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Podcast: Cover 3 College Football Episode: Outlook for Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby, Mailbag Questions & More! | College Football Segment: North Texas podcast segment **Team-Specific Podcast Notes** - I mean I I think one thing you want to look at like we talked about you know he the question which by the way I would love to know what the dissertation's on but like Indiana breaks the blue chip ratio Indiana has the number one pick in the draft at quarterback. - I mean, there are I guarantee you right now there are other players currently in college football who are gambling on college football. - **Episode:** I mean, there are I guarantee you right now there are other players currently in college football who are gambling on college football. Transcript excerpt: Uh does he have an interpreter he can throw under the bus? >> [laughter] >> That was a good one. >> [laughter] >> Only. Um I mean it's the the player is the surprise because he's a big name player. He got the big deal in the transfer portal, but the fact that there is a college football player doing this is not a surprise at all. I mean, if you like you mentioned it, like if you look at our show, we are gambling focused during the season. A lot of sports programming these days has, you know, sports books advertising all over it. You You Hell, you watch a game and every commercial break there's Kevin Hart or John Hamm or somebody telling you to use this sports book to bet on what you're watching. So sports betting has become a huge deal. And I mean, it's always existed, but now it's easier It's funding the industry. Like the backbone of the sports media industry are massive contracts with sports gambling companies. Yeah, so there's easier access to it than ever before. It's literally right there on your phone. You don't have to do a whole lot. You just pick it up, bang, bang, bang, bets in. So, it's only logical that at some point an athlete who is not supposed to be gambling on the sports are going to be caught gambling on the sports or they're going to become addicted to it. It's going to be interesting to see the impact that it has long-term. So, I mean, it's not a surprise. As for how this impacts Texas Tech, it'll be interesting to see how the NCAA handles it because if they stick to their guns, like if they want to set an example to try to deter it, which I don't think you ever will. Like I mean, there are I guarantee you right now there are other players currently in college football who are gambling on college football. Like they're not they're not maybe not doing like thousands of dollars in a game, but they are betting like five, 10 bucks on teams and play cuz you know, they they enjoy the sport, too. So, it'll be interesting to see what the punishment is. Obviously, if he misses time, it's a blow to Texas Tech. I mean, he they're the best team in the Big 12. They're the favorite in the Big 12 for largely in part because they've gotten Behren Morton Sorsby, but they also still have Hammond behind him. So, you do wonder like we saw him when he filled in for Behren Morton last year, played pretty well before he got hurt himself. So, I I football-wise, like it's a big blow, it's a big story. I don't know if it tanks Texas Tech's season entirely if he's not available to play, but will he be available to play? So, this isn't the first time we've seen this. There was a Hunter Dekkers before there was Behren Morton Sorsby, the Iowa State quarterback. We've seen the Alabama baseball like we've seen college athletics impacted by gambling, but clearly this is the big one. Like this was the bombshell where all of a sudden everybody's kind of familiar with the name and it's oh my gosh, like this could happen. My hope, not like my hope of what comes of this is that other players, the ones that are thinking they can get away with it still, they use this as a wake-up call. Now, if Sorsby doesn't get any punishment, if he's out there starting week one, it probably won't. But in the NFL, we saw players like Calvin Ridley suspended for a year for gambling. And I And since then like we haven't seen it, it's been kind of quiet in the NFL. Doesn't mean it won't happen again, but I do think that becomes a wake-up call for everybody. Like and if this does go forward and it appears he probably is not going to be able to play, this will be the perfect example for every coach to get up in front of their team, which I guarantee you they already have, and they say, "You cannot do this. This is what happens if you do." And so, hopefully we see that. The cynic in me when this first came out, I thought, "Oh, Sorsby just got busted placing big bets, and this is a PR campaign. I think it's 100% part of it is a PR campaign, but it is very clear he does have a problem. And when you're placing 10,000 bets and you're in multiple states and you're gambling on each pitch like clearly has a problem. Um but I feel very hypocritical saying, "How dare you?" when we like to gamble, we like to talk about it. But at the same time like cuz I've seen some people dunking on other shows and dunking on TV networks. Do they realize like those networks also advertise alcohol? Like are they at fault when there's a DUI or somebody gets in an accident and there's somebody killed? But, you're right, like multiple accounts, multiple states, the the large amounts. I will offer no diagnosis, but um yeah. Does it matter how this came to light? I mean From a It could matter. I mean I >> to Sorsby. It doesn't matter to Sorsby, but if Cincinnati was alerted to this and if there was perhaps some pending legal action over NIL funds, doesn't it seem like that's one way we might have wound up here? Yes, speculation, speculation. Yeah, but it might not matter, right? Because how we got here doesn't matter. How we got here, we're Texas Tech has a star quarterback that might not be able to play at all in college anymore potentially. Does it impact Cincinnati though? If they're the ones that had known about it and once their guy, you know, hey, let's keep it under wraps, but as soon as he leaves and they're suing him for a million bucks and there's bad blood and he's going to play against you this season, then all of a sudden you bring it forward. That's where it's a really bad look for Cincinnati and it could find them in some hot water as well. I don't know if they'll suffer any penalties or not, but that's when it looks really rough. Is that fair to Baron Morton? So, if they have, you know, jag-ish quarterback play, if we have to start diving deep and you know, just going to figure this thing out, I think they I don't think they're the overwhelming favorite to win the Big 12. I think they're still a top 25 team, and I think they're still the te