Nebraska draws a line on Texas Tech, and college athletics should be paying attention
The Brendan Sorsby ruling is about Texas Tech, but Nebraska athletic director Troy Dannen made it a Nebraska story on Monday too.
Nebraska is not the center of this story. That is probably the most important place to start.
The Brendan Sorsby ruling is about Texas Tech, it is about the NCAA and it is about a Texas judge granting a temporary injunction that makes Sorsby, Texas Tech’s quarterback, eligible after the NCAA had ruled him ineligible for gambling violations.
On Monday, Nebraska athletic director Troy Dannen made it a Nebraska story too.
A message sent within the Nebraska athletic department directed coaches not to schedule Texas Tech in any sport. If a future contest with Texas Tech was already on the calendar, coaches were told to connect with Dannen immediately.
Schools do not casually tell an entire athletic department to avoid scheduling another Power Four program. They especially do not do it across all sports. This was not a football-only stance, after all. It was instead a department-wide line in the sand.
So, how did we get here?
