Just saw that the Big 12 is actually pursuing legal action against Texas Tech and the Texas Attorney General over this Brendan Sorsby mess. The conference wants clarity on its authority to enforce bylaws after a judge gave that kid an injunction to play in 2026 despite gambling on his own team's games. And here I am sitting here thinking about the old days when we settled these things in the locker room not in a courtroom.
I remember standing in the old Amon G. Carter Stadium bleachers back in the early 80s when the metal seats would burn your legs in September and freeze you in November. We had a quarterback who got caught drinking before a game against Baylor and Coach F.A. Dry made him run stadium steps until he puked. Then he started the next week because that was between the team and the coach. Nobody called the Attorney General. Nobody made a video defending the kid. You handled your business and moved on.
Now we got state attorneys general threatening the commissioner over a quarterback who gambled on his own games and somehow he is still eligible to play. The 1994 squad would have laughed at this whole situation. We had a lineman who lost his scholarship for missing one study hall and nobody sued anybody. The kid went to junior college, worked his tail off, came back and started for two years. That is how it worked.
I miss when the biggest controversy at TCU was whether we could get enough fans to show up for a Thursday night game against UTEP. Now the whole damn conference is tied up in legal fees over a kid who should have been gone the second they found the betting slips. The portal and NIL already wrecked the sport and now we got lawyers running the show.
This is what happens when you let the game get this big. The 1998 Sun Bowl team would have handled this in five minutes in the locker room. Coach Franchione would have looked the kid in the eye and told him either you own it or you are gone. No video. No lwasuit. No Attorney General. Just football.