It’s national signing day!  Okay, so it’s not that exciting, but we have some Big 12 updates flying in and I don’t want to take away from the exciting coverage.  Usually half the kids that are worth something don’t pan out anyway.   It’s a good thing that ESPN covers this overhyped event in the only way that ESPN can over hype.  Now on to the Crib Sheet:

• Another person involved in the Kansas ticket scandal, Charlette Blubaugh, plead guilty in court.  Her husband will soon plead guilty as well.  It looks like legal system works in the case of these folks.
• The Iowa Board of Regents ordered into an investigation as to why 13 Iowa football players were hospitalized after offseason workouts.  The news just keeps getting worse up there.  Take an investigation on perhaps illegal medical record access?  It’s not the first time school athletes had this issue, either.
• Nebraska ended it’s apparel deal with quarterback Taylor Martinez’s dad, Casey.  It was all on the part of Casey, too.  Hey when your son is the starting quarterback for a school you just so happen to have a licensing deal with, things tend to look too fishy.
• Bill Snyder 2.0’s son, Sean, will coach the special teams as Associate Head Coach for the Kansas State Wildcats.  Nepotism?  Well, he was an All-American punter for the ‘Cats and was a staff member on the team for a very long time.  How long?  17 years.  He’s worth it.
• ESPN’s Erin Andrews is kind of a freak of media exposure.  By exposure I mean the nude video taped in the hotel room that begat her appearance on Dancing With the Stars.  Now, she’s taking that controversy and lackluster sideline reporting to Reebok.  Some journalists are complaining that this throws the ethics out the winder but I’m afraid they forgot that Andrews is more of a pretty face than an actual sports reporter.
• Florida State quarterback Christian Ponder looked great in the Senior Bowl as he led the South over the North in a 24-10 victory.  Texas A&M’s linebacker Von Miller had the defensive tops as well.
• USA Today talks about the trend of colleges oversigning players.  Schools will dole out scholarships only to revoke them later for someone else or make kids ‘greyshirt’, which means have them enroll in January instead of the fall.  Florida president J. Bernard Machen agrees that greyhirting blows.  They talk about how the kids are the victim of this.  It looks like one more reason to pay the kids that play big time ball to me.
• A bunch of Missouri players sold tickets to former footballs players in 2009.  So the current players got a cut of the kickback for them.  That’s a secondary violation for the NCAA.  Yet another why the NCAA is useless.