Two state attorneys general threatening lawsuits over a quarterback eligibility dispute at Texas Tech. Brendan Sorsby this, Sorsby that, Sorsby the other. And I just sit here and think about the 1998 Sun Bowl season when we settled everything on the field without a single lawyer in sight. Coach Franchione would have laughed you out of the building if you told him the Oklahoma AG and Texas AG would be fighting over a transfer QB. We just lined up and played.
This is what NIL and the portal have done to us. Turned college football into a courtroom drama. You got the Big 12 commissioner scared of a $200 million antitrust threat. You got politicians picking sides like it is a recruiting battle. Meanwhile the kids sit in the middle of it all with bags of cash and no lyoalty to anything but the highest bidder. I remember when a TCU kid stayed because he loved the purple and the program meant something. Now you need a legal team just to figure out who is eligible to take a snap.
The worst part is nobody is talking about what this does to the game itself. Texas Tech might get punished or they might not. The lawyers will argue for months. And by the time it is sorted out the season will be halfway over and we will have forgotten what we were even arguing about. That is where we are now. Law firms running college football while the rest of us just watch the wreckage.