Apple News blurb from yahoo I believe that said Tech would threaten legal action against the conference if the conference imposed sanctions. A super majority of presidents (12/15) could impose forfeits if Tech plays Sorsby, with the premise that the action of that player university would cause damage to the conference as a whole.
Tech has maintained they are not funding his appeal or eligibility claim, and has threatened legal action against specific universities that may take matters into their own hands.
WHO HAD TEXAS TECH DESTROYING COLLEGE ATHLETICS ON THEIR BINGO CARD?
I think there's a weird background to this that really is a high stakes gamble (no pun intended).
We all know about the Texas Tech booster. He basically used political power to be appointed to the board of regents, and then made chairman. People need to get who this guy is, he's the definition of the "rogue booster" from years past that basically did what ever the heck he wanted. Only get this, he was made a regent in 2021. This coincides with NIL.
NIL was his path to power and essentially ownership of Texas Tech athletics. He funds their NIL, he makes them competitive in football, he pays a softball pitcher a million dollars, he gets to run the entire program.
It's important to note he's also actively lobbying for rule changes (including the one Saban recently was at a hearing for), which he thinks specifically will benefit the Big 12/Texas Tech.
I think his play here is actually pretty apparent. He's actively trying to blow up college football so he can get it remade in the way he thinks it should be. So basically going from rogue booster, to team owner, to the guy dictating how college football can be run.
To execute this he needs chaos, so he can then lobby (and no doubt pad that with huge political donations, he's already a big donor), so he then can come in and say let's save college football from this terrible stuff that's happening (which I helped cause). He's been doing that with NIL, and now he's doing that with gambling.
The thing where he might be overplaying his hand is that Texas Tech and the Big 12 were actually in a good position from what I could tell. I thought they had a good chance of surviving, and even joining an SEC and Big 10 breakaway. Basically the idea would be that the ACC was going to get cherry picked eventually and then the Big 12 would be left standing. He's now stirred the pot so much, that the opposite might happen.
If you're a Big 12 school, you have to choose sharing the conference with this idiot, and what ever dumb idea he has next or packing your bags. So If I'm Kansas, Arizona, Colorado, Utah... suddenly the ACC doesn't look so bad. The other solution is yeah, kick the bums out but that would also be a big mess that could fracture the Big 12.
If the has happened prior to The Pac-12 imploding, the Big 12 would already be dead.
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