"It's sickening that if you don't hear what you like, you can just go to your local judge and find the answer that you want. I just don't know where this ends." – @KirkHerbstreit on the Brendan Sorsby situation

I understand why people are uncomfortable with the Brendan Sorsby situation. Betting on sports as a college athlete is serious. Betting connected to your own team creates an obvious integrity concern. Nobody has to minimize that. But there is another side to this that college football people should at least be honest enough to acknowledge. When a player becomes part of your program, he becomes part of your football family. That does not mean you excuse everything. It does not mean accountability disappears. It means you do not abandon him the second the situation becomes difficult, public, or uncomfortable. There is a difference between defending the person and defending the mistake. Texas Tech is in an impossible spot. Deep down, they may have hoped the final ruling would remove the decision from their hands. Exhaust every option, support the player, let the process play out, and if he is ruled ineligible, accept it. That is the cleanest outcome for a program trying to balance loyalty, discipline, public pressure, and competitive integrity. But now the court has ruled that he is legally allowed to play. That changes the structure of the decision. If Texas Tech turns its back on him now, what message does that send to every player and family they recruit? That we will fight for you until the pressure gets too loud? That we will call you family when you are producing, but distance ourselves when standing beside you becomes inconvenient? If I were recruiting against Texas Tech and they abandoned him after he was legally cleared to play, I would use that every time. Not because the mistake does not matter, but because trust matters. Families want to know what happens when their son is injured, struggling, accused, embarrassed, or sitting in the middle of a situation nobody wants attached to the program. Accountability and loyalty are not opposites. You can believe justice should be served. You can believe the integrity of the game matters. You can believe gambling violations deserve real consequence. You can also believe that a program should stand by its people through the full process, not just through the easy parts. That is the hard part of family. You do not only fight for your people when the optics are clean. You fight for them through the good and the bad, while still demanding accountability, treatment, discipline, and truth. Texas Tech may not like the position it is in. Most programs would not. But once he is legally allowed to play and remains part of the Red Raider family, abandoning him strictly because of social pressure would send its own message. And that message may be harder to overcome than the controversy itself.

"We're a target... if this had happened at LSU, people would say ah it's LSU... but it happened at Texas Tech. They don't want to play because they know [Sorsby] is good and they don't want us to be as competitive." Cody Campbell on schools trying to boycott playing Texas Tech

Every single person that is tweeting “Texas Tech has ruined college sports” is going to watch all the college football games this fall, including Sorsby’s debut. They don’t actually believe TTU has ruined anything, they are just upset a national title contender got better today.

Any other player in the league does this would be ejected. The fact this has now happened in back to back games and hasn’t been called for it is egregious.

NEW: Big 12 ADs say “serious” talks have been held about not playing Texas Tech after Brendan Sorsby's ruling, @RossDellenger reports. on3.com/news/brendan-sorsby-…

NEW: Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby has been granted a preliminary injunction against the NCAA and is eligible for the 2026 season. on3.com/news/judge-grants-te…

Kyler Murray and JJ McCarthy throwing via the Vikings Instagram account. Here’s your QB battle content for the day.

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Hilarious: The 2025 Indiana football team recreated the iconic LSU “Get The Gat” dance at the White House. This is unreal 😭😭

Who’s the greatest player in LSU football history? Let’s hear it. 🐯👇

Does anyone want to have a conversation about @LSUCoachJ? This is one of the most pathetic @LSUbaseball teams I have seen it my life. What I find funny is he went to the media to talk about how he wasn’t getting enough money then proceeded to get curb stomped the rest of the season. I understand the two national championships but we cannot be this bad again next year.

2022 Georgia would have been a better match for 2019 LSU but both are losing to 2019 LSU. That team is the best there was and the best they ever will be

Schools with 3 National Championships since 2000: -LSU -Alabama -Ohio State Just the blue bloods.

First look at @S_leav10 in the Purple and Gold

Look at the paws on this cat. I'm staying home.