Wednesday

Let's give the Hawkeyes their due:  big win at The Garden last night in The Big Apple.  So glad that 4 was able to see the game.  I'm presuming that she will be joined by 3 and 3.1 for the championship game tomorrow night.  These last couple of wins by Iowa suggest that the program may have turned a corner to national competitiveness.  Wins in the spotlight help with recruiting.  If you don't have good players, you don't win, regardless of the effort or coaching.

I know that this is an RCL day.  But I couldn't remember if it is a 2 or 4 hour day for her.  I left the 4-hour fee.  Too many tax returns on my mind.

Its not surprising that the basketball coach for Florida Gulf Coast, Andy Enfield, is on the move.  When you have lightening-in-a-bottle, you need to use it.  He goes to USC, which is a huge move, but one that USC could afford to take since basketball is largely irrelevant at the LA school.  The mating dance that goes on this time of year among college coaches is an interesting process.  The schools all want to win, but they all have different facts.  For instance, Minnesota was tired of Tubby.  But he seems to be a good fit in Lubbock.  Check out the Coaching Carousel article on CBS.com to catch up on these firings and hirings.

The other thing that you learn about the coaching business is that there's a lot of in-breeding and cross-pollination.  Very rarely is a newly-hired coach truly from off-the-reservation.  Most have a connection with the AD who hired them, the President of the college, or with the college itself from a prior life.  Even with those connections, winning in the NCAA tournament (or getting there as a low-major), is a coach's ticket to movin' up town.

Its still on the cool side here, but the grocery stores are starting to get deliveries of supplies to their parking-lot garden centers.  That's sign of Spring, right?  Hy Vee down from our office had mulch and other bagged products sitting on pallets at least two weeks ago in the snow.  There must be some profits in that stuff.

OK.  Lots to do today.  Maybe a little more here later this evening.

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