Welcome into an emergency episode, I guess, of preferred walk on a college football show,

some massive news dropping just recently from ESPN's Pete Thamel, Texas Tech quarterback,

Brendan Sorosby, who transferred there from Cincinnati this offseason.

He entered a residential treatment program for a gambling addiction, which is school just

announced actually just earlier today.

They found out that Brendan Sorsby making thousands of online bets on a variety of sports via

gambling app. And also, their SDAWA is currently investigating Brendan Sorsby's gambling

because, of course, they do not allow athletes to bet on either college sports

or even pro sports either right now.

And according to P. Thamow, Sorsby was betting on Indiana football while he was redshirting

there as a true freshman in 2022.

He played one game that year.

Apparently he did not bet on that game that he did appear in for Indiana,

but he did bet on Indiana to win the game, which too, which is very, very forbidden in this

indulpted. Honestly, if you go by the NCAA guidelines, they say student athletes who

wager on their own games or on other sports at their own schools face permanent loss

of college eligibility in all sports. So it is not looking very pretty for Brendan Sorsby right now. And I hope he gets all the treatment he needs, of course, for his gambling addiction. But there is a really good chance that Brandon Sorsby is not playing at all this year for Texas Tech, which is a major loss, not only for him, but for the Red Raiders, because I thought Brandon Sores was like a top 10 quarterback in the country. And, you know, their national title hoax now take a maybe a death blow by this news. Yeah, I mean, first and foremost, I mean, addiction can come in many forms. And you just hope that, you know, no matter what happens with his career, football career, anything like that, that Brendan can get himself to a place where he can get over and

through it on the other side of this. And yeah, it might be just a life lesson that he has to go through as a young kid. But, you know, you hate to see somebody who's really struggling with that in any form, whether it's, you know, gambling or drinking or anything like that. I mean, it can just hit so many people in so many different ways especially when you talk about i mean that's

kind of the idea right it just gets you a hook. So hopefully just as the person, as an individual first and foremost, he can recover from that. And then you talk about the implications of his football career and what this could do to the Texas tech program and the Sorsby himself. You mentioned it the big one there. There's been gambling restrictions at the NCAS at least lightened up, but if you're betting on your own team, I mean, this goes back even in other sports. We've seen this, you know, in basketball. There's been big college basketball betting scandals, the Iowa and Iowa State scandal we had a couple of years ago. I mean, even all the way, you know, you think all the way back to the more notorious days of Pete Rose betting on the Reds all those years and things like that, where you go, this is where you face a possible just permanent loss of eligibility, a lifetime ban of college football. And then you look at it as far as Texas Tech goes. I mean, they were banking on this guy to be the superstar, to be the guy that could get them over the top of the national title contention.

We talked about it going into the playoff and everything last year, that Texas Tech, their big question was, can the quarterback get them through these big moments? And they were hoping Soresby would be that guy. Now it looks a lot murkier. They still have a really good team, but to not have any idea, especially now with no spring portal. We're at the end of April now,

and he was just playing in the spring game, what, 10 or 11 days ago, to not have any idea at this point in the year who you're starting quarterback is, is probably not a real good feeling on the side of Texas Tech. Yeah, for Texas Tech, if you look at it right now, was Will Hammond, who did play a little bit last year when Baron Morton got hurt.

Wil Hammond Tours ACL in October and Joey McGuire, their head coach, just recently said

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