Chris Kinney

The Sorsby decision was never about only one student-athlete. We are already seeing downhill effects in other eligibility cases in which state courts are allowing student-athletes to circumvent longstanding eligibility rules, citing Sorsby outcome as part of the court’s precedent. Another example of why we need Congress to pass the Protect College Sports Act, authorizing the association to apply common sense eligibility rules consistently for all student-athletes and schools, regardless of the state or local court system.

Attorney Jeffrey Kessler has sent to the Big 12 a letter detailing potential legal action if the league sanctions Brendan Sorsby or Texas Tech and requests the conference preserve all documents for possible discovery.

Statement from Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt

He's right about this, but there are also two solutions to this problem 1) make the employer of the athletes a third party entity that ISN'T a public university (such as the CFP, USA Basketball, etc) 2) Change the NLRA and create a seperate category for athletes.