At one point, QB Brendan Sorsby might have been an “easy **** on” option for the Cleveland Browns long-standing quarterback quandary. Sorsby’s sorted road, after transferring to Texas Tech, put him on the way to the NFL Supplemental Draft process, as everyone **** umed that betting on college football and betting on his own team’s games would not stand, even if an appeal was filed in the home of the Red Raiders.
“Everyone” was wrong, as that Texas court approved an injunction that would allow Sorsby to play this season in college, unless he still decided to try to enter the Supplemental Draft or the NCAA appealed and won that appeal, barring Sorsby from playing.
As expected, the NCAA did appeal Monday’s ruling, requesting a sped-up process:
According to SB Nation’s Mark Schofield, a former practicing lawyer, noted a big hurdle the NCAA has to overcome. Thankfully, Schofield used language that non-lawyers can understand:
Appeals of these decisions are reviewed on one standard: Abuse of discretion. Judges in temporary injunction cases are given substantial deference in deciding those matters, and to overturn the order in this case, the NCAA must convince the appellate court that Judge Curry abused that discretion, and that the ruling was arbitrary, capricious, or failed to apply the law correctly in reaching the decision.