Brendan Sorsby wins injunction against NCAA, ruled eligible for 2026 Season
What an absolute disgrace. Even as a DII non revenue athlete I distinctly remember being sat down and told that sports gambling would result in ineligibility, including fantasy football played in league with no financial payouts. But it turns out just like the rest of America, rules don't apply to you if you have money. What an fucking joke.
This is fucking wild. This judge has no integrity.
The logical part of my brain says this has to be overturned on appeal. But that same part told me that there was no way he would win in the first place.
Genuinely are we gonna have to start ensuring judges don't have favorite teams, or at least don't rule on cases that pertain to those teams? That might be hard since I doubt there are many judges in say Knoxville that aren't vols.
There's the Protect College Sports Act that I would hope would turn college sports to some sort of resemblance of "normal" (and prevent B.S. cases like Sorsby), but I'm not super up-to-date on what all is in it, or what the likelihood of it passing is.
If they can't enforce eligibility on this, what can they enforce?
Update: https://www.on3.com/news/brendan-sorsby-texas-tech-mutually-part-ways-after-gambling-scandal-legal-fallout/
Absolutely unreal. At the end of the day I do feel bad for him. I can't fault him for wanting to compete and shooting his shot as it were. But he should have been denied right away and not put through the extra roller coaster