Austin Davis

@themancalledroy @KelRobin_5 Cincy was alerted to his betting in August of 24 meaning they played him for two years knowing what he was doing, look it up it’s true

@KelRobin_5 Cincinnati didn't know he was betting on games. Sorsby told th em he wasn't. Stop with the "whataboutism" and if he wasn't playing a single game Tech would have kicked him off the team already. You clowns are willfully ignorant.

Someone please wake me up when/if Brendan Sorsby actually PLAYS in a game for Texas Tech. Dude has not as much as worn a game day uniform and for 4 days, all we've heard is "boycott Tech this" and "kick Tech out of the league that!" Meanwhile, Cincinnati played him for 2 years!

@CFBKnights They were alerted in August of 24, meaning they played him all of 24 & 25

Can we have a conversation about how Cincinnati needs to be punished in someway for all this? Sorsby hasn’t even played a snap for Texas Tech. They played him all of 2025 knowing he had this issue and they’re gonna face ZERO REPERCUSSIONS for all this. That’s unacceptable.

@AllbrightNFL @AndrewPDoak It’s the Tech page reposting a On3 article regarding their team, sorry for not digging up the original article but the NCAA referenced this exact claim in the court case

@AustinDavis45 @AndrewPDoak Man “red raider sports” with an interesting headline that doesn’t sync with reality. Imagine that

The Texas Tech and Brendan Sorsby outrage is hilarious. He wagered a total of $850 on Indiana football while redshirting, placed 40 bets ranging from $1-$114, and never bet on a game he played in.

@ColoHawkeye @DanWetzel @espn So you mean to tell me Iowa didn’t ban him on principle?!? They should be ashamed, probably need to boycott honestly

@AustinDavis45 @DanWetzel @espn only appealed because of unlawful investigations.

Everyone wants Texas Tech to “do the right thing.” This is college sports, when has that ever been a thing? Focus on ending judicial interference rather than bash the Red Raiders for doing what almost everyone else would do (or has done). Column for @espn espn.com/college-footba…

@ColoHawkeye @DanWetzel @espn Both schools did appeal to have their eligibility reinstated, the only difference is the players didn’t independently sue for their eligibility The schools would have 100 percent played them if they had their eligibility reinstated

@DanWetzel @espn Neither IOWA or IOWA ST. did what Texas Tech. has done in the same situation and that was with MULTIPLE players loosing eligibility. Noah Shannon placed 1 bet of $10 on IOWA women's basketball game and as a result, lost his final year of eligibility.

@Ricci1Jerome @mckenzielaw Well considering he was the number 1 player in the portal and there was no story about the gambling until after spring practices, I’d say it probably wasn’t common knowledge

@AustinDavis45 @mckenzielaw So you pay him $5m w/o doing the due diligence to uncover what was common knowledge? More likely is they thought they could mitigate it if the story broke & we are seeing the plan unfold realtime. What seems more plausible?

Let me tell you how this Sordid Sorsby saga is going to play out. And let me give his lawyers an A+ for advocacy and the judge who issued this imbecilic TRO an F-minus-minus-minus. Appellate courts detest disturbing interim orders like this one. They are "interlocutory," meaning incomplete, and courts of appeals are loath to undo them on a supersedeas basis before a final judgment exists. But the hidden genius is that Sorsby's attorneys somehow found a judge willing to enjoin the NCAA from enforcing its most primal rule: athletes cannot bet on games, and certainly cannot bet on the games they themselves are playing in. Once that order hit, game over. Texas Tech has to abide by it. Sorsby gets to play, gets paid, and makes his millions long before any Texas appellate court could conceivably weigh in on a trial-court order that applies equitable doctrines against the NCAA without even a modicum of contractual basis. Bonkers and unfair, yes, but that's how this cookie is going to crumble. Only thing that keeps Sorsby from playing this fall, in my view, is the publicity heat. Legally, Judge Curry's order will not survive scrutiny. It does not need to. The season starts in September. Maybe that is the strategy? I think so. That's too bad. Nobody wins here. It's a hot mess. I hope Sorsby serves a reasonable suspension, gets the help he needs, and after everything makes it to the first round in the NFL. Addictions are real. The kid is young. This is an interim chapter, not a death sentence and not forever. The problem here is not Sorsby. It is Texas Tech, which recruited him knowing the investigation was underway, paid him $4M, and is now invoking his recovery as the institutional justification for keeping him on the field. Ugliness in Lubbock.

@BudaTxFrog @LoewyLawFirm Calvin Ridley did exactly the same thing sorsby did and is currently playing under no scrutiny

@LoewyLawFirm Yea.... But Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson both got banned for life and kept from the Hall of Fame for the same thing. 99.9% of the country thinks he shouldn't be able to play.

It’s hard to take any of this Sorsby stuff seriously when we are talking about a sport with: - No constraints at all on payer play - No competitive balance at all - Players getting endless eligibility - No transfer rules Its been the Wild West for years now

@Lauren_Chris Your entire basketball team is ex pros bc a court overruled the ncaa on their eligibility

This is actually insane and couldn’t be further from the truth. Off the too of my head, I can immediately think of 2 LSU football superstar players that got kicked off the team, one being our star QB in Ryan Perrilloux and our star defensive player Honey Badger. Don’t you dare try to use LSU just because we are the current “villain” but will always put the integrity of what college football is and our brand over any one player.

@TheLanceManyon @robbreauxshow Cincy knew in 2024 and buried it actually

@robbreauxshow Games intended to play despite knowing of his gambling. Indiana - none Cincinnati- none Texas Tech - all the games no matter what

Games played by Brendan Sorsby after bets on Indiana Football Team: Indiana - 11 Cincinnati - 24 Texas Tech - 0

@erockkid @CriddleBenjamin The ncaa admitted there were no integrity of the game issues with any of the bets

@CriddleBenjamin I'M SORRY BUT WHAT?!?!?!?! While I do agree with Joey McGuire to extent, you are using potentially inside info among other things to compromise the integrity and honor of the game. THAT is the problem

Have murderers, or people who beat people and been arrested for such been eligible to play?

@WVUjihad People were mad but there were no calls for boycotts, considering the ncaa admitted there was no integrity of the game issue in the sorsby case the outrage is crazy.

@AustinDavis45 Brother, people were very upset about the Michigan cheating scandal. Even so, that’s apples to oranges; there was no district court circumventing NCAA rule there. Here, there is. Here, that is the problem. Again, whataboutism will not win you this argument.

“Texas Tech is merely operating within the system [by ignoring the ruling of said system, then relying on the judicial system to overturn the decision that they didn’t like, then threatening to bring further legal action against other members in that system if they take action].”

@WVUjihad Yeah but the outrage is very different If this was really about the integrity of the game people would have been way more upset over the Michigan cheating scandal

@AustinDavis45 I am arguing that courts circumventing NCAA rule is a bad thing. You are arguing ??? You’re looking for whataboutism. That’s not how this works. Multiple decisions can be bad at the same time

@WVUjihad Pro players playing has always been against the rules until the courts said it was ok, there was always hard caps on eligibility until the courts said it was ok. The NCAA literally denied the claims of those players too before they went to the courts

@AustinDavis45 Damn it’s almost like forcing the ncaa to follow their own rules via injunction ≠ ignoring rules via injunction

@MikeAsti11 I mean if they’re only betting games they don’t play in what’s the real problem?

The only people saying this are Tech fans. It’s as if they can’t leave fandom out of it. No one is saying to throw Sorsby in jail or shun him from society. Upholding consequences for actions is not abandoning someone. But instead, he got away with it all and there’s no deterrent for other players to bet. Why can’t they if he could? That’s a fair question for Sorsby supporters.

@Metaleka_ Bro Michigan literally cheated their way to a championship and got away with it

College football has ZERO credibility now players can break rules and still be considered eligible. Brendan Sorsby is the first and he won’t be the last. If something doesn’t happen fast to this sport, It will die.

@5thDownCFB But they did try and appeal the decision and have their eligibility reinstated. So they didn’t stand on some moral high ground and pretend they didn’t still want them to play

Being pathologically obsessed w/the idea you're a little mouse and a perpetual victim has to be miserable Or, is it empowering? The universities of Iowa and Iowa State each had crucial players made permanently ineligible by the NCAA for gambling violations VASTLY more inconsequential than what Sorbsy did They accepted the punishment and moved forward. Tech is not a victim, nor is Sorsby

@CamCox12 Why would ISU appeal the dekkers ruling if every school would just dismiss the player out of pure honor?

This is why people will have an issue with Texas Tech. Before all this, every coach/AD/School would agree that if someone gets caught betting on their sport, they should get banned… now when it happens to your school, all of a sudden — it’s about protecting the student athlete and trying to hide. The original punishment fit the crime. There’s plenty of hypocrisy in college sports, but at some point, Coaches/ADs/Schools need to start doing the right things. Tech knows what the right thing is and is choosing to go the other way.

@AllbrightNFL @AndrewPDoak x.com/redraidersport…

Absolutely affects the integrity of the game and if you don’t see why you’re either being absurdly naïve or patently false. The amount of money does not matter, he knew the rule he violated the rule and he bet on unders on his own team, which is the cardinal sin. You simply want your alumnus to have that quarterback available. This is anyone else at any other school, your opinion would be entirely different.