The ruling on Monday that Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby can play NCAA football despite having bet on his own team is a sports law earthquake.
It’s occurring at the intersection of a modern double whammy: one involving dozens of ineligible college athletes suing to extend their NCAA eligibility to profit from lucrative NIL and revenue-share opportunities, and the other in which athletes in several sports have been suspended and even banned for sports betting. No recent college eligibility case has been quite like Sorsby’s, who the NCAA ruled was permanently ineligible due to his gambling history before a judge stepped in.
