Major collegiate athletic programs are executing a widespread scheduling boycott against Texas Tech University after a Texas judge granted a preliminary injunction allowing ineligible quarterback Brendan Sorsby to play this season.
The University of Georgia athletics department immediately barred its teams from booking future contests against the Red Raiders, while the Big Ten conference scheduled a Wednesday meeting to deliberate a league-wide scheduling ban across all sports.
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Sorsby, who transferred from Indiana and Cincinnati, secured the injunction from retired Tarrant County judge Ken Curry after facing ineligibility for placing roughly $90,000 in bets over four years, including wagers on his own Indiana team in 2022.
The legal victory prevents imminent disruption to Sorsby's career but has triggered severe institutional backlash from opposing universities determined to protect competitive fairness.
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"There is no injury to the competitive integrity of the NCAA.
It is what we proposed and what the NCAA should have accepted had it been true to its promises to prioritize the welfare of athletes," said Jeffrey Kessler, Sorsby’s attorney.
The ruling infuriated collegiate sports administrators nationwide who view Texas Tech's backing of the lawsuit as a subversion of agreed-upon NCAA bylaws to protect a reported $6 million player investment and playoff aspirations.
"The NCAA strongly disagrees with the court’s ruling in Sorsby’s case and is deeply concerned about the damaging, far-reaching and broadly destabilizing ramifications of this outcome," the NCAA said in a statement.
