Texas Tech 10 Million Dollar Portal Season
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Texas Tech wants him to play. The Tech president released a long letter last month pleading for Sorsby to be eligible.
https://www.ttu.edu/president/communications/2026/2026-05-26-statement-from-president-schovanec.php
https://www.ttu.edu/president/communications/2026/2026-05-26-statement-from-president-schovanec.php
Disgusting on many levels.
We all know that is part of it.
But playing guys that shouldn’t be eligible because of ncaa clock is a different thing than playing guys that shouldn’t be eligible because of betting on games
Both set precedents, but one leads to a larger labor market, the other puts into doubt the legitimacy of games
Correction- they want him to be eligible and continue as a student athlete.
He has a medical issue in their eyes. Okay sure, keep him on the team and eligible, but it’s a medical condition that makes him unfit to play.
As the epitome of a Greenblood, Tech isn’t the brand or school some want to deliver the message, hence the emotions across the country, but there is a lot of truth in that letter.
College athletics needs change and to evolve on many things, including how technology has made betting accessible, acceptable, and mainstream. CBA and contracts are the best way
IMO Tech was willing to FOFO. Now the real decisions and endorsements are made
Not the ncaa clock I’m talking about. It’s the Tennessee law that says Tennessee and Vanderbilt don’t have to follow ncaa rules.
Enrolling at TT will be the easy part
The other 15 ADs
Nobody's mad at them. Everybody's jealous of them. Two different things.
Tech defenders on Twitter are really asking what Texas Tech has done wrong here.
Depends on what the Big12 does. If, let’s say, Pollard and Roger’s take a stand and forfeit their game. Does the Big12 come down hard on Iowa State, or do they say we understand and there is no penalty.
Nonconference contracts will be a much longer term impact. But that’s only if AD’s have a long memory, which I haven’t experienced to be the case.
There's no way anyone can set a legit gambling line on TT games this year, right?
Half the snaps will be taken by an admitted/allegedly recovering gambling addict with a long and well-documented history of gambling on college football games in ways that purposefully concealed his involvment.
Half the snaps will be taken by an admitted/allegedly recovering gambling addict with a long and well-documented history of gambling on college football games in ways that purposefully concealed his involvment.
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The impetus for the law was in large part the clock
Regardless, with or without the backing of state law, it’s fairly ubiquitous to colleges and fans that the NCAA is feckless- that you don’t have to follow the ncaa rules
Yet, no other college is exploiting that on playing guys that have been outed as betting on their games
I’m guessing in a counterfactual in which it was an elite doing this, a OSU type, the reaction would be more against the broken system. Similar to how it’s the system to blame for schools breaking NIL or rev share caps. It’s the system to hate for players getting 7th years. It’s the system to hate for poaching.
unfortunately for Tech, they aren’t the brand that people want to deliver this message
Lot of that on reddit too. Like somehow TTU's hand is being forced to play him.
You'd think they would have some sort of "activity unbecoming" clause in their contract with him, then they would at least be able to get their money back.
If TTU's 5-star backup wasn't hurt, I have to wonder if they would have stuck their neck out so far for Sorsby.
Question: If TT was on ISU's schedule this year, would you support ISU refusing to play them if Sorsby is playing?
I would vote to cancel the game, assuming the punishment from the conference is tolerable.
I would vote to cancel the game, assuming the punishment from the conference is tolerable.
He hasn’t played yet.
Are you sure they aren’t arguing about whether they have the right to play him?
They do. There will be repercussions, which they may think are unmerited, but that’s not up to them. Greenblood treatment
Wonder how it would hold up if the NCAA were to change paths of enforcement? Rather than roster restrictions or banning players, just make it an unsportsmanlike penalty to play anyone that has knowingly violated an NCAA rule. The irreparable harm is then to the team and not the player. Could you get around this injunction? I’m sure TTU would file their own lawsuit, but it seems it would be easier to put reprecussions on a school than an individual that is gone by the time the lawsuit is settled.
