Those anxious to tease out worst-case scenarios that could come from gambling’s growing stranglehold on sports couldn’t have found a better place for one of those scenarios to land—in the middle of college football, a sport that for decades has proven uniquely unable to deal with its most-pressing problems.
One bit of good news from Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby’s initial victory in court this week is it produced something everyone in college sports seems to agree on: College players gambling on college sports, especially when they involve their own teams is, as Florida athletic director Scott Strickin called it, “the unpardonable sin.”
