Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - BIG 10 SQUAD: The Big 10 is BOYCOTTING Texas Tech | How this affects Iowa

Episode Date: June 11, 2026

Big Ten powers rally against Texas Tech over Brendan Sorsby’s controversial eligibility fight. As the Red Raiders attempt to play Sorsby despite NCAA regulations, Big Ten schools refuse all non-conference competition, igniting a heated debate about integrity, NIL chaos, and the role of judges in college football. Is this a Texas Tech scandal, an NCAA crisis, or a sign the sport is spinning out of control? The Locked On Big Ten Squad breaks down why Sorsby’s 9,000 betting violations set off a conference-wide backlash, if conferences—not the NCAA—hold the real power, and how coaches like Joey McGuire are stoking national outrage. Can streamlining rules, stricter enforcement, or a new governing body save the sport? Plus, get bold predictions as FanDuel sets Minnesota’s win total at 6.5—will the Golden Gophers beat expectations this season? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Well, we know Brendan Sorsby is now eligible to play for Texas Tech. And then the Big Ten said, cool, we're not going to play you. And now their athletic director says that everybody's out to get them. What in the world is going on. We'll talk about that. Plus, Minnesota's win total as the Big Ten squad gets together. You're talking ball with the Big Ten Squad, sponsored by game time. From USC to Ohio State from Michigan to Oregon, from Nebraska to Washington,

it's the local experts of the Locked On podcast network, bringing you scoops, breakdowns, and the most comprehensive preview of the upcoming Big Ten weekend. No hurt feelings and thin skin allowed. Squad up, you're part of the Big Ten Squad. Welcome in, it is the Lockdown Big Ten Squad. I'm Jacob Goans, filling in for Spencer McLaughlin, who again claims that he's out of the country. I've yet to see proof of it. I'm the host of Lockdown Hoosiers.

We've got Mark Colkin, host of Lockdown USC, Isaiah Hall from Lockdown Wolverines, Roma Thomas Schoff of Lockdown Huskies, and Jay Stevens. of Locked on Buckeyes. We continue our win total conversation throughout the summer as we do every single year. And Minnesota's is six and a half. I don't see it. We'll get to that later. But gentlemen, of course, it's another day, which means more updates on Brendan Soresby, because this entire situation continues to get out of hand. We know that he's eligible, right? He's supposedly going to play for Texas Tech. But then our conference, our Big Ten, came out and said, you know what, you're going to do that.

We're not going to play you, not just in football, in any sport. And I think it was phenomenal. You got Nebraska get started. Georgia was in there as well from the SEC as Roman's cat just goes crazy. Yep.

Cat, I don't know. He's fired up too. Cat's furious with Brendan Sores me right now. And I'm very proud of the Big Ten. Mark, I want to start with you of Locked on USC. Are you proud of the Big Ten for stepping up and saying, if you're going to do this to our sport, we're not going to play you, Texas Tech.

So I want to go on record and say I was actually out in front of the Big Ten because I did my show a couple nights ago where I said, you know, USC is kind of USC versus Texas Tech. It's kind of out there in the ether about non-conference scheduling. I said, I don't want this to happen. You know, I want USC to have a great non-conference schedule, but not if we're going to sacrifice our integrity to make it happen. So yeah, I'm happy that the Big Ten's on the same page that I'm at. You know, I'm old enough to remember when USC lost 30 scholarships, had a Heisman yanked, had some wins vacated, national championship kind of pushed aside. Back in the good old days. Yeah, back, you know, when Reggie Bush and his family was beta testing NIL. You know, Rick New Heissel. Is that what we're called now? Roman, I'm sure you remember.

Rick Neuheisel lost his job at Washington. I was going to mention that for a pool bet in something. that, you know, we all do in our office. The Iowa Hawkeyes, they had a football player turned himself in for making a $10 wager on a women's basketball game. Your NCAA career is over. Iowa State something similar to that effect. Have we reached the point in the world where boo-hoo, my feelings are hurt, I need to go find a sympathetic judge to tell the NCAA in college football, you play that young man because winning is more important than learning a hard lesson in life. Well, that's what Texas Tech believes, and they're going to do everything they can to get

Brendan Soresby to play. Isaiah Hall of Lockdown Wolverines. Your thought on the Big Ten saying, we're not going to play you, not just in football, but none of your sports if you are going to go through with this blasphemy of letting Brendan Soresby play this season. It's funny because I have like, my opinions are kind of all over the map with this. Like, I'm 100% behind the Big Ten doing this. Texas Tech is about as much of a rogue program as you can find right now, right? And you can see that just the way they conduct themselves. And I understand NIL is the law of the land, but like you see it constantly with just like they are just kind of crazy

when it comes to all of that. But at the same time, like, you know, like you look at it and it's kind of like, you know, I feel bad because I also love the NCAA. So I hate seeing them get torn down, you know? Like I think we again like I've I've been on the record we all we all love the NCAA right they're so great they're so wonderful we are so in support yeah amazing overlords that see everything clearly all the time um so like that there is a little bit of kind of like you know like everything mark just mentioned you look at like all of those cases that it's just like do you really need to completely destroy everything over some minor things I don't think brandon sorsby was doing minor things here. But, you know, like it's, it's hard for me to really say anything other than like, yeah, Big Ten, you did the right thing here, especially because if it was another player and another school, I might like be like, eh, I don't know. But just kind of what we've learned about Brendan Sorsby, what we kind of have seen from Texas Tech over the last couple of years, I just, it's, to me, it's the only thing that makes sense, even though I'm, I'm just generally not necessarily a fan of, things like what we talked about off air with Roman and or actually was this that might have been on air.

I might not be awake. But Rick New Heisel and all of that type of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Well, speaking of Roman Tomashoff of Lockdown Huskies, Isaiah said it wasn't a minor thing that Brendan Swordsby was doing. 9,000 bets is not minor. I don't think.

I think that's getting after. It's what some people would say, are you a fan of what the Big Ten is doing? And then on top of that, your response to what Texas Tech AD is. say because apparently everybody's just out to get texas tech right now as as as this the illustrious big 10 squad knows i've been taking my shots at texas tech for a while referencing them in this conversation i you're the problem no i am the problem who's out to get texas tech no i i think the big 10 is doing the right thing here because this is ridiculous like you can't be the program that is more responsible for for breaking the system of college football than any other in terms of nil and all

these different things and then just go running and crying, oh, this, this very serious thing that as both these, that my illustrious colleagues here at Mark and Isaiah have mentioned in Rick New Heisel can't, you know, join an NCAA tournament pool. Obviously, that was back when Washington was still a young Big Ten program, 20-something years ago. But this is just absolutely ridiculous, man. There's so much evidence. There's so much that's piling up here. But no, we paid $6 million for a quarterback or whatever. So wait, no, so he, he, He has to play. We have to figure this out. No, that's ridiculous. Just just stop with this. The world is not out to get Texas tech and their oil money. They have broken the sport enough. This I'm so over this. Well, Jay Stevens have locked on Buckeyes. Clearly, Ohio State was the team that is leading the charge. They just see Texas Tech as a huge threat. And so the buck guys have to put them down and get them out of the way. I mean, is this a Texas Tech problem? Is this a Soresby problem? Is this a college football problem? I mean, what, what are we dealing with? Because in the next segment, we're going to talk about how we put this to an end. But where do you kind of sit with this whole situation as it stands right

now? This is very connected to the other players that have been going to judges trying to get eligibility to get extra years. And it just doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand why if you have rules and then you want to go to a judge and a judge can say, oh, you don't have to follow that rule. It's there, but it's not there in my book. It doesn't make sense. In no area should that be allowed, but it is in college football. If this were the NBA, the NFL, the NHL, any pro league, really any league outside of this, this wouldn't happen. But for some reason in college football, these judges want to allow their own power and

their own words to say, oh, we don't care about what that rulebook says. We have our own way of doing things. That shouldn't be how the sport is ran or how life has ran in general, but that's where we are. And I don't want to get too ahead of ourselves, Jacob, but the judges have to stop. stop. At some point, you just have to realize you shouldn't become the story. These stories should be, there's a rule, you should follow it. That's it. It's pretty simple. But the fact we have judges that are making themselves a big story and, oh, look what I did. This player can

have a seventh. No, it shouldn't happen. But that's where we are in college football. It's not, like, do I, yes, he has a problem. But the fact that you can go to a judge, go to court and get it and be able to play. That's silly to me. But that's where we are. I think you make an interesting point that I want to hit on when we come back because you talk about players going to judges two, three, four years ago for eligibility and for fighting different things. And I think all that is led to where we are right now with Brendan Sorsby. We talk about that. Plus, how do we put it to an end? And don't forget, Minnesota's win total. Everybody's excited. Yay, I can see it on your faces. All that coming up here on the Lockdown Big Ten squad right after this. This episode of the Lockdown

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There isn't an answer right now because of what we talked about in that first segment. until we get these activist judges, this litigious society out of the first thing out of our mouth, it doesn't matter because that is everybody's backstop right now. I don't like what I heard. I'm going to go have somebody tell me what I want to hear

and make it happen. It's not only that is he going, is he eligible right now with this temporary injunction. Mind you temporary, finger quotes. Yeah. You can't even, it's not even going to trial until February. after the season has been played out.

And every single appellate judge in Lubbock County has an affiliation with Texas Tech. So there is no answer. Obviously, the NCAA is going to be brought to the ground. College football, college basketball, you're going to have super conferences. You're going to have anti-exempt status with, you know, that Congress is going to have to get involved with. You're going to look, you're going to be the next level of the, the NFL, the NBA, whatever we want to call it with sports. But that's the answer because right now rules don't matter.

And this is just the latest, you know, if sports is a microcosm of everyday life, I mean, I can't find a better analogy of what's going on between Texas Tech, the rationale that they're using to try and explain why versus every, I mean, we talk about 80-20 issues. this is like 99 versus one and everybody's on the side of the NCAA right now except for our friends down in love of Texas which is such a crazy thought right who would have thought six months ago 12 months ago we all would be fighting for the NCAA i know we joke about it in the first segment but it's like man if there's ever a time for the NCAA to win something

this would be it but jay i want to come back to you because you had brought up the point at the end of the previous segment not only are folks going to judges to get basically get them to approve what they're trying to do, they'll go to eight different judges until they get the answer that they're looking for. And that's the even bigger problem here. It is a big problem. It is.

The one thing I think that can change things until there may be down the road a governing body for the sport, it's conferences just stepping up and saying, okay, if you guys are going to allow this, we won't allow our schools to play you in anything. That's the only way that I think this thing can actually change is if conferences put their foot down,

because this sport is ran by the conferences, and they have a lot of power. I don't think TV networks truly care because if Brendan Soresby is on ESPN or Fox or any network, that's going to bring a lot of eyeballs and a lot of attention. And so I don't think that they truly are going to step up and say, oh, no, you're not, you don't do this. But it has to be the conferences.

It has to be the coaches. It has to be the presidents and ADs of these schools to sit up here and say, we're not going to allow this on our watch. we won't allow this at all. If they don't do it, if the conference commissioners don't step up, then this will continue to happen not just in football or not just in basketball, but in a lot of sports because if no one's going to step up and put their foot down, people will do whatever they want to do.

You bring up another interesting point. I want to go to Isaiah Hole of Locked on Wolverines. This is not a shot at you or Michigan, I swear. But there will be a lot of hate watching of Texas Tech this season in Michigan when they get caught up in a scandal or any other team. that gets caught up in drama like this. People go out of their way to hate watch. I mean, do you think that that's going to be a thing this year?

Because Texas Tech AD says, if you don't play us, we'll sue. And it's like, well, what are you going to sue about? You can't force somebody to play you, right? Right. And first off, I'd like to be the first to congratulate Texas Tech on going undefeated and winning a national champion. I think we all know that's what's coming. But like, I mean, honestly, kind of what you almost hope is they have a good season,

the college football playoff then says thanks but no thanks because they can make that decision. The NCAA can look at it and say he's an ineligible player and deem that their record doesn't count for the 10 games that he plays in. Right. But ultimately, I think the way you fix it is just you streamline the rulebook, right? Like you streamline it to a point where it's legible, not a bunch of insane codes, not a bunch of like, well, we got to really figure out like, oh, did they, you know, know like what is it about this gear and stuff like that right like you got to just streamline it

and then at that point you just you have every player sign something saying this is how you play and if you break this rule you're just done if you play beyond the the the amount that you would be thinking you're done right like it's just isn't that rule already on the book though well i think I think you just need to simplify it, though. You can't have like, when you bloat the rule book to being where. Handling is not allowed. How do you simplify that? I mean, you just need, I'm just saying as an overarching thing.

Yes, it is a rule, but you have everyone sign something. And it says if, because that's not what's existing right now. It's like, yo, you come in and you play, but you just everyone signed something. Well, it's been the enforcement of the rules. That's been the issue. And it's been an issue for decades, but nobody has challenged it until the last decade, right? The last seven to 10 years, right? Roman of Lockdown Huskies, I feel like that's the big problem that we're running into here is the NCAA was this governing body that everybody trusted, everybody respected and believed in.

And then people started to say, well, hold up, wait a minute. What happens if we don't listen to you? And that's how we've gotten right here to Isaiah's point. We need enforcement right now. Yeah, we also have to do the exact opposite of what Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire is doing. I don't know if you guys have seen this. I just saw this quote where he's defending it by saying it's not murder. It's not beating someone.

I saw that too. I just saw this, Jacob. That's what we shouldn't be doing. That is a real thing. Paul Feinbaum put it on Twitter. I can't believe that this is where we are. Like this is what really needs to stop. all of this defending these sorts of actions. It doesn't matter if it didn't take place at your school.

To what Mark and Isaiah were both just saying, that is in the rules. You are not allowed to gamble. We talked with a Rick New Heisel thing. We talk about all these other things. That's the end of it. Full stop. We should not have to go beyond that. And the fact that we do, like, I get it. If it's something like, you know, you have to go talk about eligibility for one thing or another. I'm not saying that it's the best system that we have in place here, obviously. But there's an argument for that. There is, there is no argument because look at, look at what we've dealt with. Jay, I really liked your point earlier about what if this was the NFL. What if this was the NBA? Look at what we had to go through with the weirdness with the show Hey, Otani thing, not too long ago, right?

Like, look at, look at what happened with that. And, you know, whatever may or may not have happened there, I'm not going to insinuate anything with that. But that's, that's where this needs to be. And the fact that this isn't, and the fact that one program is going to sit there and act holier than now in this ridiculous case is something that I cannot wrap my head around. That's what needs to stop, like at the end of the day. I am now seeing this video of Joey McGuire. I don't know how I miss this today, but I mean, can we get a PR team to Lubbock? Like, can we get these people in front of some training videos and be like, here's what you don't say in front of a microphone?

You know what I mean? Like, it's crazy because it's not murder. it's not beating somebody. That is verbatim. It's crazy. Like, holy smokes. Wow. I mean.

From Cody Campbell to Kirby Hoka to Joey. I mean, the mouthpieces for that program right now, it's amazing what's coming out of little pie holes. And yet they are claiming that if this was LSU, then nobody would have a problem with it because everybody is just out to get the Red Raiders. And it's like, you have done nothing for people to be after you other than do the wrong things.

thing. That's why people are mad, but yet they can't wrap their brains around it there. Fascinating stuff. And of course, the next time we sit down to do this, we'll have another piece of news that we get to talk about and more unfolding of the Brendan Sorsby saga. But we can't keep the people waiting any longer. They've hung around this long to hear our thoughts on Minnesota. That's right. Six and a half is their win total. According to our friends in Fandul, we make our picks on that next. And speaking of Fandle, today's episode of the locked on Big Ten Squad is brought to you by Fandle. The biggest stage of world soccer is here,

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apparently our friends at fandle think that Minnesota is going to have an okay year. Six and a half is the wind total for the golden gophers according to fandle. And in case you don't have the Minnesota schedule memorized. Don't worry, for those of you on YouTube, I got you. All right, here you go. Here's the Minnesota football schedule. It's not bad, but it's not good either. They host Eastern Illinois. They host Mississippi State in a non-conference game from the SEC, and they host Akron. All right, not bad. Then they go to Washington. They host Michigan, go to Purdue, then their by week. It's right in the middle of the season. then they host Iowa, come to Indiana, go and host UCLA, go to Penn State, host Northwestern,

and then they travel to Wisconsin. Mark, you're the only one left here in the squad that doesn't play Minnesota this season. So it makes sense to start with you. Six and a half are you buying the Golden Gophers in 2026? I've been during the break, I've been looking at the schedule. I'm thinking, all right, well, they're going to be three and three at the buy. So I actually have I have them three and three going into the bye week and then I'm looking at rest of that schedule and thinking, all right. UCLA at home, there's four wins, possibility.

They're not going to beat at it. They're not going to go into Bloomington and win. Can they win their homecoming game against Iowa? I'm going to. I can't get over six wins. No matter how I take it. Okay. past six wins.

Yeah. I don't even know if I can get that far, really. And I mean, Minnesota is just one of those teams where it never feels like a true gimme when it's on the schedule, but it's one that if you, but if you lose, it's, Mark, it's like, oh, God, we lost to Minnesota. Roman, you get to have Minnesota come to Seattle, my friend, for their first road trip of the season. No way this goes wrong for Minnesota, right?

you make that sound just so exciting. I can't wait because it's in the midst of four straight home games for Washington. But this is this is a really, I don't, there's no way Minnesota wins that game. In my opinion, I just don't think that they have the talent, especially with what Washington is going to be given, given people on the defensive side of the ball this year to compete in that game. And like both of you guys have said, the more I look at the schedule, it feels like six wins maximum, in my opinion. And a lot of it does come come down to that back half of the schedule. I think that UCLA might be better than some people think. The fact that games at home might certainly help them out a little bit.

But Northwestern Wisconsin to end the year, that'll be weird. I feel like they'll split those games, especially after the conversation we had with our good buddy Ryan Herrings last week. But no matter how I sliced this, I can't see them getting the over here. Yeah, six and a half. I mean, they're at least projecting them to be bowl eligible, which is nice of our friends and Fandoz, Isaiah of Locked on Wolverines. You guys get to make the daunting trip to Minnesota this year. I mean, you said Jay was scared. Is Michigan scared of going to Minnesota?

Six and a half wins is the total this season. I don't think. I think most people aren't, but I actually think that they should be. I believe it or not. Okay. I think, well, you look at Minnesota, when you look at Bill Connolly, ESPN, in his returning production, I think that always matters. They've got, I believe the most in the Big 10 in returning production.

They are, they have a quarterback assuming he can stay out. out of jail and Drake Lindsay that's really, really good, like an NFL caliber quarterback. PJ Fleck has always had his team ready to play. Now, they've got a lot of home games that I think are winnable. Actually, I think even the Michigan one, that's Michigan's first road game. To me, that's a little dice even for Michigan. I think Washington and Michigan win those two. I think they win against Mississippi State.

I think they win against an Iowa team that has. some of the least amount of returning production in the in the country, let alone the conference. So ultimately, I think it's going to come down to can they, I think I actually have them at seven wins going into the Wisconsin. Wow. Because I think going in all of those home games except for Michigan. And then the question is, can they win that away game at Wisconsin? I mean, we've seen that they can even when they're not that good. So I actually have deal with.

How about that? Isaiah coming in with the over for Minnesota. I just, I don't know, guys. Look, they're not winning at Washington. They're not winning at home against Michigan. They're not winning at Indiana. They're not winning at Penn State. Those are four games you can like immediately scratch as you guys have talked about. I'll give them Eastern Illinois and Akron. I'll give them Purdue because Purdue sucks. Purdue is terrible. I'll give them the win against Northwestern. So there's what, four. And I got to find three more on here. And I just hosting Mississippi State is cool. Hosting Iowa, I don't trust that team and hosting UCLA plus a trip to Wisconsin. I just, I don't have confidence in it.

If they do it, then I'll come on here and say I was wrong. But I'm not giving Minnesota seven wins in 2026. I just, I can't do it. But if you agree or disagree, head to Fandle, check it out. That's where they've got a six and a half win total. Mark Hawken of Lockdown USC, Roman Tomashoff of Locktown Huskies, Isaiah Hall of Lockdown Wolverines. And I'm Jacob Goins of Lockdown Hoosiers. We appreciate you being here for another episode of the Lockdown Big Ten Squad, and we will do it again next week.