A Texas court’s decision to grant eligibility to Brendan Sorsby has been condemned across college football. While many analysts are taking their anger out on the NCAA, the ADs of some college programs are making the Red Raiders a target of their frustration.

“I think there needs to be serious conversations about not playing Texas Tech in any sports,” Georgia athletic director Josh Brooks, a member of the NCAA Football Oversight Committee, told Yahoo Sports.

Kansas State athletic director Gene Taylor said that the situation is bigger than the Big 12. Although they are not playing Texas Tech this year, Taylor still wants to look at it from a ‘college football perspective.’

Athletics directors are unhappy with the Lubbock Court’s decision to grant Brendon Sorsby eligibility after the NCAA denied his appeal. Moreover, they are furious at Texas Tech for siding with their player on a grave matter. Sorsby was not denied eligibility due to an injury; rather, he was denied eligibility because he was involved in heavy betting, specifically on his own team, Indiana. The NCAA made it crystal clear that any student-athlete may be subject to permanent loss of eligibility in such a situation.

“This Court finds that [Sorsby] has demonstrated that he will suffer a probable, imminent, and irreparable injury if this Court does not issue this temporary injunction because he will be unable to participate as a member of Texas Tech University’s 2026 football team,” read the court’s decision on Monday morning.

As per some ADs, the verdict sets a poor example for their teams that gambling is okay and there won’t be any serious repercussions for it. Sorsby’s case would just open doors for many others to walk through and make a serious mistake and be excused with the ‘it would jeopardize my future’ prong. Teams are planning to take matters into their own hands; many are calling for a boycott of games against Texas Tech as a punishment.

“It’s f****** bulls***,” Taylor told Yahoo Sports on Monday. “I know the kid has a problem. Well, get well and focus on your problem. It is absolutely devastating for him to be able to play when every other sport, no matter the level, deems an athlete ineligible or they are punished severely for betting on their team.”

“This is not about Texas Tech. It’s about protecting our own locker room. We cannot, in good conscience, put our student-athletes on a field where the competitive integrity of the contest is compromised and overridden by the courts. If a state court wants to dictate eligibility rules, it can play itself,” Taylor continued.

Throughout this scandal, Texas Tech HC McGuire has stood right by Sorsy’s side, but it might not have been the best decision, as his whole team might suffer if the boycott is actually implemented.

While the fire keeps spreading across the teams, Texas Tech has also released some ammunition to help put it out.

Texas Tech’s statement on backlash from Big 12 and SEC administrations.

Cody Campbell, the Texas Tech billionaire booster, called the situation “unfortunate” and the “outcome of a broken system.”

“I’m doing everything I can to fix [the system], but until there is a permanent solution, Texas Tech and its student-athletes have to do the best they can to navigate and compete amid the chaos that exists in the reality of the world we live in,” Campbell said.

Despite being a Texas Tech booster, he is also a close ally of Donald Trump and serves on the college sports reform committee. The intervention is also sought by many ADs, seeing the severity of the situation. Monday’s decision also drew the attention of lawmakers like Rep. Brendan Boyle, who is outraged by it.

“It’s now, more than ever, abundantly clear Congress needs to act to give NCAA and universities the ability to govern themselves,” he said.

NCAA president Charlie Baker also used the verdict to encourage Congress to act and targeted “deep-pocketed supporters” at schools that are “willing to look the other way on the glaring integrity threat of betting on your own team.”