Speaker 1: O Hey, some more breaking news on the Brendan Soresby front.
Speaker 1: This will be the final bit of breaking news because
Speaker 1: the breaking news is he is leaving Texas Tech. He
Speaker 1: is entering the supplemental Draft. This has been a wild story.
Speaker 1: This is right in comparison to like the Niko Yamaliava
Speaker 1: story from last year, which was an entirely different set
Speaker 1: of circumstances, but it was sort of roughly around this
Speaker 1: time and it dominated the headlines. This is dominated the headlines. Look,
Speaker 1: I don't cover the NFL. I don't know how the
Speaker 1: NFL will view him, truth be told, I don't even
Speaker 1: know how the supplemental draft process works. We hardly ever
Speaker 1: talk about it. But as far as the college football
Speaker 1: world is concerned, as far as Texas Tech is concerned,
Speaker 1: look very very clearly to me, given the circumstances, this
Speaker 1: is the best outcome for all parties. I know it
Speaker 1: may not sound like that for Texas Tech, but trust me,
Speaker 1: Well you don't need to trust me, but in my opinion,
Speaker 1: given the circumstances, this is the best outcome for all parties.
Speaker 1: It was going to be really, really ugly between now
Speaker 1: and the start of the season, and even if Soresby
Speaker 1: got to the start of the season and ended up
Speaker 1: starting for Texas Tech, it was going to be real ugly.
Speaker 1: I mean there was there were headlines as late as
Speaker 1: this morning or as recently as this morning that the
Speaker 1: Big Twelve was seeking legal action of their own and
Speaker 1: it was just obvious that the other member institutions in
Speaker 1: that conference, We're not going to sit aside and let
Speaker 1: this happen. And whether they tried and failed or tried
Speaker 1: and succeeded, it was going to be real ugly. And
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone really was prepared for that. Anyone
Speaker 1: wanted to go through that. And so Brendan Soresby included,
Speaker 1: is not going to go through that. He's going to
Speaker 1: head off to the NFL. All you can do at
Speaker 1: this point is really learned from it. And there's going
Speaker 1: to be a lot of mud thrown Texas Tech's way.
Speaker 1: Some of it they deserve, some of it they do
Speaker 1: not deserve. And I'll dive into that. I've shared thoughts
Speaker 1: on this, I'll share thoughts on it for a final
Speaker 1: time now. But what do you learn from it? Brendan Soresby,
Speaker 1: not evenwithstanding like as far as Texas Tech goes, what
Speaker 1: do you learn from it? Because on one hand, this
Speaker 1: stuff didn't happen on their watch. They go get the
Speaker 1: best player that they can get at the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: and then this stuff gets dropped in your lap. You
Speaker 1: gotta be ready for crisis at all times. You just
Speaker 1: gotta be ready for it. I literally sat in Joey
Speaker 1: McGuire's office a couple of weeks ago was talking about
Speaker 1: this very thing, about not knowing where the crisis is
Speaker 1: going to come from, but you just know inevitably it's
Speaker 1: going to happen, and being prepared for it on the
Speaker 1: front end. Now, this was not merely a Joey McGuire problem.
Speaker 1: This was Texas Tech in totality dealing with a crisis.
Speaker 1: And I thought they did a good job in some ways. Frankly,
Speaker 1: I thought they did a piss poor job in other ways.
Speaker 1: We talked about it on the Sunday Night Show just
Speaker 1: when the injunction happened. I thought it was a massive
Speaker 1: optical misstep to record and release that twenty one to
Speaker 1: twenty two some odd minute video. It didn't even matter
Speaker 1: if everything you said and it was accurate. It didn't
Speaker 1: matter if those were your authentic feelings. All thatwithstanding, it
Speaker 1: was terrible. It was a terrible decision. Having said that,
Speaker 1: there was a ton of validity to what they were
Speaker 1: saying about Brendan Sores mean, I make no mistake, he's
Speaker 1: there and they were fighting for him to the degree
Speaker 1: they were because he's a really good quarterback and he
Speaker 1: could help them win games. But that doesn't mean they
Speaker 1: were lying when they said what they said about how
Speaker 1: they feel about him, how they care about him. I've
Speaker 1: been out there recently, so I feel even more qualified
Speaker 1: than most to talk about this. All that is authentic.
Speaker 1: And then some guys at of there's a lot of
Speaker 1: steps they've taken, a lot of effort that's been made
Speaker 1: out there that they didn't even publicize. That sort of
Speaker 1: would illustrate how far beyond the PA they've tried to
Speaker 1: go to help him. So I don't want to lose
Speaker 1: sight of that. Okay, but you can credit them while
Speaker 1: also being fairly critical of maybe the optics of the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Drop this piece of paper for a second.
Speaker 1: I had to gather thoughts on this, but all you
Speaker 1: can do is learn from it, so you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: for Texas Tech's say nothing like this ever happens there again,
Speaker 1: but on their front, Are you more prepared to deal
Speaker 1: with stuff when it does drop in your lap? I
Speaker 1: would imagine yes. I of course care about the Brendan
Speaker 1: Soresby side of it, because this is not some bad person.
Speaker 1: It's a normal dude who, by the way, made a
Speaker 1: mistake that a lot of other guys out there have
Speaker 1: made and are currently making. Please don't misconstrue this as
Speaker 1: some rogue, isolated example. He's the one who got caught.
Speaker 1: Any of you who have ever been pulled over for
Speaker 1: a speeding ticket, no good and well you could look
Speaker 1: at that cop and say, well, why didn't you get
Speaker 1: the one behind me or the two cars in front
Speaker 1: of me. Well, it's because I got you. And I
Speaker 1: know a lot of you guys watch the show. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of you guys see this video. Just stop.
Speaker 1: If you're doing it right now, just stop. If you're
Speaker 1: playing college football, do not bet. I'd advise you not
Speaker 1: to bet on college football, but especially don't be betting
Speaker 1: on your team. It's just the trade off. If you
Speaker 1: get the luxury, if you get the blessing of being
Speaker 1: able to play this game. That's one of the contracts
Speaker 1: socially and legally that you sign you can't do it, okay,
Speaker 1: So those are lessons that need to be learned. I
Speaker 1: would also say that from the administrative side of it, Okay,
Speaker 1: right now, we just watched an entire episode go down
Speaker 1: where the governing body of this sport failed to be
Speaker 1: able to enforce basic rules. I mean, don't bet on
Speaker 1: the games that you're in is one of the most
Speaker 1: basic rules. It's like etchton Stone and one of the
Speaker 1: commandments basically, and the NCAA couldn't even enforce that. It's
Speaker 1: not even all of their fault, like they're powerless to
Speaker 1: enforce their and so I don't know that anyone who's
Speaker 1: been paying attention needed to learn the lesson that the
Speaker 1: NCAA is ineffective, maybe beyond repair at this point. But
Speaker 1: if you needed this to illustrate that, there you go. Okay.
Speaker 1: So that's another lesson that could be learned. I think
Speaker 1: that looking on r M from a media standpoint, from
Speaker 1: the way that sports betting messaging advertising is presented, the
Speaker 1: way it's presented in game though toy partnerships work, I
Speaker 1: think it's totally fair to be critical of that or
Speaker 1: to at least look at that with a skeptical eye.
Speaker 1: Of course, in this case, what that sounds like is,
Speaker 1: wait a second. The entire space has been proliferated with
Speaker 1: gambling messaging and sports betting advertising, and yet this kid's
Speaker 1: got to get blacklisted for the rest of time because
Speaker 1: he participated in what is being advertised and thrown in
Speaker 1: everyone's face. That is fair to me. Now, I will
Speaker 1: say on our show, it's why we message the way
Speaker 1: we do like FanDuel's been a great partner with us.
Speaker 1: But I think I've told this story before. When we
Speaker 1: sat down with them, I just said, point blank, I
Speaker 1: don't think that I'm prepared to maybe message the way
Speaker 1: that is standard across the industry. You've got to give
Speaker 1: me some rope to talk about the darker side of
Speaker 1: this stuff. You've got to give me some rope to
Speaker 1: talk about the addictive nature of it. And they've been
Speaker 1: a great partner on that front. It's the only reason
Speaker 1: that we partnered with FanDuel because there were some other ones.
Speaker 1: Believe me when I tell you this that we're not
Speaker 1: on board with us talking like that that should be
Speaker 1: standard is the other lesson. I think that very much
Speaker 1: needs to be learned on maybe this side of the fence.
Speaker 1: But there's going to be a lot of jokes about
Speaker 1: this stuff. I don't really find anything all that amusing
Speaker 1: about it. Like I get people taking their show at
Speaker 1: Texas Tech and I understand, like, yeah, that video, it
Speaker 1: was a really bad look. And just a few days
Speaker 1: after they released that video it seems like it's all
Speaker 1: or not because Brendan Sorsby's moving on to the supplemental draft. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get all that. I personally am going to just
Speaker 1: speak for myself. I don't really think it's a joking matter.
Speaker 1: Maybe because I know the people involved. Maybe I'm too
Speaker 1: close to the situation. But even if I wasn't, I
Speaker 1: like to think i'd look at it and I'd be
Speaker 1: more likely to kind of shake my head and say
Speaker 1: that's a shame. Then I would be to look at
Speaker 1: it and laugh. But this could have getten a lot uglier.
Speaker 1: So the reason I say that this is best for
Speaker 1: all parties is because it really could have gotten a
Speaker 1: lot uglier. I mean, I just imagine big twelve media
Speaker 1: days comes around and this thing's still not resolved. Imagine
Speaker 1: that scene. I guess it would make for good theater.
Speaker 1: I guess it would be a soap opera. It would
Speaker 1: also be like really contentious, past the point of normal
Speaker 1: competitive juices flowing. You'd have Texas Tech probably thinking some
Speaker 1: irrational things, probably considering some irrational decisions about their status
Speaker 1: as a big twelve member institution. Couldn't even blame them.
Speaker 1: There's some blame. I could loss Texas Tech's way, but
Speaker 1: once you get in that situation, I could see it
Speaker 1: going that way. Imagine the legal maneuvering. Imagine you know,
Speaker 1: people trying to make a name for themselves politically in
Speaker 1: other states, and the legal moves that they would try
Speaker 1: and make. Maybe when Texas Tech was going to play
Speaker 1: one of their schools could have been a total mess.
Speaker 1: And it has been, but it could have been a
Speaker 1: lot worse. I've heard from a lot of Texas Tech
Speaker 1: fans during this whole ordeal, and I'm kind of in
Speaker 1: a unique position where if we have a big story
Speaker 1: like the Brendan Soursby story has been, I'm gonna hear
Speaker 1: from hundreds to in this case, probably a couple of
Speaker 1: thousand Texas Tech fans, and it gives me a really
Speaker 1: really good idea of what the collective mindset of the
Speaker 1: fan base is, and you may think as an outsider,
Speaker 1: if you're a UMass fan and you don't know any
Speaker 1: Texas Tech folks, you may think, oh, boy, man, I
Speaker 1: bet they've locked arm in arm and they got torch
Speaker 1: in one hand and pitchfork in the other, and they're
Speaker 1: in full on cult mode. They're all drinking the kool aid. No,
Speaker 1: they weren't. They were not. Now, they're very passionate about
Speaker 1: their program and they want to win as bad as anyone.
Speaker 1: But a surprising number of Texas Tech fans have sort
Speaker 1: of behind the scenes, you know, been in my dms
Speaker 1: or interacting with the show saying, we don't love this.
Speaker 1: I mean, if he starts for us, we're going to
Speaker 1: root for him, but this is not a spot we
Speaker 1: like B and M. And as soon as the news
Speaker 1: broke tonight, I haven't even I mean, I'm looking right
Speaker 1: now at my phone. I got tons of an open
Speaker 1: dms from Texas Tech fans saying, yeah, I kind of
Speaker 1: probably probably what's best, probably the best case scenario here.
Speaker 1: Let's just move forward now in the moment, right now,
Speaker 1: I know it feels messy. It's June fifteenth. Some big
Speaker 1: story will come along or a half dozen big stories
Speaker 1: will come along, and then Fall camp will come along,
Speaker 1: and then the lead up to week one will come along,
Speaker 1: and you'll remember this, but it'll become a distant memory.
Speaker 1: And it's not that everyone will automatically adopt Texas Tech
Speaker 1: as their number two program or anything like that. But
Speaker 1: it won't feel then like it feels now. But it's
Speaker 1: not like a lot of people have painted this is Oh,
Speaker 1: it's become the world versus Texas Tech. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily think that's the case. It was the world pretty
Speaker 1: collectively behind the idea that this is wrong. If that
Speaker 1: dude plays college football, it's wrong. Most of the world
Speaker 1: felt that way. But like I felt that way. I
Speaker 1: love Texas Tech. I love the folks inside the program.
Speaker 1: I love Joey Kirby. Holcut's a great dude. I love
Speaker 1: pretty much everyone I've met there. So it's not it's
Speaker 1: a very isolated thing because I think there may be
Speaker 1: a lot of people who feel like me, and they
Speaker 1: look and say, guys, don't do this, don't this is
Speaker 1: not the hill to die on. And it looked for
Speaker 1: a while like they were gonna push and I get it, man,
Speaker 1: when you're in the foxhole, it becomes personal. I've talked
Speaker 1: to Joey Maguire about that. I get that emotion, but
Speaker 1: people like me look at it. And now that this
Speaker 1: matter has resolved itself, I'm right back to looking at
Speaker 1: Texas Tech identifying with them, respecting the heck out of
Speaker 1: the way they run the program, This whole deal notwithstanding.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's you know, the world against
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. They probably in the aggregate, polarized a few
Speaker 1: more people, or maybe mobilized the whatever the opposite of
Speaker 1: fandom is against them a little bit more. That's okay,
Speaker 1: that's okay. College football needs heels to can't just have
Speaker 1: a bunch of babyfaces. But one of my buddies, right
Speaker 1: before I pressure, I saw him text me and he said, well,
Speaker 1: does this take Texas Tech out of the running? No,
Speaker 1: it does not. It does not take Texas Tech out
Speaker 1: of the running. Texas Tech's still gonna be very tough
Speaker 1: out this fall. Texas Tech's still going to be really
Speaker 1: difficult to deal with this fall. And remember it's June fifteenth,
Speaker 1: it's not September fifteenth. So did they lose Brendan Soresby today? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But they've also never had him. He's never played a
Speaker 1: game there Will Hammond has and you know it wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna be one on one. This is not Big twelve tennis.
Speaker 1: This is Big twelve football. So they'll still have eleven
Speaker 1: on the field this fall, and they're going to be
Speaker 1: really good, and that roster probably will still be better
Speaker 1: than any other roster in the Big twelve. And they're
Speaker 1: still going to be tough to deal with. And while
Speaker 1: the outside world will take the shots and people including
Speaker 1: me will think whatever we think inside the walls of
Speaker 1: that building, you've got a head coach and you've got
Speaker 1: a staff that is very equipped to turn this into
Speaker 1: a galvanizing moment, and I think they will. So we
Speaker 1: were out there a few weeks ago, and when we
Speaker 1: had Joey maguire sit down with us, one of the
Speaker 1: things he said, because at the time the court proceedings
Speaker 1: were still ongoing, is he said, I like my team
Speaker 1: this fall, regardless who starts for us at quarterback. And
Speaker 1: I don't think he was just saying that because it
Speaker 1: sounded good. So Brendan Sores be moving on. I think
Speaker 1: it's best for all parties, given where we are at
Speaker 1: the moment. Of course, the best thing would have been
Speaker 1: for it to never happened, but given that it happened,
Speaker 1: I think it's the best for all parties. Just learn
Speaker 1: from it and move on, thanks to all you can do.
Speaker 1: No matter who you are in this little circumstance, that's
Speaker 1: all you can do at this point.