Brendan Sorsby

[Danny Deck]

It is shocking to me that now seemingly the NCAA can't even enforce rules against betting on your own team. 

And now Ken Paxton has threatened to sue anyone who dares to do anything about it. 

[wrestlingguy]

I can't figure out why Brendan Sorsby is the exception. There have been quite a few examples of the hammer coming down on athletes that bet. Nelson Brands got banned from the sport for small bets.

[Danny Deck]

I think he's just the first one to take it outside of the NCAA process to the courts. I'm not sure when the last time is the NCAA won anything in the courts.

[Danny Deck]

Now the Big 12 wants a declaratory judgment that it can enforce its own bylaws separate from the NCAA, and that Paxton can't punish them for doing so. 

 

https://www.kcbd.com/2026/06/15/big-12-conference-files-federal-complaint-against-texas-tech-attorney-general-ken-paxton/

[red viking]

This was the courts stepping in, right, overruled NCAA? Thats my understanding. 

Yah, its gonna be a bad look. He's gonna be a question mark for pt shaving any time he plays poorly. 

The justification given by the judge sounded illogical and wrong to me too. 

Edited June 15 by red viking

[Interviewed_at_Weehawken]

3 minutes ago, red viking said:

This was the courts stepping in, right, overruled NCAA? Thats my understanding. 

Yah, its gonna be a bad look. He's gonna be a question mark for pt shaving any time he plays poorly. 

Not to mention: what does it mean when he doesn't bet on his team for a particular game?

 

[Danny Deck]

8 minutes ago, red viking said:

This was the courts stepping in, right, overruled NCAA? Thats my understanding. 

Yah, its gonna be a bad look. He's gonna be a question mark for pt shaving any time he plays poorly. 

The justification given by the judge sounded illogical and wrong to me too. 

It was gobbeldy gook as far as I'm concerned. Basically he admitted he has a problem and you promised to help people with problems, which somehow means he can't face any repercussions. 

[WrestlingRasta]

This is bad on many levels. Bad for sports for sure, precedent is set.  But goes beyond sports.  Someone is severely depressed, can they rob a convenient store now because they were depressed, and consequences would do them ‘irreparable harm”.  What about driving drunk?  I mean sure they broke the rules but if they were inebriated they wouldnt have done it, and consequences would cause them harm.  
 

Hopefully the appeal goes through.  It will be too late for Sorsby to be barred from playing, but it needs to go through and the precedent reversed.  

[Danny Deck]

Sorsby declared for the supplemental NFL draft ending the circus for CFB at least. Curious if anyone will take the chance.

[wrestlingguy]

1 hour ago, Danny Deck said:

Sorsby declared for the supplemental NFL draft ending the circus for CFB at least. Curious if anyone will take the chance.

Insane how one bad decision is going to follow him and most likely screw things up majorly. CFB is done, but now he has to deal with the NFL possibly. I do have to say that NFL GMs have likely seen worse, but it will still likely hurt him.

[Danny Deck]

NFL declines to hold a supplemental draft for Sorsby. Sorsby's attorney says they'll look at their options under the CBA and through the NFLPA.

Letter is pretty definitive.