Link: Texas Tech QB Sorsby Entering Treatment for Gambling Addiction

[GP for Bama]

If gambling is allowed by players or even just overlooked... it will ruin sports.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

I’ll touch the third rail.

Sorsby’s suit is an attempt to obscure causation vs. accountability.

Maybe he has an addiction. Maybe he doesn’t. I don’t know.

That’s the answer to the popular question, and that far too often in today’s mores gets a get out of jail free card.

It’s not the answer to whether he should be held accountable for his actions.

He should be.

As in, if you bet on college football, you should be banned for at least one year. If you do it again, it’s for life.

If you bet on your own team (whether for or against), it’s first offense discharge. You lose all college eligibility for life.

Your football career is now a ward of the tender mercies of the NFL.

If they kill an innocent person, we don’t let psychopaths skate because they have a mental illness.

At a far lesser level of severity, we shouldn't allow compulsive gamblers (even if they really are mentally ill, as opposed to trying to dodge consequences) to skate with a stint in rehab.

It’s bad for the gambler — they have no incentive to stop the behavior.

And it’s bad for the schmucks (like me) who still hold out hope for collegiate sports.

 

[dtgreg]

I wonder who told him to enter rehab, because that might have been catastrophic advice in the long-term.

How many NFL teams are going to take a shot on an admitted gambling addict?

Maybe if he falls into the latest of late rounds or is an UFA?

He's likely been so "outed" that, like Pete Rose, they have the equivalent of his gambling slips with his fingerprints all over them. He can't lie his way out of his gambling. So he claims disability. Might be the only way he sees to stay out of jail and be protected from the mob. Who knows? If he can keep folks thinking about his eligibility and not prison, that's a big win.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I’ll touch the third rail.

Sorsby’s suit is an attempt to obscure causation vs. accountability.

Maybe he has an addiction. Maybe he doesn’t. I don’t know.

That’s the answer to the popular question, and that far too often in today’s mores gets a get out of jail free card.

It’s not the answer to whether he should be held accountable for his actions.

He should be.

As in, if you bet on college football, you should be banned for at least one year. If you do it again, it’s for life.

If you bet on your own team (whether for or against), it’s first offense discharge. You lose all college eligibility for life.

Your football career is now a ward of the tender mercies of the NFL.

If they kill an innocent person, we don’t let psychopaths skate because they have a mental illness.

At a far lesser level of severity, we shouldn't allow compulsive gamblers (even if they really are mentally ill, as opposed to trying to dodge consequences) to skate with a stint in rehab.

It’s bad for the gambler — they have no incentive to stop the behavior.

And it’s bad for the schmucks (like me) who still hold out hope for collegiate sports.

Yeah, remember when all the celebrities were having affairs and they said they were addicts? I did not believe them either.

 

[davefrat]

Yeah, remember when all the celebrities were having affairs and they said they were addicts? I did not believe them either.

I knew a guy years ago who was a serial adulterer and he claimed it because he was a sex addict.

Like how about exercising a modicum of self-control dude.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Yeah, remember when all the celebrities were having affairs and they said they were addicts? I did not believe them either.

I knew a guy years ago who was a serial adulterer and he claimed it because he was a sex addict.

Like how about exercising a modicum of self-control dude.

Yeah, every time some public figure gets undeniably busted doing anything -- stealing, adultery, DUI, whatever, it's because of an addiction of some sort and they immediately go into "treatment."

It might be true in a small minority of instances. But it's become a get out of jail free card played way, way too often.