This is unquestionably the best outcome. Now I want a list of the odds on where he’ll end up.
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The conference was in the process of taking Tech and Ken Paxton to court to get a ruling on whether or not they could sanction member schools according to the conference rules or bylaws or whatever.
The timing of the young man’s decision may be coincidental or not.
Either way the US sports world has let gambling come onto the scene like a plexiglass Trojan horse.
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Football is the financial juggernaut it is because of gambling. Both the NFL and the NCAA are well aware of this, no matter how many pearls they clutch.
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Yep. Apparently the B12 was about to take TT and Paxton to the woodshed in court:
While declining to reveal much else during a brief interview, Yormark expressed gratitude for the league’s outside counsel, the global law firm Sidley Austin, which helped orchestrate the Big 12’s groundbreaking legal complaint filed Monday morning in federal court — a threat that, presumably, helped usher Sorsby toward the NFL Supplemental Draft. Natali Wyson, a partner at the firm, “provided the legal guidance and executed the Big 12’s strategy,” Yormark said, in filing a complaint against Texas Tech, its school officials and the Texas attorney general’s office.
In fact, it was Texas attorney general Ken Paxton’s letter last week that, oddly enough, paved the way for the school’s filing Monday, according to legal experts who spoke to Yahoo Sports. Paxton’s letter threatened legal action against the Big 12 if it were to sanction Texas Tech.
It opened a lane for the Big 12’s suit. The league’s filing on Monday asked a federal judge to bar Paxton’s office from preventing the conference from exercising its right under the bylaws to sanction Tech. The conference sought no damages in the filing and did not challenge a state court ruling that deemed Sorsby eligible, but instead requested a judge to permit it to take action in light of Paxton’s legal threats — a lawsuit that many within the legal community expected the Big 12 to win.
“In 40 years as a lawyer, I’ve never seen such a devastating legal filing come out of left field,” said Tom Mars, a noted attorney in recent college sports cases, most of them against the NCAA, conferences and schools. “It was as creative as anything I’ve ever seen.”
more here:
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It’s almost as if Ken Paxton is an idiot.
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Maybe the NCAA legal team should talk to these Sidley Austin folks.
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About the Supplemental Draft, any team that selects a player in it also forfeits a draft pick. The last player selected was Jalen Thompson in 2019 and the last quarterback selected was Terrelle Pryor in 2011.
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Both of those worked out well.
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Right, the same round pick in the next draft.
When Casserly took Tony Hollings in 2003, it cost us the first pick of the 2nd round in the 2004 draft. Brilliant move!
I fully expect someone to bid a 2nd rounder on Sorsby
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And still not even one of his dumbest moves.
IIRC, Steve Walsh was a first-round supplemental pick by the Cowboys back in the day
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Spain and Cape Verde finish in a scoreless tie.
Are you using @Texifornia’s calendar?
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Slow Internet.
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We can’t all be HH
UT vs GA, elimination game, about to start. Hoping it’s better than the last one.
WELP.
YEP
UT lost 2 games in Omaha largely due to 2 dipshit innings. But they just couldn’t hit the GA pitching staff.
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Did FIFA really run an ad with “WITNESS HISTORY IN DALLAS”??
I missed it but it sounds pretty spot on for Fox and FIFA
Fuck, not now!!! Sorry chuck.