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The long play of recruiting AJ Swinton has finally paid off
And the staffs recruiting ability. We are in the ballpark with NIL offers in most of these kids, but a lot of these commits left higher offers on the table to come to VT
Holy shit dude.
Sorsby personally chose to gamble perpetually using a "patsy" account to do so. In doing this, he tacitly acknowledged that what he was doing was not permissible. He understood it was his responsibility to not do this, yet he personally chose to do it anyways.
His own personal decision to do this is the only reason his eligibility is in question in the first place.
Beyond just choosing to gamble, he made the conscious, personal decision to gamble on his own team.
If he placed 60 or 60k bets on NBA and MLB games, this is a non-story.
There is no one else here to blame but Brendan Sorsby. Period.
No institution, not Indiana, not Texas Tech and certainly not the NCAA forced him to choose to gamble. They, in fact, discouraged him from doing so, yet he personally chose to ignore this.
At this point, Texas Tech probably has already paid out some portion of his NIL... and there is probably at the very least some effort to prevent losing out on their investment.
Beyond that, Sorsby is an adult who has every option to ignore Cody Campbell et al. and enter the NFL supplemental draft, acknowledging that what he has done questions the Integrity of every competition he's involved in going forward.
But I forgot, he's a college athlete and deserves no scrutiny of his behavior whatsoever-- just a bag of money and a free lawyer every time someone refuses continue to pay him to play.
Its the difference between true contrition and "going through the motions" while hiding behind a dubious mental disorder in order to keep paychecks rolling in.
The King comes home
There's an easy way to fix this. Just legalize all betting. Prop bets for every damn player.
The players will have no fucking clue what to do
Apparently he broke the NJCAA javelin chuckin record last month
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nba-fans-left-confused-lebron-13300083...
As Track Gazette reported, LeBron James broke the NJCAA men's javelin record with a huge throw in New Mexico.
"LeBron James breaks the NJCAA Record in the men's Javelin Throw with a 77.91m heave in New Mexico! He broke the record of 76.29m set by Markim Felix in 2018 to win the NJCAA title," the tweet revealed.
The athlete is a sophomore javelin thrower at New Mexico Junior College, not the Lakers superstar.
How can you say this is a personal responsibility issue when Texas Tech is doing everything possible to keep this kid eligible?
Why do we not ask expect our institutions to be equally as responsible?
I think that statement is true.
The ncaa has no legal means to enforce their bylaws because they avoided collective bargaining, paying their labor market rates, etc. They left themselves legally exposed for decades in pursuit of maximizing revenue under the guise of amateurism, and now, when a problem comes along that they are actually fit to solve, it's too late; they've burnt all of their social capital. They have no choice but to try to get legislation passed in the most divided political landscape of my lifetime.
They probably could've gotten an anti-trust exemptions two decades ago with very friendly terms, and this would all be a non issue. But they held out because they didn't want to revenue share with their labor.
Congrats you played yourself
Can that Marlin play oline?
We seem to be entering (in?) an era when any semblance of personal responsibility can be easily explained away by the simple pressures of society and consumerism.
Amen
As much as I love to fish, tournament fishing has never had any appeal at all to me, and marlin don't interest me either. Hate to see them kill those big fish, though. Can't eat them, really seems like a waste to me. 6 mil. is quite an incentive, but to me, it ain't fishin'.
If its anything like other marlin tournaments, its early in the week. And that $6mil is assuming no other marlins are caught or those in all the Calcutta categories dont bring anything good to the scales. Prob will be in the 2ish range when all is said and done.
6 million for a record marlin??
I was vacationing at Nags Head in 2008 and one of the boats in the marlin tournament at Pirate's Cove brought in the state record - over 1200 lbs and laying flat it came up above my knee, crazy fish!
What an absolute unit
That's funny, I have a similar story. Played today for first time since February and February was my first round coming off ankle surgery in June 2026.
No driving range or warm up and shot a 77. My little 10 year old cousin who joined us for the first time thought I was some kind of a semi pro.
However this is the bed that the NCAA, athletic conferences, universities, and the Mouse have been making for years and it has now resulted in this train wreck of a situation.
The first part of this statement is patently false. The NCAA Bylaw 10.3 on Gambling is remarkably clear regarding gambling on any NCAA event and a permanent ban for any betting on ones own team. And the Conferences and school are all required to educate every player on the Bylaws, monitor, and self-report any suspected violations. Suggesting that they are in bed with Gambling Operations is (at the very best) disingenuous.
Regarding ESPN, yes, they and nearly every other broadcaster have a plethora of Gambling App ads during nearly every bit of Programing including NCAA Sports. But the NCAA has zero control over advertising during non-NCAA-controlled events (i.e. March Madness). ESPN, Fox and others sell their ad time to the highest bidder. Alcohol producers, Car companies, and Gambling companies are all heavily featured.
But this is utterly irrelevant to an individual player making a decision to knowingly break Bylaws. To make a leap of logic that because ESPN airs Gambling App commercials that they somehow have some vicarious liability for Brendan Sorsby Gambling 60,000 times is utterly ridiculous.
Its the same kind of leap of logic that one would have to take to be convinced that using Sports Gambling as a treatment for anxiety makes even one iota of sense.
Sometimes the world needs to call a spade a spade and the truth here is that Sorsby got caught gambling then scrambled to create an illusion of remorse and used a P.R. team and lawyers provided by Texas Tech Boosters to concoct a story that was nothing but utter bullshit.
Hopefully if he drops it, the NCAA vacates all Texas Tech wins
Yeah, we've been surprised how much is closed Monday and Tuesday. We didn't expect it after Memorial Day.
Remember the old Notre Dame-Miami rivalry? 'Catholics vs. Convicts' back when SI was a real magazine that still had real reporters doing real stories.
There was also the Barry Switzer Oklahoma days. Was an article (I think it was SI) with the image being a play diagraming the Oklahoma offense running a play with the defensive players being symbolized by police cars and how the blocking scheme would let the Oklahoma back get through the cops.
played 9 holes this morning; other than a few trips to the range, first golf since early October. Recuperating parts hung in there and I decided not to press my luck with the second 9. Will get out there again in a couple weeks.
shot +3...all things considered, am quite pleased
