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Unverified Voracity Has No Return Date
Elvis says: don't do drugs. Because you'll totally overthrow Desmond Howard if you do.
One offs FTW. That Colorado game has no return date scheduled according to CU's official site:
Colorado and Michigan will renew their short but exciting rivalry with a single game in Ann Arbor on Sept. 17, 2016. While not officially part of the Pac-12/Big Ten schedule series set to commence in 2017, it will mark the fifth time the schools will play, the first since 1997.
And neither does the Oregon State official site mention a return game:
The Oregon State University football team will travel to the University of Michigan to play during the 2015 season, Beaver Director of Athletics Bob De Carolis announced Wednesday. …
"This is an exciting opportunity for our student-athletes, staff and fans to visit not only one of the great venues in college football but all of sports," De Carolis said. "But make no mistake, we will make this trip with the goal of winning a football game."
So… that ND gap can be filled by a marquee opponent instead of road games against middling to not so good Pac-12 teams. Take a picture: GOOD JOB DAVE BRANDON WOOO! Also good job Bill Martin for having luxury suites that make it important to not have home schedules like this year.
Now, about canceling the Horror II and pretending that never happened…
Notre Dame hiatus just that. Whenever Michigan and Notre Dame take a break in their series there's a small cadre of folks suspicious that it's a front for an end to the whole thing. This does not appear to be the case, tinfoil hat folk. From the Tribune:
"This was either in place when I got here or it was a request that came shortly after I got here," Swarbrick said in a phone interview Wednesday. "I didn't even know it wasn't known, frankly. It had been cooked into our scheduling model for at least three years.
"I don't think somehow (Michigan athletic director) Dave (Brandon) had been informed when he came aboard. When he called and we started talking about dates, I said, 'You know Dave, we had this bye built in and I scheduled games.' He was great. We just made it work.
"We're going to keep playing each other. It's important to both schools. This initiated with a request from up there years ago, and we said OK."
Since this is Notre Dame there is the slight but real chance Swarbrick means "heaven" by "up there." In any case, ND is coming back after the break. On the schedule. Not to the realm of teams that win a lot of football games.
And then he gave you the finger guns. Brandon on the ND hole:
But what does Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon intend to do with those two open dates on the schedule?
"Stay tuned," he told AnnArbor.com by phone on Wednesday.
You're too small. This is something that is true about Chris Wormley and Tom Strobel despite being people of this size:
Football is weird.
BONUS: Well done, photobomber who must be Wormley's younger brother or something.
ZomBCS lurches on, makes more sense. There will remain some semblance of the red carpet bowl tier that fans have gotten used to over the past decade or so, as Stewart Mandel reports that the as yet undefined selection committee will also hand-craft the four bowls that are super special but not hosting playoff semifinals. The top twelve get in, no exceptions—you're still not in the top 12, Michigan State, go away—and there will be some restrictions due to Rose/"Champions" bowl business. As a bonus, they've also decided to un-screw the bowl schedule by playing all six of the red carpet bowls on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
That's good. Less good is that the selection committee will start issuing a top 20 at midseason:
"We didn't want the top four teams to just come out of the blue at the end of the season," Swarbrick said.
This is to provide some transparency, I guess, but if they are prioritizing conference champs that's data you don't get until the season's over, making the previous polls a pointless exercise. I'd rather do away with the whole poll mentality in case some of the dumb from previous systems leaks into the new one.
Budget bits. Michigan's released its 2012 athletic department budget, which is the usual: about 10-12 million in the black with 4-5 of that set aside for a capital reinvestment fund. Things that jump out:
- Michigan is budgeting $2.4 million for "hosting, food, and special events" in the 2013 FY, a threefold increase on FY12. Alabama game effect?
- Premium seating is sold out for football and "essentially sold out" for basketball. Someone high five Brady Hoke and John Beilein.
- Despite having two fewer football games, "spectator admissions" are projected to drop only slightly, from 43 million to 39 million. Ticket price increase is a part of that and they must be including their 4.7 million from the Alabama game in that item.
- They made $3.9 million more than they expected last year.
More OHL rumblings. It's the incredibly annoying part of the year where OHL teams try to swoop in on committed players just for the hell of it. Plymouth traded for incoming defenseman Connor Carrick's rights, and then signed him. (Apparently. I can't find anything other than the link-free MHN article.)
Carrick committed to Michigan as a sophomore in high school and as a small defenseman who was a mid-round draft pick he's the archetypical guy who should play in college, so the only way this makes any sense at all is if Carrick was concerned about playing time. Michigan does return six guys who had a regular-ish shift last year and adds Trouba. But this isn't John Gibson bugging out at the idea of backing up Hunwick—Carrick only has to beat out one of Chiasson, Serville, or Clare to get PT. Stupid move for a guy who has about a 12% chance of playing 200 NHL games.
Meanwhile, an OHL source telling Matt Slovin that Jacob Trouba is 50/50 to be in Kitchener this fall is something to mention, but my initial reaction to that is eyerolling given anonymous OHL sources' tendency to play up their chances at everyone. Trouba has been more insistent that he'd be at Michigan than anyone save Jack Johnson. If he backs out that would be an all-timer. I need a sufficiently condescending youtube video to embed in these situations.
As far as Phil Di Giuseppe goes, Rivals' Michael Spath seems to be a little more optimistic as of yesterday's Inside the Fort post.
It doubles as a tombstone. The CCHA's final year will be commemorated by patches.
I'll be vaguely sad about the lost tradition until I see some good old fashioned CCHA reffing in November. Or remember Shawn Hunwick, second-team all-conference.
Mikulak killing it. Michigan's men's gymnastics Olympic hopeful is crushing the trials:
So much for the U.S. men's gymnastics team being a two-man show.
Sam Mikulak was impressive during the first day of the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials Thursday, threatening to break up the grip national champion John Orozco and Danell Leyva have on the role of top Americans heading into the London Olympics.
Looking as relaxed as if he was competing in a college dual meet for Michigan, the 2011 NCAA champion posted an all-around score of 91.80, the best on a day many of the other contenders to make the five-man Olympic team faltered.
Leyva moved past Orozco into first place in the overall standings, which combine scores from nationals and trials, but couldn't top Mikulak, at least for a couple of hours. Mikulak remained third in the overall standings but drew closer to the top two heading into the finals Saturday.
Mikulak was also interviewed by espnW. If he makes the team he is a lock to have an NBC equivalent of Tom Rinaldi narrate a sepia-toned profile, what with the broken legs == broken dreams angle.
Etc.: John Bacon on the recently departed Bob Chappius. The Ex-Peach Bowl wants to be the #6 bowl in this new rotation they've got going. Indianapolis, you're our only hope. TOC's Chris Vannini on Detroit FC. Shut up, I like it. UConn joins Hockey East, prompting BC blogs to advocate secession into a new six-team conference styled on the Big Ten. New BHGP podcast intro song.
Lloyd meets the peregrine falcon named after him, asks "why is that one not named Fielding?" He does not actually ask that.
Unverified Voracity Drafts, Offers, Squints
Hi. I returned, sorry about the unannounced vacation time. I was in NYC, I thought I would be able to proceed as normal, I was correct only on Thursday and Friday. Back now.
Falk talks Bo. Self-recommending.
Draftings and goings(?). Michigan folk came off the board frequently at the recently-completed NHL draft. Jacob Trouba went 9th, Phil DiGuiseppe and Boo Nieves were second-rounders, and Connor Carrick went in the fifth. That was almost exactly what everyone expected—Carrick may have gone a little higher than his rankings suggested. So hurray, sounds like Michigan has Komisarek 2.0…
9. Winnipeg Jets: D Jacob Trouba. Trouba is a tremendous skater — likely the best of the whole bunch — who loves to dish out punishment along the walls and easily separates his opponent from the puck. He's a rugged force in the defensive end who scores off the charts in both his character and compete levels.
…and will see him on the ice this fall since Trouba took opportunity after opportunity to restate that, barring a meteor strike, he'd be in Ann Arbor in the fall and even the meteor would have to do some explaining.
The sad fugee face news comes from Mike Spath, who brings a screeching halt to optimism in re: Phil Di Guiseppe's return. Yes, the PDG who said this after his selection by the Hurricanes:
"It's great hockey," Di Giuseppe said of the Michigan experience. "That's why I went to school there and played there. I'm happy with my decision and I'm happy to go back next year."
But Spath is hearing otherwise:
However, we heard chatter even before the season concluded that Di Giuseppe had one eye on the OHL and with the right situation could leave U-M early. After the Hurricanes picked him, that talk has only intensified, to the point that we put his chances at returning to Michigan at 50 percent, and would not be surprised in the least if he is playing in the OHL next season.
Getting picked by Carolina is not so good because Peter Karmanos owns both the Hurricanes and the Plymouth Whalers. Even if every public utterance from PDG has been strongly pro-college (Spath even references the one PDG gave him in the article), Spath is plugged in on this stuff.
Meanwhile in Lansing, four incoming Spartans were drafted, the first two coming off the board back-to-back in the third round. That's their best showing in the draft since… 2006. Rick Comley was a disaster and Tom Anastos may have been a better idea than he seemed at first.
BONUS: apparently NHL Network analyst Craig Button compared the kid who went seventh to Charles Woodson? I don't even know, man.
Come on, be as good of an idea as Anastos? Scott Stricklin got bombarded with the usual things about leaving Kent State after his
Zips Golden Flashes bowed out of the CWS and responded a typically Ohioan fashion:
"I know some of you have been speculating that the coaching staff might be moving on after our historic season. A certain school up North came calling and we decided that Kent State and what we have built here was too good to leave."
Moving on, then, to… Chris Sabo? According to the twitter feed user Raoul has latched onto as the only plausible source of college baseball coaching scuttlebutt, yes:
Hearing reports Chris Sabo will be named new HC at #Michigan. Several reports today on this story. Something's up.Stay posted.
— Skippers Dugout (@SkippersDugout) June 23, 2012
According to other people, not so much:
Michigan asst. baseball coach Wayne Welton told me earlier today that Twitter is the only place he has heard Chris Sabo will be new HC.
— Matt Slovin (@MattSlovin) June 24, 2012
And our twitter feed started backtracking in the way people do in these situations when people get mad at him. But you are on twitter! I trusted you!
Sabo is a famous program alum and rec-specs aficionado, so he's got that going for him. He does not have any of that coaching stuff to recommend him, unfortunately. I'm guessing the guy who does get hired is not Sabo, nor is it someone who we've been talking about at all.
[UPDATE: and as I'm drafting this a report from College Baseball Daily says Michigan has hired Erik Bakich of Maryland. That would be underwhelming:
Erik Bakich's Maryland record
2010 — 5-25 ACC, 17-39 overall
2011 — 5-25 ACC, 21-35 overall
2012 — 10-20 ACC, 32-24 overall
On the bright side, his most recent effort is the second-winningest season in Maryland history.]
2014 offers of the basketball variety. Michigan's firing out 2014 football offers left and right already, and meanwhile John Beilein's has put the finishing touches on another handcrafted piece of calligraphy, this one directed at Indiana wing Trevon Bluiett. He's the third 2014 kid to pick one up after MS SG Devin Booker and IL SF Keita Bates-Diop. Michigan will have to battle Indiana and others (but mostly Indiana) for the kid. They are… not last:
How does the Michigan visit compare with other visits you've taken this summer?
"It would definitely be near the top of other visits, you know? Like I said, not too many coaching staff jokes with you so once you find a coaching staff that jokes around, it makes you more comfortable. Being around campus, that made me comfortable. So it definitely beat some of the other schools."
Tom Crean has been locking his targets down of late so this one seems like a longer shot than Booker or Bates-Diop. That's just speculation, of course.
Even farther down the road, the courtship between Michigan and 2015 OH SG Luke Kennard took another step forward as Kennard knocked down three after three at Michigan's team camp. He was "by far the most impressive player at the camp"—one that included Derrick Walton and Mark Donnal—as he drove his team to the semifinals, and has this to say about the coaching staff:
"They are absolutely amazing. I love each and every one of them and they make me feel right at home, which I love about them," Luke said. "They tell me I fit in with how they play, and I think I do, too. Like I said, I look forward to going to see them because that's how much I like seeing them. It was good to see them."
That goes above and beyond the usual palaver, it seems. May want to pencil him in to the 2015 class, if you're the kind of person with a spreadsheet column entitled "Michigan 2015 basketball roster." Surely there are a few of you.
Men actually on the basketball team.
Burke on the skills camp, via Beth Long at Scout.
Tim Hardaway Jr and Trey Burke have been hitting up the college-oriented skills camps that are popping up these days, and both have been performing well. SLAM magazine returned with an alphabetical list of the top 20 players he saw at a couple of the Chicago camps Burke and Hardaway were at:
Trey Burke, 6-0, Sophomore, Michigan
Burke was one of the nation's top freshmen last season and after flirting with declaring for the Draft, looks poised to build on his debut campaign, as he showcased an improved outside stroke, which should help a loaded Wolverines squad attempt to get back to the program's glory days.
Tim Hardaway Jr, 6-5, Junior, Michigan
A wing sniper with length and athleticism, Hardaway attacked defenders off the dribble for pull-up jumpers or dynamic forays to the rim, while showing an all-around game, as he made a strong effort on the boards and defensive end.
MOTS from Burke. If Michigan gets dynamic forays to the rim, rebounding, and defense from Hardaway they are going to be awesome next year… and won't need to worry about where those 2013 scholarships are coming from.
Burke also came in for praise from ESPN's Reggie Rankin, who included him on a select list of four impressive campers:
"He has a great command of the ball and is a terrific open court passer," ESPN.com analyst Reggie Rankin wrote of Burke at this weekend's Deron Williams' Skills Academy in Chicago. "He can also knock down open jumpers on the break or when reading the defense as he comes off ball screens, can nail ball-reversal spot up 3s and make a play when the offense breaks down.
"Burke has worked to become a complete point guard and his improvement is easy to see, along with his improved strength."
UMHoops has a further roundup.
Men coaching people actually on the basketball team. Michigan's dynamic recruiting and teaching assistant corps picked up new contracts:
The new contracts will pay the three coaches a total of $470,000 in base pay for the 2012-13 campaign. Each assistant received a $10,000 base pay raise from a year ago, when the total pool -- per Michigan records -- sat at $440,000. …
Meyer and Alexander both signed four-year pacts, and will make base salaries of $160,000 and $155,000, respectively, in 2012-13. Jordan, meanwhile, inked a three-year contract and will also receive $155,000 in base pay next season.
They've got an interesting bonus system for sticking around, where there's a pool of 20k for each if all three are still around in three years, 20k for Alexander and Jordan if they're still around, and 20k in individual bonuses. I don't think Beilein's going to revamp his staff in the near future unless forced to. Head coaching gigs for Alexander and Jordan—Meyer is 58 and probably not destined for a head job—are the most likely way Michigan's basketball coaching staff will change.
Erp? Sounds like a number of Pac-12 teams are less than enthusiastic about the prospect of loading up on Big Ten teams in their nonconference schedules:
Multiple league sources have told the Hotline in recent weeks that several Pac-12 schools are … how should we say it? … less than enthusiastic about the partnership, set to take effect in 2017.
However, the schools are reserving final judgment until they see whether a strength-of-schedule component is included in the formula that determines which teams participate in the four-team playoff.
If SOS is given serious weight … if it's a tangible part of the formula … then Pac-12 schools may be willing to consider a partnership in which the top programs draw B1G heavyweights every few years, sources said.
But if SOS is not included in the formula, then a full-blown Pac-12/B1G partnership — and I'll explain what I mean by that in a minute — could be in jeopardy.
This would seem to affect the top end of the league more than the bottom, and would prevent the sort of titanic cross-sectional matchups that were envisioned when this thing was announced. If it looks more like Michigan's 2014-2016 schedule than "here's USC, Stanford, and Oregon" I'm even more of favor of adding that ninth conference game. Hopefully a committee is better able to take things like "you played LSU and Stanford did not" into account.
London Wolverines. Geena Gall will run the 800M. Peter Vanderkaay is headed to a third Olympics. AnnArbor.com has the ridiculously long list of Ann Arbor-area outboard motors competing in the (still-ongoing) Olympic Trials. Meinke profiles Michigan swim coach Mike Bottom.
Etc.: Mark Hollis is going to out attention-whore Dave Brandon if he has to put a basketball game in a volcano. Freshman basketball class hits campus. Kirk Ferentz owns a piece of Americana.
Michigan To Play All The Iffy Pac-12 Teams
The rumored Utah series is now official:
Utah will host Michigan in Rice-Eccles Stadium in the 2015 season opener as a part of a home-and-home series that begins with a 2014 game in Ann Arbor. Michigan will make its first Salt Lake City appearance on Sept. 3, 2015 in a rare weekday game for the Wolverines, who have never played on a Thursday. The first game of the series is scheduled for Sept. 20, 2014 in Michigan Stadium.
Michigan becomes just the second Big Ten team ever to play in Salt Lake City. The Utes knocked off Indiana 40-13 in Rice-Eccles Stadium in 2002.
"A home-and-home series with Michigan is the kind of opportunity that comes with membership in the Pac-12 Conference," said Utah Director of Athletics Dr. Chris Hill. "I greatly appreciate Coach Whittingham's willingness to add college football's winningest program to his already difficult 2014 schedule, which will also feature five Pac-12 road games."
You'll note that the Wow Factor has been factor'd by playing in the Thursday night slot usually occupied by Mississippi State's latest flailing interception machine.
But wait, there's more! Michigan has released the entire 2015 nonconference schedule, which is as follows…
Sept. 3 at Utah
Sept. 12 Notre Dame
Sept. 19 Oregon State
Sept. 26 UNLV
…and bits of the 2016 schedule, featuring ND, a home game against Colorado on September 17th and two TBAs likely to be punching bags. The Pac-12 agreement is tentatively scheduled to start the year after, so Michigan's eliminated ND-and-three-dwarves nonconference scheduling for the foreseeable future. That's a positive even if none of the teams incoming has much sex appeal.
But wait, there's more!
In addition, Michigan and Notre Dame will take a two-year hiatus in their long-standing rivalry during the 2018 and 2019 seasons. Both schools intend to resume the rivalry in the years following.
That may be "less," actually. We'll see if Michigan fills that slot with a quality opponent when the time comes.
Are those Oregon State and Colorado games one-offs? Or are they home and homes with return dates set for the distant future? (If one-offs: coup. If not, okay.)
If so can we expect the Oregon State and Colorado games to slot into that 2018 and 2019 ND hiatus along with the Pac-12 agreement? (If so: meh.)
When was the last time Michigan played three BCS-ish teams in a nonconference schedule, as they will in 2015? (A: 1997, when they played Baylor, Colorado, and ND. They also did so in 1996 (Colorado, BC, UCLA) and 1994 (BC, ND, Colorado).)
What is our deal with playing Utah? (Seriously.)
Mailbag: Morris Redshirt, Utah Sense, Legends Practices
yep, 6'3".
Morris redshirt.
Looking way off into the future here, but is there any chance Shane Morris gets a redshirt in 2013? Would he accept one? Would we be in a position to sit him?
Redshirt or no, he would enter 2013 behind a redshirt junior Devin Gardner (should he actually receive a 5th year himself) and Russell Bellomy. I just keep thinking it would be nice to enter a 2017 season (told you I was thinking way off) with a senior QB when Notre Dame and Ohio would play us at home.
Your expressions are greatly appreciated.
Pete Saunders
If Gardner wins the job and has a strong season I think you would see Morris redshirted, especially if Gardner gets his redshirt (something about which I've heard conflicting information on). I don't think Morris would have a problem with it—he can see the large upside in 2017 as well as anyone—and with Bellomy an experienced-second stringer the only reason they'd have to put Morris on the field is in the event of a serious injury.
The most likely scenario in which Morris doesn't get the redshirt is the one in which Gardner is not getting his retroactively and Morris is far and away the second-best QB on the roster. In that situation you might see Michigan get Morris some playing time for grooming purposes, much like what everyone expects to see happen with Joe Bolden at MLB this year. I'm still rooting for a redshirt.
Utah road game sense making.
If the Utah series is true, this really makes no sense at all. Brandon has complained about playing @ Uconn in 2013 because "the Rent" only holds 40k (and to be fair to Brandon, this series was scheduled by Bill Martin). Utah's Stadium has a capacity of 46k. Doesn't DB's rationale to move the Uconn game hold no weight now in light of scheduling us to play at a 46k seat stadium on a Thursday night? I really dont believe an extra 6,000 seats makes enough of a difference for us to play this road game versus the Uconn road game.
I get scheduling is difficult, but this one is pretty frustrating. Wish we could have gotten a Pac-12 team we haven't seen recently.
Go Blue!
In Dave Brandon's mind the 46k is okay as long as there is a synergistic marketeing campaign that brings the Wow Factor into the equation. By leveraging the increased mindshare acquired by being top-of-mind at the beginning of the college football season, Michigan can increase its brand awareness amongst decision-makers and trendsetters. By being the first team to play in a college football season, Michigan will find a competitive advantage to grow the digital audience and build brand loyalty. A pearlescent hipster sheen will descend upon the brand, whereupon Michigan will become the Apple of college football.
I think "pearlescent hipster sheen" was a misstep. Too many words people might use in a novel instead of a powerpoint presentation.
Anyway: Brandon's persistent complaints about UConn's desire to have a game against Michigan on their campus aren't really about capacity, they are about Wow Factor. Wow Factor can be acquired by doing something unusual that might get you attention, no matter how good of an idea it is. Flyovers, new uniforms, night games, really loud jet pack guys, full student sections, Special K, legends patches, field hashtags, rescheduling the Horror: these are all sources of Wow Factor. Some are neutral. Some are positive. Some are negative. All provide someone in the athletic department who needs to justify his existence a line in a performance evaluation. This is the heart of Wow Factor: it looks good on a performance evaluation.
The rumored Thursday night opener* provides Wow Factor, therefore playing in a 46k stadium is acceptable. If the on-campus UConn game was modified to provide wow factor—playing underwater, maybe—it would also be acceptable. A regular football game in a regular stadium at a regular time gives Brandon a rash.
*[Still just a rumor. Chris Balas, the source on this information, also mentioned difficulties for Utah in 2015 that could cause the return date to be delayed until 2016. If that happened 2016 would be another weak-looking six-game home slate thanks to the Big Ten's refusal to give Michigan a reasonable home/road split in conference.]
Legends numbers deployment.
Completely agree with you, re: flipping seniors' numbers diminishes their own impact on the program as much, if not more, than it rewards them. The most extreme—and perhaps ludicrous—example is Desmond, who if he returns for his senior year could have been "rewarded" with the 1 jersey. Then there wouldn't be a 21 "Legends Jersey."
If they're really going to do this, it should almost be something that a guy "earns" during his freshman (or even redshirt) year. Then we can see if lives up to it. And guys that don't earn it can use the snub to become determined to make their own a number a future legend. Seems better than diluting (even in a superficial way) the career of guy between his two biggest years in the program.
Anyway, good to have something to discuss in June.
[Editor's note: Yesterday, Michigan officially announced they would un-retire not only Gerald Ford's number but also those of Ron Kramer and Bennie Oosterbaan. 48, 47, and 87 are back on the market and seemingly must be filled.]
The number-flipping thing seems like an extension of the trend with the #1 jersey, which was effectively mothballed once Braylon Edwards sponsored a scholarship requiring that it be earned after enrollment.
Unlike the #1, these legends jerseys seem like they must be filled every year, and if they're not filled they will flip someone to them, thus preventing many players who might turn themselves into legends wearing their own number into… not that. I think I'm having a strong negative reaction to this because DO YOU PEOPLE REALIZE WE HAVE A COMPETENT SAFETY WHO MAY HAVE TO CHANGE HIS NUMBER NO I DON'T THINK YOU DO I DON'T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND THE GRAVITY OF WHAT THIS MEANS TO THE FUTURE LEGACY OF THE #32 JERSEY, WHICH IS ON THE VERGE OF REMINDING ME OF A CRITICAL TACKLE IN SPACE THAT IS NOT MISSED, IS NEVER EVER MISSED.
/considers situation in which Denard Robinson would switch from 16 to 7 or something as a senior
Anyway: I hope Michigan uses them like the #1 used to be deployed, as a carrot to dangle in front of certain recruits. 87 is the tight end version of #1. 47 is the… er… wide receiver version of #1. 48 is… well, it's a roving version of #1 I assume will find itself on linebackers and safeties mostly. (Linemen can no longer wear 48.) Some of the guys you hand the uniforms to won't work out, and that's life. That seems better than moving a handful of seniors annually.
That doesn't get around the fact that Michigan has to give them out now. So… Michigan should hand 48 to Joe Bolden, 87 to AJ Williams or Devin Funchess, and 47 to Amarah Darboh or Jehu Chesson. Leave
Britney Kovacs alone, and if a kid with one of those jerseys does something naughty, take it away.
Interesting bits from the Women's Football Academy.
I volunteered at the Women's Football Academy and I asked all the coaches except Borges how they would feel about an early signing period in football. All except LB coach Mark Smith said they were all for it. Smith said he didn't like it because that would mean official visits in the summer and then coaches would get no time off, as opposed to the 3-4 weeks they now get in late June and July.
One of the things they pointed out as being a big advantage is that kids from lower economic families could take official visits during the summer. Mattison said this is very important because kids are committing so early now and by the time the poorer kids have a chance to take the official visits when their senior season starts, it is getting to be "too late."
Mattison specifically talked about kids who want to "put on a hat" at the Under Armour game. He tells those kids, "Then you won't be committing to Michigan because by that time, we won't have any scholarships left."
Your humble correspondent,
Thom Dartt
Bellbrook, Ohio
I think the official visit timing and an early signing day are separate matters—and still dislike the idea that a kid can sign before his coach might get fired—but I'm not posting this to argue, just to relate the emailed information. Love the hat thing. Down with hats.
Unknown Pac-12 Opponent Probably Utah
According to Chris Balas the Pac-12 team Michigan wants to fill out its 2014 and 2015 schedules with is…
Pac-12 sources: U-M close to home/home deal w/Utah starting 2014. Thurs. night return visit to Salt Lake to open '15 CF season on table #fb
That ESPN article I linked made it clear that at this point options were limited, with Utah, Oregon State, and Colorado the most likely Pac-12 opponents. So… like, okay. It's a reasonable opponent, or at least should be reasonable in a couple years.
Still, it's a little unsatisfying. Michigan got one-off games with the Utes twice in the past decade; now they're giving them a full home and home. Yeah, they're in the Pac-12 but Colorado sucked it up to play a one-off with OSU last year. Meanwhile, non-Pac-12 nonconference options will be extremely limited starting in 2017. It would have been nice to get a series in with someone from another conference. Meh.
Unverified Voracity Bears No Ill Will Towards Bears
Pro combat. I have not linked any of the brilliant Pro Combat uniforms being proposed by BHGP yet. Let me correct that error now with the MSU edition:
I'll be on the floor over here trying to breathe for the next twenty minutes. Here's the Michigan edition, which is terrifying in its plausibility.
Down that path we should not tread… RossWB of BHGP takes down the 6-1-1 model currently on offer from the bigger and worser SEC:
There may be reasons to expand -- money, exposure, money, prestige, money -- but short of a radical transformation of college football scheduling (i.e., more conference games, fewer games with money-spinning non-conference patsies) the end result is going to be fewer games against the teams that (for the most part) we've been playing against for a century. Fewer games against the teams that we know, against the teams that we love to hate. The overall advantages of adding Nebraska (probably) outweighed the costs (although I'm still bitter about the damage it's wrought on the Iowa-Wisconsin rivalry), but expanding past 12 teams would effectively be splitting the league in two. We'd be two leagues under one roof, with a rich, intertwined, and shared history... but a future that would share little but revenue statements and logos.
I'm done caring about money. No one gets the money. It does not go to players, it mostly comes from fans who are finding out exactly how much they will spend on this stuff, and it's not helping the league in its effort to compete nationally.
Take your annual story about the 26 million dollars that's being distributed, which is up X percent from Y dollars last year, roll it up, and use it to spank yourself. You've been naughty, droid putting out story about X million dollars. None of that money goes to anything other than an ever-expanding cadre of athletic department marketers and facilities for minor sports I'm indifferent to. I don't care if the TV contract is bigger. I do care that they've taken the OSU game and made it a cross-division game because they think maybe they'll get lucky once a decade and get a little more money. Football programs are not publicly traded corporations.
…but Brady says we will anyway. Hoke's opinion of where it's going:
"I think really in about three years you'll see four super conferences, and I think the Big East will go away and maybe the ACC. But look, I'm just a coach. I don't know all of it."
The Big East has essentially already gone away, but I'm not sure how you get to the superconferences in the west. The Pac-12 would need to add Boise State and… then who? It seems like the best shot was annihilating the Big 12, leaving the SEC to pick up some pieces. Now you're talking about truly ludicrous geographic fits or extreme reaches on the part of the Big 12 and Pac-12.
Organizational side note. In the above post, Ross steals a Dawg Sports idea and suggests the Big Ten toss divisions entirely and instead play a schedule featuring three permanent rivalry opponents (Michigan's are MSU, OSU, and Minnesota) and rotate the other five games annually. The obvious problem with that is the NCAA's purposeless regulation dictating that championship games can only occur when your conference has two divisions in which everyone plays a round-robin.
If the Big Ten can work around that, it's interesting. The permanent opponents are not quite equitable—Minnesota's permanent rivals are Wisconsin, Iowa, and Michigan; Northwestern's are Illinois, Indiana, and Purdue—but it would mean Michigan would see the other opponents 5/8ths of the time (3/4ths if there was a ninth game) instead of the current system of playing some of the teams all of the time and others 40% of the time.
In the end, you cannot solve the problem without more games, as the SEC is finding out now…
So this is what things have come to.
@schadjoe LSU AD Joe Alleva said if Alabama wants to play Tennessee every year it could schedule a non-conference game
I wonder if Missouri's AD still has the same rosy thoughts about how everyone in the SEC operates with the mindset of what's in the best interest of the league.
I can't speak for him, but if I still give a shit about college football in five years, I'll be amazed.
…your choices are not playing the games, not playing the cupcakes, or coming up with a weird dynamic scheduling system. The guys in charge are going with door #1 because their brains are wired to believe they've got a quarterly report due Tuesday.
"That's mighty big of Jim Tressel" …is the perfect Get The Picture response to this:
A year later, Jim Tressel has no ill will toward Ohio State
In other news, Mike Leach has no ill will towards bears.
This is not fluff? I really thought this article on Michigan's drop-in with the Navy SEALs was going to be fluffy fluff fluff but it's actually a detailed look at what went on that is worth a read. Example:
"Are you a better leader today than you were a year ago?" Harden asked.
About halfway through the players' answers, Wolverines quarterback Denard Robinson offered a surprising response.
"I feel like I haven't grown," Robinson said. "For me to be the quarterback at the University of Michigan, I feel like I have to grow up a lot and be a lot more accountable."
Also it seems like Michigan is taking advantage of a soon-to-be-closed loophole here, as Schlabach adds in a sidebar that…
Michigan football officials told ESPN.com that Big Ten Conference compliance officials cleared their football team's recent senior trip to California because it involved leadership and life skills, which is permissible under NCAA rules. The Wolverines paid for the trip through a special fund in the athletics department's operating budget.
…so okay at least some of the money is going towards life skilling the players.
BONUS! The ND series has taken a turn, hasn't it?
Crane, who is from Arizona and served three deployments to Iraq, admitted to the Wolverines that he's a Notre Dame fan.
"Unfortunately, my team is Notre Dame," Crane said. "You guys have hammered them over the years. I'll try not to take it out on you on Friday morning."
should have sent… a poet
You 14-year-olds have no idea how good you have it in re: ND. Not so much with the MSU. There's going to be a point four or five years in the future when the student body has an inexplicably strong hatred of MSU.
UPDATE! I still don't care about 2014 football recruiting.
Wat. Via Midnight Maize, you can own this:
Whatever it is.
Chesson! I'm totally spoiling the surprise on the MGoSleeper of the year by constantly talking about Jehu Chesson, but oh well. Meinke follows up with Chesson in the aftermath of his impressive track performances and gets this quote out of him:
"It could just be a placebo effect, but I feel I can break tackles better because I have a stronger core," he said.
This is an impressive level of introspection from a high school kid, one the other quotes reinforce. Fast, tall, smart, and wears cool shades: good package.
Etc.: The USA took it on the chin from Brazil last night but at least Clint Dempsey's bitch please face is operating at full capacity. A national treasure, Clint Dempsey. Buckeye fan tweets at LTT collected. Nick Saban gets snippy. Graham Watson wonders if bidding out the title game is a bad idea because it's tradition to get ripped off by useless dudes. Les Miles rages against the LSU-Florida crossover game.
The latest edition of NCAA lets you put Desmond Howard in an OSU uniform. In related news, this will be the fourth straight year I don't buy it. Derrick Walton highlights.


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- 1 "He had a quick academic career"
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- 7 horribly written
- 8 Time served in Prison
- 9 How did he plead?
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- 12 Some Modifications
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- 21 missing book
- 22 Assessment comment
- 23 Industrial Workers of the World?
- 24 Not Christian
- 25 External links modified
"He had a quick academic career"[edit]
Perhaps a "brief" academic career, but I suspect "career" here is a mistranslation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris k (talk • contribs) 19:14, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Removed Reference[edit]
I removed the reference to Negri organizing the Red Brigades because the footnote was unscholarly and biased
The article begins by saying that "Negri is perhaps best-known for his co-authorship of Empire and his work on Spinoza.". However, further on in the article, only one line mentions a possible (weak) tie between a (late) work by Negri (Time for Revolution) and Spinoza... To the best of my knowledge, professor Negri is famous for a) his political activities and b) a book on globalization. I see no evidence whatsoever in this article (or anywhere else) that Negri's work on Spinoza is significant. Even his work as a philosopher in general may be questionable -although I really can't elaborate on this. Any philosophers listening here? (In lack of competent contribution, I will modify the article incipit to make it sound realistic instead of merely hagiographic) Dpianelli 07:50, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- I think his work on Spinoza is reasonably significant (I would say it is his most significant work for an academic, rather than political, audience). His The Savage Anomoly and Subversive Spinoza are often cited as examples of (post-)Marxist interest in Spinoza (along with Etienne Balibar and Warren Montag). It might be good to add a section on his philosophy, including the Spinoza books, Insurgencies and a discussion of the philosophical background to Empire and Multitude. VoluntarySlave 06:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
- I completely concur with VoluntarySlave—Negri's work on Spinoza is indeed very significant among contemporary engagements with Spinoza. In response to Dpianelli's comments: Negri might be noteworthy for his activism and for his works (in the plural—he and Michael Hardt have written three books on globalization as of February 2007, when I write this), but he also is indeed one of the important Continental philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century. Job L 08:12, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
- If you think Negri's work on Spinoza is important, and can substantiate such belief via references and documentation, please go ahead. Just stating that he is "one of the important Continental philosophers of the latter half of the twentieth century" will take us nowhere near to a credible encyclopedia entry, I am afraid. Thanks Dpianelli 17:23, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
- I'll try and put together more references in order to start a section on Negri's philosophy, but, for the moment, here is Julie R Klein in Philosophy Today):
- Thinkers as central to contemporary continental conversations as Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze, Etienne Balibar, Pierre Macherey, and Antonio Negri, have all taken Spinoza as an important interlocutor.
- VoluntarySlave 19:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
- I'll try and put together more references in order to start a section on Negri's philosophy, but, for the moment, here is Julie R Klein in Philosophy Today):
Bibliographic entries[edit]
I recently tagged the final sections of the article—those providing bibliographic information on books and articles by and about Negri—as needing cleanup. I don't have the time myself to take this on right now, although I'll try to get to it soon if nobody else has time either. Specifically, these sections need, in my opinion, to be revised in the following ways:
- Style and content of entries should be consistent throughout all entries, in all the bibliographic sections. In other words, we should agree whether to separate bibliographic items (author, title, publisher, etc.) by commas or periods, whether to list the place of publication as well as the publisher, etc.
- ISBNs should be added wherever appropriate in order to honor the Wikipedia convention of providing library-style links to resources. (There's probably an official name for this convention, but I can't recall it right now—sorry.)
As I said, I'll try to get started on this soon, but as I'm a graduate student and the end of the semester is rapidly approaching, time is at a premium for me right now. Job L 18:22, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
References for quotations[edit]
References needed for the quotes:
--from Michel Foucault, "isn't he in jail simply for being an intellectual?"
--from John Reilly, "a postmodern plot to overthrow the City of God."
Steven McCrary 16:51, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
Toni Negri is operating on too high an intellectual level for labels like "postmodernism" to be relevant (certainly the influence of Foucault on his work is far too complicated for it to be a question of 'being postmodern,' whatever that means, or not. Does anyone have a source for his 'dismissal of postmodernism'? Mgasner 06:30, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
How is Negri's "intellectual level" "too high" for postmodernism to be a relevant category of analysis? On the contrary, Empire (co-authored with Michael Hardt) makes it clear that contemporary Empire (the authors' term for global sovereignty) is a postmodern phenomenon not to be confused with the nation-state sovereignty of modernity. Negri is not a "postmodernist" in the same sense that, say, Jean Baudrillard is, but he is a sort of postmodernist in that he analyzes globalization as occuring during the postmodern period.
The "dismissal of postmodernism" can be found in Empire, section 2.4 (pp. 137-56). Job L 22:46, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Removal of link to London Independent interview[edit]
I notice that someone (unfortunately, an unregistered user who gave no explanation for his or her editorial decision) has recently deleted the link to the "critical interview" with Negri published in the London Independent. Although I for one consider that interview to be in no way a fair assessment of Negri's work, I'm not sure that it deserves to be cut from the article. Any thoughts? Job L 06:25, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Someone has yet again removed the link to the Independent interview—and there is still no justification given for this editorial decision. If a consensus is reached regarding this interview, then and only then should it finally be removed. I have two questions for anyone interested in helping maintain the quality of this page:
1. What do other people think about including or omitting the link to the interview under question?
2. Why is this link continually removed? Would whoever keeps removing it please provide a rationale so that the rest of us can actually evaluate the decision to remove it? Job L 23:55, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
horribly written[edit]
Needs to be rewritten and cleaned up. Will see what I can do. --Valve 07:41, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
- update: Should be a bit better now that I have cleaned it up, albeit slightly. Still needs a ton of work.
I don't like the tone of this article. It is so laudatory that it could have been written By Mr Negri himself.
The article fails to give a clear idea about the charges held against Negri, about the climate of violence instigated by "Autonomia" in Italian society, and at Padova University in particular, and Negri's responsibilities in this regard.
The article does not explain why Negri was condemned to 17 years' imprisonment, and tries to give the impression that he was simply persecuted for being "an intellectual".giordaano126.96.36.199 15:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
"Potere Operaio disbanded in 1973 and gave rise to the Autonomia group."
Autonomia wasn't a group, so much as a network of groups. Potere Operaio didn't 'give rise' to Autonomia - that is to vastly overemphasise their importance at the time. It would be more accurate to say that "Potere Operaio dissolved into Autonomia in 1973."
"Antonio Negri was arrested along with the others leaders of Autonomia"
Autonomia was a deeply heterogenous network of organisations, and didn't have leaders.
As for the comments on his trial/violence, It would also be far too broad and historically innacurate to also tag 'autonomia' as a whole as 'instigating a climate of violence.'
I think the article gives 'the impression that Negri was persecuted' because this is what happened in his case. But some more details on this couldn't hurt.
Time served in Prison[edit]
- Moved from article
Wait, this [the 17 years he is said to have spent in jail] doesn't add up. I only get 6 years plus 3 or so previously served. How did he pack in 17 years into so short a timespan? (Author unknown)
How did he plead?[edit]
I see no note in the entry about how Negri pleaded in the charges against him. Did he admit any culpability? --Dialecticas 05:54, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Critiques of Empire[edit]
I have just tagged a statement that alludes rather vaguely to some critiques of Empire. The sentence needs to cite sources and, even better, to provide examples of the "activists and scholars" who critique the work. As the sentence stands right now, it implies that most or even all of the activists and scholars under question unanimously criticize Hardt and Negri. I can't speak for the activists that the sentence names, but as a scholar working in globalization studies I can attest that academics are by no stretch of the imagination universally dismissive of Hardt and Negri. On the contrary, although they are also not universally lauded, Hardt and Negri's Empire stands as a watershed event for critical globalization studies, at least within English departments and related fields. Job L 01:35, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Antonio Negri is considered, by a good part of the Italian political establishment and culture, as the prototype of the "cattivi maestri" (evil schoolmasters), i.e. those who, while not personally indulging in violent acts, encouraged and helped organizing the extreme left wing's recourse to political violence in the 60ies-70ies in Italy.
On a smaller scale,Padova University, and his University Institute in particular, became notorious for the rampages of "Autonomia", the beatings (including of Professors) and a general climate of violence and insecurity.
There is little or no trace of this in this article, which gives simply the impression that Negri was wrongly persecuted, for reasons difficult to explain (for being an intellectual - as Foucault apparently said ?)Giordaano 16:02, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
I changed some details. Once again, the article is still so laudatory that it seems written by Mr Negri himself, or by a close friendGiordaano 17:01, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Please, be serious. No one exiled Toni Negri. He fled to France in order to avoid having to sit his prison sentence.Giordaano 22:42, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Tazmaniacs is convinced that Negri was persecuted. That he went into "exile", then wrote while "in captivity", that his friends are "famous autonomists".
This is all extremely partial, and aims at glorifying Negri's figure. While Tazmaniacs is clearly an admirer of Negri, he should realize that his figure is controversial (to say the least), and that a more objective portrayal should be worked out.Giordaano 11:35, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- Please abstain yourself from claiming you know what I think, that would be so nice. I have reverted your edits, because you mixed them with removal of text which is unacceptable. Tazmaniacs
This Mr Giordaano seems to be just soaked with all the propaganda that was broadcast by the Italian media in the late 1970s and early 1980s and then re-used by the Italian right after Tangentopoli (1993)... Actually Negri never killed anyone nor was a member of any of the most famous leftist terrorist organizations, such as the Brigate Rosse. Negri was chosen as a scapegoat in 1979 in a moment when the Italian government seemed unable to meaningfully strike the Red Brigades after the assassination of Aldo Moro. I don't want to deny that there was a big problem of terrorism in Italy (both red and black, let's add), but targeting Negri and other Autonomia Operaia leaders can be now seen as no more than setting an example. But Mr Giordaano probably believes the old and new disinformation. All this blabbering about Evil Teachers (cattivi maestri) is absolutely ludicrous, and smell of the old Catholic frame of mind, which can't come to terms with the idea of freedom of speech and opinion... the Inquisition is still there, in the mind of those people. One might also add that many Brigate Rosse members, who actually killed people, are out of jail now, having acted as stool pigeons, and nobody talks about them, while Negri is still presented as the political bugbear by the Italian right (Forza Italia, Lega, Alleanza Nazionale).--22.214.171.124 (talk) 12:05, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Some Modifications[edit]
1) I've changed the title of Autonomia to it's full name and translation - Autonomia Operaia Organizzata (Organised Workers' Autonomy), although there are a number of variations of this name, including Workers' Autonomy and Working-class Autonomy, and I've swapped the word 'group' for 'movement' (see below).
2) I strongly agree with the comment suggesting that the reference to Negri et al as "leaders" of the Aut.Op movement is misleading. This isn't simply a matter of opinion, but was an important point raised during the trial. The assertion of the prosecution was indeed that Negri and others arrested at the time constituted a form of leadership for the Aut.Op movement, whilst the response of the defence was that this was contradictory to its diffuse, composite nature (a view supported by Padova Committals Judge Palombarini). Therefore, to refer to Negri and others as "leaders" is to treat the original prosecution assertions as established fact. On this basis I've changed the article to read "along with other prominent figures associated with the Autonomy movement".
3) I've changed the names of those arrested to their full names, and added a few that were not included. The article wrongly states that Franco Piperno was arrested during these initial arrests, thus his name has been removed. (My source for this information is a publication prepared during the earlier portion of the trials by the Italy '79 Committee and The Committee Against Repression in Italy.)
4) As the article says, the first judge assigned to the case was Pietro Calogero. I've altered this to his full title, Padova Public Prosecutor Dr. Pietro Calogero. The article also states that Calogero was "close to the PCI" - I've altered this to "who was close to the Affairs of State office of the PCI, which was involved in power-sharing in government at the time in an arrangement known as "The Historic Compromise")." I think this makes better sense of the reference to the PCI.
5) I've altered the phrase regarding Calogero's accustations to read "accused those involved in the Autonomia movement of being the political wing of the Red Brigades and thus behind left-wing "terrorism" in Italy," because I think this is a more accurate description of the charges brought against Negri and others, (according to the above cited document).
6) I've capitalised the title "Anni di Piombo" and changed the translation to 'Years of Lead', since this is the translation most commonly used in all the documentation I've seen (as well as the fact that this is a more literal translation). This needs to link to the pertinent Wikipedia entry, but I don't know how to do this.
7) With regard to the above comments suggesting that the article is unfairly favourable to Negri, and the attendant criticisms, some sources need to be cited to support this view and any related assertions. (It is true that Negri was widely attacked by the Italian press and media, a point in fact raised by some material, with the counter-criticism that the press, as well as being predisposed to negative views of figures proclaiming revolutionary objectives, was influenced by either the PCI or the P2 lodge.) On this basis it might then be possible to include a section of criticisms. In short, if you believe the article omits pertinent facts, provide them along with direct citations of sources.
8) With regard to the query concerning Negri's plea, the obvious question is "To which charges?" The nature of the trials surrounding Negri and others arrested at the time was long-winded and protracted, with charges often being dropped, reinstated, and replaced with alternatives over the entire period from 1979 until the late 1980s, with this, along with the sheer period of time for which suspects could and were being held without trial, being one of the 'irregularities' to which Amnesty's attention had been drawn. During this entire period the range of charges against Negri included: constituting strategic leadership of the Red Brigades, direct participation in the killing of Aldo Moro, (at one point it was claimed that the voice in a phone call from kidnappers during the Moro crisis was that of Negri), that Potere Operaio constituted an 'armed band', formal leadership of Autonomia Operaia Organizzata, which it was claimed functioned as the 'political wing' of the Red Brigades, and 'armed insurrection against the powers of the state'. In addition, the defendants arrested in April 1979 were accused of the theft of one painting, the theft of a pistol, embezzlement of a 50,000 lire note, theft of a collection of stamps, theft of cars and receiving stolen goods, and involvement in four bombings in Rome in 1972, and a fire at a warehouse in Milan in 1974. As far as I can gather from documents I obtained a few years ago from a site dedicated to gaining amnesty for Negri, Negri was ultimately convicted in absentia of one charge, and he appealed against the charges. Negri and co-defendants were ultimately acquitted (in the case of Negri, in absentia) of the charges of 'armed insurrection against the powers of the state', (this article refers to this charge as 'association and insurrection against the state'), whilst Negri's final sentence, the one which he returned to Italy to serve the remainder of, was, apparently, 13 years for 'membership in an armed band' (although this article says 17 years and doesn't state the final charge).
9) Finally, I added a reference to an extract from Empire at Marxists.org to the links to articles by Negri.
As a footnote, I am in possession of the digitised text of a document prepared and circulated by The Italy '79 Committee (London) and the Committee Against Repression in Italy (New York) with the aim of generating awareness of and support for those arrested and awaiting trial at the time. If a more experienced user (since I don't know how) could take reciept of the text and submit it to Wikisource, it would make a valuable addition in this context, because it essentially details the complex affair from the defense point of view, at least during the earlier portion of the trials. If anyone is interested in doing this, please e-mail me firstname.lastname@example.com. LSmok3 23:00, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
I've expanded the reference to Amnesty International's interest in the case so that it specifies some of their concerns, and added a reference to the relevent Amnesty Reports.
Also added a couple of pertinent quotes, although I got them from extracts from the book in question and therefore lack the relevant page numbers.
With regard to the above suggestion regarding the bibliography, I've cleared up the section covering books on Negri and the external links, italicising the titles and moving the years of publication to the end. Personally I've never seen a bibliography that lists years of publication first, but if anyone seriously disgrees they're welcome to move them back to the start. This also matches the Books in English and Articles sections. With regard to providing an ISBN library ref. for the titles, I don't know how to do this, but if the titles in question are still in print it should be easy to accomplish using Google or Amazon. On the same subject, I was wondering why the bibliography only lists titles by Negri in English? The majority of Negri's published output is in Italian or French. Again, looking at the Wikipedia entry for Autonomism, it might be fairer to expand this to include non-Enlgish texts, with the language of the text listed before the title. I have a full definitive list of publications by Negri up until about 1999 if that helps.LSmok3 23:03, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Negri and postmodernism[edit]
I took out the "although" that preceded this:
"He acknowledges the influence of Michel Foucault, David Harvey's The Condition of Postmodernity (1989), Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) and Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari's Capitalism and Schizophrenia."
The implication was that "even though" he was influenced by Foucault, Harvey, Jameson, and Deleuze, he was a fierce critic of postmodernism nonetheless.
But none of these authors are "postmodernists" either.
Rholifi 04:35, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
Is this page apologetic ?[edit]
This page, as it is, seems written by a Negri enthusiast. The tonality is apologetic. It's not an encyclopedia article. It should be rewritten by someone who has the knowledge, the time and the will to do it.Giordaano (talk) 10:16, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Such a comment is highly remarkable. There has been a defamation campaign against Negri since his arrest in 1979. There has also been a campaign to defend Negri and his image. As usual in Italy, there are those in favor of Negri and those who still believe he is the Grande Vecchio behind the Brigate Rosse or something like that, a sort of sophisticated arch-villain who is responsible for all the horrible things that took place in Italy in the 1970s. Obviously both sides are prone to oversimplification and demonization of those who have a different opinion. Hence the deletion of all the things that are in the Wikipedia entry that they don't like, regardless of their truthfulness. Probably these people have swallowed all the Italian media have repeatedly said on Negri (most of which is no more than deliberate character-killing), and aren't really interested in knowing who is Negri and what he really said. Maybe this entry should be protected, so that such actions may be prevented.--18.104.22.168 (talk) 14:28, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
- The comment by our friend 22.214.171.124 is very typical. It should probably be protected.
- It treats the criticism of Negri's political and moral role by Italian media and political forces as completely negligible (including internationally respected media such as Corriere della Sera, Repubblica, La Stampa etc.
- In this view, critics are but gullible people who have swallowed the 'deliberate character-killing" operated against Negri.
Dear Giordaano,
if you want to prove your accusations to Negri--and maybe include them in the entry--you should substantiate them by quoting reliable sources. In a previous message you said that this entry "should be rewritten by someone who has the knowledge, the time and the will to do it." Do you have the knowledge, the time and the will? Well, why don't you do it? You're simply saying that it's all wrong, but so far you haven't clearly said what is wrong and what should be the correct information. What's wrong with Negri? You keep saying that Italian newspapers have said there is something wrong with him, but you do not say what. Your comments are rather vague, and I don't think they will persuade anyone if you keep them so. In another comment you wrote:
"Antonio Negri is considered, by a good part of the Italian political establishment and culture, as the prototype of the "cattivi maestri"".
Well, this is what I find vague. A good part of the Italian political establishment and culture? Who? Can you quote someone? He's considered the prototype of the "bad teachers" (cativi maestri); but by who? And what does that mean? Maybe the phrase you used is clear to an Italian, but you have to understand that the readers of the Wikipedia can be people who anre not knowledgeable with Italian politics and history. All in all, it is clear you disapprove of Negri, but so far you have not stated why; no wonder nobody's going to change the entry.--James.kerans (talk) 08:15, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Nobody's going to change the entry simply because nobody cares.
Sorry, I don't have the time and the will to do it myself, or I would quote the relevant media (newspapers and books): to almost completely ignore the debate in Italy around the political and moral figure of Negri is absurd.
Once again, as it is, the article is hagiographic.Giordaano (talk) 14:03, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
More than one year after, the article is still in its sorry state. So, must I really drink this bitter chalice ? do I really have to do this ? do I have to get involved in editing it ?
Having to read Negri's works to any serious extent is worse than being sentenced to a serious flogging. And yet, it seems I will have to do it...
OK, but after summer vacations, in any case Giordaano (talk) 15:14, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Inline citations/references[edit]
It's been some time since I last looked at this page. All seems in order with comparatively little in the way of major changes. However, there is clearly an issue with regard to the proper use of inline citations; most of the major body of the text lacks any citations at all, and for some bizarre reason refs 7 to 22 are all gathered together near the end of the Political Thought and Writings section, although it is not remotely clear why. I took a look at the history of the page edits but was unable to discern who was responsble for the refs ending up collected together like this, or when. Clearly something needs to be done about this, all the more so since the article is in the Bio. of Living Persons cat. This would entail citing the general content properly (ie. revising the content with proper citations), as well as providing meaningful content to reflect the refs that have been jammed on to the end of one section (a reading of the sentence in question fails to provide real clues as to the relevance of the references). I don't have time to do it myself right now, but perhaps a regular contributor wouldn't mind taking a look at the problem? LSmok3 (talk) 16:29, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
- What precisely needs to be done to clean that up. I noticed it, too. That cluster of references is highly conspicuous.--Zujine (talk) 14:42, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
No one has time[edit]
Yes, we all criticize, but no one has time to amend this sorry article. In Italian, we say "armiamoci e partite" (let's take up arms, so you can go to war)
Of course, this attitude (of which I am as guilty as everyone else) is perfectly at its place, on a page dedicated to Toni Negri.Giordaano (talk) 15:25, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
- Actually, one thing occurs to me is the difference in how Negri's actions and trial are discussed in the article and how they are discussed here: http://22.214.171.124/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9048. It takes Keith Windschuttle far less words to give a much clearer narrative of what happened. I will update the article to more closely reflect this explanation. —Zujine|talk 03:20, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Source issues[edit]
We need sources for the claim that he was cleared of any links with the Red Brigades. I'm going to restore the sourced material that stated this connection and await something saying that he had no connection - preferably from a good source. And I am going to delete, in the body of the article, the numerous unsourced claims about this, which have had fact tags on them for a while now. —Zujine|talk 12:47, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
- Please pardon me, I had not seen the update with source. Allow me to check that source. If there are contradictions among sources, the different views should be noted. —Zujine|talk 13:25, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
- Regarding the Portelli source, I think it is not a complete characterisation to merely say that Negri was cleared of all links with the BR. The relevant part appears to be on p. 6:
An American specialist in voice identification, appointed by the court, testified that the voice on the Red Brigades' phone call was indeed Negri's. However, a few months later an actual leader of the Red Brigades, Patrizio Peci, was arrested and decided to cooperate with the prosecution. Negri, he said, had nothing to do with the Red Brigades; the voice on that famous phone call belonged to somebody else.
- Here we have the testimony of a voice specialist against one of Negri's putative co-conspirators. The controversy should be briefly mentioned in the lead, and the bones of the dispute clearly stated in the body, IMO. —Zujine|talk 13:37, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Sources to refer to[edit]
Here are some articles that may be referred to. If people have others, that would be great too. —Zujine|talk 14:25, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
- Pacepa, Ion Mihai. "Bolton's Bravery", National Review, June 16, 2005
- The Independent, "Antonio Negri: The nostalgic revolutionary", Tuesday, 17 August 2004
- Pryce-Jones, David. "Evil Empire", National Review, September 17, 2001 issue
- Anderson, Brian C. "Brothers in Marx", The Wall Street Journal, October 7, 2009
- Kimball, Roger. "The new anti-Americanism", The New Criterion, October 2001
Conspiration Theory[edit]
Philip Willan's book Puppetmasters (google books), an interesting conspiration theory, has some twenty pages mentioning Negri , from pages 183ff./This really is fascinating stuff and surely not to be dismissed out of hand. And there really were close connections between Potere Operaio and the Red Brigades: it:Valerio Morucci and Primavalle Fire.--Radh (talk) 08:21, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
- Great, I will look into this text. Appreciate the notice. —Zujine|talk 14:34, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
- Do you know of any other good texts like this? —Zujine|talk 15:49, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
- No, sorry, not yet, but will have a look. the German WP entries for de:Potere operaio and de:Rote Brigaden have tons of references, but mostly in German and Italian.
- The Semiotext(e) number on Autonomista (Semiotext(e), Vol. 3, No. 3, 1980, it seems) might be interesting; but I have not seen it myself.
- Interesting essay by Richard Drake (and his book on the BR - also on googel books - looks good) in a collection by Leonard Weinberg: Political Parties....
- The New York Review of Books published a very good review of Empire by Alexander Stille (NYRB archive linked to in his WP article/restricted/but Stille's available letter to Negri alone is interesting).--Radh (talk) 11:49, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
- Do you know of any other good texts like this? —Zujine|talk 15:49, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
- Appreciated. I will look through them in time. —Zujine|talk 14:36, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Unused refs here for reference[edit]
I removed all these from the article. They're here for whoever cares to make use of them. —Zujine|talk 14:35, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
- ^ Toni Negri in perspective by Alex Callinicos, 2001.
- ^ Statement by Antonio Negri - broken link 2006-10-15 in refutation of the allegations made against him by Keith Windschuttle in The Australian, 16th March 2005.
- ^ Italy: Behind the Ski Mask, in New York Review of Books, Volume 26, Number 13 ? August 16, 1979.
- ^ The Empire Does Not Exist: A critique of Toni Negri's ideas by Pietro Di Nardo, 2003.
- ^ Negri resources at generation-online
- ^ "Autonomist Marxism and the Information Society" by Nick Dyer-Witheford in Multitudes, June 3, 2004.
- ^ Persian Empire: Antonio Negri in Iran by Nina Power, in Radical Philosophy, 2005.
- ^ Recycling Marx: Autonomism and The Rejection of Orthodoxy, 2005.
- ^ BARBARIANS: the disordered insurgence by Crisso and Odoteo.
- ^ Force, Relation, Resistance, Constituent Power and the Potential For Another World, 2005.
- ^ Empire built on shifting sand Critical review of recent English language works by and about Antonio Negri, by Joseph Choonara, 2006.
- ^ Naked Punch Review Interview with Antonio Negri discussing its recent take on his theory of Empire.
- ^ Picture of Negri
- ^ "N" de Negri (in Spanish)
- ^ Antonio Negri, A Revolt That Never Ends
Hi Zujine
it is great that some serious work on this article is finally being done.Congratulations. I will try to give some contributions
By the way, why exactly did you remove the references to all those articles about Negri from the main page ? most of them are quite useful.Giordaano (talk) 11:01, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
- Hi. Because they were just in a big long line. They were not used for their information, but just sitting there. If someone wants to incorporate some of the information found on those links, they can go right ahead. I will do that too, in time. I just didn't think it looked good having a long string of references for no reason. —Zujine|talk 06:12, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
missing book[edit]
Factory of Strategy, 33 lessons on lenin missing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 12:18, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
Assessment comment[edit]
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|In my opinion this article is not really consistent with POV rules, because it celebrates Negri, and it doesn't respect the true nature of the live and the thought of this important representative of contemporary communism.
Negri is an important (and quite consistent) Marxist philosopher and his biography should have to explain his personal role in the creation of a revolutionary Italian organization pushing many people to fight Italian institutions and to become communist fighters. If Negri is a realist (as all the marxists have to be), he has to accept the reaction of the "bourgeois" State against this proletarian attack. If we describe him as an innocent victim of a mistake (bad judges, corrupted parties, and so on: the phrase of Foucaul aims to suggest this idea)), we finally deny the nature of his personal engagement to realize (also with the violence) a socialist world.
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Industrial Workers of the World?[edit]
Why is this page linked to the IWW category (Category:Industrial Workers of the World)? Shouldn't this be removed? Besides some mention of the IWW in his works, there isn't a clear connection between Negri and the organization to my knowledge. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joeyvandernaald (talk • contribs) 14:17, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
Not Christian[edit]
I'm not sure how Negri got included in Category:Catholic socialists, Category:Italian Christian socialists, and Template:Social Christianity, but Antonio Negri does not identify as a Christian and rejects any transcendent power.[1] I am removing him from these Categories and template. Sondra.kinsey (talk) 17:46, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
- ^ Hardt, M.; Negri, A. (2008). "Afterword". In Benson, B.E.; Heltzel, P.G. Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo. Baker Publishing Group. p. 307,311. ISBN 978-1-4412-0189-8. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
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Shukla said board president N. Srinivasan presided when issues like signing of the annual report and accounts and other technical issues came up while interim chief Jagmohan Dalmiya presided over rest of the meeting.
"Dalmiya will also continue to look after the day-to-day affairs of the board till September 29," added Shukla.
Cricinfo reported that Srinivasan had one-on-one meetings with nearly all the committee members in a bid to stake a claim for a one-year extension as the BCCI president. Srinivasan also declared on Sunday that he will chair the AGM. "I will chair the Annual General Meeting," Srinivasan told reporters while leaving the hotel that hosted Sunday's meeting.
Srinivasan has been under fire from many quarters, chiefly for a slump in Indian cricket, corruption in the IPL and his own son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan being arrested for cricket betting. But he continues to defy suggestions that he is in trouble.
"I was always relieved. I really don't understand what the problem is. Did I do anything wrong? Was there any accusation or any case against me?" Srinivasan said today.
As a spot-fixing scandal threatened to swallow Indian cricket whole this summer, Srinivasan refused to resign from his multiple administrative posts. He later "stepped aside" to let former president and a political foe Jagmohan Dalmiya to run the board for the duration of the probe into the corruption scandal.
It was also decided at today's meeting that the disciplinary committee would consider the observations made by Ravi Sawani about the spot-fixing scandal. The media statement didn't say when this would happen.
The BCCI during the working committee meeting have also announced steps to curb corruption during the upcoming Champions League T20. In their media statement, the BCCI said:
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