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We do hold bartenders accountable if they over-serve someone. Dram shop laws are a thing...
In the sorsby case, he (sorsby), TTU, and the gambling companies are all acting irresponsibly/unethically IMO. I know Sorsby was using his BIL's account to place bets, but he was doing it from his device.
I have a friend who was kicked off the apps for being too good at betting, and beating the house over and over again, so he has mules who place bets for him. The companies don't give him or his mules 165 bets - he's getting between 3 and 35 before getting kicked off and/or has his max wager limited.
To me, this is no different than cigerette companies hiding information on addiction, or how Meta and YouTube were recently found to be negligent.
EDIT: friendly reminder that prize picks flagged Sorsby and stopped him from creating account in 2025 - The attempt triggered an alert from ProhiBet, an app-monitoring software installed on all NCAA student-athletes' phones (source). So UC knew about this. Prize Picks knew about this. Other schools/companies could have figured it out and didn't care to.
...and they all end up in a dumpster afterwards.
The fish or the archers?
This is where you say, "I've always wanted to rent a motorcycle and drive across Ireland. I'll meet you at the next stop."
I wonder if TT can put all his NIL money in an escrow account payable if he wins his court case and claim it back if the court case fails.
Near Galway, me and Mars MattBoard ended up at Connemara Celtic Crystal where they still handcut all of their crystal. They gave a pretty amazing demonstration showing their process and talked about the history of the art form as well as showing off some of their pieces
We picked up some whisky glasses (which made it back home before we did). The owner did caution us though that they could only hold Irish whisky. Bourbon would cause them to shatter immediately.
Edit: also, ireland gets a lot of US visitors so many of the shops are accustomed to shipping stuff direct to the US at a good price so you don't have to carry everything around with you while you travel. Mrs MattBoard also had a wool jacket shipped back this way.
I took a similar trip to Scotland last year with my extended family. There was 16 of us including 5 kids aged 6 to 15. Take some good books to read for your travels and do your best to relax and take it all in. Find some good pubs at your stops and talk to some locals. I was similarly dreading my trip a bit but I really enjoyed it.
Found this on reddit. Texas Tech is denying their involvement to those who call in. I'm just surprised they're not making any public statement in order to get out in front of this.
Reddit: To all Red Raiders and Texas Tech fans that do not support Sorsby or our admin....
Being respectful actually got me a phone call with Marcy Tyler, Kirby Hocutt's (our AD) personal assistant. She confirmed there's been a massive outpouring of emails from fans and alumni opposing Sorsby playing. She also wanted fans to know that Tech suspended him when this came to light, and the lawyers involved are not affiliated with Texas Tech in any way, and Texas Tech was kinda just left holding the bag. More importantly though, his office is encouraging us to keep sending emails. As long as they stay respectful, they're being organized specifically for Kirby Hocutt to read; he's getting the message. Keep it going. If you disagree with this decision, please RESPECTFULLY make your voice heard.
Reading into that quote and the email addresses in the reddit post, it looks like the AD the AD's assistant is trying to influence the football people under the AD and the AD himself. Seems to me like he could make this really easy and suspend Sorsby, but doesn't want to be seen as doing that for fear of getting sued. This is just getting ridiculous. Have some stones, Hocutt!
Edited as I didn't read the quote that closely.
2nd Edit: There's a Georgia Tech grad that commented: "Shoot, I am a Tech grad! Not gonna tell them which Tech tho"
I suspect - don't know, but suspect - a main reason for the contracts being written so heavily weighted towards what the players want and so poorly structured from the school's standpoint is that the schools believe (probably correctly) that if they offered more balanced or school-friendly terms, the players would just go somewhere else and no one any good would sign with them.
It varies a lot by school. B10 has a standard rev share contract template and gives schools the option to make the contract between the school, the conference, and the player. The schools still tweak it.
I would also argue that most of these contracts are slanted heavily in favor of the school. From the NACUA:
the SEC contract prohibits an athlete from entertaining a competitive offer while under contract. The Big Ten contract allows a school a continuous right to adjust NIL pay. Neither contract guarantees pay for athletes, but athletes can be required to reimburse schools for leaving the institution. Schools have a right to terminate an NIL contract at their discretion. Athletes have no correlative right to terminate their contract. A school can extend the term of an NIL contract past the deadline for a player to enter the transfer portal. The player receives no independent consideration for portal forbearance. If the player enters the portal while under contract, the player owes damages to the school. As form contracts, these agreements leave little or no room for negotiation. The
amount of compensation is negotiable—but seemingly, nothing else. And even that amount is subject to a school's unilateral rights for reducing pay or clawing back expended money.
In the Sorsby case - I think this is just a case of TTU/Cody Campbell wanting to win at all costs. Last year QB play was arguably what held them back. Now they want to fix that.
Kind of dreading my extended family trip to Ireland and Northern Ireland. I have done the tour of both many years ago but being on a bus for 10 days with 18 family members just has me on edge. Any specific escapes I should shoot for?
We are starting in Dublin. Going to Galway, Doolin, Shannon, Tralee, Dingle, Killarney, Kinsale, Cork, Kilkenny, and Glendalough. My sister seems to have overpacked all the tourist spots along the route.
Probably only extra time would be for food or maybe a short drive once we reach a stopping point for the day.
Bow fishing tournaments are the worst. They shoot and arrow through the fish and they all end up in a dumpster afterwards.
You beat me to it. Sorsby becoming ineligible should have had somebody at TT saying okay, we revoke any further NIL payments and sue him to recover what has already been spent. He signed a NIL contract under false pretenses knowing he wasn't eligible due to gambling.
I will be down that way week after next with my family. I've been once before but caught covid during our trip so my details on eateries is foggy. It's a nice beach community and I'm curious as to any info from others.
Extended family trip to Carolina Beach next week. I've been to Wilmington a bunch for work but always fly in and out in less than a day so I'm really only familiar with PTs and Tower 7 (which aren't even close to our beach house). Any food recs that could accommodate large parties (plus children) closer to Carolina itself?
DC has terrible bbq (outside of 2Fifty) so I would love to hit that if possible. I'm also always down for Mexican or burgers (as evidenced by my Tower 7 and PTs familiarity). Looks like there is a K38 close by the house (which I've also had), I will likely drag the family to that one day.
Feels like two side of the same coin to me. Or more maybe accurately, a particular instance exposing a larger systemic dysfunction (feature?) of LSC.
I suspect even a young marlin would be pretty bad, maybe filets could be smoked or something if hard pressed for food, I dunno. Marlin have a lot of meat, and somebody must have eaten some along the way, but those tourney fish are just not eaten. Maybe they go to a cat food factory or something, a less than productive way to treat your big fish that are the most important in the species genes. But, big bucks covers a lot of doubts and like flyguy says, there are some limits which, if enforced, should be helpful in balancing the harm.
THANK YOU!!!
Bob goes to convenient store and buys a case of beer. Proceeds to drink half the case then decides to hop in his car, gets busted for DUI.
Who do we blame here?
The convenient store clerk who sold Bob the beer? The Brewing Company that created the beer that Bob drank? The TV Network that aired commercials with fun, attractive young people drinking the same beer that Bob consumed? The car company that manufactured the car that Bob drove drunk? Bob's Attorney who argued for the lightest penalty possible for Bob?
Or Bob who knew what he was doing was wrong yet chose to do it anyways. Sorsby is Bob here. This isn't a hard concept.
Cody Campbell showed he is absolutely tone deaf to what's going on by posting on Twitter promoting the Protect College Sports Act that he has been trying to get passed and an op ed he wrote for USA Today as if his involvement in the Sorsby matter didnt happen.
If Texas Tech didnt insert a morals clause in every agreement then they deserve to take the financial hit of paying Sorsby his agreed upon sum. If they did insert it and are choosing not to exercise their right to terminate it shows they have zero integrity as an NCAA member school. The rule is still in black and white regardless of the court ruling.
From a Texas Tech viewpoint, what would be cheaper at this point? Paying Sorsby his $5M to go away or losing the ability to schedule opponents in ALL sports from half of Division 1 if the conferences follow through. Big 10 met twice yesterday and are expected to meet again today to finalize their decision. SEC is working to schedule a meeting to make a decision. Big 12 is planning to meet to discuss all potential pathways regarding Texas Tech. Jim Phillips has made some comments but have not seen any plans for ACC to meet. Even if none of those happen, the social media shitshow is likely going to cost them as well as there are people at work pushing Texas Tech sponsor companies to drop their agreements with the school.
Somehow every discussion topic falls back into politics...
I'm headed into a busy stretch of golf, with my club's 9-hole league match tonight, a one-day tournament tomorrow at Acushnet River Valley CC tomorrow (never played there), then going right into my club's 3-day MM on Friday.
I started out this season playing great, index went down to a 7.3, and I had regained 10-15 yards on my woods & hybrids. I thought that all the leg work and rehab I had done on my surgically ill-repaired knee (had a PRP injection in it 9 weeks ago, which has definitely taken an edge off of the pain) had led to a major break-through. But as we all know, golf is not like that. I have been going through a rough stretch the past couple of weeks with swinging too hard, loss of tempo, etc. Even my short game, which is my strength, has been spotty. I need to get back to just feeling like I'm dropping the head of the club onto the ball & swinging easy again. It's the same cycle I have been on for 20 years. Two weeks of good/average play, one week of excellent play, then swing mechanics fall apart and have a week or so of struggles.
I need to regain my swing and confidence quickly. It will happen, just hopefully starting today.
I think the original comment had less to do about football and more to do about the state of the country
That particular point wasn't necessarily about the merits of Pavia's argument (which I think were poor) but more so the fact that Aguilar essentially made the same argument with different results.
If someone is really an advocate for the players, they should be an advocate for a system that treats them equally. Not one that delves out decisions based on who can afford the best lawyer and manipulate the system to get their case in front of the friendliest judge.
So the other point to understand here is that Texas Tech inherited this problem.
By all accounts I can find, they were not aware of the gambling until April when they were tipped off by a law enforcement investigative process.
This is when Sorbsy all of a sudden came clean about the devastating anxiety that only Sports gambling could solve while he was at his prior schools.
The kind of crippling anxiety that makes it totally possible for you to throw touchdown passes under intense pressure while being chased around by 310 lb defensive lineman and screamed at by 80,000 fans on the stands....
Now could and should have Texas Tech have handled this completely differently? Yes. Would we all like to think that 98% of the rest of college institutions would have cut Sorbsy loose? Hopefully.
But when there are no rules that are actually enforcable, you leave that decision to the venerable academic institution that is Texas Tech University.
And if anyone thought they were going to do the right thing, I have beachfront property in Alaska for them as well.
But if the NCAA were allowed to actually enforce rules that I think 99.9% of us can agree are more than reasonable, you leave Cody Campbell and his shitty oil money out of the equation entirely.
It can be an issue of personal responsibility and Texas Tech can also be 100% wrong in what they're doing at the same time. Unless Texas Tech was actively influencing the young man to make bets that violate a number of clearly published rules governing the league in which he plays, I don't see how they have anything to do with the original issues. They 100% own how they handled the issues on their end, and I hope there are severe consequences for not simply kicking him off the team, but the two scenarios are not the same.
I find this so hard to believe.