Texas Tech’s Brendan Sorsby gambling debacle would make Pete Rose grin | Opinion
It’s theater
If you cut me open, I bleed red and black as a 1975 Texas Tech University graduate. I am angry at Tech’s effort to have a 22-year-old who placed bets on his own team start at quarterback, under the altruistic guise of helping a gambling addict. (June 17, 1B, “Texas Tech faces backlash over Sorsby decision”) Pete Rose is grinning in the grave.
I had high hopes that head coach Joey McGuire would have had enough spine to go to athletic director Kirby Holcutt and Cody Campbell, chairman of Tech’s Board of Regents, and tell them to replace Brendan Sorsby with an attitude of integrity and honor.
But, alas, just like most everything else in this world, money rules all. I would like to believe that Tech leaders had no idea this probably was brewing, but common sense says they did and tried to spin it like political theater. Tech sold its soul for a supposed short-term gain without considering the long-term devastation this decision will cause.
- Randy Jordan, Arlington
Paxton regret
As a longtime Texas Tech fan, the whole Brendan Sorsby ordeal gives me so much grief I cannot even measure it. I have lost all respect for coach Joey McGuire for making his stand with Sorsby. Also troubling for me is that Attorney General Ken Paxton weighing in on this. I just voted for that man in the Senate primary, and now I am almost regretting that vote.
- Carl H. Sartain, Longview
Go for more
Ryan Rusak’s June 17 column “TX Senate Rundown: Talarico pastor said what about attempt to kill Trump?” (13A) was yet another attempt to throw shade at James Talarico. Similar to Rusak’s piece on Talarico’s girlfriend a week before, this column was written to do nothing but introduce doubt about the Senate candidate.
I am a Talarico supporter, and while I don’t expect to find commentaries exclusively in support of him, we should strive for more than low-hanging fruit.
- Alex Groves, Euless
About ‘we’
The founding document that we celebrate every Fourth of July does not have the word “I” in it anywhere. The only first-person language is “we,” used 11 times. Nor does the U.S. Constitution contain the word “I” anywhere.
Donald Trump needs to reread both documents. All he ever mentions is himself, bragging that he did this or he did that. Even Queen Victoria used the royal “we.”
Trump is the elected representative of the American people, not the CEO of his own company. The White House and the Kennedy Center do not belong to him. Slapping his name and image on everything would offend our Founding Fathers. It’s hard to believe MAGA Republicans are so mesmerized by this self-important little man that they cannot see what a threat he is to our cherished democracy.
- Richard Selcer, Fort Worth