Slices of Tuna: Take a deep exhale
College football’s nightmare is over. Plus, what’s next at Michigan State?
June 17. Any notable sporting events happen on this date?
1. Moving forward
Start with the quote to end all quotes, the one that perfectly sums up the Brendan Sorsby scandal and so much else going on in the world:
“If Hannibal Lecter ran a 4.3, we’d probably diagnose it as an eating disorder.”
Now it is over. At long last, college sports has awakened from its own national nightmare.
Sorsby is entering the NFL’s supplemental draft. He deemed the potential legal hurdles too risky to overcome, after the Big 12’s middle-of-the-night legal shot across the bow that clearly made an impact on the quarterback, his school and his state’s attorney general.
Good on Brett Yormark, the fiery Big 12 commissioner who came to the post in 2022 as an outsider with outside-the-box ideas, but who has hit damn near all the right notes with his constituency, especially during this ordeal.
There are two sports factions that have brought people together lately: The Knicks uniting New Yorkers, and Texas Tech … uniting everyone against the place.
