{"id":897984,"date":"2026-05-22T07:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/897984\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:51:14","slug":"brendan-sorsby-eligibility-case-lawsuit-vs-ncaa-gets-june-1-hearing-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/897984\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan Sorsby eligibility case: Lawsuit vs. NCAA gets June 1 hearing date"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Tech<\/a> QB Brendan Sorsby<\/a>\u2018s eligibility case against the NCAA has been assigned a temporary injunction hearing set for 9 am CT, June 1, according to On3\u2019s Pete Nakos. This news comes on the same day a new presiding judge was assigned to the case<\/a>. The June 1 hearing date falls in line with Sorsby\u2019s requested timeline ahead of the June 22 deadline to declare for the NFL Supplemental Draft. <\/p>\n

Retired Tarrant County senior judge\u00a0Kenneth C. Curry\u00a0was assigned to the Sorsby v. NCAA case in Lubbock County District Court on Thursday by 9th Administrative Judicial Region presiding judge\u00a0Anna Estevez, per Nakos. The case will be Curry\u2019s first since 2019. Curry replaces Lubbock County judge\u00a0Phillip Hays, who has two degrees from Texas Tech and\u00a0formally recused himself Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Curry earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in political science from the\u00a0University of Texas-Arlington<\/a>\u00a0in 1974 and then graduated from the\u00a0University of<\/a>\u00a0Houston<\/a>\u00a0Law Center in 1976,\u00a0according to his law profile on Trellis<\/a>. Curry formally retired from the bench in 2012, but has continued serving as a visiting judge for Tarrant County, per Trellis.<\/p>\n

Sorsby is seeking a temporary injunction against the NCAA ruling him ineligible. If granted, the injunction would feasibly allow him to play out the 2026 college football season while the NCAA\u2019s usually lengthy investigation process plays out behind the scenes. Sorsby\u2019s legal team has cited potential damage to the Texas Tech QB\u2019s mental health among the reasons for the injunction.<\/p>\n

Sorsby\u2019s lawsuit, filed Monday in Lubbock County District Court, is viewed as an attempt to expedite the NCAA investigative process into his admitted gambling activities between 2022-25. Sorsby recently retained famous antitrust lawyer and NCAA nemesis\u00a0Jeffrey Kessler, who was among the lead attorneys in the landmark\u00a0Alston v. NCAA\u00a0and\u00a0House v. NCAA\u00a0cases over the past few years, both of which resulted in significant losses for the NCAA and ushered in widespread changes to college athletics.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech formally declared their star transfer QB ineligible on Monday after finalizing an agreed-upon stipulation of facts with the NCAA and Sorsby\u2019s legal team. The school also announced their intent to \u201cquickly initiate the reinstatement process\u201d with the NCAA and that \u201cTexas Tech\u2019s primary focus remains supporting Sorsby\u2019s health and well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sorsby has been in a residential treatment program for his admitted \u201cgambling addiction\u201d since April, when Texas Tech announced he was taking \u201cindefinite leave of absence\u201d from the program. In his lawsuit, Sorsby\u2019s legal team confirms he has placed \u201cthousands\u201d of bets since 2022, including several on Hoosiers football games when he was a true freshman at\u00a0Indiana<\/a>. He also allegedly placed several small wagers at multiple\u00a0Cincinnati Reds\u00a0games while he attended\u00a0Cincinnati<\/a>\u00a0between 2024-25, per Nakos. Sorsby transferred to Texas Tech this offseason as one of the most sought-after players in the\u00a0NCAA Transfer Portal.<\/p>\n

NCAA guidelines from 2023 on sports betting say: \u201cStudent-athletes who engage in activities to influence the outcomes of their own games or knowingly provide information to individuals involved in sports betting activities will potentially face permanent loss of collegiate eligibility in all sports. This would also apply to\u00a0student-athletes who wager on their own games\u00a0or on other sports at their own schools.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby\u2018s eligibility case against the NCAA has been assigned a temporary injunction hearing set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[40822,7,49,48],"class_list":["post-897984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-brendan-sorsby-22-lake-dallas","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116617142846662037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}