{"id":313118,"date":"2026-05-28T23:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/313118\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:32:15","slug":"texas-tech-joey-mcguire-says-brendan-sorsby-should-be-able-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/313118\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech: Joey McGuire says Brendan Sorsby should be able to play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRISCO\u00a0\u2014 Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire said transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby is ready to accept punishment for betting on sports\u00a0\u2014 but it shouldn\u2019t end his college career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do believe that he made a mistake, I do believe there should be consequences, but it\u2019s my opinion that he shouldn\u2019t be penalized for the rest of this year or his career,\u201d McGuire said Thursday at the Big 12 spring meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Sorsby has acknowledged wagering on sports, including his own team when he was a freshman at Indiana. The NCAA announced Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/college\/article\/texas-tech-brendan-sorsby-eligibility-denied-22277578.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">it had denied Texas Tech\u2019s petition<\/a> to have Sorsby\u2019s eligibility reinstated.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech plans to appeal the ruling, university president Lawrence Schovanec said. Sorsby also has a hearing scheduled in Lubbock County District Court on Monday on his request for a temporary injunction that would allow him to play this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s come out and said he believes there should be a penalty, and he\u2019s ready to serve that penalty,\u201d McGuire said. \u201cWe just don\u2019t think it should be for the full year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the top players in the transfer portal this offseason, Sorsby joined the Red Raiders on a multimillion-dollar deal to play his final season of college football. He played the past two seasons at Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>McGuire said Sorsby is not on campus yet. He\u2019s spending time with family after completing a residential treatment program for gambling addiction. He placed \u201cthousands\u201d of online bets on a variety of sports via a gambling app, ESPN reported in late April.<\/p>\n<p>McGuire said Sorsby will continue to have Tech\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, whatever the ruling is, we\u2019re going to support him 100%,\u201d McGuire said. \u201cHe chose Texas Tech. So he\u2019s a Red Raider. He\u2019s going to be a Red Raider for life. I\u2019ll be a part of his life and help him anyway I can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO\u00a0\u2014 Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire said transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby is ready to accept punishment for betting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-313118","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\/313118","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=313118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}