FRISCO, Texas \u2014 Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire said quarterback Brendan Sorsby is back home after spending time in a treatment program for gambling addiction, and he asked that Sorsby be reinstated for his final season of college football.<\/p>\n
One of the most sought-after quarterbacks in the most recent transfer portal, Sorsby was deemed permanently ineligible after the quarterback\u2019s recent admission that he violated NCAA gambling rules, including betting on Indiana football in 2022 as a member of the team and also betting on basketball games at IU and Cincinnati, among a slew of other bets. The admission came after an NCAA notice of an investigation. The NCAA last week denied Sorsby\u2019s request to have his eligibility reinstated.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy job at my core has always been to develop and support young men on and off the field, and we\u2019re not going to change that, so we\u2019re here to support Brendan,\u201d McGuire said from Big 12 spring meetings. \u201cI do believe that he made a mistake, and whenever that happens, 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<\/p>\n
Texas Tech president Lawrence Schovanec sent a letter to Tech supporters Tuesday, announcing that Sorsby would be welcome back to campus and that the school would appeal the NCAA\u2019s decision<\/a>. Athletic director Kirby Hocutt told The Athletic that the appeal should be finalized by the weekend and would likely take a few weeks to get a resolution.<\/p>\n Sorsby separately filed a lawsuit last week against the NCAA<\/a> seeking a temporary injunction that would grant the fifth-year senior eligibility for the 2026 season. An injunction hearing has been set for Monday in Lubbock County district court. Prominent sports labor lawyer Jeffrey Kessler is representing Sorsby<\/a>. Texas Tech is not involved in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n In the lawsuit, Sorsby revealed he offered a two-game suspension for himself, among other conditions, but the NCAA declined to discuss a settlement.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s got a serious problem, and I think the best place to get help is him being at Texas Tech and him being able to play,\u201d McGuire said. \u201cBrendan\u2019s come out and said that he believes that there should be a penalty also, and he\u2019s ready to serve that penalty, but we just don\u2019t believe that it should be for the full year.<\/p>\n \u201cHe has not returned to campus yet. We have talked. Because he was in rehab for such a long time, he hadn\u2019t been able to see his family, hadn\u2019t had any downtime, and so I told him to go home for a few days and take a deep breath, and we\u2019ll get him back on campus here in a few days. We at Texas Tech believe in Brendan, and we\u2019re here to support him in every way. At the end of the day, whatever the ruling is, we\u2019re going to support him 100 percent. He chose Texas Tech, so he\u2019s a Red Raider. He\u2019s gonna be a Red Raider for life, and I\u2019ll be a part of his life and help him any way I can.\u201d<\/p>\n If he remains ineligible, Sorsby is likely to apply for the NFL Supplemental Draft, which has a deadline of June 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO, Texas \u2014 Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire said quarterback Brendan Sorsby is back home after spending…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[261,27,29,28,415],"class_list":["post-313204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-football","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-tech-red-raiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313204","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=313204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}