WEBVTT - Brendan Sorsby's Exit + Message Board Madness 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:06.840 Welcome to the solid verbal. Call that for me. I'm 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:08.119 a man, I'm forty. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:10.079 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:11.800 be happy. You want to be happy for. 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:17.320 Dake Edo State? Is that whoo whoom and Dan and tie. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.400 Dan, rub and see. Welcome back to the solid Verbal. 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.360 It's a college football podcast. You may have. 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:26.520 Heard of it, sir, welcome back. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:31.360 How are you full disagree? It's an immersive college football experience. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:36.320 Podcast just sells what we're doing here so much shorter 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.519 than it needs to be described. So, yes, this is 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.440 an immersive college football experience. 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This, of course, is 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.920 a huge about face in this saga that has unfolded 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.760 over the last few weeks and months. You may recall 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.720 Brendan Soresby got into some hot water right, it came 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.000 to light that he had placed something like ninety thousand 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:46.600 dollars worth of bets spanning, you know, a bit of time, 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.800 dating all the way back to his previous stops, some 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.200 of which were yes, betting on college football, including his 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.360 own team. So there was a whole thing that went 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.440 into that. We discussed it at length here on the 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:03.840 show when we last left this story. Soorsby had one 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.360 an injunction whereby he'd have to sit out two games 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.040 and that he could play the remainder of the season. 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:14.720 I should say that was met pretty swiftly with a 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.560 lot of pushback, both from teams within the Big Twelve, 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.360 from administrators within the Big Twelve, from other teams that 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.360 were suddenly pushing back on even trying to schedule Texas Tech. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.960 There was a lot of pushback in light of this decision, 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.839 and it eventually came, I guess, to a breaking point, 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.479 a mutual parting of ways, as has been reported. But 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.960 my hunch is that the legal gravity and some of 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.800 what was being filed, maybe which we can detail here, 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:51.920 simply made the situation untenable and Brendan Soresby is, I guess, 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:53.520 going to try and make his way to the NFL 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.919 now just a huge one point eight given all the 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.720 reporting that's gone on out there again over the last. 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.520 Few weeks months. 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.159 This is something that I think we're going to be 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.200 talking about for a while, certainly as we get into 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:09.360 the season, and most assuredly when we start previewing Texas 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:10.359 Tech in about a month or so. 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.080 Yeah, I don't think if I don't think it's a 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.320 thing that we're going to be talking about for a while. 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.359 I just think we're all going to move forward. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.200 I don't I don't think how well I what I 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:20.880 mean by that. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.520 And somebody suggested to me that this could be a 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.560 fantasy thing, which I don't think we'll make it that, 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.680 but I understand where the person is coming from. This 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.960 tends to be one of those stories that people feel 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.400 the need to repeat and repeat and repeat, even if 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.000 it's just in passing, like Will Hamman got the job 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:41.960 because dot dot dot right. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.200 I think it'll be a beginning of the season thing. 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.479 I think Brendan Soarsby is going to be more of 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.679 a trivia answer question moving forward in the long term, 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:54.640 just because it was all kind of over before it 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.520 had a chance to begin. I'm going to attempt to 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.159 get let's call it sixty three percent of the legalese 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.600 correct here. The only thing that I think you didn't 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.360 skim over it, but it's just part of this whole thing, 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.640 is there was a threat from I believe the Attorney 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:14.440 General Ken Paxton of Texas, a threat regarding the Big 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:20.240 Twelve potentially trying to exercise its own ability to punish 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.520 or discipline and cast into doubt the eligibility of somebody 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.159 who they feel like had violated their bylaws. And then 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:33.600 the Big Twelve then prepared a legal document via I 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:37.200 think a powerhouse law firm Sidley Austin, I believe is 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:43.120 the name of the basically preparing to sue whoever and 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:49.080 whomever whatever is questioning the Big twelve's First Amendment right 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:54.080 to enforce its own bylaws. And that prepared document, I 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.280 think it was a forty seven page document or something 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.000 I think put a lot of fear into Texas Tech 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.760 And as fun as that was, it a twenty one 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:06.920 minute podcast, as you called it, the gathering of the 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.760 Texas Tech minds at a man. 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.640 We could talk about that later, but yeah, that I 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:16.640 did refrac the tweet that I put out last Night 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.720 did like a quarter million views calling it a podcast. 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:21.760 It was a video podcast, is what it was. 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.760 So there were legal doings behind the scenes that seemed 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.760 to put even more pressure on Brendan Sorosby and his 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.880 attempt to play this year now this by the Big Twelve, 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.320 who basically they had the fifteen of the sixteen members 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.200 schools behind them saying and we had I think, I 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.920 want to get this phrasing correct, attorneys general from I 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.119 want to say Kansas, Oklahoma, and Utah also on board 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:53.200 and prepared to back the Big Twelve in its ability 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:57.400 to enforce its bylaws regarding eligibility. And so the whole 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:02.040 thing was getting behind the scenes pretty ugly, and a 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.120 sort of a growing wave of support behind the Big 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:09.520 Twelve in its potential fight against Texas Tech and the 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.920 injunction that allowed Brendon Sorosby to play. Brendon Sorosby, as 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.560 you noted, hasn't had until I want to say, a 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:16.480 week from yesterday. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.679 Yeah, June twenty second, June twenty second, So we're recording 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:24.440 this on Tuesday the sixteenth. The deadline to get into 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.760 the supplemental draft is June and twenty second. 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:28.760 Right, And I think there was a fear that if 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.600 they were going to start prolonged legal battles, he would 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:36.840 not have any recourse in terms of NFL eligibility in 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:42.559 this in this year's supplemental draft cycle if the legal 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.720 stuff kept going and going and going, And so he decided, 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.880 the school decided it seemed like and there were there 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.120 was a statement from Texas Tech that basically amounted to 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.840 this became more and more difficult to try and navigate, 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:59.200 and we understand and support Brendan Sorosby in his path, 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.000 and he's Cody Campbell put out a statement that Brendan 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.080 Sorosby is going to get all of the money that's 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:08.479 owed to him with this level of timing, and everybody's 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.720 moving forward, and the Big twelve issued a statement that 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:14.080 they're now sixteen strong, moving forward and excited for our 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:19.240 future together and hopefully everybody is begrudgingly holding hands once again. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.080 Yeah, the whole legal side of it. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:27.160 After Soresby won the temporary injunction, the pushback was fast 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.800 and furious. And you know, initially I heard of it, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.800 and I'm probably messing up the chronology, but initially I 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.200 heard of other schools outside of the Big twelve that 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.400 were pushing back in the sense that they didn't want 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:44.760 to schedule Texas Tech. They were athletic directors, administrators reaching 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.640 out to coaches and those in the know, saying we 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.080 don't want to play them, We're not going to play 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:51.880 them as a result of this. If they decide that 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.880 this is okay, then yes, the Big Twelve sort of 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.880 banded together and started pushing back as best they could 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.520 through the legal system. There was this challenge from the 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.080 Texas Attorney General than there were others that jumped on 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.400 the side of the Big Twelve that led us down 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:13.640 this pathway now of soresby Texas Tech mutually parting ways. 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.000 The issue from the Big Twelve being such that yes, 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.800 we are sixteen strong, holding hands moving forward. He didn't 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:20.559 say holding hands. 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.520 We said that everybody's koombay ah, But yes, that was 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.840 I think it was the Big Twelve via this law 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:34.079 firm asking a federal court clarity essentially on its ability 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:39.600 to sanction under First Amendment protections its own enforceable by laws. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.880 So that's where it stood, and now Texas Tech is 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:47.600 moving forward. Will Hammond is not cleared to play in 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.120 games at this moment. He's rehabbing from a torn acl 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.959 that I think he suffered in October. So he's the 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:58.239 presumptive starter at some point. Joey Maguire has said previously 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.800 and talking about Will Hammond, that he is on track 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.960 to you know, I think he's doing seven on seven 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.480 activity and on track to participate to some degree in 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.920 fall camp, but cast into doubt his ability to be 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.360 back by week one essentially as I think where Joey 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:16.280 Maguire left Will Hammond's status recently. So they I believe 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:20.080 have a Tulsa transfer behind Will Hammond in the quarterback room. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:25.640 But Texas Tech, although I suppose they could address quarterback 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:31.720 in creative if not also punishable ways moving forward, that's 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.600 what their quarterback room as of now. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:34.640 That's where it stands. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.920 And I think you mentioned there were a couple of 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:39.720 we talked about this. There are a couple of quarterbacks 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.960 still lingering in the portal. I want to say Jake Garcia, 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:48.560 who's sort of still traveled. He's still around, I think 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:54.200 what missoo Miami, Michigan, somewhere in that range of teams. Yeah, 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.640 there's a couple names floating around in terms of maybe 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:01.480 pure depth plays who knows, but yeah, Brendon soarsby onto 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:06.640 the supplemental draft, Texas Tech onto a now thinned quarterback room. 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.400 I think it's probably best for all parties to just 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:10.480 sort of go this route. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.760 It's that seemed the way for me, especially because look, 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:16.719 I don't know how many much schools were going to 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.560 actually cancel matchups in various sports with Texas Tech. I 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.559 want to say Michigan Volleyball did. That was the one 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:28.480 I saw. Michigan Volleyball had canceled a matchup against Texas Tech. 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:34.120 But Texas Tech, I don't think was even if they 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.200 put out that as you called it episode one of 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:40.080 that podcast, I don't think they truly want to be 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:44.559 seen as a villainous enterprise that you know, everybody argues 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.040 about everything, but then having the fan bases of one 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.440 hundred and thirty seven teams look at Texas Tech as 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:55.360 the downfall of Western civilization. I don't think as much 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:59.640 as they've tried to say the right things, I don't 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.920 think the university is fully comfortable positioning itself in that way. 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:09.080 No. I mean, so the twenty minute and two second podcast, 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.600 i'll call it that that they posted via their official 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:17.400 social media channels like a week ago. That was some 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:22.760 creative wording. That was a lot of pr speak, And 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:27.040 even though I kind of side eyed it when I 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:34.240 watched it, they weren't exactly using language that, in my opinion, 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.760 stirred up that much animosity. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:37.120 Right. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.439 They were very much trying to take the approach of 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:43.520 we support the player, we recognize that a gambling addiction 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.480 is a serious thing. We're helping him get the help 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.280 that he needs. We don't want to crush his dreams. 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.120 Like they were trying to position it a little bit 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:56.000 more softly. I don't think most people bought it. Frankly, 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.240 I don't think it was the greatest defense. I don't 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.839 know if there was a good defense, but they weren't 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.360 coming at it from the standpoint of trying to promote 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.160 more conflict. It was just sort of I thought, a 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:11.960 lame excuse Cody Campbell. Though, Cody Campbell, I think he 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:14.640 put a little bit of a clown nose on himself 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.040 with the way that he has handled this. He was 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:23.120 much more of a villain throughout this whole process, very 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:27.640 much defiant, very much took the approach of, hey, if 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.720 he's eligible, we have no choice but to play him 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.800 very much. If you are looking for a reason to 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.560 dunk on Texas Tech, he gave you those reasons with 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.080 how it seems he approached this whole thing. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:41.960 Now, he came out with. 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.080 Another statement, and I think that was a little bit 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:49.040 more softly worded. But at least initially, he was very 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.360 much the target of much animosity out there around college athletics, 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:57.280 which is interesting given the fact that Cody Campbell has 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.160 very much been in the limelight for other reasons against 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.480 other conferences and super leagues and media rights and you know, 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.360 all all these things kind of worming their way through Congress. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.240 So it was a bit of a one to eighty 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.320 for him as well, just in terms of a pr 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:13.480 image and his Q. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:14.680 Rating, if you want to call it that. 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.120 So, yeah, like I think all of that kind of 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.000 looks bad, but the Cody Campbell side of it, to 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:26.960 me was what really stuck in my craw as Like, oh, okay, 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.480 he positions himself as the good guy in one light, 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.280 but then this comes about and it's I don't know, 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.640 you kind of question intentions at that point when you 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:35.720 see some of the other wording. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:41.200 Yeah, and obviously he has had some official titles within 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:47.000 Texas Tech and has been an advocate obviously for the 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:51.480 bill that there's an attempt to push through Congress regarding 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:56.760 changes and you know, hopeful changes to college sports. He does, 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.760 it seems, and I'm I'm totally open to be to 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:04.000 being corrected here of the big money involved behind the 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.280 scenes at big or semi big places, however you want 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:11.680 to qualify it. He seems a lot more vocal and 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:18.720 a lot more comfortable pointing to himself as a leader 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:23.440 of Texas Tech football while not actually being a leader 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.360 of Texas Tech football, or at least the wink wink, 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.120 nudge nudge kind of leader, right that, Like, we know 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.400 there are big names at many schools behind the scenes, 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:40.200 but Cody Campbell fashions himself as the scenes. And I 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.400 don't know whether I obviously Texas Tech fans are into 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:47.600 the idea of enthusiastic money as they should be, right, 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.160 that's the name of the game right now, and every 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.960 program would take that kind of commitment. But it's certainly 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.920 different with regard to how Texas Tech is viewed to 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:03.040 me that they're just this guy saying, yes, I'm in charge, 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.440 I'm gonna buy us an offensive line. Yes, I am 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.280 the guy in charge of this program in as many words, 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:10.960 and this. 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:11.679 Is where we are. 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:13.920 This is what a lot of people seem to want 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:14.800 out of this sport. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.000 But it's different. 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:20.640 It's certainly different, especially when the light has never been 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.560 brighter on Texas Tech and the attention has never been 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.600 sharper on the program. 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:27.560 It's it's where we are. 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.760 It's a really, it's a it's a really sterling example 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:32.080 of where this sport is right now. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.880 Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm I'm not willing. 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:38.920 To give people a pass necessarily on this whole thing. 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:45.560 On a certain very human level, I kind of understand 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:50.280 not really knowing how to approach this because it's it's 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:54.560 just it's atypical. And I hope we don't see more 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:59.280 of this, but I can just imagine behind the scenes, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:01.919 a bunch of guys looking at each other, like, what 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.439 do we do now? How are we supposed to respond 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.080 to this? You know, what is what is the best 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:06.800 way to handle it? 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:08.639 You know? Hopefully they learn from it. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.520 I don't think some of the verbiage that I heard 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.000 was handled all that well, but it seemed as if 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:15.639 they at least. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:17.119 Arrived at a point where they realized this was. 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:21.159 Untenable and whether whether or not they were hoping to 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:26.359 crush young Brendan Soresby's dreams or not, this this was 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.600 probably the only outcome that was going to make sense 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.280 in the long term. So I look, by no means 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.040 are we legal experts here, And certainly if you have 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.720 something more to add to the conversation, solid verbal at 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:39.920 gmail dot com is the best way to reach out 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.320 and let us know your thoughts. I would actually welcome 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.240 too much of the verballer hood to chime in with this. 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:47.840 You know, for for as much fun as I think 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:52.120 we've had with Texas Tech, and you know, the kind 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.160 of renewed effort to go out there and get high 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.720 priced talent that is the game now. I know many 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:58.640 of the Texas Tech fans that listen to this don't 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:02.960 always appreciate that, but it's it warn't mentioning. And so 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.440 we bring this up not to dunk on Texas Tech, 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:09.800 certainly not to dunk on Texas Tech or anybody, but 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.440 it's just it's the only newsworthy thing right now, frankly, 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:15.840 and we had to address it. 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.280 So, I mean, you don't want to talk about Oregon 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:19.960 getting themselves a five star receiver. 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.960 Literally as we began this show, I don't really don't do. 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.679 I have enjoyed and hopefully this serves as a worthwhile 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:34.439 transition tie. The whole situation puts Texas Tech fans in 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:35.720 a really weird spot. 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:37.840 I think so, I think it does. 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:40.880 And I'm I'm actually glad you brought that up because 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:42.280 that's where I was going to go next with it. 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:43.080 The fan reaction. 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.120 You know, because when I bring out our email address 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.520 and I tell people, hey, write in, let's know your thoughts, 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.040 I can just judge from the people in our discord 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:55.800 and the ballers that we've already heard from that they're 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.520 I can I can sense the conflict. Like you're a 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.159 fan of a team, you want your team to do well. 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.640 Texas Tech has clearly got the wind to their back 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:06.280 to a degree. Now want a conference championship, made the playoffs, 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:07.080 got a first round. 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:07.240 By it. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.320 We don't have to talk about what happened in the playoff, right. 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:11.719 You always want to root for your team, what your 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:13.840 team do well. This is just sort of snuck up 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:14.920 on a lot of people. 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:17.679 And you want to dig in when you feel as 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.760 if maybe your team is being unfairly villainized. Your program 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.879 is being unfairly villainized that you know, any other program 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:27.760 would try to do just you know, the same things 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.280 that Texas Tech is trying to do, and both standing 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:34.000 behind their quarterback and making every effort to get him eligible. 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.320 It puts them in a weird spot where you would 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:41.160 have to where the school would be the ones to say, look, 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:44.280 this is an unusual spot, and we're going to air 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:48.040 on the side of helping him as a human but 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:52.160 not trying to rock the boat in terms of how 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:55.159 we view eligibility and how we view players wagering on 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:59.080 their own teams, and you know, hopefully use this for 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:03.920 good to edge players about, you know, some of the 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:07.640 the threats and pitfalls of gambling on sports, if it's 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:10.760 even allowed in your state. If obviously there are NCAA 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:15.240 rules prohibiting gambling on college football and your team and 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:19.680 so forth, so they could have done that, they decided 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:23.119 to dig in and support him in his lawsuit. And 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:28.600 so now there's obviously the I guess perceived unrest between 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.080 Texas Tech fans and the way they feel like they've 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:33.640 been mistreated by the Big twelve. I saw a lot 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:36.080 of references to like, how dare you treat your bell 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:39.840 cow of a program like this? Texas Tech has been 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:41.600 the bell cow for about an hour and a half 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:46.920 of the Big Twelve. So the emotions are running high, 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:49.440 obviously because we're in the moment right now. But you know, 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:51.960 I do feel for Texas Tech fans who you know, 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.080 they feel this allegiance like we all do for our 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:58.160 favorite teams, And it would be weird to say, yes, 0:21:58.520 --> 0:22:01.040 I have paid all this money for season tickets and 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:04.440