It’s the middle of May and many of the big time conferences are in the middle of meetings.  Athletic directors and coaches nationwide are now meeting to check up on things and discuss to goings on of their respective schools.  Now usually, this will blow over with not much of a drop of news to report.  This year, however, it’s getting bigger attention because of the expansion talk coming from the Big 10.  Where last year there might have been one or two beat writers covering the meeting, this year it’s a media hoopla.  No, the KCCGD Crib Sheet did not travel to the Big 10 meeting, but the Big 12 one is in Kansas City next week so we may crash that party.  In the meantime, read up on our Big 10 expansion series and check out this week’s Crib Sheet:

• Blair Kerkhoff speculated last week how Kansas City could be affected with Missouri and/or Nebraska leaving the conference.  We’ll cover it later this week, but this is a nice roundup of how serious of a move this is for the local area.
• Rivalries could be affected as well, especially with Kansas and Missouri.  Lew Perkins hinted heavily last week that Kansas might have a hard time doing a rivalry game if it wasn’t in conference.  Big time decisions with consequences are fun for Missouri right now.
• Mike Sherman’s been away to Iraq talking to Aggie troops.  He went out there for the Aggie Muster, which is a roll call of fallen Texas A&M soldiers on April 21.  He ended up being late and had to stay later due to the Iceland volcano blowing ash.   Sherman’s got our respect here for spending his own dough and sticking through to keep up the tradition.
• Notre Dame and Miami are looking to renew their rivalry.  Sounds good to us.  Back in the day, this game meant national championships.  Today, well, these teams are struggling to get back to the big time.  Maybe this renewed tussle will help them get back on the track.
• It seems like there is some trouble going on over in Lawrence.   We might have not mentioned it before, but there is a big brewhaha over former fundraiser Rodney Jones’ abuse over tickets and plane ride solicitations.  On the field, first stringer defensive tackle Jamal Greene is off the team because of his arrest for a little breaking and entering and armed robbery.  At least they are cleaning things up now.
• The speculation for the Big Ten expansion now grows toward the Sun Belt, according the head honcho Jim Delany.  Let the fake reports triple because of this.
• Bennie F. Abram, the Ole Miss player who collapsed and died on the field during a workout, had the sickle-cell trait.  The enlarged heart due to that caused the seizure.  When  will the NCAA institute a rule that monitors this disease in football players?  Every year there’s a new kid that dies because of this.  Where is the clamor?