Pour one out for Doug Rigg. Never forget!

Also, the football schedule is out and it’s interesting: No back-to-back road games. Three uninterrupted weeks of non-conference games and an open week before Big 12 play starts. A Thursday-night home game, another regular-season finale against Iowa State and an open week in the final week of the regular season.

Finally, there’s an athletic director quoted in that story and his name is Oliver Luck. That’s because Mr. Luck remains WVU’s athletic director. Texas has hired Steve Patterson from Arizona State.

We can talk more about this later, though I’m not sure I really care to at this point, and we might hear more details as time goes on, but I’ll just refresh what I heard all weekend and up to last night: The folks at WVU and some folks near Texas thought it was going to be Luck. Nobody ever told me it was absolutely him. I don’t believe there was ever an offer or negotiations or imminence. I was nevertheless assured Texas would wrap this up early this week. I guess that part was right.

The wave of texts I got from People I Talk To was a mix of shock and relief. Interesting to note: There’s this guy who hosts a radio show on Thursday mornings and he said a while back Texas would hire Patterson.