The Cincinnati Bearcats football team, Brendan Sorsby urged to be punished amid betting scandal

The Cincinnati Bearcats football team, Brendan Sorsby urged to be punished amid betting scandal originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Cincinnati Bearcats may be wrapped up in the Brendan Sorsby scandal, one that could threaten the quarterback’s season with the Texas Tech Red Raiders , in a big way.

Sorsby was confirmed to have been betting on games while with the Indiana Hoosiers early in his career, and on IU games. There’s no concrete information that he bet on UC during his time in the Queen City. Investigation is ongoing, though.

USA Today’s Blake Toppmeyer believes both parties should be punished if anyone in the Bearcats football program knew what he was doing. Per Toppmeyer, “If Cincinnati knew about Sorsby’s activity and turned a blind eye to it, the institution should face penalty. So, too, should Sorsby.

He’s not the victim of this story … But, make no mistake, if Sorsby bet on sports, he broke the NCAA’s rules, and no matter the temptation, nobody’s more responsible for that rule-violating behavior than Sorsby himself. ” Sorsby is facing an uphill climb here, with previous precedent being hard on gambling offenders. The Arizona State Sun Devils ’ BJ Freeman, the New Orleans Privateers’ Cedquavious Hunter, Dyquavian Short, and Jamond Vincent, and the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils’ Donovan Sanders and Alvin Stredic, all basketball players, have all been banned for betting on games.