we begin in the dark

texas tech's quartback, brendan sorsby, was investigated for sports gambling. i know sports betting is all the rage right now, but athletes themselves are not allowed to do it. it is Rule Number 1 and it is the highest priority rule for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), who governs all athletic programs at about 1,100 colleges in the US.

the invesitagetion of sorsby revealed that, not only did he place more than 9,000 sports bets when he himself was a collegiate athlete, but 40 of those bets were AGAINST HIS OWN TEAM when he was playing at indiana university. immediately, this threatens the integrity of the sport, and especially because indiana is the hottest team right now as the defending national champion.

the NCAA, which is largely a sham organization these days (they've truly lost their grasp and college athletics are the wild west now) actually enforced their Number 1 Rule and told sorsby his career is over, that he would never play college football again (and, subsequently, that he would never get drafted into the NFL because his college career was cut short).

well, because the NCAA is a husk of its former self, sorsby and texad tech immediately took this to court. MANY athletes have learned these past few seasons that if you can find a judge who's a fan of your team, you can get any NCAA ruling overturned. that's exactly what texas tech did. they filed a suit in Lubbock, where the university is located and where every judge is an alum of texas tech. so sorsby was granted an injunction and will now only be suspended for the first 2 games od the 2026 season (which are alwayd against no-name teams that will be destroyed regardless of who's suspended).

every other school in the country immediately went on the defensive because this is a very clear integretiy issue. so nebraska and georgia (sic em dawgs) released statements saying that all currently-scheduled competitions witb Texas Tech in ANY sport will be canceled and there will be no future schedulings. at least 3 of the major conferences (SEC, Big 10, Big 12) , who account for almost all division 1 sports teams in the country, are also in discussions about cancelling comtests. Texas Tech is part of the Big 12, and there is serious talk of all other teams in the conference shutting texas tech out.

now would probably be time where i say that texas tech is one of the wealthiest programs in college football becaise there is a single billionaire alumnus pouring money into the program with hopes of essentially buying a championship. so texas techs integrity has always been questionable. anyway, the university president put oit a statement that he doesnt care that sorseby violated regulation and that texas tech will sue any school that refuses to play them because it jeopardizes their championship prospects if they're umable to play any games.

like I feel kinda like I'm watching that dude who does vintage 1950s recipes involving jello and canned tuna in the same dish. this has everything.

texas being bad

a college choosing to value football above decency, ethics, credibility, or any other virtue

a mediocre white man getting support he doesn't deserve thrown at him in amounts far beyond strategic wisdom

judicial corruption

sports donor corruption

screaming tantrums at reasonable consequences

utterly unhinged abuse of the legal system in pursuit of avoiding said consequences

multiple college sports systems electing to take their ball and go home, literally

texas being extremely butthurt about same

football drama escaping containment to other sports like a world of warcraft plague

amazingly, spectacularly, offensively wrong assertions made over twitter that redeem themselves slightly by giving you secondhand embarrassment for the people behind them, who deserve nothing of the sort

the spectacular looming consequences of the burgeoning overprecedence of sports gambling in america, approaching chicxulub proportions

the domino meme with one mid-tier college quarterback's bad decisions at one end and the escalation of college football big feelings into world war three on the other

the ncaa, multiple major-division collegiate sports programs, and a solid consensus of moral judgment and legal precedent against the practice of athletes betting on their own games, versus texas football fans, whose reputation of course precedes them

Boris "professional idiot" Johnson wanted to build an island airport in the immediate area.

it's fucking visible

You weren't kidding they've been trying to get the masts off for 5 years and keep getting foiled because there's probably bombs leaking out of her

The book given to you by a friend or relative

Whatever they have available at your local library

Whatever they have available at your local bookstore

Recommendation from a friend (not the original one who got you started)

Reread your favorite again

You have to promise not to look back. Not until you've passed through the tunnel.