Here are just a few interesting things blogged with regards to Big East Media Day unrelated to Pitt.

Troy Nunes IAM goes barrel fishing with a shotgun by breaking down the utterances of Greg Robinson, not once but twice.

USF Coach Jim Leavitt actually will miss Rich Rodriguez — mainly since he went 2-1 against the Mountaineers with DickRod there.

“We beat Rodriguez. We haven’t gotten this guy. This guy worries me. I wish Rich would have stayed. But he didn’t, so we’ll have to go play Michigan now.”

At least Leavitt will be more popular in Morgantown.

The reports that the Big East may be trying to work a deal with Army and Navy. Um, not so much.

Mike Tranghese dispelled the recent New York Post story on the Big East looking at Army and Navy for football. He said the conference had discussions two years ago, but haven’t spoken since. “We had discussions two years ago, the service academies didn’t feel it was in their best interest, and we dropped it,” Tranghese said. “Now this story appears, and it sounds as if it’s happening now, but that’s not so.”

Chip Malafronte also describes WVU Coach Bill Stewart this way, “Actually, he kind of looks and sounds like Lou Holtz, without the speech impediment.”

Outgoing BE Commish Mike Tranghese seemed to really be out to put an end to any expansion talk in his final year.

“I don’t think there’s anybody out there who can make us better,” Tranghese said. “If there was somebody out there who could make us better, I think our people would react to it very quickly. Our people talk about it all the time.”

Sorry, East Carolina.

What will likely be a story with some legs. Or at least some interesting back-pedaling from WVU QB Pat White. The once 4th round draft pick of the Anaheim Angels calls the WVU Baseball coach a racist.

Asked if he had spoken directly with Van Zant about playing for him, White said: “(No), he wasn’t (excited). He wasn’t interested.”

Then he paused and added:

“In my knowledge of West Virginia baseball, there’s not been many players of my race on his team. He’s not too high on it.

“Every player I’ve talked to doesn’t like him. He’s not a well-liked coach but I guess he has tenure so they never got rid of him. They’re not successful at all.”

Asked if he might have played if there were a different baseball coach at West Virginia, White said, “Maybe.”

Okay, completely unrelated, but too funny not to mention.

A student is facing various charges after police said he entered the Lasch Football Building on Thursday morning and caused $5,000 worth of damage — all while wearing a Penn State football helmet.

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Following a night of drinking at his friend’s University Terrace apartment and two downtown bars, Costenbader told police he was on his way back to his Toftrees apartment when he decided to hop the fence onto the football practice field. He told police he stripped to his boxer shorts and began running around the field, hitting tackling dummies. He then saw an open gate and headed toward the Lasch building, according to court documents.

Though Costenbader told police he doesn’t remember much about being in the building, he admitted to breaking a glass window as well as being in the locker and weight rooms, according to court documents.

While inside, Costenbader allegedly damaged a window in the training office by throwing weights at it, flipped two tables and two trampolines in the training room and broke a window in the south lobby.

Awesome.