Brendan Sorsby won’t play for Texas Tech, so college football will avoid turning into professional wrestling.Sorsby’s out, so pressure to do the right thing — all of it intense, some of it accompanied by hyperbole, some of it carefully crafted by lawyers — can work, even in this industry, even after a local judge makes a ruling that makes no sense.Sorsby is off to the NFL Supplemental Draft, so he’s better off. Texas Tech is not. In more ways than one.This isn’t quite a reason to celebrate, this decision by Sorsby and Texas Tech to part ways. But it’s worth a sigh of relief. It eliminates the possibility of a player who gambled on games involving his own team remaining in college football. And it’s the safest possible outcome for Sorsby, who has been receiving treatment for a gambling addiction.Which should remind everyone of the worst aspect of Texas Tech’s role in this saga. Yes, it would have been nice to see the school shut down any notion of Sorsby playing next season, despite committing millions to him to play quarterback for the Red Raiders in 2026. That would have been the appropriate response to an NCAA ban for Sorsby’s gambling violations, which included betting on games involving Indiana when he was at the school.It’s also fair to wonder how many other schools in the same situation would have accepted a significant downturn in prospects for the upcoming season and a major financial loss to protect the integrity of the game.I’d like to think some would have done the right thing. I’d feel comfortable declaring none in particular. College football is the place for people who want rules as long as the rules don’t interfere with their own ambitions.But the spin campaign Texas Tech unleashed after Lubbock County Judge Ken Curry decided to grant Sorsby a temporary injunction so he could play in the fall is a lasting stain. It wasn’t just embarrassing. It didn’t just stoke the anger of every college football stakeholder stationed outside of Lubbock, Texas.