<p>LAS VEGAS — Anyone who believed this isn’t the Wild Wild West era of college sports must have been flummoxed by Texas Tech’s recent theatrics.</p><p>In recent years, quarterback Brendan Sorsby made $90,000 worth of bets while at Indiana and Cincinnati.</p><p>In January, he transferred to the Red Raiders’ program, in Lubbock, Texas, where super-booster Cody Campbell dangled a $5 million lure.</p><p>On April 27, Sorsby checked into rehab to treat a sports-gambling addiction. The NCAA ruled him ineligible. A reinstatement request fizzled.</p><p>All de rigueur, per NCAA betting rules that, for example, ended the collegiate careers of Iowa State quarterback Hunter Dekkers and Iowa defensive lineman Noah Shannon (for making a $10 wager).</p><p>However, the Sorsby roller-coaster was just gaining steam.</p><p>I’ve long trumpeted “Hud” and “The Last Picture Show” as the finest Lone Star State films, but this Lubbock lunacy might require the borrowing of “Giant” from Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson.</p><p>Who wields the most West Texas influence and power, among billionaire Campbell, the former Tech lineman and Tech’s Board of Regents chair, lawyers on either side and a retired county judge?</p><p>I tapped former UNLV quarterbacks Steve Stallworth and Jon Denton, and Ohio judge Kevin Braig to make sense of this mess.</p><p>“I’m a rules follower, so I don’t like how this has played out,” Stallworth said.