Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby has voluntarily entered a residential treatment program for a gambling addiction, according to a school announcement.
The transfer from Cincinnati, one of the highest recruited quarterbacks in the portal, is now under investigation by the NCAA for what is reported as thousands of app-based bets, including college football games. Several reports have Sorsby betting on Indiana football games while he was on their roster his freshman and sophomore seasons. S
The NCAA forbids, currently, gambling of any kind by student-athletes, though proposals have been made, as recently as last year, to allow betting on professional sports. However, several prop-betting scandals involving professional players tied to former teammates still in college, killed any momentum to change the rules.
Sorsby is not under criminal investigation. However, if it's proven he's bet on college or professional sports, his eligibility will be revoked.
My take: Dance with the devil and you get burned, and I'm not talking about Sorsby, who may well have an addiction. I'm talking about the universal embrace of gambling in sports by professional leagues, overall, that has led and continues to lead to more scandals than I care to report here. And it's not the gambling sites and institutions — they are the ones responsibly policing this stuff, attempting to ensure that each bet placed is a fair one for everyone with a stake, and would do just fine without college and professional athletes having the ability, even permission, to gamble.
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Sorsby enters rehab
Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby has voluntarily entered a residential treatment program for a gambling addiction, according to a school announcement.
The transfer from Cincinnati, one of the highest recruited quarterbacks in the portal, is now under investigation by the NCAA for what is reported as thousands of app-based bets, including college football games. Several reports have Sorsby betting on Indiana football games while he was on their roster his freshman and sophomore seasons. S
The NCAA forbids, currently, gambling of any kind by student-athletes, though proposals have been made, as recently as last year, to allow betting on professional sports. However, several prop-betting scandals involving professional players tied to former teammates still in college, killed any momentum to change the rules.
Sorsby is not under criminal investigation. However, if it's proven he's bet on college or professional sports, his eligibility will be revoked.
My take: Dance with the devil and you get burned, and I'm not talking about Sorsby, who may well have an addiction. I'm talking about the universal embrace of gambling in sports by professional leagues, overall, that has led and continues to lead to more scandals than I care to report here. And it's not the gambling sites and institutions — they are the ones responsibly policing this stuff, attempting to ensure that each bet placed is a fair one for everyone with a stake, and would do just fine without college and professional athletes having the ability, even permission, to gamble.
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