{"id":268718,"date":"2026-04-27T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/268718\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:55:10","slug":"how-gambling-could-impact-brendan-sorsbys-eligibility-at-texas-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/268718\/","title":{"rendered":"How gambling could impact Brendan Sorsby’s eligibility at Texas Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some important things to know about the NCAA\u2019s gambling policy and how it could\u00a0impact\u00a0Sorsby.<\/p>\n

\nDoes the NCAA allow student-athletes to gamble?\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Under the NCAA\u2019s gambling policy, student-athletes are not allowed to make bets on college or professional sports.\u00a0The NCAA previously adopted a\u00a0rule\u00a0change to allow student-athletes to bet on professional sports, but\u00a0two-thirds of Division I member schools voted to rescind the rule.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nHow does\u00a0betting on your own team\u00a0impact\u00a0a student-athlete’s eligibility?\n<\/p>\n

According to the NCAA\u2019s gambling policy, any student-athlete found in violation of the league\u2019s sports betting rules\u00a0may be\u00a0subject\u00a0to permanent loss of all remaining eligibility, as well as their athletic scholarship.\u00a0This applies to\u00a0student-athletes\u00a0who bet on their own games or on other sports at their own schools.<\/p>\n

According to a report from ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel<\/a>, Sorsby bet on Indiana football during the 2022 season, but only for the Hoosiers to win and not in any games in which Sorsby appeared. Sorsby only appeared in one game\u00a0for Indiana\u00a0during the 2022 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nCan a student-athlete be reinstated after losing their eligibility?\n<\/p>\n

According to the NCAA\u2019s reinstatement guidelines<\/a>, \u201cIf a student-athlete wagers on their own sport at another school, education on sports wagering rules and prevention will be\u00a0required\u00a0as a condition of reinstatement, and the loss of 50% of one season of eligibility will be considered.\u201d<\/p>\n

For all other wagering violations, including betting on professional sports, the total dollar value of the bets will be taken into consideration. Here are the terms for reinstatement from the NCAA\u2019s guidelines:<\/p>\n

It currently\u00a0isn\u2019t\u00a0known how much money Sorsby wagered. According to a report from ESPN, Sorsby made “thousands of online bets on a variety of sports via a gambling app.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are some important things to know about the NCAA\u2019s gambling policy and how it could\u00a0impact\u00a0Sorsby. Does the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-268718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}