Pro days

 A long, long time ago -- mere seconds in College Athletics New Reality time; eons in real time -- you knew Brendan Sorsby.

He was a quarterback from Texas who landed at Indiana University, where he suited up and played some for the Hoosiers in the pre-Cignetti years. Then he hopped in the transfer portal and vagabonded to the University of Cincinnati.

Now, a century later (OK, so only a couple of years or so), he's vagabonding again to Texas Tech. Along the way, he took the Bearcats for a cool million.

That, at least, is UC's contention, which is why they're suing Sorsby for breaching his NIL contract. Apparently there was a $1 million exit fee if he decided to transfer somewhere else, which Cincinnati's complaint alleges Sorsby refused to pay on the advice of his "representative."

In other words, the kid's stiffing them, allegedly. And if so, good on Cincinnati.

 Someone has to try to tame the Wild West college athletics have become. And if it takes hauling your student-athletes (or, these days, ""student-athletes") into court, so be it.

Of course, this was never the way it was supposed to work when the NCAA was finally compelled to cut its "student-athletes" in on the billions it was generating, but let's face it: The NCAA painted itself into this corner. It went from "You'll get nothing and like it!" to "Aw, hell, do whatever you want" virtually overnight, with the predictable consequence that the "student-athletes" are now professionals with all the trimmings.

They can go to the highest bidder now, same as any professional. They have contracts, same as any professional. And -- same as any professional -- when there's a dispute over those contracts, it usually winds up in court.

And so, here we are: A university suing one of its scholars (or presumed scholars) over money. We're a long way from those quaint times when cheating on a test was the biggest dispute a university had with its "student-athletes."

But then, those were the back-in-the-day days. These are the pro days. 

See ya in court.