00:00So this Brendan Soresby story is just not going away.
00:03The Texas Tech quarterback who lost his eligibility because of gambling.
00:06And now all of a sudden, you know, he's going to be in a courtroom
00:09and he's going to be talking to the NCAA about getting his status back
00:13to play in college football.
00:16The NCAA says that Brendan Soresby's college career should end
00:19for betting on his own team's games.
00:22According to court filings, the NCAA argues no major U.S. sports league
00:28has allowed an athlete who bet on their own team to continue competing.
00:34You know, I usually don't agree with the National Communist Association of America,
00:39which is known as the NCAA.
00:41But in this, I do.
00:43Brendan Soresby's betting on his own games.
00:46Let me put this out there to you.
00:48If you're a starting quarterback in the National Football League
00:51and you see a guy that's got habitual issues when it comes to gambling,
00:56you're going to put the football in the hands of that guy who's had numerous issues
01:00and lost his eligibility on potential point shaving?
01:04The National Football League right now, I get it.
01:07It's important for them to have gambling, fan duel, all these draft kings.
01:12It's important to have a relationship like that.
01:14And gambling is now fueling a lot of the economic resources that many of these
01:18major sports leagues have.
01:20But there's no way on the planet the National Football League is going to allow a guy
01:24into their sport that bet on games that could have dictated the outcome of games.
01:30That's just not going to happen.
01:32There's no way.
01:33I mean, you know, the famous longest yard quarterback, Paul Carew,
01:37you're going to tell me you think you're going to put a guy in the National Football League
01:41or somebody's even going to draft a guy?
01:44It's got this background of having potentially bet on games.
01:48Listen, even if he did or he didn't bet on his teams to lose.
01:52Look at the ramifications that it had for Pete Rose.
01:56Pete Rose was not allowed in baseball's Hall of Fame.
01:59And let's forget, not forget this.
02:01Rose was never, ever accused of being a better when he was a player.
02:07All of the issues that Rose had in his career were as a manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
02:12Rose did not gamble as a player, allegedly.
02:15And that still affected his status to go into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
02:20How in God's name are you going to allow a college kid to come into the game,
02:24you're not even sure he's going to be a great player or not,
02:26and allow him to get drafted, what, in the first round?
02:30You're first and ten on the goal line, and you've got a game on the line,
02:34or maybe you don't have a game on the line, and there's a point spread out there,
02:38and you've got a kid who's got a gambling problem?
02:40They're on first and ten, and you think the National Football League
02:45is going to bring that kid into the league and have him quarterback
02:48one of these 32 football teams?
02:51Never in a million years.
02:52I hate to tell this kid, Brandon Sorsby, your career is over, kid.
02:57The ability for you to play further is not going to happen, especially in the NFL.
03:04Get this.
03:05The NFL will do this.
03:07You can have an issue with domestic violence.
03:11You can have an issue with all other things, taking knees, what have you,
03:15smoking weed, anything.
03:18When it comes to gambling, the National Football League is not going to allow this kid
03:23to go into the sport and have a football in his hand with two minutes or a minute left
03:30in a football game that could determine the point spread of a game and the outcome of
03:35a game.
03:36That's just not going to happen.
03:38You know, he's been trying to get his eligibility back at Texas Tech through the NCAA because he
03:43knows that's his only resource.
03:44He's to go through that process to try to rehabilitate himself in college football.
03:50The chances of him going and playing in the NFL without that, if this ruling doesn't go
03:55his way, and I don't believe it will, you're not going to see this kid ever play again.
04:01And he just signed a $6.1 million nil deal with Texas Tech to play for that college football
04:09team.
04:10The president of the university has already gone out and said that they're going to appeal
04:15it, and they're going to file the appeal to try to get this kid's eligibility back.
04:20This is not going to happen.
04:22The eligibility of this player has been lost.
04:25And look, I don't usually agree with them.
04:27I think the NCAA is one of the most detrimental things when it comes to players for over the last
04:3350 years.
04:34They've never had the players' rights, and they've never really had the players' best interests
04:39at heart.
04:40This here, though, is going to be bigger than just a player.
04:44This is about a league's mentality.
04:47The National Football League frowns on this kind of stuff.
04:50You know, when you walk into an NFL locker room, when I used to walk into an NFL locker
04:53room, and I used to see this big guy, he was dressed up in a full gear, and it says,
04:59gambling is prohibited.
05:01No way, no shape, or form, you will be, without a doubt, suspended for life.
05:06In every single NFL locker room, that is there.
05:10And when you walk in, that guy is still there on that poster when you walk into that locker
05:17room.
05:17And for Brandon Soresby to think he's going to play in the National Football League, Roger
05:23Goodell is not going to have any team draft this guy, and nor will any team have an interest.
05:30It's a shame, because the kid's a good football player.
05:33When he was at Cincinnati, when he was at Indiana, there was a lot of promise.
05:37But unfortunately, I hate to say this, this guy's career is over with.
05:41And I'll see you next time.
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