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@AndrewM_Woods @Running_Ryan @DouglasTS @TomMarsLaw key issue is that Curry’s order didn’t just protect Sorsby. It also reportedly barred the NCAA from using its Rule of Restitution against Texas Tech and even schools that play Texas Tech while the injunction is in force. That significantly weakens the NCAA’s enforcement mechanism

@MarcSDunham @Running_Ryan @DouglasTS @TomMarsLaw The Big 12 is not a named party in the court order and how is the Big 12 enforcing its rules (that TTU agreed to) an antitrust violation. Not every instance of a group vs a smaller group or individual is antitrust

If the Texas AG is really serious about suing the Big 12 for violating the federal antitrust laws, he’s not going to be able to litigate that claim before a state court judge. As a matter of law, that case would have to be litigated in a federal district court.

@bright_invest @_birdsofwar @TomMarsLaw @jlkurtz Has he played a down for Texas Tech yet? Yep, I got a damn good education at Tech.

@_birdsofwar @MarcSDunham @TomMarsLaw @jlkurtz That's the Tech education in a nut shell. 😂

@Retaliator375 @TheMEPS @finebaum Sorsby sued all on his own. A FOIA will show that. What rule did Tech break? What have we done wrong. We are under court order that he’s eligible. 🤦‍♀️

@MarcSDunham @TheMEPS @finebaum player caught breaking the fundamental rule of athletics then his university helps him sue the ncaa to get his eligibility back. after all parties involved agreed to the ncaa’s rules before hand

"It's crazy...because it's not murder, it's not beating somebody..." Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire defends his QB Brendan Sorsby, who's under fire for gambling on his own team's football games:

@Retaliator375 @TheMEPS @finebaum Tech hasn’t broken any rules. You can’t punish Tech to get to Sorsby. That’s againt the court order and therefore the law.

@MarcSDunham @TheMEPS @finebaum see it’s literally so easy to just NOT break the rules. do the crime, do the time (unless you’re sorsby)

@elkman1966 @TomMarsLaw @jlkurtz No, but has the force of law against antitrust actions in federal court. Kavenaugh already gave his opinion last year in the House ruling. Go read it.

@MarcSDunham @TomMarsLaw @jlkurtz A Texas state court does not have the jurisdiction to impact all Big 12 members.

@The_Scarr02 @jj4hill @TTU58689 @TomMarsLaw Not once did I insinuate AI. Habent posted any dumb, whatsoever. You don’t seem to understand or unwilling to inform yourself.

@MarcSDunham @jj4hill @TTU58689 @TomMarsLaw 1. I was annoyed you insinuated I used AI. My opinion was fully based on my own knowledge 2. If you don’t want to get called retarded, don’t say dumb shit. I’m fine having a well meaning conversation but I have a low tolerance for utter nonsense and what you said was nonsense.

A super majority of the Big 12 directors (schools) already have almost unlimited discretion to sanction Texas Tech. What’s more, they also have the authority to amend the Big 12 Bylaws at any time to specifically require the immediate suspension or dismissal of any school which knowingly plays an athlete who has admitted to placing bets on his own team.

@The_Scarr02 @jj4hill @TTU58689 @TomMarsLaw You don’t seem to understand. Tech’s top lawyer is the State AG. Any litigation goes through that office. Was the same for leach.

@MarcSDunham @jj4hill @TTU58689 @TomMarsLaw AG is involved because he/she is an elected official and subject to public opinion. I didn’t say there is no legal recourse the AG can attempt to take, obviously there is as this is America after all. That doesn’t mean the AG is likely to be successful or it’s a valid lawsuit

@AndrewM_Woods @Running_Ryan @DouglasTS @TomMarsLaw key issue is that Curry’s order didn’t just protect Sorsby. It also reportedly barred the NCAA from using its Rule of Restitution against Texas Tech and even schools that play Texas Tech while the injunction is in force. That significantly weakens the NCAA’ enforcement mechanism.

@AndrewM_Woods @Running_Ryan @DouglasTS @TomMarsLaw You don’t seem to understand how the judge wrote it. There’s quite a bit of info out there as to why his ruling applies to other conferences, ncaa, CFP, etc. can’t find the info now will try to find.

@OGDonWebb @mckenzielaw Yep

@MarcSDunham @mckenzielaw

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.

@BlinnBeth @ALGsportsfan @finebaum He shouldn’t. But then there is a court order.

@MarcSDunham @ALGsportsfan @finebaum I was responding to your comment on its face. What is your honest opinion of why Sorsby should be treated differently than every other student athlete who did what he has done?

@JonamaMyrick @TomMarsLaw @jlkurtz None of which Tech has broken.

@MarcSDunham @TomMarsLaw @jlkurtz The injunction is against the NCAA. The Big 12 is a separate entity with rules that each participating school agreed to.

@The_Scarr02 @jj4hill @TTU58689 @TomMarsLaw Ok. The case is laid out pretty well that this is really the only way everyone gets what they want. But you do you.

@MarcSDunham @jj4hill @TTU58689 @TomMarsLaw I’ll read non biased sources from respected figures lol. Not some rich asshole booster that only cares about his own team

@Running_Ryan @TomMarsLaw Ok, if you say so. The AG isn’t responding like that if there isn’t precedence.

I swear that is absolutely the most stupid and low IQ response I hear from Tech fans. They aren’t talking about sanctioning TT right now but upon a condition precedent. Pass a bylaw saying playing players who have admitted to gambling or rule violations forfeits post season and CC game eligibility is pretty much easy. TT can easily avoid the penalty by not playing the kid. Pretty simple.

@The_Scarr02 @jj4hill @TTU58689 @TomMarsLaw Absolutely there is. Otherwise, the AG wouldn’t be involved. So instead of making you case, you just turn to insults. Are you 15?

@MarcSDunham @jj4hill @TTU58689 @TomMarsLaw There’s no anti trust here retard. Texas Tech voluntarily joined the conference and is bound by their rules

@Running_Ryan @DouglasTS @TomMarsLaw Not really, when EVERYONE is aligned. Good luck with that. We protecting the reputation of being punished for having done nothing wrong.

@MarcSDunham @DouglasTS @TomMarsLaw Reputational damage is grounds.

How will Texas Tech handle being the biggest villain in college sports? @TexasTechFB legend, Graham Harrell, said the team needs to embrace it or else it's going to be a long season.

@Running_Ryan @DouglasTS @TomMarsLaw Agreed. Campbell would have to violate some law/policy to be removed. Fighting for the university you were hired to serve, when it has done nothing wrong, isn’t grounds for termination.

@MarcSDunham @DouglasTS @TomMarsLaw Appointment and removal are not the same. Legislature has full authority to remove.

@moneylineman1 @TomMarsLaw @BruceFeldmanCFB The AG office doesn’t change because there might be a new AG.

@TomMarsLaw @BruceFeldmanCFB He’s a senator in 6 months this is nothing but show for a donor

@ShaneRu76713974 @TomMarsLaw @jlkurtz It’s call the SCA Act and the only ones against it are the SEC/B1G

@TomMarsLaw @jlkurtz Universities need to leave the NCAA form another organization