prior to saturday night, i had had one karaoke experience, and it was a bad one. following 'the macarena girls' while in san antonio in late-2000 to cover the wildcats, i belted out a solo, awful version of 'you're so vain.' hoping for audience interaction, i simply got blank stares. and hoping for adulation and applause, i got more blank stares.

last night, a slightly inebriated rud-man was a karaoke star, turning an underappreciated classic into a bit of 'music history.' indeed, it was 'wouldn't it be nice?' and, indeed, my 'falsetto' was in full effect. it was a thing of beauty.

other than that, i did some cleaning this weekend. great, great cleaning. scrubbing of floors cleaning. and it's worked out great.

it's quite strange to state that, after this weekend's victory over penn state, the wildcats are 5-5 and could reasonably be expected to finish the season 6-6. there exists the distinct possibility that two big ten teams (ohio state and michigan) will wind up in BCS games, which would leave an opening for an eight big ten teams to get bowl bids. (inexplicably, the big ten has tie-ins with seven bowl games.) the cats would be the big ten's eighth bowl-eligible team.

this would seemingly set up a chance for r-dub to lead his boys to the motor city bowl, to take on a far superior opponent from the mid-american conference. december 26th in detroit, anyone?

even more interesting would be the sun bowl, for a pac ten matchup. this one remains interesting only because the cats hoopsters are participating in the sun bowl tournament, december 27 and 28. the football game is the 31st. and the purple will take over el paso...party at anson's house.

question: if a coach takes a traditionally awful program to a bowl game, but loses that bowl game to finish with a sub-.500 record, is there grounds to fire that coach? i hope not.