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[Flagged For Discussion @f4discussion]

🚨Ep 84🚨

- Under discussed teams for 2026🎙️
- Recruiting check-in. Shocking blue blood ranked 49th👀
- Measuring the impact of the new eligibility rules📏

⬇️Start your week right⬇️

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🎙️SP: https://t.co/FnCAYoagjK
🍎AP: https://t.co/XiYhDVLt5q

[Ian Rapoport @RapSheet]

Here is the letter from the NFL’s Management Council to Brendan Sorsby:

Dear Mr. Sorsby:

We are in receipt of your Petition for Special Eligibility, dated June 16, 2026 (“Petition”).  As announced earlier today, the League has elected not to conduct a Supplemental Draft this year.

Under our Collective Bargaining Agreement, the League retains sole discretion to determine whether it is appropriate to conduct a Supplemental Draft in any given year. The League has not conducted such a draft for several years and, prior to your submission, the League had no plans to do so this year, as no other player has sought entry. Your Petition—filed three business days before the deadline, without any supporting information or documentation, and only after abandoning your recent litigation efforts to avoid NCAA sanctions—does not provide a basis for the League to alter those plans. The issues presented by your Petition are too significant, and too closely tied to the League’s core integrity interests, to permit meaningful review within the timeline presented.

The sole reasons identified in your Petition for seeking entry into the Supplemental Draft are that you have been “declared ineligible” by the NCAA, have “exhausted all of [your] avenues to continue in the NCAA,” and “want to now play in the NFL.” The Petition provides no information regarding the basis for, or timing of, the NCAA’s decision. Public sources, however, indicate that in May 2026 the NCAA issued a determination declaring you permanently ineligible from participation in college athletics, based on a sustained pattern of improper gambling activity during your collegiate career at three different universities.

The League does not have the complete record of the NCAA’s investigation, and you did not provide any such materials with your Petition. Available information nonetheless indicates that, over the course of your collegiate career, you knowingly engaged in repeated and significant violations of NCAA rules designed to preserve the integrity of athletic competition. Reported conduct includes placing wagers on your own team and teammates and, to avoid detection, establishing or funding accounts in the names of intermediaries who placed bets on your behalf. There are also reports that you may have violated state criminal law.

Your Petition does not address these matters. Nor does it demonstrate accountability for your conduct or indicate whether, or how, you would adhere to the League’s rules and policies governing the integrity of competition. Instead, even after receiving notice of the NCAA’s decision rescinding your college eligibility in May, you sought to avoid the consequences of that determination through litigation rather than accepting responsibility for your actions, and you pursued entry into the NFL only after abandoning those efforts.

As Commissioner Goodell has emphasized, participation in the NFL is a privilege that carries with it significant responsibilities, including accountability. By all accounts, you are a talented player with the potential for future success. We encourage you to focus on preparing for possible entry into the NFL through the 2027 NFL Annual Draft.

Sincerely,
Lawrence P. Ferazani, Jr.

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🚨Ep 83🚨

- Do or Die year for Lincoln Riley?✌️
- What is this new NCAA Senate Bill and how will it impact the sport?🔬
- Is Sorsby going to land an NFL job?🤔

⬇️Start your week right⬇️

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[James T. Yoder @JamesYoder]

Warde Manuel has been Michigan AD for 10 years

In just football, basketball, hockey and baseball - he lost 6 head coaches who made the Final Four in their sport

Wild

[Yahoo Sports @YahooSports]

Oregon QB Dante Moore is featured on a billboard in Japan 😳

Moore, Dan Lanning and a group of other Ducks will teach football concepts at the first-ever Tokyo Oregon Football Showcase beginning on June 25 🇯🇵

(via mooreofdante/IG)

[Jace Hatfield @HatfieldJace]

@f4discussion

[Flagged For Discussion @f4discussion]

🚨Best of Episode🚨

- FARBOD GOT MARRIED THIS WEEKEND!🥳
- Join us for a Best of Episode: we discuss championship sacrifices and the best WR rooms for 2026.

⬇️Start your week right⬇️

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🎙️SP: https://t.co/umcJjNa3vY
🍎AP: https://t.co/7rPPEniluB

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark met with the league’s executive board — four Big 12 presidents — today to discuss potential punishments in the Brendan Sorsby eligibility case. Here’s the latest with @mattbarrie on @sportscenter.

[Chris Phillips @CPhilly19]

You know you’re in the wrong when you post a TWENTY TWO MINUTE long video to try to explain why you’re not.

Good grief.

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🚨Ep 82🚨

- What are the implications of the Sorsby injunction?🤔
- What power does the NCAA have at this point?💪
- Keep 3, Cut 3 to lighten the mood🏈

⬇️Start your week off right⬇️

📺YT: https://t.co/58Og5mKV7d
🎙️SP: https://t.co/XEs1OuYjzi
🍎AP: https://t.co/RC8H9npD7h

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

NEWS: Big Ten officials are expected to discuss in the upcoming days a league-wide mandate to not play Texas Tech in any sports, per three Big Ten sources. This is in the wake of Nebraska AD Troy Dannen informing his staff today that they aren't allowed to schedule Texas Tech.

[Chris Karpman @ChrisKarpman]

Yormark should have made a strong statement about this a long time ago. His silence is deafening.

[College Sports Only @CSOonX]

If I'm Hunter Dekkers, I'm calling my lawyer ASAP.

Can you imagine how much he'd make in NIL if he got an injunction to play this fall?

[Nick Perkins @NickyPerkss]

Someone from Texas Tech just cut a HUGE check to somebody, there is zero other explanation

[Flagged For Discussion @f4discussion]

Instead, now College Football will suffer a precedent leading to probable, imminent and irreparable injury

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

Judge rules that Sorsby would "suffer a probable, imminent and irreparable injury."

[Ross Dellenger @RossDellenger]

The NCAA is almost certain to appeal the decision.

For now, the injunction prevents the NCAA from prohibiting Sorsby "from practicing, playing or otherwise participating on Texas Tech's football team for the 2026 football season."

[Josh Pate @JoshPateCFB]

One of the most unbelievable headlines I can recall

[Flagged For Discussion @f4discussion]

@ShanksLogan This week’s show will be out tomorrow morning!

[Flagged For Discussion @f4discussion]

Troy Aikman had previously stated he was out on helping UCLA with NIL… seems like Bob Chesney’s got him believing!

[Barstool UCLA @StoolWestwood]

Aikman putting his money where his mouth is

Chesney is taking us back to the promised land