re: Sorsby granted injunction and is eligible after gambling on his own team

One interesting story because of this situation is that the Big 10 is talking about not allowing any of their members to play Texas Tech in any sport. If that trend continues, they may have no quad 1 out of conference opponents.

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The Bediako and Sorsby cases are entirely different and parallels cannot be drawn. The judge's decision is not entirely unreasonable. In order to play he has to be under a tight regiment of treatment. Addiction qualifies as disabled and has protection under federal law, especially concerning people's livelihood, if they are in treatment. His ability to make a living is impacted as well as his future wellbeing. Since college football has become an employer/employee relationship these legal requirements and principles should apply. In this case he should be given a second chance to redeem himself. In the scheme of life this is definitionally now the most grievous decision ever made.

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It is a mental illness to be a pedophile too. Reckon we’re not far off from it being discriminatory to not let one be a public educator.

has there ever been a situation where a kid was allowed to continue playing after getting caught betting on his own ncaa sport? i'm old and my memory isnt what it used to be, but i cant think of a single case. until now.

maybe at this point, the best thing would be for the ncaa to just quit. shred the documents, turn off the lights, lock the doors and go the beach. tell these judges, hey you've made yourselves the kings of college athletics, have at it, it's yours.

Which would be great for them other than giving up their claim on all the March madness revenue.

Ultimately the B10 and SEC will partner with the TV networks to create something new that works for the current legal environment and maximizes revenue for member institutions if Congress doesn’t fix this.

People are expressing legitimate concerns on the right thing to do going forward. There has always been an arms race to win at college sports. Alabama has a history of competing at football at the highest level. Saban was paid $1.5 million a year more than Stoops at Oklahoma when he was hired. It was worth every penny. Alabama seems to be effectively navigating the new system such as it is. There will be changes to what is happening at some point.

I'm not so sure about that. The whole situation is completely out of control and the NCAA seems to be floundering and flat footed as to what all is going on (out of control NIL spending, poaching players, the Sorsby situation, etc).

It's gotta be pretty bad when there is consensus support in Congress to step in and get involved. Honestly, there needs to be some kind of spending cap because eventually, you're gonna have some schools spending $100 million or more per year on their football roster.

That and there needs to be some harsh penalties for tampering with players.Trouble with that is that it's hard to prove. A player may honestly deny that he ever spoke to another school by just having his agent/handler do the talking with the school. In order to enforce anti tampering, there would have to be some subpoena power by the NCAA (phone records, bank records, etc). I don't know if that'll ever happen.

By the time it could make it to the Supreme Court and a decision is rendered, the season will be over.

I voted for Paxton over John Cornyn but then again, I would have voted for Satan over Cornyn.

Dabo just had a player get an injunction in case we needed anymore Dabo is a hypocrite evidence

This is incorrect, IIRC, Stoops’ compensation was just a couple of hundred thousand less than Saban’s, who btw, had taken a pay cut to take the Alabama job.

I remember this because it was another example of the incredible bias against Alabama by the national establishment (in this case the media, as well as the NCAA, embodied in their disgraceful president, Brand). The media was trying to convince the public that pathetic Alabama was going to pay upwards of $10 mil to revive her desperate, despicable program because no one who could distinguish between a football and basketball or had an ounce of integrity or self-respect would take the job. And Brand, from whom we had not heard a peep when Stoops got his ~$3.2M salary, screamed bloody murder when Saban took a pay cut to accept his ~$3.4M. Less than a 10% difference.

I don’t know where you got $2.2 for Stoops but that is wrong. Charlie Weiss got something like that from ND for losing a close game to USC - for 10 years. And the ND admin was praised to high heavens for their forward thinking. And OU was acclaimed for having Joe Castiglione: “the best AD in the nation”. For jumping in the game Alabama was charged with “destroying the game of college football” ,thus, this kind of behavior had to be stopped.

And their new HC had to face months of unfair, mouth-breathing attacks, including outright lies, betrayal of confidence, along with more subtle misconstruing. How dare those rubes compete on a level playing field. The attacks never fully stopped during his 17 years. Now that he is away from Alabama, he is a kindly old sage with a refreshing honesty. Blah, blah, blah.

No, you are wrong - Alabama did not distort college football with their hiring of Saban, they just got in the game. Don’t listen to the lying sports establishment. Or maybe you are part of it or are a troll. I don’t know you.