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Re: Company of Heroes Beta Going Public ?
on: August 18, 2006, 09:24:49 PM
Try focus on one strong combat group, but have various infantry scattered around in defensable positions.
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Re: Company of Heroes Beta Going Public ?
on: August 18, 2006, 03:52:30 PM
Actually, I think resources were simply fixed for the allies as opposed to being sped up for everyone. I'm convinced that there was some bug or other error that gave allies less resources in the mid to late game. I think perhaps the supply depot didn't work as intended or something. However, this change was very slight, or I'm just seeing things. I haven't noticed games sped up all that much.
How are tank destroyers this time around? I notice one of my teammates was using a lot of tank destroyers in one game to good use, but I've also seen them get slaughtered. What do you think?
What was the officer bug anyway?
That quad 50 is just plain nasty, but still quite easy to kill for a vehicle. If you're not prepared for vehicles when it comes out, say goodbye to a lot of infantry. I actually like it more effective, even though it's been used against me a lot, makes it more worth the cost despite its vulnerability.
Now the sticky bomb damage change I really don't agree with. They already did piss poor damage to heavy tanks and now they do less? If they're going to make it less than they really should make it nearly guaranteed to destroy the engine instead of just damaging it.
I love the new grenade changes, a good way to make that grenade upgrade worth it and highlight the difference between the US and German grenades.
Early axis infantry upgrades are nasty. I had one guy using what looked like the german assault rifle against me and man they would kill my basic infantry before I could retreat them. I had to counter by using suppression fire a lot and chucking grenades.
All I know is that the game does play a bit better. In one match is was dead even Victory point control until the last few minutes of the game. It was on the 2v2 Mc-something's War map. The enemy German player and I were going back and forth for those high value control points on the west side of the map. It was so intense that I didn't realize my teammate had put those hard won resources to good use and had pushed right up into the enemy base. He was using m10s. I think I'll go watch that replay to see what he did.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Chromehounds: Worth the purchase?
on: August 18, 2006, 03:37:04 PM
If I recall, the goonsquad is completely full. The Furious Octopi have spots open for a while.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Ninety-Nine Nights: Anyone take the plunge?
on: August 18, 2006, 12:41:41 PM
Hell these days even bad anime has decent voice acting.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Gothic 3 Screenshots
on: August 18, 2006, 12:15:59 PM
Better yet, what's the word on the interface?
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Ninety-Nine Nights: Anyone take the plunge?
on: August 18, 2006, 11:22:12 AM
There are several unlockable characters in game according to reviews. Pretty much anyone interesting has to be unlocked.
You can even play a troll, albiet for only two missions.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Ninety-Nine Nights: Anyone take the plunge?
on: August 18, 2006, 08:27:50 AM
And one good point:
Digital cleavage on Inphy.
Otherwise, I'll just wait for this one to hit the bargain bin and pick it up as an example of how many models a 360 can render on screen at once.
Did they do anything to fix the friendly unit AI? They seemed to just stand there and take hits. I've been in situations where the last 5-6 goblins in an army wipes out half my guard unit because the friendly AI is so inept.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Company of Heroes Beta Going Public ?
on: August 18, 2006, 08:08:29 AM
A new patch has been released for the beta, it's a massive 800mb, but so far it looks good.
Alternatively, you can download the entire beta client for 1.6mb.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Warhammer: Dawn of War - Get me started
on: August 18, 2006, 06:42:41 AM
Um, don't you mean Fire Prisms?
Either way, both the brightlances and fire prisms were toned down drastically, so now eldar are even more difficult to play.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: FEAR Combat available now..FREE
on: August 18, 2006, 06:40:14 AM
I loved FEAR multiplayer. The only reason I don't play it was that there's a lot of various mods and other games to play these days.
That said, FEAR multiplayer feels like Halo 2 without shields. Play for a while and I think many here will agree with me.
The major problem I had with the multiplayer way back on release, was the medkits you could carry around. A good player would develop a stockpile of medkits and you can carry up to 5-10 with you. All you had to do was press the heal key to use a medkit and you instantly got 50 health back.
So what happened was even if you had every advantage on an enemy (surprise, attack from behind, height, better weapon, optimal range, etc...) all your opponent would do was keep popping those medkits, turn around and blast you.
Another thing was there were no interesting game modes. Sure, there's the standard deathmatch, CTF, etc... but nothing that really fits with the theme. Vivendi really should have invested in a good, unique multiplayer mode in order to give the game more legs.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Warhammer: Dawn of War - Get me started
on: August 17, 2006, 12:34:15 PM
I no longer have my copy of the original DoW, but now this makes me want to rebuy everything and get the expansion.
The Tau or Necrons are both the kind of army I play. The tau being slightly squishy but with tremendous ranged firepower.
The necrons being just plain hard to kill, but slow to move and build up.
Too bad there's no meta-game for the multiplayer too.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Speaking of Neverwinter Nights 2...
on: August 17, 2006, 12:15:51 PM
Anyone else interested in an online campaign for this game? Or at least running through some premade modules in co-op?
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Re: Chromehounds: Worth the purchase?
on: August 17, 2006, 07:35:53 AM
Despite how much I like the game. I'm going to have to say no as well.
Wait for Chromehounds 2, or some other mech combat game that includes a better SP game and an online mode that's not so quirky.
Armored Core is coming to the 360, that might be something to try.
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Re: Dead Rising impressions!
on: August 17, 2006, 02:58:27 AM
On the other hand, you can do the same thing without making players replay over the same things over and over.
It's still very much a cop out to me, they couldn't put in enough gameplay for one long run through, so they string you along through the same sequences over and over for the chance on unlocking little side bits.
Instead of the idea of arbitrarily unlocking areas just because you play through it, you could simply have accumulated player choices grant access to different areas as part of a story. They did this in Sword of the Samurai to good effect, despite the game's problems.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Speaking of Neverwinter Nights 2...
on: August 17, 2006, 02:54:45 AM
All I know is that a friend of mine is a designer at Obsidian for the game, and knowing his stuff I'll buy this game sight unseen.
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Re: Maelstrom Demo is available.
on: August 16, 2006, 11:06:30 PM
Yep, just another RTS. I really can't go back to vanilla ho hum RTS games after playing company of heroes.
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Re: Dead Rising impressions!
on: August 16, 2006, 09:14:33 AM
What I want to see is a resident evil game like this. Not campy humor, but with large locations filled with zombies (so it actually feels zombie infested instead of a few wandering around cramped hallways), dark setting, maybe some survival based gameplay that forces you to move from location to location.
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Re: Dead Rising impressions!
on: August 15, 2006, 11:47:59 PM
As much as I like the premise, I'm not a fan of the picture taking aspect of the game.
This aspect was also a bit disturbing in the intro helicopter ride too, as while I was watching people get killed through the viewfinder, I was thinking that I should have told the damn copter pilot to get in gloser and rescue these people instead of just watching them die, and taking pictures of their death.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Too Human
on: August 15, 2006, 11:44:42 PM
It probably means that they gutted some aspects of the engine and rewrote them to better suit their game. For example, they wanted hordes of enemies on screen for some segments, the UE3 engine might not support that too well, so they may have had to change the renderer and AI routines to allow it.
This isn't too different from any other game development, though.
It's probably just some news or fan site desperate to post something and they found this.
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Re: Computers vs Electric Bill?
on: August 15, 2006, 09:05:55 AM
There is some debate about this, but anyone know if a computer/power supply is constantly pulling its wattage or just about as much as it needs?
Re: EEEK!
on: August 15, 2006, 04:41:59 AM
Um, how do I apply a theme to the forum? Are there any currently?
I was using the old gamingtrend white text on black scheme to make this easier on my eyes.
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Re: Dead Rising impressions!
on: August 15, 2006, 04:39:42 AM
This game is just an exercise in frustration to me. They make boss encounters rely so heavily on firearms, yet they provide no way for the player to duck or take cover.
The follower AI is just braindead, they need to take a cue from Half-Life 2 Episode 1. I had people stopping for no reason at all. Leah, on the otherhand, was fine by me, she was hurt, I'd have to carry her to make this go quickly. The two guys in the women's clothing store were idiots, one of them always found some reason to stand there and get mauled by zombies. Then, when I go to help him the others get mauled by zombies. Then, when looking for a save point I get killed because, that's right, the only save point happens to be back at the security room and I end up in the hallway full of zombies and a welded shut door.
I rented the game this morning, and I haven't gotten to Case 1-4 yet. I stop for a survivor, they die, I die, nightfalls and everyone dies. Then, if the survivors somehow live for a few minutes, all the time I took trying to keep them alive lets those stupid convicts spawn in the central park. And somehow, with hundreds of zombies all over the park, they find me and gun me and my followers down. But, the direct path through the mall is magically blocked by a gate for which there is no switch. Meaning I either go the long way around the entire mall fighting with my stupid follower AI, or go through the park and die.
It's just a lose lose situation.
The sad thing is, the game and story was interesting, but I've lost all interest in the game. If there were cheat codes for this game I'd probably just put all of them in and just burn through everything just to see the story, but since there's not I'll just wait for this one to hit the bargain bin.
This game is more frustrating than the original resident evil with all its weird interface quirks.
Console / PC Gaming
Re: Too Human
on: August 15, 2006, 12:51:34 AM
Well, Rare's problem was that it didn't know what to do with their next gen titles. The platform shift certainly didn't help.
Take Kameo for instance. What could have been a nice release day kids title turned into a strange glom of kiddy artwork and sentiments, combined with overly complex warrior changing system, and too much emphasis on the mediocre combat portion of the game. They should have kept it as a kids game.
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Re: Company of Heroes Beta Going Public ?
on: August 14, 2006, 09:57:06 PM
I'd have no problems with having a bigger howitzer.
I actually think the allies should get a pershing as a standard unit, and the armor branch makes just makes the more plentiful or adds experience/upgrades to sherman crews.
Despite the problems, this is still a buy for me. The WW2 setting doesn't put me off since it's done so well.
Admittedly, the 2 armies with 3 branches each isn't exactly the most varied of games. The thing is, the gameplay itself is a lot more nuanced than dawn of war. So, I still think CoH with 2 armies and branches is still more nuanced than the original Dawn of War with no expansions.
All they need right now is a big balance patch to fix some things, and try some new methods of differentiating the two armies and branches.
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Re: Company of Heroes Beta Going Public ?
on: August 14, 2006, 09:37:12 AM
* The pathing in the game needs major work, I kept getting my APCs and Tanks stuck in the middle of an open road for some unknown reason.
Agreed. Not only that, but tanks for some strange reason like to go into melee with the enemy if you give them an attack order.
* My son without hardly any resource points, was able to CHURN out stuff by salvaging my exploded gear. I couldn't believe the way he could throw shit at me without any real pause despite a clear lack of capture points.
Well, not sure if it was just salvage, but the blitzkrieg branch for the germans has an ability where you can turn 200 munitions into 1000 manpower. Then another ability in the same branch allows them to call in more tanks for just manpower, no fuel required.
Also, did you upgrade your resource rate by buying the upgrades in the supply yard? I'm not sure if those upgrades are at all that good since the germans always outproduce me.
* Americans are anemic in the game IMO. Rifle squads are no match for Genadiers/KnightsCross or Upgraded Normal Germans. Tanks, well, you know.. Artillery the germans have tremendous rockets as base units AND mortor teams, while the US has, uhh, mortors?
You're right, but also wrong. The Americans are slightly more powerful early in the game, but quickly lose any advantage they had in the mid to late game. Thus american players must win quickly or not at all. Late in the game you face all those upgraded units, nasty german weaponry, and the inevitable swarms of german tanks that take forever to die.
This is balance based on pacing, and it's one of the things I hate when RTS designers use it. Two forces should always be able to match up with each other, especially since it's very, very difficult to control the pace of a game as it unfolds.
* I had every ammo and fuel point, but I was capped at +58, while my son with only a couple, had +80, whats up with that? Either a bug or Germans have a resource advantage.
Also agreed, there is something seriously wrong with how much I can produce as allies compared to the Germans. This is compounded by the fact that German stuff tends to survive a lot longer than allied units (at least the late game units do). If I recall it was the Americans that were supposed to have the big production advantage.
* For the first time I realized US Anti-Tank guns can fire armor piercing, but you have to MICROMANAGE them to do it.
Apparently the AI is too retarded to switch to AP when a Panther is breathing down their neck? If you are a micro god, I guess this is ok, I am not, I suck at heavy micro.
This is one thing I really hate. AT Guns are supposed to fire AT shells by default. You have a gun designed to kill tanks, yet you load it with high explosive all the time? Another reason I hate this is that eats up munitions like crazy just to deal with tanks. They need to up the damage on the allied AT so that it stands a chance of fending off tank swarms. Especially so since the firing angle on the gun is very narrow, way to narrow for how small the maps are and how fast the german tanks move. Because of that it's likely you'll be firing straight into the front of the german tank.
On the whole, it requires too much use of microing and special abilities (and the munitions cost from those abilities) to deal with german tanks. So when the tank swarms inevitably come out, it's simply too much to deal with. Compared to US armor which is knocked out quite easily, and you simply can't produce the same amount of them as the germans, which is really odd since the allies were supposed to have at least 4 of them for every german tank.
* The german Ost flak tank thing is overpowered, and is a choice vehicle for early rushes into enemy bases, they chew up buildings and men BADLY, but do little to armor. But if used properly, they are extremely overpowered considering they were less than stellar IRL.
Agreed, that flakpanzer is simply overpowered. Sure, it's useless against tanks, but it obliterates anything else.
* German buildings and bunkers are *WAY* tougher.. While US stuff is sheet metal and sandbags, and is pretty easy for even a light tank to take down. While it takes some muscle to drop the german buildings/bunkers.
* German bunkers can be garrisoned, US cannot. This is a pretty big advantage because german ones can fire to all sides, whilst the US one is limited to line of sight only.
This isn't that bad, I kinda like the difference. The main problem is that the US MG nest costs a lot more than a bunker equipped with the same. I think it was 240 for a US MG nest while you can build a bunker for 150, the upgrade to an MG nest for 50 munition. Then, as you mentioned, it takes a lot more to knock out that bunker than it does to kill the MG nest.
You're incorrect about garrisoning though. You can put troops into US MG nests, and they will fire out the sides, try it, it works. Unfortunately, it's also a big risk since that nest can be knocked out easily.
* German buildings are all manned with MG42 teams, US have nothing.
Incorrect, under the defensive branch of the German army there is an ability that mans all your base buildings with machineguns and allows you to reinforce near bunkers. So this is fine by me since it's a strategic ability, and only an okay one at that.
* Mines are far too weak. It takes 3-4 mine hits to take out a german light tank.
Yes, but mines knock out infantry easy. Perhaps they should make two different kinds of mines. Anti tank and anti infantry mines.
* For a special unit, paratroops seem pretty weak. Upgraded basic german units wipe the floor with them, and it takes 5-6+ satchel charges to take out a basic concrete german reinforced bunker. Junk.
Actually airborne are quite powerful if used correctly, the problem is as above, they're useless late in the game against a German player with the equivalent units. Allied infantry just can't stay alive long enough in the late game. Airborne can take upgrades like the recoilless rifle that allows them to kill hard targets like bunkers and tanks. You can also drop in AT guns.
However, the germans get units that can knock airborne out of the sky, such as the flakpanzer and the 88. In the case of the flakpanzer not only can it kill airborne before they're on the ground, but it'll kill them on the ground too.
Despite all this, the developers have been watching. They've already said they've got a round of balance changes waiting to be patched in. The problem is they're focusing on getting the Relic Online service working before they do anything else. So, I think we'll see balance patches out in the near future now that RO is slowly getting more stable.
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Company of Heroes Beta Going Public ?
on: August 11, 2006, 11:47:48 PM
The stability goes in and out. I've seen it stable with 1800 people on. Then it was slightly shakey today with only 900.
And Raydude, man. Fix your connection!
He dropped on me in the middle of intense firefight with no warning. I still won against two players though. Kept them off balace by constantly pushing two fronts and getting out tanks before they could.
I've found out that the suppression fire ability that the US basic infantry get is extremely powerful It can pin three enemy squads all by itself while it lasts. This allows you to repel attacks with just a handful of troops. It's costly to buy and use, but it's powerful. So if you're playing germans and see at BAR on the ground, grab it.
One of the best ways to keep putting pressure on the enemy is to use bounding machineguns. One machinegun covers the other while it's moving up, even better if you're moving from building to building.
Try to avoid small buildings when garrisoning, because I've found that one grenade or panzerfaust strike will kill everyone in those buildings.
Console / PC Gaming
Chromehounds - NOW WITH IMPRESSIONS
on: August 11, 2006, 10:22:37 PM
Doesn't look like it has many guns, but it still has quite a few, and they all look like double barreled huge cannons.
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[Review] Chromehounds
on: August 09, 2006, 11:24:22 AM
The fee isn't as bad if you buy a full year. In fact, more stores carry a live sub card for 13 months for the same price as a 12 month sub. It equals slightly less than $4 a month.
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Anyone get Warpath? [Xbox]
on: August 09, 2006, 09:36:00 AM
I tried the demo. It was bad. The bots can aim well depending on the setting, but their navigation puts them on the same routes over and over and over.
Plus, it's such a simple game, it's really not worth it. The Unreal Tournament games have more depth, better pacing, and are just as cheap as this game.
It's only redeeming factor looks to be the conquest mode, but from the reviews it looks like that's simplified too.
All in all, it's a quick money grab using a lot of leftover art from Pariah.
Console / PC Gaming
Chromehounds - NOW WITH IMPRESSIONS
on: August 09, 2006, 09:31:08 AM
Yet another problem with the 20 man limit. Eventually, there are other things to do besides play online.
Multiplayer Madness (MMO or otherwise)
BC vs. GT
on: August 08, 2006, 06:57:08 AM
Company of Heroes.
Console / PC Gaming
System Shock 3? EA didn't give a s*** about that game
on: August 08, 2006, 05:46:32 AM
Well, for one thing, Irrational can pursue the mature rating to its fullest extent. A game where whether or not to kill children caught up in a biological resource war is one of the major moral dilemmas? EA would never have published that.
Console / PC Gaming
System Shock 3? EA didn't give a s*** about that game
on: August 08, 2006, 04:48:00 AM
Wasn't this posted a while back?
Anyway, I doubt we'll ever see a true sequel to System Shock 3, it's just not EA's kind of game anymore, and EA doesn't give up it's IP lightly.
However, with the success of Oblivion, and the probably success of Bioshock, EA might reconsider.
I know that System Shock 3 was in development in some form, and at some time, at EA, but I'm not sure what's become of it.
Console / PC Gaming
EA Missing Features Game
on: August 08, 2006, 12:28:55 AM
AH! He's an EA fanboy! Burn him!
The strange thing is, I can't think of too much a reason why these features are missing. Think about it, they're not actually changing the gameplay all that much, and some of these missing features are solely outside the game based on simple numerical stats. All you need is a new interface and they can plug in an older system.
Console / PC Gaming
Chromehounds - NOW WITH IMPRESSIONS
on: August 07, 2006, 07:22:51 PM
Every single player part you get is inferior to even the basic online parts.
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Want to play EA's 2K5 games online? Too damn bad.
on: August 07, 2006, 11:59:55 AM
You're thinking about this the wrong way. This another one of the things that you can blast EA for.
Therefore, think twice next time you buy one of their games.
Console / PC Gaming
Want to play EA's 2K5 games online? Too damn bad.
on: August 07, 2006, 01:22:11 AM
Um, you guys are forgetting that EA could have simply let MS run the normal matchmaking for their games and all the costs could have been handled by MS.
Besides, a matchmaking server isn't all that expensive, especially so if not so many people are playing it. You can simply fold it into a larger server farm.
Console / PC Gaming
Want to play EA's 2K5 games online? Too damn bad.
on: August 06, 2006, 08:56:18 PM
Well what do you expect from a company that pins its a major portion of its profits on rehashes of the same material? All those yearly sports games with very little changes. It's like Disney before they got rid of Eisener.
The weird thing is, for the Xbox since MS handles matchmaking EA shouldn't be able to shut down the game.
Console / PC Gaming
Sony: How many Blu-ray movies are there in the US?
on: August 06, 2006, 08:24:36 AM
Movies won't be a deal breaker for me for the PS3.
Although, can blu-ray players play normal dvds?
There are a lot of games that I want that have already been announced for the PS3, they don't have to be release titles, just games that I know will come out.
In general, it's all about how the PS3 handles gaming, especially online gaming.
Console / PC Gaming
Company of Heroes Beta Going Public ?
on: August 06, 2006, 06:13:14 AM
Just started a list of names in the multiplayer forum.
There's also a small but growing list over at OO.
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Peppers at 10, which seems low.
Michigan Back on Detroit's Main Sports Radio
Per press release the University of Michigan re-upped with CBS and in the process got at least some Michigan content back on the biggest sports radio station in the State of Michigan's biggest metro area.
The press release:
DETROIT – CBS RADIO Detroit's WWJ Newsradio 950 (WWJ-AM), 97.1 The Ticket (WXYT-FM) and CBS Sports Radio 1270 (WXYT-AM) in association with IMG, announced today a long-term alliance to air University of Michigan football, basketball and hockey. The multi-year agreement is an extension of a partnership that began more than twenty years ago.
WWJ-AM is the flagship station for U of M Football and 97.1 The Ticket will simulcast select games. U of M Basketball will air on WWJ-AM and U of M Hockey will air on Sports Radio 1270. In addition, 97.1 The Ticket will carry a weekly interview with U of M Football Coach Jim Harbaugh.
"We are excited that IMG renewed our great partnership with the CBS RADIO Detroit family. This will continue to provide a consistent flagship home for Michigan football and basketball broadcasts in southeast Michigan and will place our hockey games on a regular channel in the market. We look forward to another multi-year partnership on game broadcasts and coaches radio shows," said Warde Manuel, Donald R. Shepherd Director of Athletics.
Debbie Kenyon, Senior Vice President/Market Manager, CBS RADIO Detroit said, "WWJ Newsradio 950, CBS Sports Radio 1270 and 97.1 The Ticket are thrilled to renew our partnership with IMG and the University of Michigan. IMG and U of M are truly one of the best sports partners in the business."
"It's an honor to continue our relationship with the university and be the flagship station for University of Michigan football and basketball. It's a perfect partnership between two traditional organizations WWJ Newsradio 950 and the UM" said Rob Davidek, WWJ Program Director.
Getting Michigan more content back on 97.1 is good news for us metro-Detroiters who've spent the intervening dark years trying to follow the bits of 1050 WTKA's signal that make it here from Ann Arbor. The simulcast on the header stations fixes a Dave Brandonism that had all the good stuff disappearing to the AM station that usually runs basic news and traffic updates (950).
A Short History: Michigan's radio presence in Detroit has been a sore spot since 2005, when Michigan State made a deal with WJR that included dropping Michigan (legend has it a WJR media bus stopped that moment and left Brandstatter et al. stranded on the side of the road). Martin turned to CBS, who squeezed various sports into weird spots across all their stations. If you got in your car in the tri-county area the last 10 years you wouldn't know if Michigan's on AM or FM, the oldies station or the place you listen for traffic updates.
Meanwhile the big local FM station you leave your car tuned to for Tigers/Red Wings/Pistons would have Valenti and Foster exploring the cosmological extremity of take temperature. Brandon signed the last deal in 2011 which put most of the content on 950 AM and none of it on 97.1. Accidents where the driver knocked themselves out by slamming their foreheads on steering wheels increased 84 percent. We rarely got a hockey game, and basketball games were interrupted by other stuff so frequently that my best bet here in West Bloomfield was to tune to 1050 and plan my route to get West toward Ann Arbor as soon as possible.
A few years ago ESPN tried to get into the Detroit sports market with 105.1 and had an opportunity to brand themselves as the M/somewhat-intelligent alternative to the 97.1/astoundingly-dumb-even-for-sports-talk-radio option we were living with. Instead ESPN tried to out-hot-take Terry Foster, and as of last month the station is back to music. Michigan's deal with 97.1 doesn't include any content shifts (97.1 was already airing the Pizza House show as of last year) but it may be a good opportunity to explore the market for listeners who can speak in complete sentences.
Lions games were also on 97.1 through last year, but they are switching to WJR to join what is now basically MSU, Mitch Albom, and, um, "news talk."
Unverified Voracity Is A Mutant
Good lord. Rashan Gary runs a 4.7 and is already stronger than half the NFL combine:
MY BOY @RashanGary33 Hit 26 on the 225 #Goblue
— Need nobody but God (@ElyseeBoss) July 12, 2016
Per 247 that's more than Graham Glasgow, Joey Bosa, and Jack Conklin managed at the combine this year. Impressive! Less impressive than this, though:
Did 225 25 times 〽 . First day went smooth ‼
— Khaleke Hudson (@KhalekeHudson) July 12, 2016
Shorter arms have an easier time with the bench press but that's still crazy. I'm anticipating Hudson's on-field impact almost as much as Gary's.
Football was different in 1977. Then-DC Bill McCartney on Michigan's philosophy:
These days waiting for a mistake is something that'll get you killed against the best offenses, and while teams like Iowa continue to keep everything in front of them their defenses top out at pretty good.
#disrespekt makes an arrest report. Draymond Green falls victim to the proverbial chip on the shoulder:
If true, this Draymond Green arrest sounds kinda dumb https://t.co/Eh5vj8HvJp pic.twitter.com/xWDkMCwbTP
— Zack Pohl (@ZackPohl) July 12, 2016
Per reports, the player in question is defensive back Jermaine Edmondson, who has zero career starts.
Early lines. Per the Golden Nugget, Michigan is an 11.5-point favorite over Wisconsin, a four point favorite over MSU, a 4.5-point favorite over Iowa, and a 3 point underdog to Ohio State. That Wisconsin number is surprisingly big even though they had a rough season last year; injury and inexperience on the OL was particularly harmful to their chances. Being solid road favorites against MSU and Iowa is nice.
These are all the wrong answers. Mississippi State put Jeffery Simmons, who was caught on film hammering on a prone woman, back on their team just before a month-long period with no press for Dan Mullen. They spent that month reviewing Dave Brandon's Big Book Of Real Good PR, resulting in some unbelievably ham-handed and offensive responses to the berating they had to know they were in for:
Dan Mullen on Jeffrey Simmons' 1-game suspension: "I wasn't involved much. It was a university decision."
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) July 12, 2016
Finally got to ask Mullen: What if your wife or daughter? "I don't think my family would be in that situation." WHAT?!
— Kyle Tucker (@KyleTucker_AJC) July 12, 2016
I hate the "your wife or daughter" angle that always gets brought up when this happens. It is explicitly asking the responder to be irrational, to pass judgment in a situation when they should recuse themselves. But holy shit, that is the dumbest possible answer for that dumb (and very, very common) question. I guess I shouldn't be surprised since the athletic director cited the fact that Simmons could end up at another SEC school if MSU cut him loose when the decision was actually made. People in charge of things are just in charge of them for no reason, part infinity.
You knew this but now there are numbers. Out of 321 coaches in a Kenpom autobench study, John Beilein is 308th in his willingness to play guys with two fouls in the first half. The last four years Michigan has been 1st, 2nd, 9th, and 17th in free throw attempts per FGA. Nothing about this is rational.
You can put the statue back up but he has to be wearing a blindfold. Penn State got in a fight with its insurance company, because someone had a very bad idea at one point, and today various court records were released to the public. They're as bad as you might expect:
Greg Schiano and Tom Bradley show up in a Mike McQueary deposition and -- surprise! -- it's not good. pic.twitter.com/7XkemiDXEu
— Larry Jawnson, Sr. (@PancakeCatapult) July 12, 2016
Per the deposition, Paterno knew as early as 1976 and responded to an allegation with "I don't want to hear about any of that kind of stuff." A deposition is not a conviction; it is a thoroughly damning document all the same. There are many of them:
That is but one of the multiple depositions from the documents illustrating claims of abuse that spanned more than two decades before it was brought to the attention of law enforcement. The documents stem from an insurance lawsuit over allegations that a boy told Paterno that Sandusky was abusing young boys.
It seems likely that both Bradley and Schiano knew about it and did nothing. McQueary has no reason to lie about any of this. There are probably many more who had less direct knowledge but heard dark rumors. It takes a village to enable a predator.
Etc.: Michigan and Michigan State revenue. Gap in ticket revenue is pretty astounding. Odd things going down at Scout. Never take money from Russians. Drew Henson is now a Yankees scout. Angelique on Jack Harbaugh.
Tuesday Recruitin' Masters Weaknesses
Winter Is Coming
I posted most of the post-Opening evaluations of Michigan commits yesterday, but these highlights of Benjamin St-Juste were published after that went up, and they make it clear why he's almost certainly headed for a ratings bump. St-Juste didn't just test well—though he certainly did that, posting the second-best shuttle time at the combine—he also made a lot of plays on the ball in the 7-on-7 portion, and his quickness is on full display in the drills at the end of the video. 247's Barton Simmons:
"(St-Juste) may have been the best big cornerback at the event," Simmons told Wolverine247. "He moves so well for a guy of his size and was the most impressive cornerback physically as well. He was challenged a lot but was rarely beaten. He was really impressive and really stood out throughout the weekend."
247 hasn't updated their rankings yet; when they do, I'll be surprised if St-Juste is still a three-star. There aren't many 6'3" corners that move like that.
Simmons also went into more detail on Dylan McCaffrey's performance for Steve Lorenz's latest post at the Freep:
"He was an upper-tier quarterback at the event," Simmons said. "The biggest reason for that is the mental grasp he has on the position. He's a guy that was so decisive with his reads. He knows where the ball needs to go and gets it there quickly. In that setting, knowing where the open man is and connecting with him quickly should be routine and he was able to do it all day.
"He has some slight mechanical issues he has to correct, but he has a coaching staff at Michigan that is obviously fully capable of getting him where he needs to be. The coaches at the event raved about his ability to take coaching and wanting to learn about the game. He's far beyond your average quarterback in that regard."
Still no word on the specifics of those mechanical issues, unfortunately, but Simmons clearly isn't too concerned, especially once Harbaugh gets involved—he called the Harbaugh/McCaffrey pairing "a perfect match."
File this away for later: Bleacher Report's Michael Felder, who helps coach at The Opening, had an enlightening exhange with Jaylen Kelly-Powell:
Jaylen Kelly-Powell worked inside CB and S, is strong in his man coverage & is working to feel comfortable in multiple zone looks
— Michael Felder (@InTheBleachers) July 12, 2016
@InTheBleachers Real talk. Have to master my weaknesses
— Jaylen Kelly-Powell™ (@JKellypowell) July 12, 2016
@InTheBleachers Yeah. I'm switching to the up FR this year so I can get use to it. Just used to playing man press/off from the SS and nickel
— Jaylen Kelly-Powell™ (@JKellypowell) July 12, 2016
Playing more free safety should help Kelly-Powell improve on his zone coverage. He's clearly a coachable kid—something that was noticeable at SMSB, too.
[Hit THE JUMP for the rest of the roundup.]
2016 ACC Coastal (and Notre Dame) Preview
NOTE: Since most of us can't remember who's in what division without looking it up, the Coastal teams are Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, Pitt, Virginia, and Virginia Tech. The Atlantic teams are Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Louisville, North Carolina State, Syracuse, and Wake Forest. No, it doesn't make sense to me either.
Like the Big Ten, the ACC suffers from imbalanced divisions (though to a lesser extent) – the winner of the annual Atlantic Division matchup between Clemson and Florida State has gone on to win the conference five years running, and there's a very good chance that it will remain the case this season. The ACC's nonsensical division split was designed to keep Florida State and Miami – the two clear powers back then – in separate divisions with the possibility of a championship game rematch (which still hasn't happened). Miami's struggles since joining the ACC, as well as Clemson's rise under Dabo Swinney, has made for a "Big Two, Little Twelve" situation, with both power programs sharing a division. The league's well-documented parity – or mediocrity, depending on your point of view – behind those two has left an amorphous tier of programs fighting for the scraps beneath FSU and Clemson. For the other teams in the Atlantic, there's an enormous mountain to climb and cracking the top two would be a monumental achievement, based on the presumed staying power of the Noles and the Tigers.
The Coastal is a different story. Though Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech have most often represented the division in the ACC Championship Game, UNC and Duke have each won the division in the past three years. With GT and VT in states of uncertainty (the former went 3-9 last season, the latter is replacing a legendary coach who saw the program atrophy in the last few years of his reign), the Coastal is quite unpredictable. Miami and Virginia Tech, ostensibly the programs with the most inherent advantages in the division, are breaking in new coaches (Mark Richt and Justin Fuente). Like their in-state rival, Virginia also made a good hire (Bronco Mendenhall). ACC newcomer Pitt was a pleasant surprise under first-year head coach Pat Narduzzi* and with Penn State's malaise, they could be primed to build a formidable program there. Duke and Carolina are actually seeing some gridiron success these days. While the Atlantic will deservedly receive more attention from the college football world at-large, the Coastal has a lot of intriguing subplots for the more diehard college football junkie.
*please don't go to State when Dantonio retires
[Team previews after the JUMP]
Draftageddon 2016: Hold the Door
We are drafting Big Ten teams because the off-season should be torturous.
Previously on Draftageddon:
A Heisman candidate QB and the reigning Thorpe winner go after two members of Michigan's secondary. (Peppers, Lewis, & Butt)
An underwhelming first swing through receivers, and lots of linemen. (Chesson, Cole, Wormley, Glasgow)
A Michigan second-teamer goes before Purdue-Matt Godin. (Charlton, Hurst)
How things stand:
That's nine Michigan guys in the top 24 picks. Guys, are we good?
ACE: Round 7, Pick 1: Sam Hubbard, DE, Ohio State
OFFENSE: QB CJ Beathard (IA), RB Saquon Barkley (PSU), WR Jehu Chesson (M), WEAPON Jabrill Peppers (M)
DEFENSE: NT Ryan Glasgow (M), DT Jake Replogle (PU), DE Sam Hubbard (OSU), OLB/NICKEL Jabrill Peppers (M)
SPECIAL TEAMS: KR Jabrill Peppers (M), PR Jabrill Peppers (M)
Sam Hubbard will take over Joey Bosa's spot at Ohio State. While he's not Bosa, he's got a remarkable profile: the former high school safety came to OSU as a 225-pound linebacker in the 2014 class, and in the two years since he's worked his way up to 265 pounds.
As a redshirt freshman last season, Hubbard started for the suspended Bosa in the opener against Virginia Tech and immediately recorded a sack. He finished with 6.5 sacks last year despite being a backup; while he's not on Bosa's level against the run, he's got the makings of an elite pass-rusher. One anonymous Big Ten offensive coach called him a "future big-time NFL player." Athlon saw enough to put him on their preseason All-B1G first team).
Hubbard is quick, tough to keep blocked, and he can even drop into zone coverage and make plays on the ball. I'd be surprised if he doesn't reach double-digit sacks in what should be a breakout season.
Seth: This conference is ridiculous with DL.
Ace: good year for front seven players in general.
Seth: Funny thing is a Godin highlight reel would look almost exactly like a Replogle reel. And Replogle's reel is amazing. Most years I would imagine Godin is a starting SDE and we are fine with this.
Alex: Sort of late on this but I'm amazed Hurst made it to the sixth round
Seth: Well he isn't "starting"
Alex: but isn't it a "well this player would be in this role on MY team" sort of thing? Seems like he makes it into the backfield untouched on every third play
Brian: Tbh I should have waited on Wormley. There are still a bunch of dudes on the board.
[After the JUMP: A wild badger appears, possibly before ANOTHER Michigan backup goes. Also we argue about who's Hodor.]
Monday Recruitin' Leaves The Frame
To avoid a 5000-word post, I'm breaking the roundup into two parts. Today's covers the performances of Michigan's commits—plus a new offer—from the weekend's The Opening finals. Tomorrow's will cover the considerable recruiting fallout from the weekend.
McCaffrey Builds Rapport With Iowa McCaffrey
#Michigan commit Dylan McCaffrey FEELING it now! Coonects with Ambry Thomas on 60 yard TD. @Tavonn_ is a BEAST!! pic.twitter.com/UBvq5FZzsO
— Sam Webb (@SamWebb77) July 10, 2016
This year's iteration of Nike's elite camp, The Opening, has come and gone, and Michigan's commits and top targets acquitted themselves well. Team Hypercool, the squad comprised largely of Michigan recruits, made a nice run in the 7-on-7 tournament—knocking off Buckeye-heavy Team LunerBeast in the process—despite minor injuries causing Donovan Peoples-Jones and Nico Collins to both sit out by the end of the tourney.
Quarterback commit Dylan McCaffrey had a strong weekend. 247 ranked him as the second-best quarterback on Saturday, praising his decision-making, and placed him fifth after Sunday's action:
Michigan commit Dylan McCaffrey - He looks like a pro on the field. Not in terms of his size or physical traits, not even his technique. The way he processes what's in front of him is elite though. He has a glaring technical flaw that he needs to clean up but when that happens, he's going to be special for Jim Harbaugh.
Unfortunately, Simmons didn't elaborate on the "glaring technical flaw," which I assume has something to do with McCaffrey's long delivery—he brings the ball down low before releasing, a habit that can be fixed over time.
With Peoples-Jones and Collins both sidelined by the final day, McCaffrey had to build a rapport with other receivers, and he found a pair of unlikely go-to targets. One was four-star MI CB Ambry Thomas, who flipped sides of the ball and showed he's a very talented receiver prospect. TMI's Josh Newkirk:
He already had a stellar Saturday showing at cornerback, but late in the evening he switched to offense due to injuries at wide receiver for Hypercool.
And the switch worked for Thomas, how well exactly? Well, the four-star standout caught four touchdowns of 40+ yards on simple go routes, he simply just out ran his opponent. It was one of the better performances you'll ever see in a camp setting.
While Thomas is first and foremost a (very good) cornerback prospect, he's got the potential to play both ways in college. His performance earned him a spot on the all-tournament team.
McCaffrey's other favorite target came in as a nondescript three-star who'd had only MAC offers until last month. IA WR Oliver Martin left with a Michigan offer after earning the trust of his potential future teammates, per Sam Webb:
His chemistry with McCaffrey was readily apparent on an over the shoulder throw 40 yards down the seam for a score in the semis. That was clearly Martin single biggest play, but where he consistently did damage was in the short and intermediate areas. He consistently moved the chains. Michigan fans should picture Grant Perry, but bigger, stronger, faster, and with more shake. This isn't a kid that the Wolverines were heavily involved with before The Opening, but they are now. Thanks to some not-so subtle suggestions from the Michigan commits at The Opening, the Maize & Blue offered Martin a scholarship Sunday night. He spoke to The Michigan Insider afterward and expressed his strong interest.
247's Steve Wiltfong wrote a feature on Martin today that is well worth your time; in addition to being a football prospect who's going to rise up the rankings considerably, Martin is a D-I baseball prospect and state champion swimmer, and his younger sister just nearly made the Olympic swim team as a rising high school junior. Their father was a standout swimmer; their mother the same in track. Michigan might have just found the Iowa McCaffreys.
[Hit THE JUMP for the rest of the roundup.]
2016 Recruiting: Ahmir Mitchell
Previously: Last year's profiles. S Josh Metellus, S Khaleke Hudson, CB David Long, CB Lavert Hill, LB Elysee Mbem-Bosse, LB Devin Bush Jr., LB Devin Gil, LB Josh Uche, DE Ron Johnson, DT Michael Dwumfour, DT Rashan Gary, DE Carlo Kemp, OL Ben Bredeson, OL Michael Onwenu, OL Stephen Spanellis, TE Nick Eubanks, TE Sean McKeon, TE Devin Asiasi, WR Eddie McDoom, WR Nate Johnson, WR Kekoa Crawford, WR Chris Evans,
WR Brad Hawkins.
|Egg Harbor, NJ – 6'3", 205
|4*, #131 overall
|4*, #139 overall
|4*, #216 overall
|4*, #324 overall
|Other Suitors
|Greg Mathews or
Jonas Mouton
|Previously On MGoBlog
|Hello post from Ace.
|Twitter. Early enrollee.
Junior year:
Senior half-season:
Like Chris Evans, Ahmir Mitchell might not actually be a wide receiver. He is one now and so here he goes, but all you have to do is look at the 2017 safety depth chart—Tyree Kinnel, a Khaleke Hudson who really needs to be taking over for Peppers at SAM, a couple question marks, and tumbleweeds—and then plug available safety-shaped objects in that hole. Meanwhile, Mitchell's stock as a wide receiver has been on a steady slide over the past year and a half. His rankings dropped from top 100, near top 50 in some cases, to outside of the top 100; 247's dramatic revision of his ranking saw him barely hold on to four-star status.
Mitchell is a safety-shaped object, and an intimidating one. Hypothetically. This post won't talk about that much because nobody evaluated him as a defensive player past brief mentions that his athleticism could lend itself to a switch. Don't rule out linebacker, either.
Let's start with the good bits. Mitchell's a grown-ass man already. His high school coach says he has an "NFL body right now and you can say he comes from special genetics"; Nick Baumgardner noted that Mitchell "looks nothing like a prospect who should still be in high school" after Michigan's trip to IMG this spring. ESPN's evaluation leads with Mitchell's impressive physical package:
Thickly built and sturdy with good height ... Moves and looks like a tall tailback. Displays power as a runner and top end speed is very competitive. May not be a jet or overly fluid speed guy, but he can accelerate on a straight-line.
Mitchell attended various Rivals camps:
…every wide receiver at Sunday's camp was tall and fast, but even in a physically impressive crowd like that, Mitchell stood out. With that physique, it should be no surprise that the 6-foot-2, 197-pound Mitchell has a powerful stride and he pops in and out of his breaks. Defensive backs that try to press him are going to lose either the strength or the quickness battle, but Mitchell even exploits off coverage with his ability to create separation in his routes and by using his body to shield defenders from the football.
Reports about Mitchell's speed vary. Some say it's "good for his size". 247:
…very impressive specimen and will arrive ready to play … Runs well for a young man his size (4.67 laser-timed 40-yard dash), Mitchell is a physical football player, catches the ball well and is another that could project at other positions including safety.
Rivals repeatedly praised his ability to move to the moon: "athleticism jumps off the page": "athleticism and potential is off the charts"; "one of the best athletes in the country"; "athleticism, explosiveness, strength and speed make Mitchell one of the top wide receivers in the country"; "very explosive." Meanwhile ESPN praises his "imposing get off," which arises from a combination of strength and speed—Mitchell can blow through most attempts to press him.
When Mitchell was trying to get an OSU offer at one of their camps, Bucknuts pinged someone "inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center" for their opinion:
"I really like him as a player," the source said. "He's big, he's strong, and he can move for a guy who's already 215 (pounds). That said, I know we're looking at him and asking if he'll grow out of wide receiver."
His physical ability lends itself to the strongest part of Mitchell's game: YAC. He is equipped with a nasty stiffarm and once he finds himself in space with the ball he's got enough wiggle to turn opposition tackle attempts into arm tackles, which he is strong enough to blow through. Touch The Banner:
…ability to run after the catch is probably his strongest attribute. He frequently uses his long wingspan and a stiff-arm to brush away smaller defenders.
…rugged wide receiver that is at his best running after the catch. like a running back after the catch … [picks] up tough yardage with his strength and explosiveness. He's got strong hands and the ability to out-muscle defensive backs on jump balls or in close coverage. Mitchell… size, strength, toughness, and quick-twitch make him a coveted player. …thrives catching short passes underneath, as well as smoke-screens.
ESPN calls him a "power runner" and says he "makes most of his big plays … because he is so difficult to tackle in the open field":
he makes things happen with the ball in his hands especially when he can quickly transition after the catch as he is a one-cut, slashing type of runner. He is far more elusive that he is sudden, fluid or laterally agile. He builds to top end speed and when you think he's going to get walked down, he will somehow pull away. He's as fast as he needs to be.
He's physically ready to play college football right now. … decent change of direction skills, but his straight line speed is the differentiator for him. His ability to accelerate and hit another gear is outstanding. …dynamic after the catch. …strength to run through tackles … really makes him great. He has a good stiff arm that compliments and his size and power. He looks very much like a running back after the catch.
There's not much question that Mitchell is an NFL athlete. There are some scattered concerns that he got too big as a senior and lost the necessary quicks to play wide receiver, but he's listed on Michigan's roster at 205. That should be fine even if he adds the usual 15-30 pounds players usually do once they hit college. Mitchell's game is never going to be separation. If he's going to stick at wide receiver and perform it's going to be as a guy who goes up and gets contested balls.
Reports about his ability to, you know, receive things are varied. Mitchell was a big-deal top 100 prospect to just about everyone when he went to that OSU camp and dropped a bunch of passes:
"The performance at Ohio State really killed him rankings-wise," Farrell said. "That was his first appearance where he was consistently dropping passes. I wasn't at Ohio State but there's video out there, and Josh Helmholdt was there, and he just had a lot of drops. That scared the heck out of some because wide receivers need to catch the ball."
"His hands are not a concern for me. They're really not," Farrell said. "I saw him at the Rivals Camp in New Jersey and he was very good."
While dropping a guy 50 spots based on one camp when he did this…
…really stood out during the drill portion of camp, separating himself with explosive speed and he made a bunch of tough one-handed catches. He is a big receiver with a lot of ranginess and he can create space against most defensive backs. Mitchell was a little too quiet during the one-on-one session.
…size, explosiveness, competitiveness and reliable hands were on full display on Saturday. Cornerbacks that tried to jam him at the line of scrimmage were quickly dispatched and errant passes were hauled in with ease. There was one pass that Mitchell hauled in with one hand between two defenders. He had to pin it against his body because the defender was holding onto his other arm.
…at various preceding ones is a bit of a hair trigger reaction, Mitchell didn't provide a counterpoint. He came off a reasonably productive junior year (47 catches, 872 yards) with a bunch of hype, and then his stats fell off a cliff. As of mid-November Mitchell had just 13 catches. Per MGoBlue he finished with 30; I'm guessing most of those were within five yards of the LOS. He averaged barely ten yards a catch, and his highlights have a ton of YAC in them. The half-season senior highlights above consist of a lot of handoffs on which he gains five yards and tackles made while he plays corner. While that's not necessarily Mitchell's fault—his QB manages to wobble a two-yard crossing route in that video—recruiting sites can only go on what they see, and they didn't have much data to go on after that camp.
Mitchell's overall polish and routes are also frequently questioned. Brewster notes he's a "raw player" and "still learning from a technical standpoint"; Son of a Coach says he's "not a sharp route runner at this time". After watching his highlights I have to agree. Mitchell appeared to run three routes in high school: bubble screens, crosses, and fades—mostly the former two. The fades that should be his bread and butter don't even see him leap most of the time. He doesn't high-point the ball, and there are only a couple of catches that are contested.
As a result I don't necessarily trust a lot of the praise in Mitchell's scouting reports. Given available evidence much of it reads like "here is a trope about a big receiver". Scout:
… good hands and knows how to use his body to gain position against smaller defensive backs. He comes out of breaks well but needs to be a bit more precise in his route running. He is a tremendous competitor, and it shows when the ball is in the air. He high-points the ball, and doesn't mind going over the middle.
Former ND QB Evan Sharpley praised Mitchell's "exceptional ball skills"; BGI says the same thing. I guess this could be something he showed in camps. There's nothing in any of his highlight tapes to confirm or deny such a thing.
Mitchell enrolled early, but didn't leave much of an impression. When I saw him at Ford Field I thought he looked like a "big time athlete, very unpolished". He dropped a couple of quick passes. Meanwhile Michigan's official twitter feed tweeted out a video in which Mitchell loses a slant route to Reon Dawson because he misses his attempt to paw him away on his cut:
Good battle between Ahmir Mitchell and Reon Dawson pic.twitter.com/4oOrV8h8DE
— Michigan Football (@umichfootball) March 1, 2016
Despite a dearth of options that saw Shane Morris pressed into duty as a slot receiver, Mitchell wasn't targeted much in the spring game. That's not a ton of data, freshmen wide receivers are often behind, etc. Still some data, none of it pointing the right direction.
Compounding some iffy returns from Mitchell's first spring practice is an off-field incident that all the insiders have muttered about but nobody has detailed. Per Scout's Brian Dohn, Mitchell nearly decided to transfer afterwards. Some variety of suspension may be forthcoming. Whatever the issue was it was serious enough to imperil Mitchell's career at Michigan before it even started. That greatly increases the chance he ends up washing out for reasons other than his talent.
Etc.: Wearing #2. I can't decide if this is the best wolverine or the worst wolverine:
Major battle in the #WarOnRutgers:
Why Greg Mathews or Jonas Mouton? Mathews was a tall, relatively burly mid-four star guy a while back. He was reasonably fast but didn't get a ton of separation; his hands were okay, but not great. He played early largely because Michigan didn't have a lot of other options shaped like him and topped out as a 30-catch receiver as a junior and senior. Mitchell is much more of a wild card than Mathews, who seemed boring and okay from the drop. Mitchell could be anything at all.
Other comparables include Junior Hemingway, a jump-ball maestro who played at 230 pounds one year, and—if Michigan gets very lucky—former Notre Dame receiver Michael Floyd. BGI brought the latter comparison up in their film evaluation, so don't blame me for that one. Floyd ran a 4.4 40 at the NFL combine and Mitchell is unlikely to match that, but speed wasn't really Floyd's game in college.
As a safety, Mitchell's physical package is similar to Jarrod Wilson, who ran probably-generous 4.5s at Michigan's pro day at 6'1", 205… but Mitchell is already that size now. Jonas Mouton is a better fit. He entered a college a 210-pound safety and exited it a 240-pound WLB who alternated terrible plays with excellent ones for the duration of his career.
Guru Reliability: Low. Mitchell's high school is very small and their QB very limited; really no idea what he looks like in a college context. Many scouting reports seem arbitrary.
Variance: Very high. Lack of production, potential position switch, raw even at his main high school position, had early off-field incident of some variety.
Ceiling: High. NFL player lurking in there somewhere.
General Excitement Level: Moderate-minus. Washout potential is high. Pure athlete at the moment.
Projection: I'd redshirt the guy for the same reason we're all mad that neither starting safety redshirted: his ability to contribute this year is minimal and he's got a ton of upside. His early enrollment might complicate that; he would be a frustrating burned redshirt.
Either way this year is likely to be a learning experience for Mitchell at wide receiver, and then they'll poke around with him on defense during the bowl practices. Since I can read a depth chart and am high on the rest of this WR class and Moe Ways, I expect Mitchell to flip to defense at that point. There's another year of apprenticeship in there, and then maybe Mitchell can break through in year three or beyond as either a safety or linebacker.
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Another week, another positive Nico Collins update. This time, the top-100 receiver from Alabama told AL.com that Michigan still leads for him. Collins has built a rapport with Dylan McCaffrey, who's targeting Collins with both passes and recruiting pitches:
McCaffrey and Collins are on Team Alpha Pro at The Opening with more targets that the Wolverines are after. The two have thrown together plenty in the first two days of competition.
"Every day we're up here, he's having a conversation with me about Michigan," Collins said. "We were walking through the headquarters and we saw some Jordans. He said, 'You'll get these every day if you come to Michigan.' It's just the little stuff. We're getting to know each other out here, running routes."
McCaffrey has put on his recruiting hat at The Opening; 247's Isaiah Hole reports he's also working on Donovan Peoples-Jones and four-star CA TE Josh Falo—that is, when he's not dealing with the perils of being a McCaffrey:
But being in the shadow of Christian McCaffrey has its...challenges, the younger McCaffrey says.
"I have plenty of girls asking me, talking to me--cute girls--and they'll be like, 'Hey! Can you introduce me to your brother?'"
Chin up, kid. Michigan quarterbacks have done okay in that regard.
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2016 four-star Michigan commitment Brad Hawkins officially announced on Friday that he will be enrolling at Suffield Academy in Connecticut, meaning he will not sign or enroll with the Wolverines this year.
That move was more or less expected after Hawkins failed to show up in the Michigan directory with the rest of the freshman and took down all the Michigan stuff from his twitter page. Steve Lorenz says the door is still open for him next year, and Michigan does take guys out of prep school.
There won't be much impact on this year's team. Michigan's wide receiver corps is strong this year and gets an infusion of talent from both this year's class and a couple of five-star sorts most expect will join up in 2017. They also have a couple senior safeties. If he gets whatever academic stuff he needs to get done and enrolls this spring it's more or less status quo.
If he does not get to Ann Arbor that's more of a hit for safety depth, where many people including myself believed he'd end up, than wide receiver.
2016 Recruiting: Chris Evans
Previously: Last year's profiles. S Josh Metellus, S Khaleke Hudson, CB David Long, CB Lavert Hill, LB Elysee Mbem-Bosse, LB Devin Bush Jr., LB Devin Gil, LB Josh Uche, DE Ron Johnson, DT Michael Dwumfour, DT Rashan Gary, DE Carlo Kemp, OL Ben Bredeson, OL Michael Onwenu, OL Stephen Spanellis, TE Nick Eubanks, TE Sean McKeon, TE Devin Asiasi, WR Eddie McDoom, WR Nate Johnson, WR Kekoa Crawford.
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Chris Evans is one of the most unpredictable recruits in Michigan's class. One site likes him a lot, another likes him just fine, and a couple are meh. He listed at three different spots by those sites and could be any of four different things in Ann Arbor:
"[I'll play] either defensive back, slot, running back."
At Ben Davis, Evans was a heavily utilized all-purpose offensive threat who rushed for over 2300 yards and caught 91 passes for over 1000 yards in his final two years, one of which ended in a state championship. His highlights see him line up in the backfield, in the slot, and on the outside. Meanwhile his seven-on-seven team used him as a defensive back frequently:
…definitely looked the most natural playing cornerback … started his day by making a big interception down the field and then came back with several pass break-ups. …outstanding top-end speed
entered camp wanting to work on his DB skills and did just that. … improved the most out of every position, playing both CB and FS. His vision of the field continued to get better as he intercepted a great deal of passes during 7v7.
Pick an outcome, any outcome. Yes, that is a reasonable outcome.
While a lot about Evans remains uncertain, one thing that's not is his speed. A 4.4-ish 40 at the Army Combine just after his junior year is legit. Last March Steve Wiltfong noted that Evans has run a "4.4 hand-held every time" he lays down a 40 yard dash. At Best of the Midwest he ran a 4.37 40, and while that's solidly in the realm of combine fiction Evans's track career was impressive. Tracking Football places him in the 87th percentile of RBs based on his lycra exploits, which include a state championship in the 100 meter relay and a narrow defeat in the regular 100 meter state finals. And caveat-ridden, "quicker than fast"-deploying ESPN finally admits a person can run good:
…versatile athlete. … catches the ball without effort. …speed is better than anyone else on the field. … Displays a feel for finding an opening and then accelerating through it. He is slow to the hole and then displays a burst to slide through it. … Exhibits good feet and an ability to avoid direct hits. Can slide laterally and avoid a shot.
When Ace checked out the Avon-Ben Davis game featuring Evans and Brandon Peters last fall, Evans was largely bottled up until a 52-yard screen touchdown that is the last play on the FBO video above, but he did demonstrate that speed:
We got an early glimpse at how fast Evans is when his teammate returned a kickoff to the house (0:30 mark) and Evans, who lined up as the other return man, went from nearly a dead stop ten yards behind the play to a dead sprint, getting out in front to wall off the final defender who could've made a tackle.
…excellent downfield speed and is a long strider. …excellent explosive quickness coming out of his breaks. …. mismatch on third down coming out of the backfield matched up against a linebacker. … Nice agility and plus balance. Feet keep moving in tight spaces.
Evans can go. Full stop, no caveat, Chris Evans is going to be one of the fastest players in the Big Ten as soon as this fall.
Evans isn't just fast in a straight line, with many evaluations focusing on his fluidity and change of direction.
Chris Evans is elusive!! Best rep in this drill so far: pic.twitter.com/2XJao1xvGc
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ESPN praises him as a "smooth, balanced, athletic player." He showed at Michigan's Indianapolis satellite camp last year and wowed onlookers. Wiltfong:
Evans has speed … but it's how fluid he is that impresses. The 5-foot-11, 186-pound Evans is so smooth changing direction. … a cut above the rest [in] running back agility drills and in 1-on-1s it was easy for him to abuse the linebackers on the field. He's sure-handed.
Scout compared him to five-star OSU commit Demario McCall (who you will not like very much over the next few years) because they were similar dudes:
…elusive and fluid …juked some guys out of their socks and as usual, caught the football well.
Excellent hands and pass-catching ability. Very comfortable running routes. A smooth kid who glides through traffic. Has good, maybe not elite speed and can make cuts and moves while going full speed. He's elusive and does a great job of finding running lanes.
Wiltfong again, at another camp:
… from the moment drills started he was on another level, showcasing the speed, balance and agility that will eventually make him a sought-after prospect. … Evans could not be checked during the competition portion, as there wasn't a running back or corner that could match up athletically.
Evans showed his quickness, fluidity and pass catching skills at the Core 6 Showcase yesterday.
Those pass catching skills pop up a lot. Evans isn't a running back who has to move to receiver in college because he's small. He's already advanced in that department.
… can catch the ball, and not just the easy ones, and has good quickness and route running skills as well.
…runs routes and catches the football with his hands like a wide receiver.
…seemed to make a catch on every other play. A one-handed grab while staying in bounds on a downfield pass was perhaps the play of the day.
Evans is a guy with nearly 400 rushes who also keeps pace with many D-I high school wide receivers downfield. He'd be brutal to defend in a spread offense. He came to Michigan.
I think Evans ends up playing safety in Ann Arbor. This goes against the grain. While many people mention his potential at DB nobody outright projects him there; ESPN evaluates as a running back and the other sites keep bringing up his hands and routes. This isn't limited to analysts. In early January, Steve Lorenz relayed some information from the staff:
Michigan coaches were happy to hear that Chris Evans will not take any more official visits as they view him as a potential playmaker on the offensive side of the ball. … From what we're told, he could see carries directly out of the backfield or get touches at the slot wide receiver position.
There have been a few major changes since then. NJ WR Brad Hawkins—a player many were projecting to safety—looks unlikely to make it to campus. NJ WR Ahmir Mitchell, another potential safety, nearly transferred. And Don Brown replaced DJ Durkin at defensive coordinator.
The current situation:
- Michigan has an ungodly pile of tight ends to suck up skill position snaps.
- They bring back sophomore Grant Perry and brought in 1-3 other players who can play in the slot.
- The safety depth chart yawns like a crevasse.
- David Long and Lavert Hill exist.
- Michigan's new defensive coordinator built the nation's best defense with two converted corners with great range at safety.
Evans has the best chance to be an impact guy at safety. Even if he's the best slot, he's probably the best slot by an inch. He might be the best safety option by a mile. Brown runs a lot of cover two and blitzes a ton; he needs guys who can eat up ground and prevent his aggressive ways from resulting in quick touchdowns. Evans promises to be that kind of guy… eventually.
There are some external indicators that Evans is best suited for the defensive backfield. His camp performances indicated potential:
…began his day playing cornerback where he was able to keep in check the best receivers at the camp with his lateral quickness and ability to turn and run.
Ohio State's late offer was sincere and a tad insulting, as late offers always are; it was as a defensive back. When Evans committed he said Michigan wanted him in the slot or at DB and that he had a preference:
"I want to play defensive back. I think that's the best spot for my future."
Soon after that preference was replaced with the usual "I'll play anywhere" quote, but I think that's illuminating all the same. A few months later he mentioned that Michigan was talking to him about corner and slot, but mostly they just wanted him because he was very fast.
Evans can probably get to a weight where he won't be a liability as a tackler. He's already put on around about 20 pounds…
As a sophomore, Evans weighed just 167 pounds. … "My sophomore year (Lawrence Central's) Darrin Kirkland hit me and I felt like I'd go back 10 feet," he said. "This year when we encountered, I didn't feel like a toy getting thrown around."
…to get to 185 or 190 depending on who you listen to; Wiltfong believes he can "easily add 20 pounds and be just as dynamic." When Tim Sullivan caught him in person he was impressed with his lower half:
…isn't very big but he's extremely well put together and chiseled. His lower body is very thick and allows him to be quick, fast, sudden, and also quite powerful.
And he seems to have the mental wherewithal that is a main asset for the last line of defense:
"I think I'm a good student of the game so I know where things are supposed to hit and what happens when this happens. I'm a student of the game and I work hard at it and my vision helps me on the field."
See also the upcoming "nah" quote about that OSU offer. He can hack safety, probably, and Michigan needs those. But if you told me he was anything else I'd believe you, too.
Etc: I submit to you the greatest quote in the history of rejecting late recruiting offers:
"It's like there's two girls and one girl is Beyonce, which is Ohio State. I'm like, dang, I want Beyonce because she looks good and has everything, so I want her. However, she is like 'nah' and I'm going to hold back. I don't know if I want to go out with you right now. I'm like alright cool, then I will just hold back and do whatever I can and just chill. Then Halle Berry comes in and is like, hey Chris, what's up and I like you. I'm like okay cool, so I am going to go with Halle Berry and have been going out with her since June. However, Beyonce pops back up and is like, hey babe, what's up and remember me? We can go out if you want to? I'm like I got Halle Berry and I'm happy with her. That is what I want. I tried to get with you, but you didn't want it, so I chose otherwise. Now that you want to jump back in, I got nothing for you."
"If you're going to write anything on me," says Evans, a star running back at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, "you've got to mention all of my offensive linemen, too, by name."
A quick, talented and rather humble young man, Evans knows his potentially bright football future might not be as shiny without the help of his five super-sized Ben Davis pals.
Jalil Brewer, Dylan Runyon, Pompey Coleman, Ahmad Malone and Quinton Tyler.
"That's the best O-line in the state," Evans says with pride.
Was considered a "heavy Michigan State lean" on March 23rd, visited Ann Arbor a week later, and then it was all over but the shouting.
Why Dennis Norfleet or Dymonte Thomas? Norfleet was a very good high school running back with the ability to pop it between the tackles and juke in tight spaces. Michigan moved him to slot receiver, where he was little more than a predictable jet sweep threat, and eventually to cornerback. Evans is considerably bigger than the 5'8" Norfleet but they're ranked around the same place and Michigan hasn't had another spread H-back type guy recently. I have similar fears that if Evans ends up being that slot/RB hybrid guy he'll be similarly lost. I have a hard time envisioning that as a major role under Harbaugh.
Thomas is a reasonable comparison if Evans ends up on defense. Thomas is taller, at 6'2", but even now he's listed on the roster at 195, a number Evans can hit as early as next year. Both dudes are super fast. Thomas was a high school running back first and foremost; he also played OLB. Evans shades more towards the corner side of the hybrid safety continuum, but as a terrific athlete with a lot of positional uncertainty and probable eventual destination as a cover-oriented safety Thomas is a kindred spirit, down to the length of time it'll take before he's ready to go.
Guru Reliability: Low. Big split, Indiana doesn't get a lot of focus, positional uncertainty, no All Star game.
Variance: High. For the same reasons listed above, more or less. Also my bet that he's a safety brings questions about tackling to the forefront.
Ceiling: High-minus. Evans's speed and intelligence could make him into a very good safety, but he's not 6'2" and also a bolt.
General Excitement Level: Moderate-plus. Very fast gentleman with a lot of question marks.
Projection: Redshirt. I expect his position will remain a question mark through most of fall camp and possibly through much of his freshman year; the guess here is that he ends up a DB by spring practice, either safety or corner. If so he'll be thrown into a melee as Michigan loses its top five defensive backs after the season.
He's not likely to win that melee at corner. He's not likely to beat out Tyree Kinnel at safety. That fourth spot, though, is wide open if Khaleke Hudson is indeed the Peppers heir apparent. If it's Evans that's almost certainly going to be painful in the short term. In year three and beyond I'd be pretty comfortable with Evans out there as a super fast safety who can turn and run when the opposition attempts to go over his head.


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Judge P.S. Colbert lustily recalls Mount Prospect, Illinois, 1987.
The Charge
"What Would Shakespeare Do?"
The Case
Lights come up on a blistering August Saturday morning in Madrid, 1987.
"It's gonna be so hot the wastebaskets melt," observes a waiter in the little cafe where veteran newspaper man Miguel Batalla (José Sacristán) pounds out Monday's editorial on a portable typewriter.
"Don't be so poetic, it'll rub off on me," Miguel growls back. "Stick to the waiter bullshit, I'll handle the columnist bullshit."
The waiter scurries away, unoffended. Miguel comes in nearly every morning to write copy, chain smoke, sip whiskey and maintain the crusty, ever-cynical visage of a man who's witnessed civil war, fascism, democracy, monarchy, and Marxism during his seventy plus years; learning to survive by tilting at windmills with a caustic wit.
His resigned, hang-dog expression changes ever so slightly with the arrival of Angela Castroviejo (Maria Valverde, King Of The Hill), a journalism student whose big round glasses, pinned-up hair, and book collection clutched defensively to her bosom do nothing to disguise her breath-taking, fresh-scrubbed beauty. Angela has brought the first draft of an article she's written after recently interviewing Miguel, and hands it over for his perusal.
Miguel scans the article perfunctorily, scolding her technique while offering back-handed praise. It's obvious that the article is of no consequence to him, that his interest lies purely in sexual conquest, and he begins a running commentary, which combines advice and criticism with flattery and suggestion. His spiel is anything but subtle, and after ascertaining that she's free for the next couple hours, Miguel informs Angela that a painter friend has left him the keys to his apartment while he is out of town for the next few days. Would she care to move the conversation there, where they can "get to know each other" better, uninterrupted by restaurant staff?
Though much younger, considerably less experienced, and somewhat shy; Angela agrees to the change of venue. Once inside the apartment, Miguel plies his student with whiskey and gets down to business.
"I'd like you to take off your clothes for me," he announces, sitting down on his friend's bed. "I'll stay right here. I won't move, I'll just watch. Like I'm taking a stroll through the Prado Museum."
"I won't get naked," Angela replies.
Yada, yada, yada; the couple—both now completely starkers—find themselves trapped in the bathroom. Their clothes, his whiskey and cigarettes are on the other side of the immovable door. For modesty, there's but one bath towel. There are, of course, no cell phones yet, and only the tiniest, slatted window to call for help from. Nobody answers.
With a situation perfectly suited for fellow Spaniard Luis Bunuel, writer-director David Trueba (Two Much) flourishes; delivering a taut, claustrophobic, psychic tug-of-war-cum-ballet that gives this superb actor pairing a chance to play off each other as their characters struggle to camouflage as much of themselves as possible, while confronting each other in the altogether. To correctly label this film as non-pornographic is not to say that it isn't sexually-charged, but kudos to Trueba and cinematographer Leonor Rodriguez for their masterful use of space, and for the expert way they choose when to (and when not to) limit the amount of nudity on-screen. Let's face it, sophisticated as we international cinema fans may be, it's a bit much to ask any viewer to concentrate on much of anything else for important stretches when taking in the unadorned bodies of two people with a half-century of wear between them—the contrast alone is mind-blowing enough!
The screenplay also cheats a bit. Considering Miguel's advanced age, not to mention his copious alcohol and nicotine requirements, it's hard to believe his discomfort isn't much more pronounced. Likewise, Angela started the meeting on an empty stomach, with only some Coca Cola and whiskey to break her fast. Maintaining mental acuity against these deficits, not to mention growing desperation (remember, the apartment owner's not due back for a couple more days, and nobody else seems to be ready or willing to intercede) would probably prove a much greater task as the hours crawl by, ruling out the likelihood of such continued witticism, but sacrificing such verities in the name of artistic license pays off in spades here.
Breaking Glass comes through with a beautiful 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, perfectly complemented by the original Spanish-language soundtrack in 5.1. Surround. English subtitles are provided, and extras are kept to a minimum—a handful of production stills and trailers for other Breaking Glass DVD releases.
I can hardly recommend Madrid, 1987 as a first date movie, but cinefans who list the brain among their top three favorite organs are definitely advised to put this sparkling little gem on their calendars.
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