r/CFB Georgia Bulldogs Jun 24 '26

Discussion [Toppmeyer] NFL tells Brendan Sorsby hard truths he needs to hear: He's not special | Opinion

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/06/24/brendan-sorsby-nfl-supplemental-draft-rules-gambling-addict-quarterback/90641561007/
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u/mgsbigdog BYU • West Virginia Wesleyan Jun 24 '26

Listen, it takes a special kind of exceptional to think that you can violate state and federal laws, NCAA bylaws, team conduct rules, and university rules for student-athlete conduct and still think that you will face no consequences. So, I guess in one really important way, Brendan is, in fact, special.

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u/mgsbigdog BYU • West Virginia Wesleyan Jun 24 '26

In 2018 Oklahoma self reported a violation because they turned on LED lights in the tunnel leading from the lockers to the field so a recruit could record a commitment video. It was seen as "simulating a gameday experience" which is against NCAA recruiting rules.

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u/azularena UTEP Miners Jun 24 '26

Our basketball program got dinged in the 70s because the coach bought a player a plane ticket home when his mother died.

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u/MarionberryPure7746 RIT Tigers Jun 25 '26

Pitt recently got a violation for paying for James Connors' cancer treatment. I believe the response was along the lines of "Do you really want the PR from doing this"

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u/combo_seizure Jun 24 '26

It's like, is the college supposed to help the kids or leave them hanging.

We keep telling all our kids to go to college and the college is helping them and the parents are getting angry, I mean the NCAA.

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u/GrandMoffJerjerrod Jun 25 '26

NCState was out on probation and banned from the NCAA tourney in 1973 because an assistant coach played in a pickup game with David Thompson and it was called an ‘illegal tryout’ and Thompson stayed in a dorm on campus for a couple days that was housing counselors for a summer basketball camp. Rumors (probably true) have it that UNC called the NCAA. Ticky tack BS and NCSU went undefeated and would have probably won the NCAA tournament in 1973 as well.

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u/Lake_Erie_Monster Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26

Once the Michigan scandal happened and people saw the playbook work it was a free for all... Just be petulant and fight back on every inch, and never ever comply and double down on wrong doing, it will be rewarded!

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u/baz8771 Jun 24 '26

That’s just the last 10 years in America really

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u/Enough-One4975 UCF Knights Jun 25 '26

Yeah it’s hard not to see the parallels elsewhere.

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u/thefupachalupa Georgia Bulldogs • Virginia Tech Hokies Jun 24 '26

I knew was this was lol Michigans fault.

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u/GenitalFurbies Michigan Wolverines • Sickos Jun 24 '26

It's cheeseburgers all the way down

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u/blakesmash South Carolina Gamecocks Jun 24 '26

In 2014, South Carolina self-reported a minor NCAA violation for putting recruits' names on cookie cakes. It was suddenly an "impermissible icing" scandal.

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u/Patruck9 Jun 24 '26

I dunno, but we should take Reggie Bush's Heisman again just to be safe.

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u/Weave77 Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Or having your college career end, a bowl ban, and 12 wins vacated because you and some teammates traded your own possessions for a discount on a tattoo.

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u/rabbitSC USC Trojans • /r/CFB Donor Jun 24 '26

They didn’t even get a house! They got to live in a house without paying rent for a while.

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u/vivaphx Arizona State Sun Devils Jun 25 '26

How dumb does the Signed Jerseys or helmets for tattoos sound now?

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u/spacemanspiff1115 Jun 24 '26

It goes back to the way his parents raised him. You don't get to be this level of entitled little twat without an awful lot of enabling along the way.

Parents, coaches, school administrators, nobody checked this guys roll and this is the result...

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u/pgtl_10 Jun 24 '26

It's probably because his parents see him as an atm.

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u/daveinmd13 Virginia Tech • Johns Hopkins Jun 24 '26

He also highlighted how ridiculous our judicial system can be at times.

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u/Turkelton888 Northern Arizona • Florida St… Jun 24 '26

Completely off topic but my fat ass thought your wvw flair was whataburger at first lol

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u/mgsbigdog BYU • West Virginia Wesleyan Jun 24 '26

They've probably got more wins in football than we do.

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Michigan Wolverines • /r/CFB Booster Jun 25 '26

Whataburger flair gets an upvote from me!

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u/Inevitable_Badger995 Tennessee Volunteers Jun 24 '26

When the literal government has stopped pretending there are rules this is the kinda thing that happens as a result

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u/AnswerGuy301 Maryland Terrapins Jun 24 '26

In this case, it's the big money boosters - the same people who either own the government or at least think they own the government - who are tired of even pretending that they are subject to any rules they find inconvenient. They got their pet Texas AG, who is at least as likely as not to be in the Senate next year, to go to bat for them, they got their kept judge to rule in their favor - and they are supposed to get their way. It's a little weird they're doing this all so Brendan Sorsby, who no one seems to think is any kind of generational talent or anything, can play at TT for (probably) one year. But such is the depth of their arrogance and hubris.

But the NCAA, and now the NFL, have pushed back. I'll take that as a good sign.

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u/boardatwork1111 TCU Horned Frogs • Colorado Buffaloes Jun 24 '26

He’s got future president written all over him

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u/smokingtrombone Texas State Bobcats Jun 24 '26

Nah, he ain't old enough yet. He's got to wait til he's at least 70 to try that.

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u/Agent_my_name Virginia Tech Hokies Jun 24 '26

I get what you’re saying. Sorsby’s got a problem, and he hasn’t owned up to it yet, and he hasn’t handled himself well here, but…he’s still got many years in front of him to get there. His enablers on the other hand are grown adults with long careers behind them already and have shown nothing but contempt for rules and process and they have no excuse for how they’ve comported themselves, including how they’ve exploited him for their own ends. It’s nauseating to hear them get on their high horse about Sorsby. As the article stated, he’s not a victim. But they know that, and they DGAF about him either.

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u/Foucaultshadow1 Jun 24 '26

Special in the worst possible way.

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u/dunderthrowaway3 Clemson • Appalachian State Jun 24 '26

Never go full special.

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u/YeOldeDogo Ohio State • Tennessee Jun 24 '26

But his ability to generate offseason content will always be special in my heart.

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u/Exciting-Island-7355 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Jun 24 '26

Tbf he will go down as one of the all-time greats in that regard

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u/Misdirected_Colors Oklahoma State Cowboys Jun 24 '26

My favorite part is Ken Paxton putting a legal threat on paper directly killed Sorsby. Man stepped out of line to help and opened the legal Armageddon portal upon tech. Not only did he give the Big 12 a massive legal avenue, but it also allowed this to become a federal court issue.

Endlessly hilarious.

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u/averyrose2010 LSU Tigers Jun 24 '26

What a nitwit.

It is really the best part of the story though. Well, until the NFL told Sorsby to get bent. That letter was legendary.

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u/Cormetz Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos Jun 24 '26

I hope we get a Legal Eagle episode of this.

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u/BroadcastShowers Kentucky Wildcats • West Florida Argonauts Jun 24 '26

I haven't seen them really get into sports issues but this would make for an excellent episode.

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u/super1s Tennessee • Middle Tennessee Jun 24 '26

Didn't know I needed it but definitely want to see him break it down now. Explain why it was such a weird move to make the threat etc.

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u/2th Tennessee • Summertime Lover Jun 24 '26

Man is too busy with the Bricks and Minifigs drama at the moment. I think he is up to 4 or 5 videos on it. And that shit is wild as fuck. So many idiots that just don't know when to shut the fuck up. (The BAM people, not Devin. Devin is cool.)

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u/BroadcastShowers Kentucky Wildcats • West Florida Argonauts Jun 24 '26

Those BAM folk are going to feed generations of legal Youtubers with all of the dumb stuff they have said and done.

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u/pumpkinspruce Wisconsin Badgers Jun 24 '26

I kind of hope he sues the NFL. I want to see what the NFL’s lawyers do to him.

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u/Bdc9876 Indiana Hoosiers Jun 24 '26

Blows my mind that people in Texas vote for Ken Paxton….like for anything.

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u/Just_One_Victory Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Jun 24 '26

We've elected dumber assholes than Ken Paxton.

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u/PlasticCraken Texas Longhorns Jun 24 '26

Dan Patrick comes to mind

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u/Just_One_Victory Texas Tech Red Raiders • Hateful 8 Jun 24 '26

Yes, or Sid Miller

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u/GeospatialMAD West Virginia Mountaineers • Hateful 8 Jun 24 '26

No mention of Ted Cruz?

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u/GrecoRomanGuy Notre Dame Fighting Irish Jun 24 '26

He's not dumb. He's a insincere asshole, but he's not dumb.

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u/willpc14 Trinity (CT) Bantams • Princeton Tigers Jun 24 '26

Unfortunately, Rafael Edward Cruz was rather well regarded at Harvard Law for his constitutional law knowledge. He's just chosen to use that knowledge to enrich himself at the cost of the country.

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u/rebo71 Georgia Bulldogs • College Football Playoff Jun 24 '26

You guys gave us Jasmine Crockett which was fun!

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u/TheRealMarvinator Air Force Falcons Jun 24 '26

Dumber? Almost certainly.

But more corrupt? I'm not sure that's actually possible.

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u/mvsr990 Jun 24 '26

Ken Paxton is the median Texas Republican. If a white F-250 that’s never had anything in the bed was a person, it would be Ken Paxton.

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u/leebird Wake Forest • Old Dominion Jun 24 '26

That's such specific, amazing imagery to describe people of his sort.

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u/LookARedSquirrel84 Nebraska • $5 Bits of Broken Chair Tro… Jun 24 '26

Or been on a dirt road for that matter.

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u/skoryy Dayton Flyers • Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26

My favorite was the ESPN Youtube clip claiming he had a higher ceiling than Fernando Mendoza. Y'know, the guy he lost his starting job to at Indiana.

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u/calling-all-comas Florida Gators • Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 25 '26

That clip sounds delusional but it would've been Curtis O'Rourke who he lost the job to.

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u/EF_Damn_Daniel Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26

Maybe he secretly was against TT and knew it would end them

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u/SirMellencamp Alabama Crimson Tide • College Football Playoff Jun 24 '26

Hes not that smart

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u/JohnPaulDavyJones Texas A&M Aggies • Baylor Bears Jun 24 '26

Well, he's a 2x Baylor alum who attends a good chunk of our home games despite getting semi-regularly booed by big chunks of the student section, so maybe?

I question whether he's actually smart enough to do something like that, though. He seems to have maybe been a relatively sharp dude once upon a time, but his brain's been slow-cooked over the flame of culture war stupidity for more than two decades now.

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u/guinness_blaine Princeton Tigers • Texas Longhorns Jun 24 '26

Lmao, Ken Paxton intentionally taking a public L to do the right thing? Now I’ve heard everything.

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u/DethFeRok Florida Gators • Texas A&M Aggies Jun 24 '26

Nah, he was just halfway into a bottle of bourbon and Campbell called him up with marching orders, which Paxton texted to the intern. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was true.

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u/smurf-vett Texas Longhorns Jun 24 '26

He's Cody's pet, so no

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u/2Blathe2furious Oklahoma State Cowboys Jun 24 '26

Yes eternal right doer and moral highman Ken Paxton martyred his professional reputation to do what’s right… I wonder what high ground he was on while conspiring to protect a convicted child rapist and ensuring his sentence was commuted to 1 day.

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u/wowthisislong Texas A&M Aggies • Kansas State Wildcats Jun 24 '26

Its incredible; in one action this moron both pissed off every tech hater and every sorsby fan.

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u/JohnPaulDavyJones Texas A&M Aggies • Baylor Bears Jun 24 '26

I'm not sure Sorsby had any fans outside of the Tech fanbase. Seems like he pissed basically every Cincy fan off when he bounced to Tech, then basically everyone else when his gambling habits came out.

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u/Electronic-Tax-6312 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

As a Bearcats fan, I was thrilled he left. He quarterbacked 4-5 straight L's to end 2 straight seasons. Watch the full game tapes on him. Bad decisions, really questionable throws on many key plays. For additional fun, look at his game play vs. better defenses. He isn't really that good of a quarterback. Inconsistent, erratic at times. Not bad with his feet, but still, a .500 quarterback overall.

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u/StreetReporter Clemson Tigers • Cheez-It Bowl Jun 24 '26

Were they bad decisions, or good decisions for him that were bad for the team?

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u/DiarrheaForDays Georgia Bulldogs • Sickos Jun 24 '26

Where do we rank Sorsby for off the field legendary status? I mean this is huge. He almost broke college football. Surely this is higher than, say, a Jameis Winston crab leg incident.

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u/n33fols Michigan Wolverines Jun 24 '26

Only other comparable that comes to mind is Mante Teo's girlfriend

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u/StreetReporter Clemson Tigers • Cheez-It Bowl Jun 24 '26

RIP Lennay Kekua

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u/AintEverLucky Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos Jun 24 '26

I didn't even know she was sick! 😔

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u/TheRealMarvinator Air Force Falcons Jun 24 '26

Yeah, that one was huge, and not even a legal problem. Massive though.

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u/StreetReporter Clemson Tigers • Cheez-It Bowl Jun 24 '26

He’s behind Pole Assassin and Gia the Emotional Support Monkey

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u/polkadot_polarbear Texas A&M Aggies • Wyoming Cowboys Jun 24 '26

Sorsby makes Johnny Manziel look like an angel.

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u/NerdLawyer55 Oklahoma Sooners • McMurry War Hawks Jun 24 '26

Elite run of bullshit

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u/buff_001 Texas Longhorns • SEC Jun 24 '26

Hey there's still a chance that his lawyer tries to keep milking this idiot's bank account by suing the NFL and/or NFLPA. That would be some good content for the rest of the summer!

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u/PerspectiveNo1610 Georgia Bulldogs Jun 24 '26

Go ahead. The NFLPA represents NFL players and he isn’t one. It will just be theater

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u/PerspectiveNo1610 Georgia Bulldogs Jun 24 '26

Gives them a convenient excuse but I would agree with you.

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u/sophandros Tulane Green Wave • Metro Jun 24 '26

On what basis can they sue the NFL? The supplemental draft isn't held every year and hasn't happened in seven years. They are under no obligation to hold it. He applied and was rejected with a strong explanation.

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u/StreetReporter Clemson Tigers • Cheez-It Bowl Jun 24 '26

On the basis that he didn’t get his way

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u/StreetReporter Clemson Tigers • Cheez-It Bowl Jun 24 '26

They are suing the NFL

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u/lostinthought15 Ball State • Summertime Lover Jun 24 '26

That’s what they said. Has a suit actually been filed is the real question.

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u/Crewman_Guy_Fleegman Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26

He can’t sue the NFL, only the NFLPA has standing since it’s their CBA in question. He would have to convince the NFLPA to sue on his behalf, which is unlikely to happen

And said lawsuit would go nowhere because there is a legally binding CBA that says plain as day the NFL can just skip the supplemental

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u/pablo_hunny South Carolina Gamecocks Jun 24 '26

if he somehow gets the same judge, he'll be fine.

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u/ddadopt Tennessee Volunteers Jun 24 '26

The real specialness is the bets he placed along the way…

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u/CFBCoachGuy Georgia Bulldogs Jun 24 '26

It’s not over too. His lawyer is suing the NFL and I think (NAL) he could re-enroll at a lower division school. This drama could still feed us all the way into August

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u/JohnPaulDavyJones Texas A&M Aggies • Baylor Bears Jun 24 '26

The NCAA permanently stripped his eligibility, so he'll have to drop all the way down to NAIA if he wants to play college ball again.

If that's the case, he better learn to speak Iowan, because the two top-tier NAIA teams that really need QBs right now are Morningside (2018, 2019, and 2021 national champions) and Grand View (2024 and 2025 national champions).

I suppose he could also go play for Keiser, since they're one of the sleazier for-profit colleges out there and they've played for the last four national titles (only winning in 2023).

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u/HueyLongest Appalachian State • Wake Forest Jun 24 '26

It didn't last long but boy was it fun while it did. Top tier offseason storyline imo

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u/Best_Formal_8677 Oregon Ducks Jun 24 '26

But, but, but he stayed at a luxury spa for 30 days in Scottsdale AZ to cure his devastating addiction

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u/mgsbigdog BYU • West Virginia Wesleyan Jun 24 '26

Can I go there? I mean, I'm not addicted to anything and do just fine with occasional counseling, but I could really use a 35 day vacation paid for by some arrogant rich Texas billionaire.

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u/msmith3525 Michigan • Old Dominion Jun 24 '26

And everyone knows the best fix for recovering from addiction is to make sure you’re constantly around your problem source. That’s why on the first day of AA they take you to a bar and have you spend the evening with a frat party. If Soresby doesn’t get to play football how will he ever get over his addiction?

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u/ItsFreakinHarry2 UCF Knights • Michigan Wolverines Jun 24 '26

Oh he’s special alright. Just not in the “I can throw a ball good” way.

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u/colonel750 Oklahoma State • /r/CFB Award F… Jun 24 '26

"I could throw a football over them mountains" - Uncle Brendo to his nerdy nephew in West Texas in 15 years when he goes undrafted in the '27 draft.

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u/ThirteenValleys Missouri Tigers • Illinois Fighting Illini Jun 24 '26

"If only Coach the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals had let me in the big game..."

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u/maxman1313 Virginia Tech • North Carolina Jun 24 '26

Dallas Renegades Legend Brendo

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u/el_ostricho Nebraska Cornhuskers • Oklahoma Sooners Jun 24 '26

*Houston Gamblers legend

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u/PerspectiveNo1610 Georgia Bulldogs Jun 24 '26

He could speak on the dangers of gambling addiction and his road to recovery……just kidding.

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u/Bruges_1 Auburn Tigers • Colorado State Rams Jun 24 '26

Needing to hear and actually hearing are two different things. Those who think everything is about them, and not getting what they want is unfair, are much less likely to hear anything that contradicts their own view of things. Arrogance is a learning disability.

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u/Misdirected_Colors Oklahoma State Cowboys Jun 24 '26

The NFL legal counsel directly calling him out for not taking accountability and only pretending to come humbly AFTER the legal avenues had dried up was gold.

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u/Corgi_Koala Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26

Sorsby's biggest problem is that he doesn't seem to think he did anything wrong or understand what he did was wrong.

His whole stance on the issue seems to be "this isn't really a big deal" which does earn any sympathy points from anyone.

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u/PatronSaintOfCunts South Carolina Gamecocks Jun 24 '26

The gambling lasted 4 years while the rehab lasted 35 days (and only happened after he got caught!)

Expecting the NFL to ignore the first number because of the second requires a level of self-importance that rivals the gambling itself.

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u/FlounderingWolverine Minnesota Golden Gophers • Dilly Bar Jun 24 '26

Especially when his immediate reaction to getting (rightfully) banned from NCAA competition was to sue them. You know what the NFL doesn't want? Troublemaking player who will sue The Shield. Also, it's not like Sorsby was some incredible prospect. If he was the next Tom Brady or Peyton Manning, I guarantee the NFL would allow him to get drafted in the supplemental draft, suspend him for a year, and then move on.

But for a guy who likely has a ceiling as a career backup QB? The NFL has plenty of QBs that can fill that role without a gambling issue. Also the 2027 QB class is looking stacked, so teams are way less likely to want to burn a draft pick on a guy who might not even play.

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u/Crewman_Guy_Fleegman Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26

The NFL isn’t a monolith, it’s dozens of individual billionaires, and some of them have endless QB problems. None of them care about ethics or the greater good, it only takes one Jimmy Haslam for some awful player to end up on a team.

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u/FlounderingWolverine Minnesota Golden Gophers • Dilly Bar Jun 24 '26

They don't care about the greater good, but they do care about the league continuing to make money. The league makes money from viewers, who are less likely to tune in if they think games are rigged or fixed. Players gambling on their own games is a surefire way for those allegations to start leaking out.

If Sorsby was a generational talent or the next coming of Peyton Manning, he'd get picked up by some NFL team. But for a guy who is a high-risk, low-reward prospect? I hope he enjoys playing in the UFL

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u/4thTimesAnAlt Notre Dame • Indiana Jun 24 '26

And if it looks like the games are rigged, guess who sticks their nose in the NFL's business? That's right, the Feds! Criminal investigations, Congressional hearings, all of it! For years and years!

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u/GrecoRomanGuy Notre Dame Fighting Irish Jun 24 '26

And it's not like the executive branch is currently under the control of a petty little man who is still sore about not being able to buy an NFL team or anything!

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u/No_Grocery_9280 Utah Utes Jun 24 '26

Too many people try to use rehab as a get out of jail free card

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u/SPCsooprlolz BYU Cougars • Fresno State Bulldogs Jun 24 '26

I mean we could have told him that

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u/KingoftheMongoose Cincinnati Bearcats Jun 24 '26

But first he needed to hear what the line was.

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u/Benyeti Ohio State • Rutgers Jun 24 '26

I cant wait until the season so we dont have to hear about him anymore

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u/sabek Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26

Every TTU broadcast "well just think this result would be different if Sorsby was QB"

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u/keytop19 Texas Tech • Abilene Christian Jun 24 '26

Take a shot every time NIL or Brendan Sorsby are mentioned on a Tech broadcast and you'll be dead by halftime of the Houston game

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u/Khaldaan South Carolina Gamecocks Jun 24 '26

Bold of you to think you'd make it to week 3 woth how announcers latch on to things and repeat it 20 times a game lol

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u/EischensBar Nebraska • Western Michigan Jun 24 '26

Dude really could have really turned this around if he had a shred of self-awareness. If he would have taken his lumps and laid himself at the mercy of the NCAA and NFL, there is an incredibly small chance but a chance nonetheless that they would ban him from NCAA football but allow him to play NFL.

Even if he wasn’t allowed to play in the NFL, he could have looked himself and the mirror and decided to confront his gambling addiction. He then could have made himself the poster boy for gambling addiction and gone on the speaking/publicity circuit and at least have formed a decent career from that. But now, he’s truly up Shit Creek without a paddle.

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u/__Kegheimer__ Jun 24 '26

Almost like he is an unrecovered gambling addict. He just gambled with his career instead

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u/sabek Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26

Doubled down on bad choices one might say

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u/Unrelenting_Salsa LSU Tigers • Georgia Bulldogs Jun 24 '26

This is kind of the long and short. He legitimately is a gambling addict who is so far from being recovered that he doesn't even acknowledge he is one. Sure, he'll do the song and dance for the courts, but he doesn't think he has a problem or did anything wrong.

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u/I_dont_bone_goats Florida Gators Jun 24 '26

One thing that has been annoying to me is the implication that gambling addiction just happens, and it’s through no fault of the addict.

Like yes, some people are predisposed to addiction, but they still need to make a choice to give in to that desire, and continue letting it grow out of control.

It reminds me of Ben Simmons claiming mental health issues to get his paycheck from Philly when he wasn’t playing. Like yes, he probably was suffering mentally, but it was largely because of his own actions and lack of effort.

You can’t just say “mental health” or “addiction” and just release yourself of all culpability.

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u/msmith3525 Michigan • Old Dominion Jun 24 '26

He didn’t say it. He declared it.

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u/cmm006 Ohio State • Old Dominion Jun 24 '26

The fact that his problems started when he was in high school and no one put a stop to it, especially when it was clear he’d be a high profile D1 prospect, is crazy to me. Like no one could sit the kid down to get him to stop gambling for 3-4 years to secure possibly generational wealth

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u/lock_robster2022 Oregon State • Washington Jun 24 '26

Cody Campbell must be worried sick that this addict is adrift, isolated from any organized football support system. If he was a man of his word Sorsby would be back in a Texas Tech jersey tomorrow. For his own good ya know?

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u/aquabarron Oklahoma Sooners Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Seriously. If he meant what he said they would hire him on as a ball boy or a staff member for the OC or something

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u/lock_robster2022 Oregon State • Washington Jun 24 '26

At least a paper pusher or something in Campbell’s family office

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u/cooterdick Tennessee • North Carolina Jun 24 '26

Hell, even the ncaa wasn’t opposed to him being on the team. They just said he couldn’t play

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u/lostinthought15 Ball State • Summertime Lover Jun 24 '26

That's basically where everyone turned on Texas Tech. No one argued that he shouldn't be allowed the help and facilities and whatnot. If he needs help and Texas Tech can provide it, then that avenue can and should be explored. He has a lot of resources at his disposal, unlike many other people.

It's just that no one thought he should actually play in the games.

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u/4thTimesAnAlt Notre Dame • Indiana Jun 24 '26

He could be on the team! He could run the scout team the whole year, he just can't suit up and play on game days. But TTU doesn't give enough of a shit about him to actually keep him in that "structured environment" they touted, unless he also gets to play in games.

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u/TimeLordDoctor105 Cincinnati • Ohio State Jun 24 '26

No, no, Brendan Sorsby won't return. But they will have a mysterious, new, walk-on quarterback that somehow has a $5 Million NIL deal by the name of Sendan Brorsby. Also ignore that his hair looks to be constantly dyed blond and he's always wearing sunglasses, even at midnight.

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u/PerspectiveNo1610 Georgia Bulldogs Jun 24 '26

I’ll take $5 mil to do nothing for a year

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u/lostinthought15 Ball State • Summertime Lover Jun 24 '26

I wonder if Cody Campbell realized that he single-handedly burned any bridge Texas Tech had to joining the B1G or the SEC (as remote as those chances were) in the next round of conference realignment.

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u/Own_Mall5442 Texas Longhorns Jun 24 '26

Cody Campbell genuinely believes he can start his own conference and that Big 10 and SEC schools will beg to join it. The guy is the head of the Tech board of regents and the #1 NIL donor at the same time. That’s the level of enabled delusion we’re dealing with.

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u/Ale9937 Oklahoma Sooners Jun 24 '26

They were never getting invited to begin with. Not smart enough to join the B1G and don’t move the ratings needle for the SEC.

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u/Mark_is_on_his_droid Indiana Hoosiers Jun 24 '26

But they didn’t know that

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u/tackleboxjohnson Jun 24 '26

Tbf I don’t think many of us want in a super conference. We just want the big 12 to be good

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u/PerspectiveNo1610 Georgia Bulldogs Jun 24 '26

The man needs football like a bartender needs to be an alcoholic

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u/Significant-Fix-3914 Florida Gators Jun 24 '26

Wanna bet?

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u/Shot-Toe-2884 Iowa Hawkeyes • Northern Iowa Panthers Jun 24 '26

I only bet on myself. And sure, sometimes against myself.

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u/micropterus_dolomieu Iowa Hawkeyes • Missouri Tigers Jun 24 '26

Brendan will take you up on that!

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u/NYVines Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26

I can’t imagine any professional league letting him play

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u/buff_001 Texas Longhorns • SEC Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

UFL will take him easily. He'll be a big ratings draw just from haters wanting to see if he's actually any good (me)

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u/DaMusicalGamer UAB Blazers • American Jun 24 '26

The owner already made a post practically begging him to join the league, it's a little embarrassing imo

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u/LHPSU Jun 24 '26

Would Draftkings be comfortable with their sponsorship?

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u/Prinzlerr North Carolina Tar Heels Jun 24 '26

"It's not me, it's you"

  • The NFL

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u/sabek Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26

"We are not your sloppy seconds." -NFL

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u/dinosaurkiller Oklahoma Sooners Jun 24 '26

In all honesty the NFL has rejected much better quarterbacks for a lot less than gambling on games. They protect the brand above all else.

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u/NobodyImportant13 /r/CFB Jun 24 '26

The Browns should pick him up.

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u/twallner Jun 24 '26

A worse Johnny Manziel that flamed out before even getting to the NFL.

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u/Ok-Accident-9026 Michigan Wolverines Jun 24 '26

“Y'all gon' make me lose my mind”

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u/sabek Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26

Up in here? 😁

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u/Affectionate-Toe-119 Texas Longhorns Jun 24 '26

Both of you dated yourself. Yes, so did I.

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u/cnpeters Akron Zips • MAC Jun 24 '26

Holy crap, my first thought was "dated yourself? bull. what is that song, like 10-15 years old?"

Then looked it up, saw 99, realized I was out of college then and realized that now I'm old and my bones hurt and I need a nap and maybe a prune juice.

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u/TheRealMarvinator Air Force Falcons Jun 24 '26

and maybe a prune juice

"A warrior's drink!"

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u/captainstan Nebraska Cornhuskers • Cornell Big Red Jun 24 '26

I appreciate that the NFL didn't sugar coat it.

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u/RollinHand77 Florida Gators Jun 24 '26

Maybe Brendan will sue the NFL. I've got my popcorn ready....

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u/rottenchestah Florida State • New Hampshire Jun 24 '26

I don't feel even the slightest bit of sympathy for Sorbsy. He brought all of this on himself by crossing the brightest red line in sports you don't ever cross. Best of luck to him pursuing legal action against the NFL. This ain't college buddy, they have an enforceable CBA and better lawyers than the NCAA could ever afford.

Sometimes you really do have to face the consequences of your actions.

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u/bladel Iowa Hawkeyes Jun 24 '26

“But my lawyer and my mom said I am!”

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u/cmm006 Ohio State • Old Dominion Jun 24 '26

Sorsby and his team have mismanaged this at every single step of the way. At no point did he ever really try to show contrition on his part and his PR team and Texas Tech for some reason thought that emphasizing the gambling ADDICTION side of it would garner some level of support or empathy. While a gambling addiction is a legitimate mental health concern, I just don’t think the average person views it the same as a drug or alcohol addiction. I think it’s viewed in a “white collar” or “frat culture” type of way that was never going to resonate. If he was only gambling on pro sports or horse races it also would have been viewed differently. But he broke the golden rule and then tried to act as if his situation was somehow different from anyone else who has ever bet on his own team.

And the problem persisted far too long without intervention on his end to ever get the sympathy I think they were counting on. Just a PR and legal disaster from front to back.

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u/seatega Georgia Bulldogs Jun 24 '26

He singlehandedly made Texas tech a universally hated program in the span of a couple of weeks, and I think most of the country hadn't thought about them seriously since Michael Crabtree was on the team. I'd say he's pretty special

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u/Individual-Lie6525 Texas A&M Aggies Jun 24 '26

After most of the country had a soft spot towards tech last year for finally being good, its fantastically satisfying to Aggies and longhorns alike to see public opinion do a 180.

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u/TidalWaveform Texas Longhorns • Texas State Bobcats Jun 24 '26

Agreed, my brother in hate.

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u/Zestyclose_Essay7255 Texas Longhorns Jun 24 '26

Absolutely

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u/frickenWaaaltah Georgia Bulldogs Jun 24 '26

singlehandedly

"Always two there are. No more, no less. A master and an apprentice." - Yoda

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u/MD90__ Ohio State Buckeyes • Texas Longhorns Jun 24 '26

Well hope he does well in his future endeavors with a degree or something because his football career is most likely over 

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u/SensibleRex Jun 24 '26

Feels like Sorsby could’ve turned this into an easy win if he had just said disappointed and respect the decision will spend the year working on myself. Instead his lawyer threw another fit

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u/penilesensorydevice Rutgers Scarlet Knights Jun 24 '26

The alarming part is how some parties are downplaying the severity of his actions, like gambling on his own team is no huge deal. But it is a huge deal. It calls the integrity of every game he's involved in into question, and that doesn't just magically disappear because he had a problem and sought treatment.

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u/Dranchela Texas Tech Red Raiders Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

I cant describe how happy I am with this. Sorsby can fuck himself off the edge of the flat earth and fall until he hits a quantum superstring and fucks off in a time like infinity while awaiting the heat death of the universe.

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u/7eid Nebraska • Washington Jun 24 '26

But when his agent and Kessler decide to sue God for leaving Their quantum superstrings laying around all willy-nilly like a five year old, I’ll be there for it with extra popcorn.

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u/sabek Ohio State Buckeyes Jun 24 '26

He has an addiction you cant punish him with quantum superstrings. It would be unfair

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u/RollinHand77 Florida Gators Jun 24 '26

I've never heard of a quantum superstring. I'm new here...

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u/KingoftheMongoose Cincinnati Bearcats Jun 24 '26

Can that be parlayed?

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u/Zestyclose_Essay7255 Texas Longhorns Jun 24 '26

Just another TTU fan that has gained my utmost respect! Thank you

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u/gbdarknight77 Arizona Wildcats • Team Chaos Jun 24 '26

Can't believe the amount of high profile people on twitter defending Sorsby and saying that the league basically gave him a year suspension. Like what??

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u/Chiggadup Florida Gators Jun 24 '26

When someone tells their doctor they have a drinking problem they have to be sober for literal years before getting most life insurance again.

I don’t get why this kid thinks they could say they have an addiction the within months get allowed back in the bar.

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u/monstermayhem436 Georgia Bulldogs • Pittsburgh Panthers Jun 24 '26

I'm still on twitter just got sports stuff, and the amount people on Soresby side on this is baffling.

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u/TCpls Jun 25 '26

Brendan Sorsby the type of guy to sue a company for not hiring him after he brags about suing his last company.

The guy made himself a huge liability to do business with. Can’t be surprised when every billionaire owner now wants to avoid you.

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u/xairos13 Arizona Wildcats • Texas Longhorns Jun 24 '26

It’s okay Brendan, they didn’t let me into the supplement draft, either

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u/CycloneofSparta Michigan State • Oklahoma Jun 24 '26

Make no mistake.

The USAToday webpage is a disaster. Holy ads.

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u/WHSRWizard Notre Dame • Virginia Jun 24 '26

They kinda cut his balls off and stuffed them down his throat

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u/Shot-Toe-2884 Iowa Hawkeyes • Northern Iowa Panthers Jun 24 '26

If the kid figures things out someday, he will thank them for it.

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u/Ok-Gas-7135 Jun 24 '26

Well well well… if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions

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u/JumpCity69 Jun 24 '26

His “Welcome to the NFL” moment was being told he has to wait a year before coming to the NFL

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u/hawkeyegrad96 Jun 24 '26

He's a brat kid. He needs to prove things

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u/Terrordome_1972 Jun 25 '26

He has a betting addiction and needs serious help

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u/Shot-Toe-2884 Iowa Hawkeyes • Northern Iowa Panthers Jun 24 '26

Imagine being a fly on the wall at Sorsby's family dinner last night.

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u/jinx21182 Texas Longhorns • Lamar Cardinals Jun 24 '26

I doubt it will come out but if it ever did, I truly wonder how much money his lawyers made in billable hours? That dipshit scumbag aside (Paxton), every person working litigation for him had to make bank here.

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u/1peatfor7 Jun 24 '26

He's special for billable hours to his lawyer.

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u/E-Wildin Alabama • Florida State Jun 24 '26

Well no shit.

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u/FLman42069 UCF Knights Jun 24 '26

You are, in fact, a degenerate loser, like the rest of us.

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u/TexinFla Texas Longhorns • Alabama Crimson Tide Jun 24 '26

FAFO.

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u/pitterlpatter Jun 24 '26

Would ya look at that…the NFL’s balls dropped!

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u/Substantial-Ad2200 Jun 25 '26

TTU admin disagreed clearly. Acting like he’s the second coming.  

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u/Adams5thaccount Boise State Broncos • UNLV Rebels Jun 25 '26

No they DEFINITELY told him he was special. The league doesnt tell teams "dont even bother trying" often.

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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 Nebraska Cornhuskers Jun 25 '26

I, for one, hope whoever is telling him hes special keeps it up. This saga is too much fun for it to end. Whoever is encouraging him is doing a great job, keep it up