WVU is in the Big 12. A few other details are finished. Most others are unresolved.The general feeling generated in yesterday’s reception at Touchdown Terrace was that the Mountaineers have done — and, thanks to the lawsuit, will have to do — a lot of things to get out of the Big East Conference … and that the Mountaineers have a lot to learn about the Big 12.

We learned a little Tuesday, which, to be fair, was a reception the media was invited to attend for convenience. It was mostly intended as a celebration of the occasion and featured just about every notable university and athletics official available, be they coaches, administrators, cheerleaders or the pep band, but not the Mountaineer, who no one invited.

The Big 12 said it can’t simply ask WVU to assume Missouri’s schedule, should Missouri leave. No one knows, or is saying, what Missouri will do and the Big 12 has only an idea what to do with a 10-team league and with an 11-team league.

WVU nevertheless believes in the stability of the Big 12, which has lost three teams and may lose a fourth and which has members who seem to not like and/or trust one another. All 10 schools have signed a six-year grant of rights, which means if a team leaves for another conference and plays on television, the Big 12 gets the money. That does help. WVU also confirmed what we went over earlier: 50-percent of the revenue in the first year, then 67 in the second, 85 in the third and 100 in the fourth.

The two sides will meet in Texas soon to go over membership issues and discuss the details that are right at the heart of WVU’s move to the conference. This would include something like how many sports WVU has to provide and which sports WVU might have to add if the Big 12 requires them. Things like that, at this juncture, are still not known.

“I am just, to be honest, becoming familiar with the bylaws of the Big 12,” Luck said. “There are lots of details we have to look at, and we’ll get to that in due time and make prudent decisions based on what is in the best interests of the university.”