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[Taylor Stockton @tStocktonTTU]

What did the Oklahoma Attorney General say after Joe Mixon shattered a female OU student’s jaw on camera & continued to be a member of the OU football team for two more seasons?

Spoiler: Nothing

[Texas Tech Red Raiders @TechAthletics]

A message to the Texas Tech community from our leadership.

[Dan Wetzel @DanWetzel]

Everyone wants Texas Tech to “do the right thing.”

This is college sports, when has that ever been a thing?

Focus on ending judicial interference rather than bash the Red Raiders for doing what almost everyone else would do (or has done).

Column for @espn

https://t.co/98HKh2Yd36

[Brennan Baxter @BrennanBaxt]

The idea that Texas Tech could save the integrity of college football by choosing to not play Brendan Sorsby is hilarious. The system was broken long before this case, and Texas Tech is merely operating within that system. Any other school would be handling this case the same way.

[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.

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

'PTI' debates Brendan Sorsby injunction:

"Every other school in that conference and in the SEC and in the Big Ten would look at taking a guy like Sorsby, because he's a very good quarterback." 🏈 🤔

[Carlsbad @spunionjones]

@MattGlenesk @MattHayesCFB So “gangster” lol loser

[Travis Hale @LubbockElitist]

I woke up this morning and everyone outside of San Antonio and Lubbock hates the Spurs and Texas Tech.

[Carlsbad @spunionjones]

@BudElliott3 lol they are so much worse

[Carlsbad @spunionjones]

@RossDellenger

[Rob Breaux Sheaux @robbreauxshow]

In the last three years, Texas Tech, more than anyone else in the country, has taken full advantage of the current rules.

They did it again with Sorsby.

Texas Tech isn't breaking CFB, they are just navigating the system better than you.

https://t.co/CHOW2LzJPc

[Carlsbad @spunionjones]

Wreck em

[Tiger Vibes @Tiger__Vibes]

-Many people hate LSU
-Many people hate Alabama
-Many people hate Texas
-Many people hate Ohio State
-Many people hate Michigan

But EVERYONE fucking hates Texas Tech

[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.

[Carlsbad @spunionjones]

That sucked so hard

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

fuck these guys

spurs in 5

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

HANG THAT FUCKING CORGI’S COLLAR FROM THE RAFTERS NEXT TO TIM DUNCAN’S JERSEY

[San Antonio Spurs @spurs]

YOUR SPURS ARE HEADED TO THE 2026 NBA FINALS!!!!

[Carlsbad @spunionjones]

Yikes