Brendan Sorsby has officially dropped his lawsuit against the NCAA, making the 22-year-old quarterback ineligible again and ending his college football career because of gambling.
The expected motion for dismissal of the suit was filed Thursday by the 99th District Court in Lubbock County. That was three days after Texas Tech said he wouldn’t play this fall, and exactly a month after Sorsby filed his lawsuit that set off a legal saga that rattled college sports.
The same Texas court issued a temporary injunction June 8 that made the transfer quarterback eligible to play even after admitting that he placed bets on his own team while at Indiana as a freshman four years ago. Those were among thousands of impermissible bets he made while in college.
Sorsby had to be ineligible for NCAA play to be able to apply for the NFL’s supplemental draft. The submission deadline for that rarely used draft is Monday, and Sorsby plans to work out for NFL teams on July 10.
The injunction last week by Judge Ken Curry had prevented the NCAA from enforcing its ruling that the quarterback was ineligible to play what would have been his final college season. Sorsby transferred to reigning Big 12 champion Texas Tech in January after spending the past two seasons at fellow league member Cincinnati.