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The Dig: Your Best Conference USA Roundup. Billy Gillispie can't get a job, SMU and UCF players get NFL tryouts, a former Miner has new competition, and the C-USA bowl pictures are clearing up. The Liberty bowl may not be in the cards. Also, a former UCF defensive lineman is trying to make the Top 5 in American Idol. When you hear his story, you'll root for him. In The Dig.

UTEP Officials have told CBS Sports that Derrick Caracter will enter the 2010 NBA Draft. The first line of business for UTEP's new basketball coach will be to preserve Tony Barbee's final recruiting class or 2011 will be a long season in El Paso.