NCAA head coaches are outraged over Texas Tech, Brendan Sorsby injunction ruling

This likely doesn't arrive to you as any sort of breaking news, but head coaches across the NCAA are in hysterics over the court's overruling of Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby's eligibility. After admitting to gambling on his own Indiana team for a number of games (which he didn't play in, but still egregious) and problem gambling elsewhere, the NCAA denied the quarterback's eligibility.

That was the hard line the NCAA tried to draw. You don't gamble as a college athlete -- not on your own team, not on another team, not in any circumstance.

But a judge overruled the decision, and Sorsby will get to play anyway.

Well, that is unless every other school in the nation decides to boycott the Red Raiders.

It started with the Big 12, where commissioner Brett Yormark tossed in his thoughts on the action taken by one of his conference's members.

"The ramifications of today's ruling are significant and could have broad impacts across college athletics, creating great concern among our membership," Yormark stated. "I've been consulting with our key stakeholders and have scheduled a meeting with our conference ADs and executive board this week. We are also in touch with Charlie Baker and anticipate the NCAA to appeal the order in the next 24-28 hours."

That's a diplomatic response from the leader of a power conference. but the head coaches across the Big 12 Conference are voicing their disapproval in other, less elegant ways.

The Big 12 Conference's members are even threatening to boycott any potential football matchups with the Red Raiders in light of the news, with some even rumored to be going so far as to propose Texas Tech's expulsion from the conference entirely.

And the outrage isn't limited to the Big 12, either, as coaches from across the nation are left in complete disbelief. Brendan Sorsby broke the rules. Knowingly and aggressively, he acted in opposition to the approved code of conduct for NCAA athletes, and blurred the ethical line that continues to fade between gambling and its involvement in sports at any level.

This lubricates the slippery slope: Brendan Sorsby gambled on his own team, and will only receive a minor slap on the wrist. That doesn't seem fair.

According to Chris Vannini, Georgia and Nebraska have told their coaches not to schedule Texas Tech in any sport, not only football.

This leaves a black stain on not only the reputation of Sorsby, but the insitution he joined over the offseason. Texas Tech's football team is placing itself at risk by supporting their quarterback through this saga, as it only seems they care about protecting their record, not the health of college athletics at large.

One Big 12 head coach zagged the conversation, however, when he shared how he preferred to face Texas Tech with Sorsby rather than without. All the same, if this wave of negative momentum crashes down on the Red Raiders' athletic department, that head coach may not get the chance to face them at all.

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