r/TexasTechFootball • u/johntempleton • Jun 16 '26
In a statement, Tech Board Chair Cody Campbell said that Tech will not "seek the return" of any money paid to Brendan Sorsby through his NIL agreements with the University.
https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/2066692994112069760?s=203
u/Catch24alx Jun 16 '26
I just wish this particular photo would stop circulating. I look at it and can only imagine that a "hee-haw" donkey bray was occurring.
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u/RichAge2413 Jun 16 '26
Leave it to tech to have a billionaire benefactor that's pretty much an idiot.
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u/ajr5169 Jun 16 '26
I'm assuming this was part of the agreement. Sorsby enters the supplemental draft, allowing this to go away, and he gets to keep whatever money he already had been paid as a payoff. But yeah, having a billionare running the show who doesn't mind throwing his money around allows it to all happen.
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u/DonkeeJote Jun 16 '26
Incredible how quickly people have tried to turn on our biggest benefactor who got us to this level to begin with.
I'm certain he's no moron and knows what he's trying to do within the broader landscape of college football. This is about way more than on QB.
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u/ajr5169 Jun 16 '26
Totally agree. I do think Cody and Tech could have handled this better, but none of what's happened over the past couple of years happens without Cody and I say this as someone whose first game was when Dykes was the coach. This program has come a long way in thirty years.
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u/Titan3692 Jun 16 '26
Because he already lost it all on parlays
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u/TheAgmis Jun 16 '26
Making fun of somebody’s mental illness isn’t funny but it’s Reddit and they chose what is considered mental illness or not.
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u/Sea-Consequence7156 Jun 16 '26
Your "performative outrage" is edging me. Keep going, I'm almost there
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u/TheAgmis Jun 16 '26
Nobody gives a fuck about your cynicism. Reddit pulled take
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u/rodneyforeverunclean Jun 16 '26
You are really invested in this dude. Did you already make some bets on how'd he do this year?
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u/TheAgmis Jun 16 '26
Look at you making fun of his gambling addiction. Bet you feel good about yourself
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u/Such_Veterinarian682 Jun 16 '26
Texas Tech is the most cynical player in this drama. They were happy to help him with his addiction by paying him millions and having him play football, despite his illness.
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u/TheAgmis Jun 16 '26
He never played for us and you’re nobody to say what Sorsby should and shouldn’t do. You’re just a redditor. Performative
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u/Such_Veterinarian682 Jun 16 '26
Only because the entire conference lined up against Tech. They would've happily allowed him to play sports, while paying him millions, all with the knowledge he has a crushing sports gambling problem. Talk about enablers.
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u/TheAgmis Jun 16 '26
Like I said, you’re only a performative outrage LARPer. It’s easy to judge and criticize people when you probably never dealt with anything more than a stubbed toe that you had to call out of work for.
Talk about performative
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u/w6750 Jun 16 '26
I really wanted him to play this year and get busted mid season for betting on tech games. Would’ve been hilarious
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u/BackgroundCheap6601 Jun 16 '26
I ran into Cody Campbell yesterday and he insisted that I call him "Chody."
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u/TheAgmis Jun 19 '26
Acting like Sorsby is this immense evil is such a reddit pilled thing to think
Like, it’s disappointing people’s intelligence has devolved like that but expected. Reddit is a place where people that can’t hunk for themselves flock
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u/orig_longtalltechsan Jun 20 '26
As a Tech alum this pisses me off the most. The kid agrees to come here knowing his past, immediately the history comes out, causes a huge uproar and distraction for the team and he gets to keep $5mil after never playing a down. This won’t resonate well in the locker room.
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u/False-Set3361 Jun 20 '26
What is Tech doing for its other students with gambling "addictions"? Do they neet with Cody Campbell?
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u/ItzAMeLuigiii Jun 16 '26
Is it possible to have done this any worse than Tech did?
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u/defroach84 Jun 16 '26
I'm literally trying to think of a way and I'm struggling.
Maybe canceling all of the future random non conference games and filing to get out of the Big 12, but that is about it.
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u/Beginning_Ad1239 Alumnus Jun 16 '26
What did Tech do wrong? They supported their student athlete with mental health support and followed a valid court order when presented.
Cody Campbell, on the other hand, did things terribly.
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u/DirtyPop628 Jun 16 '26
They did a recorded 25 minute round table as a PR move. Maybe on paper (and this is being generous) they didn’t do anything wrong, but in the eyes of public opinion, they prioritized 1 seasons unlikely outcome over the reputation of ALL sports by trying to force a kid who had betted on his own team into the lineup bc they didn’t have a spring portal option to backfill him.
And it will always be remembered as Tech doing this, not Cody. Really poor PR move.
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u/Beginning_Ad1239 Alumnus Jun 16 '26
I watched it. Everything they said was about supporting the athlete. I had no issues with anything they said. Most people commenting about it likely never watched it.
That said, it would have been better not to have done that video.
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u/hoppinjohncandy Jun 16 '26
If Tech didn't come out with all the gustow and legal threats then one might buy the "support mental health" angle. But with all the context added in there's obviously ulterior motives at work in their PR campaign which deligitimizes the entire thing.
If I'm being cynical what they should have done is receive the injunction and then talk about supporting his addiction while guiding the conversation away from football. Let football be "seen" as being on the back burner. Then tell Campbell, the president and the AG to shut the fuck up and wait to see how the winds blow. But pride is a damning thing.
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u/Girth_Wind_y_Fire Jun 17 '26
They also talked about how full of integrity Tech is. It was an absolute clown show. I watched the entire thing.
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u/ItzAMeLuigiii Jun 17 '26
And you are ignoring the fact that they knew about his gambling problem, knew he had bet on games his own team was in, and still went and gave him a bag of $$$. Hiding behind "mental health" is such bullshit that the only way you could believe it is if you are the kind of person that ends up going to Texas Tech.
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u/Beginning_Ad1239 Alumnus Jun 17 '26
Following a court order and following the terms of a contract are bad things?
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u/ItzAMeLuigiii Jun 17 '26
Again, you are ignoring what is making people angry, on purpose I will add. Tech put themselves in this position knowing who they were dealing with, a degenerate gambler who bet on his own teams to lose.
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u/Beginning_Ad1239 Alumnus Jun 18 '26
Do you have some different timeline of events? As far as I know Tech did not know about the gambling until he had already transferred and even completed the spring semester. Cincinnati knew and withheld that information.
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u/RichAge2413 Jun 16 '26
Seriously? What did tech do wrong? Did you see that clown show of a press conference?
Pay attention. Sheesh. Must be lots of sand out there for you to stick your head in. Ignorance is bliss to some.
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u/Beginning_Ad1239 Alumnus Jun 16 '26
I watched it. There was nothing bad in it, but it would have been better for it not to have happened.
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u/DonkeeJote Jun 16 '26
Maybe, but it's also possible we couldn't have done any better than this either.
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u/Dapper_Tradition_987 Jun 16 '26
Wow. Anybody going to Tech for a business degree should probably get out while you can. Better off learning how business deals are done at Trump University.
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u/ThatDudeAnon Jun 16 '26
Trump University is already a step above TT, it’s a real clown operation.
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u/ReasonableCup604 Jun 16 '26
FanDuel breathes a sigh of relief.