Joey Aguilar has every reason to be frustrated after the Brendan Sorsby ruling

In the new age of college sports, nothing is really off the table. Nothing. With the new Brendan Sorsby ruling, Joey Aguilar should be furious. Sorsby, a former Indiana and Cincinnati quarterback who just transferred to Texas Tech, was caught wagering on college football games, placing over 40 bets totaling around $90,000. Today, a judge ruled that suspending Sorsby would cause him “probable, imminent, and irreparable injury.” He will have to miss the first two games of next season, but ultimately, he will not miss the 2026 college football season.

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On the other hand, former Tennessee quarterback Aguilar was part of a lawsuit against the NCAA arguing that junior college eligibility should not count toward NCAA eligibility limits. Aguilar sued for one more season and had his day in court this February, but ultimately a Knox County judge ruled that he would not receive an injunction. As a result, he had to enter the NFL Draft and begin his pro career.

Sorsby gets to play, but not Aguilar?

The takeaway here is simple. Joey Aguilar got the short end of the stick big time. Aguilar had a legitimate case to play one more year in college, especially after spending time in junior college and only two years of NCAA football at App State and UCLA before coming to Tennessee. Aguilar did everything right and had to pay the price of playing JUCO football.

Plus, whether you believe Aguilar had a strong case or not, he definitely had a better argument to play than Sorsby, who was betting on games he was eligible to compete in. In Tennessee’s situation, the Vols are set to roll with a freshman quarterback next fall because they couldn't get an injunction. Since the NJCAA and the NCAA are two different leagues, why should Aguilar be punished for this?

Zooming out, the message is pretty clear: if a judge wants to play favorites, it simply can, and the NCAA has no real power to stop it. The entire system feels broken, and now even outside officials can get involved and justify rulings in ways that seem unfair. It’s ridiculous. College sports are undeniably broken, and the sport we all love is slowly being ruined.

What I still will never understand is how a local judge in the same county as a school can make a truly fair ruling in a case like Sorsby's? In the Charles Bediako case at Alabama, the judge was pulled off the case. I don’t know the full logistics of how to make it work, but there has to be a way to ensure fair, unbiased rulings in eligibility cases going forward, not local judges who may have the school’s best interests in mind.

This is a clear sign that the whole system is broken, and even in a world where everyone gets a free pass, Tennessee still got screwed over.

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