Summer’s in full swing and we are heading straight into one of the most celebrated holidays of the year:  Independence Day!  It’s been quiet for the last couple of weeks so we are anxious to roll out some explosives and blow some stuff up.  If anything, it will help put a sparkly glow on the news we have for you this week.  It seems the aftermath of expansion is an unending line of duds on wet bottle rockets.  So fire up the grill and we’ll fire up the display of news to blast in front of your patriotic eyes.  On to the Crib Sheet:

• So we knew that Texas A&M received an invite from the SEC, but now it turns out that Oklahoma also got one.  The SEC was real quiet in all of the expansion frenzy and it seems they prefer to strike like a ninja instead of a minutemen.  At least we know their strategy the next time this happens.
• Chip Brown has been the Woodward and Bernstein in the expansion saga, and Sports Illustrated gives him his due.  Brown went from sports writer at the Dallas paper to professional blogger and he’s well on his way to becoming the premiere one, next to us of course.
• The Kansas Jayhawks hired an auditor to help police the ticketing scandal that came out in the last couple of months.  They could hook up with StubHub, as they are becoming the front door internet-wise for school specific ticket sales.  Ain’t technology grand?
• The NCAA proposed to delay scholarships for athletes to July 1 before their senior year.  This may help cut down on recruiting kids before they even hit high school.  We’re sure Lane Kiffin is already finding away around this.   He’s going to need it with the lockdown USC has for the next couple of years.
• Missouri might come out with their own TV network, not just Texas.  This is one advantage the Big 12 (10) has over most other conferences.  They have the freedom to create their own networks, not only for smaller sports but for arts, education, and other items.  Think public access but on a larger scale.  We’re going to see this trend quicker in the next couple of years and conference with television networks.
• We here at the KCCGD loves the Twitter (follow us @kccgd).  We especially love how coaches are coming up with creative ways to recruit using the technology.  Look at Jim Harbaugh.  He could be quoting Greek mythology but he’s really talking about a recruit.  Great stuff indeed.
• The Colorado Buffaloes are following Nebraska’s lead and are looking for a way to get out of the Big 12 (10) a year early.  Will they eat the cost more or send in the sharks to find a way around the massive exit fees?  No matter how it turns out, it should mean more cash for the remaining members of the conference.
• New Texas Tech head coach Tommy Tubberville thinks the Big 12 (10) won’t last much longer with the new deal.  He goes back to the original argument about the uneven revenue sharing.  Seeing as he came from the SEC, it makes sense that he prefers the older model.  If he makes the Red Raiders a bigger winner than what it was before, he may change his tune though.