THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️

ΛΧΑ Alum, season ticket holder, financial donor and menace to society

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

@TimothyOliver7 @LockedOnVandy My sweet sweet Timmy…..

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

@TimothyOliver7 @VandyTracker Welcome back to Vanderbilt twitter, Timmy.

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

Hey @freddieoconnell please do whatever it takes to stop @DCBLOXinc from building near the @NashvilleZoo - if you really do care about Nashvillians a moratorium should only be the start. The data center will put off a minimum constant 65dB of sound, which is equivalent to a washer running or a dishwasher CONSTANTLY - AT MINIMUM. Imagine the people who live nearby and the animals? Plus they have to run their generators once a month, and then for 4 hours once a year. Why subject people to this who don’t want it? The petition has more than 500k signatures. Please choose the people, not the corporation.

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

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[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

Took them ruining their reputation, a lawsuit, an injunction, a 20 minute double down, and a federal lawsuit for them to make the right decision - Nobody ever said the folks in Lubbock are all that smart.

[On3 @On3]

BREAKING: QB Brendan Sorsby and Texas Tech are mutually parting ways, @PeteNakos reports.

Sorsby will not play College Football in 2026.

https://t.co/IG2DYwzv4c

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

@CjStarkk @derrico_henrio Nah but we do. Fuck tech

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

@CodyC64 comment?

[David McKenzie @mckenzielaw]

The Big 12 has gone to federal court to ask permission to have a conviction. There was a time when a conference could simply disapprove of a player who bet on his own team's games. Now it needs a declaratory judgment first.

The Texas AG's threatening letter to the Big 12 was an unforced error of the first order. Strip it out and there's no lawsuit— because there's no justiciable controversy. A conference privately mulling a sanctions vote isn't a "case"; it's a meeting. The AG's 200M per se antitrust threat is what manufactured the ripeness, handed the Big 12 its MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc hook, and let Sidley walk into federal court in Dallas with a complaint instead of a press release. Paxton's office didn't just pick a fight— it wrote the other side's standing argument for them, then signed it. Now TTU and the AG get to defend a theory the Oklahoma AG already called "facially absurd," in a real courtroom, against a national firm on its home turf. The letter was meant to intimidate. It functioned as service of process.

The complaint itself is well made, and its strongest section is also its most dangerous. Paragraphs 32 through 36 are devastating on TTU's hypocrisy: TTU voted for the Baylor sanctions in 2017 and now insists the conference has no power to sanction anyone. That is good lawyering, and it should sting.

But it cuts both ways. Baylor was sanctioned after findings, through process, for institutional conduct. The Big 12 wants to sanction TTU preemptively, for fielding a player a Texas court has enjoined the NCAA from declaring ineligible.

The state court injunction is the elephant in the room, and paragraph 62 works very hard not to look at it— "this isn't about the injunction." But it is. The District Court of Lubbock County enjoined the NCAA from barring Brendan Sorsby from practicing or playing for Texas Tech, on a 5K bond, through a trial not set until February 2027. The practical effect is that Sorsby plays the entire 2026 season. The Big 12 now asks a federal court to declare that it may bar Texas Tech from competing for letting him. Strip away the labels, and the conference is asking one sovereign's courts to restore the very exclusion another sovereign's court just lifted—relabeled, from "NCAA eligibility" to "conference governance," but identical in result.

That's a real trap, and it is structural. Federal and state courts keep a wary distance from one another's orders; neither likes to be handed the other's ruling to undo. A federal court will rarely enjoin a state proceeding, and it is nearly as reluctant to grant relief that achieves the same end through the back. The Big 12 was shrewd to choose a declaratory judgment over an injunction— a softer vehicle that does not, on its face, touch the state order. But that shrewdness cuts both ways: declaratory relief is discretionary, and a federal judge may simply decline to issue a declaration whose only real function is to neutralize a state court's ruling. The conference says it is exercising independent governance authority. A skeptical judge may see a conference trying to do through the side door what a state court has barred the NCAA from doing through the front— and may decline to hold the door.

The Big 12 should win this, and it should win because the law is not actually close: a private association enforcing its own bylaws against a member who bet on his own games is ordinary self-governance. The Texas AG has managed the rare feat of threatening a lawsuit so weak that he walked his adversary into court, drew a public rebuke from a fellow attorney general within 24 hours, and turned a meeting the Big 12 might never have held into a federal complaint with his own letter stapled to the back as an Exhibit. Crazy times.

Thanks to @TomMarsLaw for making the complaint available.

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

@BrennanBaxt The story of the entitled rich quarterback who never had to face repercussions for his actions because to fans, his $5M NIL deal was more important than the integrity of collegiate athletics or showing our kids right from wrong. You sound like a great father, LMFAO.

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

@tmfpretty @derrico_henrio He has an injunction. Someone doesn’t understand the legal system

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

And ANOTHER one - Get wrecked Tech

[Pete Nakos @PeteNakos]

NCAA has filed an emergency motion for expedited appeal in the Brendan Sorsby injunction. Was expected.

Requests for a court date in no later than 14 days and a final decision by Aug. 28.

https://t.co/ZN5Sb7od0X

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

LOL… That’s what happens when you condone degeneracy and the corruption of collegiate athletics. Fuck Tech

[On3 @On3]

NEW: The Big 12 has filed a complaint against Texas Tech and Texas AG Ken Paxton.

To enforce its bylaws and potentially sanction the school for plans to play Brendan Sorsby.

https://t.co/lu2CGLyywY

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

@TexasTech @kirbyhocutt @JoeyMcGuireTTU @CodyC64 Your unwillingness, refusal, or inability to understand the implications of your actions past just this fall is baffling. You are ACTIVELY condoning the breaking of rules and compromising collegiate athletics. Congrats.

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

@TechAthletics “Let’s condone and refuse to punish someone who broke the rules in the name of recovery and being there for our students”. Compromising collegiate athletics is shameful. No backbone within this university, it seems.

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

“We understand he broke the rules but let’s make up a million excuses and further condone everything he did in the name of “Being there for him and his recovery””. You either believe in rules or you don’t. You’re compromising collegiate athletics and should be ashamed.

[Texas Tech Red Raiders @TechAthletics]

A message to the Texas Tech community from our leadership.

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

@PitanielloBrian Also… just a thought here… if a $5M NIL contract is worth destroying the remaining integrity of college football in your eyes - then you are a horrible example. Financial advisors have no conscience anyway - so what should I have expected?

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

@CodyC64 @KenPaxtonTX shameful

[On3 @On3]

NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton sent a formal letter to Big 12 officials threatening legal action if the conference moves to sanction Texas Tech over its support of QB Brendan Sorsby.

(via @PeteNakos)

https://t.co/aGynKGsVJo

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

@kirbyhocutt @JoeyMcGuireTTU @CodyC64 I thought TTU wasn’t involved legally? Y’all are just digging the hole.

Endorsing breaking the rules and cheating. ALSO willing to go to legal battles to further endorse it. We all know what the right thing to do is, but none of you have the backbone.

[Ross Dellenger @RossDellenger]

The Texas Attorney General sent a formal letter to the Big 12 today alerting the conference that Texas Tech would take action against any league sanction.

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

@PitanielloBrian Doesn’t have the respect of the most country though.. Setting great examples… can’t imagine what you’d allow in your own household lmao - great dad.

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

@TimothyOliver7 @mcnultynash1 @hcksqtjimduggan lol I notice that this lady gives me the heebeegeebeez

[THE Commodore Crashout (10-2)⚓️ @CrashOutDore]

@TimothyOliver7 @hcksqtjimduggan You have a big mouth for being married to this horror villain - Anchor Down, Timmy.