Jake Clodfelter

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@Hummingbirder @dannykanell You clearly do not know what they’ve done to help. Stop turning a blind eye to the help they are offering the young man. His recovery is the most important statement Tech made. They never said he’s practicing and/or starting week 3.

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@dannykanell Can you elaborate? What should they have done in your opinion? Should they show all the student athletes they have recruited they don’t care about their well being? No one at Tech says he’s starting week 3. They are focused on his recovery. They made an excellent statement.

[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.

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@mahomes_arm @GetUpESPN @finebaum @IUHoosiers @GoBEARCATS I don’t think it’s idiotic. @GoBEARCATS knew of this from my understanding. Why wouldn’t it fall under lack of institutional control?

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@BarstoolBigCat alright BigCat. I hear your integrity argument about Sorsby. Did you care about integrity when the entire SEC and other blue bloods paid players under the table to go there? The NCAA did nothing to protect players from their gambling sponsors either.

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@texrraider Via sources 🙄. These girls constantly say how much they love playing for him. I highly doubt he said this.

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@USMNT Defense is terrible

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@Brendan_Sorsby2 Welcome!!!

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@joelklatt @JoelKlattShow @joelklatt and @gusjohnson were obviously favoring Utah the entire game. By the way, Klatt’s nat’l champ, Clemson, lost again.

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@RealCandaceO What happened to @RealCandaceO

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@mcuban sold ownership of Mavs to an irresponsible, inexperienced group. In my mind, selling something you’ve built should go to someone who will keep the legacy intact for the people invested. Especially in the short term. This new ownership group has other interests in mind.

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@TheDemocrats @AOC She’s speaking like she is qualified to be in Congress.

[Pat Forde @ByPatForde]

For narrative consistency I guess it should be said that Tennessee is proving it doesn't belong in the playoff and the SEC is overrated. Am I doing this right?

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@KirkHerbstreit you mentioned Indiana and SMU didn’t belong, waiting until after they get blown out to say something. By that logic, I suppose Tennessee didn’t belong either.

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@RealSkipBayless Why do they try to confuse the Cowboys with 3 players when they get told anyways? They instead confused the refs. Got too cute sorta speak.

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@JJWatt @espn continues to remind me why they suck

[Jake Clodfelter @JakeClodfelter]

@POTUS And high interest rates. What happened to low interest rates and affordable goods and services at the same time?