Texas Tech Red Raiders quarterback Brendan Sorsby being ruled eligible for the 2026 season by a Texas judge, via an injunction in Sorsby's ongoing lawsuit against the NCAA, has ruffled many feathers across the industry.
Current and former athletic directors from the SEC, Big 12, and ACC are calling for threats to pull Texas Tech off the schedule this season after the ruling came down on Monday in a Lubbock County court.
"We've had some serious conversation about it," Kansas State University AD Gene Taylor told Yahoo Sports. "There is still a lot to be discussed. We aren't scheduled to play them this year, but it's something we have to look at from a college football perspective. This is greater than the Big 12.
"It's f****** bulls***...I know the kid has a problem. Well, get well and focus on your problem. It is absolutely devastating for him to be able to play when every other sport, no matter the level, deems an athlete ineligible or they are punished severely for betting on their team."
"I think there needs to be serious conversations about not playing Texas Tech in any sports," University of Georgia AD Josh Brooks, a member of the NCAA Football Oversight Committee, told Yahoo Sports. "This is not about Texas Tech. It's about protecting our own locker room. We cannot in good conscience put our student-athletes on a field where the competitive integrity of the contest is compromised and overridden by the courts. If a state court wants to dictate eligibility rules, they can play themselves.
"All FBS schools should only take the field against programs operating under a uniform, trustworthy standard of fairness. We've officially reached the point of no return."
Former Clemson University, University of Miami, and Georgia Tech AD Dan Radakovich called for these decisions to stop being decided in local courts, like in Lubbock for TTU and a short drive from Oxford, Mississippi, for Rebels QB Trinidad Chambliss's favorable eligibility decision.
"You have the Mississippi deal. And today. There are others. You can't have localized decisions move past NCAA rules," Radakovich said.
ADs across the country can cry me a river
Oh brother...get a load of these guys.
Spare us the purity argument, college ADs. You have stadiums where clearly underage students are buying beers with fake IDs. You have gambling interwoven into the culture of the sport. If Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy could show up on FOX airwaves and promote a sportsbook he's working with, then Sorsby should be forgiven.
If you're going to embrace capitalism, you need to embrace everything that comes with it, college ADs. Sorsby made mistakes, but there's yet to be a bet uncovered of his that compromised competitive integrity.
Until there's a full ban from the NCAA on anything involving sportsbooks, these arguments make them look two-faced at best and weak at worst. They are blowing this out of proportion and making an outrage over something that deserves a slap on the wrist and all of us moving on.
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