I think I’m eating way more than I did when I was on vacation.  The holidays were tasty but between running around to visit people and sipping a couple of barley pops left me with little time to eat well.  Now that I am back, I find my fingers in the candy bowl that filled up from the stockings left before the trip.  Oh well, I guess.  Tis the season.  I know one thing, after the new year and the end of bowl season, it’s mega workout time.   One item that will mostly be fat throughout the year is the Crib Sheet.  So let’s get munching:

• Robert Griffin III is your AP Player of the Year.  Well, duh.  He won the Heisman.  The field was so wide open this year that anybody could’ve won the Heisman.  So instead of trying to stir controversy, the AP decided to frontrun.  That’s fine with me.
• The Fiesta Bowl ticket scandal will not help prosecute politicians.  You know, because they are guilty doing nothing wrong.  Ever.  We’ll just have to find some other way to rattle their cages I guess.
• The quarterback heavy league that is the Big 12 just got a little bit heavier.  Former Notre Dame standout Dayne Crist and BYU transfer Jake Heaps both committed to Kansas.  It looks like Charlie Weiss is moving big ground with his front butt recruiting strategy.
• Texas A&M senior lineman Joseph Villavisencio was killed in a car crash while delivering holiday gifts last week.  My condolences goes out to his friends and family.
• Iowa State offensive coordinator Tom Herman is moving on to Urban Meyer’s Ohio State of all places.  Let’s hope it’s the last of the poaching from the Big 12 that the Buckeyes do.
• So enough people complained about the Orange Bowl getting a cigar sponsorship that it forced them to end the partnership with said cigar company.  The PR cost of the deal ended up being more than the actual cash.
• Truman, Missouri’s mascot, knocked over and broke the Independence Bowl trophy before the game Monday.  It’s a good thing that Missouri ended up winning the game because the Tigers would’ve looked even dumber for the whole incident.  What a great way to exit the Big 12, guys.
• So some schools already complained enough to nix the $2000 bump in pay for student athletes.  Now others are trying to pull the plug on multiyear scholarships.  You know, it’s getting to the point where it just needs to turn all pro or at least be minor league in status.  Schools are broke and can’t afford the changes.  The kids aren’t getting enough for they do.  Make it minor league with credits to colleges or something.  It’s only gonna get worse.
• The Big 12 and West Virginia will have to wait longer start their relationship.  A judge denied the motion to dismiss the case the Big East brought up against the school.  There will be some kind of money settlement out of this coming soon.
• The Big 10 and the Pac 12 will have at least one non-conference game against each school starting in 2017.  This is the kind of series that other conferences needs to have.  Just think if the Big 12 and SEC did something like this. By that time we’ll see Notre Dame in the Big 12 so it would make things much more intriguing.