2026 Other College Football

[Texzilla]

sorsby will enter the supplemental draft.

So far he hasn't filed as supposedly his attorneys are lobbying Goodell.  With the Big12 lawsuit Tech told Sorsby he would not play a down this season and told him to leave. 

The league has some issues.  This isn't a kid placing a few bets. This is a severe gambling addict who placed thousands of bets over the past couple years, who had an elaborate network of friends and family to spread his exposure out. 

The league is now highly dependent on funds from various gambling operations and sites. It has strict rules because the integrity of the game is required for the gambling industry to thrive; if it looks like wwe no one bets. 

Sports betting is the growth addiction on campus.  No one talks about it.  It's an insidious addiction and very hard to kick.  Most treatment joints focused on booze and dope don't deal with gambling.  Lots of folks don't understand how terrible it is and media has downplayed the Sorsby addiction.  He went to a treatment center. And it's almost 100% he will relapse. 

I worked for a guy with a highly addictive personality.  Went from alcohol, to Coke, to sex to heroin to food.  I was with him in Vegas at a casino bar. He was drinking a Diet Coke while we waited on a dinner reservation.  He put $20 in a video poker machine and won $4k.  It was immediate. Back home he started taking his wife to casinos on weekends.  She became an addict as well.  They lost their house, jobs, their marriage.  He kicked everything but gambling.

Well, an opioid addicted player who is taking fentanyl will probably have his play affected.  That wouldn't be ideal and he should be punished. 

His addiction, if it is an addiction, has no bearing on his play so long as he isn't betting on his own team. 

[Texzilla]

Well, an opioid addicted player who is taking fentanyl will probably have his play affected.  That wouldn't be ideal and he should be punished. 

His addiction, if it is an addiction, has no bearing on his play so long as he isn't betting on his own team. 

I don't think you get it.  Degenerate gamblers tend to get their dick in a vise.  They rack up huge debts. And here he will have to be on the down low so dealing with bookies instead of traceable electronic sites.  So it might have zero to do with placing bets on his own team.  It might be taking a fall, with a fumble or Int at the wrong time, to clear a debt.  It's a serious problem and why gambling is a lifetime ban. 


As fucked up as college sports are now, allowing sports gambling is the dumbest threat yet to the whole thing.   Just make it the wwe.

[BleedinRed]

To be clear, I'm not arguing it should be allowed.  I'm simply saying gambling on sports isnt necessarily the same as taking fentanyl.  

[animal]

My prescription...

Treatment carry thru 2026 into 27
Draft Prep for 2027
Wash, Rinse, Repeat outrage
Probably still hits the commissioners list for 27

Teams will be more likely to take a chance on him as a late round pick in 27 when a lot of those picks are garbage picks anyway. This gives him time to rebuild his image as a "changed man" etc. Maybe even actually get him help if he's surrounded by people who take it seriously. Pretty safe bet college football is not going to let this guy back in though. 

[The Whyte Boar]

As far as the NCAA goes, gambling is WORSE than taking fentanyl.  As it should be. It's about the integrity of the game itself, not the well being of nor morals of the individual players.

[vegashog]

not to mention the actual crimes he and those close to him committed.

he funnelled over $60k to people to make  bets while he was a minor. did the same while he was in texass which is illegal regardless of age. finally, he could have to deal with fanduel and whatever other platforms he used.

[Lurk]

He might as well move on to full time gambling. His football playing days are over. No way in hell does he get signed by a pro team.

[Show-Me Hog]

Where does a HS and college student get this kind of money to gamble? Oh right, another side effect of NIL.

I gambled for about one semester in college, consistently lost to the tune of a few hundred dollars, and got out of the "losing money" business forever.

[Natty_Ice]

One of college football's most lucrative transfer portal acquisitions has turned into a staggering $2 million disaster for the University of Tennessee.

https://www.dailymail.com/sport/college-football/article-15934931/tennessee-chaz-coleman-football-cut.html

[animal]

One of college football's most lucrative transfer portal acquisitions has turned into a staggering $2 million disaster for the University of Tennessee.

https://www.dailymail.com/sport/college-football/article-15934931/tennessee-chaz-coleman-football-cut.html

I'm smelling bi-polar or other mental condition (or gay), pressure getting to the kid. 

We really haven't yet seen the long term impact having millions of dollars thrown at you without really having to earn a penny of it does to the mental state of some of these guys. 

[BleedinRed]

One of college football's most lucrative transfer portal acquisitions has turned into a staggering $2 million disaster for the University of Tennessee.

https://www.dailymail.com/sport/college-football/article-15934931/tennessee-chaz-coleman-football-cut.html

"It remains entirely unknown how much of the original $2 million valuation was already paid out to the athlete before the university moved to terminate the contract."

This blows my mind.  Why on earth would NIL be paid up front. 

[Natty_Ice]

"It remains entirely unknown how much of the original $2 million valuation was already paid out to the athlete before the university moved to terminate the contract."

This blows my mind.  Why on earth would NIL be paid up front.

I'm sure the keed's agents are making cash up front a requirement before they sign these days.

[BleedinRed]

The college sports deserves to collapse.  

[animal]

Part of me likes that this new system has already produced a championship for a program that was nowhere sniffing a natty 2 or 3 years ago. It also angers me that we still have fuck heads in charge of our program preaching about "what it looks like" and other boomer level thinking. 

 think a lot of us on here were saying we needed to get out in front of this because it was an opportunity to find some new leverage but instead the leadership pissed it's pants not knowing how to fund it, hiring the wrong people, getting outside help from the wrong firms etc. 100 percent of that goes on HY's docket but somehow he escapes blame the way he disappears when we're losing. 

Kinda like this naming rights thing where the prior naming rights agreement ended like a year ago? I assume the school hasn't seen a penny since then...seems like a revenue stream worth pursuing....2 years ago, but with inflation that 5 mil per now is gonna be better than the whatever the fuck it would have been 2 years ago so the slow slugs in suits fell in a mud hole and came up holding 100 dollar bills. IDK


But hey lets keep feeding guys that haven't pissed a drop millions because that seems like an excellent business plan.

[DirkPiggler]

I'm sure the keed's agents are making cash up front a requirement before they sign these days.

They're getting paid up front just to take visits in some cases.

[buff2.0]

Rodney Hill hit the portal and landed at Savannah State

[egregious]

Rodney Hill hit the portal and landed at Savannah State

ouch