District Judge Ken Curry, who recently ruled that the NCAA couldn’t permanently ban Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby from playing college football due to his gambling history, has ignited another controversy.
On Tuesday, he ruled that Texas Tech could place FanDuel betting kiosks inside the lockers of every Red Raider football player.
“This is the United States of America,” Curry told reporters, “and there is nothing more American than taking pride in the cleavage of a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader or wagering the rent money on a Texas Tech football game. Anyone who claims that encouraging players to bet on their team’s games will undermine the integrity of college football doesn’t know squat about college football. Hell’s bells, y’all, there’s nothing left to undermine! That pig has already oinked. Try saying ‘Southeastern Conference student-athlete’ without laughing so hard that snot comes out of your nose while you piss your pants. Go ahead, try. No siree, it can’t be done.”
Asked to comment on Judge Curry’s recent decisions, Laurence Tribe, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School, observed that “this is the risk you take when the clinically brain dead are allowed to remain on the bench.”