Phillip P.

Huge Bama fan! Twitter is my Bama news feed.

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

@BradPowers7 Yeah, nobody liked working for Saban either but I think he did alright, don’t you?

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

Couldn’t have said it better! And Tech threatening to sue anyone who wants to avoid playing a game where the integrity of said game is questionable. It’s not “punishing” a school as much as it is trying to protect their own reputation.

[Jason Busby @TheBusbyProject]

"Texas Tech didn't file the lawsuit." - Kirby Hocutt

No, they're just funding the player who did and benefiting from the outcome.

This feels less like accountability and more like trying to hide behind a technicality while wrapping everything in a "we're helping his recovery" talking point.

They've turned him into the face of the biggest gambling controversy in college sports. Every headline, every podcast, every TV segment, and every debate about integrity in sports now has his name attached to it.

That's not protecting a young man. That's putting him directly in the middle of a national firestorm.

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

So Tech is just going to keep everything in the court system until they get their way? That’s real classy! You should be kicked out of the NCAA for not following the rules you voluntarily chose to agree to.

[Ross Dellenger @RossDellenger]

As Big 12 presidents consider sanctions, Texas Tech reps notified the league that any penalty will be met with legal action, sources tell @YahooSports.

Tech is exploring legal avenues with noted attorney Jeff Kessler, including seeking a second injunction
https://t.co/VcDYqxKhLh

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

You think an awful lot of a school that hasn’t won jack shit even after you started writing blank checks. Nobody gives a rats ass about your 2 bit team in a 2 bit conference. Get over yourself!

[College Transfer Portal @CollegeFBPortal]

NEW: Cody Campbell on schools trying to boycott playing Texas Tech:

“If this had happened at LSU, people would say ahhh it's LSU.

But it happened at Texas Tech… people don’t want to compete with us 😳

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

No, they should be executed!

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

¿Estás de acuerdo en que los hombres que violan a niños deben ir a prisión de por vida?

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

You can try and wrap the excuses in the emotional family wrapper but everyone sees it for what it is: bullshit! Do the right thing, follow the rules and ethics you agreed to and cut Sorsby loose!

[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.

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

Texas Tech got played. Now instead of cutting their losses and moving on, they keep doubling down on a player who is ineligible without question based on the rules everyone involved agreed to. So they want to sue for standing up for those rules? Get over yourselves!!

[Brandon Marcello @bmarcello]

I'm told Texas Tech would consider legal action if athletic programs and/or conferences try to exclude them from competition or hinder their scheduling.

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

I don’t care if he bet a nickel on a Lithuanian basketball game, the one unbreakable rule in college sports is gambling. It’s preached to the athletes ad nauseum. He’s ineligible, period. And if Tech plays him, they should forfeit every game he plays in. No excuses!

[Andrew Doak @AndrewPDoak]

The Texas Tech and Brendan Sorsby outrage is hilarious.

He wagered a total of $850 on Indiana football while redshirting, placed 40 bets ranging from $1-$114, and never bet on a game he played in.

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

You just don’t like looking like an idiot for blowing $6 million on a kid with a gambling problem. Most employers do a background check on a highly compensated job candidate. Take your lumps for being stupid!

[Trey Wallace @TreyWallace]

Cody Campbell calls out those threatening to boycott playing Texas Tech because of integrity

He said teams have players with DUIs, woman abusers

“I mean, nobody boycotted to play Penn State a few years ago when that horrible situation happened there” https://t.co/5gNpMI6kwf

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

40%? You’re crazy! It would take EXCEPTIONAL service for me to even consider 40% Unless you suck, you’re going to get 20% from me. Great service, 25-30%. Get real, nobody is going to tip 40% very often. You’re in the wrong line of work.

[Jennifer ❣️ @Jennifer55gt]

You walk into a restaurant and see this.
What’s your first thought? 🤔

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

Every NCAA athlete EVER connected to gambling on sports has been ruled ineligible. Teams are threatening not to play TTU, TTU is threatening more legal action. You wanna play legal games or abide by the rules you agreed to? You and your school are hypocrites and deserve expulsion

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

Statement from Texas Tech AD Kirby Hocutt

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

@TexasTech @CodyC64 How dumb are you? All you had to do when the gambling scandal broke was withdraw your offer and dismiss Sorsby. You might have lost some games but the integrity and future of the athletic dept. would not be in jeopardy. You doubled down instead. #Losers

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

@RealRobReinhart @LSRobinson21 Kudos to the Big XII for having the balls to do the right thing even if it does upset their financial overlords at ESPN.

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

If he needed help for the addiction, he should have sought it as it is made readily available. No, he should be prosecuted and serve time and be permanently banned from football. That’s what has happened to every violator in the past. Why should he be treated differently.

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

Game fixing is a Federal crime. There is evidence that Sorsby bet on games he was involved in. So instead of treating this guy like a victim, why isn’t he being prosecuted as a criminal for fixing results?
How on God’s green earth did a judge grant Tech and this crook an

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

Injunction? The NCAA is a voluntary organization; nobody forces a school to join. And when you join, you agree to abide by all their rules. Athletes are warned ad nauseum about gambling and point shaving. It is a foundational tenet to the NCAA. This kid knew he was violating it.

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

Texas Tech presenting Sorsby as an addict needing treatment for a gambling problem then trotting him out to be QB is kinda like putting an alcoholic in a beer truck and telling him to deliver the merchandise but don’t drink any!

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

@GregSankey Ok, Sankey. Time to step up. You got all high and mighty on your soapbox in the Bediako case. If we’re so worried about the integrity of college sports, why don’t you prohibit SEC schools from playing Texas Tech in any sport, period! It’s the right thing to do!

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

Soccer!! I fail to see what the rest of the planet sees in this mind numbing flopping contest.

[Phillip P. @Phil4Bama]

You have Johnson in that picture instead of Landry? What the hell is wrong with you?

[Vinny’s Corner @VinnysCorner1]

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