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If Appalachian State is headed for the Sun Belt Conference, athletic director Charlie Cobb doesn't know about it.

Cobb sent out a message to fans via Appalachian State's athletic website saying the Mountaineers, who are currently in the FCS, are in talks with Conference USA and have been for the past year.

That dispels the rumor that the Sun Belt Conference was considering adding Appalachian State and New Mexico State. Well, the Sun Belt could be considering Appalachian State, but its clear from the not the Mountaineers aren't considering the conference back.

That leaves the Sun Belt with two potential holes to fill for football-playing schools if it wants to play in divisions and have a championship game. Of course, New Mexico State and Idaho, the two remaining football-playing teams in the WAC, are hoping to be those two teams, though Sun Belt commissioner Karl Benson told the Las Cruces Sun on Monday evening that the addition of New Mexico State "has not even been discussed" and that expansion west of Texas was still up in the air. Benson said more expansion probably wouldn't be discussed until the league meetings on May 22.

Mike Leach might have a new head coaching job, but he's still the same unfiltered personality that people grew to love during his two seasons away from the field.

On Monday, Leach put that infamous personality on display via Reddit and took all questions and answered them in the only way Leach knows how — honestly and with a dry sense of humor.

Here's a little taste of Leach's Q&A:

How much do you hate Craig James, I mean seriously?
I think my opinion is consistent with most of the rest of America's. This is illustrated by a poll done in the Dallas Morning News where people were asked who they would vote for senator: Mike Leach or Craig James. I got 96.5 percent of the vote.

Which Big 12 team was your favorite to play? Least favorite? On a possibly related note, is Bill Snyder really a sorcerer?
"I liked playing all of them. Really enjoyed going to Kyle Field to play Texas A&M, really enjoyed playing Nebraska. Playing someone difficult is tough and can be discouraging, but if you beat them the payoff is huge!

I suspect Bill Snyder may be a sorcerer…he's one of the coaches that I admire most!"

Charles Eric WaughCharles Eric Waugh, a registered sex offender who was at the center of a story surrounding a recruit decommitting from Ohio State, has been arrested for failing to comply with the Kentucky Sex Offender Registry.

Waugh, 31, of Ashland, Ky., met recruit Alex Anzalone and several other recruits following the Ohio State spring game on April 21. Waugh took several pictures with the recruits and posted them on his Twitter page. The page has since been taken down.

Anzalone had no knowledge of Waugh's background when that photo was taken; however, after learning Waugh was a registered sex offender, who had pleaded guilty to five counts of possession of underage sexual content in 2008, Anzalone pulled his commitment to the Buckeyes.

"You don't want your son to go to a place where there's a potential issue [like this]," Anzalone's father, Sal told the Reading (Pa.) Eagle last Friday. "You expect the [football] staff to have some sort of control on how things are handled with recruits when they visit. This is ridiculous."

Waugh, who also sent several messages to current players and recruits via social media, was in violation of Kentucky Revised Statute 17.546, which states sex offenders will not knowingly or intentionally use social networking websites to interact with a person who is under the age of 18.

Oregon's 45-38 win over Wisconsin in the 2012 Rose Bowl was definitely cause for celebration since the Ducks hadn't won the famed bowl game in 95 years.

So, the Ducks were given some blingy Rose Bowl rings to commemorate the occasion.

According to Oregon, the rings are made from yellow or white semi-precious metal depending on the player's preference and contain 60 individual hand cut cubic zirconia stones across the top of the ring. The green stone is custom cut into an "O" shape and the Rose Bowl logo in red and green enamel.

[Related: Fast, fearless Oregon Ducks shine in Rose Bowl]

The left side of the ring, which is not pictured, has the player's last name with the chrome duck-winged helmets and the player's jersey number. The right side says "2012 Champs" with the scripted Rose Bowl logo. The score is also on the right side as is the stadium façade with the Oregon motto, "Win the Day" on it.

While these might look a bit large, they seem to be par for the course when it comes to bowl rings. TCU's 2011 Rose Bowl rings were equally as large.

[Related: USC among the teams facing key questions following spring football's end]

These are nice collectors pieces for each player to remember the history they made. And perhaps someday they'll be able to pass the ring down to a grandchild and tell them all about the time the Ducks broke a near-century long Rose Bowl curse.

(Kyle Terada/US Presswire)

San Jose State coach Mike MacIntyre knows the next time he's in a recruit's home, he won't be bombarded with questions about the Spartans' future.

For the past couple years — since Boise State, Nevada, Fresno State and Hawaii announced their intention to leave the WAC for the Mountain West — MacIntyre has been asking recruits to have faith in San Jose State football and trust that when the dust of expansion settles, San Jose State would be in a stable place.

On Friday, that stability came in the form of the Mountain West, which added the Spartans and Utah State to compensate for the loss of Boise State and San Diego State to the Big East.

"We got those questions all the time," MacIntyre told Yahoo! Sports. "We actually had some kids that decided not to come here because they weren't sure about the conference alignment at the time because it was just always on the Internet, it was always out there and other schools were always bringing it up, that kind of thing.

"So we told recruits don't pick the school on the conference at that time, pick it on the school. And now that we're in a stable conference and a stable area playing geographical football - I think it's great that we're not having to fly all over the country and play all over the place - I think that makes it even better for us."

Notre Dame will open the 2012 season against Navy in Dublin, Ireland, and it'll do it in style.

Ryan Grooms of the Notre Dame equipment staff tweeted out a photo Monday of Notre Dame's new adidas cleats, which are designed to look like the flag of Ireland.

[Pat Forde: John Marinatto latest commish gone for not doing enough]

Honestly, the cleat has a very soccer feel to it, but it's still very cool.

No word on whether there will be any other Irish adornments to Notre Dame's uniforms, but this is a nice start.

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(Thomas Campbell/US Presswire)Idaho's descent from the FBS to the FCS is starting to become a reality.

After the WAC officially fell apart last week with Texas State, Utah State, San Jose State and Texas-San Antonio all finding new leagues, Idaho and New Mexico State were left as the only two football schools in the WAC.

The options for both schools are limited, but especially so for Idaho.

So, Big Sky commissioner Doug Fullerton, who has been courting the Vandals for the past year, extended a lifeline to keep Idaho's athletic department afloat albeit in the FCS.

"Playing at the top of the FCS is a better situation than playing at the bottom of the FBS," Fullerton told the Idaho Statesman on Monday. "The success and fan base and excitement you can do (by) staying regional is what college athletics are supposed to be about, unless you can play at the national level."

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Big East commissioner John Marinatto didn't exactly pick the best time to resign especially with the college football landscape still changing and some of the league's new additions still being courted by their former conferences.

But Marinatto wasn't exactly given a choice. Marinatto resigned at the behest of the Big East's presidents and thus joined former Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe as a scapegoat for a league that is trying to survive expansion.