TT QB Brendan Sorsby Gambling Issues

I have no interest

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Me too. I don’t have/want Paramount+

I’ll watch it and report back

i mean food addiction is probably the most obvious one

hard to abstain from that

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Good move by Sorsby. I thought that was his only reasonable option.

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ā€œYou got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to runā€.

-The Gambler

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On internet rumor is that he may go the JUCO route for a year.

Given that JUCOs are outside the NCAA…the NCAA’s eligibility rules don’t apply, and wouldn’t stop him. See here.

https://x.com/ShaneTuttleNCAA/status/2072030400155963591

I wonder if any JUCO would take him.

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Unpopular opinion?
He’s been beat up enough. He’s not a Red rash rump raider, I’ll root for him to make a full recovery. He didn’t end up harming the conference nor the COOGS. Hope he does go the JUCO route for 1 year or at least goes to an NFL team next April and makes something of his talents.

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That’s what Hunter Dekkers did.

It hasn’t affected me directly, but I have had recovering addicts I’ve worked with, but it’s not just total abstinence the ones who succeeded in my own small experience completely changed their lives entirely. I’m talking cutting out life-long friends/family, moving to new areas so they wouldn’t drive by their same favorite bar.

The level of commitment down to maintain their sobriety is both shocking and admirable. Because for that guy, and I want to stress again, it’s just one guy, his idea want just abstinence it was eliminating everything that created temptation to test the abstinence.

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My grandpa had been a lifelong smoker from about the age of 14 when he quit cold-turkey at about 72, when the doctor told him he could either quit or die in a couple of years.

He kept a pack of cigarettes around to remind himself every day of what he had to do. He believed that if you just eliminate the temptation, then you haven’t really decided to quit.

My point is that everyone is different and has his own set of challenges to beat, so trying to come up with any kind of blanket rule about what an addict has to do is pointless.

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I smoked for 35 years and quit. To quit smoking was the hardest thing that I’ve ever gone through. After I quit, I gained 100 LBS, it was easier losing the 100 LBS than it was to quit smoking.

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I chewed about 200#s of bubble gum when I quit.

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Uh oh

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49308081/ncaa-opens-inquiry-cincinnati-regarding-sorsby

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You think Texas Tech would vote to give Cincinnati the death penalty?

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Given the conference’s reaction to the mere possibility that Sorsby MIGHT play for Tech at some point, they’ve set the precedent for taking pretty extreme action against Cincy if it’s determined that they knew about the gambling and actually played him for a full season.

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Would be hilarious if it ends up leading to tech being investigated for tampering haha

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Why not…?

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This is not a good explanation, but the Indiana head coach when Sorsby was there, Tom Allen, was fired after Sorsby’s last year there.

Do you think being in the B1G has anything to do with it?

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Or being the current national champion…