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[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.

[Jacob Harris @JacobHarrisSBI]

What wild 24 hours. Here are 3⃣ misconceptions/misinformation I'm seeing regarding the Brendan Sorsby case:

1. He bet on games he played in.

He did NOT bet on any games he suited up for.

While not great he bet on games while redshirting, he never bet on a game he suit up in.

2. The Judge in this case is from Lubbock.

Ken Curry is a retired Tarrant County (Fort Worth) judge that graduated from Houston and UT-Arlington. He is currently eligible to practice law and his practice is listed in Colleyville, TX (over 300 miles from Lubbock).

3. Texas Tech did something wrong.

He made all of his bets before taking a snap at Texas Tech. Cincinnati was alerted to his potential gambling activity (per ESPN).

Texas Tech declared him ineligible and will now follow the temporary injunction (like the rest of the NCAA).

[Dustin 🌵 @Dustin3095]

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[Chaz Wright 🌵 @ChazWrightTV]

Curious what Texas Tech has truly done wrong in this situation??? None of what Soresby did happened while he was at Texas Tech.

Texas Tech was not the one who made the court ruling. I don’t see anyone mentioning Indiana or Cincinnati?

[Rob Breaux Sheaux @robbreauxshow]

In the last three years, Texas Tech, more than anyone else in the country, has taken full advantage of the current rules.

They did it again with Sorsby.

Texas Tech isn't breaking CFB, they are just navigating the system better than you.

https://t.co/CHOW2LzJPc

[CFB Junkies @gwilkie80]

This is a great example of how little people know about the Sorsby situation and courts.

Tx Tech can't be penalized for following a judge's court order. Their only real exposure is if they declare Sorsby ineligible to play for them against the court order, then he can sue the crap out of them.

Plus the NCAA has no jurisdiction over the CFP.

[Taylor Stockton @tStocktonTTU]

The least surprising news of all time is that Texas Tech is vilified because of a judge’s ruling in the Sorsby case.

The only issue is Texas Tech did not step one toe out of line in the entire process.

[Mike West🤘🏾 @HoustonHero713]

Why is everyone hating on Texas Tech Football now??? Because they figured it out in this new era of CFB??

No one was saying anything about what was going on in the SEC pre NIL. And we all know certain programs were throwing bags around & winning chips pre nil. It's alot of hate & some scared as hell mixed in for some😂😂. I love this scared money don't make money era of CFB.

[BeatinTheBookie.com®️ @BeatinTheBookie]

Also, don’t blame Texas Tech for this situation, they had no knowledge of it beforehand, but with a multi million dollar investment in Sorsby they did what literally every other college would do in this situation, which is try to win and save their season.

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