This Purple Yeti is too busy chopping wood for the fire to bring you much for the rest of January.  Look for some new giblets starting February.  In the meantime, I have the Crib Sheet to you warm.  Check it out:

• So ESPN’s David Ubben points us to the overall bowl record for conferences.  The Big 12 finished at the bottom, tied with the Big 10.  It’s pretty bad for the conference when they notch the same record as an overrated conference that needed to expand to stay relevent.
• It looks like an imminent NFL lock out is scaring at least some college players from coming out early.  Oklahoma State’s Brandon Weeden and mega star Justin Blackmon are both staying behind for one more round.  The Cowboys will be a tough cookie next year to chew on.
• Michigan contacted Gary Pinkel’s agent to ask for an interview.  Pinkel turned it down.  One dis from the Big 10 deserves a dis right back.   That and Missouri already competes for the title now.  It will take Michigan a couple of years before they get back on track.
• RichRod dumped about 430 maize and blue gear on the Salvation Army on his way out of Michigan.  At least he did one good thing while he was up there.  I wonder if he cried on his way out of the store.
• That said, things are looking up for Michigan, now that they’ve replaced RichRod with Brady Hoke.  The ‘Predator’ Denard Robinson decided to stay and Hoke landed the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Greg Mattison.  I swear this is the last Michigan news for a long, long time.
• The Big 10 is keeping the Legends and Leaders division name for the 2011.  Dang, I was hoping they’d change it to the Losers and Lamers divisions.
• Help me out on this one:  So the NCAA shut down a proposal that would stop head coaches from offering scholarships to kids as young as middle school age but they then want tougher rules against parents shopping around their kids.  So, the NCAA wants coaches to bribe kids without parents getting in the way?  Um, usually middle school kids need a legal guardian to represent them.  This seems very contradictory.  Or obvious.  The NCAA wants to take full advantage of the kids and no one else, including the parents of the kids.
• Rodney Jones, a former university official, plead guilty to in his part of the $2 million ticket scalping scandal at the University of Kansas.  Cue the Law & Order music.
• Continuing on our legal theme, John Lomax III plead no contest to the killing of UConn football player Jasper Howard.  Again with the Law & Order music.
• Texas Tech was so impressed with Tommy Tuberville’s first year that they’ve already given him an extension.  Can he keep it up?  It’s doesn’t matter now because his buyout will probably be sweeter.