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@ArtDirectorBYU 1 of those 15 just broke the rule he is lobbying against for 2 years. Do you not understand that?

@bettinmantodd The conference just put out a statement that said "Universities should not field players who have bet on their own team’s games in college athletics." That is the perspective everyone else is operating from. 15 other ADs are not prepared to hand over governance to county judges.

It is embarrassing to have to go to federal court just to get Texas Tech to consider listening to their 15 conference partners.

@ArtDirectorBYU Who are you quoting? They are not breaking the rules. Did you see the court case? That is why we are speaking. As of right now he has his punishment and is ready to serve it. What did cinci do?

@bettinmantodd "Cinci might have broken the rules and hasn't been punished yet, so we should be able to plan to flagrantly break the one of the biggest rule sports teams have" somehow isn't a compelling argument for me, or the rest of the conference, apparently.

@wilnerhotline Jon stick to writing about the mountain west and the pac 12, not one person here cares what you have to say.

This is the Kansas AG. With each passing day (hour?), Texas Tech becomes more isolated.

@MarktheTexan11 @flatland_sports What a fucking idiot hahahahaha

@flatland_sports Your NIL Collective (Matador Club) took it’s name from thinking you’re a rival of Texas 😂 everything you do is a response to something Texas does

@SmokieJ645 @PeteThamel Actually there was….

@bettinmantodd @PeteThamel Currently there is no proof they had knowledge of him betting prior to him playing. But I am sure there will be an investigation on Cincinnati and Indiana both. If it is proven one or both knew, punish them accordingly

Here's the crux of the Big 12's filing. "A declaratory judgment that the First Amendment protects the Conference’s right to invoke its authority under its Bylaws to sanction TTU related to its handling of the sports betting activity discussed in this Complaint, including if TTU fields a student-athlete in Big 12 competitions who has engaged in collegiate sports betting activity."

@DonKennedy8574 @PeteThamel Technically they are just asking if they even have the power

@bettinmantodd @PeteThamel Oddly enough an injunction can not by its nature end the right of a challenge to said injunction.

NEWS: The Big 12 has filed a complaint in federal court in Dallas for a declaratory judgement, which would effectively give the league the ability to enforce its by-laws. This comes in response to the Texas AG's letter last week. This would empower the Big 12 to have autonomy to make a decision on Brendan Sorsby's case.

@NotTheJeffOlsen @PeteThamel …which they won’t hahahah see y’all in the big 12 championship

@NotTheJeffOlsen @PeteThamel This is actually just the Big 12 asking if they have authority to do anything because they have been getting bitch slapped.

@carebearkieran cbssports.com/college-footba…

Texas Tech fans let’s try this because y’all have a hard time accepting the truth. Name me another college athlete to be caught by the NCAA betting on their own team WHILE IN COLLEGE and keep their eligibility to play again in college.

@mckenzielaw @BladeRunner2897 Or you just don’t have your facts right!

@BladeRunner2897 I don't generally respond to unverified accounts, but fraud can do any contract, My Man.

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.

@mckenzielaw - First of all he didn’t bet on a game he played in. - The only people that should be getting an “F-minus-minus-minus” is the NCAA Lawyers. - the judge was a retired from ft worth and was non-partisan (UH Grad) - Tech had no knowledge of his gambling prior to him coming

@2facebastard1 @Vern_Funquist You’re right…street racing someone that ran off the road and died.

@bettinmantodd @Vern_Funquist Jalen Carter did not in fact kill someone. He was in fact in a totally different car that night.

MARLER MINUTE: Cody Campbell bringing up UGA players and legal issues when they aren’t playing by any rules is the least self aware thing imaginable. It’s also gross. #GoDawgs #WreckEm

@texaggie9325 @bmarcello Check it out it’s called anti-trust law it has been ruled in the US Supreme Court. NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma.

@bmarcello How exactly can they sue an SEC or B1G team that has no obligation to them and force them to play? Maybe they can sue the B12 but no one else owes them anything.

I'm told Texas Tech would consider legal action if athletic programs and/or conferences try to exclude them from competition or hinder their scheduling.

@foldingchairice @Made817 @coogmeister2

@Made817 @coogmeister2 5 must be the number of NY6 bowl wins Tech must have, because surely a program with your tradition must have more than Rice’s 4 right?

kick Tech out of the Big 12 and relegate them to the American.

@foldingchairice @coogmeister2 Hahhahahaha

@coogmeister2 Get rid of the Lubbock market and add the Houston market again 🔥🔥🔥

@UT4x_champs @espn @CFBONFOX No one gives a fuck

I will be boycotting all televised Texas Tech football games this fall. I refuse to watch a product that has been compromised. @ESPN @CFBONFOX

@BradleyPot4419 @JesseReSimonton Okay all this occurred 3-5 years ago, same shit I guess huh?

@bettinmantodd @JesseReSimonton Boutte was arrested 8 months after he was drafted and over a year after he played his last game for LSU.

This is an amazing paragraph. 1. Yada thousands of bets 2. Parenthetical that said bets were against NCAA rules 3. Note that Sorsby was still betting in Texas, which was illegal, but that's ok because it was legal in the other states 4. Hand-wave $90,000 bets over a four-year period 5. Brag about his rich Texan golf buddies. 10/10 no notes.