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Brenden Sorsby- The Gambling Addiction

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I feel this is a case NCAA can’t and won’t back down from. Letting him play after betting on his own team would just be a signal to everyone else they can do the same and it would open Pandora’s box. Would completely destroy the sport’s integrity.

Only way for them to settle is to suspend him for a year (can’t even be at practice) and then zero tolerance thereafter.
 
OldhamA said:
So who's the backup Texas Tech QB?

Are they now in the same boat they were in last season? Awesome D, but no O?
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They had Hammond who was gonna be their QB but then tore his ACL, so that is what forced them in portal market so they say.. But now they will try to fast track him I am guessing, they might have someone else, who knows..


TrumpyCane said:
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Anyone that knows about rehab, knows its not some 2 weeks thing and back to regularly scheduled programming, if they were serious he wouldnt be around team for a long while..
 
Hammond is good
He will
Be back from ACL

I’m no lawyer But I assume he plays and will get a ruling or injunction from a court in Lubbock just like Chambliss did in Oxford? No?

NCAA has no teeth to enforce anything
 
RozayCane said:
Ain’t no way that’s what his lawyer landed on as the reason 😂😂💀
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This maybe one of the dumbest legal arguments in history. But as @caneingville noted, when your client gives you no options you look dumb as an attorney. Of course the attorney could also choose not to make any public statements! That helps you not look dumb as an attorney.
 
AtlAtty said:
This maybe one of the dumbest legal arguments in history. But as @caneingville noted, when your client gives you no options you look dumb as an attorney. Of course the attorney could also choose not to make any public statements! That helps you not look dumb as an attorney.
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Atl
In the end can’t the judge provide injunction against any suspension ncaa gives???

It seems like all they have to do is file in LBB and they will get it. Am I wrong?
 
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YLCANE said:
Atl
In the end can’t the judge provide injunction against any suspension ncaa gives???

It seems like all they have to do is file in LBB and they will get it. Am I wrong?
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That is how these cases, and many, many cases have been playing out. And it isn’t limited to the NC2A.

Think of all the “political” cases that are filed against a national law and are decided by an injunction by one federal judge. The republicans have successfully brought a number of cases before one specific federal judge in Texas. And I’m sure the democrats have their favorites as well. But this only works in single judge federal districts because it is the only way to be certain who the judge will be as cases are randomly assigned within a jurisdiction. As an example, Fulton County, Ga has something like 20 Superior Court Judges. So if an attorney files a case in Fulton County, the cases is literally assigned to the next judge on the “wheel”. And it truly is that random. And the Northern District of Georgia has around 20 federal judges as well who are randomly assigned. Not good odds either way for “judge shopping”.

Sorsby attorneys will most certainly go “venue shopping”. They can’t guarantee which judge within the county (State judges) or district (federal judges) will be assigned to the case, but that may not matter much in a place like Lubbock. If I was the attorney I would probably file in State court as those judges are typically elected and I would want someone who has to face an election. It adds to the pressure on the judge.

Unless Lubbock is in a one-judge federal district as then I would know exactly who will be assigned if its a federal case.

But back to your point, yes. One judge can grant an injunction.
 
YLCANE said:
Atl
In the end can’t the judge provide injunction against any suspension ncaa gives???

It seems like all they have to do is file in LBB and they will get it. Am I wrong?
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AtlAtty said:
That is how these cases, and many, many cases have been playing out. And it isn’t limited to the NC2A.

Think of all the “political” cases that are filed against a national law and are decided by an injunction by one federal judge. The republicans have successfully brought a number of cases before one specific federal judge in Texas. And I’m sure the democrats have their favorites as well. But this only works in single judge federal districts because it is the only way to be certain who the judge will be as cases are randomly assigned within a jurisdiction. As an example, Fulton County, Ga has something like 20 Superior Court Judges. So if an attorney files a case in Fulton County, the cases is literally assigned to the next judge on the “wheel”. And it truly is that random. And the Northern District of Georgia has around 20 federal judges as well who are randomly assigned. Not good odds either way for “judge shopping”.

Sorsby attorneys will most certainly go “venue shopping”. They can’t guarantee which judge within the county (State judges) or district (federal judges) will be assigned to the case, but that may not matter much in a place like Lubbock. If I was the attorney I would probably file in State court as those judges are typically elected and I would want someone who has to face an election. It adds to the pressure on the judge.

Unless Lubbock is in a one-judge federal district as then I would know exactly who will be assigned if its a federal case.

But back to your point, yes. One judge can grant an injunction.
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Exactly. For example, if we were to file something in Florida District Court in Miami-Dade County, do y'all know how high the chances are of us getting a Nole / Gator judge? Texas districts may be similar in that they could easily get a UT, TT, Baylor judge. Fans are always assuming that it's just that easy because all they have to do is find a judge to rubber stamp it and off they go. Besides, even if they do get lucky enough to find one on their side, they still need to do their jobs and make their case and have some legal precedent on their side and all that good stuff. Judges do NOT want to be overturned in appellate court. Especially if they want to be reelected.
 
caneingville said:
Exactly. For example, if we were to file something in Florida District Court in Miami-Dade County, do y'all know how high the chances are of us getting a Nole / Gator judge? Texas districts may be similar in that they could easily get a UT, TT, Baylor judge. Fans are always assuming that it's just that easy because all they have to do is find a judge to rubber stamp it and off they go. Besides, even if they do get lucky enough to find one on their side, they still need to do their jobs and make their case and have some legal precedent on their side and all that good stuff. Judges do NOT want to be overturned in appellate court. Especially if they want to be reelected.
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Let’s remember that it was an Alabama court that denied eligibility for Charles Bed_____. The basketball player who had played in the G-League and was not returning to college.

Would you agree with me, however, that Lubbock may be small enough that the odds in a Lubbock court of being assigned to a TT grad (or family member of a TT grad), are pretty high?
 
AtlAtty said:
Let’s remember that it was an Alabama court that denied eligibility for Charles Bed_____. The basketball player who had played in the G-League and was not returning to college.

Would you agree with me, however, that Lubbock may be small enough that the odds in a Lubbock court of being assigned to a TT grad (or family member of a TT grad), are pretty high?
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The Alabama case is a great example. Everyone thought that because the player ran to Tuscaloosa (Circuit?) Court that the judge would just automatically grant him the injunction, but that's not what happened. He even appealed up to the Alabama Supreme Court and he was denied.

And yes, of course I agree. I said they could easily get a TT judge, although I realize I didn't write that very clearly, so that's on me. I shouldn't have stuck TT in the middle.
 
HurricanesR1 said:
I'm no lawyer but aren't the gambling rules very clear......and he willingly broke them repeatedly?
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They’re quite clear.

The angle they’re taking is that his addiction was essentially debilitating, grey zone for enforcement, etc.

The reality is this type of addiction is not resolved with a few months of rehab or treatment. He also committed clear violations. TTech and him were trying to get ahead of it and are now trying to play the sympathy card. Kid should not play a down of CFB again.
 
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I cannot imagine any judge, regardless of affiliation, falling for this. For Chambliss, there was at least a colorful argument regarding eligibility due to medical hardship. This is just so blatant that I would be absolutely shocked for a judge to enter an injunction against the NCAA. But, I also almost lost a motion to dismiss in a patent case at the Federal District Court in OKC when the judge stated that the case on all fours supporting my motion from the Federal Circuit was "not controlling" on him because he was in Oklahoma, and then gave me a lecture about being a "big city attorney who over-briefed the issue." Lol. Yeah, weird. He ultimately changed his mind when I requested leave to file an interlocutory appeal to the Federal Circuit. So there are all kinds of judges out there. Some better/smarter than others. Some who I still cannot figure out how they even got into law school.
 
FL Cane said:
They’re quite clear.

The angle they’re taking is that his addiction was essentially debilitating, grey zone for enforcement, etc.

The reality is this type of addiction is not resolved with a few months of rehab or treatment. He also committed clear violations. TTech and him were trying to get ahead of it and are now trying to play the sympathy card. Kid should not play a down of CFB again.
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Ah yeah, he has a "disease" so his outlaw behavior should be ignored and forgiven.
 
AtlAtty said:
Let’s remember that it was an Alabama court that denied eligibility for Charles Bed_____. The basketball player who had played in the G-League and was not returning to college.

Would you agree with me, however, that Lubbock may be small enough that the odds in a Lubbock court of being assigned to a TT grad (or family member of a TT grad), are pretty high?
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My son Is at Texas Tech
Lubbock is 100% Texas Tech, I mean everything!!! From the minute you get off plane at Airport
That is why I feel they will win and get injunction for Sorsby

Much like Chambliss filing and injunction at Ole Miss
 
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