{"id":245735,"date":"2026-05-29T05:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/texas-tech-coach-offers-honest-take-on-brendan-sorsby-situation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T05:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:27:11","slug":"texas-tech-coach-offers-honest-take-on-brendan-sorsby-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/texas-tech-coach-offers-honest-take-on-brendan-sorsby-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech coach offers honest take on Brendan Sorsby situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Texas Tech Red Raiders might not see star quarterback Brendan Sorsby take a single snap in Lubbock this season.<\/p>\n<p>Sorsby entered rehab due to a gambling addiction, and after completing his 35-day rehab, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_football\/articles\/ncaa_has_spoken_on_texas_tech_qb_brendan_sorsby_but_the_saga_isnt_over_yet\/s1_13132_43886322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCAA announced that the quarterback is ineligible to play<\/a> in 2026 after reports stated that he placed bets on his own team during his time at Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Sorsby and Texas Tech have decided to appeal, and the Red Raiders QB has a court date on June 1 that should decide what the future holds.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire spoke about the situation with Sorsby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do believe that he made a mistake, I do believe there should be consequences, but it\u2019s my opinion that he shouldn\u2019t be penalized for the rest of this year or his career,\u201d McGuire said, via Chris Vannini of The Athletic.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/college_football\/articles\/texas_tech_coach_offers_honest_take_on_brendan_sorsby_situation\/s1_127_43893652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Tech Red Raiders might not see star quarterback Brendan Sorsby take a single snap in Lubbock this season. Sorsby entered rehab due to a gambling addiction, and after completing his 35-day rehab, the NCAA announced that the quarterback is ineligible to play in 2026 after reports stated that he placed bets on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}