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Brendan Sorsby’s attorney argued last Monday that the NCAA should have reinstated the Texas Tech quarterback to play next season because his unrestrained play is related to a mental health disorder.
The dispute between both sides had continued since the NCAA was alerted that Sorsby had placed numerous bets on his own football team while enrolled at Indiana, beginning in the 2022 season, along with thousands of other bets on different sports.
On Monday, Judge Ken Curry ruled that the case presented by attorney Jeffrey Kessler was sufficient for the court to grant Sorsby a temporary injunction.
“The Court finds that Petitioner has demonstrated that he will suffer probable, imminent, and irreparable injury if this court does not issue the temporary injunction because he will be unable to participate as a member of the 2026 Texas Tech University football team, including the 2026 Texas Tech football season,” Judge Curry wrote.
BRENDAN SORSBY BROKE THE NCAA RULES OF THE GAME. NOW, YOUR TECHNOLOGICAL FATE IN TEXAS IS IN THE HANDS OF A LUBBOCK JUDGE
From the beginning, this felt like an open-and-shut case, based on an incident during his redshirt year at Indiana. But the court had other opinions.
In the court order, the NCAA is ordered not to: Ban Sorsby from practicing, playing or otherwise participating on the Texas Tech football team for the 2026 football season.
But Brendan will be suspended for the first two games of the 2026 season, according to the court, which is based on the punishment proposed by the Sorsby camp to the NCAA in negotiations.
HAIL MARY IN LUBBOCK: BRENDAN SORSBY’S LAST CHANCE TO OVERCOME NCAA GAMBLING ALLEGATIONS
Brendan Sorsby bet on his own team, but the NCAA is somehow the bad guy in this case.
Brendan Sorsby broke the one rule in college athletics that simply can’t be broken: He bet on his own team.
Additionally, it was the large amounts of betting placed during his time in college that was an overwhelming product of the NCAA’s decision to declare Brendan Sorsby ineligible.
TEXAS TECH QB BRENDAN SORSBY ENTER TREATMENT FOR GAMBLING ADDICTION AMID NCAA INVESTIGATION
Brendan Sorsby of the Cincinnati Bearcats leaves the field after the team defeated the Baylor Bears 41-20 at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 25, 2025. (Dylan Buell/Getty Images)
Brendan Sorsby admitted to betting on Indiana and Cincinnati basketball while he was enrolled at the two schools. The field marshal, through a sworn statement, admitted Place at least 2,900 bets. for more than $30,000 during his stay in Bloomington. Of them, by his own admission, 40 were in Indiana football while he was on the scout team, and before he took the field during the 2022 season against Penn State during his only appearance.
Sorsby gambled at least $90,000 since enrolling in college:
- Sorsby transferred at least $60,000 to friends to place bets on his behalf.
- At least 2,900 bets were placed while he was in Indiana for more than $30,000.
- From September to October 2022, he placed 40 bets on Indiana football totaling at least $850.
- From October 2022 to November 2023, Sorsby placed at least 50 bets on Indiana basketball totaling more than $1,400.
- From September 2022 to December 2023, Sorsby placed 300 bets on college football totaling at least $6,500.
- Sorsby admits he placed “one or two” of the 3 bets on Cincinnati through his account for $3,500.
- While at Texas Tech, he sent $5,000 to a person who placed bets on the NBA, MLB and PGA for him.
HAIL MARY IN LUBBOCK: BRENDAN SORSBY’S LAST CHANCE TO OVERCOME NCAA GAMBLING ALLEGATIONS
Brendan Sorsby of the Cincinnati Bearcats battles during the first half against the TCU Horned Frogs at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth, Texas, on November 29, 2025. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)
Brendan’s lawyers argued that the “integrity of the game” was not compromised
In their defense of his gambling, Sorsby’s attorneys used his “mental health disorder” as reasoning for why the NCAA should have accepted the quarterback’s proposed two-game suspension, while proclaiming that none of the bets placed compromised the actual game.
“I think this case is misunderstood by many people,” Kessler proclaimed. “It is very important that everyone understands that it is indisputable that (Sorsby) never made any bets that compromised the integrity of his team, the bets he made on his team were when he was not participating in that team and he never bet again to do so.
“And what this case is about is that when there is no threat to competitive integrity, but you have a mental illness of gambling addiction, which is plaguing – plaguing – student-athletes across the country, the NCAA said in their policies that they would consider supporting the athlete and instead they want to punish them. That’s wrong.”
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Quarterback Brendan Sorsby of the Cincinnati Bearcats speaks to the media during Big 12 Media Days at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas on July 8, 2025. (Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
No, in the real world, Sorsby was punished by the NCAA for violating the rules, which came four years after he placed his first bet on Indiana football.
But taking the NCAA to court for enforcing its own rules has become the new norm in college athletics. In this case, Brendan Sorsby sued the organization in district court in Lubbock, Texas, hoping to receive the treatment from his hometown.
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Now, you can throw all that out the window, as it will cause a major ripple effect in the future of college athletics.
