For the past several years, conferences like the SEC, Big 12, and Pac-10 have been complaining that the Big Ten is overrated. I’m a Big Ten fan, but I can’t say that I disagree. After a 9 – 0 start, Iowa rose out of the ashes of the Big Ten this year, and we all held the hope that this would be the team to challenge Florida or Texas or another awesome team for the National Championship.
It doesn’t look like that will be the case. Today, Iowa fell, but not to Penn State (no, they beat them gloriously – sigh …read more

Bill & Melinda Gates were guests on Oprah today. Not in studio audience guests but video recorded segments. The topic of the episode is the poor state of the nation’s educational system. Not a lot of argument there. Interesting fact that Oprah mentioned was that the United States ranked 24th in the world in mathematics.
We definitely need to figure out what to do in this country to improve this situation. The financial support of the Gates and the Gates Foundation will definitely help, but it’s going to take much more than that.
I found out that here in Indiana, students …read more