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Link: Texas Tech QB Sorsby Entering Treatment for Gambling Addiction

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Texas Tech QB that transferred from Cincinnati and signed a lucrative NIL with the Red Raiders. Entering treatment for gambling addiction. Prior to time at Cincy, he was at Indiana and is now being investigated for betting on the Hoosiers while a player there.

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Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby to enter gambling addiction program

Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby is checking into a residential treatment program for a gambling addiction, sources told ESPN.
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Sports betting has always been a problem. Now with online sports betting options it is a plague especially among young men in their 20s & 30s. Hopefully this young man will get the help he needs.
 
Bamabuzzard said:
Things like this are like a roach. If you see one, it means you have a lot more.
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Yep. Stuff like this is more pervasive than many would like to believe. Sticking large sums of cash in the hands of 17-22 year olds with underdeveloped prefrontal cortexes, particularly those of highly competitive athletes, will most likely only exacerbate it.
 
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He's accused of betting on Indiana to win on two occasions during 2022, the season he red-shirted and did not play. They were very likely losing bets; Indiana was terrible back then, and were even worse the next year when he actually played for them.

What is interesting is that he is going into gambling rehab and the article only reveals evidence of two games four years ago. Would expect that is the tip of the iceberg.
 
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CrimsonTitles said:
Doesn't surprise me at all that Indiana is involved. Indiana is the new Thug U.
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lol... The one year that Sorsby saw the field at Indiana they finished dead last in a 14 team Big Ten. Quite the predatory thugs back then!

Maybe it is since then, with nasty thugs like Fernando "G_d Bless" Mendoza leading those gangsters.
 
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M Squires said:
lol... The one year that Sorsby saw the field at Indiana they finished dead last in a 14 team Big Ten. Quite the predatory thugs back then!

Maybe it is since then, with nasty thugs like Fernando "G_d Bless" Mendoza leading those gangsters.
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Mendoza seems to be a decent person, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's all an act, just based on his association with Cignetti. They got some serious problems up there, and the program is out of control. First they had all the trash talking, and then we find out they've been stealing signs like Michigan, and now we find out they've been betting on games. They have coaches trash talking to our kids, which should never happen. If you wanna trash talk the other team's coach, then go for it, but an adult doing it to kids on the opposing team is despicable. With the gambling, this guy is probably only the tip of the iceberg, he's just the only one to be caught so far. Now that this has come out, it will be looked into, and more will probably be found.
 
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Mendoza seems to be a decent person, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's all an act. They got some serious problems up there, and the program is out of control. First they had all the trash talking, and then we find out they've been stealing signs like Michigan, and now we find out they've been betting on games. They have coaches trash talking to our kids, which should never happen. If you wanna trash talk the other team's, then go for it, but an adult doing it to kids on the opposing team is despicable. With the gambling, this guy is probably only the tip of the iceberg, he's just the only one to be caught so far. Now that this has come out, it will be looked into, and more will probably be found.
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What makes you think Mendoza is an act? Is it the graduating Cal-Berkeley Business School in three years, or maybe the Multiple Sclerosis foundation he bankrolled with $500k of his own money this week?

And that program is out of control? Must be the zero arrests, and winning with the 17th best high school talent ranking in their own conference. Buncha prima donnas!

Stealing signs? Just stop. That was an internet genius laughable post that aggrieved fans picked up on. Or, you could post one molecule of actual evidence to back up that nonsense.

And Haines tweeting the word "Adorable." OMG THE HUMANITY! lol.
Haines started with Cignetti at IU-Pennsylvania about ten years ago at a salary of $5,000; he was on food stamps for his family for his first year with Cignetti. He is the kind of American success story against all odds and with hard work that is almost unimaginable.

As for Sorsby; he is stated to have gambled during his redshirt year in 2022. There is literally no one associated with the Cignetti program that was affiliated with the Indiana program in 2022.
 
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What makes you think Mendoza is an act? Is it the graduating Cal-Berkeley Business School in three years, or maybe the Multiple Sclerosis foundation he bankrolled with $500k of his own money this week?

And that program is out of control? Must be the zero arrests, and winning with the 17th best high school talent ranking in their own conference. Buncha prima donnas!

Stealing signs? Just stop. That was an internet genius laughable post that aggrieved fans picked up on. Or, you could post one molecule of actual evidence to back up that nonsense.

And Haines tweeting the word "Adorable." OMG THE HUMANITY! lol.
Haines started with Cignetti at IU-Pennsylvania about ten years ago at a salary of $5,000; he was on food stamps for his family for his first year with Cignetti. He is the kind of American success story against all odds and with hard work that is almost unimaginable.

As for Sorsby; he is stated to have gambled during his redshirt year in 2022. There is literally no one associated with the Cignetti program that was affiliated with the Indiana program in 2022.
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It's all good, we don't have to argue about it. It's my opinion. This ain't an Indiana board
 
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M Squires said:
What makes you think Mendoza is an act? Is it the graduating Cal-Berkeley Business School in three years, or maybe the Multiple Sclerosis foundation he bankrolled with $500k of his own money this week?

And that program is out of control? Must be the zero arrests, and winning with the 17th best high school talent ranking in their own conference. Buncha prima donnas!

Stealing signs? Just stop. That was an internet genius laughable post that aggrieved fans picked up on. Or, you could post one molecule of actual evidence to back up that nonsense.

And Haines tweeting the word "Adorable." OMG THE HUMANITY! lol.
Haines started with Cignetti at IU-Pennsylvania about ten years ago at a salary of $5,000; he was on food stamps for his family for his first year with Cignetti. He is the kind of American success story against all odds and with hard work that is almost unimaginable.

As for Sorsby; he is stated to have gambled during his redshirt year in 2022. There is literally no one associated with the Cignetti program that was affiliated with the Indiana program in 2022.
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Lots of Hoosier love…and that’s cool…
They’re 2 good seasons removed from the worst program in history…I know they passed it last year but they needed the lead in…and while Cignetti has absolutely been a success…he’s perfumed water in a rubber vessel…CNS even said he didn’t teach him that crap…
 
The Ols said:
When you have ESPN announcers joking to each other that they’re just grumpy because they missed their parlay on DraftKings, what do you expect?
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I get it, and to some extent I agree. But what I expect is for "kids" who we apparently think have enough responsibility to handle being paid like professionals while playing college football to also act like it. However, I know the reality, and the reality is, they can't handle getting paid, and they cannot handle the temptation of doing unethical things with the money they cannot handle.
 
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CB4 said:
Yep. Stuff like this is more pervasive than many would like to believe. Sticking large sums of cash in the hands of 17-22 year olds with underdeveloped prefrontal cortexes, particularly those of highly competitive athletes, will most likely only exacerbate it.
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I wish they would investigate officials!

Jason Autrey would be at the top of THAT list based on that game in Knoxville 5 years ago... :rolleyes:
 
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Sorry, accidentally posted this in the wrong thread, so I'll repost here.

On another note, I'm very curious to see what Texas Tech does now. There have been rumblings this spring about agents instructing players to go ahead and simply unenroll from their current school and enroll in a different school to bypass the lack of a transfer window. Will Texas Tech try it now to get a replacement? Something tells me they will.
 
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CrimsonTitles said:
Sorry, accidentally posted this in the wrong thread, so I'll repost here.

On another note, I'm very curious to see what Texas Tech does now. There have been rumblings this spring about agents instructing players to go ahead and simply unenroll from their current school and enroll in a different school to bypass the lack of a transfer window. Will Texas Tech try it now to get a replacement? Something tells me they will.
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That won't work though.
 
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