Friday

Second day of Tax School 2009. Day 2 is almost as exciting as Day 1. (I did take a pass on the first two hours on Ethics this AM. Spin at Gold's was the optional activity.)

The temperature high today will be below freezing for the first time this season. This will drive those averages down.

I admit to being a little curious about the ND coaching search. There's been lots written by lots of hacks/pundits/experts, and, given the Seinfeld Rules of the Internet (any opinion needs no verification/authentication), it's hard to measure at this point. I do like the guy from UConn, and not much for the guys from Cincy and Wisconsin. We've already had a failure from Stanford.

Hard to ignore the news on Tiger. It will die down, I think, but he will remain a talk-show punch line for a long time. Can you say Hugh Grant? The best term I have heard to describe his actions is reckless. Check out the cover of next month's Golf Digest. They say timing is everything. My guess is that such a generalization belongs on yesterday's list of no-longer-truisms.

Speaking of gratuitous accusations of racism, how long do you think it would take Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson/the Political Black Caucus/The Huffington Post and a host of others to play the race card if the guy holding the club in the photo happened to be a Caucasian banker from Goldman Sachs?

It looks like Iowa is battling Penn State for an at-large BCS bid. It's a beauty contest since the Hawks won the face-to-face meeting. Does the aura of Joe Pa outshine the traveling herd of bumble bees? Expected TV ratings as determined by the BCS bowl folks will carry the day. And the conventional wisdom is that PSU has a bigger national following than Iowa. With the Hawks being uniformly described by national media as a combination of lucky and from a weak conference, the Capital One Bowl looks likely to me.

I think I've had enough education for today. TGIF is calling.

Have a great weekend.

BCOT