That's the news from The Bubble, where the Scarlet Knights practiced today with a little more than a week to go before the season-opener against Buffalo.

The plan, relating to the situation at middle linebacker, seems to be to stick with Damaso Munoz as the starter in between Brandon Renkart (strong side) and Kevin Malast (weak side).

Schiano wouldn't confirm that Munoz has the job locked up. When I asked him if that was the case, he replied simply: "we'll see." But Munoz got all the reps with the first time, while Jimmy Dumont, with that big old club on his broken right hand, took the reps as the second-team 'mike.'

Chris Quaye, who for a while appeared to be the front-running middle linebacker , practiced as the second-team strong side guy yesterday.

The plan Schiano had was thrown out the window when Blair Bines broke his jaw in practice Monday morning. That could mean Schiano was planning on giving the starting job to Bines, or just that the backup situation changed with Bines out.

Schiano beams when he talks about the competetivess of Ryan D'Imperio so much that you get the impression he'd rather have D'Imperio at half-speed than anyone else at full-speed. That's obviously not what the Knights are going to do, but you can bet on D'Imperio being a starter when he fully recovers from the broken leg he suffered during spring practice.

Schiano also said that Gary Watts has moved ahead of George Johnson at defensive end, and that he won't officially name a starter at right guard until Saturday. With that said, it looks like Kevin Haslam has prety much locked up the job, and there'll be a story on Haslam and Anthony Davis in tomorrow's paper.

Tomorrow's practice --- which I hope will be outside in the stadium -- is at 10:30 a.m., so I'll post an update some time tomorrow afternoon.

That's all for today. Enjoy Yankees-Angels if you're staying up.