Within the wake of the surprising news that Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby can be withdrawing from his battle with the NCAA to enter the NFL’s supplemental draft, Sorsby’s agent, Ron Slavin, set free a few of the details that led to the shocking consequence. After Sorsby’s crack legal team had put him ready to stay eligible to play at the very least 10 games with the Red Raiders next 12 months, Slavin’s comments suggest that the college pushed Sorsby to go to the NFL.
In an appearance on 105.3 The Fan, a sports radio show in Dallas, Slavin disclosed a few of the details of how things went down. Ultimately, Slavin claims the choice to maneuver on was the results of “an excessive amount of pressure from everybody else on Tech,” though Sorsby still desired a run with the team.
“This wasn’t Brendan Sorsby not wanting to play college football,” Slavin explained. “This was Brendan Sorsby just being advised by the college that, ‘I believe it’s time for you’ — , we had seven days left to file for the supplemental draft and didn’t know where this thing was gonna go. So, we won in court. We did our job on our side, but, for whatever reason, the world melted down like college football was ruined perpetually.”
Slavin hedged his language a bit, putting equal intention between Texas Tech and Sorsby, but the general tone of the interview appeared to indicate that the university had gotten cold feet. Despite the legal victories Sorsby’s team had achieved, Texas Tech began to feel negative pressure from the media and their very own Big 12 conference. The varsity feared that the conference may opt to make an example of Sorsby and bar your complete team from participating within the conference championship or a possible playoff run. The Big 12 had filed suit against the Lubbock school, and the NCAA had requested an appeal of the judge’s injunction.
With Sorsby now headed for the NFL, though, Slavin believes Sorsby ought to be spared the punishment of a suspension. While some may point to Terrelle Pryor‘s situation in 2011, when the NFL enforced a five-game suspension previously levied by the NCAA before Pryor declared for the supplemental draft, Slavin is pointing to a newer example.
Slavin doesn’t expect his client to receive a suspension once arriving within the NFL since the NFL didn’t suspend Patriots wide receiver Kayshon Boutte when it was uncovered that he utilized an alias to position about 8,900 wagers — 17 of which were believed to be on college football games, six of them LSU games — when he was 20 years old at LSU. The news got here out after Boutte had already played a season within the NFL, however the league still investigated that matter even after the fees applied to Boutte had been dropped.
Sorsby’s situation seems to have similarities to each. Like Pryor, Sorsby was facing a two-game suspension when he declared for the supplemental draft, but Boutte’s mistakes so clearly match Sorsby’s. It would be interesting to see which precedent’s the league will claim to follow when coping with the incoming rookie prospect. In accordance with Jason La Canfora of SportsBoom, sources seem to point that Sorsby will draw plenty of interest within the supplemental draft. It’s believed some teams may attempt to grab him within the second round, but he definitely isn’t expected to last past the third round.