We’ve needed to do a Brendan Sorsby update, but didn’t want to distract from softball.
ESPN’s Mark Schlabach and David Purdum report that Sorsby placed 40 bets (which I think is more than previously reported) involving Indiana football and wagered $90,000 over 4 years and continued to gamble after transferring to Cincinnati and Texas Tech. As an aside, this information was submitted by Sorsby:
The documents included a four-page stipulated facts, which Sorsby and Texas Tech submitted to the NCAA and wasn’t contested by the governing body’s enforcement staff. It stated that during his college career at Indiana (2022-23) and Cincinnati (2024-25), Sorsby used accounts registered in his name, a family member’s name and friends’ names to place at least $90,000 in impermissible wagers via Hard Rock Bet, FanDuel, Underdog and PrizePicks accounts.
Sorsby transferred at least $60,000 to two friends to cover bets made on his behalf, per the documents.
While Sorsby was enrolled at Indiana from June 2022 to December 2023, he acknowledged making at least 2,900 bets that totaled more than $30,000.
Between Sept. 2 and Oct. 22, 2022, Sorsby made at least 40 wagers on Indiana football and/or individual members of the team. According to the documents, the bets ranged from $1 to $114 and totaled at least $850.
Sorsby redshirted during the 2022 season and was a scout team quarterback. He didn’t compete in games during the period in which he made bets on the Hoosiers. The wagers stopped two weeks before he made his debut against Penn State on Nov. 5, 2022.
Justin Williams writes for The Athletic and noted that the NCAA’s filing says that a Sorsby bet triggered a ProhiBet alert while at Cincinnati in 2024:
According to NCAA filing Friday, Brendan Sorsby triggered a ProhiBet alert at Cincinnati in 2024. (Big 12 has a ProhiBet partnership.)
The alert denied him access to a betting platform, & he was interviewed by the school’s compliance office before resolving in ProhiBet’s system. https://t.co/8XdoU1ENOY pic.twitter.com/YbcOFLfeGZ
— Justin Williams (@Williams_Justin) May 30, 2026
And lots of you have been asking what did Cincinnati know and when and as part of discovery of the lawsuit between Cincinnati and Sorsby, he’s asking.
Meanwhile, the University of Cincinnati’s $1 mil lawsuit vs Sorsby is ongoing. Both parties filed a discovery report this week.
In it, Sorsby’s legal team noted one discovery subject of interest as “(UC’s) prior knowledge of (Sorsby’s) gambling.”
Highlighted in pic below. pic.twitter.com/gaPYoP08hx
— Justin Williams (@Williams_Justin) May 30, 2026
Now based on the first x/post from Williams, Cincinnati obviously knew in 2024 about Sorsby’s gambling and it was handled, which means that Cincinnati appears to have done the least amount of an investigation, Sorsby was required to watch gambling education (thus he cannot claim that he didn’t know), and the situation was resolved. Regardless, Sorsby wants to know what they knew and when.
Williams also writes that part of the issue for Sorsby is that Texas Tech knew of Sorsby’s situation, but did not file for reinstatement until last week:
Sorsby’s lawsuit seeks an expedited and definitive answer on his eligibility status for the 2026 college season, so that he can either remain in college or apply for the NFL Supplemental Draft by its June 22 deadline.
The NCAA’s opposition response argues that Texas Tech contributed to the length of Sorsby’s reinstatement process, stating that the university was notified in April about the NCAA’s findings and investigation, but that Tech did not file for reinstatement until last week, a day after Sorsby filed the lawsuit.
The Athletic’s Sam Khan, Jr. has the top 100 transfers and they have the following Red Raiders (click on over for the write-ups):
20. DL Mateen Ibirogba
42. LB Austin Romaine
46. DE Trey White
73. DE Adam Trick