00:00Grant and Danny on the fan.
00:02This Brendan Soresby story is crazy.
00:04So he's the Texas Tech quarterback.
00:06He's one of the star quarterbacks in college football.
00:09In fact, expectations are that he'll be a first-rounder,
00:13maybe a first-half to first-rounder,
00:15and he was one of the most sought-after players in the transfer portal.
00:19He was ruled ineligible by the NCAA after it was discovered
00:22he had wagered approximately $90,000 on professional and college sports
00:27over four years.
00:28The craziest part of it is, while he was at Indiana,
00:31this is before Indiana with Cignetti turned it around and became great.
00:34This was a previous regime and a bad Indiana team.
00:38He put 40 bets in involving Indiana football, his own team,
00:42when he was a freshman not playing with the Hoosiers in 2022.
00:46So the NCAA does this investigation.
00:49They find these 40 bets and hundreds of others,
00:53$90,000 worth of sports betting.
00:55All of it breaks the rules of when he could and couldn't bet on sports
01:00and what he was and wasn't allowed to bet on.
01:02The NCAA denied his appeal for reinstatement on Friday afternoon last week.
01:07So we went into the weekend, Danny,
01:09knowing he was not going to be playing college football,
01:11that it looks like he is headed for the secondary draft,
01:15where the problematic, you know, troubled player who got kicked off of the NCAA ranks
01:21and out of the college game, Jeremy Jarman, remember back in the supplemental draft,
01:26was taken.
01:27Doesn't mean you can't have an NFL career, but you've cost yourself millions of dollars,
01:30and that was the break.
01:31Sorry about it.
01:32You can't play college football this year.
01:34Until today.
01:35How about this story?
01:35A Texas judge granted Soresby a preliminary injunction today
01:41that prevents the NCAA from punishing him for violating its rules on sports gambling.
01:48He has been granted this injunction against the NCAA by a judge from Lubbock, Texas.
01:56Again, this is the quarterback of Texas Tech.
01:59Even after the transfer quarterback was declared ineligible for wagering on college sports again
02:05on Friday in his appeal to the NCAA, this judge named Ken Curry has ruled
02:11that Soresby's attorneys were able to demonstrate that the quarterback, the player, the kid, Soresby,
02:17will suffer, quote, probable, imminent, and irreparable injury
02:22if he is unable to play for the Red Raiders in 2026.
02:28So they're arguing this is going to do great damage to his career.
02:33Well, you remember the guy that defended the murderer was saying,
02:36if you put him in prison, this will do a lot of damage to him.
02:38This will be bad for him.
02:40This is one of the wilder sports stories I can remember in a long time.
02:44Yeah.
02:44Where'd you say the judge was from?
02:46Lubbock, Texas.
02:46You know where Texas Tech is?
02:47You'll never guess.
02:48There's a reason I brought it up.
02:49Yeah.
02:50Lubbock, Texas.
02:51Lubbock, Texas.
02:51You basically get your Texas Tech fan judge to come in here and issue the injunction.
02:58Now, there are greater travesties taking place in terms of cover-ups
03:04and shadiness going on in the world at this point.
03:09Like, if you want to find some not fair stuff, I can point to some stuff for you.
03:14Sure, sure, sure.
03:15But as far as sports go, my God, man, the rule is you can't bet.
03:20Not only did he bet $90,000 worth of bets, he bet on his own football team.
03:25Yeah.
03:26I don't even know if he bet on them to win or lose.
03:28I've never heard that he's only ever bet on them to win.
03:30I just know he made 40 bets on the games that his team was playing in.
03:34I'm assuming he didn't bet on them to lose, but they lost a lot then.
03:38Maybe he did.
03:39I haven't read that he hasn't.
03:40If someone's got information on that, send that to me at Grant Paulson on social media.
03:45But can you imagine a world, this one, where the rules are the rules.
03:50They're so obvious.
03:51You know that you're breaking them.
03:52You break them anyway because you're this star quarterback
03:55and you've probably broken rules a lot over the years.
03:57And you get caught, and the NCAA goes,
04:00Oh, pretty black and white here, man.
04:01Sorry.
04:02You're about to get shock-a-tonied.
04:04That's a deep cut for those of you that don't remember.
04:06The edged rusher for Washington that got kicked out of the NFL for a year.
04:09And you know what ruined his career?
04:11That.
04:12You know what didn't happen?
04:13Did the lawyer get to argue it would be a really bad injury?
04:15Some judge came in and said,
04:17It's going to be harder for him to have a career.
04:18I'm a lifelong Skins fan, and this will hurt his case.
04:21Nope.
04:21That didn't happen.
04:22Nobody saved his bacon.
04:23But Sorsby was going to be out, not able to play.
04:26His attorney said, Here's what should happen.
04:28This is going to ruin his career.
04:30Let's suspend him for two games at the start of the year.
04:33Bring him back for week three, and he'll get to play this season.
04:36And this judge goes, I like that.
04:38This judge from Lubbock, Texas says, Yeah, I like that better.
04:42So unless something else happens here, this is where we are now, Danny.
04:45He will be playing college football despite violating the rules because the punishment
04:50for breaking the rules, according to this judge in Lubbock, Texas,
04:54will be damaging to the guy who did the crime, in quotes.
04:57Isn't that interesting?
04:58Yeah, that's usually how punishments work, right?
05:00It's like, I'm not going to enjoy this.
05:01Yeah, that's damaging, so you get out of it.
05:03Where was this judge during my childhood?
05:05Seriously.
05:05You don't clean your room, we don't go to King's Dominion.
05:08That's an arbitrary rule.
05:09It's capricious.
05:09I'm taking your ass to court, Dennis.
05:11You know what would be less fun for my childhood?
05:13If we don't get to go to King's Dominion.
05:15Well, here's my takeaway from this, and you've got the right ones as well.
05:20But this again, it's like a kangaroo court.
05:24Let's say you and I and everyone on the show has a set of rules that we agreed to.
05:28Like, if you show up after 146, you've got to pay $5 into the pot.
05:33And Strober goes, enough of that crap.
05:35We ain't doing that no more, and I challenge.
05:37And we go to court, and the court's like, yeah, you guys have no authority to enforce rules on Strober.
05:42That's what this is to me.
05:44It's more, yes, I know what it looks like.
05:46It's Lubbock, Texas, Texas Tech fan.
05:48And there's probably some of that, too.
05:49Being like, hey, he's going to get to play, because that's going to be injurious to his future.
05:53I looked that up in the legal book.
05:56But the real story here to me is the NCAA just cannot win in court, and they're going away.
06:04It's basically the NCAA only existed because every school, conference, et cetera, bought into the idea that it should exist.
06:12You follow me?
06:13If everyone subscribes to the rules of the kangaroo court, you could enforce some of those rules.
06:17The way it used to work was, let's say at Grand Paulson University, you practice for 24 hours a week
06:22instead of 20.
06:23You would have someone, the compliance officer would discover it, raise their hand, and say, dearest NCAA, we have offended.
06:29We are sorry.
06:30Please don't punish us.
06:32We're going to self-punish.
06:33Is that enough?
06:34And if the NCAA said yes, nothing else would happen.
06:37If they said no, the punishment was twice as bad.
06:39And that's how we all lived.
06:40We just kind of lived in this fairy tale and sort of pretended.
06:43Everyone has realized the NCAA simply cannot win in court, especially when players are paid because they're employees.
06:51So there's no collective bargaining.
06:53There's no CBA.
06:54There's no enforcement.
06:55There's no contract.
06:57Like, this is such a Wild West open-ended system that in order to be subject to the NCAA, you've
07:03got to have this old model of forced amateurism and nobody gets to step outside and we're going to self
07:08-enforce.
07:09That's not the case anymore.
07:11That's all the NCAA does now is show up to court and lose and put on a basketball tournament.
07:15Why, if I'm a player, watching this happen in Lubbock, do I say, eh, I'm not going to bet on
07:22sports.
07:23It's not worth it.
07:25Why not?
07:25This guy bet 40 times on the game he was playing in.
07:29Oh, yeah.
07:31Why wouldn't I just bet on the games I'm playing in?
07:34Surely, somewhere in Baton Rouge, there's a judge who will acquit.
07:39Who will vote to acquit.
07:41Surely, there's a judge who goes to LSU games who's a big fan of mine because I'm going to run
07:45for 1,000 yards this year.
07:46Yeah, I go to Michigan and I bet on Michigan games.
07:50You'll never guess where the judge is going to be from.
07:52I saw a tweet from someone who said, if I'm LSU, I'm bringing in Joe Burrow, Justin Jefferson, and Jamar
07:58Chase during their bye week to play for the Tigers this year.
08:02Oh, it's against the rules?
08:03That's okay.
08:04Hey, season ticket holder judge over there in Baton Rouge.
08:07By you, Billy Judge.
08:08Give us an injunction.
08:09We need 72 hours of this thing being up in the air, and in the meantime, they go play a
08:14football game for us, and let's whoop up on someone to help us get to the national championship.
08:18You joke, but we're approaching that, by the way.
08:20Of course we are.
08:21Now, I don't think it's ever going to be that because those guys have too much to lose, but we
08:26already have had guys that used to play come back and play.
08:30We've had the 40-year-old freshman.
08:32We're doing some of this stuff.
08:34We've had the guy who was in the other sport who came back to give it a whirl.
08:37Like, yeah, it's a slippery slope for all this stuff, but I just can't fathom people seeing this story and
08:45thinking that justice is done.
08:47Like, this is a good thing that this guy is able and eligible to play now.
08:52Generally, I'm for the second chance, totally.
08:54I don't want his career ruined.
08:56But it wasn't like he bet nine times on pickleball.
09:01He didn't bet four times on the World Cup four years ago.
09:04He bet 90 grand and 40 times on the team he played on's games.
09:11This is so much worse than just finding out he was a dude betting on racquetball in Germany or something.
09:19And immediately, everyone goes, oh, well, okay.
09:22That's pretty bad, man.
09:23So, yeah, you're not going to be able to play this game.
09:25Sorry, tough break.
09:26What's that?
09:27The judge goes, wait, hold on.
09:29I'll be out there.
09:30I just got to take off my Soresby jersey.
09:32Whoa there.
09:32I say whoa there.
09:33I have Texas Tech undergarments on.
09:35Hang it in my closet.
09:37Put on my, what are they wearing, gown?
09:38My judicial robes, sir.
09:40My robes.
09:40There you go.
09:41Thank you, sir.
09:41Let me put my Soresby jersey over here.
09:44Put the robe on.
09:45Go out there.
09:46Slam the gavel.
09:47You are eligible to play.
09:49Go back.
09:49Put my jersey on.
09:50Head on out to the bar to have a pop.
09:52I know we're in court here, but I have this red and black face paint on for my Texas Tech
09:57spring game.
09:57Could anybody have some soap?
09:59The double play is next.
10:01What's going on in our lives?
10:03Nothing to do with sports.
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