Texas Tech football's Brendan Sorsby files injunction against NCAA in gambling probe
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Lawyers from Brendan Sorsby filed an injunction to grant the would-be Texas Tech football team quarterback eligibility for the 2026 season.
The 514-page suit was filed in Lubbock County on Monday, May 18, in the 99th District Court and obtained by the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
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While no decision about Sorsby's eligibility after admitting himself into a treatment center for a gambling addiction has been made public by Texas Tech or the NCAA, Sorsby's legal team states in the suit that, "Mr. Sorsby is currently ineligible to play for Texas Tech due to prior violations of the NCAA's sports gambling rules."
The bulk of the introduction focuses on Sorsby's gambling addiction, which he voluntarily checked into treatment for on April 27. The suit calls attention to the diagnosed disorder of gambling addiction and alleges, "... the NCAA has weaponized his condition to shore up a facade of competitive integrity, while simultaneously profiting from the very gambling ecosystem it polices."
The suit states that Sorsby developed a gambling addiction and bet on sports only through the use of public information, never bet against his own team or players on his team, never shared insider information with anyone else, and did not manipulate games.
"The NCAA's own robust, real-time integrity-monitoring systems confirm this: there is no evidence that they ever generated a single alert or otherwise gave the NCAA any reason to question Mr. Sorsby's betting activity before April 2026," the suit states.
Sorbsy's legal team asserts the NCAA has "contractual authority" to look at the former Cincinnati Bearcat's eligibility case "which typically call for review within 48 hours."
The suit alleges that the NCAA "demanded years of bank records, credit card statements, Venmo transactions, phone logs, text messages, and social media records and insisted on a live interview that would for Mr. Sorsby to interrupt residential treatment."
Texas Tech, the suit claims, has also been harmed by the process after having recruited Sorsby to the Red Raiders to "be the centerpiece of its upcoming football season and fully supported his residential treatment."
Timing is the key issue in the suit as the college season is set to begin Sept. 5 and the NFL Supplemental Draft, which Sorsby could pursue if he is indeed ineligible to play college football this year, is June 22.
This is a developing story and will be updated. Look for more coverage of lubbockonline.com.
Gabriel Monte of the Avalanche-Journal contributed to this report.
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