The Texas Tech Red Raiders are full steam forward with Brendan Sorsby at quarterback.
Sorsby needed to enter inpatient rehab for an admitted playing dependancy. He additionally admitted to betting on school soccer whereas being a university soccer participant.
The NCAA dominated Sorsby ineligible to play for 2026, however the switch quarterback was granted a short lived injunction permitting him to play for the Pink Raiders this season by retired Tarrant County Choose Ken Curry.
The NCAA will attraction the injunction, however that possible will not be resolved till 2027 on the earliest. Different avenues are being overtly explored in the case of defending the integrity of school soccer. That features colleges or whole conferences refusing to play Texas Tech. There’s additionally an thought floating round that the Faculty Soccer Playoff ought to rule Texas Tech ineligible if Sorsby is on the roster.
Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire thinks persons are overreacting, although. Talking on Wednesday at a luncheon, McGuire tried to remind people that it is not like Sorsby is being accused of home violence and even homicide.
“Brendan Sorsby is recovering from an dependancy — he’s recovering. Like, I’ve sat down with this younger man a number of occasions and the issues he’s going via and what he’s been via is severe,” McGuire mentioned Wednesday (h/t On3). “As a society, we’ve been OK with different issues that occurred and permitting gamers to play, and this has been the one factor that has united people who they had been in opposition to.
“And it’s loopy, as a result of it’s not homicide, it’s not beating any individual. So there’s a whole lot of issues that we’re working via.”
