General Sports Talk

Brendan Sorsby has announced that he now intends to enter the NFL supplemental draft ahead of the NFL's 2026 season. This will disqualify him from playing for Texas Tech University or any other college football team.

Sorsby's decision came after the NCAA filed a request for an immediate hearing on Sorsby's lawsuit against them and after the Big 12 conference filed a civil lawsuit against Texas Tech and the Texas District Attorney. The entire situation had devolved into a toxic dumpster fire.

Sorsby has admitted an addiction to sports gambling. Those of us who have dealt with drug addicts and alcoholics in our lives know that recovery from addiction is not a straight-line process.

Meanwhile, the leadership of Texas Tech University has now qualified for the Hall of Fame, Ass-Wipe-Rag Division.

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Brendan Sorsby has announced that he now intends to enter the NFL supplemental draft ahead of the NFL's 2026 season. This will disqualify him from playing for Texas Tech University or any other college football team.

Sorsby's decision came after the NCAA filed a request for an immediate hearing on Sorsby's lawsuit against them and after the Big 12 conference filed a civil lawsuit against Texas Tech and the Texas District Attorney. The entire situation had devolved into a toxic dumpster fire....

This will likely moot the court case, and I was looking forward to the outcome.

You may have noticed a lot of extrajudiciality going on in recent years, and it would be nice to have a ruling on whether institutions may take punitive actions (as opposed to protective, preventive, or remedial actions), what is due process in such cases, and what are the limitations on severity of punishment. Our courts have all this built in, and extrajudicial actions have been used to evade all those protections. Like when they had that craze of administratively suspending people's drivers licenses for everything including things that have nothing to do with driving, just because it's easier and the target has less recourse than he does in a courtroom.

In the MLB, in this rainbow-puking month of June a few players have received warnings for not painting smiles on themselves when forced to display a symbol that does not represent their values and that has nothing to do with the sport that they agreed to play or the team they agreed to play it for, and instead adding a message that does align with their values. Can a player be punished for not genuflecting deeply enough to a cause, just because he plays in a league?

In countless cases at both the collegiate and professional level, careers were ruined and lives were harmed over sexual allegations that turned out to be unsubstantiated when subjected to legal scrutiny, but were punished administratively by an institution nonetheless. Trevor Bauer, the Duke Lacrosse case, and the Yovino case at Sacred Heart U. come to mind. None of the people victimized by that were ever made whole.

All these things are related which is why I don't think of it as really about Sorsby and while he admitted to gambling as a player, what does that mean when you are about to be submitted to a star chamber that already has its mind made up? What is due process and what are the checks and limitations on the power of an institution that wields powers comparable in magnitude to a court of law, without actually being one? Who knows- Sorsby could be the next Gideon or Miranda.