the Brendan Sorsby case

[Turbine]

I still can't believe Louisiana didn't fight the death penalty in 1973 (or put up a defense) but this takes the cake.

Actually what happened in the Brendan Sorsby case is not that different from what LSU and Co. pulled off in 1984 with finding finding a judge to say renaming USL to Louisiana was illegal.

the Brendan Sorsby case was about finding a judge to say it's OK to bet on your own team.

Very interesting to say the least.

[31Ragin97]

Can cajuns relitigate and get retroactive back pay or punitive damages

[Turbine]

Texas Tech is staring straight in the face of an across the board opponent boycott.

[Swamp]

Texas Tech is staring straight in the face of an across the board opponent boycott.

Oh yea.

[31Ragin97]

Was he gambling before age 21??

Why would sports gambling and casino and lotto have different ages?

Didnt they already have a mini boycott from SEC softball

[SlickRick]

Check this out...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/two-college-softball-programs-will-not-play-texas-tech-following-athletic-director-statements/ar-AA2593PT

[SlowingDown]

Well, the bed was made long ago. Remember Shoeless Joe Jackson and Pete Rose. Banished for life. Sports avoided Las Vegas like the plague.

Then all of a sudden a few decades ago...fantasy leagues. They were created to increase "fan involvement". Some here even jumped all in for that exact reason.

Then a few years back, the taboo city, Las Vegas, started getting franchises.

And low and behold, next "gaming" concerns started advertising at college and pro venues. DraftKings to MGM Bet now permeate the market.

A few years ago NIL hits the marketplace. People who litterly did not own the proverbial pot to p*** in are flush with cash. And now they want to "invest" and make even more. Never really needed a bank or an understanding of basic finance, and there is Sorsby. IMHO, I am sure more are out there, just hasn't surfaced yet. The SWAC got infiltrated...like the big boys haven't?

And now the NCAA is sitting there with cranial rectalitis wondering how Sorsby came to be. Much like decades ago when lawyers were allowed to start advertising. The sharks always find the chum. Pro sports will have to deal with this at some point. A few players here and there have been questioned, but the undercurrent stays hidden only so long.

Texas Tech is just the first target. Big 10 and SEC don't mind, gives them reason to leave the Big 12 behind. More will come, too much money out there. Besides, anyone see TTU's schedule, other programs don't mind throwing shade their way. It's softer than Notre Dame's.

The whole thing is broken. Every. Darn. Aspect.

[RaginScotsman]

TT seems quite happy creating all this negative publicity for how they are running their programs in the NIL era. Very ambitious for a relative “Johnny come lately” in a lot of sports.

[SlowingDown]

Georgia athletic director Josh Brooks, a member of the NCAA Football Oversight Committee, told Yahoo, “There needs to be serious conversations about not playing Texas Tech in any sports.”

“This is not about Texas Tech. It’s about protecting our own locker room. We cannot, in good conscience, put our student-athletes on a field where the competitive integrity of the contest is compromised and overridden by the courts. If a state court wants to dictate eligibility rules, they can play themselves,” he continued.

Said the AD that annualy pays for "rent a wins".

[31Ragin97]

And UGA was never punished for students using university owned cars

[31Ragin97]

Is it possible there was another potential eligibility issue that may have come to light. So they went full bore into defending this one since it was a gray area. And they had the leagues and networks hypocrisy on their side....also Knowing an injunction would take so long it becomes moot, and nobody would ever hear about the other issue

[31Ragin97]

Was he gambling before age 21??

Why would sports gambling and casino and lotto have different ages?

Bump

[31Ragin97]

Check this out: in 1995 after 5 years in league and a SB ring Brian Mitchell signed a 3 year contract for 4 million. This made him the highest paid RB in redskins history....this guy was getting 5 million to transfer even with eligibility uncertain. Wowzer.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/1995/03/28/42-million-pact-makes-mitchell-highest-paid-redskins-rb-ever/

[BabbForHeisman]

I don’t even know who the villain is in this story.

Player?
coach?
admin?
judge?

maybe all a little bit?

[Holy Hound Cajun]

All idolatry. We will never see anything of real consequence happening to the wrongdoers because they love the grift, and we (myself included) are not real citizens. We are way to comfortable and love the "sports bro" culture. Sports, among many other things has become our idol. This is no different than what you are seeing in Minnesota with the governor and AG clearly implicated in and guilty of Medicare/Medicaid fraud on a scale never seen before. There, just as with the NCAA, nothing will be done to the true criminals, like the governor of Minnesota and AG. We are a weak, stupid and lazy citizenry. We complain and complain, and then when we have the opportunity to vote, we elect the same garbage over and over and over.
We are not a nation of laws and never will be. We are a nation of political will and always will be. Unfortunately, we (the conservative side) have no political will.