Just finished checking in with Virginia Tech athletic director Jim Weaver on a few things …

* Moving the 2012 football game against Cincinnati from Cincinnati to FedEx Field was a deal done between representatives from Cincinnati and FedEx Field. “We were not involved in that at all other than saying that we would be glad to play there,” Weaver said.

* Next season’s non-conference schedule will be finalized “very shortly,” with the addition of a Division I-AA team to replace Western Michigan, which Weaver released from the schedule so it could play at Notre Dame. Western Michigan will play at Tech at a later, to-be-determined date, Weaver said.

The 2010 non-league schedule currently looks like this: Sept. 4 at home against Central Michigan, Sept. 18 at home against East Carolina and Oct. 2 vs. Boise State at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. The schedule also includes conference games at Miami, North Carolina, Boston College and North Carolina State, and home ACC contests against Duke, Georgia Tech, Virginia and Wake Forest.

* Tech heard back from the NCAA last week regarding the self-reported rules violations in men’s soccer. As for the specifics of the NCAA’s response, Weaver said, “I can’t comment on it until the university general counsel tells me that we can, because of the whole scenario. And she is out this week at a conference.”

* The Boise State game next season was always scheduled for Oct. 2, but last month, the idea of moving the game to Labor Day weekend popped up. Here is how that happened …

“It was started by ESPN and the ACC,” Weaver said. “They came to us [about moving the game to Labor Day weekend] and I talked with coach [Frank Beamer] and we’d be glad to do it. In the meantime, I had back surgery on the 19th of October. Came back the next week or two and went on the radio show and said it seems like that’s what’s gonna happen, in response to a question Bill Roth asked from an e-mail. I didn’t know that the ESPN people hadn’t contacted Boise. It wasn’t my job to coordinate all that. That’s how it came about. It was an inadvertant comment, assuming that when they wanted us to move they had talked to the other people [Boise].”

Boise State didn’t want to play the game on Labor Day weekend because of a tough turnaround before its next game, Sept. 11 at home against Toledo. The Broncos’ non-league schedule now looks like this: Toledo on Sept. 11, at Wyoming on Sept. 18, Oregon State on Sept. 25, Virginia Tech at FedEx Field on Oct. 2. So they don’t have a game scheduled for opening weekend.

Catching up with Virginia Tech’s athletic director.