Neinas, in a telephone interview from the Big 12 offices in Dallas, said it's "for West Virginia to comment" specifically on the lawsuits. "But our conference fully expects West Virginia to participate in the Big 12, beginning July 1, 2012," Neinas said. "We've had continual assurances from [WVU] President [Jim] Clements and Athletic Director Oliver Luck [the Mountaineers] will be here to kick off the new year." The Big 12 commissioner said his league hasn't made scheduling plans to move forward for 2012-13 without West Virginia. "No,'' he said. "We have a schedule with West Virginia. We have a contractual commitment with our television partners that we must release a schedule by Feb. 1 and we will do that. "Aside from our television partners, our schools are anxious to release their schedules and we'll meet the required deadline."
Interim Big 12 Commish Chuck NeinasArkansas coach Bobby Petrino will not be making an in-person visit Thursday to the nation’s No. 1 recruit according to the player’s coach. "A situation occurred," Springfield (Mo.) Hillcrest coach John Beckham told CBSSports.com Beckham said that Petrino and Hillcrest receiver Dorial Green-Beckham "bumped into each other" earlier this month in San Antonio, Texas possibly creating an NCAA recruiting issue. Petrino was in town for the American Football Coaches Association convention. Green-Beckham was there for the U.S. Army All-Star Game. "When he was at the coaching convention in San Antonio, they bumped into each other," said Beckham who also is Green-Beckham’s foster father. "It just so happened that another school that was recruiting Dorial happened to be there that day."
Did Arky pull an uh-oh with DGB?Where Andrew (Michael) goes following his days at Ozen isn't certain. He'd love to follow his brother (RB Christine Michael) to A&M. But he said Christine has other visions for his future. "I want to go to A&M," Andrew said. "It would be cool but he wants me to be in a better place than him. Like he wants me to be at LSU or something like that."
Their own players don't even want their siblings to choose A&MAt a luncheon on Wednesday, T. Boone Pickens described an email he received from Barry Switzer after Oklahoma had beaten Texas 55-17 earlier this month. Pickens says Switzer wrote to him suggesting that Oklahoma State shouldn't "beat them as bad as the Sooners did because we want to keep Mack Brown as coach — we want somebody that both of us can beat." Switzer was sitting in the audience and encouraged Pickens to share the story.
It's good to be the KingTexas Tech coaches weren't happy with what they implied weren't earnest injuries from the Aggies in Saturday's 45-40 Texas A&M win in Lubbock. The game featured a season-high 105 offensive snaps by the Red Raiders. "That was kind of interesting. They’d go down and come back the next play. But I guess that’s football," said coach Tommy Tuberville. Added offensive coordinator Neal Brown: "It was kind of ironic how they would have these bad injuries and then they would be back two plays later." Texas A&M defensive coordinator Tim DeRuyter fired back on Monday. Monday, an angry DeRuyter responded, "I take offense. We never teach that." He added that if Tech wanted to "use that as an excuse then go ahead." Coach Mike Sherman added that A&M has never taught its defenders to take "dives" on the playing field.
Are the Aggies trying to convince us or themselves? Seriously, how many games do they have to pull this crap before somebody does something about it???