Texas Tech is making itself college sports' biggest pariah over Brendan Sorsby situation

Texas Tech is fighting a losing battle with the rest of college sports, and it only seems to be digging itself into a deeper hole by the day. 

Everybody associated with the program has not only lost their mind, but they are going out of their way to try to convince the rest of college athletics that they are the ones in the wrong.

They have made themselves the biggest pariah in college sports, and it all centers around the fight for quarterback Brendan Sorsby to play football during the 2026 season. 

Texas Tech is digging itself into deeper hole over Brendan Sorsby fight

When a Texas judge granted Sorsby a temporary injunction from the NCAA, restoring his eligibility for the 2026 season after it was found he gambled on college sports, including teams he played for, it sent shockwaves through the NCAA. 

It is still having major ramifications as the sports world tries to wrap its head about the possibility of a player who admitted to gambling on games involving his own team played in being allowed to continue to play.

That is typically the type of thing that results in permanent banishment.

It is the No. 1 rule of sports, even in a world where sports gambling is legalized for the general public — players can't bet on their games. 

But because Sorsby has the potential to be a great quarterback, and because winning rules all, especially in the cutthroat world of college sports, Texas Tech is going to bat for Sorsby with increasingly awkward levels of desperation. 

Nobody is buying it.

And the less everybody outside of Texas Tech buys into it, the more Texas Tech doubles down on its position. 

Some colleges have been trying to come up with ways to boycott games against Texas Tech across all sports. That prompted a Texas Tech booster to make an outrageous comparison this week in saying nobody tried to boycott Penn State games following the Gerry Sandusky situation more than a decade ago. It's a baffling comparison given that Penn State football nearly received the death penalty, while everybody associated with the scandal was fired. 

On Thursday night, Texas Tech leadership posted a 22-minute video on X trying to further argue their position about why everybody else in college football is wrong and they are somehow right. It has not been well received, as TCU's social media team illustrated shortly after.