On Saturday, Tommy Tuberville was named the next head coach of the Cincinnati Bearcats football team. Devonte Danzey of Hutchinson (Kansas) Community College, a Texas Tech offensive guard prospect, was stunned. Probably because Tuberville bolted in the middle of dinner with Danzey on Friday, only to find out Saturday that Tuberville had, uh, left dinner to join another school.

There is now one less grumpy old man in Lubbock. Tommy Tuberville is headed for Cincinnati.

I previously said Will Muschamp is a pyschopath. It seems Muschamp has company. Enter Tommy Tuberville.

A lower third graphic during Saturday’s episode of “Gameday” sent ESPN viewers through the Wayback Machine.

In an excerpt from his new tell-all book Swing Your Sword, former Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach doesn’t exactly mince words when discussing ESPN analyst Craig James and his son, Adam.

Nothing is bigger in Texas than football. Texas Tech University made that clear when giving Tommy Tuberville a $500,000 raise despite freezing faculty salaries

Mike Leach, the former Texas Tech football coach who was fired on December 30th, 2009 for mistreating an injured player, had his breach of contract claim thrown out by a Texas appeals court. The court said he could still pursue non-monetary claims.

The other Big 12 schools in the Lone Star State don’t get nearly the same amount of fawning attention as University of Texas. So, if you’re, say, Baylor, you need to find other ways to get noticed. As this is 2010, that way is apparently through a Facebook note.

It’s no secret that the landscape of college athletics is about to change thanks to conference expansion plans – only no one really knows what these plans are. But yesterday, Orangebloods.com reported that the first domino is about to fall – and if they’re right, it would be massive.