Sorsby has no place to play in 2026.
If you think things out logically, Brendan Sorsby is the guy that both the National Football League and the National Collegiate Athletic Association should adore. He is young and has money to bet on sports. He is between 18 and 22 years old and the NCAA President Charlie Baker thinks more 18 to 22-year-olds on college and university campuses ought to participate in sports betting. The dirty secret that the NFL tries to conceal is how gambling, particularly the point spread, helped make the league popular. The league’s founding fathers included the New York Football Giants franchise owner Tim Mara who was a bookie. The Chicago Bears and Chicago Cardinals franchise owners may have been involved with unsavory people in the 1920s and 1930s. The owner of the football Brooklyn Dodgers franchise, Big Bill Dwyer, was a bootlegger who dabbled in gambling.
On April 27th, Texas Tech announced that Sorsby would be checking into a gambling addiction program in the wake of the discovery of Sorsby making thousands of online bets on a variety of sports via a gambling app. The gambling app is pushed by the NFL’s betting partners on commercials about how betting is so good with the disclaimer if you need help, call a number. A few days later, Sorsby was ruled ineligible by the NCAA after it was discovered he had wagered on pro and college sports. On June 8th, a judge granted Sorsby a preliminary injunction that prevented the NCAA from punishing him for violating its rules on sports gambling. The college football industry threatened a boycott of Texas Tech sports. Sorsby sullied college sports. On June 15th, Sorsby applied to enter the NFL supplemental draft. Eight days later the NFL announced there would be no supplemental draft. There probably are other Sorsbys playing college sports flying under the radar. The NFL and NCAA are hypocrites.
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