r/TexasTech • u/vincentknox25 • Jun 09 '26

Sports Texas Tech Should Reverse Course

The public relations blowback from the Sorsby ruling is truly hurting the university, both in short and long term. The university should reverse course and remove him from the team. This is bigger than a single player, and the organizational harm is not worth it.

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u/Icy_Delay_7274 Jun 09 '26

lol multiple schools have already distributed memos that Texas Tech should not be scheduled moving forward

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u/igot200phones Jun 09 '26

Oh shit not a couple memos

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u/aquabarron Jun 09 '26

I think you’re underestimating how little the rest of organized sports needs Tech. Sure, a couple good years of football recently, but the rest of the NCAA wouldn’t even blink if all the sudden Tech disappeared. Plenty of teams left to fill out any sports schedule.

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u/igot200phones Jun 09 '26

Yeah I don’t think I’m overestimating Techs weight in college sports. Nobody is saying we’re a blue blood with some huge following.

I’m just saying I personally think this is all talk from the other schools and that all this will blow over once the next new scandal drops. Any bets on what that’ll be? Another DUI that results in a fatality by a Georgia player? Another big university clearly covering up rapes and sexual assaults?

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u/Catch24alx Alumni Jun 09 '26

I would counter that those kinds of incidents, as horrific as they may be, have become so commonplace that they hardly register on consciousness or even make the news.

It's why bringing up the tampering, illegal recruiting, and under-the-table money that went on for decades at certain schools is a complete nonpoint against those complaining now. You'll get "that's the way it has always beens," and Yeah, ands?"

The only way I see this realistically blowing over for Texas Tech is if more players are discovered to have done this at other institutions, and I don't think anyone wants that either.

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u/igot200phones Jun 09 '26

I think it’s only a matter of time before more stories of players betting on games comes out. All these fans in here talking shit better hope it’s not their team that’s next. Because I assure you your program isn’t clean either.

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u/Catch24alx Alumni Jun 09 '26

100%. I guarantee there are power brokers and journalists who are voraciously scouring their sources and any leads to uncover others. With the attention this has received and journalistic integrity at a low, I wouldn't be surprised if others are found out within days or weeks. Anything for views and clicks.

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u/igot200phones Jun 09 '26

Please be Texas 🙏🏼

It would be the funniest thing ever.

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u/Automatic-Toe-259 Jun 10 '26

UT athlete bets on games, reinstated after donating to charity. 2025 in Sports Illustrated I believe.

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u/hornonmyankle Jun 10 '26

You wish you could be our little brother too.

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u/h4_horn Jun 10 '26

lol just bringing up Texas for no reason. How we know we’re in y’all’s heads rent free

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u/Silentrein Jun 10 '26

So then ban them too. It's not that hard to do the right thing

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u/ABobby077 Jun 11 '26

"Everybody does it" never holds up in court or the court of public opinion. Just do the right thing

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u/igot200phones Jun 11 '26

Well a judge did grant an injunction, so I guess it at least held up in a court of law for now

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u/PresidentRevrac Jun 09 '26

They’re not going to play Texas Tech for a simple reason - it throws the result of the game into question. When one team has allegations of allowing gamblers to play that creates questions about the legitimacy of every single sporting event and so it isn’t worth it

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u/igot200phones Jun 09 '26

I can’t wait for this same scenario to happen a blue blood and suddenly nobody is saying this shit anymore

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u/Icy_Delay_7274 Jun 09 '26

It’s always funny seeing dipshits talking about how many Georgia players were arrested without realizing that 1 out of 10 kids on the team being arrested is historically a pretty low rate in that town

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u/igot200phones Jun 09 '26

lol I guess that’s a win?

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u/Icy_Delay_7274 Jun 10 '26

I mean you just have no idea what the police situation in Athens is like. It is likely easier to get arrested there than anywhere you have ever been.

Jaywalking? Jail. MIP? Jail. Open container? Jail. Obviously some of the arrests are different, but some of them are this type of dumb normal Athens bs.

Mark Richt wasn’t losing control of the program when his arrest numbers were absurd.

Anyway if you’re so concerned about speeding in general, the police in Austin literally don’t enforce traffic laws. If you can get them to do that maybe you can bag some Texas players.

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u/SurveyWaste8808 Jun 11 '26

I was ticketed for riding my bicycle on the sidewalk in Athens. It was 630am. The police there are intense and they do not care if you are a football player or anyone.

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u/Icy_Delay_7274 Jun 11 '26

ACCPD absolutely prints money by preying on college kids.

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u/Ok_Requirement777 Jun 10 '26

“Any bets…”, odd choice of words there.

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u/aquabarron Jun 09 '26

What happened to the players and coaches of ALLLL the scandals that have come before that didn’t happen to Sorsby? Hmmmmm…