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DAILY CLONE: Who gets the blame for Brendan Sorsby's clearance? (June 8, 2026)
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I hear "Boycott Tech" a bunch right now, but I don't know what that really means. Does it mean don't show up for games against Tech? Do they just win the season by default? I'm seriously confused how boycotting them works.
This ruling shows what we always have known, any school that self reports is only hurting themselves. Over and over we see the best course of action for the school and the athlete is to lawyer up and sue. Just like in the real world, those with the money are making the decisions. The rules and regulations, what is moral, and do the right thing no longer matters, its all about the money and those that have it and use to to maintain power.
Outside of following what happens with Iowa State during the season, college sports are irrelevant to me now. I won't be watching a single football game this season unless I happen to have some free time and Iowa State is playing. I couldn't care less about the rest. I feel like millions of other previous diehard fans from all over the country are feeling the same. It just takes turning off the TV on Saturdays before any real change for the positive will occur.
I concur. They sat back and raked in the money for years and weren't prepared to deal with any of this.
I don’t get it the book was thrown at dekkers for lesser amounts. If I was Hunter I would be going like “wtf man”
Never forget a coaching staff that will allow a player to play when they know that the rule was broke. Character is still important in life.
I think the lesson is Dekkers should have sued the NCAA. But Iowa judges aren't elected, they probably won't feel like they need to grant stupid TROs to popular sports teams' players to be reelected.
Worth the read.
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The Hidden Weapon in Sorsby’s Injunction: How a Lubbock County Court Order Quietly Neutralized the NCAA’s Most Powerful Enforcement Tool - Law Offices of Snell & Wilmer
By Ryan J. Regula On June 8, 2026, Lubbock County District Court Judge Ken Curry issued a temporary injunction in Brendan Sorsby v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, Cause No. DC-2026-CV-0791 (99th Judicial District, Lubbock County, Texas), ordering the National Collegiate Athletic...
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This x 1,000. While it wasn't close to perfect before, college athletics is, at breakneck speed, now turning into the most blatantly ludicrous example of a sports league ever, let alone a sports league associated with academic institutions and supposed students. Let the whole enchilada burn to the ground and take the greedy, childlike aristocrats and oligarchs with it.
Crazy take to blame the NCAA for not paying amateurs 20-30 years ago. The NCAA issue was not enforcing the rules they had consistently against the big dogs. Allowing gambling at all on college sports leads to this. Do folks not understand that most gamblers lose money and those with a problem lose more than they can afford. The way players get roped in to throwing points or games is more often because of debt than profit. Any gambling by a player opens them to this possibility. A good portion of Frost's pay out when Nebraska fired him was paid directly to the Casinos according to a friend of mine who works there. Terrible decision by a court that is hopefully overturned soon.
Worth the read.
The Hidden Weapon in Sorsby’s Injunction: How a Lubbock County Court Order Quietly Neutralized the NCAA’s Most Powerful Enforcement Tool - Law Offices of Snell & Wilmer
By Ryan J. Regula On June 8, 2026, Lubbock County District Court Judge Ken Curry issued a temporary injunction in Brendan Sorsby v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, Cause No. DC-2026-CV-0791 (99th Judicial District, Lubbock County, Texas), ordering the National Collegiate Athletic...
So as the NCAA is a national organization, why would Texas state law apply? Couldn’t the NCAA go to a federal judge and reverse the injunction based on jurisdiction immediately?
This guy should never appear in another athletic contest of any kind any where.
Plenty of blame to go around, but the entity with the most weight to throw around is the Big 12 conference. I believe expulsion requires a supermajority (12/16), so why is that not being set in motion? The Big 10 is moving to prevent its members from competing against Tech in anything. Not sure if the $EC has weighed in as a conference, but I don't think that matters. There are enough schools in the ACC that would say FU, all the Big 10 apparently is saying FU in unison and Texas and A&M would never allow Tech to join the $EC, even if they were not in the midst of one of the biggest PR nightmares in NCAA history.
At least put it out there, Yormark. Make Cody Campbell get a yellow legal pad out and figure out how much needs to come out of his wallet to field an independent from Lubbock with only G6 opponents to choose from.
At least put it out there, Yormark. Make Cody Campbell get a yellow legal pad out and figure out how much needs to come out of his wallet to field an independent from Lubbock with only G6 opponents to choose from.
Small detail, but I would think it would be 12/15 as uninterested parties. With Tech being the last Texas State school, do they have 4 holdouts? I’d assume TCU and Baylor would get enough pressure to vote no even though they aren’t part of the Texas public system.
But can 12 teams get together and just put the vote out there to get results would be the question. But I don’t see 12 teams following through with it with how difficult it will be to replace them.
Because a state of Texas judge ruled Sorsby eligible, is that only valid in games played in Texas?
Could a KS judge say that Sorsby is ineligible for any games he plays in Kansas (KSU or KU)?
Could a KS judge say that Sorsby is ineligible for any games he plays in Kansas (KSU or KU)?
Everyone blames the NCAA for everything. The NCAA is nothing more than the member institutions. The NCAA doesn't break the rules. The members do. The problem it is a volunteer organization and state laws can override the NCAA. It is also subject to the whims of its members. It is a flawed system.
It operated with the good old boy network of NCAA and School President and AD's for years. But as with all flawed systems, it unraveled, mostly because the members broke rules and then got courts to largely keep rules from being enforced. Money got in the way in so many cases. However, gambling has always been the "line to far" but again the money chips away. Gambling sites. States relying on gambling income to pay the bills. Gambling dollars in the budgets of college sports. Crumble. Crumble. Crumble. So, now in addition to member institutions, we have the fans and gambling. It was always going to end this way. Somewhere.
It operated with the good old boy network of NCAA and School President and AD's for years. But as with all flawed systems, it unraveled, mostly because the members broke rules and then got courts to largely keep rules from being enforced. Money got in the way in so many cases. However, gambling has always been the "line to far" but again the money chips away. Gambling sites. States relying on gambling income to pay the bills. Gambling dollars in the budgets of college sports. Crumble. Crumble. Crumble. So, now in addition to member institutions, we have the fans and gambling. It was always going to end this way. Somewhere.
I totally disagree with this statement. The NCAA clearly had favorites that it looked the other way with and times they dropped the hammer on teams that weren't favored. This lack of consistency eroded any faith people had in the NCAA.
Boycotting isn't the solution. If ISU were to unilaterally decide not to play Tech, then it would be a loss for Iowa State. IMO sanity will win out, either the courts or Big12 or CFP Committee will take action.
Sorsby's lawyers argument of mental health issue seems like a very slippery slope in sports. His "gambling addiction" fortunately didn't impact game results. But would it open the door for athletes taking performance drugs for body image/mental health benefits.
