DAILY CLONE: Who gets the blame for Brendan Sorsby's clearance? (June 8, 2026)

[Paz23]

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.

Yeah, not sure on the details. If there aren't 12 teams in the conference willing to call BS on this deal, regardless of the consequences, then the conference shoulders a considerable amount of the blame.

In my opinion, it wouldn't even come to expulsion. I don't think Sorsby plays a down for Tech. I think the pressure will continue to build and TT will have no choice but to move on. I would just rather have the rest of the conference claim the moral high ground before the B1G and $EC do it.

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

Nebraska and Georgia say they will not schedule TT if Sorsby is allowed to play. According to CBS Sports. Big 12 is meeting to come up with a plan. The soap opera continues. Will our AD come out and make a stand? I would think so.

 

[Clonefan32]

If you refuse to play them over integrity concerns and the conference/NCAA counts it as a loss, what's stopping you from proving irreparable harm and getting your own TRO to not count it against your record?

 

[besserheimerphat]

**** it, every Big 12 team just declare that you aren't playing Tech this year. They go "13-0" by playing 3 games in Aug/Sept. See how that goes over with the playoff committee. See if they still have a team left after 12 weeks of practice without playing a game. I would give up a win this season to make that statement. Especially this season when we aren't expected to do much anyway.

It's a game. The results are not important. The value of sport is what it teaches about life. This is an ENORMOUS teaching/learning opportunity.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

The Big12 needs to just come out and say that if he steps foot on the field for a Big12 game then TT forfeits their 2026-2027 & 2027-2028 revenue share.
Money is the only thing that they will listen to.

 

[Pope]

The NCAA

I shake my head when people want to blame "the NCAA". The NCAA is not some independent entity. The NCAA is its membership. It's all the colleges and universities across the country. And it's the colleges and universities who are to blame. They are all putting their own selfish interests ahead of the best interests for all.

 

[FinalFourCy]

College athletics leadership

 

[Kettes]

I shake my head when people want to blame "the NCAA". The NCAA is not some independent entity. The NCAA is its membership. It's all the colleges and universities across the country. And it's the colleges and universities who are to blame. They are all putting their own selfish interests ahead of the best interests for all.

I'm curious, does this collective membership each vote on who gets what penalties for infractions of the rules? Did all members vote when SMU got the "death penalty?" Did all members vote to downgrade the penalty when KU's players were "benefited" by Adidas? Did all members vote to decide that the paper scandal at UNC wasn't that big of a deal? How does this all work?

 

[flycy]

The coach.

Talk about a slippery slope. Like they can't buy another good QB?

They couldn't last year.

 

[flycy]

Wouldn't hurt to boycott that game. Super small chance we could win anyway.

 

[Kettes]

Wouldn't hurt to boycott that game. Super small chance we could win anyway.

Super high chance the Big 12 would fine us for such action, though.

 

[Clonealways]

It seems to me, the simple thing would be for the Big 12 to declare him ineligible. Moresby, would sue but the Big 12 could immediately appeal to Federal Court in Deleware, where the Big 12 is chartered, on jurisdictional grounds. Someone needs to explain how a county/state judge has jurisdiction over schools in 8 or 9 states. Or for that matter, the NCAA. Seems like it would be a slam dunk for Federal Jurisdiction.