Sorsby Was Bad Luck, Not Buyer's Remorse
Context
Show response to the framing that Texas Tech has "buyer's remorse" on Sorsby. Show pushes back: Tech did everything right by the modern playbook — spent big, got the playoff-caliber portal QB, built up expectations. Sorsby's gambling-addiction situation is a class of risk the portal era hadn't priced in.
That said, the show concedes a real follow-on point: at the price points Tech and others now pay for portal QBs, the kind of deep-background-check vetting that previously was reserved for first-round NFL draft picks should become standard. "There's probably going to be a cottage industry for vetting these players moving forward."
The take is generalizable beyond Texas Tech — any program making a $5M+ portal hire is now exposed to the same risk class. Vetting infrastructure is a likely 2026-onward growth area for college football's player-personnel departments.