before someone sues on academic eligibiltiy or unlimited eligibility. They have all the power. Only way to rein that in would be schools to shut down their athletic programs in a virtual lockout for all athletes to get them to come to the table. But I'm sure some judge would void that too, coming up with some constitutional right to play sports.

They can try, but courts can’t arrest people. They would need the other branches to do that and I seriously doubt it would happen. The public is starting to tire of this nonsense.

 

[Smeegs]

Coach doesn’t have to play him, or even let him on the depth chart.

LOL. You’re painfully clueless if you think Texas Tech won’t play him.

They brought him in to be the starter and were 100 percent in support of this lawsuit. Hell, they most likely paid his lawyer fees.

 

[Anon668007]

 

[Anon668007]

 

[BleedBlue747]

Sorsby still owes U of Cincinnati a million. I heard he wanted to go double or nothing on a coin flip...

 

[ZaytovenCat]

This is absolutely wild if teams won’t play TTU.

 

[SkyPrince]

I believe the NFL wasn’t gonna touch him but he’s gonna play in college? This judge is corrupt!

I hope the judge gets a hell of a lot more publicity out of this than he wants.
I hope the media puts his entire judicial career and personal life on blast.
No judge should be comfortable making a ruling just to help out a sports program.

 

[TheResistance]

So if I am a football player, I just now openly bet on my game. Why bother not to?

 

[TheResistance]

 

[HeismanWinner]

Coach doesn’t have to play him, or even let him on the depth chart.

Except considering the donors have spent this much money on the player and the attorneys, the coach will do what they want.

 

[HeismanWinner]

What I find pathetic is Tech fans and their staff supporting this.

What I find equally pathetic is that every single fan base would overwhelmingly be all about it if it was their guy. That's how tribal and shameless fans can be. Our fan base would be the same way and filled with fans who have every spin imaginable.

College athletics is scummy that the average fans have no clue how disgusting it actually is. Using young college females as "hosts" for recruiting trips to sleep with recruits, money and cars before NIL, bogus grades and degrees, people doing the athlete's online courses, and sometimes even overlooking criminal activity.

Tech is playing a guy where everyone will have to wonder if every overthrown ball or interception is him on the take or any time he runs instead of passes if it's for some prop bet.

 

[The Ganner]

What I find equally pathetic is that every single fan base would overwhelmingly be all about it if it was their guy.

Gotta disagree with this one, bud

 

[HeismanWinner]

Gotta disagree with this one, bud

I don't think so. Every fan base twists themselves in knots to defend their guy/team. Hell, we had UNC defending decades of academic fraud. We have people here who flipped on Cal the moment he became our coach. We have Alabama football and Duke basketball fans convinced they have never cheated in their lives and everything is on the up and up at all times.

Gambling is a cardinal sin but look at how Tech fans are acting. They'd flip on a dime if this was happening at Texas.

 

[Global Havok]

I don't think so. Every fan base twists themselves in knots to defend their guy/team. Hell, we had UNC defending decades of academic fraud. We have people here who flipped on Cal the moment he became our coach. We have Alabama football and Duke basketball fans convinced they have never cheated in their lives and everything is on the up and up at all times.

Gambling is a cardinal sin but look at how Tech fans are acting. They'd flip on a dime if this was happening at Texas.

Zero percent chance I'd want this guy on my team. If UK signed him after his gambling problems came out, I'd be raising hell. I'm sure I'm not alone.

 

[BBNinSCar]

Complete BS. Hope the NCAA appeals this. No room for betting for college athletes especially on own team.

The NCAA has appealed, but the college football season will be long over before the case is heard

 

[TX Wildcat]

Kansas State: “It’s f***ing bulls***,” K-State AD Gene Taylor told Ross Dellenger. “I know the kid has a problem. Well, get well and focus on your problem. It is absolutely devastating for him to be able to play when every other sport, no matter the level, deems an athlete ineligible or they are punished severely for betting on their team.”

I know little about Gene Taylor, but this stance alone should make him a candidate to be the Kentucky AD (if he wasn't 68 years old that is). Seems a little like the anti-Mitch. Need a younger AD with similar chops!

 

[HeismanWinner]

Zero percent chance I'd want this guy on my team. If UK signed him after his gambling problems came out, I'd be raising hell. I'm sure I'm not alone.

I didn't say it would be universally supported. I sure as heck wouldn't support it. I'm just saying you'd see the comments under a KSR Facebook post that have some spin for it.

 

[CB3UK]

It's all so disgusting. We've got serious problems in our society today, and here's just one more example. That judge should be disbarred. I'm not over the edge (sadly) but I am staring directly into the chasm of no longer caring about sports.

College sports is a complete joke in its present structure. Not going to list all the reasons, we all know them.

Pros....I'm a Bengals and Reds fan and they don't really give me a reason to continually care. Occasionally there needs to be a payoff.

All the stuff we overlook and sweep under the rug, all the nonsense.....at 42 I may be reaching the point of enough is enough.

For Sorsby to be ruled eligible is appalling and exposes corruption on a whole new level. This is just so bold faced and flagrant....

 

[BBNinSCar]

Every pick thrown or fumble lost by Sorsby will be evaluated as a gambling play. I hope they cut to Texas Tech games every time it happens to fan the fires of speculation.

 

[TX Wildcat]

Big 12 to talk options as Sorsby trial gets February date - ESPN

A Texas court scheduled Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby's trial against the NCAA for Feb. 8, 2027, two weeks after the College Football Playoff National Championship is scheduled to be played at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

The 99th District Court in Lubbock County, Texas, where Texas Tech is located, scheduled the trial Monday, the same day a judge granted Sorsby a temporary injunction that might clear him to play for the Red Raiders in 2026 even after the NCAA declared him ineligible for wagering on college sports.

The NCAA has already appealed Judge Ken Curry's ruling to the Court of Appeals for the Seventh District of Texas in Amarillo.

Each of the four justices in the Seventh District -- Chief Justice Judy Parker and Lawrence Doss, Alex Yarbrough and Laura Pratt -- are graduates of the Texas Tech School of Law, according to their online bios.

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Court system is a joke. Quite frankly, I am disappointed as a Native Texan. Then again, most conservative football loving states would do the same. If this was a Softball player at Missouri, she would be shunned and would have no legal support on her side.

Hope now is if the Big 12 Conference lays down some form of law (for Texas Tech using a player ruled ineligible by the NCAA). Unlikely though, as Tech would then just sue the conference and have a Tech alum judge in Lubbock preside.

I am all for forgiving the kid and supporting him in his journey to recovery from addiction. However, essentially rewarding the behavior is a terrible precedent and example to set.

Oh well, at least it isn't the Cats!

I hope Texas Tech goes 0-12 next season.

 

[Bowfreak.]

I think it is ridiculous that this kid will be able to play but this tweet really doesn't make a lot of sense. I am not taking up for UGA but schools have been playing shady guys who rape, beat and steal and commit other serious crimes. If your skill outweighs your dirtbagness you can still play SOMEWHERE. However....the one unforgivable sin in the past was gambling on your team.

 

[Runt#1969]

Gambling in any sport, as a player, is something the world sees as unacceptable and is a direct threat to the integrity of ANY sport that would allow ANY PLAYER to do it - and actually get away with it - once they've been found out.

Sorsby didn't turn himself in. He got caught. Sure, keeping him from playing college ball would hurt him financially. He made his decision regardless. He has to pay the consequences of that decision.

The judge that made that ruling is so out of touch and corrupt... that is my only conclusion. Unreal decision.

Now we've got teams actively avoiding scheduling TT. The whole Big 10 is contemplating banning playing them. I applaud that. But it shouldn't have to be. Also, my crazy thought was ...

Why not schedule TT ? Especially this year? Beat them, you got a win. Lose to them, and - I don't know - appeal to the NCAA on some basis as to him being out there in the first place? Find additional proof of him gambling as well ? I'm just thinking devil's advocate here.... NCAA should retroactively - at the end of the season - take away any wins and turn them into big L's for playing him. Ban them from Postseason play NOW. The judge can't force the NCAA NOT to vacate any wins, right ? But then again, I'm sure there is something out there that would be used against those outcomes.

What in the sam hill is the NCAA good for this day and age ?

This entire situation is bizarro world

 

[Smeegs]

Each of the four justices in the Seventh District -- Chief Justice Judy Parker and Lawrence Doss, Alex Yarbrough and Laura Pratt -- are graduates of the Texas Tech School of Law, according to their online bios.

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Court system is a joke. Quite frankly, I am disappointed as a Native Texan. Then again, most conservative football loving states would do the same. If this was a Softball player at Missouri, she would be shunned and would have no legal support on her side.

Jeez, talk about a fixed deck. So it appears the appeal will be rigged too.

Trying to find a fair and impartial judge in West Texas when it comes to TTU football sounds like a near impossible task. Like a prosecutor trying to get a conviction from a jury full of the defendant’s family members.

 

[Wayne Dougan]

My Devil's Advocate Position: Allowing zero friction on-line sports gambling caused this. Our society cannot be up in arms about some 22-year old gambling on football games when we a) got suckered into allowing it and b) every other effing commercial pushes opening an app on your smart phone and betting on sports.

There's a reason why gambling was illegal for so long. It is not good for society.

But since that can of worms is open, we should it least make it where you have to go somewhere to place a bet. Doing it on-line is way to easy for abuse.

 

[blueblood2767]

Any College that has them on their schedule needs to cancel that event. No matter what sport it may be. This is a boycott. You will see how quickly this gets over turned,

 

[Starrcade]

 

[TeamAmerica]

Any College that has them on their schedule needs to cancel that event. No matter what sport it may be. This is a boycott. You will see how quickly this gets over turned,

Georgia talks the talk but lets see if they refuse to play if the 2 end up matched up in the playoffs. After this I'm not sure how any school can suspend somebody for gambling on their own games.

 

[rick64]

This could get really interesting if these schools follow through and boycott games vs TT.

 

[TeamAmerica]

This could get really interesting if these schools follow through and boycott games vs TT.

They will for women's soccer or men's tennis.

 

[BleedBlue747]

Big win for degenerate college gamblers..

 

[Mainraker]

My Devil's Advocate Position: Allowing zero friction on-line sports gambling caused this. Our society cannot be up in arms about some 22-year old gambling on football games when we a) got suckered into allowing it and b) every other effing commercial pushes opening an app on your smart phone and betting on sports.

There's a reason why gambling was illegal for so long. It is not good for society.

But since that can of worms is open, we should it least make it where you have to go somewhere to place a bet. Doing it on-line is way to easy for abuse.

Damn, WW you actually made an intelligent post. Couldn't agree more

 

[TheResistance]

 

[Smeegs]

You’d think the Texas Attorney General would have far more compelling matters upon which to bring legal action on behalf of the entire state of Texas.

I bet a lot his constituents (like Baylor, TCU and Houston fans) ain’t on board with this idea.

 

[Snarks]

I don’t understand the judges argument that he would suffer irreparable harm if not allowed to play. Isn’t that the point?!?!

What if he killed someone? Wouldn’t he suffer irreparable harm by going to prison? Makes no sense to me, other than home cooking by a judge.

 

[UKCowboys]

It really cracks me up that the NCAA could keep Enes Kanter, who absolutely should have been eligible, from playing basketball for UK but they let this turd play for TT after betting on his own teams games. What a joke

 

[Smeegs]

It really cracks me up that the NCAA could keep Enes Kanter, who absolutely should have been eligible, from playing basketball for UK but they let this turd play for TT after betting on his own teams games. What a joke

You don’t seem to have any clue what’s going here.

It ain’t the NCAA that’s “letting this turd play.” Instead, the NCAA is vehemently opposed to Sorsby playing. They ruled that he was permanently banned from ever playing CFB again.