The Texas Tech football team should learn more this week about whether Brendan Sorsby will be the Red Raiders’ quarterback this season.
Sorsby’s attorneys are seeking an injunction to stop the NCAA from preventing him from playing in 2026. Sorsby has acknowledged violating NCAA gambling rules throughout his college career, including since he transferred to Texas Tech in January. Retired Tarrant County Judge Ken Curry is presiding over the hearing, which starts at 9 a.m. Monday, June 1, in a Lubbock courtroom.
The NCAA has ruled Sorsby permanently ineligible. A Texas Tech request for Sorsby’s reinstatement, filed May 19, was denied by the NCAA on May 22. Texas Tech filed an appeal on Friday, May 29.
A May 29 court filing documents Sorsby’s having wagered at least $90,000 over the past four years — and at each of his college stops: at Indiana for the 2022 and 2023 seasons, at Cincinnati during the 2024 and 2025 seasons and at Texas Tech this spring. In a May 16 letter Sorsby wrote to the NCAA reinstatement staff, he described himself as “a compulsive gambler since I was 18 years old.”
The Avalanche-Journal will file updates from the injunction hearing here.
Developments in injunction hearing for Texas Tech football QB Brendan Sorsby
Information will be added here after proceedings begin at 9 a.m.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Live updates from Texas Tech football QB Brendan Sorsby hearing
Reporting by Don Williams, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal / Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
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