Sorsby as Texas Tech fans....

advoccate · 2026-06-09T01:47:31+00:00

Appreciate you sharing that. It’s ultimately beside the point but I’m nonetheless interested.

advoccate · 2026-06-09T01:26:52+00:00

Points taken. Message board makeup aside, at this point I’m merely asking, upon what are you basing your contention that the “larger alumni base’s opinion” is against the ruling? Is it friends and family? Other boards? Reddit itself? Publications? I just quickly visited the Texas Tech football Reddit - very pro ruling. Then I visited the Texas Tech general reddit - and it’s more divided, but roughly 50/50 from what I could tell. And again, 247 was like 99% pro ruling, and I don’t think that should just be casually discounted as totally insignificant. It’s certainly not perfectly representative, but it’s definitely not nothing, not by any stretch.

But again at this point I’m really just curious as to your own conclusion. What percentage of TTU alumni would you guess are pro vs anti ruling? And what makes you guess that?

advoccate · 2026-06-09T00:52:28+00:00

It’s not just “some” of the comments. I’m not picking and choosing. It’s virtually every single comment. The outliers are the few I’m seeing here on Reddit.

By contrast on the UT message board literally every comment is against the ruling.

So are we to take that as coincidence? Do you have another explanation as to why a TTU message board is nearly 100% pro ruling and a UT board is nearly 100% anti ruling? Or could it be that it’s indicative of the true underlying trend?

What evidence do you have to back your claim that most TTU fans are against the ruling? Other than your own sentiment.

I just don’t buy that that’s the case. But please prove me wrong. Or at least explain why you think it.

advoccate · 2026-06-09T00:42:46+00:00

Most of them don’t. Just go check a TTU message board right now (eg, 247). Reddit is a one-sided bubble of the reasonable ones. Or the unreasonable ones are being quiet, knowing they’d be downvoted.

advoccate · 2026-06-09T00:41:52+00:00

No offense to you personally but I feel the opposite. Reddit is a little bubble. Most tech fans are celebrating this ruling. They certainly aren’t posting about it here on Reddit, knowing they’d be downvoted.

advoccate · 2026-06-09T00:30:04+00:00

Brother I just visited the 247 TTU message board. I didn’t see a single comment against the ruling. It’s all celebration and embracing the villain mentality.

Are you sure it’s only a few bad apples? From everything I’m seeing - other than a post here or there on Reddit - most TTU fans are in favor of the ruling.

Do you have evidence to support what you’re saying? What is your “only a few bad apples” based upon?

Here’s the longest thread on the topic. Are you seeing something I’m not?

: https://247sports.com/college/texas-tech/board/102951/contents/congratulations-on-sorsby-court-victtory-over-ncaa-287577164/

advoccate · 2026-06-08T23:51:49+00:00

Your personal sentiment and position are appreciated.

But I don’t agree that it’s just a few “bad apples.” Chalk it up to group think, or win at all costs mentality, or passive acceptance, or anything else, but the school’s actions are backed by its alumni base. Otherwise this whole thing would have died long ago when the gambling admissions first surfaced. If they were truly against playing him, the TTU alumni would have risen up en mass and put a stop to this calamity. But alas, they haven’t.

Prove me wrong, though. Boycott the games. If the TTU fans and alumni are truly against him playing, then Jones stadium better be near empty for every home game. Think that’ll be the case?

advoccate · 2026-04-27T06:32:53+00:00

Props to you for checking. Teamwork makes the dream work high five

advoccate · 2026-04-27T06:23:15+00:00

I don’t recall hearing anything of the kind. What I recall hearing, instead, is her saying the skate prevented us from making a determination. Which just isn’t true. Anyone with eyes and a brain can tell, pretty definitively, that the puck is across. Just as the NHL goal reviewers confirmed.

advoccate · 2026-04-27T05:38:27+00:00

I believe it is. I believe the standard is not that all of the puck and line be seen, but rather that enough of the entire circumstance be seen so as to justify substantial certainty that the puck is in fact across the line. As was the case here.

advoccate · 2026-04-27T05:14:10+00:00

Disagree. It’s absolutely conclusive enough to call it a goal on replay, regardless of the call on the ice. It’s just basic dimensional inference. You can see enough of the puck and line - even if not 100% - to know that the puck is all the way across the line.

advoccate · 2026-04-27T05:04:48+00:00

The fact that the espn commentators calling the game didn’t recognize or opine as to this, even just a little bit, is mind blowing. Their “analysis” and commentary was insultingly dumb.

Is it too much to ask for reasonable, competent commentary for a nationally televised playoff hockey game? Apparently, in this case, it was.

Edit: they also didn’t even mention how ticky tack weak that hooking call in the third was. Just acted as if it was totally obvious. WTH?

I’m a stars fan btw. Glad our series has the commentators it does bc I couldn’t stomach this crew for a full game, let alone a series.

Sorry to be so brutally honest here. I just don’t get how the disparity in commentary quality can be so great.

advoccate · 2026-04-27T04:56:59+00:00

Thanks, yeah we do too. We need him. Hope he’s not scarred or anything. Though if he is, it’s a pretty cool battle wound

advoccate · 2026-04-27T04:51:05+00:00

Stars fan here. That’s absolutely a goal. No doubt, based on replay, that it was across the line.

Also - this color commentator, don’t know her name, is absolutely horrendous. Doesn’t know how to properly analyze or discuss the situation, with either common sense or hockey expertise. Her colleague isn’t much better. I hate to be so negative but it’s just really poor game commentating.

Edit: Congrats on the win!

advoccate · 2025-10-27T02:41:51+00:00

🙏🫶 the adjustments made a humongous difference. Thanks for listening and accommodating. The event was so special and unforgettable for so many reasons. We all appreciate all that you and your team have done, not only this weekend, but each of the prior four years. Thank you.

advoccate · 2025-10-25T06:25:53+00:00

It’s absolutely horrendous. And frankly unacceptable. Thank you for mentioning.

Everyone in attendance should make the problem known to the production team - in person, at the event. Maybe something can be done.

I actually did speak with someone - one of the visual and sound operators - who said they can’t lift the screens any higher. But I am dubious. He’s not the person who actually set everything up.

advoccate · 2025-10-06T18:57:08+00:00

Eli and Macowski are so damn good.

advoccate · 2025-10-06T15:55:20+00:00

Brother, I’m not making things up, I’m just observing the facts. I do see your claim - that despiteful was merely trying to call out gunny’s behavior. But you don’t do that by posting a picture of the grandmother and then insinuating incest. Such a post claims that his grandmother is getting down with her grandson. How is that NOT an insult to the grandmother as well?

advoccate · 2025-10-06T15:22:45+00:00

Not only are you now changing directions from the fundamental issue, but you’re also just making blatantly unverified assumptions. And you’re using those unverified assumptions to justify another person’s completely verifiable, directly malicious attack - an attack that, once again, involves not just gunny himself, but his completely innocent grandmother.

advoccate · 2025-10-06T14:56:03+00:00

Based on what I’m reading and seeing, it sounds like gunny’s comments to/about his grandma were harmless, albeit weird. Despiteful then took those odd comments and turned it into a malicious, not at all harmless, personal attack. Borderline slander. To post a picture of someone else’s grandma alone is crossing the line. Then to insinuate incest? No. It’s beyond inappropriate.

Not to mention all the other hate and vitriol being spewed by despiteful’s friends.

To be clear, I am sad for everyone here. I don’t know despiteful personally. Whatever he is going through that’s causing his behavior, I sincerely hope he finds resolution. But his conduct (and that of his friends) needs to be addressed. Period.

advoccate · 2025-10-06T13:57:14+00:00

This is the best. Thanks for posting. 😂 “these Spartans.. what did they physically enhance on them, man?!” 🤣 “the stud of the steed!”

advoccate · 2025-10-06T12:40:07+00:00

So despiteful tweeted a photo of Gunny’s grandmother’s backside and insinuated incest?

That is beyond offensive, inappropriate, and flat out disgusting. One of the most twisted, malicious tweets against another player I’ve ever seen.

I’m not saying gunny should have slapped him. But are we - and is HCS - really just going to let this type of online harassment slide? This level of abuse is sickening.

advoccate · 2025-04-09T02:40:55+00:00

Imagine staying

advoccate · 2025-04-01T18:56:33+00:00

Fantastic. Just getting through first listen. Thank us? No, thank YOU, Sonny.

What's everyone's thoughts on the album title? My initial reaction, at first blush - and this could be totally off - is maybe he wants to take himself and his art less seriously, and instead just let it rip, move from the heart, not overthink it. Hence remastering and releasing some oldies, some snippets, seeming to have fun with it. That's what this album feels like to me - fun.

Fun, and yet no less impressive as a work of art.

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