Brendan Sorsby to enter the NFL supplemental draft, WILL NOT play for Texas Tech in 2026
Brendan Sorsby will not play for Texas Tech this season. The quarterback, who was set to play after a judge granted an injunction forbidding the NCAA from enforcing its gambling rules, has decided to enter the NFL's supplemental draft. Will Hammond, who backed Behren Morton last season and who is coming off a torn ACL, will be the new QB1 in Lubbock. The news comes on the same day that the Big 12 filed a lawsuit in federal court against Texas attorney general Ken Paxton and various parties connected to Texas Tech. Paxton had threatened lawsuits from Texas Tech if Big 12 presidents voted to sanction the school.Join On3 today! https://www.on3.com/joinSubscribe to On3! ⬇️ youtube.com/on3sports/?sub_confirmati...Welcome to On3 | The best of college football and recruiting https://www.on3.com/Listen to Andy & Ari On3 on podcast!Spotify 🎧: https://open.spotify.com/show/5AhQ4d2...Apple 🍎: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Follow Andy & Ari On3 on X! https://x.com/AndyAriOn3 Follow Andy Staples on Twitter: / andy_staples Follow Andy Staples on Instagram: / andy_staples Follow Ari Wasserman on Twitter: https://x.com/AriWassermanFollow us on Twitter / on3sports Follow us on Instagram / on3 Like/Follow us on Facebook / on3sports Hosts: Andy Staples, Ari WassermanProducer: River BaileyInterested in partnering with the show? Email advertise@on3.com
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[Music] You know what that sound means.
It's an emergency podcast.
We're not even supposed to be here today.
But here we are.
Because Brendan Soresby is not playing for Texas Tech.
He's going to enter the supplemental draft.
Mutual parting of ways are conveniently enough on the day that the big 12 filed a federal lawsuit against Texas Tech and the Texas Attorney General.
Yeah.
Here pressure works as the commenter pointed out here.
It feels good to be live.
Sorry that you had to see my face so soon into your vacation in New York City.
But it is a really important thing I think Andy.
Because I just as much as it was going to be entertaining all summer to follow the story as entertaining as Texas Tech's villain arc was going to be this season.
I think that at the very least we got to a place where you know it feels like this is the right thing.
You know and I don't know if there's places to quibble about how we got here or why we got here.
But I just still think that if there are no rules in college football and we're existing in the wild, wild west of NIL and financials and transfers and all the things that they cannot enforce.
That the one thing that still remains true is nobody who's bet on their team will play for that team again.
Yeah, I mean it seemed like a pretty simple rule.
Like you're not asking much.
You really aren't.
I mean there are no other rules.
But if you have that rule, it seems like that that is fairly important and yeah, I mean the pressure on Texas Tech was immense the pressure on Brennan's sword views immense.
I I would bet that Brennan's source being his family probably did not anticipate the backlash would be that bad which.
Which probably means they weren't prepared very well by their attorneys or by anyone because.
You and I knew like any I don't think Texas Tech knew either it's so weird because we're not hot take kind of people.
But the second that judge issued that ruling we were like what is going on here.
And you said I mean you said this is crazy and like you're a guy who likes to gamble on sports but.
It seemed like common sense that you can't let someone who gambles on their own team play you know.
I just I think I don't know I. I'm a little surprised I think because the longer it went the longer I the more I figured okay they're just going to they're going to keep fighting this.
They can't come to any conclusions to laugh at the season so they'll just try it but.
Well I saw the news this morning Andy about the big 12s move and I wasn't sure and I missed you because it would have been a good podcast topic for today if we were still in town.
But how far do you think the big 12 could have gone in punishing.
The the red rateers how much could they have prevented Texas Tech from competing for their goals and then there's a huge difference which is is the juice worth the squeeze at a certain point like in this mutual parting of ways I'd be very curious to know who walked into whose office first.
And decided that this was no longer a tenable situation.
Well I think that we know based on the lawsuit that the big 12 filed that one of the punishments they were looking at was forbidding them from being the big 12 championship game which given how the big 12 works given how the college football playoff works given how.
Texas Tech schedule is if you can't play in the big 12 championship game it does not guarantee you that you can make the college football playoff you probably would have to go 12 and oh.
Yeah I'll play off at that point and they would have had a pretty good chance of doing so but at the same time I also wouldn't want to be the second big 12 team.
Being considered you want that automatic entry and here's the other question that we've been asking behind the scenes and I think fans have been asking.
How much of an actual drop off if will Hammond is healthy is there from source be to will Hammond and if it's even 10% isn't that something that that Texas tech feels comfortable with especially considering the fact that my my understanding is that they're they were anticipating that will hand me would be the starter next year so.
I mean I don't know but what I do know is that at least like you can go back to rooting for them like I think that like that's the coolest thing about this like I've been very excited about Texas techs build I've been very captivated by by all the moves that they've made and whether or not a team can build something that has sustainable you know year over year success financially and now it doesn't feel quite as *** doing so so.
I don't think they're getting any fans back from this casual family obviously take the stick fans are still going to be text tech fans but I don't think the casual fan is going to return to the fold very easily for Texas tech I think people still root against them because of all this because they were clearly going to play him until.
The big 12 thought back until the other schools fought back and I think the local talk local home attorney general thought back so I don't think they're going to they've made a lot of friends through this process so I think it I. I think they're they're going to have to deal with the fallout from this you know what they can do now I am yeah they can do the Texas tech against the world *** you know I can you know they could do the you know prove everybody wrong stuff will Hammond can have a chip on his shoulder.
And if they win nobody can say well you did it this way like I think there's some value in that especially considering the fact that let's be honest I know Indiana want a national championship in year two I know the joy McGuire wants to win a championship in this upcoming season year two of the N. I. I think that they just need to win the big 12 again back to the playoff and yeah course points in the playoff this time yeah exactly but as Jared says in the chat this was never about sores be needing Texas tech it was all about Texas tech needing sores be now I think you made a good point with the will Hammond comment they were a better place than a lot of teams that spent big in the transfer pro on a quarterback work because they had a back at the field confident and remember will Hammond comes into the Utah game on the road last year and leads them to a win this is a guy who I think with time could be a really good starting quarterback in in major college football you know he's going to be in the big 12 but look Texas tech has visions of being in the playoff and visions of winning games in the playoff I think well Hammond can do that for them so I don't think they absolutely needed Brendan sores be to do this and I think if there's no well Hammond on the roster we're looking at a different situation here we're not looking at Texas tech because I think you know somebody like you just ask who goes into the room first like who go who says I'm out first was this Texas tech or Brendan sores be and I don't know the answer to that I think we're going to find out what the answer to that is but I think it doesn't matter really who it was I think both of them probably came to the same conclusion around the same time.
Yeah and we have some comments in here and people who are paying and I like to acknowledge the people who support the show here's one that I thought that was interesting your mark will not survive as the commissioner tech might not have other options but there's no way Texas tech will be comfortable with him anymore after he sued them it's over with him in Texas Texas relationship and I don't know that I agree with 15 other big 12 teams so yeah Texas tech doesn't like him the other 15 do but let me ask you this as a as a unprecedented situation because typically when a program has got their backs against the ropes the conference commissioners duty is to protect them yeah in this specific instance although a very unique one that's not the case what do you think the long term effects are when it comes to you know the conference commissioner being put in that position and I think that he acted appropriately and correctly but I don't know a lot worse for him if Brendan source we didn't had been able to play and the big 12 have been able to do nothing about it that would have been the end of Brett your mark right there because the other 15 schools would have found a way to ditch him if that had happened so I think of anything he strengthened his position today because the other 15 schools did not want Brendan source be to play and now he's not going to play and you do have to rule like from majority standpoint like if most of the teams in your conference are feeling a certain way you have to protect the group would have 15 to one it's pretty easy decision to make so I'm facing Matador says that y'all sweet *** CC is going to start digging up dirt that would be Cody Campbell it's going to start digging up dirt on every big 12 12 look I'm sure Texas Tech is going to try to put its best foot forward and if anybody else has anything going on yeah they're probably going to try to find it I don't I don't I wouldn't blame them look they yeah they've dealt with this like we we have punched them quite a bit they've been the punching bag do you think that Cody Campbell has a rational reason to despise other teams in the conference now but you think he has a rational reason he has bigger fish to fry so on Thursday the the safe call or was it protect college sports act is going to go into markup in the Senate like Cody Campbell I know we were joking when I asked Ted Cruz did Cody Campbell right that Cody Campbell basically wrote that bill so it is it's vitally important for him because it provides an avenue to keep Texas Tech in the club if that bill passes so I would say that's a much more important thing right now and I would I would venture to guess that this stuff with sores be all of this and Cody Campbell's involvement in that obviously bankrolling it that's not helped him when he's trying to get this bill pass you know he's fighting the same fight as a shorter term solution ones a longer term solution the shorter term solution is you know save college sports through US government you know it's not not college sports but let's be perfectly honest what the real goal is there it's it's to keep Texas Tech in the club and schools like it in the club exactly Andy so that's route one route to is the long way which is build it naturally and make it so that they're good enough where people wouldn't want them to be left out.
And I think that sores be aided in the second route of that obviously that's the best thing that happened for for Texas Tech or what could have been having him as their quarterback without all this would have been the best thing but the reason why the investment in sores be is made isn't just to try to win the national title this year it's the creates a staying success that makes them an attractive television product an attractive you know college football program enough to be considered naturally for whenever that happens so I think that like Cody Campbell's heart is probably in the right place on both avenues if I had to guess now here's a question that I got from my buddy Sam and I think a question that a lot of people have in general which is what do you believe and I'm sure there's reporting still being done on this Texas Texas tax financial obligation of Brendan sores be is moving forward I would not pay him another penny but I also wouldn't try to get back the money I've already paid him I think that's probably a fair decision he's going to get paid by an NFL team like he's going to get picked in the supplemental draft plus we've gone 12 minutes let's explain the whole situation because we obviously the headline of this is he's entering a supplemental draft so what does that mean the supplemental draft if you've ever been to a blind auction that's what it is it's a blind auction for football players basically the 32 NFL teams can put in a bid basically saying we would be willing to use a third round pick on this guy a second round pick a first round pick on this guy so it'll be up to the teams to decide how how much they're willing to bet on him sorry bad choice of words how much they're willing to to spend on him in terms of draft capital and so if you if you submit a third round bid and somebody else miss the second round bid and second round is the highest that team gets him so we'll see what happens on this one because I think if sores be it gone out this past year he's probably a second round pick you know maybe maybe he could have redraft played his way into a first round pick you know I guess there'd be somewhere in the fourth or fifth probably right now yeah don't you think that that'll be the fifth rounder I don't know I it depends on how needy somebody feels and I do think the gambling thing is going to be a problem you know with the NFL teams I think that is something that they're going to have to really look into figure out okay is he not going to do this again because if he is going to do this again just remember the stuff that his attorneys admitted on his behalf going into that NCAA hearing or the hearing with the the judge and Ludic was pretty bad if you are looking at a potential starting quarterback in the NFL like the idea of someone placing that many bets being that addicted to gambling and look they they leaned hard into the gambling edition you don't want a gambling addicted quarterback if you're an NFL team you want a quarterback who's not worried about that stuff so they're going to have to convince NFL teams he and his team are going to have to convince NFL teams that they are not going to be obsessed with that they're not going to be betting balls and strikes it majorly ballpark say like that sort of thing has to get across and it's going to like if I am in a foul team that is that is going to change how I feel about this guy no matter what is ability is you mean I think it is kind of an interesting discussion and we had this discussion about what it meant for his return to college football but when you are defense is I have a addiction and a sickness that that you know stop me from using my best judgment and making me cross the line you are admitting in court and on court documents that you might not be able to control yourself which I think is alarming so maybe that's the only route you take when you have it but I don't know how much that admission if at all would hurt him but I'm just trying to think of like quarterbacks who have recently been taken in the fifth round of NFL drafts and you know I know should or Sanders off the top of my head I mean that that first got the fourth rounder you know but I think that you can go back into NFL draft logs and find way worse risk.
What are you the jets and you're about to start geno Smith.
Would you throw a second round around the sky just to make sure you get him.
I don't know if I would go second but I feel like I think I would go maybe fourth or fifth especially considering the fact that the jets have made a habit of wasting fifth round picks their entire 10 years last 20 years.
I'm just more aware of what the Browns do but like the Browns who used a third round pick on Dylan Gabriel.
I don't know that a fourth or fifth round pick is like the end of the world especially you know that what is interesting though Andy is that next year is supposed to be or should be a very heavy quarterback draft and I've never year that.
Oh no but this year specifically has got some big dudes coming in and I've read NFL reporting the teams have been loading up on Capitol to try to you know have right it's also a you just a really great draft.
They're thinking in general so I wonder if his draft stock will also be hurt by the fact that a we're less than a year away from new quarterbacks entering the poor entering the NFL draft but then at the same time teams might be more stingy when it comes to their third or fourth fifth round picks because that's draft Capitol that they can use to trade to move up.
So you know I it's I'm sure we'll talk about this as we get closer to that time it's in July right it's like in two months or month and a half and he had another week to submit his name so you had he had until the 22nd and it came to a head tonight.
I mean also like from from his standpoint I think that we've been very frank about how he could have helped himself you come back to Texas tech you play well.
You you illustrate an entire year of not gambling all these things would probably have voted well for him when it came to NFL draft time but at the same time too like if I'm bringing the source be I think a part of me probably just wants to turn the page on college football and try a fresh start somewhere where the team that takes you does it eyes wide open they understand your knowledge you might not have all the pressure in the world to play right away especially considering the fact that you're not you know on the team yet.
It gives you a chance to ease and maybe get the help that you need and then you can try to have a fresh start without everybody hating you like I do think that like we lose side of the fact that.
You know people are people and even though.
I kind of felt this way about Nico Emoly of the last summer it's like okay everybody hates this guy now for what he did to Tennessee and it's like well he's probably just like a human and probably has a lot of.
That a really hard nights ahead of him you know and I'm assuming that nobody wants to go through college football into those pretenses so I do think that there is like a.
If you're a Texas tech band or a Brendan sores be supporter like there is a glass half full.
Scenario here where hey maybe this is probably what's best for both parties and I think that it is I really do think that it is I think Texas tech again I'm going to say.
If they don't have will Hammond which a lot of teams that spent big in the portal on a quarterback don't have a backup that they feel comfortable as the starter if they don't have that guy this is a very different situation.
This is a situation where they can be just fine Texas tech can win the big 12 can make the college football playoff and not have to worry about all this other stuff like they're still probably going to have the best roster in the big 12 it doesn't guarantee they're going to win it.
The UI is going to be good Utah is going to be good Arizona is going to be good Arizona states probably going to be good they're going to have to deal with all that but at least.
They know they're not going to deal with anything like getting banned from the big 12 championship game because that would be a problem yeah and the other thing Andy what about this and we're doing glass half full stuff here but will Hammond.
You know isn't fully healthy till three games into the season which is the fear but he comes out and he has a very productive first year as a full time starter.
Shows a lot of good things Texas tech wins the big 12 they make the playoff they lose in the first or second round they score this time though things look good then all of a sudden you have a guy that has a year of experience coming back the following year you say five or six or seven million dollars at this point next summer on that quarterback that you would have to go get otherwise because you have an experience signal call or coming back you use that five or seven million dollars depending on what the price tag is at this time of year to reallocate to other positions and you come back stronger than you even are right now so like in terms of like the.
Year by year brick by brick build I do believe that like this could work out really well for Texas tech to.
So Cody Campbell has put out a very long statement I'm not going to read the whole thing but in part of it it says we always strive to do what is right.
Even when doing the right thing is not popular.
We're not swayed or affected by criticism or opinions from outside the red radar family about how we operate we are tough enough to take any heat that might come from doing the right thing recently situations surrounding Britain source be has put that to the test but throughout at all.
Texas tech acted with the utmost integrity and falling all NCAA protocol except when you suit them well red and sourced be so not you guys provided complete transparency and cooperated with them in every possible way the truth is contrary to public narrative text tech only objective have been to protect the well being and the best interest of one of our new students who's happy to get really a quarterback I wonder if that new student had *** at playing football would you have done the same stuff what do you think.
I think that probably not probably not probably not probably not.
So yeah it's a lot of we didn't do anything wrong please stop being madness.
I don't think people are going to stop being mad at them.
Yeah you they can't very deeply about public opinion or there wouldn't have been a 22 minute video that they put on the internet about it for the world to see you last week so you know I but Andy.
We did have a discussion a few weeks ago when this happened or last week days are kind of blending it's June.
About whether public pressure or or outrage coming from all directions with the same opinion from everybody there was no variance and opinion would have an impact on what ultimately ended up happening.
We both said that we would not be surprised if you know there was enough public outrage to sway them I didn't know that I thought it would look like this.
But are you surprised at all by what's happened today.
No because I there's a lot of pressure on Brennan source be to like he's a human being and he becomes the the avatar for this entire thing for this entire broken system where they they can't enforce any rules at all.
That's not his fault.
He did gamble on his own team that's his that's his fault.
I believe he has an addiction absolutely.
That's on him but also he's trying to fix it he's doing what he can to fix it.
People get addicted to things it happens we tend to forgive them when they when they work to to make themselves better yeah.
I don't in a way I feel bad for him because I don't think he expected to become all this.
He did get paid well to become all this though so yeah I do think that when you start bringing in the.
Compensation packages that are reaching as much as they've reached.
We know generally how much he stood to make it Texas tech that responsibilities and consequences probably are heightened not just because of the financial output that the place is going to be responsible for but also you become a professional and like it's no longer.
Kid is struggling with something in school it's professional fail to live up to his his end of the bargain and that's just kind of the way it goes I do feel really bad for people and I also feel empathy for people sometimes that do.
Really *** things and you know I think that's probably human nature I feel bad for I mean the guy's been on our show and he's a really nice guy like it's not like he's some stranger like he's been on the show so here's.
We're talking about Brennan source be yeah so Cody Campbell's been on yeah this is also from Cody Campbell's letter to the Texas tech community Texas tech will continue to provide the support recovery resources Brennan requires on this.
Journey furthermore Texas tech will not secret turn of any amounts already paid to Brennan.
Through his N. I. L. agreements with the university which that what did I just say.
I don't play him anymore but they probably want to ask for anything I wonder how much money of that money that was paid by Texas tech was allocated to the suit.
Yeah this decision was made with Brennan and his family and it's purely an output of practical analysis of the situation so I mean that that leads you to believe that this is indeed a mutual decision that the Texas tech had something to say about this and Brennan source being his family had something to say about which I believe I mean there's no reason not to believe that.
In the text stand on very solid and legitimate legal brown ground but he faces a June 22nd deadline to be eligible to enter the NFL supplemental draft and there is no practical way to resolve all the various pending legal disputes and ensure his eligibility prior to the state that's true that's true.
And then he's given what happened on Monday.
Yeah news Monday morning probably you know was the last stand as a pertain to like are we ready to I mean like I wonder from Texas tech standpoint too like if they were willing to risk it you know because you don't know what if something happened as soon as the big 12 says in a legal filing that on the table is keeping you out of the big 12 championship game.
So yeah kind of surprising but also not surprising I do think that the court of public opinion is a very strong one especially considering the fact that the opinion was all the same from every direction.
Absolutely and you know it's it's rare that people are united in this divided time in this divided day and age but especially in this divided sport dude.
Exactly exactly so well we have an answer to that it's been quite a saga thank you for watching we are on pretty much every day Monday through Friday 3 am eastern time but not this week is wrong vacation the crane and cone folks will join us Wednesday and Friday so they'll be in our normal time slot and then we will be back at work next Monday unless the big happens and it's so big that we just have to jump on.
We made it 12 hours into the end of the year 12 hours of vacation it was tremendous I I love you I will hopefully not talk to you again until Monday I love you too and I hope to not hear from you until Monday.
Talk to you guys later.
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