Justin Myers

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing, Pi Kappa Phi Alum, Texas Tech Alum

[Tech N Tortillas 🦅🦅🌵 @techntortillas]

Brendan Sorsby’s legendary run at Texas Tech:

[Joel Sawyer @joeldavidsawyer]

Nothing has ever made me prouder to be an American.

[Patrick Ruffini @PatrickRuffini]

The World Cup tourists have discovered Buc’ees

[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.

[Justin Myers @JustinM374]

@TFel922 Dekkers should have had a better lawyer

[TwoPleceCoogs @Two3456789Co]

Bro 😭😭😭

[Karen McGee @karenmotherof2]

Has anyone told him he’s just one parlay away from not even needing to play in the NFL

[Pro-America | Politics & Markets @Pro__Trading]

Instead of "end racism" what if they painted "end beating yo baby mama" in the NFL endzones?

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

You can take the player out of Georgia but you can’t take the Georgia out of the player

[Sleeper @SleeperHQ]

SCARY: JJ McCarthy goes FLYING at Rolling Loud, striking a pedestrian 😳

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Ted Turner used to have wet t-shirt contests on college night at Braves games. We used to be a proper nation!

[Chuck Bass @ChuckFBass]

NFL general managers trying to figure out how to draft a running back in the top 10 without getting fired.

[Sleeper @SleeperHQ]

“The NFL draft is in a week…”

[Anthony Dabbundo @AnthonyDabbundo]

the nationwide TSA security line panic is very clearly just a scheme by big airport to get people to arrive early and consume more airport beers

[Allen Sales @AllenSales]

Im sorry but this is really funny.

Puka NaCHEWa. 😂

[Joe Kinsey @JoeKinseyexp]

Happy 20th anniversary to the greatest St. Patrick’s Day video on the Internet.

[Polymarket Football @PolymarketBlitz]

Jon-Eric Sullivan and Jeff Hafley are adopting the Packer strategy of loading the team up with WR3’s.

[Mike DeFabo @MikeDeFabo]

My new excuse for getting out of things I don’t want to do (weddings, meetings, chores) is “sorry, didn’t pass the physical.”