Let all the Bulldog faithful rally behind the men who now wear the red and black with two words, two simple words which express the sentiments of the entire Bulldog Nation: Auburn Sucks.
Texas Tech decided to pick the hill hey wanted to die on in the Sorsby case: won’t someone think of the children? To recap, they discovered he had a gambling problem, immediately blamed his other parents (Cincy knew!), told the world they would stand behind him, get him mental health support, and serve a two game suspension. Then, back to his regularly scheduled programming…right?
Well, the rest of the college football world seemed to disagree, including the NCAA and Big12 and other non-conference ADs, like Josh Brooks, by trying to block them out of scheduling and, thus, the big money – TV revenues.
So, because it’s us against the world, he’s withdrawing from NCAA competition, will still get paid $5 million in NIL funds (let’s see if that truly comes to fruition), and he wanted to enter the NFL Supplemental Draft.
The NFL said, no thanks, we were your last option, so, bye.
Well, who else to take in Sorsby than the friendly, warm folks of the Canadian Football League, right?
Think again.
For those that are wondering if the @CFL is a potential landing spot for QB Brendan Sorsby. The answer is no: “Upholding the integrity of the league and ensuring fair competition are paramount to the CFL. The allegations involving Brendan Sorsby are serious and concerning. At… pic.twitter.com/wu8zFlpSfW
Yes, I fully understand we’ve had people playing in the pros and in college sports that had some more serious stuff happening against them. Alabama continued to roster a basketball player arrested with a Cheech and Chong amount of weed, Ray Lewis actually retired from the NFL AFTER the Atlanta stabbing issue, and there’s an untold amount of everything above going on that we’re never privvy, too. So integrity, in its truest form, is doing some heavy lifting here (well, maybe except for the CFL).
So immediately after being one of the schools that took the stance that gambling can hurt the integrity of the game, Oklahoma State signs a sponsorship deal with a group that runs a casino. https://t.co/nXhJNwmEeHpic.twitter.com/Jk8MkBAFJJ
If there was ever a better example of the current hypocrisy of the sport, from ESPN’s splattering of gambling data and ads all over its website while similarly reporting on the Sorsby case left and right, I don’t know what is.
The NCAA is one step closer to the 5-year timeclock on player eligibility.
Under the new rule, athletes in all sports will be given five years of eligibility over five seasons once their college eligibility clock begins. The clock starts upon initial full-time enrollment in college or at the beginning of the academic year following their 19th birthday, whichever occurs first.
The move is meant to eliminate the need for redshirts and waivers, which have drawn scrutiny in recent years as athletes have sued the NCAA challenging eligibility rules.
Athletes who just completed their fourth season of eligibility without a redshirt would not be granted an additional year. Schools will have flexibility in determining whether to use previous eligibility rules or the new age-based model for athletes with eligibility remaining after the 2025-26 academic year.
Prospects who graduated in spring 2026 will use the age-based model.
“With these changes, the Cabinet has taken decisive action for the benefit of student-athletes and the system of NCAA Division I athletics,” Illinois athletic director and Cabinet chair Josh Whitman said. “For many student-athletes who enroll in college immediately after high school, these changes will result in the opportunity to potentially compete for an additional season in their chosen sport. For campus officials and coaches, this change provides rules that are simpler to administer and easier to predict for roster management decisions.”
What’s not readily clear is whether that time clock starts with JUCO enrollment, but it does end the idea of redshirting and allows for five years of participation. Which makes me wonder how it would’ve affected this guy:
His first year of enrollment was 2017, which meant his eligibility would’ve ended with the 2021 National Championship and Carson Beck would’ve been piloting the 2022 team…would the results have been the same? Would Carson have survived the New Year’s Eve shooting match against Ohio State?
With NIL reigning supreme, it’s become more apparent that college athletes have less motivation to declare for the NFL draft early, which should be great for development-oriented coaches like Kirby Smart.
Now for the real question…let’s see how enforceable this actually will be. As I’m sure you are not surprised, attorneys are already chomping at the bit.
Attorneys have filed the first of these cases of players seeking an additional year of eligibility after the passage of the NCAA's new age-based eligibility standard.
NFL to Sorsby: “you sought to avoid the consequences of that determination through litigation rather than accepting responsibility for your actions, and you pursued entry into the NFL only after abandoning those efforts.”
MLB today proposed an overhauled domestic amateur-entry system that removes high school players from the draft, makes college players eligible after sophomore year, shortens the draft from 20 to 12 rounds, and cuts bonus pool from current $358.7M to $200M, sources tell ESPN.
If passed, the days of the high schooler signing for millions and heading into the farm system are over, and college baseball programs will actually hold a little additional leverage over NIL compensation, knowing they won’t have to compete with a MLB signing bonus for younger prospects.
Well, at least, that’s the hope. Since money’s involved, I’m sure someone will step in and screw it up royally by offering a signing bonus-esque offer to a high school kid…but I wonder who will be the first to do it?
Here’s an interesting insight into why Branch transferred to Georgia. While the reason is interesting enough, listen to the whole thing, particularly the end where one of the interviewers mentions he’s hearing that some athletes don’t even go to school.
Zachariah Branch reveals the real reason why he transferred from USC to Georgia:
The Falcons rookie WR said due to a lawsuit involving a weight lifting accident, he wasn't able to access the USC athletic facilities after hours to get in extra work when he wanted. pic.twitter.com/UJODReuoOV
Sad enough to hear that there’s a football program that won’t allow extra exercise, but I’d imagine that what the young man said here wasn’t inaccurate. When’s the last time you heard of an athlete being “academically ineligible”? Does it even matter anymore?
The last one I could think of for Georgia was Caleb King back in 2011. And about that graduation rate…if they aren’t going to class, did they really graduate?
Never was there a more poignant stringing together of words equating to utter bullshit than what is written here. If you want the shorter version, let me give it to you:
“We ran a risk on an investment, and saw that the futures looked dim, so we’re dumping it, but making it look profitable to any who should choose to pick it up. Go Matadors”.
What an utter abomination and shitshow. The days where the NCAA would make death penalties and kill a career for a minor infraction has given way to media rights regulatory control, and that’s all this is. Texas Tech saw the risk wasn’t worth the reward, and the risk was being excluded from the media empire that is college football.
Oh, and Texas Tech is not pursuing the return of Sorsby’s $5 million dollar contract. At least, not yet.
In a statement, Tech Board Chair Cody Campbell said that Tech will not "seek the return" of any money paid to Brendan Sorsby through his NIL agreements with the University. https://t.co/T7PJQvYkGA
Folks, did I not call this? If only I had bet money on it!
A Texas court scheduled Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby's trial against the NCAA for Feb. 8, 2027, two weeks after the College Football Playoff National Championship is scheduled to be played.https://t.co/YflFKJdWbd
I know from personal experience that if this needed to be heard, it’s completely possible to get it heard much, much sooner than this. But, somewhere between the fine line that is urgency and seriousness is the lack of interest in even hearing this case, knowing that the plaintiff in this case holds zero regulatory authority and that the outcome is likely and open and shut case. Delay it, because what’s going to change, right?
And, yes, it’s been confirmed that he’ll be heard by a Red Raider group of judges:
All four justices on the Seventh Court of Appeals in Texas are Texas Tech graduates. pic.twitter.com/W6IrmKEhdO
It’s crazy, because it feels like the bigger entertainment value coming out of the NIL era of college football has not been on the field, but in the courtroom.
Remember when A.J. Green was suspended for four games for selling his Independence Bowl jersey for $1,000 to a former UNC defensive back, whom the NCAA deemed an agent?
Tell me again what Todd Gurley did that was so egregious, during the “good ‘ole days” of college football? Hmmph.
Anyway, it’s been within 48 hours of the news coming out, and the Texas Tech folks are still chirping back about those of us in glass houses, and are righteously indignant to the slings and arrows of college football fandom. On one hand, they enjoy telling others that if it’s just a sin committed at another program, then look at how appropriate TTU’s response was to report, get Sorsby help, and take the…get this…”consequences” of the reporting.
On the other, they are firing back and telling the rest of college football to STFU because we’re all guilty of some sin. Technically, they’re not lying…every program has some skeletons in their closet. But what’s more shocking is the lack of willingness to accept that the school has effectively found a work around in what was considered – outside of domestic violence or felonies – completely taboo as a college athlete, which is gambling on college athletics, especially your own team.
They’re cluelessness is on par with Charles J. Guiteau, who famously assassinated President Garfield and expected to receive a Cabinet position in the next administration, seeing the act as his civic duty, and necessary. He also tried to get the courtroom to join along in sing-alongs. Their position that “it’s not as bad as it looks” is not just blind home-team support, it’s blindly ignoring the long-term ramifications that go beyond buying yourself a CFP eligible team, but making what already is a superstitious and suspect group of fandom question every play call, play, and outcome of every game, wondering if the boys in Vegas made sure the fix was in.
Case in point: a friend of mine long argued that Nick Saban and Bill Belichick were as successful as they were because they befriended the mid-west mafia during their time in Cleveland, and then took their connections to the east coast and the south and continued to profit off the partnership while in New England and while in LSU and Alabama. While I’m not so sure about the Southern Mafia, the Southern Political groups are not without their fair share of corruption and monkeyshines. Belichick is completely believable in that regard, as I never understood how someone like Bill accomplished what he did…with Tom Brady. And, the fact that is seems like Alabama has long gotten the lion’s share of favorable penalty calls and reversals in Saban’s time…well, I’m hooked.
Conspiracy? Crazy? Possible. Now, imagine my friend spinning that tale on the heels of the Sorsby decision.
Sounds completely possible and logical now, doesn’t it.
I'm not sure Texas Tech is really getting this. Had they just been that scrappy underdog school on the plains with a wacky oil billionaire alumnus who showered them with millions to out-recruit the "blue bloods," I and everybody else would be high-fiving them with glee.
Maybe that’s the long game of the powers that be in College Football. Make it NFL-lite, let Vegas move the moneylines and allow for influence to reign supreme. Garner a new audience that’s more pro oriented and people will be hooked on five TVs not because they love the sport, but because the mortgage or a possible moneymaking empire are on the line.
Maybe that’s why the Powerball is drawn on Mondays and Saturdays. Well, also on Wednesdays, but you see where I’m going with this.
My tin hat is neatly pressed, fits tightly on my head, and I sit on my couch ready to watch, anyway. Whether it actually protects me from my eyes will be prepared to see, is another thing altogether.
— Message Board Geniuses (@BoardGeniuses) June 8, 2026
*Checks notes* – Lambos and fat stacks of cash. Got it. While I am on Texas’s side here, I’d say the pot is calling the kettle unethical, just one is more “legally” ethical now that we’re in the era of NIL.
And, of course, it wouldn’t be a day ending in y if we didn’t have someone from our traditional SEC orange fan base whining about why they couldn’t get away with it, too.
— Message Board Geniuses (@BoardGeniuses) June 8, 2026
“Why don’t we have a corrupt judge?” Boo hoo. Talk to a Georgia fan about the local legal system working against you, then wonder how we managed two National Championships while getting pulled over every other day of the week, and let’s resume the conversation after.
Well, you had to know it was coming. NCAA pushes back, denies the Sorsby request, so they head to the local judge and get a temporary injunction until a hearing can be held, which I’m sure will be scheduled for somewhere around March of 2027.
The coach saw the text message from a reporter and couldn’t believe it.
He had to Google it to make sure it wasn’t a joke. It was not.
A Lubbock County court granted Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby an injunction Monday morning that upholds a two-game suspension for betting on college sports, including placing bets on his own team while he was on Indiana’s roster in 2022.
“What are we doing with that ruling? I mean, seriously?” he said.
NCAA rules stipulate the penalty for betting on your team is permanent loss of eligibility, but that rule was superseded by the court Monday, upholding a two-game suspension that was offered by Sorsby’s representation, led by Jeffrey Kessler.
“Gambling is one of the rules in sports that’s one of the few rules that exist where, if you break it, you are now basically getting blackballed from the sport,” said one Group of 6 head coach. “And now one of the harshest rules you can break, he did it, and he can still play. To me, this is one of the worst things I’ve seen in 20 years of coaching.”
Assuming the anonymous coach is currently employed, that would mean they’ve seen Harbaugh and his team of merry miscreants and their falling out at Michigan; Joe Paterno’s fall from grace; Auburn declaring 9 faux national championships with their most recent real one coming on the back on a paid quarterback; NIL and the Transfer Portal…I could go on and on. While not on par with Paterno’s issues, saying something like this shows the gravity of the decision.
What went from seeing famed Georgia players ruled ineligible for selling memorabilia for mere thousands of dollars to a signal caller laying nearly $100k on bets, some for his own team, is a shocking change of scenery that even the most embittered college football fan could’ve imagined. Just think, we’re only three year removed from this:
Hunter Dekkers 👿 • 366 bets • ~$2,800 wagered • One bet involving Iowa State football • Lost entire season, NCAA eligibility, career
Brendan Sorsby 😇 • ~2,900 bets • ~$90,000 wagered • 40+ bets involving Indiana football • Currently eligible after court injunction… pic.twitter.com/Wl8C1waK6L
Can I return back to college football? I only played 2 seasons, should have 2 more eligibility years left….
Can you find me a judge in Louisiana who can see to it that Honey Badger gets to finish his last 2 years of college football? Who’s going to say no ?????
It’s just a running joke at this point…the NCAA, that is.
And the aftermath…well, let’s say that people are finding ways to defund Texas Tech, no matter how many oil barons are out there.
True integrity means holding your program accountable when things go wrong, not buying custom legislation or running to a local courtroom to bypass the rules.
And Josh isn’t done…not by a mile. Not that we’d ever entertain the idea of scheduling Texas Tech, but let’s just say if the NCAA won’t regulate college football, college football will, in turn, regulate you by not scheduling a damn game with you. This is further positioning the SEC and B1G to break away from the NCAA, and the age of amateurism has officially written its last chapter, and it wasn’t a good ending, by any means. Think “The Sopranos” and multiply the ending by 1,000 and you’re getting close to the disappointment.
But Brooks has a point…if the Governing Body won’t regulate, we’ll regulate where it hits the hardest…in the wallet. You can’t have a team on TV if no one wants to play them. Especially if every can’t cheat on the same level, amirite?
BREAKING: Georgia athletic director Josh Brooks is BANNING his teams from scheduling Texas Tech after the Red Raiders got their QB cleared to play despite betting $90K on games👀
"We cannot put our student-athletes on a field where competitive integrity is compromised by the… pic.twitter.com/OZaOZMqZNn
So, just so you’re not surprised, I’m sure the following things will likewise go unmitigated in the very near future:
Launching over the goal line, specifically throwing “little people” into the endzone. Someone will get an injunction to allow a middle school cheerleader to be on the team.
Using a live raccoon to pillage the opposing team’s sideline’s snacks and medical equipment during games. Also, said raccoon will lift the team’s iPads and playbooks, because you can’t trust a raccoon, can you?
Actively having a member of your game staff dress as an opposing coach and standing on the sideline with a headset on, directly communicating to the home booth the upcoming plays.
Allowing Notre Dame to play in the CFP, regardless of record, and getting an automatic bid to the championship game.
Teams taking a knee on first, second, and third downs to attempt to points shave when playing long-time points-spread antagonist, Kirby Smart.
Tackling players from the sideline, Woody Hayes style.
Auburn claiming every national championship since the inception of football, both pro and college and high school. And middle schools. 11,789 national championships, baby!
A player actively portaling at halftime of a game to the opposing team.
The Senator would be losing his shit at this point, as would the rest of us if we were reading his take on it.
College football, as we have known or ever knew it, has officially dropped six feet in the ground and we didn’t even play Taps.
At least we can tell our kids about it, and they’ll wonder in wide-eyed amazement about this mythical thing we called “college football”. We’ll blow the steam off a cup of coffee one cool morning on the porch and talk about a time when linebackers wore neck rolls, free safeties were 235 pounds, and how quarterbacks as good as Eli Manning or Eric Zeier were generational. The game-winning touchdown in the waning seconds of a game that made us spill beer, make children, and name them after our favorite team’s name. Or their quarterback. Or their star player. The time a fall Saturday turned into one of the best days of our lives. How the noon kickoff of SEC Football on Jefferson Pilot Sports was the start of the best day ever. Why? It’s becoming harder and harder to recall.
Somewhere, in a time not so long ago, there was such a thing that illicited such passion from all of us. The game was won or lost, people cheered or people cried. Fans stormed the field. Newspapers on Sundays were valuable for the pictures and memories and we hung them from our walls. The replays were a trip down memory lane, if we needed it, and the names of those who played the game and played for our favorite team were etched in our brains next to grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on. It was passion. It was love. It was (sometimes) better than sex.
And our kids, they’ll look back at us, with questions in their eyes, wondering how we were so passionate about a game that’s better played on PlayStation where you can control the outcomes and bet the over. And how anyone but a hired mercenary or AI robot played such a violent, brutal game. Why take all that risk for no financial reward, Dad?
“Sweetheart, it was for something called pride. Glory. Legacy. Sorry if you’ll never understand why.”
“Better to pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age”. – James Joyce
College football is aging poorly. Glad we all knew it when it was in its prime.
