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Elsewhere at SI.com, Ben Reiter's rundown of this winter's top 50 free agents contains the players who will grab most of the headlines this offseason, but even in this relatively thin class, far more are looking for work.
Unless you're stocking a team that doesn't mind losing 100 games, you won't find too many cleanup hitters or third starters outside those 50, but as role players in a platoon, off the bench or out of the bullpen, others can do more than just fill out a roster.
What follows here are 12 more free agents worth considering. Many are deep into their 30s, taking them out of the realm of long-term deals; it would be a surprise if any received more than two years on their next contracts.
Some are coming off injuries or sub-par 2012 showings, while others are simply part-timers who deserve some love.
Jonny Gomes, OF/DH
2012: Oakland A's, .262/.377/.491, 18 HR in 333 PA
2013 age: 32
Gomes provided plenty of bang for the buck in 2012, delivering a performance worth 2.2 Wins Above Replacement Player for the rock-bottom price of $1 million. He's best used as a lefty-masher (.296/.398/.506 against southpaws from 2010-2012, compared to .220/.302/.390 against righties), and he's not much of a defender, but an AL club can do much worse than keep him around for a couple million dollars.
Eric Chavez, 3B/1B
2012: New York Yankees, .281/.348/.496, 16 HR in 313 PA
2013 age: 35
The lasting image of Chavez will be his 0-for-16 slide in the playoffs at a time when the Yankees sought an alternative to the slumping Alex Rodriguez, but that shouldn't obscure his fine season. Avoiding the disabled list for the first time since 2006, Chavez came in handy as a fill-in when Rodriguez missed six weeks with a broken metacarpal and took his turns at DH and as a backup first baseman as well. In all, he was worth 1.6 WARP while costing the Yankees less than $2 million including incentive bonuses. He has no business playing against lefties (.200/.236/.215 in 72 PA from 2010-2012), but he can still hold his own as a part-timer at the hot corner.
David Ross, C
2012: Atlanta Braves, .256/.321/.449, 9 HR in 196 PA
2013 age: 36
Ross long ago took the baton from Gregg Zaun as the Practically Perfect Backup Catcher. In four years with the Braves, he has hit a robust .269/.353/.463, saving wear and tear on the heavily used Brian McCann without much drop in production — though this year, that wasn't the case as the latter played though a shoulder injury that required surgery. Ross, who made $1.625 million in 2012, is valuable for more than his bat; he's an above-average pitch-framer who controls the running game, gunning down 44 percent of would-be base thieves this year. The latter stat is no fluke; he's at 39 percent for his career, 11 percentage points better than the league average during that time.
Joel Peralta, RP
2012: Tampa Bay Rays, 3.63 ERA, 11.3 SO/9 in 67 IP
2013 age: 37
Outside of Tampa Bay, Peralta gained more notice for the eight-game suspension he received after umpires found pine tar in his mitt than for his performance, which included the fifth-highest strikeout percentage (31.8) of any AL pitcher with at least 50 innings. Thanks to improved command and increased reliance on his splitter as part of a three-pitch mix, he has blossomed into a very good, durable late-game reliever; over the past three years, he has struck out 9.4 per nine while walking just 2.2. Some contender — if not the Rays — is going to give him a raise from his $2.175 million 2012 salary.
(UPDATE: Peralta has re-signed with the Rays, according to the Tampa Bay Times.)
Jason Grilli, RP
2012: Pittsburgh Pirates, 2.91 ERA, 13.8 SO/9 in 58.2 IP
2013 age: 36
Since returning from a 2010 season lost to knee surgery, Grilli has improved his control dramatically and missed bats at an alarming rate. With both his fastball and slider netting swings and misses on at least 15 percent of his pitches in 2012, his 36.3 percent strikeout percentage ranked fourth among NL pitchers with at least 50 innings, behind only Craig Kimbrel, Aroldis Chapman and Kenley Jansen. In 91 1/3 innings with the Pirates over the last season and a half (when he made his way back to the majors) he has whiffed 12.5 per nine, up from 6.6 from 2000-2009; meanwhile, he's trimmed his walk rate , issuing just 2.8 unintentional passes per nine, down from 3.7. He can be a setup man for a contender and will get a nice raise from this year's $1.1 million.
Brandon Lyon, RP
2012: Houston Astros and Toronto Blue Jays, 3.10 ERA, 9.3 SO/9 in 61 IP
2013 age: 33
Lyon came into the year still recovering from surgery to repair tears in his labrum and rotator cuff and wound up with a new lease on life in the bullpen. Thanks to an increasingly effective curveball, he got the highest swing-and-miss rate of his career (18 percent of all strikes); his rate of strikeouts per nine, a pedestrian 5.8 from 2001-2011, shot up to 9.3. The three-year, $15 million deal he got from then-Astros general manager Ed Wade is a cautionary tale in the annals of contracts for fringy closers; he won't get a ninth-inning job, but if he keeps missing bats, he'll be worth the money as a setup man.
Maicer Izturis, IF
2012: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, .256/.320/.315, 2 HR, 17 SB in 319 PA
2013 age: 32
By his own standards, Izturis didn't have a good year; his OPS was his lowest since 2005, and his WARP slipped into the ready because he was overexposed at shortstop, taking a beating via most defensive metrics. Taken together, those may be signs that he's on his way out, but then he's also just a year removed from one of his best seasons. Izturis isn't fit for a full-time job, but as a guy who can play second and third competently (and spot at short, briefly) while getting on base at a better-than-league-average clip with virtually no platoon split (.276/.326/.367 versus lefties from 2010-2012, .259/.327/.357 versus righties), he's a handy bench guy, though he'll have to take a pay cut from the $3.8 million he made this year.
Koji Uehara, RP
2012: Texas Rangers, 1.75 ERA, 10.8 SO/9 in 36 IP
2013 age: 38
Uehara missed 2 1/2 months with a strained latissimus dorsi (shoulder), but when he was healthy, his 33.1 percent strikeout rate ranked fourth among AL pitchers with at least 30 innings, while his 2.3 percent walk rate ranked second; the man had an eye-popping 43/3 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Uehara's a bit prone to the longball (1.1 HR/9 career), but his microscopic walk and hit rates minimize that problem considerably, and he deserves better than to be stuck in low-leverage duty, where the Rangers had him for much of last year.
Joe Blanton, SP
2012: Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers, 4.71 ERA, 7.8 SO/9 in 191 IP
2013 age: 32
Blanton's ERA was ugly in 2012; as a matter of fact, it's ugly more often than not, just like that dead animal pelt that he has mounted on his chin. Still, there's something here, because he misses bats and has good control; his walk rate was the league's third-lowest. Give him better defensive support than the .314 BABIP he suffered through in 2012 (.347 with the Dodgers, making for a bust of a trade), and a big enough ballpark to offset his flyballing ways and trim his inflated homer rate (1.4 per nine last year, 1.1 career), he can provide 180 or so innings of league-average work at the back of a rotation.
Scott Feldman, SP
2012: Texas Rangers, 5.09 ERA, 7.0 SO/9 in 123.2 IP
2013 age: 30
Like Blanton, Feldman's ERA wasn't much to write home about, but his peripherals underlying that suggest an uptick in performance and make a case that he's a better pitcher now than the guy who went 17-8 with a 4.08 ERA in 2008. Thanks in part to the development of an effective changeup, his strikeout rate was the highest of his career — well above his career 5.0 per nine prior — and not simply the product of a ton of short stints out of the bullpen (it was 7.2 in 13 2/3 innings in the latter role). Meanwhile, his walk rate (2.3 per nine) was a career low, so his strikeout-to-walk ratio effectively doubled. His ERA was inflated by a .318 BABIP and a hitter-friendly ballpark; in Arlington, batters tagged him at a .300/.333/.487 clip, compared to .255/.307/.351 on the road. In a more hospitable environment, he can help.
Carlos Pena, 1B
2012: Tampa Bay Rays, .197/.330/.354, 19 HR in 600 PA
2013 age: 35
The raw numbers are ugly, there's no getting around it; for the second time in three seasons, Pena wound up below the Mendoza Line. This time, he failed to offset his low batting average with adequate power and wound up setting a career high in strikeout rates. He needs to get out of run-suppressing Tropicana Field, and his next manager needs a restraining order against playing him with a lefty on the mound (.166/.295/.343 in 518 PA against southpaws from 2010-2012). Pena won't hit for average, but protected from his limitations, he can be a productive ballplayer again, and he won't cost anywhere near the $7.25 million he made in 2012.
Update: Since great minds think alike, the Rays announced that they had re-signed Joel Peralta to a new deal around the same time this article was published. Thus, we offer you an additional bargain candidate:
Kyle Farnsworth, RP
2012: Tampa Bay Rays, 4.00 ERA, 8.3 K/9 in 27 IP
2013 age: 37
Farnsworth enjoyed a late-career breakout in 2011 thanks to the emergence of his cut fastball, but elbow soreness curtailed his follow-up, and he spent the season's first three months on the disabled list. His performance upon returning was uneven, but he did string together a dominant stretch from the All-Star break to early September, holding the 78 batters he faced to a .123/.194/.123 line. If his elbow is in sound shape, he's worth another shot.
Gomes was worth as many wins as Derek Jeter this year--and he's six years younger. Maybe the Yankees can use him at the discount price of $16 million a year...
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@Mikey A Hairston's a good player who should be relatively inexpensive, but as Ben Reiter included him in his top 50 (#37, in fact), that ruled him out from inclusion here.


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Glad you liked it. Bowden's been bothering me for few years, I had to get it off my chest (his Morneau trade scenarios being the antagonist). PTA is one of my wife's favorite movies and I am a fan too. Also, Twins Fan From Afar - you are doing a great job of keeping us Twin's fans informed with New Britain... keep it coming!
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I would say Bruno... Molitor and Carew have been brutal as hitting coaches in their careers. Joe Vavra is a very good hitting coach who understands individuals and minor flaws, but he also understands the advanced metrics and uses those when discussion preparation with Twins hitters.
I actually don't think Varva is a bad hitting coach either. He has overseen some great individual hitting seasons and his joining the Twins staff in 2006 coincided with Mauer, Morneau, and Cuddyers offensive emergence. Not to mention 2 of T-Hunt's better offensive years. Those 4 guys are talented players, but Vavra should get a little bit of credit for their performance. I posted the Vavra topic merely to see what angry/despondent responses would be posted. With the 4 game losing streak to begin the season it has started to feel like the French Revolution on this site. Hopefully the guillotines won't be brought out.
I would say Bruno... Molitor and Carew have been brutal as hitting coaches in their careers. Joe Vavra is a very good hitting coach who understands individuals and minor flaws, but he also understands the advanced metrics and uses those when discussion preparation with Twins hitters.
No chance it would be Ulger. Personally, I would say Bruno is the only in house candidate that should be considered. It doesn't sound like Moliter would be interested and I would pray that they don't consider Carew.
You do have to look at this long term. If the Twins OF prospects pan out, they will have a bunch of young rangy outfielders to track down those long fly balls. They have consistently drafted and developed "pitch-to-contact" hurlers who would also benefit from a good defense with fast, rangy fielders. Finally, do remember that despite being outhomered at home, the Twins had the best home record in baseball in 2010.
It is strange that they have been outhomered by more at home than on the road both of the past two years. In that facet at least, today's Target Field doesn't fit its inhabitants.
In 2 to 7 years, our current Stars will be gone. Target Field will be around for at least 30 years.
I do agree that our Ball Park should play a little fairer to hitters. The Twins do not produce Ace Pitching, so the Park does play to that.
Heyman's piece is ridiculous. He's honestly suggesting that the '03 and '04 Twins were evenly matched with the Yankee teams of those years? Please. Compare the records, rosters, and payrolls. It's not even close. And I find it hard to believe that what happened to them in the playoffs those years would somehow be the heads of an almost completely different roster of guys 5 years later. There were a lot of close games between the teams, and you can't point to a lot of reasons the Yankees won. They had more talent and more experience. The Twins caught some bad breaks (Koskie's double, Cuzzi's foul ball call, Morneau out in '09 and '10) and made some dumb base-running mistakes. But the east coast centric national media loves the storyline of a "Yankee mystique" so powerful that the mere sight of Yankee uniforms has small-market teams like the Twins quivering with fear. So they keep hyping that. But it's silly. Bear in mind Heyman is the guy who thinks Morris should be in the HOF but not Blyleven, so that should tell you a bit about his knowledge level of baseball in general and the Twins in particular.
The context of Hunter's memory would also be in question. Assuming for a minute someone did decline, what were the circumstances? Illness? Injury? Was there another legitimate issue that was part of the discussion?
These kind of half-stories crack me up. It's like they want to bash the Twins, but don't want any accountability either from the person giving the quote or the person the quote is about.
But of course we are talking about Torii "Mouth Runs Like A River" Hunter...
When the,article first came out a couple of weeks ago, it named Ford. But our friend, Commnman, did the,research and showed that Hunter's 'facts' were not correct. Heyman did take Ford's name out of the article but that's about it.
Torii talks Just to talk. as we like to say, there's no I in team but two I's in Torii!

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Professor, Student Publish Peter Horry's Journal. Roy Talbert, Jr., and Meggan Farish have published The Journal of Peter Horry, South Carolinian with the University of South Carolina Press. Augmented with a detailed introduction and annotations, the volume brings together all of Horry's extant journal entries, in which the statesman, soldier, and planter vividly portrays his life on North Island and in Columbia, as well as the War of 1812. Talbert holds the Lawrence B. and Jane P. Clark Chair of History. Farish, a graduate of Coastal's History Department, is now a doctoral candidate at Duke University.
Hunley Archaeologist Maria Jacobsen to speak November 13. Maria Jacobsen, Head Archaeologist at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center, will give a lecture entitled "Think Before you Touch! and Other Archaeological Maxims." Jacobsen is responsible for the excavation of the American Civil War submarine H. L. Hunley (1863), planning and managing the interdisciplinary study of the submarine's crew, the archaeological investigations of the hull, and associated artifacts. Part of the Explorations Lecture Series sponsored by the Center for Archaeology and Anthropology, the talk is free and open to the public on Tuesday, November 13 at 5:30 in the Edwards College Recital Hall (EHFA 152). Please contact Center Director Dr. Cheryl (firstname.lastname@example.com, 843-349-6657) for more information.
Faculty hold Lincoln Lectures to accompany Exhbition, "Lincoln, the Constitution and the Civil War." History faculty, both present and former, will speak on three evenings during October and November as part of the exhibition at Kimbel Library and the Bryan Information Commons.
"Lincoln's Constitutional Crisis: South Carolinians React," History faculty round-table, featuring History faculty Dr. Eldred "Wink" Prince, D
r. John Navin and Mr. Rod Gragg. Oct. 25, 4:30 p.m., Johnson Auditorium, Wall Bldg.
"Society and Culture in the Age of Lincoln," Dr. Maggi Morehouse, Oct. 31, 4:30 p.m., Johnson Auditorium, Wall Bldg.
"Lincoln, Calhoun and the Constitution," Dr. Vernon Burton, Nov. 8, 4:30 p.m., Johnson Auditorium, Wall Bldg. A reception to honor all the speak
ers and exhibit organizer will follow in the Johnson Auditorium Anteroom.
The Lincoln exhibit, which runs through November 28, is sponsored by the National Constitution Center, the American Library Association, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, please see www.coastal.edu/library/?page=pageContent/about/events.html .
Dr. Amanda Brian publishes blog with Princeton Library. Assistant Professor Amanda Brian, recipient of a Princeton University Library Research Grant, recently returned from conducting research at the Cotsen Children's Library of Princeton University. Dr. Brian's research project considers early "pop-up" and mechanical books by Lothar Meggendorfer. These books, produced in the late nineteenth through earlier twentieth centuries, publicized German middle-class values during the era of German imperial expansion. For Dr. Brian's blog about the project, see http://blogs.princeton.edu/cotsen/2012/10/-beginning-in-the-1970s.html .
The History Department welcomes three new faculty colleagues. The Department is delighted to welcome three new colleagues this Fall, Dr. Maggi Morehouse, Dr. Marwan Hanania, and Dr. Matt McDonough.
Dr. Maggi M. Morehouse completed her Ph.D. in May 2001 at the University of California Berkeley, where she was the first graduate of the African Diaspora Studies Program. Today, she teaches Southern History at Coastal Carolina University, with a focus on connecting the American South to global diasporas and migrations. She looks forward to developing Southern Studies with her colleagues from across the campus. Her first monograph, Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Men and Women Remember World War II,chronicles the "greatest black generation" through the use of archival data as well as fifty personal interviews. She has also contributed chapters to The Long Civil Rights Movement and Civil War America: A Social and Cultural History, as well as journal articles regarding global military policies that affect ethnic and racialized soldiers. She has been working with media providing historical consultation and crafting oral histories into visual short stories on topics ranging from enslaved potters, to Southern women, to African Diaspora migration. A board member of the statewide NEH program, the SC Humanities Council, Maggi also plays tennis and crafts unique cocktails.
Born and raised in Jordan, Dr. Marwan Hanania attended Cornell University for his undergraduate education, majoring in government. He then received a master's degree in Middle East regional studies from Harvard before earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Stanford. His primary specialization lies in the field of modern Middle Eastern studies while his secondary specialization is situated in the area of European colonial history. Dr. Hanania's research interests include the study of Middle Eastern cities, the social history of Christian minorities in the Levant and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He plays tennis at a "reasonably competitive" level and enjoys watching movies.
Dr. Matt McDonough earned a Ph.D. at Kansas State University in Fall 2011. His research specializations focus on westward expansion in American history, the concept of Manifest Destiny and military history. He will be teaching a variety of survey courses on both American and European history as well as upper level courses on military affairs and the sophomore research seminar. Matt grew up in both California and North Carolina and after a brief sojourn in Kansas is looking forward to life in the South once again. He is an avid amusement park enthusiast, video and board game player and foodie. He is very much looking forward to working with everyone and is excited to meet the students here at Coastal Carolina.
Brandon Palmer receives two ASIANetwork Grants.
In May 2011 Dr. Brandon Palmer received $30,400 from ASIANetwork and the Freeman Foundation to take five Coastal Students --Amanda Kraft, Jeff Robinson, Rebekah Thomas, Laura Whitefleet-Smith, and Hans Sapochek-- to South Korea. This student-faculty mentoring project examined the many ways that remembrance of Japanese imperialism is manipulated and transmitted within the South Korean sphere. The five students examined how history is received, transmitted and interpreted by the South Korean populace. Over a three-week period, students conducted research by visiting numerous public and private museums, cemeteries, monuments, and palaces; interviewing dozens of Korean nationals; and analyzing guide books and academic works.
Palmer's second ASIANetwork award, with funding from the Mellon Foundation, will allow him to lead a three-week faculty enhancement program in South Korea in Summer 2012. This program, "Understanding Global Trends through Korean History," highlights the diffusion of ideologies, cultural practices, and technology to Korea, as well as how Koreans synthesized foreign structures to suit local practices. This program takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Korean and East Asian history in order to introduce attendees to Northeast Asian philosophy, religion, politics, history, and sociology, all of which have distinct local Korean interpretations. Program participants include faculty at Colorado College, Ohio Wesleyan University, Kenyon College, Wellesley College, Drury College, Vassar College, Union College, and Bard College. For more information, please see
Visiting Speakers
The History Department's Center for Archaeology and Anthropology, the Waccamaw Center, and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts are co-hosting a series of visiting speakers during Spring 2012. All events are free and open to the public.
On January 17, 2012 at 7 p.m., PBS Emmy Award Nominated film maker Francis O'Donnell will present and discuss his production "In the Footsteps of Marco Polo". For more on this film, see http://www.wliw.org/marcopolo/. The event will take place in Room 100 of the Burroughs & Chapin Center for Marine and Wetland Studies.
On January 27, 2012 at 3 p.m., Professor Francisco Marcos-Marín will deliver a lecture "Rock Art, Indian Languages and the Origins of the USA." The event will take place in the Edwards Recital Hall, Room 152, with a reception to follow in the Edwards Lobby.
On January 30, 2012 Professor Marcos-Marín will present "The Last King of Texas and the Southest: Charles IV of Spain and His Time". The event will take place at 2 pm in Wall Auditorium.
On March 21, 2012 Professor Eldred "Wink" Prince (History) and Associate Professor Becky Childs (English) will present together a public lecture, "Ten Events That Have Shaped Horry County." This presentation is part of the 10th Annual Board of Visitors Community Dialogue Series. The first presentation will take place at the University's 79th Avenue Myrtle Beach Education Center at 7 p.m.; the lecture will be repeated at 7 p.m. on March 28th a the University's Waccamaw Center in Litchfield.
On March 28, 2012, the Departments of History and Art will co-host a public lecture by Dr. James Horn, Executive Vice President of Research and Director of the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library at Colonial Williamsburg. Dr. Horn's lecture will examine "A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke." The lecture will take place in Wall Auditorium at 5 p.m., with a reception to follow in the anteroom.
Further public lectures to be announced.
Professor Emeritus Charles Joyner Honored
The Department of History marked its Decade Project event on December 1, 2011, with the dedication of the Charles Joyner Reading Room, Room 202 in the Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts. This dedication celebrates the career of Professor Emeritus Charles Joyner, who served as Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture, and Director of the Waccamaw Center, from 1988 to 2007.
Professors Glaze and Nance publish book on the History of Medicine.
Drs. Brian Nance and Eliza Glazehave published Between Text and Patient: the Medical Enterprise in Medieval & Early Modern Europe, a book of 21 scholarly essays examining various problems in the history of health, medicine and disease during the medieval and early modern periods.
The volume, printed in Florence, Italy by SISMEL -- the International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture -- is offered in honor of Michael R. McVaugh, Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Professor McVaugh taught at UNC from 1964 to 2007, focusing on the history of western medicine and science from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century. During that time he served as dissertation director to CCU's Professor Brian Nance (Ph.D. UNC, 1991), and dissertation committee member to Associate Professor Eliza Glaze (Ph.D. Duke, 2000). A bibliography of McVaugh's more than 15 books and 65 scholarly articles, several of them published in collaboration with contributors to Between Text & Patient, is printed in the book, and is used as the device by which Glaze and Nance frame the major problems in the discipline examined by the essays that follow their Introduction.
The authors contributing to the book edited by Glaze and Nance, and including an essay by each of them, employ a rich variety of methodological approaches to medical history, exploring important issues from the fifth through seventeenth centuries, and with a geographical range stretching from Jerusalem to England. These approaches include close philological studies of unexamined texts, paleo-pathological examinations of the spread of disease, social-historical analyses of the changing usage of medical texts, considerations of physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, and empirics, and the way in which many types of healers functioned in a variety of settings, including towns, universities, monasteries, elite courts, and printing houses. The linguistic range of medieval and early modern texts the contributors examine include Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and Middle English; several essays employ also visual and archeological data as evidence to support their arguments. Collectively, the essays in Between Text & Patient reveal how careful archival research permits the modern scholar to craft and answer important questions from new perspectives.
A list of the book's contents and contributors can be found online at
Professor Ken Townsend publishes textbook on Native Americans.
Ken Townsend's co-authored university-level textbook, First Americans: A History of Native Peoples, has been published by Pearson/Prentice Hall in January 2012. The publisher is now also producing a 500-minute DVD version of the textbook --a set of 10 DVD, each DVD at 50 minutes-- that examines the history of Native Americans on video. The filming project begins January 2012 and is expected for release in January 2013.
CCU celebrates work of Southern historian
Coastal Carolina University hosts "An Afternoon Celebration with Charles Joyner," at noon on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011 at the Waccamaw Higher Education Center in Litchfield. The event is free and open to the public.
The event celebrates the work of Joyner, distinguished professor emeritus of Southern history and culture at CCU. He will speak about his experience as editor of "Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive," an acclaimed, four-part digital collection devoted to the study of slavery and made available through Kimbel Library at CCU.
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Noted authors gather for CCU's 'Writing the South'
More than 25 authors will discuss their craft at "Writing the South in Fact, Fiction and Poetry," a symposium scheduled for Feb. 17 to 19, 2011 at Coastal Carolina University. The three-day event in Wall Auditorium will feature three Pulitzer Prize winners and an Emmy recipient. The sessions are free and open to the public. For further information and the program, please click here
Assistant Professor Amanda M. Brian selected for Summer Institute on Japan
Dr. Amanda Brian has been selected to participate in the 2010 Freeman Summer Institute on Japan held at Tokai University in Honolulu, Hawaii. Sponsored by the Japan Studies Association, the institute is an intensive introduction to a wide variety of topics related to Japan. Professor Brian will infuse knowledge gained from the institute into her courses on modern European history, for Japan provides rich comparisons in terms of imperialism and industrialization as well as culture.
She has noted in her own research particular connections between Germany and Japan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries around a newly imagined modern and "scientific" childhood, a childhood promoted at home and exported abroad as universal by, in part, German child advocates. From the Summer Institute on Japan, Professor Brian will return to Coastal to trace the cultural and social exchanges between the modernizing empires of Germany and Japan around their most precious resource—children. Her study will not only illuminate Japan's response to this universal childhood of western imaginations, but will also indicate Japanese articulations of a modern childhood that then German specialists took note of.
Associate Professor Eliza Glaze wins NEH sabbatical year fellowship to the National Humanities Center
Dr. Eliza Glaze has been awarded a National Humanities Center sabbatical fellowship for the academic year 2010/11. She will use this scholarly reassignment time, and the outstanding resources of the National Humanities Center, to complete a book on medical history in southern Italy during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Glaze has two projects for the year. The first, entitled Gariopontus and the Salernitans: the 'Passionarius' and Medical Practice in Southern Italy, c. 1000-1200, will include an edition and partial translation, with scholarly commentary and analysis, of the medical book called 'Passionarius' or 'Book of Diseases,' which originated in Salerno, Italy early in the eleventh century. The text and its significance has never been examined prior to Glaze's studies of it; she has identified and examined more than 70 surviving manuscripts--fewer than 10 of which were known previously--in major libraries and collections across Europe. This early Latin text, as Glaze has shown, was widely owned and well-regarded by university-educated professional physicians well into the sixteenth century. She has previously published studies of surviving and heavily annotated manuscripts of the text owned by significant historical figures like John Somerset, physician to King Henry VI of England, and Coluccio Salutati, Chancellor of the city of Florence, Italy, and one of the most important early Renaissance humanists. Salerno, the city at the core of Glaze's focus, is where formal medical education first originated in Europe in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. It became the model for nascent universities everywhere that offered medical degrees. Glaze's research is part of a collaborative effort to discover and understand the origins and pedagogical processes of medical study and practice at Salerno, which is not well documented. Her book will be published as part of the series "Edizione Nazionale 'La Scuola Medica Salernitana'" by SISMEL, la Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, based in Florence, Italy.
A second project for the year is "Excavating Medicine in a Digital Age: Palaeography and the Medical Book in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance." This collaborative project for which Glaze is co-principal investigator is funded separately by a National Humanities Center "Conversation" grant. A press release on the meeting's accomplishments can be found at
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I'm suddenly getting the message "Navigation to the webpage was canceled" when trying to test certain sites in BrowserLab: http://spdr.me/xBdc
Here is a list of sites I'm having the problem with:
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I should see a screenshot of the site.
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The screenshot just shows "Navigation to the webpage was canceled": http://spdr.me/xBdc Or when switching to Firefox, just a blank white screen.
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I have been using SilverStripe on my sites for over a year, and have never had this problem with BrowserLab until the last week or so.
Other websites such as microsoft.com and bbc.co.uk load fine.
Thanks for the very detailed and complete problem report, I really appreciate it. FYI, I was able to repro the issue. I'm forwarding this thread to our server guys to take a look at.
Sorry if this is preventing you from using BrowserLab. We'll try to get back to you with an ETA on a possible solution or workaround.
Thanks Mark, hope they can track down the problem!
Thanks for the report.
Here is the response I got: "When I preview http://demo.silverstripe.org/ on my dev browser server errors are generated when decompressing the main page - java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: "UTF-8". I checked another page that uses gzip compression and UTF-8 encoding and it works fine - http://shop.cascade.org/. This leads me to believe that there perhaps is a problem with the encoding on the pages this person is previewing."
We've done some more checking since then and have found a change that was made for our 1.6 release a few weeks ago. That could be the explanation for why you weren't seeing this issue previously and are now. We are going to look into that and also look at our browser configurations and see if there is some setting we have turned on that might affect how picky the browsers will be about encoding errors like that.
We will investigate and see what we can do, but I have to imagine it will take a week or more to do anything about. As a workaround until then, you could examine your pages, find the UTF-8 encoding error(s), and fix them on your/Silverstripe's end.
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Thanks, I've asked SilverStripe about it to see if it is a problem with the CMS, but it's strange it only appears to happen with BrowserLab.
Understood, and I agree with you. We are continuing to investigate the issue... I'll update this thread when we have any more information.
I'm having exactly the same issue. Also using Silverstripe, but also never had these problems with Browserlab before. Now they're just not showing up (no issues in any browsers though, just on Browserlab).
I just get "Navigation to this webpage was canceled" in IE or a blank screen on FF & Chrome.
Hi Neil, do you have a sample url you can send to us? I can see the issue on the URLs we got from the other user, but seeing yours may give us some more information.Also please let me know the answers to the following:
We haven't changed anything in the last week or so on BrowserLab that could have caused this to happen, so any info you can give us may be helpful in tracking this down.
Yes, the URLs I'm having this issue with are all my Silverstripe sites - here is just a sample few:do you have a sample url you can send to us?
No, in fact I've looked at some of these sites previously in Browserlab - so something has changed at your end.1. Did anything change on your pages recently that may have caused this?
2. Have there been any updates to Silverstripe that you know of that could have changed things?
3. When was the last time you used BrowserLab to test a Silverstripe page and saw that it was working?
I'm also having this issue recently.
Example site: http://www.sommerfields.co.nz
BrowserLab is great - I'd love to get a fix for this as I do quite a bit of Silverstripe development.
Thanks for all the info, it's very helpful. We will continue to investigate.
Like I said, we are looking into this issue, but during our investigation so far we have found a workaround you all should be able to use until we can figure out exactly what the issue is and get a fix uploaded.
If you test with Firefox 3.6 or 4, you should be able view your web page locally, then make use of our BrowserLab for Firebug add-on to Preview Local Content on that page and see the results in BrowserLab. You can find more details here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/786305?tstart=0
Hope this helps,
We found the source of the problem - Silverstripe is generating a bad HTTP header. The content-type header has quotes around the charset value. For example,
content-type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
is used when it should be
content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Most modern browsers are lenient and allow the bad header, but BrowserLab was tripped up by the quotes. This problem appeared recently when BrowserLab added the ability to follow links on screenshots. This feature requires us to read and parse pages and trying to read a page with an unknown charset caused an error to be reported.
We have implemented a fix, which is to strip off quotes from the charset value. We anticipate that the fix will be deployed by the end of July.
The problem can also be fixed if Silverstripe removes the quotes from the content-type header.
Thanks for the response - much appreciated.
I'll pass this on to Silverstripe.
Great, thanks Tom
Glad we got to the bottom of it, cheets Tom!
FYI, this issue should now be fixed and Silverstripe sites should be working again in BrowserLab as of the update we posted yesterday.
Looks good! Cheers! Tempted to keep my Litmus subscription though, as it's much faster than BL.


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Children are no strangers to cruelty and courage, to love and to loss, and in this unique book teacher and educational consultant Marietta McCarty reveals that they are, in fact, natural philosophers. Drawing on a program she has honed in schools around the country over the last fifteen years, Little Big Minds guides parents and educators in introducing philosophy to K-8 children in order to develop their critical thinking, deepen their appreciation for others, and brace them for the philosophical quandaries that lurk in all of our lives, young or old.
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A Non-Christian's Advice on How to do Missions
When it comes to mission strategy and outreach, I have taken classes, attended conferences, and read books. I have encouraged churches to give generously to mission support and to become more missional by seeing their community as a mission field. In all these hours of learning and advocating about missions, most of the time I was in dialogue with other Christians. Recently, I ran across in a book, by Brian McLaren, a story that told of a very interesting dialogue between a missionary and a non-Christian on how to do missions. The dialogue occurred in the past century. It was between Gandhi and E. Stanley Jones.
Jones was a professor at Asbury Seminary before answering the call to become a Methodist missionary in India. He became friends with Gandhi, a Hindu. Out of that friendship Jones wrote a biography of Gandhi. On one occasion Jones asked Gandhi what the church needed to do to become a force for the uplift and redemption in India. Gandhi gave the following four things that the church needed to do in India:
- Christians needed to live more like Jesus
- Christians needed to practice their faith without adulterating or toning it down
- Christians needed put their emphasis upon love
- Christians needed to study non-Christian religions and cultures more sympathetically recognizing the good in them, so that Christians would have a more sympathetic attitude toward non-Christians
- I'm not sure if I gotten any better advice in all the classes I took, conferences I attended, or books I read. This is the basic foundation upon which we need to build our mission work abroad and in our own communities. It is good to gain these insights from one who is on the other side of our mission efforts, and I suspect that we all need to engage in more of this type of conversations with non-Christians.
Bill Leonard speaking at Brite Seminary, March 18
Bill Leonard will be bringing several presentations on how the church can best minister in our culture. The conference will be at Brite Divinity School on the campus of TCU in Ft. Worth. The event is being sponsored by CBF TX in collaboration with the Baptist Studies Program at Brite. Two sessions are open to the public to hear Leonard: Chapel services at 11:00 a.m. on the topic The Things that make for Freedom and during the evening 7:00-9:00 p.m. on the topic Joel Osteen, "Nones," and the Non-Denominationalizing of American Religion.
Suzii Paynter CBF Tour in Texas, March 24-28
During the week of March 24-28, 2014 Suzii Paynter will be making a major tour of Texas. During the tour she will be speaking about what is going on in CBF. The schedule for the week is as follows:
Monday, March 24—Suzii will be in Waco at Truett Seminary speaking for the Women in Ministry Conference. For more information about the conference go to http://texasbaptists.org/events/women-in-ministry-conference-2/
Monday, March 24—Suzii will have dinner with pastors in the Waco area. Contact Erin Conaway for more details 254-753-6425 firstname.lastname@example.com
Tuesday, March 25—Suzii will be at a noon luncheon in Agape Baptist Church, Ft. Worth. Make your meal reservation with Fran Patterson between March 1-18 and pay at the door. Fran may be reached at 817-336-5761 or firstname.lastname@example.com .
Tuesday, March 25—Suzii will be speaking at 6:00 p.m. dinner in Shiloh Terrace Baptist Church, Dallas. Make your meal reservation with Maribel Paz between March 1-19 and pay at the door. Maribel may be reached at 972-857-9707, ext. 5113 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Wednesday, March 26— Suzii will be at a noon luncheon in South Main Baptist Church, Houston. Make your meal reservation with Amy Grizzle Kane between March 1-20 and pay at the door. Amy may be reached at 713-301-2909 or firstname.lastname@example.com .
Wednesday, March 26 —Suzii will be speaking at 6:00 p.m. at Tallowood Baptist Church, Houston.
Thursday March 27—Suzii will be speaking at a noon luncheon in Woodland Baptist Church, San Antonio. Make your meal reservation with Rick McClatchy between March 1-20 and pay at the door. Rick may be reached at 210-488-8169 or email@example.com .
Friday March 28— Suzii will be speaking at a noon luncheon in Woodlawn Baptist Church, Austin. Make your meal reservation with Kim between March 1-20 and pay at the door. Kim may be reached at 512-442-7858 or email@example.com .
Maston Lectures March 31-April 1
On Monday afternoon March 31, as part of the Maston Lectures hosted at Logsdon Seminary, CBF TX will sponsor an early session on how churches can be advocates to shape public policy. Presenters for CBF will be Roger and Suzii Paynter. Roger will speak about the role of the local church in shaping public policy, and Suzii will speak to the issue from the perspective of our denominational life. The featured speaker for the Maston Lectures will be Hulitt Gloer, Professor from Truett Seminary.
CBF TX New Contractors
CBF TX hired seven part-time contractors to work in 2014 to make over 150 face-to-face contacts with congregational leaders. Their task is to collect contact info for the church's staff leaders, to conduct a short survey, and to inform church leaders about the ministries and missions of CBF. The contractors are four of our CBF church planters—Wesley Craig, John Norwood, Kyle Tubbs, and Bob Cheatheam. Joining them will be Lester Meriwether of Literacy Connexus and two CBF field personnel, Alan and Verr Dean Williams.


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2013 marked the third annual Beach Soccer National Championships hosted by USL and Soccer in the Sand. Once again, Soccer in the Sand qualifying teams represented the Nationwide Beach Soccer Series well. Three of the four teams in the Men's National Championship semifinals qualified by winning Soccer in the Sand events. Great Lakes Beach Soccer hasqualified for the National Championships three years in a row and, this year, finished with its best performance, being crowned the Men's finalists.
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James D. Watson Sets the Record Straight on January 2007 Esquire Interview
The January, 2007 issue of Esquire Magazine profiled a number of prominent people including Dr. James Watson. These short profiles were presented in a format that listed what appeared to be random quotes on unrelated topics without context and without showing specific questions from the reporter.
Unfortunately, some of the remarks attributed to Dr. Watson do not reflect his views or beliefs. At one point in his conversation, Dr. Watson was attempting to make a point about excessive political correctness in American academia and he argued in favor of the right to criticize. The quotes, as presented, have been interpreted by some as being bigoted.
As a consequence of this article, Dr. Watson and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory are releasing the following statements:
"I deeply apologize for the statements attributed to me in the January 2007 issue of Esquire magazine. The bigoted remarks do not reflect, in any way, my beliefs or my life history. They do not reflect the values taught to me by my father. The cause of these remarks was my shortsighted comparison of criticism, which I wholeheartedly endorse, to bigotry which I wholeheartedly oppose. I know these words were hurtful and I apologize for the hurt they have caused and the embarrassment they have brought to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and its supporters. I know a great deal about molecular biology but obviously not enough yet about the sensitivities of the human heart."
Dr. James Watson
"On behalf of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, its Management and its Board of Trustees, we appreciate Dr. Watson's apology and clarification of his disturbing remarks in Esquire magazine. The Jim Watson we know, work with, and admire, is not a bigot. He has brought a level of excellence and compassion to one of the great research institutions of the world. We look forward to many more years of fruitful collaboration with this great scientist and good man. We know that the words in question were not indicative of his beliefs."
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The original Super Mario Bros. for the NES is something of a Rosetta Stone for adventure games, informing virtually everything that followed it. It's a simple tale of an underdog hero overcoming impossible odds to rescue a damsel in distress from an evil monster. Pretty simple, right? Wrong. It's a tale of corruption, genocide, greed, and overflowing sewage. And Mario's the bad guy. These are the horrible truths about Super Mario Bros.
Mario Kills Countless Enemies Who Aren't Even Trying To Hurt Him
Let's say you're a Goomba you don't exactly have the best life: you're short, you're weak, anyone who touches you dies, and you're named after an ethnic slur. Luckily, all you want to do with your time is peacefully walk across the world. You never target anyone, you mean no harm to a single soul you're actually a peaceful, benevolent creature (who happens to look like the kingdom's primary food source). Hell, you don't even have any arms.
Suddenly you get smashed. You're dead. Wha What? Why? Who? Well, confused dead Goomba an Italian plumber just crushed you to death for no goddamn reason. He jumped on your skull and flattened you because he felt like it. You were never trying to do anything to him, but because you dared to walk in his general direction, he ended your existence.
Mario is a violent nutjob. Very few of the enemies in Super Mario Bros. are actually trying to kill him. Sure, there's the Piranha Plants, the Thwomps, and maybe even the Hammer Bros., but the vast majority of the enemies Mario kills are just out for a walk: Koopas, Goombas, even Bullet Bills are essentially innocent creatures that can't control when or how they're launched. So why does Mario do this?
Because they were in his way. That's some Dexter-level thinking right there.


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I often hear people complain how difficult it is to find a plumber in my local city of Encino. Many gave tried several different services and had problems such as the plumber not arriving on time (or not at all), not doing the job correctly, not cleaning up after themselves, making things worse and the most common problem I hear, overcharging for simple jobs.
The problem is that many people simply just call the first plumber they find, either in the local paper or, more commonly now, on the internet. This is simply not the way to do this task, and can lead to all the problems I stated above. There is a better way.
To find the best plumber in Encino, or the city where you live, you simply need to use the tools available to most of us. Yes, the internet and the websites we can find using simple searches on our favorite search engine such as Google.
But what about personal recommendations I hear you say. That's a great start if someone you know and trust can recommend a plumber as most will only vouch for service providers if they have, in fact, done a good job in the past, The thing is, you should still perform your own due diligence and make sure the person coming into your home to fix your pluming or repair your property is the right one.
First of all, you should really forget about the local magazines and publications of local companies such as the yellow Pages. These are all advertisement and you want to pick a plumber based on their work and not how well some advertising agency made a slick looking newspaper ad. No, the place to look is the internet.
The next places you should ignore are directly sites. Forget about sites such as Craig's list or other directory listings as these, again, do not show any feedback, they are simply advertisements.
The best two places to find yourself a plumber is on Angie's List and Yelp. On these sites you can see the reviews left by real people – most of the time. Now, I say most of the time because there have been companies caught getting fake reviews left on Yelp. The good thing is that these are pretty much easy to spot as they are usually on yelp profiles that have no other reviews.
The other place that has reviews will be the plumbers Google Plus page. Simple type your city name and "plumber" into google and you will see a list of results in a map and a list of results on the left side of the page showing plumbers contact details and the number of reviews they have. If they have reviews you can read them on their profile.
Once you have found several local plumbers that have good reviews and rated well, ho to their website of each of them and check out the services they offer and make sure the contact information is the same as where you found them. From this you can make a short list or 3 or 4 you want to contact.
The final part is to call the plumbers to get a quote. They should offer free quotes with absolutely no obligation. On the phone, ask about their rates and services and simply get a feel for the, then, pick the one that you feel you would like to try and schedule your appointment.
As you can see, picking a local plumber need not be rocket science and all you have to do is use the tools are your disposal, perform a few checks, and you will definitely find one that will get the job done right and for the right price.
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The State of Recruiting
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Breaking down football recruiting data for BCS schools from 2004-08
Schools who drew at least 50% of recruits within 200 miles won more
The state of Florida produced most BCS recruits (981), followed by Texas (974)
One day in late December, dry-erase boards stood staggered a few yards apart on the track surrounding the field at the University of North Florida. A Nebraska assistant coach was posted in front of each board, and around each coach huddled a clutch of Jacksonville-area high school coaches. The Cornhuskers had come to the Sunshine State to face Clemson in the Gator Bowl, but first-year coach Bo Pelini and his staff figured that while they were there, they should lay the foundation for a recruiting pipeline into the state that, from 2004-08, produced more BCS-conference football players (981) than any other.
The Nebraska coaches have little choice but to hit the road. Their state produced only 43 BCS-conference players in the past five years, and the annual output isn't likely to grow. If they don't get their players from Florida, then they must go to California, Texas, New Jersey or some other state rich in high school football talent. To land those players, Pelini will have to work harder now than former coach Tom Osborne did when the Cornhuskers dominated the sport for the better part of two decades. Back then, a winning program was enough to lure recruits, in part because only powerhouses such as Nebraska, Michigan and Notre Dame appeared on television regularly. Now, every BCS conference team plays most of its games on television, and 15 years of the 85-scholarship limit has slammed shut the gap between football's ruling class and the former pigskin proletariat.
In the process, the three most important factors in college football recruiting have become location, location and location. Now, the best players are more likely to stay close to home. That, combined with the U.S. population's shift to the south, has fundamentally changed the sport. Notre Dame and Nebraska have given way to programs such as LSU, the only BCS-conference team in a talent-rich state that borders equally talent-rich Texas and Mississippi.
An SI study of 2004-08 recruiting data for the 65 BCS-conference schools and Notre Dame revealed that programs which draw at least 50 percent of their players from within 200 miles or from within their home state stand a far better chance of winning consistently than those that did not. Of the nine schools that won 50 or more games from 2004-08, seven signed more than half their recruits during that span from within their state or from within 200 miles of campus: Texas (93.2% from in-state, 71.8 percent from within 200 miles), USC (72.0, 61.0), Georgia (63.6, 70.1), Florida (62.3, 47.9), Ohio State (55.8, 66.3), Virginia Tech (54.3, 44.0) and LSU (50.4, 56.5). Oklahoma barely missed the cut, with 49.1 percent from within 200 miles.
Of the 22 schools that won 40 or more games during that span, 16 attracted more than half their players from within 200 miles or from within their state. Of the 44 schools that won fewer than 40 games, only 13 met the homegrown recruiting criteria.
Those data complement the findings of a trio of economists who, in 2005, designed a model to predict the college choices of sought-after recruits. The model created by Mike DuMond, Allen Lynch and Jennifer Platania -- rabid college football fans who met while Ph D. candidates at Florida State -- found that among heavily recruited players choosing from among only BCS-conference schools, distance from home is the most important factor in a recruit's choice. The model was published in the February 2008 issue of The Journal of Sports Economics.
The model found that a school's academic standing -- whether it's in the top 50 of the US News and World Report rankings -- provides a miniscule bump. So does the final poll ranking of the school the previous season. What didn't matter to players shocked the economists more. According to the data, the players weren't, on the whole, worried about the depth chart, how many national titles schools had won or how many players the school put in the NFL.
"Recruits tend to have short memories," said DuMond, who works for a private economics firm in Tallahassee, Fla. In general, DuMond says, the top recruits are looking for "a place that is in a BCS conference with a big stadium that is close enough that they can be seen by family and friends."
Florida State offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher -- who enjoyed a similar advantage while serving the same role at LSU from 2000-06 -- cited that factor in his decision last year to remain as the Seminoles' head-coach-in-waiting behind Bobby Bowden rather than return to his native state and coach West Virginia. "That's one of the things that made this job so attractive to me," Fisher said. "You have to have a recruiting base. You have to have a solid foundation of players to win on a consistent basis. You'll have up-and-down years, but to win consistently, you have to be able to do that."
Pete Carroll used a similar philosophy at USC. When Carroll arrived in 2001, the Trojans had gone 31-29 the previous five seasons. Carroll and his assistants realized they sat atop a goldmine of players in Los Angeles and Orange counties. If they could lure the best of them every year and coach them well, they could dominate. After a 6-6 start, Carroll and company have gone 79-7.
"We have such a fertile area here in Southern California in particular, that recruiting here is critical," Carroll said. "Most schools around the country that are in the setting we are, you want to own the great players in your state, and then you do what you can outside the state. Without that, I think you're missing the point. So we've always focused with the greatest emphasis here at home."
Florida's Urban Meyer, who is 46-9 with two national titles in four years in Gainesville, agrees. "It's night and day," Meyer says of recruiting from a hotbed state versus one that produces scant players. But, Meyer says, the Sunshine State has its own unique dynamic. It produced the most players (981) and the most players per capita (one signee for every 18,683 residents) of any state in the nation between 2004-08, but four BCS-conference schools had to split those players. Of those, three (Florida, Florida State and Miami) have won a national title in the past 10 years. "The hardest thing we have is that there are other schools in the state," Meyer says. "In some places, [a single university] is the only show in town."
The competition is just as fierce within Texas. Despite the recent rise of Texas Tech, Texas still rules recruiting in the Lone Star State. Mack Brown and his staff have won at least 10 games in eight consecutive seasons by cherry-picking the best players from the state that produced the second-most BCS-conference signees (974) between 2004-08. The Longhorns had a greater percentage of players from within their state (93.2) than any other school in the nation. Of those, 71.8 percent came from within 200 miles of Austin. For the others, distance is not as much of a factor because of the state's relative size -- class of 2009 commit Mason Walters calls the 400 miles between Wolfforth, Texas, and Austin "close enough to home, but not too close" -- and because of state pride.
State loyalty often supersedes straight-line distance. "If I'm a recruit in south Georgia, and it's 200 miles to Gainesville and 200 miles to Athens, the physical distance is the same either way," DuMond said. "Georgia still has an advantage because I live in that state."
But what about programs that must look elsewhere? Schools can keep 85 players on scholarship at any given time, and NCAA rules allow them to bring in at most 25 new scholarship players a year. Most schools sign between 20-25 a year, meaning a state would need to produce 100-125 players in a five-year span to properly stock a program. Wisconsin produced 55 players, meaning that if coach Bret Bielema's Badgers signed every BCS-quality recruit the state produced, they'd only have half a team.
"We'd love every player from our roster to be from the state of Wisconsin, to be quite honest," Bielema said. "But we can't fill up our scholarship numbers. There just aren't enough Division I football players to get us at that point."
So the coaches at schools in less talent-dense states must cast a wider net. They also must use their recruiting resources wisely, since they'll have to spend more money than a staff that can drive to see half the players it recruits. Rutgers, for example, takes most of its players from its home state of New Jersey, but since other schools (Syracuse, Boston College and Penn State) also raid the Garden State, the Scarlet Knights must fill out their roster from somewhere else. Coach Greg Schiano, a former Miami assistant, grabs a huge supplement from Florida. From 2004-08, Rutgers drew 42.7 percent of its players from New Jersey and 25.4 percent from Florida. The program even rented a billboard on I-95 in Florida to advertise to potential recruits.
At Nebraska, Pelini and recruiting coordinator Ted Gilmore prefer to canvas the entire nation. The Cornhuskers use a careful vetting process, because they can't afford to chase too many recruits who aren't serious about playing in Lincoln. "You want smart, tough and dependable," Gilmore said. "Usually, those qualities are represented on championship teams. With the 85-scholarship rule, you can't miss on too many. ... If we're going to go that far, we're going to make sure we get our money's worth."
Some coaches in sparse areas are better than others at convincing talented players to leave home. The state of Oregon produced only 44 BCS-conference signees in five years, but Oregon and Oregon State combined to win 81 games. What does that mean? It means Ducks coach Mike Bellotti and Beavers coach Mike Riley deserve raises. The University of Oregon, popular among athletes because of its close relationship with Nike, intrigued Aldine, Texas, safety Craig Loston, one of the top players at his position in the class of 2009. Loston took an official visit because Eugene seemed so different than his home. Loston wound up committing to LSU, but he said he understands why players would commit to Oregon, with its state-of-the-art facilities and creative, aggressive coaching staff.
Conversely, some programs have failed to take advantage of their nearby recruiting bounty, meaning coaches either are choosing the wrong players, or they aren't developing those players. Even if it draws only the second-best 25 players from Southern California every year, UCLA should win more than 33 games in five years. That may seem a cold analysis, but at least those coaches don't have to convince players accustomed to wearing flip-flops in December to come to a place that requires Gore-Tex boots.
Coaches at schools such as Notre Dame, Michigan and Nebraska must overcome negative recruiting that often focuses on how often the temperature drops below freezing. Asked how many times coaches from southern schools mentioned the cold weather in Lincoln, Nebraska cornerback Armando Murillo laughs. "They said that all the time," said Murillo, who went to high school in Tampa, Fla., and who played at a junior college in Arizona.
Florida State's Fisher doesn't deny that he offers a chilly warning to southern skill-position players thinking of crossing the Mason-Dixon line. "I don't know if we ever said, 'You'll freeze.' But the landscape of playing, especially if you're a skill guy, is not as conducive as it is in The South," Fisher said. "The weather can prohibit you from using all your skills at times and prevent you from getting the numbers and recognition and things you want. I think it is a significant difference."
Nebraska's Gilmore has heard it all, and he has an answer ready. "We have two indoor fields," he said. "We can keep them warm."
That's the fundamental problem for the Cornhuskers and the rest of the old-guard, frost belt schools. They have to worry about keeping southern transplants warm. They have to worry about players getting homesick. Meanwhile, Florida's Meyer, Texas's Brown, USC's Carroll, LSU's Les Miles and the rest of the coaches fortunate enough to have geography on their side need worry only about plucking the best players from their own backyards.
"A lot of people wonder why our staff is at Florida," Meyer said. "Five hours from our doorstep are the finest players in America."
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