Big 12 taking legal action against Texas Tech

[Alex Butler]

17 minutes ago, Hank South said:

Time for Tech leaders to put together another 21-minute video. 

Already working on it!!

[HornsInAmarillo]

19 minutes ago, Hank South said:

Time for Tech leaders to put together another 21-minute video. 

If they're really serious about it, they'll go 22 minutes this time.

[GoHorns1]

47 minutes ago, texcoyote15 said:

Probably depends on which Judge gets this as to the outcome. 

Federal Court huge difference in who gets the case.

[hookem1014]

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. 

[Horns_90]

Sorsby's screwed...

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

This is his last grab at the bag

[Inspired73]

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.

[THookem]

 

[HookemTexas]

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.

[harveycmd]

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.

[GoHorns1]

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.

[Alex C]

The transfer portal giveth... The transfer portal taketh away. 

 

This is a great live by the sword, die by the sword moment for tech.

[Dread-headed Texan]

Welp I'm just going to head on over to one of those Tech YouTube channels and hear them complaining about how everyone found Jesus and morality all of a sudden😂

[stephanie]

Kansas AG now getting in on it lol

 

[hookem1014]

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 😂

[DLev]

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]

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.

[UTexas]

 

[Daytripper]

1 hour ago, Tuco Ramirez said:

[Realist Horn]

So, we’ll get the AGs for Colorado, Utah, West Virginia, Arizona, etc. issuing statemts each day as we go forward….

[CJ Vogel]

 

[Tuco Ramirez]

Tech is burning its own house down, and for what? An asterisk?! 😂

[Glass Joe]

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.

[Realist Horn]

Sorsby and Tech need to agree on a lower payment (since he can play, Tech is now on the hook to pay him), and Sorsby needs to declare for the supplemental draft. 

[Thorn007]

[Steamboat Willie]

If the Big 12 wins this lawsuit, Sorsby could still be allowed to play because of the Texas court order. What the Big 12 would win is the right to punish Texas Tech for choosing to play him. At that point, the question isn't can Sorsby play, it is whether Tech values having him on the field more than whatever penalties the conference decides to impose.