Janson Teal

[Serf @TheRoyalSerf]

We'll get our revenge during Thanksgiving

[Basketball Performances @NBAPerformances]

4 years ago today:

[Rivers Hughey @RivsHughey]

Wait until they get to the part where we sacrifice a pop-tart

[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.

[Ryan E. 🌵🦬 @ryane836]

Cody: alright guys let’s get together and make some rules so we can all play fair
SEC/B1G: lol no way loser
Cody: alright, Wild West it is then
SEC/B1G: no not like that!

[Brooks Austin @BrooksAustinBA]

@PeteThamel Hot take:

This was all a planned act so Sorsby could get his own Heisman odds at NUCLEAR juice

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

NEWS: A judge in district court in Lubbock County, Texas, has granted the injunction requested by Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby. He’s set to be eligible for the 2026 season.

[𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 @ilychaddle]

Bro they had Kobe’s last game on ESPN2 💔

[kb @saintcfb]

Imagine facility upgrades in College Football 27.

#EACFB27

[A David Collier @CollieronTV]

"This is probably the best coach I've every played for. He just believes in me so much."

-Mia Williams on the decision to come to Texas Tech.

[Unnecessary Roughness @UnnecRoughness]

Joey McGuire wants Texas BAD

[Trey Wallace @TreyWallace]

That series was a full-blown WWE

Texas Tech heads to WCWS, beating Florida

Gators plunked former player Mia Williams' numerous times, tempers were 🔥🔥

Florida doesn’t shake hands.

[Edward “crawfish” Gilamore @NBAKingBell]

Phillip Hays when the jones jumbo tron camera pans to him after Sorsby has thrown for 350yds 4 TDs and tech is up by 30.

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

CONOR MCGREGOR IS BACK 🚨

MCGREGOR VS HOLLOWAY 2 IS SCHEDULED FOR UFC 329 ON JULY 11, VIA @UFC

[Chris Baldwin @ChrisYBaldwin]

University of Houston coach Kelvin Sampson remembers how fearful NBA front offices acted when it came to Jamal Shead in the draft. ESPN Big 12 guru Fran Fraschilla tried to tell everyone he knew in the league what they were missing.

Now Shead, coming off an 18 point, 7 assist, two steal playoff game, is a huge reason why the Toronto Raptors have pushed the favored Cavs to a Game 6 tonight.

"There's nothing that boy does that surprises me," Sampson says. "I just remember how fearful a lot of the teams were that were calling. Scared money don't make money, brother.

"If you knew him like I knew him, you wouldn't be sitting there asking questions. But the questions you're asking me, you're trying to talk yourself into him. And I'm not going to do that."

Instead Sampson wanted Shead to go to an NBA team where he'd be valued.

[Rob Breaux Sheaux @robbreauxshow]

I would take a bullet for Tim Tadlock.
https://t.co/77rdKTGyix

[Coyote Raider 🌵 @CoyoteRaider]

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[Jackson @JacksonBig12]

So many people complain about lack of loyalty now.
He stayed 5 years benched 3 of them and stayed.
The people that complain about lack of loyalty jumped on him for a bad game.

Happy for him

[Ben Golan @BenjaminGolan]

Behren Morton stuck with Texas Tech for 5 seasons through a coaching change.

First QB to lead Tech to a Big 12 championship.

Fourth all-time leading passer in program history.

NFL Draft pick to @Patriots.