I am absolutely shocked that no one has sued yet for the eligibility to play beyond the 4 or 5 years that’s allowed per “rules”
Texas Tech 10 Million Dollar Portal Season
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I am hoping every opposing fanbase chants “Cheaters” every time this known sleazeball takes the field. He knew what he was doing - hope every OL on his team does the toreador move and lets him get crushed by the defense. He is untrustworthy and a liar. He plays for himself and they better watch their backs. His loyalty is not to them or TTU. That coach should be fired for allowing him on the team. What a disgrace to the Big XII!
Sorsby: Sorry officer I know i was speeding but driving the speed limit makes me sad.
Judge: Understood, have a great day sir
Judge: Understood, have a great day sir
I think this exact scenario plays out more often than you you think - everyday.
I'm with you, but the answer is they're kind of between a rock and a hard place. You can't take a moral stand against this or that aspect of college athletics while continuing to play the game and expect to effect any changes. (While not a president, I think Pollard threaded a needle, because he didn't say anything hypocritical, he basically said "We're going to keep playing the game, but there won't be many schools left standing if guardrails aren't put in place.") I think schools like Northwestern should say to h*** with it and just focus on academics. But then there'd probably be now-wealthy alumni who ran cross country or played field hockey in an uproar about how athletics was every bit as integral to their college experience as the education they received, and they won't stand for you opting out of the circus (never mind that college athletics is completely different than it was even eight years ago, let alone when these people were playing). And even if you did opt out, as soon as you did no one would listen to your opinions of what's wrong with college athletics, because they could dismiss you as yelling from outside the club
If your point is that presidents could band together and decide to put an end to the madness, I guess that's true in theory. But how could you possibly trust that others wouldn't agree to something verbally but keep playing the game and try to squeeze you out?
Yup that's been my point all along - These schools and athletes voluntarily decided to play under the NCAA's rules. Now they don't like the rules and want to fight/sue the NCAA on these rules.
I am just saying each college president take care of their own university. The TTU president could put an end to the Sorsby nonsense. Instead he applauded it.
Because he knows if he comes out against it he will no longer be the President at Texas Tech.
So? If I had to do something immoral to keep my job, I would quit in a heartbeat. Or get fired. I wouldn’t stay. It used to be college presidents took stands for the common good.
Ah, sorry for broadening it out then. But since Tech isn't going to opt out of the circus, it goes to my first point. What if their president put his foot down, but the same thing happened with a Texas player next year, they challenged the NCAA, and "won"? Tech's president would be looking for a new job, as @Cyballzz said
The argument for that is a helluva lot better than the argument to allow Sorsby to play.....
Plenty of university presidents have turned a blind eye to cheating in athletics for the entire time athletics have existed. This is hardly a new concept. University Presidents like to do anything they can to keep their own power and paychecks coming in. This guy has 3.8 million reasons to play nice with athletics.
I must admit, I actually didn't think a judge would allow this. Not generally a fan of "slippery slope" arguments but gotta say hard not to think about what's coming related to eligibility.
I carry the opinion that at this point, NCAA should threaten to go home. Make an announcement that says a year from now, the NCAA is disbanding all sports and all student support systems at all divisional levels due to being legally-unable to provide an integrity-based system of athletics. Put a date on it and loudly proclaim it.
States will then have dozens of very angry colleges breathing down their government officials' necks to fix the sports systems they depend on for money, advertising, recruitment, enrollment, community investment and involvement, etc. It's not all in a waste of money in a vacuum (if it was, nobody would do it). It all serves various purposes to the schools and their communities, so... NCAA should threaten to kill it all overnight and force government to finally take action one way or another.
Universities don't have presidents anymore. They have chief fundraisers.
The entire higher education system is broken and sports are just the most public facing example.
Absolutely outrageous. I’m officially out on college football until whatever the new normal is comes to fruition.
Cyclones players gamble and get banned for life. Big money players gamble and there’s no recourse at all.
Absolute ********.
Cyclones players gamble and get banned for life. Big money players gamble and there’s no recourse at all.
Absolute ********.
Can we go a day without something stupid happening in this sport?
