Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - ACC SQUAD - The CHAOTIC Brendan Sorsby situation | How it impacts the ACC

Episode Date: June 11, 2026

Texas Tech storms into the spotlight as college football’s ultimate villain following the Brendan Sorsby gambling injunction. With Sorsby facing only a two-game suspension despite over 9,000 bets—including wagers against his own Indiana Hoosiers—ACC experts question whether the NCAA still has any authority and if the integrity of the sport is at risk. Is this the moment the SEC and Big Ten finally seize the initiative to form a Super League, or will Texas Tech’s actions ignite overdue reforms? The ACC Squad breaks down Texas Tech’s polarizing defense of Sorsby and billionaire booster Cody Campbell’s powerful influence over the Red Raiders. Heated debates spotlight SMU’s history with the NCAA, the fallout for schools refusing to schedule Texas Tech, and the mounting controversy around eligibility and rule enforcement in college football. Where does the sport go from here as money and chaos threaten its future? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

And just like that, Texas Tech has become the biggest villain in sports. Here's how the fallout of the Brendan Sorsby injunction can affect everybody. You're talking ball with the ACC squad. From Florida State to North Carolina, from Syracuse to Miami, and from NC State to California, it's the local experts of the Locked-on Podcast Network, bringing you scoops, breakdowns, and the most comprehensive preview of the upcoming ACC weekend. Hang on. It could get loud. It could get heated and it will definitely be fun. Squad up. You're part of the ACC squad. Welcome into the ACC squad. I am Alex Dono from

Locked on Cain's and Locked on ACC. Kenton Gibbs from Locked on Wolfpack and Locked on ACC is here. Grayson Boone from Locked on Wolfpack. Grayson Singleton, we got all the Graysons, Grayson Singleton from Lockdown SMU, and we got Brian Smith from Lockdown Seminels and from the Portal podcast. Brendan Sorsby, apparently, you know, we'll see how the appeals go, although I noticed the judges in the appellate court in that part of Texas, all four of them are Texas Tech grads. But pending appeals after getting granted that injunction, Brendan Sorsby, despite betting no less than 9,000 times with 90 plus thousand dollars, including bets on and even some cases, kind of against the team that he played for,

betting on negative outcomes for Indiana when he was a Hoosier, will apparently be allowed to play college football this year. Does this now give the SEC and the Big Ten, seeing the NCAA is being rendered powerless again, does this give the big guys more incentive to go off and form their own Super League? Or maybe could this be the spark, this Sorsby situation, for positive change in college sports.

But let's start with what happened, and who I need to buy the first round here on this one. Grayson Singleton from Locked on SMU. So the punishment for Sorsby and Texas Tech, he used the word at air quotes punishment. He does have to sit out the first two games this year against cream puffs, non-conference games. I feel like SMU maybe got the death penalty for less than this.

How does the SMU fan feel about this story today? It's wild because somebody hit me on Twitter after I published my episode on Tuesday and said the NCAA should be sued into oblivion by SMU to the tune of $500 million for the death penalty. And look, a player who gambled on his own team, regardless of over or unders, and only has to sit out two games, I mean, that kind of seems like wild inconsistency

given that SMU had to shut down the program for two years because they were, to put it simply, paying people. But that's also a microcosm of the, of the NCAA because the NCAA's chief goal of being a thing is to make sure players don't get paid. So if you know that's how the NCAA works, it kind of, you got to see how it happened. Nevertheless, no, it's a problem. Here's the interesting part of this that I think nobody's talking about when it comes to Brendan Sorsby. They made it seem as if he was just betting harmlessly on different things,

wanting his team to win and things of that nature. but then it comes out he was betting some of these unders too which is that not an insider trading thing like how is brend how is brendon how is brendaoresby not in legal trouble here what how is how are we not talking about brend and sorsby potentially doing time in federal prison because this seems like this runs a foul of criminal law so the whole situation's weird the NCAA is powerless if something happens that is not to your favor you just go run to you're just go run to you. your friendly neighborhood judge because more times than not that judge that's going to be presiding over the court in that particular county is a graduate of that program so here we are this is sign

of the times by the way one more side of the times he bet $90,000 when the hell has a 19 year old ever had $90,000 to gamble with but I think that's the problem I first of all the amount is not the problem for me the big 10 in the SEC saying this is our moment to break away because they're so unjust. Do we not remember what that head coach for Michigan was doing up in Celine a couple months ago? I don't want to get all tested and pull out the butter knife on everybody here, but I think we all remember what happened there.

And I don't want to tamper with anybody's thoughts on the matter, but Oxford, how did y'all get Borrelli again? Oh, oh, okay. So I think, me thinks maybe we should all slow it down, unlike players in Athens ever do, and maybe consider that, hey, you don't have the moral high ground to say, oh, we're so much better than this and we need to go away because of this. Is Brennan Sorsby an absolute, complete and total jackass who is skirting responsibility with the help of his board of regions, with the help of his university,

with the help of the administration. Absolutely. Is the NCAA toothless to stop this? Absolutely. But let's not talk about the schools that everybody all of a sudden file religion and left church where everybody was happy. Your mama's bag that she carried into that church was a little heavier walking out. Or somehow all these dads got jobs at plants as senior managers that they never worked a day in

in their damn lives moving from. other sides of the country and sometimes not even the continental U.S. to Alabama of all places. And we're going to say, oh, this is the moment. Don't get me wrong. Competitive integrity is beyond all of those violations. Many of those don't even have to do with anything on the field, right? I'm not saying that this is not worse than those things. I'm not saying that. What I am saying is to sit here and say, this is our moment to break away because they're so unjust over there at the base. Big 12. No, this is one instance of somebody being extremely unjust and look at the reaction to it. Big 12 teams are saying, we don't want to play them. Our wonderful, Grayson, Singleton is an alum of a Big 12 university that's saying, we don't want to play these guys because of what happened.

So if it wasn't for the ACC deals, and we all know, Your Mark is not going to let his teams not play one member institution just because something happened that they really don't like. Like even if it was, you know, ruled to be legal by whatever friendly neighborhood court there is, you're not going to see a moment where everybody in the ACC, everybody in the Big 12, everybody else looked at what Texas Tech did and said, hey, this is perfectly fine. I said in jest, NC State needs our own Cody Campbell and our own law school. Because in reality, I also said on there, if I was a lawyer, a judge, and C.J. Bailey came to me talking about Ken, I put up 90,000 at best, but you play for the red and white just like I did. Sit your ass down.

You're done. You're done if you're in my court. I don't care if you went to the school I went to. So again, this is one school being derelict in their responsibilities, not two entire conferences, or really, if we want to talk about the group of six as well, eight entire conferences being morally reprehensible while two sit as perfect angels. I beg your damn part. Just from an eligibility standpoint, like the whole basis of this,

story. What the hell are we doing? Like what are how we lost the entirety of the plot here? It's it appears so because if you can't enforce a rule that is in place for a reason, then what matters anymore? I don't know. If you can't enforce eligibility in terms of like how long the kids are at school anymore, what are we doing? I don't know. It seems like like for example, NC State has a player that suspended this year for PED use. Can he just play? If he finds a job, that can support him. Can you just play? Where is the line if you can't enforce the simplest of rules here? This is black and white. Every single one of these athletes knows they're not allowed to be participating in sports better. He did it 9,000 plus times. If there's no consequence for that,

I don't understand how the integrity can ever be trusted ever again. And when that's the case, what's the point? If none of these games can be viewed as legitimate anymore, what is the point? this may be everything for the future of college football. If they can't get this right, I have a bad feeling of where this is headed. I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, with all of this, guys that are billionaires don't usually hear the word no. Cody Campbell will just double and triple down. The first post that he put up with all this that I saw is he took a shot at Georgia and Speedy

because the SEC's ADs and all that, in particular, the AD at Georgia said they wouldn't play them. look, I've got some really rich family members, too. They don't handle no well. But when not the NCAA, but the NCAA, but the NCAA tournament committee, which is separate from the NCAA, eventually says tech can't get in. I'm going to be curious to see what kind of tweet Cody puts out. Good luck. Well, and I want to get more into that because I would love to know what the tipping point is. Because to this point, Texas Tech has not only defended, but rigorously defended Brennan's

Soresby throughout this process. Like, is there a tipping point that could make even Cody Campbell, their billionaire booster and chairman of their board of regents, decide, you know what, it's not worth it to protect our investment in Brendan Sorsby. You want to keep it locked right here. Alex Dono from Locked on Cains, Kenton Gibbs, and Grayson Boone from Locked on Wolfpack, Grayson Singleton from Locked on SMU, Brian Smith from Lockdown Seminels. Got a lot more to talk about on this brand new episode of the Lockdowne.

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the EveryDayer Club. Click the link in the show notes below and become an official Everydayer today. Brian Smith, you know, you were talking a little bit about what the backlash could be here because, you know, and again, I know Texas Tech fans, I've seen a lot of arguments saying, hey, like, he didn't do any of this stuff while he was here, right? Why are people not angrier at Indiana or Cincinnati for either allowing this to go on, allegedly, or not knowing it was going on? But, yeah, I guess Texas Tech's role in this, Brian, would be the fact that they personally haven't

taken a stand against it. They fully leaned into the idea that, hey, how convenient the best therapy for our star quarterback who he has this sickness. He's a compulsive gambler. It's a terrible, terrible thing. It's a disease. The best treatment for him would be to be our starting quarterback because that's how he's going to break through from this terrible addiction. And they've been defending him for this. But when you talk, Brian, about the idea of it, and who knows how much teeth these threats are going to have. But schools outside the Big 12 and even within the Big 12, they are trying to find a way to boycott Texas Tech.

You brought up the idea of the college football playoff committee if they have the stones to do so, to bar them from competing in the playoff this year. Like, what do you think the tipping point would be before Cody Campbell and Texas Tech, Joey McGuire and company might actually decide, hey, you know what, maybe he shouldn't be playing for us. this year. That is the really big question because Cody Campbell seems to be all in.

Unfortunately for tech, and this is just the way of the world, money usually leads to the final answer. And tech isn't going anywhere without Cody Campbell. If he's all in, they're stuck. What can you do now? You put your cards out on the table. I don't, I feel really bad for like the softball. They've got a great softball program there and they have other sports that are good, they're not going to get scheduled. Like, I think the report was true. The Big Ten says they're not scheduling tech at all. You can say what you want.

That's not good for business. No. And if the Big Ten did that, let's be honest, maybe not publicly, but a lot of other people, we're going with other options. They may not say it publicly, but we all know where this is going. They're stuck in a rock and a hard place because, again, I mean, I got some really rich family members. They don't take no well at all.

I can only imagine what a billionaire is like. He's not going to handle not getting what he wants out of this. And let's be honest, when the president goes to him like, look, I can't have all my, all my sports getting absolutely hosed here. They had nothing to do with this. How does he handle that conversation? Can you imagine being the president pressing send on that phone call? Good luck.

I mean, I don't envy him, but that's, he's the one that signed off on this too. They let it get to this point by Cody. I'm sure he's the one to pay for that high-price lawyer. I don't know what they can do, though, because I just don't know many people like him that ever backed down. It's just not their nature because he was a gambler with buying oil rigs and stuff. It was like two-man operation. I looked it up when he started. He was a super high risk taker.

He's pretty much Jerry Jones. It's the same thing. And he hit. those guys don't back down. Good luck, because if you do pull the plug, you're going to pull the plug on the money. That's going to be really interesting. You want to talk about SMU

and why they should feel slight than this. Free my dog, Sherwood Blunt. Free my dog. I've been asking for him to be free. I know that Grayson Singleton is an SMU historian. He knows all about Sherwood Blood. Let them back on campus. Let them bring that white caddy into game.

That's too good. It's too good. Because this is ridiculous. You know, yes, this is the chairman of the board of regions. Yes, this is a billionaire super booster, all those things. Nobody should be above the law. We're not even talking about the rules at this point. We're talking about the law because multiple laws,

not only the insider trading angle that Gracie presented is breaking the law, it's illegal to sports bet in Texas. and do you think that Mr. Soresby stopped when he got there? I bet he didn't in the words of Mr. Sorsby, probably. So the reality of this thing is simple. This is a moment where you ask what the tipping point is, Dono. There is no tipping point for Cody Campbell. The administration and the university have to have a tipping point.

This is the same man that let's completely take away gambling aspect. Brennan's Sorbsby is now at his third school, right? Because the gambling at Indiana is where this all started, the legend, right? Those that he went from there to Cincinnati. That was his second school. Scott Satterfield was the head coach there to Godman transfer.

He has not had a coach leave or any extenuating circumstance that required him to be in Texas. You know what the extenuating circumstance was for him? money money money money that was the extenuating circumstance that made him leave but you know what cody campbell is pushing in the save college sports at no more than one transfer unless your coach you win and got a toll time transfer but now now that you've got your guy oh nobody else can get it and that's not even talking about the gambling so again if you're asking what the line is for Cody Campbell, that is a scrupulous man. Scrupulous man who has no line, no scruple, no morals, no, I stand on this.

None of that exists within him. What does exist is I want Texas Tech to win. How about it? I'll do anything to get. The Raiders up. I'll do anything. How about it? By the way, would they have done this if Soresby wasn't a quarterback?

He'll know. If he was a backup linebacker, he would have been kicked off the team the first. Exactly. The reports came out. See you, buddy. The only thing that mattered is they can't win without it, period. So Kenton is, I was going to mention that, but he beat me to it. Congrats to you.

100% correct. Well, the other reason, the other thing that matters to is the number 5 million. And that's what they reportedly sunk into getting Brendan Sorsby to transfer to Lubbock, Texas of all places. But a couple of things. Number one, I grew up in the state of Texas. You have to jump through some crazy VPN hoops to bet. on sports in the state of Texas. So there's number one.

Obviously, Grace would never do that. He's a law following law body system. It was research purposes only. Yeah, exactly. Do with that information what you need to do. Anyway, the thing with Cody Campbell, and it's an interesting, it's an interesting parallel Brian draws to Jerry Jones, because Jerry Jones was one of the instrumental pieces in toward the NFL getting free agency

and the NFL instituting a salary cap. Who also was most notorious for finding all the loopholes in the salary cap in the early stages of the salary cap? That would be Jerry Jones. So it's an interesting parallel you draw there because Cody Campbell is taking that and blowing it out of the water. He is very instrumental in writing a lot of these things that are going through Congress while he simultaneously is pushing

every extent to what they could challenge. He's become too powerful. That's the question we now have to ask is, has Cody Campbell, CEO of Double Legal Energy, at little old Texas Tech, has he become too powerful? And the answer might be yes, because you mentioned, like we talked about

the insider trading aspect of Britain Sorsby. This is a conflict of interest of conflict of interest as it pertains to Cody Campbell, because he's a sitting boyder, Board of Regents person. He is writing the rules. And if he's writing the rules, you damn well know he knows how to break him.

So when you look at it for that perspective and the amount of money that he is willing to shamelessly spend, the problem here isn't really just Brendan Sorsby. He's the name that's going to be attached to it. But the real problem here is Cody Campbell and the administration and the organizational catastrophe. right now. That is Texas Tech. Well, I agree with you 50%, but I got to say, I think that even if you remove Cody Campbell,

there'll be another Cody Campbell elseman, right? Sure. Even when SMU banned Sherwood Blunt, did players stop getting paid under the table at every university in America at that point? No. No. Y'all know as well as I do, right? Players were still getting grandams and all of a sudden, they were decommitting and

committing to whoever got them that grand name, that Pontiac G6. those are the cars back in the day when Sherwood Black got his suspension. But that's neither here nor there. The reality is, I do agree with you, Grayson, that there is a problem. I think the problem is money has infected this thing in a way that, you know, that Pandora's box opened a long, long time ago when coaches start getting paid to do the Coca-Cola ads and all your team needs to wear conversees and we'll make sure you get a little check here and there.

And that we're walking towards the cliff now where it's not even just. outside money in terms of who's paying your players. It's now outside money in general. It doesn't even matter if I'm paying your players. It does not matter. If I have enough outside money, I can put my thumb on the scales in whichever way I want to influence this, how I would like to, which, again, I think is wholly and fully antithetical

to what the NCAA is supposed to be. Because like you said earlier in the episode, Grace, the whole point of it was to stop players from getting paid. So it was to keep money out of this thing. But now we're saying college football is about who's got the best billionaire. The rules and whether or not they apply, who's got the best billionaires? Grace and I are asking, we're begging, we're pleading. Jim, goodnight, please, please spare a little change for NC State.

Is he the one who only spends on everything but athletics? Yes, he's that guy. I feel so bad for you guys. Richest man in the state of North Carolina. He's like, hey, hey, hey, I'm not spending nothing on athletics, okay? You will be a research one institute. but you will be a second-tier ACCC school. But again, I just, I agree with you.

I just don't agree that it's them and their administration. I think it's a many more teams would do the exact same thing in their shoes. Now, you're not wrong. Unfortunately, again, for tech, they're the one that's on the hook. Yeah. They're the one that's on the hook. And at some point, especially like I brought it up, I don't know if it's going to happen.

with the playoff committee sets a precedent. And again, the warriors will get paid. Billable hours will come into play if that happens. Like, if they run the table and they don't let them like, I hope they stumble and they can't get in. But with Sorsby in the worst schedule in the country, and it is the worst, they'll play anybody outside of conference and they're in conference.

They don't even play BYU. It's going to be hard not to make us at the conference championship game. But I digress. They have to do something to punish them. I'm just saying, I don't know what else you can do because the appellate court thing and all that. They're court date. What is it, Donna, like February or something? Yeah, so this is crazy.

So February 8th, when that'll be two weeks after the championship game, you know, they theoretically get there. Unless they're able to speed up the appeals process, his hearing is not until February 8th, which is again, like, how obviously convenient this whole. thing is. But I want to get into when we come back here on the squad, because yeah, there could be some domino effects here that will absolutely affect the ACC, right? Does this get them, you know, with the Cody Campbell playing both sides of it? Does this get us that congressional oversight that some people want? Does this actually inspire the Moral High Ground SEC and the Big Ten to break away from the NCAA and form their precious Super League? You want to keep it locked. right here because we're not done yet on the ACC squad.

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Thank you so much for making the Lockdown ACC squad. your first listen. All right. So, Grayson Boone, I got to say both names because we got multiple gracens here on the panel. I'll start with you. Does this get Cody Campbell his wish because he's a top consultant with the Protect College Sports Bill? I mean, by him, you know, helping break the sport, he's showing us why the sport needs to be fixed and protected. Does this get us that congressional oversight? Or could, it even possibly give the SEC and the Big Ten their next piece of inspiration to break away? I mean, she could go either way to be completely honest with you. I mean, as Brian said, oftentimes money will talk.

Money will get you in rooms and get you your way more times than not. But this is just, I'm still, there's so many different angles you can try to attack this from. I'm still, like, I'm pissed. I'm truly pissed by a lot of this. But in terms of like the Super League thing, I'd be hard-pressed to believe it's probably where this is going. I think a common phrase I keep hearing tossed around, especially lately, is collective bargaining. I think maybe collective bargaining, that might be the, you know, the ace up the sleeve for the NCAA to try and figure out some way to prevent this from being just a health game.

Because that's, I mean, we might already be there, to be honest with you, but that is where this is going. And for the SEC and the Big Ten, I've always hated the idea of the Super League. but when you have somebody like Campbell on the other side of this thing, it's like, I think Rock and Hard Place is one way to put it, but it feels much more severe. It's like a gunshot wound or bleeding out from a knife. It's like, is there any good option at this point? Because it's just, it's mass chaos.

And I hate to see this go down for what we all love the most, which is college football. Antitrust is the only thing that is preventing the Big Ten and SEC. see, they will be sued into oblivion if they just went on their own right now. That I've already been told by a lawyer. If it wasn't for that, they'd already done it. And the other fact is if they separated for football, what the hell are they going to do with their other sports? Because like Texas, tax-

Good point. Everybody else would be like, screw you guys. We're not scheduling you and anything else. Then Title IX gets really touching. So it's a lot harder than you think. And everybody that's like an SEC fan, they just think through the football lens. It's not how this works.

So because of that, it could be a little ways down the road. As for collective bargaining, look, I'm just going to say it. Every person I've talked to, they want no part of that because once you go to collective bargaining, down the road players have a much better chance of suing and winning with head injuries and stuff like that. And you're giving up, here's the key word again. It starts with an M, Grayson, and it ends with the Y. Which one that you just talk about?

Money. If you do collective bargaining, players get paid, not more. considerably more. How many people do you know any of you can answer this that like to give away money? You know, is anybody here to know anybody wants to do that? So I get it, but the ADs, the advertising companies, they don't want to give away the money. That's the only reason there isn't collective bargaining, beginning and in. Now, they're going to lie about that because they don't want to get sued on that too, but that's the problem. So we're in Iraq in a hard place, because race and boon is 100% right. Collective bargaining would solve a lot.

They ain't trying to give up the money. And the other part about the other part about collective bargaining, too, is that the conferences and schools would have to reluctantly recognize the athletes as employees, which you know they would rather go all the way to the depths of hell before they ever did. They ever did that. And then you talk about giving away money too. You know what also comes with recognizing people as employees, all sorts of insurances and things of that nature that you. Kenton and I, we talked about this on this show,

couple of weeks ago, but there's all sorts of protections and whatnot that you have to do. So that goes to the money factor as well. What Texas Tech did, here's why I can't stand what Texas Tech did the most as somebody who now lives in SEC country in Norman, Oklahoma. Texas Tech gave the SEC and the Big Ten the moral high ground it needs to conferences that have never had a moral high ground. We ran through some of them, but let's go, let's go through some. others. You had the Sandusky incident where? That was Penn State. Big Ten. Mel Tucker got in trouble.

Where was that? Michigan State. Big Ten. Nick Sabin is on Capitol Hill testifying now in favor of the Protect Sports Act. That dude assembled the Avengers plus some by consistently paying dudes under the table. SEC, Alabama. Bobby Petrino had an incident. Tech, uh, that's that's Arkansas. SEC. It has been the most haphazardly successful program in the country over the last half decade. So the Big Ten in the SEC have no moral high grounds to stand on until 48 hours ago. And that's when they got what they needed. So no, they're probably not going to break away because there's legal ramifications for even attempting to do that. But what Texas Tech did now is give them in the eye of the public consumption an actual moral high ground.

round that before Monday morning, they did not have. Yeah, and I think another thing that goes against the collective bargaining part of this is, and this is no offense to a lot of these athletes because I was a student athlete. And I've been around. I get it. I know how folks think to be a student athlete at the level that we're discussing requires a little bit of delusion, requires a little bit of like, you know this is, I'm going to the NFL. That's why I'm here, right?

And what does that imply? That implies that that's a young man who is counting on a 1% outcome, right? Why is that important for collective bargaining? If everybody believes that they're a future 1% earner, if every defensive end believes that I am going to get what Rubin Bain got from Miami and does not understand, I am much more likely to never play this game again, then get that outcome in two years. It's the idea of, well, if I collectively bargain

and we kind of set in place some hard limits, I'm capping my money. And it's like, dude, you were never going to be there anyway. That was never going to be you. With all the respect, that was never going to be you. And that's not to say, hey, you shouldn't shoot for the stars. You shouldn't hope for the, but you should not base your life off of 1% outcomes.

You should not base your protections off of, 1% outcomes. You should not have to play potentially with a guy that's got 45K on Fanduil saying that we're going to lose this game. You shouldn't have to worry about that because you were worried about 1% outcomes. Yet here we are. Because today it's Brennan Soresby in Texas A&M. But how long until it's another player on another team? How long until it's a guy on your team that's bed under and he's playing he's actually playing he's actually got the ability oh i'm a defensive tackle and i bet the over oh coach i forgot on smack i'm supposed to be the looper oh i went to the a gap and their quarterback who loves to scramble on a soft edge ran for 40 yards shucky dars oh

coach i just i dropped that post that was literally the quarterback couldn't have put it in the better place by accident. Do not check my fan duel. Don't check my friend's fan duel because, you know, I'm in the state where it's not legal to sportsmen. And it's not wire fraud anymore. I don't need to worry about jail time, which by the way, I'm not saying that Brennan Soresby belongs in jail. I want to make that clear. I don't want to, you know, I don't want that level of thing for this young man. But still, to me, I think it's very simple and very clear that, you know, this moment here, It puts everything into question in a very, very meaningful way. And it's going to continue because, again, there are too many, it's the fact of the nature of college football players,

especially at the FBS, especially at the power four level, all of us believe, or not all, but a vast, vast, vast majority believe we're going to get that outcome. Yeah. Well, I mean, if betting on Romanian basketball at 8 in the morning was a jailable offense, they would have locked me up and thrown away the key a very long time ago. So I won't take the moral high ground on that one. It was actually Korean basketball. But I think wasn't there something? I don't want to misquote the Sorsby situation.

But there was, I saw some crazy posts on the things that he was. I think table tennis was involved in this. That's a bridge too far even for me. Anytime you're betting on ESPN 8 to Ojo, go seek help. Why are you getting on the hacky sack race? Go seek help. Go talk to the. lady. Yeah, well, I appreciate everyone here on the squad, and we appreciate the

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