Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby, Diagnosed With Gambling Disorder, Appeals NCAA Ban After Bets on Indiana

Brendan Sorsby placed at least 40 bets on Indiana football while serving as a quarterback for the Hoosiers and used accounts registered to family members and friends to wager approximately $90,000 over four years, according to court documents filed Friday in district court in Lubbock, Texas.

The filings show Sorsby continued to gamble after transferring from Cincinnati to Texas Tech in December. He transferred at least $60,000 to two friends to cover bets made on his behalf.

While enrolled at Indiana from June 2022 to December 2023, Sorsby acknowledged making at least 2,900 bets totaling more than $30,000. On an unspecified date in 2022, Sorsby made at least 40 wagers on Indiana football or individual team members. Those bets ranged from $1 to $114 and totaled at least $850.

Sorsby redshirted during the 2022 season and did not compete in games during the period in which he placed the wagers. The wagers on Indiana stopped two weeks before his debut against Penn State on November 4, 2023. Sorsby has been diagnosed with a gambling and anxiety disorder and recently completed a 35-day stint in an Arizona gambling rehabilitation center, his attorneys stated.

He agreed to continue treatment and monitoring after returning to Texas Tech, complete gambling education classes, and work with the NCAA to educate other student-athletes about the risks of gambling. "It became a habit for me to bet," Sorsby wrote in a statement to the NCAA.

"My betting became a compulsion which made it virtually impossible to resist the constant notifications I received from betting apps.