Coaches, ADs 'disgusted,' 'stunned' with Brendan Sorsby ruling - ESPN

A judge's decision to rule Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby eligible on Monday morning roiled college sports, with reactions ranging from doomsday predictions to informal chatter about Big 12 schools attempting to not play Texas Tech this season.

The reaction around college sports was nearly unanimous, with the idea of Sorsby playing in 2026 after admitting to thousands of bets on sports — including 40 on his own team — representing the latest crossroads for an industry that has faced a dizzying number of them in recent years.

ACC commissioner Jim Phillips told ESPN the ruling represents a «horrendous pattern» that is «eroding the integrity of our process.» A Big 12 AD told ESPN that they are «disgusted» and added: «We officially lost our soul.» TCU coach Sonny Dykes told ESPN: «How is anyone ever going to trust the outcome of a game again?»

Georgia athletic director Josh Brooks forbade his school's teams, in a memo to staff, from playing Texas Tech, as per the document obtained by ESPN. And a fellow athletic director from the SEC, Florida's Scott Stricklin, told ESPN he was «stunned,» even recalling Major League Baseball's 1919 «Black Sox Scandal,» when eight players from the Chicago White Sox took bribes to lose the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.

«As someone who grew up reading about the 'Black Sox Scandal,' and seeing what happened to Pete Rose and just understanding how bright that line seemed to be in all of American sports, I'm stunned that there would be a question at the court level that this is acceptable,» Stricklin said. «That's not a judgment on the young man. It's just that was a pretty fundamental tenet of American sports, that if you're going to participate, you can't gamble, especially on your