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Arkansas State Def. Coordinator Resigns

JONESBORO, Ark. — Arkansas State defen­sive coor­di­na­tor Keith Pat­ter­son has resigned less than two months after being hired. Head coach Gus Malzahn announced the res­ig­na­tion in a news release Fri­day. Pat­ter­son had been hired as ASU defen­sive coor­di­na­tor on Jan. 4– less than a month after Malzahn was hired as head coach. Malzahn said Pat­ter­son is leav­ing for a job at another FBS pro­gram and that a search for his replace­ment is under way. Malzahn did not dis­close where Pat­ter­son is going. Pat­ter­son spent last sea­son as defen­sive coor­di­na­tor... 

Oklahoma St. Adds Malone to Staff

STILLWATER, Okla. — Okla­homa State foot­ball coach Mike Gundy has announced that Uni­ver­sity of Tulsa assis­tant coach Van Mal­one will join the Cow­boys’ coach­ing staff. Malone’s spe­cific duties were not released. He served as a defen­sive backs coach and recruit­ing coor­di­na­tor at Tulsa in 2010 and 2011. Mal­one has coached defen­sive backs at Texas A&M, North Texas and West­ern Michi­gan in addi­tion to coach­ing spe­cial teams at North Texas and West­ern Michi­gan. He also coached receivers at North Dakota State and was on the staff of the NFL’s Detroit... 

Kentucky WR Coach Martin Leaving for USC

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Wide receivers coach Tee Mar­tin is leav­ing Ken­tucky to take a sim­i­lar posi­tion at South­ern California. Ken­tucky coach Joker Phillips says in a state­ment that he wishes Mar­tin well and appre­ci­ates the con­tri­bu­tions Mar­tin made over the last two years. Mar­tin informed Phillips late Wednes­day night he was accept­ing the job on Lane Kiffin’s staff. Mar­tin was picked as one of the top 25 recruiters in the nation by Rivals.com in 2011. Mar­tin led Ten­nessee to the 1998 national cham­pi­onship and was drafted in the fifth round by Pitts­burgh... 

Leach’s Appeal in Texas Tech Suit Denied

LUBBOCK, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court has denied Mike Leach’s appeal in his wrong­ful ter­mi­na­tion law­suit against Texas Tech. The rul­ing from the state’s high­est civil court in Austin came Fri­day, more than two years after the uni­ver­sity fired Leach amid claims that the coach mis­treated player Adam James when the son of U.S. Sen­ate can­di­date Craig James had a concussion. Leach, who denies the alle­ga­tions, has said an $ 800,000 bonus due the day after his fir­ing was behind his dismissal. Attor­neys for Leach, now coach­ing at Wash­ing­ton State,... 

Florida TE Arrested on Battery Charge

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Author­i­ties say Florida fresh­man tight end A.C. Leonard was arrested on a sim­ple domes­tic bat­tery charge. Gainesville police say 20-year-old Leonard got into an argu­ment with his girl­friend Wednes­day night. Accord­ing to a police report, Leonard shoved the woman, caus­ing her to fall to the ground and hit her head on a dog cage. She told police Leonard told her to take her belong­ings and leave the apart­ment they shared. “This behav­ior will not will be tol­er­ated and A.C. has been sus­pended from team activ­i­ties at this time,” Gators coach... 

New Sun Belt Commish Wants Expansion

Incom­ing Sun Belt Con­fer­ence Com­mis­sioner Karl Ben­son wants his new league to expand. Ben­son, the long­time West­ern Ath­letic Con­fer­ence com­mis­sioner, was intro­duced as the Sun Belt’s next leader Thursday. The 60-year-old Ben­son will replace Wright Water, who is retir­ing after 12 years. He will begin work­ing with the Sun Belt on April 1 and take over as com­mis­sioner in July. “While this may be a time of uncer­tainty in the col­lege sports land­scape, the Sun Belt is well posi­tioned to take advan­tage of this uncer­tainty,” Ben­son said dur­ing... 

North Texas’ McCarney Confirms Stroke

DENTON, Texas — North Texas coach Dan McCar­ney said Tues­day that he suf­fered a stroke over the week­end and expects to recover in time to lead his team through spring drills. McCar­ney said in a state­ment pro­vided by the school that he felt his left side go numb Sun­day and was taken to a hos­pi­tal. Doc­tors later con­firmed he had a stroke. McCar­ney, 58, is out of inten­sive care but remained in the hos­pi­tal Tues­day for fur­ther treat­ment. He said he expected to be back to his nor­mal rou­tine “in time.” The team starts spring prac­tice March 28. “While... 

Big East May Let Pitt, ‘Cuse Leave Early

Big East Com­mis­sioner John Mar­i­natto says his league “might be open to a dis­cus­sion” about allow­ing Syra­cuse and Pitts­burgh to join the Atlantic Coast Con­fer­ence for the 2013 foot­ball season. The Big East reached a set­tle­ment with West Vir­ginia on Mon­day that allows the school to become a mem­ber of the Big 12 in 2012. The agree­ment upholds the Big East’s bylaws, which require a depart­ing school to give noti­fi­ca­tion 27 months before leav­ing. West Vir­ginia chal­lenged that in a lawsuit. Syra­cuse, Pitt and the ACC have said they would not chal­lenge... 

Conference-USA, MWC Merge to Form ‘Superconference’

We have been spec­u­lat­ing about the arrival of the so-called “super­con­fer­ence” in col­lege foot­ball for some time now. Well, maybe this qual­i­fies (empha­sis on “maybe”). On Mon­day, offi­cials from the Moun­tain West Con­fer­ence and Con­fer­ence USA announced a new part­ner­ship agree­ment that will cre­ate a 18– to 24-team “superleague”-a con­fer­ence (or, in their words, “asso­ci­a­tion”) that will include mem­bers from nearly coast to coast. The hope-and it seems to be a real­is­tic one-is that by com­bin­ing their strengths (rel­a­tive... 

Rutgers Hires BC’s Brock to Run Offense

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Rut­gers has hired Boston Col­lege offen­sive coor­di­na­tor Dave Brock to run its offense. Brock, will be wide receivers coach as well as offen­sive coor­di­na­tor for the Scar­let Knights. Brock, a New Jer­sey native, spent the last three years at Boston Col­lege, serv­ing as interim offen­sive coor­di­na­tor for most of last season. Robb Smith was pro­moted to defen­sive coor­di­na­tor and Phil Galiano spe­cial teams coordinator. Also hired Mon­day by new coach Kyle Flood were tight ends coach Dar­nell Dink­ins; run­ning backs coach Ben Sir­mans,...