Sorsby's Gambling Bombshell + What the Draft Taught Us
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Texas Tech's quarterback situation just went from promising to potentially devastating. Brendan Sorsby's gambling admission, which includes alleged bets on Indiana games while he was there, could end his college career entirely. Then: what the NFL Draft reveals about college football. Clemson had nine players picked, but struggled to get over .500. Miami had six players taken in the first 98 selections. Indiana set a program record for players taken. And Diego Pavia's Heisman run couldn't buy him a draft slot. Plus, Kalen DeBoer gets a big new seven-year deal.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman and Ralph Rousseau. |
| 0:12.7 | We have an unexpectedly newsy episode here for you guys. |
| 0:17.2 | We had already planned, and we will, get into some of the college football storylines that came out of the NFL draft. |
| 0:24.4 | Kaelin DeBoer got an unexpected contract extension at Alabama, but first, we were literally having our pre-production meeting to come on this episode, guys, when Texas Tech announced a bombshell. |
| 0:35.7 | Quarterback Brendan Sorsby, who was their big transfer portal get out of Cincinnati, is immediately entering treatment for a gambling addiction. |
| 0:45.6 | It has emerged that he placed thousands of online sports gambling bets, including allegedly when he was a freshman at Indiana betting on Indiana games. |
| 0:58.9 | This is going to have some pretty drastic ramifications. |
| 1:02.2 | I'll ask you, Ralph, you're the NCAA rules expert. |
| 1:05.7 | What happens to a guy, like I remember this happening with some Iowa and Iowa State players a |
| 1:10.4 | couple years ago. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, I mean, we have to see exactly what comes out. |
| 1:15.2 | But is it possible he's not going to be able to play for Texas Tech this year? |
| 1:20.0 | If it is shown, if there's evidence that he gambled on his team at some point during his career, |
| 1:30.8 | I have a hard time seeing him playing college football again. Like there is some, there was some discussion going on in the NCAA about, and there |
| 1:38.6 | have been some shifts in terms of what triggers what penalties, right? In fact, a couple, a few months back, |
| 1:46.1 | they were going to literally say, hey, man, if you're legal and you're legally betting on other |
| 1:51.4 | sports, on professional sports, right now that triggers a violation. But they were going to throw that |
| 1:58.2 | out the window and say, no, you know what? If you're 21 and you're on a bat and if you're on an app and you want to bet on the NBA that's fine you should be able to do that because it's legal for everybody else but that got thrown out like they were very close to passing that and I got thrown out the window because there was a lot of angst about college basketball betting scandals and |
| 2:18.6 | NBA scandals. And do they really want to do that at a point where they're still trying to get |
| 2:23.2 | their arms around the problems that come with gambling? But one thing you cannot do is bet on |
| 2:32.0 | college sports, well, a couple of things, cannot bet on college sports and you cannot |
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