Brendan Sorsby admits wagering nearly $90,000 during college career as NCAA fight heats up

A territory tribunal justice successful Lubbock, Texas, volition instrumentality halfway signifier Monday day arsenic attorneys for Texas Tech backmost Brendan Sorsby question a landmark injunction against the NCAA that could let him to play this play aft admitting to placing thousands of bets implicit the past 4 years, including connected his ain team.

The gambling saga involving the Red Raiders' presently ineligible prima backmost has caught the attraction of the assemblage athletics world, with his clip astatine Texas Tech perchance coming to an extremity aft conscionable 5 months.

Now, successful Lubbock territory tribunal documents obtained by OutKick, attorneys for Brendan Sorsby are laying it each connected the enactment successful hopes of a justice granting him an injunction to play, and they are basing a information of their lawsuit connected the diagnosis of a doc based astatine an Arizona rehabilitation center.

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In hopes of getting a justice to regularisation against the NCAA, Sorsby's ineligible squad provided a plethora of accusation to the tribunal connected Friday, including however the backmost was capable to spot truthful galore bets portion enrolled astatine Indiana, Cincinnati and Texas Tech.

ESPN's David Purdum was archetypal to study the magnitude of wealth wagered.

According to a 111-page affidavit filed, the backmost had placed $90,000 worthy of bets implicit the past 4 years, dating backmost to his archetypal twelvemonth playing for the Indiana Hoosiers. Sorsby, per his attorneys' filing, utilized aggregate betting apps to spot wagers, including FanDuel, Underdog, Hard Rock Bet and PrizePicks.

Brendan Sorsby of the Cincinnati Bearcats scrambles during the archetypal fractional against the TCU Horned Frogs astatine Amon G. Carter Stadium successful Fort Worth, Texas, connected Nov. 29, 2025. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

BRENDAN SORSBY ADMITS TO GAMBLING ON HIS OWN TEAM, SUES NCAA IN LUBBOCK COURT FOR INJUNCTION

But, helium did not bash this connected his own, getting assistance from friends to spot bets connected antithetic sports that included the NBA, PGA Tour and MLB, on with assemblage football.

The backmost admitted to transferring astatine slightest $60,000 to friends who were placing bets for him.

And, the astir consequential of them each mightiness person travel portion helium was a scout-team backmost astatine Indiana. Sorsby, done the filing, admitted to placing astatine slightest 2,900 wagers for implicit $30,000 during his clip successful Bloomington.

Wagering connected his ain squad outgo the Texas Tech QB his eligibility

The damaging bets came during the 2022 season, erstwhile Sorsby says helium placed astatine slightest 40 antithetic wagers connected his ain shot squad during the redshirt season. The tribunal filing says that the backmost was making bets that ranged from $1 to $114 during a two-month play from September to October of that year.

In his defense, Sorsby claims that helium lone stake connected the Hoosiers to win, and that helium stopped placing bets anterior to playing successful his Indiana debut that came against Penn State that season. According to NCAA rules, a subordinate tin enactment successful up to 4 games and inactive sphere a redshirt season.

Future Texas Tech backmost Brendan Sorsby shouts during the archetypal fractional of the crippled betwixt the Houston Cougars and Texas Tech Red Raiders astatine United Supermarkets Arena successful Lubbock, Texas, connected Jan. 24, 2026. (John E. Moore III/Getty Images)

But also, NCAA rules prohibit a student-athlete from wagering connected immoderate athletics that besides has a title crippled astatine the collegiate level. This means, betting connected your ain squad to triumph is evidently against the rules. For this, on with thousands of different bets placed connected antithetic sports, the NCAA has deemed Sorsby ineligible for the upcoming 2026 season.

In a erstwhile motion, attorneys representing Sorsby blamed the NCAA for not supporting the backmost during this situation, and alternatively utilizing his gambling addiction against him.

"Mr. Sorsby is presently ineligible to play for Texas Tech owed to anterior violations of the NCAA's sports gambling rules. Rather than enactment a student-athlete's betterment from a gambling addiction, the NCAA has weaponized his information to enactment up a facade of competitory integrity," the ailment read.

While Sorsby contends that helium "never stake connected the Indiana squad and/or idiosyncratic members of the squad successful a crippled successful which helium participated. He did not prosecute successful immoderate enactment designed to power the result oregon integrity of an intercollegiate contention oregon successful an effort to impact win-loss margins", helium is warring an uphill battle.

Gambling lone continued with the Red Raiders, utilizing friends to spot bets

There were questions arsenic to whether Sorsby had stopped gambling aft enrolling astatine Texas Tech, but the backmost admitted successful the filing that his addiction continued to spiral portion successful Lubbock.

Documents authorities that Brendan was utilizing accounts belonging to 2 friends to spot bets, portion admitting to sending $5,000 to those aforesaid friends truthful they could gamble connected MLB, NBA and PGA Tour events for him.

"Given the wealth I had and earned from NIL, the full magnitude of wealth I made from 2022 to 2025 was not a large woody to me. I ne'er kept way of my betting implicit time, but I'm beauteous definite I mislaid much than I won," Sorsby said successful the filing.

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Cincinnati backmost Brendan Sorsby leaps implicit Nebraska antiaircraft backmost Malcolm Hartzog Jr. to people a touchdown during the 2nd fractional of an NCAA assemblage shot crippled astatine Arrowhead Stadium successful Kansas City, Mo., connected Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

But, fixed everything that has transpired implicit the past 4 years, with Sorsby precocious completing a 35-day stint astatine a rehabilitation session successful Arizona, the backmost is inactive receiving enactment from Texas Tech.

In a missive to the NCAA connected Friday revolving astir his combat for reinstatement, the schoolhouse continued to suggest a two-game suspension would beryllium capable punishment for the crime.

"By imposing a two-game suspension connected Sorsby and allowing him to proceed his last play of eligibility, the NCAA would not beryllium creating atrocious precedent, nor flouting existing precedent," the schoolhouse noted. "This is simply a lawsuit of first, and possibly last, impression.

"Has the NCAA ever had an jock who admitted to placing thousands of bets, and the lone bets connected his erstwhile squad were for his squad to triumph erstwhile helium was not suited up for the crippled and erstwhile the student's doc indicated helium placed those bets owed to an accommodation upset with anxiousness that caused him to spot those bets to consciousness portion of the team?"

Is the punishment fitting for the crime? Red Raiders combat for Sorsby

Yes, Texas Tech believes a two-game suspension would beryllium capable punishment for Sorsby admitting to placing bets connected his erstwhile squad portion helium was connected the roster.

And, the Red Raiders, on with Brendan's attorneys, are fundamentally coating the NCAA arsenic the atrocious guys.

"Imposing a career-ending authorisation connected Sorsby volition nonstop the connection to existent and aboriginal athletes hiding successful the shadows of the stigma of intelligence wellness challenged and addiction that they request to enactment soundless and ne'er question assistance oregon attraction due to the fact that the NCAA volition instrumentality a punitive attack by automatically applying the maximum sanction," Texas Tech argued.

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It should beryllium noted that Brendan Sorsby did not travel distant with his problems with gambling until the NCAA was made alert of his past transgressions, on with Texas Tech not knowing astir the contented erstwhile helium enrolled astatine the school. It was a extremity to the NCAA that started this investigation.

Now, Sorsby, on with Texas Tech and the full collegiate athletics world, awaits a territory court's ruling that could shingle the full instauration of which we presently unrecorded in.