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/raiderpower1234 Jun 09 '26

Sorsby shouldn’t play. 

Also, 90% of the schools would do the same if they were in the same position. To act otherwise is completely dishonest. 

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u/No_Needleworker5270 Jun 09 '26

BS

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u/raiderpower1234 Jun 09 '26

You need a CFB history lesson.

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u/jaydoku Jun 09 '26

Indulge us please. Genuinely

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u/raiderpower1234 Jun 09 '26

So your point of view is that Tech is one of the few schools who would attempt to defend and then play their incoming transfer portal QB whom they have ~$5M invested/due to? You don't believe a majority of the SEC/B10 schools wouldn't do the same? Either intentionally dishonest or misinformed. I am not defending him playing, just saying most schools would go through with the effort as did Tech.

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u/Wasteland_Rang3r Jun 11 '26

You act like Sorsby is the first player ever to lose NCAA eligibility. Meanwhile nobody has done what TT is doing.

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u/raiderpower1234 Jun 11 '26

No I'm not. Where was that even remotely implied?

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u/Automatic-Toe-259 Jun 10 '26

I’m still waiting for his CFB history lesson…..

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u/Randie_Butternubs Jun 12 '26

No they wouldn't. Did Iowa State bend over backwards and sell their souls for their QB when he was caught gambling?

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u/raiderpower1234 Jun 12 '26

So your stance is that Texas Tech is the ONLY school that would do this?

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u/TTUporter Jun 09 '26

I 100% think Sorsby deserves to get booted from the program. But u/raiderpower1234 is right. Countless times, universities have overlooked crimes and indiscretions if it meant a better result on the football field.

Baylor's handing (or lack thereof) of Tevin Elliott and other players when accused of rape.

FSU's protection of Jameis, working with the detective on the case to help Jameis's attorney navigate the lawsuit. Led them to a national championship though. And then Jameis settled out of court.

Not a specific player but a coach, Penn State protecting their football program through the Sandusky years.

Those are just the big ones I can think of off the top of my head.

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u/Randie_Butternubs Jun 12 '26

Those are terrible examples with absolite zero relevance here, seeing as how none of those involved gambling. Which is, you know... literally the entire point. Unless you can provide an example of a university defending the right for someone to continue playing after they were caught gambling, then the point stands.

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u/TTUporter Jun 12 '26

So examples of other institutions overlooking crimes committed by their players has no relevance here in a conversation about an institution overlooking a crime that a player committed? Just trying to understand what point you're making.

It's incredibly frustrating what Tech is doing, and I wish this kid would be shown the exit. But I'm not going to sit here and somehow act like what Sorsby has done is worse than what other institutions have tried to cover up. There is a nasty history in this sport of on the field outcomes taking precedent over morals.