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Paul, how are we supposed to square these two videos taken days apart?

@ncaasoftballstf #Winner

Heavener to Texas Tech… makes sense 😂

@SoleyggyxSoley #Winners

She def fits in with their culture 🥰

@redraidertech Hahahah

Wreck'em!

@Heartland_CS Let's go WVU

What's not to love about this West Virginia baseball team?! #hailwv #WVU #CWS

@CameronDole And yet, you're all going to have to deal with it. That's the end truth.

I’m going to say the part everybody keeps trying to smother with soft lighting and school-colored spin: This Texas Tech defense of Brendan Sorsby is not noble. It is not brave. It is not some deeply moving stand for second chances. It is a beautifully produced excuse factory with a quarterback depth chart attached. And I’m sorry, but some of us still remember when gambling was the one line sports absolutely, positively did not let you tap dance across. Baseball knew it. Basketball knew it. Football knew it. College athletics knew it. Every athlete who has ever sat through a compliance meeting knows it. You do not bet on games. You certainly do not bet on games connected to your own program. That is not complicated. That is not hidden in fine print. That is not some NCAA mystery written in invisible ink and stored behind a locked filing cabinet in Indianapolis. That is Day One stuff. That is “don’t touch the stove” stuff. That is “the bridge is out” stuff. And now Texas Tech wants everyone to gather around, dab our eyes, admire the production quality, and pretend this is really about compassion? No. Compassion is helping Brendan Sorsby get well. Compassion is making sure he has treatment, accountability, support, and people around him who care more about his soul than his stat line. Compassion is not pretending the rulebook suddenly caught a stomach virus because the quarterback room got uncomfortable. That’s not grace. That’s roster management wearing a halo. And that’s where this whole thing starts smelling like a booster-club candle called “Selective Accountability.” Because let’s be painfully honest. If this were a third-string offensive guard from a school ESPN only mentions during weather delays, there would be no emotional video. No moral campaign. No carefully scripted institutional defense. No dramatic music. No “we stand with our guy” tour. There would be a violation. There would be a consequence. There would be silence. But because it’s a quarterback who can help win games, suddenly the red line needs context, therapy lighting, and a legal team. Nope. Wrong. Try again. Sports cannot survive if gambling violations become public-relations projects. The integrity of the game cannot depend on how many boosters are nervous. Rules cannot only apply to the guys who are not talented enough to become inconvenient. And second chances do not have to include first-team reps. I hope Brendan Sorsby gets help. Truly. I hope he heals. I hope he grows. I hope five years from now this is a painful chapter in a much better story. But he does not need NCAA eligibility to become whole. He does not need a starting job to be supported. He does not need the rest of college football to pretend that a clear line was suddenly blurry just because Texas Tech found a camera crew and a sympathetic script. Sometimes love tells the truth. Sometimes support still says no. Sometimes consequences are not cruelty. And sometimes the most compassionate thing anyone can do is stop treating accountability like it’s a disease we need to cure. You crossed the line. Now the line has to matter. #BrendanSorsby #TexasTech #NCAA #CollegeFootball #SportsBetting #SportsIntegrity #AccountabilityMatters #PersonalResponsibility #CollegeFootballNews #NCAAFootball #CameronDole @espn @TexasTech @TexasTechFB @TechAthletics @Big12Conference

@CameronDole Damn, we went back to Under Armour?

@TheTunnel_Texas 😂

More like North Korea… Self contained news cycle. Weapons always fail when tested.

@JoshCla18647219 @BoilerBurner1 @PeteThamel You lost by 13 in a game that was never close. The athleticism difference was stark. Just the way Painter builds his teams.

@Otto342 @BoilerBurner1 @PeteThamel Didn't we lose our big guy and still barley lost

NEWS: Big Ten officials are expected to discuss in the upcoming days a league-wide mandate to not play Texas Tech in any sports, per three Big Ten sources. This is in the wake of Nebraska AD Troy Dannen informing his staff today that they aren't allowed to schedule Texas Tech.

@DanGlenn_WR @samspiegs Haters praying for our downfall.

@samspiegs In the long run the legal issues and lawsuits that will play out will dry up some of that NIL and there won’t be any appeal to this place left.

Expecting more big dominoes to follow suit in Lubbock with a ton of star power in town this weekend

@nisakat @samspiegs @SWiltfong_ @BenjaminGolan @ChrisLevel @CodyBellaire

@samspiegs @SWiltfong_ @BenjaminGolan @ChrisLevel @CodyBellaire how much ? what did the billionaire team owner have to fork out ?

NEW: Texas Tech has added two commitments today and is tracking for more coming out of a star-studded official visit weekend in Lubbock 🌵 +The Red Raiders are looking to put the finishing touches on what will be the program's best recruiting class Intel: on3.com/rivals/news/te…

@Hayesfawcett3 @Rivals @TexasTechFB @JoeyMcGuireTTU @jkbtjc_53 @KavianBryant27 @barstoolttu @TankManBeast @Jhadynnelson1 @gideongash @JulianCaldwell_

BREAKING: Four-Star Safety Kaston Lewis has Committed to Texas Tech, he tells me for @Rivals The 6’1 195 S from Iowa, LA chose the Red Raiders over West Virginia and Arkansas “Let’s do it, Guns Up!!”
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“You knew the first trillionaire?” “I didn’t say I knew him. I said he replied ‘Wow!’ on my post once.”

Wait… Wuuut?!?

@LifeofFitz The injunction clearly states the NCAA can do nothing to punish either Brendan Sorsby or Texas Tech. Calm down.

Is there a pathway to him playing despite admitting he bet on sports as well as his own team, which are obscene violations of every sports’ rules? Yes. Open the damn portal.

@LifeofFitz It really seems you need to read that injunction, Tim. You have no clue what you're talking about.

The NCAA should offer the Texas Tech players a special portal window. Maybe they’re all fine playing with a gambler who may choose to throw an incompletion to hit the under on a prop bet, but if not, they should have a chance to leave. These are truly special circumstances.

@Blue_In_MO @klseaboldt My original point was that the Big 8 Conference ceased to exist the same time as the SWC. That is a verifiable fact that I'm not sure why you're arguing.

@Otto342 @klseaboldt This wasn’t your original point. This is something completely different but ok. The Big 8 bringing the Texas schools into the league started conference realignment which led to more revenue discrepancy.

Stop. Talking. You have no allies and you’re certainly not gaining any by defending a position that no one else agrees with. You’re only reinforcing everyone’s opposition while voluntarily stepping back into the spotlight for another negative news cycle.

@emilyetaylor23 Yet here you are...

I have thought about Texas Tech twice in my life.