JMerritt @live_hard_now - Twitter Profile

23 days ago

The Sorsby stuff has been "taked" to death but here is mine after sitting in it for a few days. Barring a change on the legal side, he will be a member of the team in the fall. That's not up to TTU. If he is on the team, he will likely (per contract) earn his full revenue share/NIL money. TTU has no choice in that matter either. The only question then for Texas Tech, is if he plays or if he sits on the bench and earns a paycheck. So what the rest of the country is asking Texas Tech to do, is to pay him to practice, to be on the team, and not play football. This, they say, will protect the integrity of the game. But what did he do that supposedly compromised the integrity of the game in the first place? He placed bets...from the bench. So what we're really talking about isn't protecting game integrity in 2026 at all. We're talking about punishment. Punishing Sorsby for 2022. Punishing Sorsby by paying him $5 million to not play. That's not much of a punishment if you ask me. When you tear away all the bluster and moralizing, what they are really asking is for Texas Tech - and Texas Tech alone - to be punished. Not Sorsby, not Indiana where it happened, not Cincinnati who played him after. Texas Tech alone. The rest of college football would love nothing more, and would be laughing the entire time. Our program should evaluate his mental and physical fitness, and his compliance with the order put in place. We should make sure that, all else being equal, he is our best option before going out on that field. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. But we should not let bullying, threats, and emotion (from those who already wished us harm) to have any bearing on that decision whatsoever. Strip it all away and they are really asking for Texas Tech to be the only party in this scandal to be punished. The only party who, by any objective measure, has done absolutely nothing wrong. Do that, and the outrage from the peanut gallery will not turn to adulation, or even silence. It will turn to mockery.

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27 days ago

I think it's insane that a state judge can temporarily tell the NCAA they aren't allowed to enforce a rule that every student-athlete agreed to follow. I say temporarily because this is just an injunction, and I'd wager the NCAA would (will?) ultimately prevail at trial. I also don't think betting pennies on your own team from the literal stands warrants losing out on a season 4 years later, when there's a 100% chance that the integrity of games was never compromised. It's a really harsh penalty. It is difficult to rationalize those two thoughts. But it is possible to believe them at the same time. Regardless, the notion that Tech Football should seppuku itself by not playing Sorsby is hilarious. After all, a conference opponent that knowingly played Sorsby lobbed this grenade into Tech's lap. And we're only a few years removed from conference realignment meaning Tech Football could be in the Mountain West or WAC. They tried (and are still trying) to kill us. There is no honor to restore in college football.

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