NFL Shuts Down Brendan Sorsby; Will He Be Back at Texas Tech?

The NFL won't hold a supplemental draft for Brendan Sorsby, which means he has to wait until the 2027 NFL draft...or does he?

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Well, the NFL said no to Brendan Soresby. There will be no supplemental draft this year, and Sorsby's only option at this point is to wait until the 2027 NFL draft. Or is it? Could he come back to Texas Tech? The Big 12 was certainly prepared for this. We'll answer that question here, but more importantly, dive into why this happened, how the NFL backed up the Big 12 in all of this, and why at this point Brendan Soresby needs to take his medicine. I don't know why he is not doing that, but news alert he is not, because more lawsuits are coming, and we'll tell you about what those are. All right. So the deadline for the supplemental draft to enter it was on Monday, and there had been no word this entire time about what was going on with the NFL and Soresby. Soresby had applied, we knew that, but there had been no official confirmation. Texas Tech had said, hey, he won't play here this year, and it seemed like a mutual parting of ways, and now he'll go to the NFL and everything will be great. Well, the NFL came out with a pretty strongly worded letter that was sent to Soresby and made public on Tuesday. And that letter essentially said, Hey, you didn't give us any breakdown of how you're going to follow the rules, like why we should trust that you're not going to gamble now that you're at this level. There's really been no contrition from you at any step. We have nobody else that's trying to enter the supplemental draft. It was basically you did something really bad. You have not shown enough contrition. You have not given us a plan of how you will follow the rules in the NFL. This is kind of a half you know what it attempt to get into the NFL, and college just said, hey, you can't play here because what you did was bad enough. We're not going to do the supplemental draft for you. So it honestly, you should go read the letter. All right. I'm not going to read the entire thing here, but the tone of it was pretty stern from the NFL, which I understand some people's reaction first will be here. Well, that's rich. I mean, the NFL has had guys with domestic violence issues playing. The NFL's had guys arrested for all sorts of things that have played, and it's not been an issue for the league. And I, that is great criticism. It's totally fair. It's just this is not about morals. If you were expecting the NFL to be a compass of morality, that's not your North Star for morality. But what the NFL proved is that the Big 12 was right in standing up the way that it did. The NFL proved that the 99% of college sports fans that were screaming about Brendan Soresby not being able to play, or if Texas Tech were going to let him play, people screaming about that, it's the NFL backed everybody up. The NFL backed the Big 12 up here saying, like, yeah, this is we can't have this. If there's one league out there that's about business over everything, it's the NFL. There is nothing more important than business. That includes like things that would be morally horrific, right? But if it's not really affecting the bottom line of the business, then the NFL doesn't care. But this can. And that's that was the point that I was making, that Big 12 fans were making when Texas Tech fans were really roaring and pushing back. If you start getting into the vicinity of integrity of the game, okay, he wasn't throwing games, but Ryan Hyatt outlined here all the ways that that can still disrupt the integrity. And there's just when you bet on your own team 40 times, you're opening that door is getting too close to being wide open, right? And so you can't. The NFL was like, no, we're not doing this, we're not doing this. That's not the business that we're in. We're certainly not going to make an exception for you right now to go out of our way to do this for you. There hasn't been a supplemental draft in six years. We're not going to do this just for you. And look, a lot of things can be true here. And I do, I hope this does not result in another roundabout with Texas Tech. We'll talk about that, whether or not it's going to come to pass on that. The Big 12 certainly has been preparing for it. I I don't know if it will or not. But like, I can't really blame the NFL here, man. And a lot of different things can be totally true. Yes, the NFL is like, again, not morally superior here, not a moral compass. But also, Brendan Sorsby needs to take some responsibility for his actions because the immediate aftermath of this was that his attorney, Jeff Kessler, said, Well, we're going to sue the NFL PA. Like, we're going to come after the NFL. And it's like, I can't help but roll my eyes at that. Like at a certain point, can you just take an L, man? You bet on your team 40 times. As an underage kid, you were three years underage. And yes, at the same time, there's a whole combo to be had about gambling being everywhere and targeted toward all these different people, or targeted toward young men in particular, and a young man with expendable income, though when he started betting on his own team, I don't think he was getting a ton of NIL at Indiana as like a third-string quarterback. So you got to take responsibility for your actions. You knew that you can't bet on your team. You knew there would be harsh consequences. That was right after all the Hunter Decker stuff happened, where he gets thrown out of college for one bet on his own team. Like, you just, dude, go prepare, get better, heal. We've been hearing from Texas Tech, it wasn't a guarantee that he would even play because he's got a lot on his plate to get ready. Okay, go take care of that. Take care of your health, take care of your mental health, man. I just uh seeing that as the reaction, I had to roll my eyes a little bit. I feel bad for Soresby that he got caught up in this. Yes, I don't like that the gambling is just absolutely everywhere. But dude, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta say, hey, at a certain point, this is on me. And there's a message being sent by everybody here in the sports world that it's not okay to do this and then just play, or at least right away. And what this will in effect be is a one-year suspension. Like this is another thing I have been saying the entire time. I feel like an appropriate penalty for this was minimum one year suspension. If you get caught betting on your own team, minimum one year suspension. I'm not, it doesn't have to be, hey, you're done forever. We can talk about that. Obviously, if you're throwing games, I mean you're done forever. But we can talk about in this era where gambling is more proliferated and a lot of people are making a lot of money off of it. Okay, like one year, though. It's gotta be punitive enough that it legitimately scares you away. It cannot be a two-game suspension, okay? It's gotta be a year. Well, that's that's what's happening here. Brendan Soresby's getting a year suspension. Then he can go back into the NFL. He will get a shot. Like again, I know this is kind of a stand by the NFL saying, hey, this was too much for us. He'll get a shot. It's the NFL. He's that he will play, but he's just not gonna get special privileges from the NFL to bend over backwards to allow him to play. He is a good prospect, but he is not good enough that it like makes a big business difference for the NFL to let him in right now. So again, business over anything, everything in the league, integrity threat. Now we're gonna be a little bit careful with that. And you're not so valuable to the business that we need to go bring you in right now. I don't think he's gonna be back at Texas Tech. I I sort of I say that, you know, like I really hope not. I don't think so. But this is why the Big 12, and I saw some criticism from tech fans out there. Oh, the Big 12's not rescinding the lawsuit, and you know, they may fine tech. Again, I've told you, I don't agree with fining Texas Tech, but the fine being basically paying the Big 12's legal fees for all this. I don't agree with that at all. I don't think that's worth it. I would not do that if I were the Big 12. I don't like that. However, it was smart to keep the federal lawsuit in place because you're looking there, it was no guarantee that the supplemental draft thing was going to happen. And the Big 12 now, I think, looks very wise for this, right? That was not some statement. That wasn't that had nothing to do with anything personal with Texas Tech. It was just, hey, we're covering our bases here. This hasn't until we know for sure that he's off to the NFL. Who knows what's going on, man? Something could come back around. We have no idea. I it's since we haven't heard anything in the 24 hours since then, I'm certainly very hopeful. I don't think, you know, I mean, the statements that were put out by Texas Tech at the time was like he's not gonna play at Texas Tech. I don't think that's going to be an issue. I think the the sports world has collectively spoken here, okay? Uh but but you've got to be safe if you're the Big 12. And you pulled off a brilliant legal move. You don't want to then just yank it away too early, man. Keep it out there. Keep it out there and make sure that the smoke totally clears. I wish the best for Brendan Soresby. I hope he has a fabulous NFL career. I hope he takes care of the gambling addiction and gets his personal life under control. Nothing but the best for him. But he should get a year's suspension and he's getting it. It would now appear. And the NFL has put the final nail in the coffin there. Let me know what you think. Do you agree or disagree? Please do subscribe to the channel. That helps a lot. Many of you watch, but don't subscribe. Uh, let me know in the comments. Uh, was this too harsh? Should he be in the NFL? Should he be in college football? Let me know what you think. And uh, I will talk to you all very soon. Take care.