Is Rupp hired at Tech?

Amid the hoopla surrounding Eddie Robinson's death on Wednesday, unofficial word out of Ruston that the hiring of UAB assistant coach Kerry Rupp as Louisiana Tech's new men's basketball coach is a done deal, one day after 9-year coach Keith Richard was fired.

Former Bulldog great Karl Malone was reportedly ushering Rupp around the Tech campus on Wednesday introducing him as the new Tech coach.

If Rupp has been hired, it's obvious that luring him in began long before Richard received word of his axing.