Jeff Passan

Yeah, I mean, I was pretty confident, Petro, kind of throughout this whole process that he would still play, given how many L's the NCAA had been taking, and that this one seemed like an impending L as well.

And I said a couple of weeks before the injunction was granted that,

you know, I thought the injunction would happen and that that would create quite the media firestorm, which it did.

The one thing, though, is I'm not sure that Texas Tech or Sorsby were prepared for quite the media storm that ended up engulfing them.

And, yeah, you know, it's sort of funny, as quote-unquote stewards of the Big 12, that Brett Dormark was kind of the last line of defense.

And, you know, it feels like,

The threat made by the attorney general of the state of Texas and Ken Paxton that sort of allowed the Big 12 to now file this lawsuit, which has long-term ramifications on it, regardless of the Sorsby piece, that was a huge impetus for this.

Look, I think the leadership of Brett Yormark is, more than anything, the biggest story here.

And he's a guy that, throughout his time, has been able to get consensus.

And I think in this case, there were 15 on one side, one on the other, and he did eventually get the consensus that he was after.

Yeah.

No, exactly.

You were not going to find anybody administrative –

that was okay with what was happening with Texas Tech.

And I think that's true across college football and, of course, within the Big 12 as well.

Yeah, no, I mean, I think the support from other attorneys general were huge, which, you know, I'm not a lawyer, as you know, but sometimes I like to play one on the radio because it feels like in doing this, we've got to have be equipped with some level of understanding of law.

But, you know, I think the biggest part of this was, you know, the Big 12 was set to meet to discuss.

potential ramifications for this, potential penalties for tech.

And when that happened, the Attorney General of the state of Texas, Ken Paxton, kind of levied a threat at the Big 12.

This caused the Big 12 to react.