Sorsby eligible to play after winning injunction
Dan Patrick and the Danettes react to Brendan Sorsby being eligible to play for Texas Tech in 2026 after being granted a temporary injunction against the NCAA amid a highly-publicized gambling scandal.
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Not sure how important it is to you, if you've been following this story, Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby has been granted a temporary injunction against the NCAA.
He can now play football for Texas Tech.
He will be suspended for the first two games of the 2026 season.
The NCAA will appeal, I'm sure.
Here's what's going to happen, by the way.
There is going to be more discussion about allowing conferences to be able to have enforceability, not the NCAA.
Because the NCAA is as weak as it's ever been, and you'll probably Like, this should be a, a conference decision on Brendan Sorsby coming back.
I don't want this to get to the NCAA.
Let conferences rule, enforce their own rules on their own players.
I think that's where we're probably headed.
But, Brendan Sorsby, who had went into rehab for gambling, you know, this is one of those, A, if he was an average quarterback, I don't think we would be going through this.
But he's getting paid over $5 million, therefore he's a valuable commodity.
But it You get the feeling they're making him out to be a victim.
Like, Paulie, would you give the reading, like, what the judge said about Brendan Sorsby that if you didn't let him play college football this year, like, it's irreparable harm to him.
Basically exactly what you just said, that he would suffer irreparable harm.
it doesn't say whether earning powers or his place in the draft, but that's what's the inference is.
But they s- the judge said, he didn't refer to him as the victim, said he would, get harmed by this decision.
Yeah.
Okay.
He knew the rules.
Like, you're gambling.
You chose to break them.
You, you didn't think that you were gonna get caught, but I mean, come on.
But this isn't over.
But, you know, I thought maybe supplemental draft, somebody might take a chance on him.
But maybe he's trying to prove that, you know, he can still play at a high level, but you still are going to have, you know, what has happened with gambling and rehab, two rehabs.
Yeah, Paulie.
In Sorsby's appeal, his, team said he was clinically diagnosed with a gambling disorder, and that's a mental health condition.
It's part of his argument.
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Yeah, Bill.
Yeah.
If Sorsby balls out this year, like Heisman candidate, does this thing kind of just sort of drift off into the sunset?
It wouldn't for me.
No.
I mean, I, I just think if you have this rule in place, then enforce the rule.
Yes.
Do you worry about the well-being of the student athlete?
Yes.
But that doesn't mean you get to play football.
We can help you get help, but that, it doesn't mean, hey, without football, then what's gonna happen here?
you know the rules.
You're not allowed to bet.
you were betting at Cincinnati, you were betting in Indiana, probably betting at Texas Tech.
But if this was a one-time, okay, then maybe I, you know, suspend you for a couple of games.
But this wasn't.
It just feels like there's more And I'm not saying he's playing the victim.
Feels like the judge is making him a victim.
Oh, if he doesn't have football, what's it gonna mean to him?
Yeah, Bill.
Yeah.
I think the sticking point for a lot of people, and maybe a little bit myself too, is that it's the betting on Indiana at Indiana thing.
I think the rest of it is like, all right, sure, like they might have some antiquated rules about, you know, like if you're betting on international cricket, like who really cares?
Yeah.
But the moment you're remotely involved or it's adjacent, I think that's when you're gonna get, in the court of public opinion, a tough uphill battle.
Yeah.
And I don't care You know, people say, "Well, Pete Rose was betting on the Reds to win."
Well, he was manipulating the lineup as well to help him win those-
