Texas Tech AD Releases Statement on Sorsby | Wednesday 12:35 p.m.

[CJ Vogel]

Hocutt: "To my colleagues: I understand the frustration. This situation is hard, it is new and there is no perfect answer."

[Sirhornsalot]

Sorry, but that is BS. He should have just kept his mouth shut.

 

[GoHorns1]

BULL F**KING SH*T 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Edited 2 hours ago by GoHorns1

[Lock n Horns]

Continued failure to recognize this is much more important than Sorsby’s future! Self-serving POS’s

[SETXAN]

[Alex Butler]

2 minutes ago, CJ Vogel said:

Hocutt: "To my colleagues: I understand the frustration. This situation is hard, it is new and there is no perfect answer."

What?!?! It’s not new it’s over 100 years old and the precedent has been set over and over. So it’s actually very easy. He’s done, support the sinner hate the sin. 

[Alex Butler]

Just now, SETXAN said:

Mike drop

[justwinbaby]

Better to keep your mouth shut than looking like a fool talking.

[Alex Butler]

2 minutes ago, Sirhornsalot said:

Sorry, but that is BS. He should have just kept his mouth shut.

 

A lot of that going on at Tech right now. 

[Bunk Moreland]

How dare he repeatedly appeal to integrity as the basis for his and his school’s actions. This is a stain on the integrity of college sports that will likely last a generation or longer. Instead of doubling down, the integrity move would be to acknowledge the universal disgust and outrage and kick Sorbsy off the team. Instead, like a coward, he distances himself from the lawsuit and claims Tech has no agency in the matter. Kick the damn kid off your team, or suffer the inevitable consequences of forfeiting your games or being left out of the CFP.

[Waxahorn]

Too blind to understand the harm they are doing to themselves.

[Tres Comas]

TL;DR

Go f yourself 

[Dawson Yarbrough]

6 minutes ago, Alex Butler said:

What?!?! It’s not new it’s over 100 years old and the precedent has been set over and over. So it’s actually very easy. He’s done, support the sinner hate the sin. 

Exactly! Tech keeps saying this is a new world blah blah blah. No it’s not. The only thing new is they are the first ones to get a judge to overturn 100 years of precedent when it comes to gambling. 

[Alex Butler]

6 minutes ago, CJ Vogel said:

Hocutt: "To my colleagues: I understand the frustration. This situation is hard, it is new and there is no perfect answer."

So if I’m reading this correctly integrity of the game and how we treat people are different. Got it, so support the young man in his recovery but a major part of that is faves the consequences of your actions while deep in your addiction. Integrity looks like, he’s not a member of our team, the NCAA that we are a member of has rules that we abide by. They are clear and definitive in this case. This is a response with integrity “Mr. Sorsby will not be playing sports at Texas Tech. If he chooses to stay at our school we will continue to support him in his recovery efforts. However, we have a responsibility to all of our athletes to protect the sanctity of competition in sports. Despite the court’s ruling this young man will not be allowed to play for our team so as to jeopardize every other player’s opportunity to compete for championships while following the rules.”

[Jbro52]

[georgethepunter]

The best part of this entire thing…I’m not sure Soresby is really any good. Why are they letting him bring them down?

[SamuraiKnight]

I am all for supporting, monitoring, and extending resources to him. But he should not play college football again. You wanna make him a grad assisant and monitor his betting, cool. But his eligibility as a player should be done. 

 

[HDub1995]

Truly embarrassed all around for Texas Tech. I got my law degree from there and have never been more embarrassed to be associated with the brand. 

[4thandFive]

You could give the young man a free education and unfettered access to whatever support he needs, while also not allowing him to be on the team after years of continued breaking of NCAA rules and betting on his own team.

Showing the young man care does not necessitate him being allowed to continue to play football at your university.

[SADBoyzUnite]

The appeal to mental health is complete bullshit. It’s conflation of needing to help his recovery means he needs to play football for them.
 

Rather, being a part of the exact same surroundings which led to this behavior in the first place is the most detrimental to any true recovery. 
 

It’s enabling and in the worst possible way. 

[Jedi Master Bevo]

21 minutes ago, CJ Vogel said:

Hocutt: "To my colleagues: I understand the frustration. This situation is hard, it is new and there is no perfect answer."

In layman's terms, " We are above the rules. If you don't like it, cry me a river, build a bridge and get over it"

[TexTheHorn24]

Interesting there is no adidas or Pat Mahomes brand logos on this statement 

[HonkEm]

This statement is an embarrassment to Texas Tech. Hocutt didn’t ‘clarify’ anything - he basically printed out a denial, slapped the Tech logo on it, and hoped nobody in the Big 12 can read. The entire conference is calling them out, national media is dragging them, and Tech’s response is, ‘We swear we didn’t do the thing that benefits us more than anyone else'.... It’s pathetic.

This is crisis management for people who think PR stands for ‘Please Respond.’  If this is the best they can do, no wonder Tech is the punchline of every AD group chat right now. They didn’t put out a statement....they put out a confession disguised as a shrug.

Imagine being so deep in the mud that you have to publicly announce, ‘We didn’t secretly bankroll a lawsuit.’ That’s not exoneration - that’s desperation. Tech looks guilty, sloppy, and terrified, and this statement only made it worse.

[Danimal]

Anyone who has ever gambled on a game that he / she has participated in / influenced needs to be forever removed more than arms length away from ever influencing a game again in order to protect the integrity of the game. 

Glad he is getting treatment, etc. but he went through great efforts to conceal his efforts because he knew it was wrong / illegal. If he is participating in a game, there will always be the question of "is he hiding his bets on this game again?" In order for fans to trust the outcome of a game, there can't be those questions about a player.

[Little Carmine]

He only "sought treatment" once he got caught aka he did it for PR so he could make the BS "remorse" argument. It's not like he turned himself in, an online sportsbook contacted the NCAA exposing his bets. 

We all know if he didn't get caught, there would be bets that could be traced to him playing for Tech this season - don't let anyone convince you otherwise