Krista Ramirez Melcher Ŧ 🌵

Jesus, Sports, Fashion, Animal & Gym Lover ✰ Wifey ✰ Fur Kid Mom ✰ Red Raider ✰

[Texas Tech Basketball @TexasTechMBB]

THE PICK IS IN ‼️

@chrisanders2024 is headed to Charlotte!

[Patrick Mahomes II @PatrickMahomes]

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

GEM OF A WIN IN EMERALD CITY!

[Texas Tech Track & Field @TexasTechTF]

Another season, another piece of hardware 🏆

Coach Kittley is the @USTFCCCA Mountain Region Men’s Coach of the Year!

[Griffin McVeigh @Griffin_McVeigh]

Strong words from Brendan Sorsby's agent this morning during an interview with @1053thefan

🔗 - https://t.co/EdMjKvoUr9

@RedRaiderSports | @On3

[Cody Campbell @CodyC64]

Statement regarding Brendan Sorsby.
Long Live the Matadors!

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

It must suck to have to pretend to be mad at this

[Patrick Mahomes II @PatrickMahomes]

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[Krista Ramirez Melcher Ŧ 🌵 @kristamelcher]

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[OutKick @Outkick]

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[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Record deal: The Chiefs are adding two years to Patrick Mahomes’ contract, tying him to Kansas City through the 2033 season at a value of $504.75 million, making it the first NFL deal valued at over a half-billion dollars, per @RapSheet and me.

Equity Sports CEO Chris Cabott, and Chiefs GM Brett Veach and his staff, put the finishing touches on the landmark agreement today.

[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.

[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.

[Victoria Valdez @vicvaldez_13]

Forever wreck ‘em👆🏽👆🏽 I love yall❤️

[Patrick Mahomes II @PatrickMahomes]

Proud of yall! ❤️ @TexasTechSB

[NiJaree Canady @CanadyNijaree]

See you Wednesday Red Raider Nation!!!

[Michael Crabtree @KingCrab15]

Let’s go! @TexasTechSB #wreckem

[Patrick Mahomes II @PatrickMahomes]

LETS GOOO!!!! @TexasTechSB

[Krista Ramirez Melcher Ŧ 🌵 @kristamelcher]

@sola_chad Amen 🙏🏽