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# | FSU softball losing two of their best players means ACC softball will be wide open next season. 
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April 1976 @ Burruss. I still have the ticket stub.
Unfortunately, even with rules, I think with the amount of money being thrown we're going to continue to see a lot of litigation and backdoor settlements. We live in a very litigous society, and rules and laws don't keep people from hiring a lawyer and filing suit for anything they think they can get a dollar for. Watch daytime television or look at the billboards off the interstate in a metropolitan area. We're living that dream.
MEH. 😕
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# | FSU softball losing two of their best players means ACC softball will be wide open next season. 
That approach will make you miss a lot of interesting places and experiences.
Messi made a spikes up tackle from behind which landed on a guy's calf with no play on the ball.
My comment was meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek and maybe I should have made that clear.
And "NIL" is more of a moniker for this entire era of Paying Players, Unlimited Transfer, and Erratic Eligibility rulings, because one doesn't know what else to call it.
The point is that Rules and Standards need to exist so that we don't have schools suing former players, Players suing the NCAA, and Conferences suing their members as the pathway to enforcing any Regulations.
While this situation may be "extreme"---it's also a clear demonstration of how off the rails that this "system" has become. And it essentially opens a pathway for a player to break any rule that they want and simply sue and posture until someone (in this case Texas Tech) decides the legal bills are too costly to be worth it.
What part of your brain determines which sandwiches you eat?
The subconscious
A true NIL would benefit more a charismatic guy like Rogers that was a Fullback that ate through our hearts to become a respected leader and real lunchpail guy.
BEER
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# | FSU softball losing two of their best players means ACC softball will be wide open next season. I day left Franklin loose on this recruitment. The guy seems on a roll.
Or the kid on the golf team gets suspended for washing their car by the cart barn.
While this case is a circus, it hasn't harmed the thousands of other athletes that have benefitted from the NIL and loosened rules. I'd dare say the ones hurt here are the ones that decided to attempt to invest millions into a kid in a wildly unregulated market...but they made a conscious decision on their own to do so.
Who is NIL really helping more....College Athletes or Law Firms???
I think for every big blow up in eligibility/payment shenanigans we hear about there are probably dozens of instances where a relatively unknown player gets to have a few bucks in their pocket where they would previously be unable to buy a coffee for fear of "impermissible benefits". Most NIL deals are really not all that much.
Obviously there need to be more guardrails, but remember the days when a student on a swim team scholarship couldn't host a summer swim camp for kids for fear of losing a scholarship?
I get GGCs sentiment but this does still hurt. I was pretty confident in this one with the momentum we had and an instant impact position but the shoe goes on because we have a solid class base.
I saw Golden Earring at Pucillo Gymnasium. Great Show.
UNC vs Oklahoma for the finals. Best of 3.
Saturday 8pm on ESPN.
Sunday 230pm on ABC.
Monday if necessary. 7pm on ESPN
Pounded UGA 11-4.
With zero actual rulings so far. Curious if Big 12 follows through to establish its rights regardless that Sorsby is gone.
So let's play count the Lawsuits:
1) Cincinnati Suing Sorsby for Breach of NIL Contract
2) Sorsby Suing NCAA to try to Overturn Loss of Eligibility
3) BIG XII Suing Texas Tech and Ken Paxton
One Player, 3 associated Lawsuits--in a 6 month span no less. Who is NIL really helping more....College Athletes or Law Firms???
Lawsuit is still pending.
Sorry if I dont put much credence in the word of an agent that chose to continue representing Sorsby, apparently with full knowledge of what he was doing. He put these allegations out there but provided ZERO evidence to back it up. Color me skeptical. If he knew, the NCAA should seek a way to bar him from representing any NCAA players.
Cincinnati is still suing Sorsby for $1M for breaking his NIL/Rev Share deal with them.
Sorsby in dropping his suit is saying Texas Tech told him they couldn't play for them too. So much for all their shenanigans.
QB Brendan Sorsby's attorneys have filed a voluntary motion to dismiss his case in Texas court, stating that Texas Tech informed him on Monday that he could not play for the Red Raiders this season. pic.twitter.com/0oIRROtFCT— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) June 18, 2026
I saw Elvis Costello at Burrus. Great show.
Not really sure what the Agent's angle is here....
It doesn't necessarily make Sorsby look better per se.
Seems to lend some credence to Cincy having blown the whistle on Sorsby to the NCAA but waiting until he entered the Portal to do so. At one point, they were Suing Sorsby for breach of his NIL contract there, so it clearly wasn't an amicable parting.
So I guess this is the Agent trying to make Cincy look bad--which if they did hold on to the Gambling info for more than a year before reporting what they were made aware of, that is pretty underhanded.
Last I checked, Cincy didn't sue anyone to keep him on the field.
Just be good, deep, and win!
Now Sorsby's agent is telling the world that Cincy knew all about his gambling and did nothing. Cincy denying everything...
What are the writers of this series going to think of next?!?
Softball the last two years, ever since the Canady to Texas Tech deal has really accelerated with high profile moves to the top spending programs, possibly moreso than Football due to the smaller pool of teams spending exorbitant amounts on Softball.
The SEC has four elite spenders which is pushing a few more to elevate their spending.
Tennessee
Texas
Oklahoma
New to the party Alabama
Outside of those four, Big 10 has three elite spenders
UCLA
Oregon
New to the party Nebraska
Outside of P2 there is really only Texas Tech.
Second tier spending
About half the SEC
Only Indiana and possibly Michigan from Big 10
FSU, Duke, Stanford, Virginia Tech
Oklahoma State and Arizona from Big 12
Grand Canyon University
After that its pretty even across the rest of P4 programs