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.
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
We’d be an easy nine in a row if they hadn’t backed out because of COVID, but seven wins in 35 years makes our struggles to Tennessee and Florida pale in comparison to Tech’s epic failure to get a leg up on the Dawgs in the series.
Fear not, Techies, eventually the powers that be in college football will break away, form their own leagues, and you won’t have to play the Bulldogs every year, unless you make the College Football Playoff, amirite?
And if you think they won’t ever make it, they shouldn’t, at least, not until the expand the field to 64 teams.
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.
Tech’s manager left their pitcher in a wee too long and subbed in their Friday starter, just to watch him give up a dinger to the 8 hole hitter and bring Tech’s dream season to a crushing end.
Now, before we run around beating our chests for SEC pride (note: there is no such thing), let’s remind ourselves that we’re down a regular starter for Friday and playing a team we swept at their place. And said team is full of pride, and is salty over the results of the first matchup.
You know, it’s hard to beat a team twice (Liberty was giving us hell, weren’t they?). It’s hard to beat a team three times. But five times?
I’m not going to gloat over Tech’s loss. I will smile a little in that both Tre Phelps and Kolby Branch were there in attendance, supporting Kolby’s brother, who plays for Oklahoma:
Georgia Stars Kolby Branch and Tre Phelps Celebrate as Branch’s Brother Kyle Sparks Rally to Eliminate Georgia Tech
There was lots of red at Tech yesterday, and I must say, from an optics standpoint, I wonder if we need to do a black out (not black jerseys, mind you, but black shirts) to discern between Dawgs and Sooners when Oklahoma visits Sanford this football season.
Sankey says you can’t use the next to last game as a tune up, anymore, and we’ll need to have our ninth SEC game the weekend before our annual tilt with the North Avenue Trade School.
SEC athletic directors vote to play conference games on next to last week of regular season, starting in 2027. "That's the end of cupcake weekend," SEC commish Greg Sankey said
Bill Connelly lays out some insight into how the expanded playoffs will further deteriorate the meaning of the regular season, and especially the rivalry games:
With this in mind, let’s think about how Rivalry Week would have played out with a 24-team playoff and compare that with what happened with a 12-teamer.
• In real life, Michigan needed a miracle upset of Ohio State to have any playoff hope. Instead, the Wolverines lost by 18. With a 24-team CFP, they’re comfortably in regardless.
• Alabama had to beat Auburn to keep its place in the CFP field and proceeded to blow a 17-point lead before rallying to win late. Meanwhile, Oklahoma needed to beat LSU to hold on to a berth and trailed with five minutes left before a late score. With a 24-teamer, both teams are comfortably in (and have opening-round home games) regardless.
• Texas and Vanderbilt needed to beat rivals Texas A&M and Tennessee, respectively, and hope for some chaos above them to get into the field. (They won, but they didn’t get the chaos.) With a 24-teamer, they’re both in regardless.
• In theory, No. 23 Georgia Tech facing Georgia could have had playoff stakes with a 24-teamer, but the committee actually boosted the Yellow Jackets in the rankings after another loss to the Dawgs. Turns out, they’re in regardless.
• Only two rivalry games are enhanced by a 24-teamer: Arizona would have replaced Arizona State in the field with a 23-7 win in the Territorial Cup, and Virginia would have clinched both an ACC title and a CFP berth with a 27-7 win over Virginia Tech. Meanwhile, No. 19 Tennessee got beaten so badly by Vandy that the Vols would have fallen out — resulting in some solid schadenfreude — and No. 21 SMU would have fallen out with an upset loss to Cal. They’re replaced by Iowa (which blew out Nebraska) and, in theory, North Texas (which blew out Temple).
(Why “in theory”? Because with the CFP committee’s historic view of mid-major teams, I can’t say it would be a surprise if the second-best Group of 6 team tended to rank no higher than 25th. The cynic in me says that Tennessee might have grabbed that last spot in the field instead.)
Georgia faces off against in-state rivalry Georgia Tech. Paul “Fish Fry” Johnson couldn’t care less.
Now let me be clear: I’ll root against Tech and be crestfallen if we lose even if we both entered the game with zero wins and nothing to play for post-season. I’ll pull for anyone who plays Tech. I’ll take joy in beating Tech whether it means a #1 seed or a #24 seed or a #168 seed in a post-season playoff or a trip to the Poulan Weedeater Bowl. The playoff doesn’t have any impact on my disdain for Tech, Auburn, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, or anyone else we play as a rival.
But Bill does have a point about the magnitude and impact of the game, which, even though it’s a rivarly game, it is another game in the season where games and their individual importance is being diluted by the opportunity to earn a participation trophy in the post-season. That isn’t that much different from the pre-BCS era, where we were competing and hoping to win at least six games to make a bowl. Man, the 90’s sucked.
But does the expansion really diminish your hatred for a rival? Does it take the sheen off the win as a result?
If only Philo could get back at the QB coach who was at Georgia when Philo was 10 minutes down the road at Prince Avenue Christian… https://t.co/bzKE4htUt8
First off, Philo’s girlfriend doesn’t have a proper dad. Any decent Georgia loving dad would convince his daughter to ditch the sinner and get with a winner.
Secondly, you’re butthurt over not getting recruited by Georgia when they selected Puglisi, who has stuck with the University thus far, while you’re defecting to another lousy school.
What makes it worse is that Buster Faulkner is your OC, who could’ve recruited you to Georgia, but didn’t.
