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re: We might have dodged a bullet in Sorsby

Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:34 pm to
Posted by hsgeoboy
Member since Aug 2017
1166 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:34 pm to
So how much did Texas Tech pay to get absolutely nothing?
Posted by Portcityblues
Member since Jan 2017
1616 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:37 pm to
first of many of these cases with players getting paid what they are getting paid
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
130247 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:40 pm to
Our choices were a guy with one foot and a guy hopelessly addicted to gambling that could get banned.

Good times
Posted by SemiNoblePursuit
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2016
2247 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:40 pm to
There has to be some sort of clause in the contract he signed for situations like this. They shelled out what, $5 mil for him? I imagine their lawyers are working on voiding that since he won't be playing this season.
Posted by Godfather1
What WAS St George, Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
89030 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:42 pm to
They say that back in the 70s, Woody Hayes had these brutal 3 a days. Tougher than Navy Seal training. Art Schlichter was so addicted to gambling that he’d go to the track every day and play the daily double while his teammates slept/rested.
Posted by NC_Tigah
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Member since Sep 2003
138876 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:45 pm to
quote:

Texas Tech transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby is checking into a residential treatment program for a gambling addiction. He’s under NCAA investigation in the wake of the discovery of Sorsby making thousands of bets via a gambling app.
Yikes!
Posted by Adam Banks
District 5
Member since Sep 2009
37772 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:45 pm to
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There has to be some sort of clause in the contract he signed for situations like this. They shelled out what, $5 mil for him? I imagine their lawyers are working on voiding that since he won't be playing this season.


He was just trying to work on a new ttu sponsor-draftkings



Posted by friendlyobservation
Member since Mar 2024
5151 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:49 pm to
This dude fleeced Texas Tech. Got 5 million+ guaranteed too. These NIL deals are worse than pro contracts because at least with pro contracts they have outs to pay a situation like this 0.

It makes you wonder if they were smart enough to put this in the NIL deal. I'm going to guess no which would make it even funnier. I'm only saying this because NIL is still new for everyone. Situations like this are coming up so they have to be more aware. These are not officially pay to play contracts so the question is were they smart?

What makes it obvious they don't always have outs is you have universities making a stink about players doing stuff so when they bolt elsewhere they threaten to sue or try to jail them into their NIL deal like Washington did.

I'm sure you have some smart ones who put wording in that gets out of this but it's clear not all are smart enough to do this otherwise they wouldn't be jailing players into deals or suing. They would simply mutually agree to part.
This post was edited on 4/27/26 at 12:57 pm
Posted by DCtiger1
Member since Jul 2009
11786 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:57 pm to
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Our choices were a guy with one foot


You mean the #1 player in the portal?
Posted by BrianKellysbuyout
Member since Nov 2025
1617 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 12:59 pm to
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Wondering if the fbi gets involved.


If he was placing bets at a freshman, he was underage, so it's likely, but we have seen those types of things go away before. At LSU in one instance too, if memory serves me correctly.
Posted by JoeyP239
Member since Nov 2025
1174 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:03 pm to
Residential treatment?

What do they do? Take away his phone so he can’t log in to Draft Kings?
Posted by DCtiger1
Member since Jul 2009
11786 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:06 pm to
I would imagine address it via therapy like any other addiction. Could be to soften the punishment since he's "proactively" addressing it
Posted by Geauxldilocks
Member since Aug 2018
6555 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:08 pm to
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Residential treatment?


His girlfriend can have conjugal visits residentially, not in an asylum.
Posted by 225bred
COYS
Member since Jun 2011
21018 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:10 pm to
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lol high chance he won’t be eligible if the NCAA finds anything worth pinning on him

If that happens, I assume he will have to pay TT back all that NIL money?
Posted by TexasTiger_08
Texas
Member since Dec 2021
1487 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:11 pm to
THANK GOD he chose Tech. That’s the last thing we need lol.
Posted by atltiger6487
Member since May 2011
20149 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:16 pm to
but did he already pocket his NIL money??? If so, I doubt that can be clawed back, unless it's paid out over time.
Posted by idlewatcher
Planet Arium
Member since Jan 2012
96939 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:17 pm to
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He bet on Indiana while at Indiana. He's done.



Please tell me this is documented
Posted by TigerMac81
Bossier City, LA
Member since Dec 2007
5214 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:17 pm to
I always wanted Leavitt instead of him.
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
130247 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:18 pm to
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You mean the #1 player in the portal?



tRant recognizing a joke challenge: impossible
Posted by sharkfhin
Water
Member since Sep 2008
6238 posts
Posted on 4/27/26 at 1:21 pm to
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