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hookem1014 All-American

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Don’t understand why Tech still wants to play Sorsby at this point. This will be hung over their heads til the end of time. He’s not some preseason heisman candidate and he has only one season of eligibility left. Their strategy is just to buy all their players via portal anyways… just try again the next year. 

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Inspired73 Sophomore

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13 minutes ago, TexasOnTop said:

Personally, I think the Big 12 should be more aggressive in handling this situation. 

They have other cards to play........but those options would create a full-blown media war and leave egg on someone's face.   This option keeps all the B12 noses clean.  Really, the B12's current approach is not dissimilar from Tech using the "medical issue card" approach.  [for those that can't figure this out: Tech used the generic medical issue/save the child card.......the B12 is going to the we love the child, but we have to adhere to our Bylaws card].................or. It's me, not you!

PS: I watched a UTuber yesterday that featured a well know Tech guy.  He was adamant that Tech had gone down the wrong path and is bringing all the ugly attention to Tech.   His idea was to 'move' Sorsby to NFL and save face.

HookemTexas All-American

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8 minutes ago, hookem1014 said:

Don’t understand why Tech still wants to play Sorsby at this point. This will be hung over their heads til the end of time. He’s not some preseason heisman candidate and he has only one season of eligibility left. Their strategy is just to buy all their players via portal anyways… just try again the next year. 

This is where I'm at and cannot understand it myself, they literally are throwing away the future for a long time for a guy that's been mid.

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harveycmd Lifetime Longhorn

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12 minutes ago, Horns_90 said:

Sorsby's screwed...

He's dead weight for tt and kryptonite for any NFL team

This is his last grab at the bag

This is true. Campbell miscalculated, and the NFL won't risk the public relations hit.

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GoHorns1 Lifetime Longhorn

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13 minutes ago, hookem1014 said:

Don’t understand why Tech still wants to play Sorsby at this point. This will be hung over their heads til the end of time. He’s not some preseason heisman candidate and he has only one season of eligibility left. Their strategy is just to buy all their players via portal anyways… just try again the next year. 

Media attention, look at me, trying to establish the “bad” boy reputation (las Vegas Raiders of the NFL) which would increase fan base. It’s about marketing the Tech brand.

hookem1014 All-American

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5 minutes ago, GoHorns1 said:

Media attention, look at me, trying to establish the “bad” boy reputation (las Vegas Raiders of the NFL) which would increase fan base. It’s about marketing the Tech brand.

My apologies, I asked under the assumption that Tech’s athletic department is run by adults 😂

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DLev Freshman

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1 hour ago, BevoFlyer said:

Smart preemptive strike. Big 12 gets to choose the legal venue in Federal court as as opposed to making the suspension and waiting for Tech to file in state court.

The case can be assigned to any of 9+ Judges, hopefully not the one in Lubbock or Amarillo. 

Perhaps “can” be assigned to any ND Tex judge, but that would not be following the Dallas Division case assignment order, which is much more specific: https://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/orders/SO3-359.pdf.

Steamboat Willie Senior

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The most intersting aspect of the Big 12's filing is that it isn't asking the court whether Brendan Sorsby should be punished. The conference is asking a broader question: does the Big 12 have the right to govern itself and enforce its own bylaws? Courts are usually receptive to protecting the authority of a private membership organization to manage its internal affairs than they are to directly deciding a player's eligibility. That's why I think the conference's legal position may be stronger than Texas Tech supporters realize. At its core, this case is becoming less about one quarterback and more about whether a conference has the authority to police conduct that its members believe is harmful to the league.

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Glass Joe All-American

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I don’t know who advised Tech / Campbell that preemptively coming over the top with a letter from the Texas AG (and another from Kessler) was a wise move, but it sure does appear to be backfiring on them.  Oh wait, maybe I do know who likely thought that strategy would be a good move (see Campbell, Cody).  😂
 
Perhaps there will be a stay of the injunction on the upcoming appeal and cooler heads will prevail (and Sorsby will disappear to the NFL Supplemental draft), but it seems that Tech just continues to shoot themselves in the foot on this matter.  The scorched Earth approach may wind-up only scorching Tech’s athletic future.

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