Texas Tech announced on Monday afternoon that it has declared quarterback Brendan Sorby ineligible but will look to get him reinstated for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
This comes after Sorsby filed an injunction against the NCAA in a Lubbock district court earlier on Monday, seeking his eligibility.<\/p>\n
The statement from Tech said, \u201cAfter finalizing an agreed-upon stipulation of facts between Texas Tech University, the NCAA and Brendan Sorsby, the University has declared Sorsby ineligible for competition. Texas Tech intends to quickly initiate the reinstatement process.<\/p>\n
\u201cTexas Tech\u2019s primary focus remains supporting Sorsby\u2019s health and well-being\u201d<\/p>\n
Sorsby took an indefinite leave of absence from the team in late April to enter a residential treatment program for a gambling addiction.<\/p>\n
It was reported that Sorsby is under investigation by the NCAA after it was discovered that he made thousands of online bets on a variety of sports through a gambling app.<\/p>\n
The filing on Monday said he stopped betting in 2022 when he became the backup quarterback at Indiana. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The NCAA forbids its athletes from betting on either college or professional sports and an athlete could permanently lose their eligibility.<\/p>\n
The NCAA has not made a decision on Sorsby\u2019s status and it\u2019s uncertain how long that will take.<\/p>\n
Sorsby has reportedly hired prominent attorneys Jeffrey Kessler and Scott Tompsett as part of his legal team.<\/p>\n
Sorsby was Texas Tech\u2019s biggest recruit out of the transfer portal coming from the University of Cincinnati in the offseason and was reportedly paid as much as $5 million to sign with the Red Raiders. He also has the potential to be a high first-round pick in the 2027 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n
If Sorsby can\u2019t regain his eligibility, head coach Joey McGuire and the Red Raiders will look to either sophomore Will Hammond, junior and Tulsa transfer Kirk Francis, or redshirt freshman Lloyd Jones III to start. Hammond, however, is recovering from a torn ACL he suffered last October and it\u2019s uncertain when he will be available.<\/p>\n
Tech is coming off a Big 12 championship, its first appearance in the College Football Playoff and a 12-2 record last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech announced on Monday afternoon that it has declared quarterback Brendan Sorby ineligible but will look to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-298834","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\/298834","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=298834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}