▫️K King 👑

📖 Follower of Christ✝️ | 💏 Devoted husband | 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Father | 🏃‍♂️Former pro runner and Baylor Track / Cross Country alum

[nick wright @getnickwright]

Pulisic skipped the Gold Cup—much to the dismay of many current & former teammates & his coach—to be “best ready” for the World Cup.

He then went 6 months without scoring before the World Cup & then in the 5 games of the World Cup he missed one & left two early with injury.

[nick wright @getnickwright]

To be clear, there were a TON of reasons the @USMNT lost today—primarily that Belgium was way better in all facets.

But to have the man who is supposed to be the greatest player in the history of our country simply no-show in the biggest tournament of his life is just awful.

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Christian Pulisic lost possession 11 times in just 45 minutes.

The MOST of any player on the field 😳

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

Yikes. Brutal game, in almost every way.

1. The mistakes in this one, mercy.
1. US still has a long way to go. Those 2 teams were nowhere close to one another.
2. Pulisic is probably a great pro player, but the avg American doesn't watch those. For the US team, he's been avg.

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Our World Cup journey comes to an end.

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

Dang

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

That was not the definition of a red card.

[Matthew McConaughey @McConaughey]

dont half ass it.

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

Boy, does this seem familiar.
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Landon Donovan rips @united after World Cup travel nightmare https://t.co/7YLnpvbQE3

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

Let's recap:
*Flight 1 delayed. United can't appropriately schedule crews. Re-booked.
*Flight 2 delayed. Couldn't get a ground crew to move a plane that had arrived the night before.
*Missed connection by 90 secs. "they can't wait"
Zero compensation. Figure it out @united

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

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[Danny Kanell @dannykanell]

Finally. The player stood up and did what the adults should have done all along

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

@ELauner Would rather lose fair and square, than encourage no rules at all.

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

@dannykanell When you feel the need to carry on for TWENTY MINUTES to explain yourself... Then you know you're not in a solid spot

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

You won't see me tweet TCU, like ever, but exceptional circumstances imply exceptions to be made.

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

Observations:
1. Absolutely not prepared for the unanimous blowback.
2. They know they are in deep 💩, and any lawsuit w/ Big XII is DOA in Delaware court.
3. They can support him while not playing. "career" is a soft answer...people lose careers for addiction all the time.

[Ross Dellenger @RossDellenger]

Texas Tech president Lawrence Schovanec, AD Kirby Hocutt, coach Joey McGuire and associate AD Grant Stovall release a video message on Brendan Sorsby, his recovery and the situation in general

https://t.co/x1cUSROIF3

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

⬇️ This

[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.

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

Mr. Hocutt, you actually CAN support the player with the structure and support network you mention... And at the same time uphold the standard and conviction that is so easily apparent.

It's actually not as hard as you claim it to be.

When did "consequences" become off-limits?

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

@RichEisenShow @ESPNRadio @JayBilas How long is the appeals process? A lot of commentary has stated that will take 7-9 months, rendering any decision useless.

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

@Mister_Root Lol, the players on Tech's current roster weren't even alive for this one.

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

@ktfuntweets Try again.

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

@CodyC64 A completely unserious post.

[▫️K King 👑 @JKyleKing]

Here we go with the plea toward emotion. You can support someone without forsaking your conviction or standards. Love them in the midst of the consequences for their actions.

The adults of this generation need a backbone. Do the right thing. With love. Even when it's hard.

[Cody Campbell @CodyC64]

Great post, and this is part is absolutely spot on!

“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.”