The Big 12 is taking the Brendan Sorsby debacle to court with a lawsuit of its own.
On Monday, the Big 12 filed a federal lawsuit against Texas Tech and Texas’s state attorney general, Ken Paxton, seeking a judgment to allow it to enforce its bylaws against the school if it decides to play Sorsby despite his gambling transgressions.
The conference has not yet decided whether to sanction Texas Tech. Instead, the lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division, says that the Big 12 is seeking a confirmation that it can enforce its bylaws, which include a provision to allow the Big 12 to sanction a school if a super-majority of schools vote to do so, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by Front Office Sports.
Yahoo Sports first reported the news of the lawsuit.
The lawsuit is the latest in an ongoing saga involving the eligibility of Sorsby, Texas Tech’s new quarterback. In May, Sorsby announced he would seek in-patient treatment for gambling addiction after the NCAA notified Texas Tech of an investigation into years of gambling activities that included betting on his own team while at Indiana.
