Big 12 Banning Texas Tech From Title Game? League Could Bring the Hammer Down Tomorrow

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The Brendan Sorsby situation just escalated -- and now the real question isn't about Sorsby anymore. It's about what the Big 12 is going to do about it. We're breaking down the very real possibility that the league bans Texas Tech from the conference title game, and why Tech is already warning the Big 12 that sanctions mean they're ready to go to battle -- including the threat of dragging individual schools into court.

We're also getting into Cody Campbell playing chess while everyone else plays checkers. The Protect College Sports Act could be the move that flips the entire board -- potentially making Sorsby ineligible and reshaping how this whole fight plays out.

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Well, how much does the Big 12 really want to punish Texas Tech? And more importantly, what kind of guts does the Big 12 actually have? How much intestinal fortitude is there in the Big 12? We're going to find out, and we may find out tomorrow because as I record this here on Sunday night, the Big 12 has a board meeting tomorrow. And so there is lots of speculation about what is going to happen. How much will the Big 12 decide to do to the Red Raiders for at this point not yet playing Brendan Soresby, but by all accounts, including whatever the hell you make of the 22-minute-long video that was released, Texas Tech certainly seems like they're going to play Brendan Soresby this year after he bet on his own team more than 40 times it was discovered back in his days at Indiana. And that will be the focus of the lead of this video. What should the Big 12 do? And what will the Big 12 actually do? Those are the two questions to attack. We will talk a little Cody Campbell because he's got dueling interests right now between the Protect College Sports Act and Brendan Soresby's fight that I guess is over for the most part to be able to play. But is he actually playing 40 chess while everybody is playing checkers? There's a new Cody Campbell theory that that has gone pseudo-viral, at least on Big 12 Twitter. We'll we'll talk about that. And hey, Ted Cruz versus the SEC in Big Ten is heating up. And Maria Cantwell also, but Ted Cruz has been a little more vocal here about this. Protect College Sports Act overshadowed for much of last week because of Brendan Sorsby, but that battle is still raging on with the SEC trying to make changes and Ted Cruz basically saying, screw you. I mean, that's it's the guy's attitude right now. I don't know how that's going to work out, but we'll see. This is the Open for Business Big 12 podcast. I'm your host, John Kurtz. Thank you for joining me. We are live on YouTube tonight. 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But let me first also remind you subscribe to the Open for Business Big 12 newsletter, ofbnews.com. That's OFBnews.com. It is totally free to subscribe. Join 6,300 plus other Big 12 fans who do. All right, let's uh let's say hello to Adam. Okay. Adam, an Oklahoma State fan who is actually Snappy AJ. All right. Uh Snappy AJ says, I respect your take. This is from Venmo, by the way. Snappy AJ says, I respect your take on Soresby. Oklahoma State has taken unfair NCAA penalties, but going to court over every ruling has erased any semblance of order. I just want to be excited for a new chapter in Stillwater. Uh our wild fan themes will continue November 14th. Uh, is casino night? Is that is that real? Casino night? Like the office casino night, or just like casino night, casino night. I I I know what you're what you're getting at there, obviously. Uh that would be the date that uh I don't even have to look at the schedule to know that that'll be the date that uh the Texas Tech comes to town. But I just whenever I hear casino night as a millennial, I can't think of anything other than the office and the uh casino night episode. So uh pardon me for getting off topic there. Snappy AJ, I appreciate you. It certainly does feel like there's no order in college athletics these days. And you know, as we get rolling here, I actually have to go to I Wolf Wolf Doggo, first of all, great name. Wolf Wolf Doggo, who said college football is pain. Uh yeah, it's more like college football is litigation these days. College football is litigation. That's all I listened to. Uh Yahoo, that Ross Dellinger is on, Andy Staples, and uh Stephen Godfrey also. But I I man, the entire thing is like an hour long about three different lawsuits. Like, that's welcome to the college football offseason. It's just like it's it's insane that this is what we do now, but this is what we do. It's what you have to wade through to get to uh what we actually love, which is these guys playing games. Okay, real quick, uh MBM 357. Tech would have played Pete Rose and acted like the victim the whole time. Oh boy. Well, we can see Oklahoma State coming in strong early in the show today. We had Snappy AJ, and now we have MBM, who's got the uh a sick, a sick pistol Pete logo, by the way, uh as his as his avatar. Uh I well look, he's he's passed now. I was gonna say does Pete Rose have any eligibility left? I'm not I'm not going to do that. I I've heard the Yahoo podcast, College Sports Inquirer, actually did a pretty good job of outlining a lot of similar cases. Um one of which actually was Will Greer, which I'd forgotten about everything that happened with him at Florida. Um yeah, but the victim mentality certainly has been played by by many in Lubbock, and I would disagree with that a bit, though at the same time, MBM. If you've been listening to the channel, you probably know where I stand. I don't need to rehash a ton of this, but I still feel a little bit like some of the reaction has been over the top on the other side against tech against Soresby, right? And with that, though, we we need to I let's transition from that. And and I I appreciate your comment, man. I appreciate the support of the channel, and I appreciate that logo uh that you were showing off there. That is awesome. But I think the conversation now should move from all right, we've had a week, everyone's had a week to talk about all their opinions. I've talked about it a ton. If you didn't get enough here on this channel, you can go watch on 365 or College Football Addiction. Did a couple of other spots, you know, some radio hits last week. You can get every single opinion you want from either me or others on like what we personally think about it, how we feel about it. The question now is going to become like, all right, what's next? Sourceby got the injunction to be able to play, but now we wait on what the Big 12 is going to do because this is where we find out if this is a story that has had like a that will have like a week and a half to two week shelf life and then sputter out after that, and then we just go into the season? Or does it last the entire offseason? Does it last for the next couple of months? Does it create a circus at Big 12 Media Day, which is coming up in less than a month? Early July, right? So that's the question that we are waiting to have answered because the Big 12 has to determine that on Monday. So is the Big 12 actually going to drop the hammer on Texas Tech coming up on Monday? Will they actually make Tech ineligible to play in the Big 12 championship game? We'll wait to see what the league is going to do. Do they have the guts to do it? We know from reporting, the athletic directors certainly seem angry enough to do that. It's how does the Big 12 feel about any legal risk that comes along with that, especially as multiple states attorneys general jump into the ring on this and threaten lawsuits, one defending the Big 12, one against the Big 12. So, you know, to catch everybody up to speed here, if you were living under a rock last week, or if you actually went on vacation and were able to get away from it and enjoy it for the entire week, kudos to you. Uh, but Brendan Soresby got an injunction from a judge, which means basically the case is just kicked down the road until February, as of right now, February 8th. And the judge has said, hey, this is actually worth hearing. The NCAA might not be able to enforce its ruling, and they can't enforce it until that February 8th date, meaning Brendan Soresby can play the entire season despite betting on his own team 40 plus times, spending over $90,000 on a ton of different bets, thousands and thousands of bets, betting on his own men's basketball teams multiple times, uh, sending $65,000 to other people to place bets for him and doing this all well under age, at least uh a majority of it under age. Here is the latest timeline, okay? So when the ruling came down on Monday, you had Big 12 athletic directors going crazy. Latest timeline from the Big 12's perspective here. Uh Gene Taylor gave the quote, it's effing BS, except he used the actual words. He put his name on that quote to Ross Dellinger. He said there had been discussions among the league about not playing Texas Tech, like League ADs talking about doing that. The Big 12 ADs met and told Brett Yormark all of this, like, hey, we're really unhappy. Then Yormark met with the exec board on Thursday, where he said after that, all options remain on the table. And that was after the threat from Ken Paxton, who is the Texas attorney general who threatened legal action against the Big 12 if they were to do anything. Now, to me, both of these attorneys general that got involved here, it strikes to me as very much grandstanding when they're trying to get re-elected. Um, but Ken Paxton claims there could be 200 million in damages for the Big 12. I, you know, Tom Mars, who is another one of these hotshot NCAA attorneys, he didn't seem to think the Big 12 should be too concerned about all that. Uh, but maybe this one, Jeffrey Kessler's not a guy you want to mess with. Brendan Sorsby's lawyer, but also lawyer in the house case. He's just killed the NCAA multiple times. He came in and threatened legal action against the Big 12. And then after that, and that is by the way, if the Big 12 were to do something to Brendan Soresby. And then after that, uh the Oklahoma Attorney General said he would support the Big 12 if they, quote, do the right thing. Now, but I do want, let me go back to Jeff Kessler here for a moment. I just, there's so much about this on all sides that is very annoying and just makes you want to roll your eyes at a lot of things. I know Jeff Kessler is a lawyer. I certainly respect his track record here, but I was reading some of his letter that he sent out about the Big 12, and he was like, the wording, I should have copied the specific wording. But it was something to the effect of like, you would expect that the Big 12 or that a conference would basically have respect, would not have conduct so unbecoming after a ruling by a judge and would not respect it. And I was like, can we talk about like inappropriate conduct here? Like maybe betting on your own team 40 times and betting as an 18-year-old when it's illegal and doing it to the tune of $90,000 plus dollars. I can we that might be some conduct unbecoming as well. Anyway, it's the world we're living in. That's sort of the timeline here. So the Big 12 is now weighing. How much do we fear Jeff Kessler? A lesser extent, how much do we fear Ken Paxton? Lesser extent, how much help could the Oklahoma Attorney General actually be? More importantly, like, what does our legal team think? What do our lawyers think? Do they think we could actually punish anybody here? Because I mean, really, now Brett Yormark's in a tough spot. But really, Brett Yormark's job is to like act on behalf of the member schools, right? And we now know from what Yormark has said, the little that's been said about these meetings last week is that the 80s are furious and the exec board feels the same way. So what happens now? Uh Ross Dellinger wrote a story about all this where he said some of the options on the table, because remember, Brad Yormark said all options are still on the table. Some of the options that are on said table would include forcing Texas Tech to forfeit any game in which Brendan Sorsby plays, uh, declaring either Texas Tech or Brendan Sorsby himself ineligible for the Big 12 championship game. And then once again, the the refusal to play Texas Tech overall, which let me just go ahead and shoot that one down. That would be insane. Never say never. I we all thought that this ruling was not going to come the way that it did last Monday. But I mean, you're you're stepping into a world of problems with that. You can't tell your TV partners that you're not going to have Texas Tech games this year and tell them that in June. Uh, you know, then I really you that would really seem to open yourself up to you know lawsuits coming back in on the other side of that. That seems like way too big of a mess. And frankly, just kind of an overreaction. Like, you know, come on. I am as hard line as anybody on like you can't bet on your own team. Sorceby should get at least a one-year ban. But like, I come on, man. So I I the thing that will be interesting to me is if there's some kind of sanction to legitimately either force tech to like forfeit games or to force tech to not be able to play the Big 12 championship game with him. Something that would, I guess, perhaps move them to in response, get rid of Soresby. But it seems like the response would just be to sue, sue, and sue. How can the Big 12 do this? Um, sanctions are allowed under league bylaws if you have a supermajority of schools not involved. So you would need a supermajority out of uh 15 schools there, with Texas Tech being the one that's that's involved. Although I know some have argued maybe Cincinnati should be pulled out of that too. Can you do this? All of this seems uh like we know how Texas Tech has been acting this whole time. We know how much of a chip on the shoulder Texas Tech has. Is it worth it? And will it actually happen? Can it actually happen? Please do subscribe to the channel, by the way, pushing the 35k subs. If you watch but don't subscribe, it does help me a lot if you subscribe. Uh to me, look, what do I think is gonna happen? I'll get to that in a minute. What do I think the Big 12 should do? I would not, I would not go down this road. I the juice to me is not worth the squeeze on this. I'm gonna stand by what I said on a couple of shows last week. The biggest reason is I just I get what you are standing for, okay? But I don't think that it's like being this last bastion of protecting the integrity of college sports thing really holds up because I still think even if the Big 12 were to do this, the next kid that gets caught, and believe you me, there will be somebody else at a Power Force school, probably very shortly, who gets caught in the same type of thing because of the proliferation of sports betting. The next kid that does this will just go to the he'll he'll just do the same thing. He will go to some judge in his state and try to get the injunction, and then we'll be right back in the same place where it would be if the NCAA still can't put the hammer down itself, then you'd be relying on another conference to try and do the same thing. And it's still, you know, then to me like a 50-50 shot as to whether or not it happens. Like, I don't think you're setting some big precedent if you do that here. And the other thing is it just creates a giant mess, man. I mean, this is it's a giant mess. Like we all we talked, we went through a whole year's worth of news cycle about the ACC and its impending implosion and just lots of bad press and PR based on the fact that it was involved in dueling lawsuits against a school in its league. Do you want to be there with Texas Tech when the relationship has already been rocky enough between Tortilla Gate and between Friday Night Gate? You know, I mean, there's been a lot of pent-up animosity there. And I'm not saying that for any fear that Texas Tech is going anywhere. Newsflash, there's no invite right now from the SEC or Big Ten. But you would still like to have a good relationship there, especially as last year, Brett Yormark said at Big 12 Media Days that it could be helpful for the league to develop a program or two to pull away. And Texas Tech seems to be the most well positioned to do that, you know, to be a consistent, legitimate national championship contender. I don't know that you want the relationship like this, Rocky, where you're like actually in court, man. Um so to me, for all of those reasons, I don't I don't think this is the way to go with it. I would not do it. Will it actually happen? I gotta admit, I I think there's a chance we're gonna see something. I don't think, again, it goes as far as like not playing Texas Tech. To me, that's very untenable. But putting some kind of restriction on the Big 12 championship game, the way this has gone, like I could see it. I mean, I know tempers are are high in the league, and the fact that the Big 12 hasn't come out yet and said, like, well, we're not gonna do anything. The longer it drags on, the more it makes it seem like they really want to do something, and they're just trying to run it past legal as much as possible and cover all the angles, and that's that's what it feels like the longer and longer it goes on. So I think something's coming. Whether or not it's gonna be actually consequential or it will just be like a fine, which you know, I mean to Texas Tech, it's like, okay, all right, some more money, whatever. Uh, I'm sure they would not be thrilled about that, but will this be something with real teeth to it, or is it just monetary? I think you'll get something. I don't know whether or not it'll have the teeth, but I think there is a shot. I think there is a shot. Uh, so let me know what you think in the comments. What should the Big 12 do here? And click here to find out why the Brendan Swords be gambling piece of this story, like what happened with these actual bets, may only just be getting started. That's for everybody watching the clipped version, everybody hanging out live. Just continue to chill. Let me get to uh some super chats here. Then we'll talk about uh Cody Campbell, whether or not he is just playing chess while everybody is playing uh checkers, and then uh latest on the Protect College Sports Act. And I promise, some fun at the end of this because there was some good tweeting going on, man. The internet can can do some real good. It can also do some real bad. The internet did some good. Internet did some good. Some real, real good. Uh, let's see, Darius. Uh OSU. OSU hasn't won a conference game since uh Bush. Light work. Okay. Coming coming after uh coming after Oklahoma State. Uh Oklahoma State with a little bit of smack talk there. Well, yeah, it's been a it's been a rough go for the Cowboys, but look, the Pokes are confident. Uh they've got Eric Morris, they've got Drew Mestemaker, they got Caleb Hawkins, they got Wyatt Young. All right, Oklahoma State's Oklahoma State's here. Um I want to see that game, Darius. I want to see that game late in the year. Casino night. Casino night at uh Boom Picking Stadium, according to Snappy AJ earlier. Uh TM Gel. TM Gell says Texas Tech broke the all-time power four conference attendance record uh of a championship game, 90k. This helps everybody's pocketbooks. Y'all need tech. Well, here's the thing, TM Gel. Both parties need each other. Both I'm not, I don't deny that the Big 12 definitely needs somebody to be doing what Texas Tech is doing right now. Texas Tech also needs the Big 12. Well, you're gonna go independent. What's that TV contract gonna look like? What's that TV money gonna look like? Texas Tech goes independent. Who are you gonna schedule? Uh, you need the Big 12 right now. So that's just judging by the tone there. Look, I love you and respect you, TM Jell. But judging by the tone there, I'm gonna push back just a little bit and make sure that it's uh Ryan Hyatt, who was on the channel in that video, did really well. I know a bunch of you saw it. Ryan Hyatt, who's covered Texas Tech for 38 years, had the best analogy on this where he said Texas Tech and the Big 12 are both poor right now, and getting divorced is expensive. So when you're poor and getting divorced is expensive, sometimes you gotta just stay together. So that to me feels like the most appropriate summation of the situation right now. Uh, but I appreciate you, TMGel. Thank you for being here. Uh Talon Abex, let Soresby sit a year and keep his nose clean. It is really interesting you say this because one of the proposed uh changes from Stephen Godfrey on the College Sports Inquirer podcast that I mentioned earlier and listened to was he said we should tweak in his ideal world, basically, it was that because of the proliferation of sports betting, we should treat this a bit differently. And that it should be either a six-game suspension the first time and then progressively more if you get caught again doing the same thing, or delay it by a year so that it really throws it back onto the school. So it would be like, hey, Texas Tech, he's suspended for a year, but his eligibility is frozen. So if you guys want to pay him and keep him around for a year, then he can play next year in 2027 as your quarterback. I thought, well, that's an interesting conundrum to put the school in. Like, would would you actually You want to do that? Would you keep him around for a year to then play the next year? Anyway, so yeah, that's because part of what Texas Tech was trying to convey in that video, again, uh, to me, ill-advised, but in that video was like, hey, we've got him on a plan. He's gonna have stuff monitoring his phone. Uh, and so that's sort of what you're getting at there. Taylon is like, just make sure that he keeps his nose clean for a while to kind of earn his way back in. Uh, Browns and Beers. What's up, Browns and Beers? Not feeling good about West Virginia's uh College World Series chances tonight. Well, let's uh let's see. Uh beat Troy the other day. I saw Troy eliminated Ole Miss, right? I was gonna see if I I apologize for okay. Uh yeah, top of the ninth, five to two North Carolina. It's a tough putt, man. North UNC is pretty good. UNC is pretty good. Uh when would West Virginia be playing next? Would that be then on Tuesday? Look, go Mountaineers. If it doesn't happen today, you still double elimination, you still got time. All right, Browns and Beers. Uh, but yes, my my condolences for today. My condolences for today. MBM, what's up, MBM? OSU hasn't won a conference game in two years and still has more conference wins than tech the last decade. Damn. Damn. Wow, all right. We got dueling comments here. Kim, Kim, I see your I see your comment. I'm going to uh I'm gonna get to it in just a moment, but I gotta we gotta continue the back and forth here between MBM and and Darius Rucker. MBM, OSU hasn't won a conference game in two years and still has more conference wins than tech the last decade. Darius, what did you achieve in that 10 years? Beat Iowa State, West Virginia a few times, yet unlike tech, you have zero conference championships or college football playoff appearances in that time. They did win a Fiesta Bowl, okay. Now uh yeah, that was a few years ago, maybe had still a little more meaning than it does now in an expanded playoff, okay. Oklahoma State did win a Fiesta Bowl, but this this back and forth is getting pretty pretty interesting there between Darius and MBM. Uh Kim, what's up, Kim? Kim says, I have no problem with the Big 12 declaring Soresby ineligible. Do it tomorrow, please. There is a faction of Texas Tech fans that I think definitely feel like this. I the the yeah, I mean again, Ryan Hyatt said it. The most clean break here is just, hey, here's $2 million, whatever the number is going to be from Texas Tech. Here's the rest of your NIL contract. Just go to the supplemental draft and let's all wipe our hands clean of this, and everybody goes on with their lives. I don't blame you at all for feeling like that. The story's exhausting, and I'm not a tech fan. If I were a tech fan, even if I were a tech fan, like trying to uh very much defend my honor or my school's honor, that's gotta get exhausting. It's gotta get exhausting. And someone did ask the question earlier in the chat like, is is Brendan Sorsby worth it? Is Brendan Sorsby worth all this battle? And I can tell you from listening to some national folks talk about this, there is that sentiment from some people. Like, is this dude really good enough for that? Now, in fairness, I would push back and say, uh, what would you have said about Fernando Mendoza last year? And he went on to win the Heisman. LSU offered Brendan Soresby a contract. They thought Lane Kiffin, armed with as much NIL as basically anybody in the country, that this dude was worth it. So I will I will defend Brendan Sorsby's honor. But but I can understand if you'd asked the question of like, is it is it is it worth it for this when he hasn't proven himself to be a Heisman level quarterback? That's just the projection. Uh Pacific Northwest Ute, Casino Night at Oklahoma State, count me in. Uh Sorsby. Yeah. Yeah. Uh maybe he'll bring two dates to casino night like Michael Scott did to further the office comparison there. Uh good to see you, Pacific Northwest Ute. Thank you, my friend. TM Gel, consider this, John. The only way the Big 12 is getting two teams in this uh in the college football playoff is tech being in the Big 12 championship game. Come on, man, you're smarter than this. I don't TMG, what like TMGel? We're gonna have this conversation again. We just did this conversation last time. Can we can I can I get a little respect around here? What did I say about Texas Tech? Like, what because I titled the video, Will They Keep Them Out of the Championship Game because that was reported by Ross Dellinger as a possibility? What are you what are you upset about that I said? Like, can we I get it? It's your squad, you're emotional about it, but don't take it out on me. Like, what what are you upset about? Let me know. Let me know in the chat, man. What are you upset about there? I don't I don't get it. You're upset that the this video title is here because of the Ross Dillinger report, or or you're upset with something I said during this. That that would be my question to you here. Though hey, look, love and respect you, but let's make sure that the respect is a two-way street here. Um, also, you know, on that, I mean, yeah, in all likelihood, you would think that that involves Texas Tech if that is going to happen, but TMGel, if I would have told you the only way the Big 12 would have a shot to make the final four of the playoff in 2024 was with Arizona State. If I would have asked you that in June of 2024, uh, when Arizona State was picked last in the Big 12, you would have said I'm crazy. So let's also not get too carried away here, okay? Okay. You think the headline is rage baiting tech fans. Okay. All right. Well, you're entitled to your own opinion, uh, TMGel. I I oh boy, boy, boy, boy. I don't know how we got so crosswise on this, TMGel. I feel like I've been much more respectful to Texas Tech than most people have. I don't know if you're paying attention to the national temperature on this, but you're entitled to your own opinion. That's okay, my friend. That's okay. I hope you still come around. Uh, speaking of, we're gonna talk some Cody Campbell here. I know speaking of Texas Tech in general, but I will remind you, please like and subscribe. Uh, sign up for the Open for Business Big 12 newsletter at OFBnews.com. That is OFBnews.com. Uh 6,300 plus Big 12 fans already subscribe. It is totally free. And uh you can hit me up on Venmo, John Dash Kirks-4 if you're not watching live. You can also find this on all your podcast platforms, wherever you're at, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc., etc. Okay. Cody Campbell's taking a ton of heat this week, but is the joke actually on everybody else? Is the Texas Tech Mega Booster playing chess, perhaps 4D chess, as you'll hear sometimes? Well, everybody else is playing checkers. Uh, and is he doing that by using Brendan Soresby's case to achieve his bigger goal? This is an interesting one. All right. We'll we'll get into the nitty-gritty in the details here. Uh, those of you watching, I mean, you you know the Brendan Soresby story. I presume by now, Texas Tech quarterback transferred from Cincinnati, popped for betting on his own team 40 plus times, deemed permanently ineligible. Uh, he sued over that ruling by saying that the NCAA broke a promise or agreement in a contract, and that was like via state law. That's why it was in Texas. The judge granted him an injunction. The case won't be heard until after the season. So here we are. Uh a lot of us immediately said, myself included, in the aftermath of the Soresby ruling, it was like, well, one silver lining from this can be this gets the attention of more lawmakers as the Protect College Sports Act just so happens to be sitting in the Senate right now, uh, presumably about ready to get voted on at some point. Will this get the attention of more lawmakers being like, whoa, whoa, whoa, okay, this is pretty wild. The NCAA can't even stop players from betting on their own team right now. Uh we've got to get this figured out and pushed through. And that made sense to me. Now, I will say that I've heard some take the opposite spin on that, and I'll dive more into that later. That this actually could hurt it. But I to me, the easiest place to walk logically is the whole argument about the Protect College Sports Act has been college sports are out of control. The NCAA can't actually enforce its own rules, so the government has to step in and help. And to me, if we're following that, then this is maybe the wildest example we've seen yet of the NCAA not being able to do anything. But notice I said they're like, hey, all this is conveniently happening with Brendan Soresby right at the same time that the Protect College Sports Act is actually being discussed heavily, right? I mean, it took the news cycle away from the Protect College Sports Act, which is pretty crazy. I did not think that could have happened. So then it dawned on me and plenty of people, like, hey, wait. Cody Campbell was heavily involved, clearly, in putting together this legislation. I mean, these are a lot of his like kind of pet projects, uh, particularly the pooling of the broadcast rights, sports broadcasting act. So wait, hang on. Was this just some sort of for the chess situation? Uh, because we're seeing now, I the NCAA sure seems to agree with me that this is more ammo for its cause to get this Protect College Sports Act through. And Ted Cruz seems to think so, too. Uh, now, whether or not they are right is a totally different question that I'll answer later on in this video. But uh, for right now, gotta tell you the latest here is the NCAA sent out a letter to conference commissioners claiming that the Protect College Sports Act gives the NCAA clear authority to strip eligibility over gambling. So, I mean, the headline on that was the NCAA was like, hey guys, this thing we've got out there, the Protect College Sports Act, would have stopped this. It would have prevented this. Nobody would have been able to do this, like we would have been able to forget Judge Ken Curry, we would have been able to do this. And they say because the the reasoning on that is that it would override any state law that directly conflicts with following the bill. And so they're saying, hey, this is an example of that, where the state law would be directly conflicting with the NCAA being able to enforce the ruling of not gambling on your sport. I think there is some disagreement on that, by the way. Uh well, the NCAA says that's what would happen. I think there is some skepticism out there as to whether or not it would actually do that, right? We're seeing that like Greg Senke and the SEC had a bunch of changes to the bill that I'll tell you about later in the show, changes that they're suggesting. And some of that was, hey, we're not sure this actually does what you think it does. But the NCAA thinks the Soresby situation would have been stopped. And Ted Cruz, who's one of the co-sponsors of this bill, thinks that the Soresby situation would have been stopped, and that this is really putting some wind in the sails of the cause. Uh, he said, quote, this never would have happened if the bill were law right now. So, you know, he was much uh shorter-winded than the NCAA was. But Ted Cruz says, never would have happened if the bill were law right now. So at first glance, you look at this and you're like, well, wait, hang on. If this Brendan Soresby situation never would have happened if he would have been deemed ineligible, and probably right now would be in the supplemental draft had this bill been law, doesn't this put Cody Campbell in like direct conflict here? He helped put this bill together. He certainly had influence on it. Maybe that's the more fair way to say it. He he his fingerprints are all over this. We know that he has relationship financially and otherwise with Ted Cruz. So it would stand to reason that he had quite a bit of influence over this and has been in support of it publicly. But at the same time, he's obviously been publicly in support of like Texas Tech playing Brendan Soresby in light of the ruling. So have the turntables turned on him, or was this actually the plan all along? Uh, please do subscribe to the channel, like the video, subscribe, it all helps. But subscribing to the channel particularly really helps if you're somebody that watches a lot. Thank you very much. Okay, so the idea here being like, hey, wait, all right, once this bill, once the Protect College Sports Act got pretty far down the road, is Cody Campbell being like, all right, well, if Brendan Soresby is able to play, that would just throw everybody into a tizzy. Everyone will lose their minds. And if he thought that, he was correct. Everybody will lose their minds, and that will lead to a lot of lawmakers thinking, well, we've got to do something. Okay, we've got to do if the NCAA can't stop this, we've got to do something. Because it's very predictable how everybody reacted here, right? Complete shock, and everybody goes into complete the sky is falling, the sport is over type of mode. Uh, so in essence, is Cody Campbell looking at this like, all right, well, I can either get the bill I want or my quarterback to play, or perhaps both, depending on the timing of all of this. But at least I would get my bigger aim here because look, the Brendan Soresby thing is that that's one thing that is going to affect this season greatly. But you can make the argument that the Protect College Sports Act would be good enough for Texas Tech, or just anybody who's not in the cool kids club and the top 10 to 15 brands, whatever you think the Super League cutoff would be, 20 or whatever. Anyone that's outside of that club, this bill is potentially good for. I guess I should amend what I said about the Super League thing. It depends on whether or not you think the Super League would be a merging of the Big Ten and SEC or not. Um, but generally, because the pooling of the rights, because it does eliminate expansion for the Big Ten and the SEC, it would be better for everybody else in the college sports world. That would be the higher aim here. Okay. Unfortunately, there is one huge problem and one huge flaw with this theory, which I admit is is very interesting. Okay, there's also a way I think this could backfire. But this is very interesting. On I just don't like, how do you explain like knowing what the judge was actually going to do here? And before anybody says, well, John, that's actually the interesting part, because what if there's a paper trail, like a money trail that's happening there? Well, I mean, look, the first judge recused himself. You didn't know which judge was going to get assigned to it, and then the first one would recuse himself. I don't, that's way off into conspiratorial deep end, way too far for me. I just don't, I don't think there's any way you could have known like that this was coming. Texas Tech, the vibe I got from Texas Tech, that they were just as floored and shocked as everybody else last week that this happened. Okay, so I don't think that this theory actually really has much credence to it in terms of it being like some big, you know, Charlie Day, the the clip from Always Sunny where he's at the board with all the string that's connecting the different pictures, right? Like, I don't I don't think it is that. Now, is there some, you know, hey, I'll uh could could it be being opportunistic once this happens? Like, hey, wow, I see the reaction to this. I know how upset people are. Why don't I just go throw fuel to the fire on a podcast with Dan Dockich with all of my comments there and just get everybody more and more worked up about it to keep this going, keep it in the news cycle. Maybe I'll tell Texas Tech to release a 22-minute video answering all these questions to again run it through the news cycle and just get everybody talking about it, and eventually, eventually that's going to lead to action happening here. You know, maybe something like that along those lines, a little bit more, a little bit more realistic. I also, though, do think there are some out there that think this could backfire. Andy Staples was one guy I heard making this point where I mean his opinion was the Brendan Soresby situation happening because it was Texas Tech and because Cody Campbell is so heavily involved there in both instances, by the way, chairman of the board at Texas Tech also, uh, that that will, you know, less people will trust him, and people understand that his fingerprints are all over this bill, and that will make more people put off by him and will take away the chances of this bill actually passing. Now, my thought on that is kind of, I don't, you know, it may damage his reputation with the SEC and Big Ten, though they didn't like him already anyway. At least I don't know about personally, but certainly not for what he is fighting for. Their interests are much different. I don't know that that's going to affect it too much. And as far as the lawmakers go, who really matter here, like, I are they in the weeds enough to be watching like clips from the Dan Dokich podcast? Or like I, you know, I I don't know. I don't know. That that feels off to me. I would lean more to the side of like there's a better chance that this hastens the bill getting through. That this would increase the odds of the bill getting through. But it's still gonna be tough, and uh talk more on that in just a moment. But what really matters is whether or not Ted Cruz can actually pass this thing without SEC and Big Ten support. Click here to find out if he can. That's for everybody watching the clip version. Everybody hanging out live, just stick around, my friends. I see that I have another couple of super chats. Uh, if you want to submit a super chat, click the dollar sign below the chat box to do that. Uh Reginald, what's up, Reginald? Reginald says, why didn't anybody discipline Brendan Soresby at Cincinnati or Indiana? Why wait until he enrolled at Texas Tech? It was like three years before Texas Tech. This is why people laugh at the Big 12. Well, Reginald, I appreciate the point that you bring up because the Cincinnati point is one thing I've said, like I level with Texas Tech fans on if you're frustrated as a tech fan, in part because you're like, why is there not more scrutiny toward Cincinnati at this point? And what they knew, I get it. I get it. I think that's worth exploring. I think my answer was I think the reality is some of this is, I mean, one, obviously, it's like it's happening right now, and we're seeing where he's at right now, but also it's uh great power, great responsibility kind of thing, right? Like Texas Tech is a program that is much more the national spotlight right now than Cincinnati. And so people care more. And it's it's not just that tech is in the spotlight, it's also that Cody Campbell is so involved, and he's become such a key figure in what's happening in in college sports globally at the moment that that just attracts way more attention. And so many people just hate the idea of Texas Tech because they unfairly make them the poster child for the NIL era. So, for all of those reasons, it just people care more about Texas Tech. That's really, I mean, plain and simple, that's that's what it is. Um now at Indiana, I I Reginald, I would just point out one flaw in your logic here. You're saying, why didn't Indiana discipline Brendan Soresby? This is why people laugh at the Big 12. That seems unfair. Indiana does not play in the Big 12. So because a Big Ten school missed this, that it was going on, that's the Big 12's fault, and the Big 12 should be laughed at. Let's just walk through logically. That seems pretty unfair. Um Cincinnati is in the Big 12. And we do know that Cincinnati, what one of the items that came out of one of the affidavit in this was Cincinnati had a meeting with Brendan Sorsby after they got pinged by a Prohibets, which is the app that the students, student athletes, sign up for, and it will let the school know if someone's trying to make a bet or sign up for a betting app, and that Brendan Sorsby, since he's side of the story, was like Sorsby told us, tried to download an app, it didn't work, and then they gave him some classes, some gambling education or whatever, and called it good. If you want to say Cincinnati should have done more digging into this and was perhaps willfully ignorant to not go deeper because they didn't want to know and didn't want to have to not play him, I I would I would listen to that. I have no idea what the answer is on that, on how much Cincinnati knew or didn't. And maybe that's a video I should do. Maybe I should go talk to somebody, go find somebody who has a better pulse of that. Um you know, I saw like I think Chad Brendel did 365 Sports on Friday, did uh Smoky show. I need to go check that out. Frankly, I just haven't had uh a chance to go to go watch that. So I direct you there if you want to know more about what Cincinnati potentially did or didn't know. Um Reginald followed up with this. You listen to other conferences, but do other conferences follow the same rules, honestly? Well, I mean, apparently not, because the Big Ten didn't punish Brendan Soresby when he was at Indiana. Now, again, I like I don't know how the Big Ten was supposed to know that. That was long enough ago, too. That would that have been pro pre prohibit? I I don't, these are all details. Like, I haven't I don't frankly, I don't care enough about. The Indiana piece of this to do all that digging, but did they still have the same app that would alert them to this when it was happening? You know, this was even pre-Kurt Signetti at Indiana. So we're talking about a different regime. I just, you know, again, we're talking about things people care about, Texas Tech right now versus pre-Kurt Signetti, Indiana or Cincinnati. There's just not as much interest there. So I don't think you're seeing as much uh digging around there. But I don't think it's fair to say the Big 12 looks worse because Indiana didn't catch this when it was actually happening. Like, what does the Big 12 have to do with that? Uh nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing. But hey, look, I appreciate you, Reginald, and I appreciate that you're not a Big 12 fan and you're hanging out here in the chat and hang out here in the chat regularly. So yeah, here you go. Cincinnati sent him to classes and counseling, and that was all Cincinnati was allowed to do. Uh until then, based on NCAA guidelines. There you go. There you go. Uh okay. Update on the Protect College Sports Act, then we'll have some fun with the internet and get out of here. Um yeah, that part. I don't know if TM Jell is still here, but hopefully TMJ will be able to laugh at what what is at the end here. Uh look, Ted Cruz says, screw the SEC and Big Ten. We don't need them. Is Ted Cruz actually right? Uh do they need the SEC and Big Ten for the Protect College Sports Act? Is this just a politician acting with a bunch of bravado that's that's not actually going to hold up? I will admit I am leery of that, but we'll discuss whether or not he is right on this because the SEC has tried to outline some really huge changes that they want to this Protect College Sports Act. And so far they seem to be being met with uh a big fat no on the two issues that matter the most. So to recap here, the Protect College Sports Act, among the things that it would do, there are many, and there are some things that like basically everybody agrees on in Power Four World, but the two big differentiating factors are that one, it would allow all conferences to pool their media rights and amend the Sports Broadcasting Act, which is something Cody Campbell's been pushing for for a while. The idea being, like the NFL, if you sold all the broadcast rights as one package, that would drive more money for everybody, would create much more money for everybody, would solve some of the revenue problems, and would the the the angle that's been taken on this is save college or save Olympic and women's sports. Uh, when you see that, it's typically aligned with this. Get more money with the broadcasting rights to be able to pay those, the budgets of those sports. The other thing is the piece in this bill that would keep super leagues, well, keep a super league between the SEC and Big Ten from forming and would prevent expansion by those leagues. Uh, the SEC specifically has said in its reaction to that, like we just want everybody to be treated fairly. We don't want to be singled out for that. That is, again, one of the big dividers. Uh, you've got a national NIL standard. So requirements for anything beyond Rev share would have to have real fair market value, which I think is almost one of those that actually hurts like the Texas Texas of the world and might be worse for your non-power two conferences, but it's in the bill. It would certainly help curb the crazy arms race that we're seeing right now. It would also allow the NCAA to enforce a one-time transfer rule, um, one-time free transfer rule. You could transfer again, but you'd have to sit out a year unless your coach left. Uh, there's the Lane Kiffin rule, there's regulation of agents, there are, there are lots of other things in this, but those are really the big ones. And there has been some confidence on this. I would honestly say, like just the fact that it's still here, we're still talking about it this much later, this in depth, with this many people weighing in on it, with conferences making official statements, um, it's gone further than the Score Act or the SAFE Act, anything else that have been proposed before. Charlie Baker, the president of the NCAA, has said he thinks 50-50 shot this passes. Josh Pate, one of the most connected in the uh media industry around college football, he thinks it will pass comfortably. So there are those that think, regardless of what the Big Ten and SEC really think of this thing, that it is going to pass. Um, but the Big Ten and SEC are not going to go down quietly. The SEC did release within the last few days a letter with a bunch of proposed changes. The the biggest, of course, is look, they don't like the Super League clause, whatever you want to call it. They don't like the Super League restrictions, they don't like the expansion restrictions. They want it all to be treated equally. The wording of it was such that it was like, hey, like, why are we getting singled out? We just want this all to be fair across the board. This is not about preserving dominance. That was in there. This is not about preserving dominance. And I was like, well, I mean, it basically is, because what you're opposed to here is that it would shrink your gap a little bit. The pooling of media rights could do that, and then also just not allowing you to expand and do this even more, which you've already done, regardless of what you tell us about a super league or anything. Kevin Warren, you know, that big 10 had the alliance and then went and destroyed the Pac-12 right afterwards. So, you know, your words can't really be trusted here, my friend. But that is what the SEC is saying uh for right now. They also they they want no restrictions on NIL payments. Uh they are not sure that this bill would actually meet the conditions to preempt state law, which is a big part of it. Um, and they think it'll create more litigation rather than reduce litigation. Those are some of the highlights if you go through and read like what the SEC wants changed with this. Um, but again, the real conflict is over. Super League and expansion stuff and the Sports Broadcasting Act. And we're gonna get into Ross Dellinger here from Yahoo Sports. A source told Ross Dellinger that a changing of either of those things, Super League or pooling broadcast rights, those are non-starters. As in, we heard out Tony Petiti and Greg Sankey. Ted Cruz met with them, still a non-starter to change any of that. So Ted Cruz is holding his ground. Maria Cantwell holding her ground. Like these, they are not wanting to give in at all to the SEC and Big Ten on this. And I got to admit, regardless, and I'll discuss how likely it is that this can actually happen. I got to admit, it's kind of nice to be like, wow, there's somebody like outside of our leagues or just like Big 12 media or whatever who's like really gonna try and take a stand here and do something against these guys. I don't I don't know where it's gonna go. I don't know what's gonna happen. You can tell I I would listen to like, hey, there are cases here we're just like throwing this much resistance at them, like backfires, and it further increases the likelihood of them just taking their ball and doing their own thing. Uh hey, I I understand that. I don't care. It's still as satisfying to see somebody stand up to them, somebody with some level of power, maybe not enough power to get the votes. We'll see. But somebody with some level of power, somebody's standing up to them. So if you're a Big 12 or an ACC fan, I I think you got to at least have a part of you that loves that. Will it actually work to get the bill through, though? Please do subscribe to the channel. All right, pushing to 35k subs getting close if you listen but don't subscribe. If you watch, but don't subscribe, it does really help me. Thank you very much. Here's the numbers, okay, to answer the question does this really have a shot? Like, is it going to do it? Ross Dillinger laid out some really good numbers here, okay? Uh the Big Ten and the SEC cover a 26 state footprint, which means 52 senators uh are in SEC and Big Ten country. So you need uh to get past the filibuster, 60 votes out of 100 senators here, and you got 52 of them that are in Big Ten or SEC country. Now that they're not all going to be against you if you're cruising Cantwell, but surely uh some of them, maybe a bunch of them are. In the House of Representatives, it's I mean, you have 318 of the 435 representatives in Big Ten or SEC country, and you would need 218 votes. So that math makes you feel like I don't know. I don't know. Um, but that's where the math lies right now. Ted Cruz continues to be really confident. Uh, he was asked, Ross Dellinger asked him point blank, do you think this bill will pass without the SEC and Big Ten supporting it? And Cruz, according to Dellinger, offered a quick reply, quote, I do. So he's very confident. Very confident in this. Maria Cantwell has been really um candid about it basically being a standoff with the SEC right now. She's not been shy about that at all. And I love the confidence, uh, but I I'm just still treating this like wait and see mode. Look, this is where some of this I think is unfair for like sports pundits to be trying to answer this question of like how likely is it this will actually pass? I not not just the obvious here of looking at the math of the votes and some of the obstacles and the SEC in Big Ten, like things we can all see on the surface. Beyond that, there are so many, there are political intricacies. Like, I don't I don't follow politics on the the way that I follow college athletics. Like, I'm not in the weeds on this. I don't know. I don't know. I think it's unfair for people in college sports to have to be put in a position to like really be making predictions about this. So I'm not gonna give you some prediction today. I'm just gonna say I'm in wait and see mode. I'm optimistic that this turns into a good thing and it gets passed and it doesn't result in some crazy tectonic shift of a response from the SEC and Big Ten. I will continue to be optimistic, but I don't really know, man. What I do know is I will tell you this. The SEC and Big Ten being so vocal about this, particularly the SEC, pushing back with their changes, not being afraid to speak to media about this, right? Like Feinbaum going and doing or Sankey going and doing the Feinbaum show the other day, that tells me like they think there's a legit chance that this happens. They're concerned enough to be doing pushback work and PR work on their end. Whereas before, with things like Project Rudy, some of these other private equity super leagues that I would read about and be like, yes, yes, that's awesome. Whatever the one was, it was like 70 teams and you split it up into regional conferences. I was like, yeah, give me that. The SEC and Big Ten didn't really say much. You know, there might be like a quote in a Dellinger story, but there wasn't, because they they were not worried. That was not a real threat. This they're actually speaking up about. And so I think that tells you, like, it's got a shot. It's got a shot, but we're all just gonna have to wait and see. Uh, which is which is the mode that I'm firmly planted in. Might be another really eventful week, whether it's on this front or the Brendan Soresby front, as we started this show talking about. Okay. Let me get to a couple other super chats real quick here. Uh winding down. So if you have something you want to get in, do so now. Click the dollar sign below the chat box. You can also uh hit me up on Venmo, John-Kurtz-4, if you want to submit a super chat there, and I'll kick off the next show with it. Uh, okay, Reginald said I'm a Big 12 fan, Houston fan, just looking from afar. Okay, I got you. I got you. Reginald, thank you for the clarification on that. My apologies, my friend. Um, I appreciate you being here. Uh Goku's Kim says, uh, sports pundits nationwide. Think every school in FBS have uh at least one kid that's gambling. What are your thoughts? Boy, I I mean I hate to think about it in those terms, but I'm pretty cynical about this. Like, I don't like the proliferation of sports gambling just in general. So I just to preface this, you're asking somebody that has turned down sports gambling money on this very channel that you're watching right now. I don't like that we're just it's not even just that it's everywhere and you can do it, but that it coincides with the era where we have these addictive smartphones on our phone. And so it's literally you're you're compounding the addictive properties of this where it's on your phone, which we're already all addicted to. We all are. Don't tell me you're not. You are, we all are. And then you're throwing the addictiveness of gambling on top of that and and uh giving access to like young men. I I hate it, and the the odds are, yeah, there are there are kids that are doing it. I you can try and do what you want, but you'll the Brendan Soresby case proves like they'll find a way, they'll have other guys place bets for them. Um I don't know if it's is is there one at every single school? Maybe that's a bit of a stretch for now. I don't maybe some places with better culture don't, but it wouldn't shock me. I'll put it that way, Kim. It would not shock me if if that were the case. That would not that would not hit me like the Brendan Soresby ruling on Monday hit me, okay? I'll I'll put it that way. Um, yeah, it's so you're gonna have to deal with this. And I I'm open to like a conversation of you know how much differently do we have to to treat this with how much the sports betting has changed in the last decade in America? Like, is this something that will have to be adjudicated differently because there is too much access to it? Do you have to then adjust? I mean, I still hate this, even saying it, but do you have to adjust the difference? Is there a difference now between betting on your team and proving that you're like throwing a game? And again, watch the Ryan Hyatt video, the second of the two with him. If you want a good explanation, a good little primer on like why that hard line is important, and it's really pretty naive to say, okay, if he didn't like if he wasn't Black Sox throwing the game, then it's all fine, even if he was betting on his own team. Because there are so many other tentacles to that that become stuff that the FBI would be interested in. Okay, so again, go watch that video. Ryan can explain it way better than I can because he's worked in the industry. Um, this is all a long way to say, Kim. These are a lot of thoughts on where I'm at on it, but I think it is going to be a problem, and the solution may have to evolve, yes, at some point. Old Texas Tech Man 9144. Uh, so the SEC and Big Ten have a problem with corruption. Uh makes me laugh. I don't think it's so, well, there are there are a lot of things here, old Texas Tech Man, because I assume now I have to just assume, and I'll I'll pull up the regular chat here. So if I'm if I'm off on what you're saying or trying to get across here, let me know. But I think this is in response to just the idea of me saying, like, hey, the Big Tenor SEC invite is not there. It could also be in response to the Andy Staples or people's theory that like the Brendan Soresby situation and Cody Campbell's reaction to it has given it the potential that maybe this backfires with uh Cody Campbell not being able to get the Protect College Sports Act that he would like to see through. Um, if it's about Texas Tech not having an SEC or Big Ten invite, I don't think that's like specifically about the you know corruption or whatever, like this this specific piece happening here. I it's just that I mean look, the SEC and Big Ten, they I mean they don't really need anybody. Even like your Florida State Clemson, North Carolina's, those are nice to have, but they don't need anything. They've got enough right now. They don't they don't need Texas Tech, they don't need Florida State, they don't need Clemson. They could go off and be just fine uh doing what they're doing right now. So it's not about like, oh, this is the thing that will keep Texas Tech out. To me, the thing that if you're worried about, because people have talked about this, like what how much does this hurt or does it affect any shot of Texas Tech getting to the Super League or the SEC or the Big Ten in someday? I it's not about Brendan Soresby and any like level of quote unquote corruption, it's about the way tech has handled itself. Would they want to deal with somebody that could be a really unruly member of the conference? Like that's that's what the concern would be. But if it's about if it's about whether or not this affects Cody Campbell's push for the Protect College Sports Act, then okay, maybe I understand this a little bit more. We were just saying, like, wait, wait, what? The the Big Ten and SEC have an issue with uh corruption, so they're gonna take some moral high ground stand here. Um but once again, I think some of it is just about, you know, Cody's not a quiet guy. Cody's not a quiet guy, he's not gonna go quietly on anything. So the first time that if we're I I know I'm jumping around here, but if we go to the analogy now, first time SEC puts Cody Campbell on a non-Satur, like Texas Tech on a non-Saturday game, right? You know, Arkansas got had the deal where they're going, uh Hunter Jurachek was complaining about their scheduling. They're they're worried that it would just be that and it would be a headache that's that's not worth it, I think is kind of the idea there. Uh old Texas Tech Man says Big 12 can't kick Texas Tech out because tech hasn't broken any rules. Sorceby hasn't played one down. Look, no one's I no one's yeah, I'm sure this is probably like responding to the chat. At least me. I I have not once uttered the words on this show that the Big 12 would kick Texas Tech out of the conference. Like that boycotting playing them this year, kicking them out of the conference. I know that, like, yes, Gene Taylor did say they talked about not playing them this year. I'm telling you right now, that idea is crazy. It would never happen. Kicking them out of the league is complete would never that's not even worthy of being discussed. Like that, that is that would not happen. Would not would not happen. The discussion here is do you do something to make them ineligible? Make SORS be ineligible, make you forfeit games that he plays in, keep you out of the Big 12 championship game. Like that, that I think is the the real discussion here. Um Pacific Northwest youth says don't know about corruption, but there are signs. Okay, that's funny. That's funny. Hashtag Michigan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's what's been funny to me about some of the reaction to this. It's like, yeah. I mean, obviously the Georgia president coming in and throwing stones from his glass house at Texas Tech. Like, okay, Georgia, maybe, maybe sit this one out. You know, we you could go pull someone out, pull Vandy out, have Vandy make those comments. Get Clark Lee or whoever the president at Vandy is to make those comments. Not not Georgia, not Georgia. Don't try and throw rocks out the window, that glass window that's going 105 miles per hour in a 45 right now out of a Corvette or something. Okay. Um, and then yeah, the the Michigan scandal, right? I mean, there's yeah, the it's plenty of scandal to go around in college sports. Plenty of scandal to go around. So some of this we everybody jumped a shark too much and got too outraged, and then it becomes who can out outrage the next person. That's why I I've tried to be pretty level-headed and reasonable here. Well, also, again, drawing a hard line at like, yeah, I think you should get a one-year suspension at least if you're betting on your own team 40 times. Uh, but Pacific Northwest Ute, thank you for leading us into what's going to be a little bit of fun here to end the show. I I've been trying to do this lately, showing you the best of the internet. Sometimes the internet is bad, sometimes it is very good. The Brendan Soresby week that we just had opened itself up to some pretty funny tweets. So I do want to show you that. First of all, shout out to my guy, uh Snyder's Windbreaker, one of the funnier Twitter followers out there. You don't even have to be a K-State fan if you just like know what's going on-ish with K-State in the Big 12. Snyder's Windbreaker is hilarious. But this picture. Will Hammond watching Texas Tech start an interstate political war rather than letting him sling it. I mean, that's pretty funny. That's pretty funny. Uh Will Hammond, like, hey guys, I mean, I am recovering from this ACL injury. Like, I I could play, I could play quarterback instead of us having to get Ken Paxton going against the Oklahoma Attorney General. You could just you just play me. Remember the Utah game? Remember that John Kurtz guy and how he wouldn't shut up about me after the after the Utah game? Uh anyway, I thought I thought that was great. Now, of course, this one many of you have probably seen from TCU football, which admin on the TCU football account has definitely had some bangers. Has definitely had some bangers. Uh, this, of course, was tweeted right after the Texas Tech tweets a 20-plus minute video explaining all their positions on everything and and how Soresby's gonna be watched and monitored. And you can hear me. It's just the the PR guy in me. Makes my head hurt. That video. I the message from tech should have just been like, you know, say these three things at the beginning and then just get out. Stop talking. No, you're not gonna make any, you're not gonna convince anyone to like you. Anyway, TCU football hit him with one of the most uh infamous internet memes. It usually says, I ain't reading all that, I'm happy for you though, or sorry that happened. They changed it to I ain't watching all that, I'm happy for you though, or sorry that happened. You can see there, up to 34,000 likes. Banger tweet there from TCU football, unanimously approved by the college football public. If you don't understand that meme, congratulations because you are living a more healthy life than all of us who are way too online. So don't feel bad if you're kind of like, I don't totally get it. Don't feel bad. You are living a much, much healthier, more balanced life. Okay, so you are winning. Uh all right. That's gonna wrap it up, guys. Thank you for being here on the show tonight. Fun one, lively one for sure. Uh we'll see. I mean, the plan for next week is just gonna be dependent on what happens. If there is something big news that comes out of the board meeting tomorrow from the Big 12, I will certainly try to cover it. Uh we'll see. My Mondays and Tuesdays are typically a little busier. I Tuesday would be better. If they want to announce something on Tuesday, that would be a little easier for me. But I'll do what I can uh to keep up this week. 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