After a months-long wait, college football fans will finally hear things directly from the source.
“I couldn’t watch sporting activities without wanting to have something at stake, wanting to have some skin on the game,” Sorsby says in the docuseries, describing his gambling habits before transferring from Cincinnati to Texas Tech.
“Whenever I got to Tech, same deal. Making more money than I ever made in my life, no reason to gamble. And yet I still did it. Just chasing a dopamine hit, and that’s where you lose yourself. … I’m walking around the facility and nobody knows that I have a problem gambling. Once I got found out and got caught, I went to rehab to fix my problem. And here we are.”
On April 27, Sorsby announced he was taking a leave of absence from the Red Raiders to enter a treatment program for a gambling addiction. The NCAA began investigating him for impermissible betting on the same day, leading to a lengthy court battle for the Lake Dallas product to regain his eligibility. Sorsby was ultimately deemed eligible to play (before he parted ways with the program and entered the NFL supplemental draft), a decision that drew the ire of many across the college football landscape.
The process involving Sorsby became the through line of Texas Tech’s offseason and, according to The Athletic, serves the same purpose for the four episodes of the docuseries. Cody Campbell, the Red Raider’s super booster who made plenty of public comments in support of his alma mater this summer, said he has no regrets.
“Looking back on it, I know that Texas Tech and I handled everything with integrity, and we did things the right way,” Campbell said in the docuseries. “I think this is something that could have been handled much more privately. We’re not going to forget about that, and I don’t think they’ll forget about it either when we’re up by 40 and still throwing the ball in the fourth quarter. That’s where the retribution will come.”