Jonathan Dudley 🌵Ŧ 🌵

Love all things Texas Tech! I also have a Fishing 🎣 and Pasture Polo ⛳️ addiction!

[Texas Tech Red Raiders @TechAthletics]

Another 1️⃣

The only school in the country to produce a first round pick in this year’s NFL, NBA, MLB, and AUSL drafts.

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

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[Texas Tech Red Raiders @TechAthletics]

A message to the Texas Tech community from our leadership.

[Nate Longshore @mrlongshore]

I understand why people are uncomfortable with the Brendan Sorsby situation. Betting on sports as a college athlete is serious. Betting connected to your own team creates an obvious integrity concern. Nobody has to minimize that.

But there is another side to this that college football people should at least be honest enough to acknowledge.

When a player becomes part of your program, he becomes part of your football family. That does not mean you excuse everything. It does not mean accountability disappears. It means you do not abandon him the second the situation becomes difficult, public, or uncomfortable.

There is a difference between defending the person and defending the mistake.

Texas Tech is in an impossible spot. Deep down, they may have hoped the final ruling would remove the decision from their hands. Exhaust every option, support the player, let the process play out, and if he is ruled ineligible, accept it. That is the cleanest outcome for a program trying to balance loyalty, discipline, public pressure, and competitive integrity.

But now the court has ruled that he is legally allowed to play. That changes the structure of the decision.

If Texas Tech turns its back on him now, what message does that send to every player and family they recruit? That we will fight for you until the pressure gets too loud? That we will call you family when you are producing, but distance ourselves when standing beside you becomes inconvenient?

If I were recruiting against Texas Tech and they abandoned him after he was legally cleared to play, I would use that every time. Not because the mistake does not matter, but because trust matters. Families want to know what happens when their son is injured, struggling, accused, embarrassed, or sitting in the middle of a situation nobody wants attached to the program.

Accountability and loyalty are not opposites.

You can believe justice should be served. You can believe the integrity of the game matters. You can believe gambling violations deserve real consequence. You can also believe that a program should stand by its people through the full process, not just through the easy parts.

That is the hard part of family.

You do not only fight for your people when the optics are clean. You fight for them through the good and the bad, while still demanding accountability, treatment, discipline, and truth.

Texas Tech may not like the position it is in. Most programs would not. But once he is legally allowed to play and remains part of the Red Raider family, abandoning him strictly because of social pressure would send its own message.

And that message may be harder to overcome than the controversy itself.

[Gamblin' Gauchos 🎙️ @GamblinGauchos]

The replies are hilarious. Nowhere does this statement say Brendan Sorsby will play this season. Nowhere does it say he needs to play in order to be supported in his recovery.

Yet the replies are all asking why those two things must be true. Not surprising given how poorly understood this entire case is by the peanut gallery.

[Patrick Mahomes II @PatrickMahomes]

Proud of yall! ❤️ @TexasTechSB

[soccer dad @davidfloyd1980]

@BoersBurner Math isn’t mathing

[Joey McGuire 🌵 @JoeyMcGuireTTU]

Great job ladies!!! Lets gooooooo #WreckEm

[Joey McGuire 🌵 @JoeyMcGuireTTU]

BOOM 💥 #WreckEm

[Texas Tech Softball @TexasTechSB]

It's great to be a Texas Tech Red Raider!

[Jacob Harris @JacobHarrisSBI]

Florida REFUSING to shake hands after the game….

Stay classy SEC, stay classy

[Kellen Buffington @BuffThe806GM]

One of the toughest young men I’ve ever been around.

The path is a little different but the destination remains the same.

The next version of JT will be better than the last version BELIEVE that.

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[Texas Tech Basketball @TexasTechMBB]

HOW WE FEELIN' THIS MORNING, RED RAIDER NATION ⁉

[Jonathan Dudley 🌵Ŧ 🌵 @DudleyJd43]

@hcolombi_3 Reach out to Rob Terkla on YouTube
@therobertterkla or @Lunkerstv
Both his YT channels

[Cody Campbell @CodyC64]

Hate to see it end this way, but this was a special and historic season for @TexasTechFB. Love this special group of seniors, and appreciate everything they have done for our university and for our community. Thank you!

This season is just the beginning!! We will continue to build. Continue to develop. We will double down on resources, commitment, and resolve.

Long Live the Matadors!!

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

The 3rd place ACC will be playing in the CFP Semifinal.

DON’T EVER TELL ME 3 LOSS BIG 10 or SEC TEAM IS BETTER THAN A 2 LOSS ACC OR BIG 12 TEAM EVER AGAIN.

[College Football Zone @CollegeFBonX]

Today is the last time we will get to see Diego Pavia play college football

[Lauren @LaurMichThom]

Hello Miami, we have arrived!!!! #WreckEm

[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

Air Corgi predicts the Orange Bowl matchup between Texas Tech and Oregon 🍊🔮