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Brendan Sorsby’s attorney argued Monday that the NCAA should have reinstated the Texas Tech quarterback to play in the upcoming season due to his rampant play being linked to a mental health disorder.
The feud between the two sides had been ongoing since the NCAA was alerted that Sorsby had placed numerous bets on his own football team while enrolled at Indiana, starting with the 2022 season, as well as thousands of other bets on different sports.
On Monday, Judge Ken Curry ruled that the filing presented by attorney Jeffrey Kessler was sufficient for Sorsby to obtain a temporary injunction from the court.
“The Court finds that Plaintiff has demonstrated that he will suffer probable, imminent, and irreparable harm if he fails to grant 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 VIOLATED NCAA PLAYING RULES. NOW ITS TEXAS TECH DESTINY IS IN THE HANDS OF A LUBBOCK JUDGE
From the start, it seemed like an open and shut case, based on an incident that occurred during his redshirt year at Indiana. But the court had other opinions.
In the court order, the NCAA is directed not to: Ban Sorsby from practicing, playing or otherwise participating with 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 sanction proposed by Sorsby’s camp to the NCAA during negotiations.
Hail Mary in Lubbock: Brendan Sorsby’s latest move to beat NCAA gambling allegations
Brendan Sorsby bet on his own team, but the NCAA is kind of the bad guy in this matter
Brendan Sorsby broke the one rule in college athletics that you can’t break: he bet on his own team.
Furthermore, it was the large amounts of bets placed while in college that were an overwhelming product of the NCAA’s decision to declare Brendan Sorsby ineligible.
TEXAS TECH QB BRENDAN SORSBY ENTERS 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 playing Indiana and Cincinnati basketball while enrolled at both schools. The quarterback, through an affidavit, admitted place at least 2,900 bets for more than $30,000 during his stay in Bloomington. Of those, by his own admission, 40 were involved in Indiana football while he was on the scout team and before taking the field in the 2022 season against Penn State in his only appearance.
Sorsby has bet 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 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 college football bets totaling at least $6,500.
- Sorsby admits he placed “one or two” of the three Cincinnati hoops bets through his account for $3,500.
- While at Texas Tech, he sent $5,000 to a person who bet on the NBA, MLB and PGA for him.
Hail Mary in Lubbock: Brendan Sorsby’s latest move to beat NCAA gambling allegations
Brendan Sorsby of the Cincinnati Bearcats fights 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 the ‘integrity of the game’ was not compromised
In their defense of his game, Sorsby’s lawyers used his “mental health disorder” to explain why the NCAA should have accepted the quarterback’s proposed two-game suspension, while proclaiming that none of the bets placed compromised the game itself.
“I think this matter is very misunderstood by a lot of people,” Kessler proclaimed. “It is very important that everyone understands that it is indisputable that (Sorsby) never made a bet that compromised the integrity of his team, the bets he made on his team were when he was not on that team and he never bet again to do so.
“And what this case is about is that when you have no threat to competitive integrity, but you have a mental illness related to gambling addiction, which is plaguing – tormenting – student-athletes across the country, the NCAA has said in its policies that it would consider it supportive of the athlete and instead wanted to punish them. That’s wrong.”
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Quarterback Brendan Sorsby of the Cincinnati Bearcats speaks with 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 breaking the rules, four years after placing his first bet on Indiana football.
But suing the NCAA for enforcing its own rules has become the new normal in college athletics. In that case, Brendan Sorsby sued the organization in a district court in Lubbock, Texas, hoping to get his hometown treatment.
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Now you can throw all of that out the window, because it will have a major ripple effect on the future of college sports.
