{"id":298778,"date":"2026-05-18T22:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/298778\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:20:08","slug":"texas-tech-declares-qb-brendan-sorsby-ineligible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/298778\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech declares QB Brendan Sorsby ineligible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Tech declared quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/texas-tech-red-raiders\/2026\/01\/05\/texas-tech-brendan-sorsby-qb-things-to-know-transfer-portal-cincinnati\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Brendan Sorsby<\/a> ineligible for competition in a statement released Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After finalizing an agreed-upon stipulation of facts between Texas Tech University, the NCAA and Brendan Sorsby, the University has declared Sorsby ineligible for competition,&#8221; the university&#8217;s statement reads. &#8220;Texas Tech intends to quickly initiate the reinstatement process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Texas Tech\u2019s primary focus remains supporting Sorsby\u2019s health and well-being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under the NCAA\u2019s gambling policy, student-athletes are not allowed to make bets on college or professional sports. Any student-athlete found in violation of the league\u2019s sports betting rules may be subject to permanent loss of all remaining eligibility, as well as their athletic scholarship. This applies to student-athletes who bet on their own games or on other sports at their own schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech declared quarterback Brendan Sorsby ineligible for competition in a statement released Monday. &#8220;After finalizing an agreed-upon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[732,96493,27,29,28,89414],"class_list":["post-298778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-article","tag-sports-college-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-texas-tech-red-raiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298778","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=298778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}