What Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby’s latest case update could mean for the Red Raiders football team
Texas Tech Red Raiders quarterback Brendan Sorsby may have just gotten the worst possible update on his College Football career.
What Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby’s latest case update could mean for the Red Raiders football team originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Texas Tech Red Raiders quarterback Brendan Sorsby got an update that could easily be seen as a negative one on Wednesday.
As On3’s Peter Nakos confirmed, proud TTU alum Phillip J. Hays has recused himself as the judge presiding over Sorsby’s gambling case. Sorsby, as much of the College Football world knows by now, bet on his own team’s games as a freshman with the Indiana Hoosiers .
It’s unclear if he did it with the Cincinnati Bearcats, but players typically get banned from placing wagers on anything at all, let alone over 22,000 bets from 2022 to 2025. Not to mention, Cincinnati’s lawsuit over a $1 million exit fee feels like an important piece of the puzzle here. While Sorsby’s future once looked like it’d include suiting up for the Red Raiders this fall, Hays’ recusal feels like the end of the line for Texas Tech’s reported $6.
5 million NIL/rev-share investment. Brendan Sorsby probably isn’t coming back to Texas Tech A viral photo of Hays and Raider Red made the rounds on social media, which increased confidence that this case was going to go in Sorsby’s favor. Now that he’s recused himself, it seems like Hays doesn’t want to be the one who breaks Texas Tech’s fanbase’s heart and be the guy to rule against Sorsby’s eligibility.