Frank Rossi

Attorney in NYS. Adj. Law Prof. at UMiami. @D3FBHuddle Co-Host. Flag f'ball ref. Mayor of the Village of Ballston Spa, NY since 4/2022.

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

Season 19 will be epic for @D3FBHuddle - Stay tuned, as we remain free for schools, families, & student-athletes in all aspects of what we do. We cover over 20 games in person each year, making us the #d3fb Authority. See why, starting in July with our Preseason Top 40 content!

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

@andyhummert @D3FBHuddle Never heard of him.

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

Season 19 will be epic for @D3FBHuddle - Stay tuned, as we remain free for schools, families, & student-athletes in all aspects of what we do. We cover over 20 games in person each year, making us the #d3fb Authority. See why, starting in July with our Preseason Top 40 content!

[In The (D3FB) Huddle @D3FBHuddle]

Devastated to hear the news of the passing of former @_SCFootball assistant coach and @MUHawksFB DC @Coach_DiRienzo. Sending our deepest condolences to the Monmouth, Springfield and extended DiRienzo families.

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

Are you ready for Season 19 of @D3FBHuddle?! We’re preparing for our best season ever — and we even decided to spruce up our logo a bit. See it below! #d3fb

[In The (D3FB) Huddle @D3FBHuddle]

“If you hang around long enough and make something important enough, everyone hates you at some point,” said Maher in his acceptance speech. “I don’t ask what will please the audience; I ask what is true. And they’re okay with that.”

Hmm, kinda of sounds familiar.

@FrankRossi and I are five weeks out from once again hosting the @LandmarkConf #d3fb media day and 65 days out from our live shows in Week 1 in NJ.

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

It should never have to come down to this, but unfortunately, I’m not sure how many times we’re supposed to be threatened with physical violence or physical confrontations at football games we’re covering, and have attempts to try to talk things out ridiculed by @Pritzkersgunt repeatedly.

These papers that are essentially to seek restraining orders for myself and a couple other @D3FBHuddle staff members are ready to be filed next week to ensure we have a season of coverage that won’t require constant concerns about how our staff will be treated by someone who doesn’t understand limits (mine alone spans 33 pages). We intend on covering @football_ncc games this season — and @NCC_Athletics has specifically invited us to continue our tradition of coverage that we’ve dedicated toward their program, especially since 2019 as we became more nationally focused in our #d3fb coverage.

If anyone has a recommendation for an attorney to handle this in the Will County, Illinois area, please DM me with details. That said, we still hope to be able to avoid this somehow — but clearly, someone fails to recognize that memes and general “funny comments” are permissible speech, but continuous patterns of violent speech and threats are not.

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

@The3rd_Division @Pritzkersgunt At this point, it’s going to end with a restraining order. This was his one chance to really stop that step from happening. If you have an attorney in or around Will County, IL, you can recommend, I’d appreciate it.

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

https://t.co/DI4gbyRsnb

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No need to get excited - @Pritzkersgunt is no-showing so far 10 minutes into it. And he’s now making bizarre, defamatory claims that I’m cyberstalking his wife and daughter? Yeah - ummmmmm - I have zero desire to know anything about either. He clearly needs to seek mental help instead of douching on people that actually focus on keeping their mental health strong.

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

@Pritzkersgunt I’m waiting…

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Hey @Pritzkersgunt - Last chance for an X Space today at 1:30pm EDT. You going to show up this time or wimp out for a 3rd time?

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

Shout-out to @Pritzkersgunt for providing evidence for an upcoming lawsuit and now a probable lawsuit against him. Perhaps he should actually do fact-checking sometimes before really stepping in it.

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

Always amuses me when someone who gets 1 like regularly on X tries to use @D3FBHuddle and me as straw men to get 28x that traction. Glad we could help your recruiting page, Alex. Maybe you should work with RicoKnowsNothing and really class up your business practices.

[Alex Agrella @AlexAgrellaRB]

Someone call the Wambulance... Frank Rossi is crying again

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

Well, @Pritzkersgunt — seeing that AI reviewed all 11,897 messages in our server’s football thread and gave us a clean bill of health, and seeing that you’re now telling odd tales about something that didn’t happen at the Stagg Bowl, I’d like to remind you about something called defamation and its friend libel. Plus, you were offered two chances to come in and discuss things publicly in an X Space a few months ago, and you were a no-show. So, you’ve pretty much wasted your opportunities to have the direct conversations you so badly want while you now spread lies publicly about our entity. As I said, I’m taking action pursuant to the April 2026 open letter you’ve acknowledged multiple times. See you at the courthouse.

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

I usually spend Pride Month quietly.

For me, it’s less about a parade than about a moment of reflection — gratitude that, across three decades around the game of football, I’ve built a secondary career on my work, my energy, and my passion for helping student-athletes. The fact is that who I love has never once changed the quality of any of it. My sexuality doesn’t show up in a broadcast, a film breakdown, or a player’s recruitment. The work does. That’s how I’ve always let it speak.

I don’t reflect alone, either. My co-host JB at @D3FBHuddle has stood beside me through all of it — years of steady support and advocacy, never once making my being gay anything other than a non-issue. That’s what real allyship looks like, and I’m grateful for it every season.

But this Pride Month, I got a reminder of why visibility still matters.

In a discussion about a coaching hire, a self-described “recruiting advisor” called me “flamboyant,” dismissed my advocacy for young athletes as “female energy,” and — most disgracefully — accused me of trying to “groom” the very student-athletes I’ve spent my life lifting up.

I’m not sharing this for sympathy. I’m sharing it because too many people still believe homophobia in sports is a relic. It isn’t. It’s right here, in 2026, aimed at anyone openly gay who dares to take up space in this world.

One serious word to the student-athletes and parents reading this: many colleges now review applicants’ social media as part of admissions, and your public interactions become part of that record. Associating with — or engaging — accounts that traffic in bigotry like this can follow you into an admissions file and cost you opportunities you’ve worked for. Protect your future. You don’t have to engage with people like this — and for your own sake, you shouldn’t.

It’s not new, either. Five years ago, @CydZeigler and @Outsports told my story as an openly gay voice in Division III football — https://t.co/JDk3LnCfDW. Cyd, thank you for that platform then — and a note to you and everyone now: there’s still work to be done, even in 2026. The slurs haven’t evolved much. Neither has my resolve.

I’m not going anywhere. I’ll keep asking the hard questions, keep telling the truth, and keep supporting student-athletes until the day I die. 🏳️‍🌈

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

@Pritzkersgunt @football_ncc Tell me more about this cheer situation, @Pritzkersgunt - I’ll wait…

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

@Ricoknowstiktok - That means there’s a greater than 25% chance one of your children is gay or lesbian. I pray for them that you understand the importance of acceptance, support, and unconditional love if they ever come out to you and seek your support. Life is often ironic in situations like these, but I’m mortified that your child will end up mentally traumatized instead of supported if you feel the level of hate and bigotry you publicly state is in any way appropriate and representative of you.

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

Conway — as someone who took a month-long mental-health break after 4 years as a Mayor without a pause (it's "part-time," but it's 60 hours a week), I'll say it without hesitation: you did the right thing. You should never let your mental health languish just to keep pushing through.

Getting healthy and then hearing there's no spot for you is a gut punch — but that's a broken process talking, not your worth as a player or a person. You did everything they asked, on their timeline, while fighting something a lot of people never have to (even though more people probably should).

I'm putting the rest of this out publicly because you are NOT the only athlete who's hit this wall, and the next one deserves to know these doors exist.

What's worth knowing:

1. Your campus 504/ADA coordinator. Federal disability law (Section 504 / the ADA) covers athletics, not just academics, at any school that takes federal funding. A decision to cut an athlete is supposed to rest on an individualized assessment — not assumptions about a mental-health condition. A rigid "two weeks to decide," when that condition is the very reason you need flexibility, is exactly what that office exists to hear about — in writing.

2. The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. It takes disability-discrimination complaints against schools directly. There's a filing window (generally 180 days from the act), so it's time-sensitive.

3. The NCAA waiver appeal. A denial has its own appeal track and its own clock. The NCAA wants documentation showing the condition was season-ending in severity and created at the time — so preserve every therapist/doctor note now. Specialists who handle eligibility appeals for a living can be worth every penny.

4. Document everything. The actual denial language, the coach communications, the timeline. Whatever comes next runs entirely on that record.

You already did the hardest and most important part — you got healthy. Don't let a "no" from a broken system convince you the road ends here. My DMs are open. We at @D3FBHuddle have your back.

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

@ZVargPhoto @Ricoknowstiktok Bobby - Two Words: "Restraining Order." You've already been warned to stay away. Now I have what I need to get the order. As I said, you were warned.

[Frank Rossi @FrankRossi]

@ZVargPhoto @Ricoknowstiktok It’s so funny watching 5’2” Bobby playing victim to a gay man, especially after threatening to go to JB’s company to tell them he was being mean to Bobby. Hey Bobby, a gay man is your daddy. That should upset the females in your household more than anything else on X.