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[John Williams @john9williams]

Everyone thought Oklahoma and Texas killed the Big 12.

When in reality, it’s going to be Texas Tech.

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@spennyscards10 @CardPurchaser This it???

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@Doc_Texas #Earned

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@CFB_Signals Texas Tech will never recover from this

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@NotaBurnerr007 Sorsby has mental health issues ...

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@JarheadFrog AG is wrong on this, and voting for Talarico would be as wrong ...

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@KenPaxtonTX bro, this was an unforced error 😳

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NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton sent a formal letter to Big 12 officials threatening legal action if the conference moves to sanction Texas Tech over its support of QB Brendan Sorsby.

(via @PeteNakos)

https://t.co/aGynKGsVJo

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@Mike_kim714 I've never won anything, don't even know about collecting ... thank you @Mike_kim714 and @Titleist - any help in this appreciated

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[Graham Coffey @GrahamCoffeyDC]

Long post incoming, because I think it’s important that someone says this…

I know and love a lot of addicts. I worked in the field at one point and I have family members who are clinicians currently working in addiction treatment.

The weaponizing of Sorsby’s addiction by Texas Tech has been disgusting, and the passage below heavily implies that TTU’s support of his recovery is dependent on him being a football player.

If TTU genuinely cared about Brendan Sorsby’s recovery they wouldn’t have waited until after a judge ruled he could play football to set these support systems up. And that’s before we even address what type of trigger a $5 million check could be for a gambling addict who supposedly gambles due to anxiety and will now feel the pressure of showing he was worth the money and backlash.

If Sorsby’s gambling is truly the manifestation of a generalized anxiety disorder as they have claimed then the least productive thing for his recovery is to turn him into a national story and a focal point for a lot of people who are rightly worried about what this means for the competitive integrity of all college sporting events.

There is a word for swooping in and fixing things for an addict so they don’t have to face the natural consequences of their actions— “ENABLING”

A player being punished for being an addict is not the same thing as him facing the natural consequences of crossing boundaries that he a) knew existed and b) took measures to circumvent.

I believe wholeheartedly in the disease model of addiction, and I have compassion for addicts who are trying to make a healthier lifestyle into a new habit. Texas Tech has created a false dichotomy that paints those supports as being dependent on Brendan’s football eligibility.

Not playing football does not equate to him being expelled from the university. These supports should never have been dependent on his being part of the team.

I don’t believe anybody at Texas Tech is actually making Brendan Sorsby’s addiction recovery the most important thing here. If they were, they never would have put him in this spot. They just want you to back off because they think it will help them win a few more games, and that part of this story feels way grosser to me than anything else.

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Thank you @TexasTechFB for making me agree with @dannykanell 😮‍💨😔🫨

[Danny Kanell @dannykanell]

I know Texas Tech is in a spot no school wants to be in but I'm genuinely surprised at how poorly they have handled this. With the money they have this might be the worst PR campaign we have seen

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Dear Knicks fans,
Folks across the country are rooting for the Knicks, but you're making it hard to keep rooting for them. Only thing worse than a Knicks fan is a Red Raider fan ...

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How it really went down

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@Doc_Texas Vince Young ... still believe he would be a star in today's NFL ...

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@bmarcello Pretty safe to say - if there is any bill before Congress that Cody Campbell endorses then I am 100% out ...

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[Matt Barrie @MattBarrie]

Golf course yellers. The biggest tools that exist in sports.

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