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[Vanimal46]

39 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

Mind. Boggling. How can you let someone who bets on his own team play ever again?

The precedence being set by this ruling today will ruin all college athletics. I don’t believe that’s hyperbole either. If you’re caught doing steroids, go find a local judge and claim addiction made you do it. Can’t be punished for addiction. 

All of those Georgia players speed racing and killing people… Whelp, they all had mental health issues. No more consequences as long as you have the money to lawyer up. 

[The Great Hambino]

These Sorsby rulings are insane, but this has been the logical endpoint ever since they thought the argument that amateurism was a required element in their business model would be enough to win the O'Bannon case, and later the Alston case.  Do you know how in the wrong you have to lose 9-0 in today's supreme court?  And it wasn't even some procedural technicality?  Their pigheaded insistence on preventing athletes from being employees well past the point where it was apparent that this wasn't going to fly legally has created an environment where state employment law or a hometown judge can supersede any rule they try to implement, and it will continue to do so until their rules are collectively bargained with the players.  I don't think this has always been the only solution, but I believe iit s now.

[TheLeviathan]

On 6/14/2026 at 12:29 AM, The Great Hambino said:

These Sorsby rulings are insane, but this has been the logical endpoint ever since they thought the argument that amateurism was a required element in their business model would be enough to win the O'Bannon case, and later the Alston case.  Do you know how in the wrong you have to lose 9-0 in today's supreme court?  And it wasn't even some procedural technicality?  Their pigheaded insistence on preventing athletes from being employees well past the point where it was apparent that this wasn't going to fly legally has created an environment where state employment law or a hometown judge can supersede any rule they try to implement, and it will continue to do so until their rules are collectively bargained with the players.  I don't think this has always been the only solution, but I believe iit s now.

This is the correct answer.  Sorsby's case won as yet another outcome of the NCAA believing they had omnipotent, unchecked power to profit off young adults.  

[Vanimal46]

It took a unified approach, and a lawsuit from their own conference, but Texas Tech is finally letting Sorsby go. He will enter the NFL supplemental draft. Good luck kid. 

At the very least, college athletics united against allowing players that bet on their own teams. 

[Mike Sixel]

How can any team trust a guy that bet against his own team?

[TheLeviathan]

46 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

How can any team trust a guy that bet against his own team?

They can't, but in the NFL they can hide him away unless he looks amazing and then people will forgive it.

 

[Mike Sixel]

1 minute ago, TheLeviathan said:

They can't, but in the NFL they can hide him away unless he looks amazing and then people will forgive it.

 

Football fans will forgive almost anything for a win.