Tim Messer

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@Joe_Hugen He used a futures market in Texas rather than a gambling site.

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@Jacobtheclipper He never dribbled in frontcourt.

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@Iowa_Recruiting Crazy to be the all time best in your state in 2 sports.

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@GPinTN1 @ScottDochterman Getting evidence illegally is why all those players had the charges dropped.

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@KeithMurphy A lot of former Hawks on the Pennsylvania teams.

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@PatsKam @wbfresh90 There were streaming services in 2007?

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@IowaChill @wbfresh90 Something tells me that won’t sell well at the fair.

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@Zhoops44 Hot tub is a better idea.

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@FoodPleaser I wasn’t hungry anyway.

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@FoodPleaser Overrated

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@FoodPleaser Pass me a fork.

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@Joe_Hugen @bigten @SEC Maybe other conferences should all agree to not allow member teams to schedule Big 12 teams at all if the conference isn’t going to do anything.

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@DickieV @BigTenGrant Still a diaper dandy yourself!

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@EliotClough The interlocking I’s on the sidelines is a cool touch.

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@FDSportsbook @br_betting This Sorsby?

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@jardelito Concrete dust.

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@DMerschbrock MLB Blackout zones

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@FDSportsbook @IndianaFever What was that defense?

[Christopher Kratovil @chris_kratovil]

As a veteran Texas litigator who has fought my fair share of TRO/TI battles, several things to be aware of regarding the temporary injunction order issued to allow Brendan Sorsby to play for Texas Tech this season:

(1) The temporary injunction obtained by Sorsby is valid through the date of trial. So by setting the trial date for after the college football season ends the Lubbock County state district court effectively awards Sorsby ultimate relief; he can play the full season under the TI, excluding only the first two games carved out in the text of the TI order.

(2) In Texas a TI is subject to immediate (“interlocutory”) appeal. The appeal will go to the 7th Court of Appeals in Amarillo, Texas.

(3) The problem with the appeal is that even an accelerated appeal of the TI order is likely to take at least 9 to 12 months, meaning the college football season will be long over before the Amarillo Court of Appeals affirms or vacates the TI.

(4) The only way the interlocutory appeal of the TI order gets resolved before the college football season ends is if the Amarillo Court of Appeals orders expedited briefings and decides the appeal “on the papers” without oral argument. But even such an expedited appeal is likely to run well into the college football season.

(5) At bottom, as Diego Pavia and now Brendan Sorsby illustrate, these sort of emergency injunctive proceedings are a huge problem for the NCAA: hometown judges (in Texas elected at the county level) err on the side of granting the TI to allow the key player to play for Hometown U, and the college football season is much shorter than the appellate process. So the preliminary ruling on the emergency injunction effectively decides the entire case and, if granted, allows the player to play a full season.

[Tim Messer @Tmess89]

@RossDellenger How is placing bets on your own team you are on the roster for a result of a broken NCAA system?