Bobby Burton

It’s not naive. It’s a choice.

They’re not courting Tech, regardless.

That’s what a normal person would think. But Cody Campbell probably spent $6m to sign you so you probably have some sort of duty to see it through.

Gerry would love that!

Here’s the NCAA response to Sorsby.

Completely comfortable. I’m well aware that folks have political opinions in their everyday lives. We have folks who advertise who live on the other side of the aisle, too. As long as we don’t bring political opinions here, I have no issue.

They should be banned from post-season competition. But they wouldn’t be if they had an injunction.

+1!

No politics here. But his opinion on this bill is fair game.

Not a bad thing IMO.

I’d love to see every review actually put a live mic between the review mic and listen to the sound unedited.

The two things are not mutually exclusive. You can be influential yet still be a clown show.

Parts of it. Absolutely.

It's sad that it has come to this. But it has. Texas Tech is doing anything to be relevant. They're desperate, so desperate in fact that it's embarrassing to watch grown men grovel. Cody Campbell and Joey McGuire are the faces of desperation. So butthurt are the Red Raiders about getting left in the Big 12 that their administration at every level, from the board of regents, to the president's office, even to the football coach's office, they're all willing to do anything to get anyone to listen to them and regard them as more relevant than they are. In a flash of showmanship and false bravado, their football coach today asked for Texas to move its game with Texas State from Austin on Sept. 5, and schedule Texas Tech in Dallas instead. Yet just minutes later, that very same coach tried to convince reporters that his quarterback who gambled on his own team should not incur significant penalties. "Maybe he should get a few games but not a whole year [I am paraphrasing here]," McGuire told reporters. A sane man's response to such words? Joey McGuire will say anything to anybody if it helps him win a football game. He's a man who knows no bounds. McGuire is only following the lead of his president at Texas Tech, who days earlier penned a letter to all students and alumni asking for the same thing. The whole thing is preposterous. They know it. You know it. We all know it. If you gamble on your team, you're toast. As for Campbell, his thumbprints are all over the latest senate legislation. And that legislation attempts to box in Texas and the SEC. Why is Campbell so worried about what's going on in Austin? Does he feel threatened? Again, it's the move of desperate people. And McGuire and Campbell are the faces of desperation. Texas Tech is embarrassing itself over and over again. View full news story

I specifically asked someone at Texas about this and they had actually already looked in on this sort of thing as it relates to another player. Their understanding is the guy can transfer for track but he wouldn’t be eligible for football this season.

I was at the media scrum when he said that. He is clearly still seeing some ghosts about last season. It almost felt like he was grieving during the media availability. At the same time, he gets the women back in the gym in the next month and I think it’s going to be just fine. He definitely is going to play more freshman more minutes than typical.

Thanks for the kind words! I’ve heard a lot of stories in my life, but I’d never heard the one about Shearer being asked to play goal line defense with one armed taped to his chest.

+1 on all accounts.

He was a one-armed DL on a goal-line drill. Absolutely amazing.

That’s not true. There is an option to opt in.

Texas would agree with you, at least on the part about sharing revenue.

Welcome to OTF!

Some of us are too old to do a mini Murph, others have never heard of what it is, and some of us are both.

Remember when I said the House Settlement didn’t address the real issues? All it did was a) kick the can down the road, and b) give the NCAA safe harbor from further suits. Well, it sounds like there’s some folks finally coming up with similar thoughts one year in. ”The House Settlement has been nothing short of a disaster.”