To follow the commencement speaker threat that Cooch started with his graduation retrospective, BU will have George Will stepping up to the podium to deliver this year's address. Expect him to somehow combine the recent Iraq stuff with the Red Sox.

Babson's undergrad speaker is New Hampshire governor Craig Benson, who is an alum. He gets the unenviable task of following up Ted Turner. I feel worse still for the MBA speaker, whoever it is (can't remember), who has to follow up Robert Kraft in his Super Bowl glory.