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would you buy a panini press
I had the world's most incredible grilled cheese and veggie sandwich the other day. Obviously made in a panini press.
Is this a worthwhile purchase or is it one of those single use items that will just take up space in a condo kitchen?
Now if you do love your panini press, could you recommend a brand or model to me?
I was looking at these a few months ago, and, although I can't remember any brands, there were some that were "multi-taskers" - they could flip open and be used as pancake/egg griddles, and some even add waffle type surfaces. I didn't end up buying anything, but there are options if you're willing to investigate.
I have a Delonghi panini grill and we use it constantly. In addition to sandwiches, we will also brush garlic infused olive oil on bread and grill that by itself. It makes great bread sticks and croutons. I would give up many things before I'd give up that grill. AND mine was probabl no more than $40. No need for the $100 ones.
I've definitely given a panini machine as a gift that's still(years later) raved about.
In my home I use my grill pan w/ my tea kettle sitting on top. Works great.
I have a large (covers two burners) cast iron grill (grill on one side, griddle on the other), and I use it and a heavy cast iron bacon press to make panini sandwiches. I can't afford the space that a stand-alone panini press requires. Besides, I've had some very happy accidents result from my method. An avocado slice fell out of a sandwich I was turning one day, and who knew grilled avocados taste great? Charred grill marks and all. That would never have happened with a panini press!
re: Caroline1
I do the same, use the cover from my cast-iron Dutch oven. But I've been wanting one of the multi-use ones for a while (I just love small appliances). Maybe if they go on sale for the holidays.....
I got a Villaware panini press as a gift a couple of years ago and I really love it. I don't use it all that much, but it's a welcome addition to my menagerie of appliances. In addition to sandwiches, I've grilled chicken breasts and pork cutlets.
BTW, you might want to try the Cookware board as well.
re: nofunlatte
I was given a Le Creuset grill pan a few years ago, plus a heavy lid piece that also has the grill marks. Believe it or not, I haven't yet used it, but am thinking about hauling it out this week to try my hand at panini. The good this about the pan and lid version is that without the lid, it's just a standard heavy grill pan. If you're concerned that you won't use a panini maker enough to justify its purchase, at least the grill pan will vastly increase the odds that it will get use, even if not for panini. The fact that I haven't used mine has more to do with the fact that it got buried in a low cupboard with pull-out drawers, than any other reason. A lot of my gadgets easily become out of sight, out of mind ... but that's just me.
I have a Cuisinart Griddler that functions as a grill and a panini press, like the multitasker that FrankD describes. I actually use it more as a grill than a press. it does a good job of cooking things like chicken breasts and chops because it cooks them at a high heat from below and above at the same time so they come out still juicy. It has a Panini-style handle so the top sits flat on top of whatever you're cooking. The cooking plates come out for cleaning and they're interchangeable. I seem to remember getting it on sale at Kohls for just under $100.
My kitchen is large but unfortunately without a large amount of counter or storage space so anything I buy has to earn its keep. A panini press would come under the same heading as those baffling gadgets like s'mores makers, hot dog cookers, frozen drink whirlers, quesadilla grills and so on.
re: mandycat
We've had a Griddler for four years now, and I love it. We have a small kitchen with limited storage space, so we don't have room for something that we would only use occasionally or has limited purpose. For us, the Griddler has been a keeper.
re: bayoucook
that's the one, bayoucook!
re: bayoucook
Oh, the little joys in life! I just looked at the site and will be going back later. I LOVE PANINI.
re: mattwarner
I have found it to be a useful electric.. you can even spatchcock and grill a game hen in one of the things..
re: mattwarner
We were given a George Foreman a few years back and use it mostly for sandwiches. Works great.
re: mojoeater
I already had a LeCreuset ridged grill pan that does well making panini (one side at a time, of course-with a little weight on top). Otherwise, I'd consider some kind of panini/grill.
I had similar questions to yours two years ago. It took me a while to make a decision.
Here is the first thread I posted and advice I received. I think the info is still pretty current.
I forgot to go back and post about in that thread what I ended up doing, but I did post in this thread, which I think also has useful info:
So, 18 months or so after purchase, I/we still use the panini press several times a week, not only for panini, but also for things like grilled bread slices, and quesadillas. The inexpensive Cuisinart model we bought is still functioning well. It is so easy to use and clean that sometimes I do wish I had the kind with both ridged and smooth plates. Mine has fixed plates with ridges. I thought I would keep using cast iron pans for grilled sandwiches when I didn't want ridges. Instead I've pretty much switched to making grilled cheese sandwiches in the panini maker.
Before we moved into our current house with a much larger kitchen, we were in a condo with a very small kitchen. Putting myself back in that situation, I think I would still buy a panini press, but I would look for one with an upright locking mechanism so that it would take up less space on the counter. We use it often enough that it does live out on a counter.
Hope this is useful to you, -sou
I have the smaller Cuisinart panini press, bought because it was on sale for only about $40 a while back. Yes, it's pretty much a uni-tasker, but it does what it does VERY well, is easy to clean, really grills (unlike those stupid George Foreman things; that one is in the basement gathering dust) and folds up nicely and stores in about four inches of shelf space, on its side.
I have a Cuisinart panini press and love it. Made tomato, basil, and mozzarella panini all summer long. Now moving in to more fall like sandwiches. I have a fair amount of cabinet space, but there are a lot of other things I would probably give up first.
I have a small kitchen. After my toaster oven died (a Delonghi) I ended up buying a regular toaster, and Breville panini grill. Neither is direct replacement, but, 4 or 5 yrs later I still haven't bought a replacement oven.
While I don't use the Breville a whole lot these days, it does not take up much space. It stands on end at the back of a counter under a cabinet. It's not indispensable, but I don't regret spending the money.
I have two square grill pans, which I use for other things, that both have separate panini presses, actually ridged grill presses. If you think you will use an electric panini maker a lot, go for it. I hear they are pretty fool proof. If you want to try a manual stovetop press, you can learn to do it easily.
The first time I tried to use a grill pan and press, I burned the bread. I learned that you need to have the sandwich assembled before you put it in the pan. The pan was too hot, and I left the bottom of the bread on too long. Also, the press needs to be heated thoroughly, so it needs to go in the pan while the pan is heating. Have a good place to rest the hot press while you are putting the assembled sandwiches in, and work quickly. Use low heat. Low and slow is the way to go. You will ruin one or two until you get the technique down. You can even flip the sandwich, although that is supposedly not needed. If you can get this down, you won't have another countertop appliance to deal with, and you;ll have a great way to cook other foods stovetop. When not making panini, the grill press helps when you are doing any kind of stovetop grilling by increasing contact with the cooking surfaces.
I don't think I will buy a machine because I can now do it manually, Manual is one of those things that seemed simple, yet it was just a little tougher to do with the right technique when I tried it. Once learned, it was very easy and predictable.
re: alkapal
I don't have a panini grill but do have a large GF that get's little use. I would be hesitant to ever buy a panini grill for the same reason. If I want to do paninis the GF will sub niecly.
I love paninis, but I received a panini press as a gift a couple of years ago and I tell you, it's the bane of my existence. It's heavy and unwieldy. I just don't see why I can't just use a grill pan and something heavy, say, a cast iron skillet with a weight in it instead of the expensive special purpose pan+ weight.
I've pleaded with my husband to let me give the monster to Goodwill but he feels sentimental about it because it was a gift.
Gift, schmift, I want it out of my kitchen.
re: The Dairy Queen
Mine was only about $30-40 if I remember correctly and we use it several times a week, sometimes even a couple of times a day. Right now we're heating some soup and will toast sourdough with olive oil on the panini, cut into one inch slices for dunking. But if I didn't feel that way, it would get the heave-ho. Put it under your husband's side of the bed :)
re: c oliver
I probably should have mentioned also that the following 3 items live on top of my stove: a cast iron skillet, a burner-top cast iron griddle/grill pan, a tea kettle. If I want to make a panini, I just flip the burner-top thing to the grill side, plop the panini down, put the cast iron pan on top, and if I want even more weight, kettle filled with water, in the cast iron Not as elegant for sure, but everything I need is right there all the time, without having to dig under my cabinet. The only "extra" step is filling the kettle with water, although, it usually seems to have water in it.
coliver, I like the way you think, except that I worry about all of the things that I'm sentimental about that my husband has been begging me to discard might appear under my side of the bed the next morning. And believe me, he's a tolerant man, so, it would be a giant pile~ ;-).
By the way, I love this burner top griddle/grill thingie. You can't fit much on it, but I probably use it twice a day to heat up tortillas, roasted potatoes, Canadian bacon, polenta, make pancakes, make grilled cheese, you name it. I love it.
re: The Dairy Queen
Guess I'm lucky, and break the gender stereotype mold, because I'm more inclined to give the heave-ho and my husband is the keeper of most things. How about a picture of you "burner top griddle/grill thingie"?
re: c oliver
Scroll down to the one called "Lodge Logic Single Burner Reversible Griddle, 10-1/2 inch Square, Pre-Seasoned" http://www.castirondepot.com/page/gri...
It fits perfectly over the one of the back burners over our gas stove.
re: The Dairy Queen
These has my interest for an entirely different reason. Do you think I could cook a steak on this? If I got it really, really hot? There are times when I don't have access to an outdoor grille and had looked out indoor ones. The only one that comes close to hot enough, still under 500 degrees, is an All-Clad one and it $300. I just can't justify that. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.
re: c oliver
Yikes, $300! Hmmm...I was wondering what we were going to have for dinner tonight. Maybe we'll try steak on this griddle thing and report back. :) It gets pretty darn hot, and it heats pretty evenly, but my guess is it depends on how big and hot your gas burner is. We keep it on our back burner (to be out of the way), but if I were going to try steak on it, I'd move it to one of the bigger, front burners.
I shall report back.
re: The Dairy Queen
Excellent. I posted about this recently and got the advice about using a cast iron skillet and getting it smoking hot. The lodge thingy (I spell it with a Y!) sounds really good. Will look forward to your report, ma'am.
re: c oliver
So, here's the deal, as an indoor solution for cooking steaks, this reversible griddle it works pretty well if you like your steaks thick and seared on the outside, but v. rare inside. We don't like ours quite that rare so we finished them off under the broiler. But they looked beautiful with pronounced griddle lines and were super juicy. You could buy thinner steaks and have them turn out less rare without having to broil. Ours were an inch thick.
Oh, and it does generate a lot of smoke, so, if you don't have a hood fan, or if you have a sensitive smoke alarm, it could be problematic.
Too tired to take photos. Sorry about that. Hope this helps! My husband was delighted at having to sacrifice one meal to chowhounding/science, especially since I didn't insist he wait to eat while I photographed, like I do during COTM.
re: The Dairy Queen
Oh, TDQ, that's excellent! Thanks for the "sacrifice." We actually like steaks practically still breathing :) And $60 is WAY better than $300!!!! I SHALL be getting one. Yay! THIS is the kind of things I really value about Chowhound. Thanks again.
PS: Now I wonder about other meats :)
re: The Dairy Queen
It's supposed to be heavy, it applies pressure as well as heat. I'm not sure what's unwieldly about something that essentially has a single moving part. In any case, my wife and I stepped into a cafe in London to get out of the rain and I had a brie and fresh basil panini that I had to replicate when we returned home. I bought a Breville panini machine and since then I've made dozens of variations and also use it for very quick quesadillas. It's one of my favorite appliances.
re: ferret
You are absolutely right, it does apply weight. That's why I think my cast iron pan + tea kettle full of water that already live on my stovetop work just fine.
What makes it difficult to deal with (ie., what makes it unwieldy) is that it's this very heavy thing with a long skinny handle that has to be stored in a cabinet somewhere because I don't have room on my stove. I'm personally not strong enough to pull it out of the cupboard one handed, so, I have to get on both knees, crawl into the cupboard, and drag it out using both hands.
re: The Dairy Queen
Fair enough, mine stands on end (like a tall chrome purse) so it easily sits in a lower cabinet and can be pulled out as needed. The obvious advantage is that you get the same degree of doneness on both sides in one action. Depending on what I'm grilling I can fit 2 or 3 sandwiches on it and be done in under 5 minutes rather than the 10-15 it might take on the stove.
re: ferret
That tall chrome purse set-up sounds more practical than mine. I think it sounds like you have an electric one and I have the classic pan+press?
That's a neat trick that you can make a lot of panini at one time, which would be good if you had a lot of people to serve. We're a small household with limited storage, so, we don't find it that useful, especially since we have a work-around.
I guess if you made a lot of sandwiches, made them often, had lots of storage, or just a practical space-efficient panini maker, and didn't have a convenient work-around, it would make good sense.
I have the feeling this is just really going to depend on your particular situation.
This is the one we have http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/produ...
re: The Dairy Queen
What's a "work-around"???
re: c oliver
A work-around, meaning, some other way to solve the panini problem.
P.S. I hope you like your grill pan!
re: The Dairy Queen
Aha! I thought this was some piece of equipment I was actually missing, god forbid :)
re: The Dairy Queen
This is the Breville 'chrome purse' that BBB carries
Mine is an earlier model with similar specs. It stands neatly on the back end, with the cord stored in the base. I like the height control feature.


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"It's been nice," Dempster said of the spring. "Comes from making quality pitches. I'm feeling good and I'll keep building."
Dempster, 35, came up in the Marlins' organization and pitched for the Sea Dogs in 1998, going 4-3 (3.22 ERA) in seven starts.
DANIEL BARD was the third Boston pitcher in the game, following a 1-2-3 sixth by Junichi Tazawa. Bard allowed three runs in the seventh on two hits, a walk, a hit-batter and a balk.
"I made adjustments," Bard said, "but it was a little too late."
Farrell said the cure for Bard is simple. "It's a matter of executing right from the start."
With Bard having an option to the minors, he is still a candidate to begin the season in Pawtucket.
WILL MIDDLEBROOKS paced the Boston regulars with two hits, including a double, to improve his spring average to .313. Most of the offense came from the subs, who scored six runs in the eighth inning to tie the game 7-7. Jackie Bradley Jr. (.439) had one of the hits.
BALTIMORE WON the game 8-7 on Danny Valencia's ninth-inning home run off Salem, N.H.'s Terry Doyle. Valencia was with Boston for the last two months of last season.
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"It was just some homeless guy. He was just looking for some clothes, that's all," said Sullivan.
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Posted: 03/12/2010 - Wayne Chism had 16 points and 15 rebounds as No. 15 Tennessee beat Mississippi 76-65 in the Southeastern Conference tournament quarterfinals on Friday.
Posted: 03/12/2010 - John Wall had 23 points, including seven straight in the second half to give the Wildcats the lead for good, and No. 2 Kentucky overcame an 11-point deficit Friday in beating Alabama 73-67 in the Southeastern Conference tournament quarterfinals.
Updated: 03/15/2010 - Auburn has fired Jeff Lebo after six seasons, five of them losing campaigns.
Updated: 03/11/2010 - Alex Tyus scored 24 points, and Florida snapped a three-game skid by beating Auburn 78-69 Thursday night in the opening round of the Southeastern Conference tournament.
Updated: 03/11/2010 - Mikhail Torrance's 9-foot jumper broke a tie at 62 with 57 seconds left, and Alabama rallied from an 18-point deficit in the second half to beat South Carolina 68-63 Thursday in the opening round of the Southeastern Conference tournament.
Updated: 03/11/2010 - Wayne Chism had 17 points and 10 rebounds and No. 15 Tennessee overcame its worst first half of the season to beat LSU 59-49 in the first round of the Southeastern Conference on Thursday.
Updated: 03/10/2010 - The Alabama basketball team opens the SEC Tournament Thursday in Nashville. The Tide will face South Carolina, a team they just beat last week in Columbia. The Tide and Gamecocks open play at Noon at the Bridgestone Arena.
Updated: 03/10/2010 - The Auburn Tigers draw the Florida Gators in the first round. This is a rematch of last year's round one game, Auburn won that one.
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Updated: 03/04/2010 - Alli Smalley scored a career-high 29 points and Auburn overcame KeKe Carrier's foul trouble to beat Florida 74-61 on Thursday in the first round of the SEC tournament.
Posted: 03/03/2010 - John Wall had 24 points and No. 3 Kentucky clinched at least a share of the Southeastern Conference regular-season championship by beating Georgia 80-68 on Wednesday night.
Posted: 03/03/2010 - Scotty Hopson scored 15 points to lead No. 16 Tennessee to an 80-73 win over Arkansas on Wednesday night.
Updated: 03/03/2010 - Justin Knox and Mikhail Torrance each had 17 points and Alabama, playing without leading scorer JaMychal Green, spoiled Devan Downey's final South Carolina home game with a 79-70 victory Wednesday night.
Updated: 03/03/2010 - Tay Waller scored 22 points and Brendon Knox had 21 to lead Auburn to an 89-80 win over Mississippi State on Wednesday night.
Posted: 03/02/2010 - John Jenkins scored 18 points, A.J. Ogilvy added 16 and No. 13 Vanderbilt beat Florida 64-60 on Tuesday night, delivering a blow to the Gators' NCAA tournament hopes.
Updated: 03/02/2010 - Alabama forward JaMychal Green has been suspended indefinitely for violation of team rules.
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Nov. 11 – Ernst & Young LLP and Automotive News have announced 20 finalists for the prestigious 1999 Automotive News PACE (Premier Automotive Suppliers' Contributions to Excellence) Awards, and Meritor's revolutionary RHP Highway Parallelogram trailer air suspension is one of them
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Nov. 5 – Alabama-based flatbed carrier Boyd Bros. Transportation and Wisconsin-based tank carrier Tankstar USA have both announced new acquisitions.
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Nov. 4 – For the first time in 20 years, nearly all rest areas on Michigan highways will stay open during the winter, Gov. John Engler announced last week
Nov. 4 – Navistar International is running its first national advertising campaign in a dozen years.
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Nov. 3 – Some 120,000 load and truck postings are now available daily on the Internet, thanks to a collaboration between U.S. and Canadian load-matching services.
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Nov. 3 – The American Trucking Assns. elected its new chairman at its 1998 management conference held last week in New Orleans.
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Nov. 3 – Nebraska and Minnesota are both planning to use new snow gates to shut down interstate highways when the weather gets too severe.
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Unverified Voracity, Blissfully Ignorant
On ignorance. Due to a personal obligation or two I missed most of this weekend's action, and since the only thing I did catch was the Friday night hockey game wherein Michigan was Bowling Green first CCHA win in seven attempts I rather wish I had missed the whole thing.
So I can't offer much other than a "WTF?" about said hockey game, which was just horrible to watch. No matter what happens the rest of the way out, Michigan is going to look back at this game and that 2-1 loss against Western ruefully. Yost Built has a recap of the Saturday game.
Meanwhile, the basketball team had a two point lead when I checked in with the internet and then proceeded to score once more before the game was totally out of hand, dropping M to 3-3 in the league and reviving panicked talk about the NIT. The Ace of Sports and UMHoops have a glimpse at what went down.
Also, I'm about to be in a car for an extended period of time so this and the TomVH interview I'll frontpage shortly are the sum of the day's content. On and popping, as the kids say, tomorrow, with Tuesday Recruitin' and all that jazz.
Return of the mack. The advent of the season had many, many deleterious effects on morale around these parts. One of the more underrated ones the discontinuation of articles about Mike Barwis making you vomit and then turning you into Teen Wolf. I guess the media decided to focus on things like "humiliating losses" and "the second worst season in eighty years" instead, because they hate Michigan.
It's now the offseason, though. What better time for a reprise?
One thing they're not used to … Barwis Beach, a new sand pit in Oosterbaan Field House. They like it now, said Barwis, adding they won't when they find out throwing up in sand is just as unpleasant as vomiting on a hard surface.
"It's utilized for speed and explosive training," said Barwis. "Forces dissipate more on sand than they do on a hard surface, a rigorous surface, so by doing explosive drills in there with extension we can make sure we really get triple extension from the ankle to the knee and hip to allow for the body to be its most effective running position. Doing acceleration drills in sand will allow them to do more things they can't do on hard surfaces."
Vomit, Teen Wolf, extremely reassuring mumbo-jumbo about explosive triple extension acceleration: it's good to have you back, Barwis Porn. I missed you.
Tangentially related. Rodriguez was invited to speak at the high school coaching convention and spent a lot of time attempting to explain that he's not Satan McRecruitsOnlyFlorida. The Battle Creek Enquirer has a brief story on and some video of the event—no embed possible, sorry—if you're interested.
This is the tangent: at the end of it, Rodriguez has finished his speech and is answering a couple questions from a reporter as someone else speaks to the coaches in the background. Someone very loud. Someone very distracting. Someone who sounds like he's gargling gravel. So I'm listening to this and getting sort of annoyed that it's hard to hear Rodriguez when I have an epiphany: holy pants, that's Barwis.
Meetings of doom(!). The NCAA's having one of their many annual meetings in which various ways to shorten football games without enraging the public are discussed. Other topics of interest this year include academics:
Two committees are looking into potentially startling remedies — a fifth year of playing eligibility, a non-playing "year of readiness" for junior college transfers and others with academic deficiencies, scheduling constraints in basketball — and will brief the Division I board of directors during the four-day gathering that ends Saturday.
Another, more radical measure being weighed by the football academic enhancement panel headed by Oklahoma athletics director Joe Castiglione: earmarking a portion of revenues from non-conference "guarantee games" to cover summer school costs, add academic staff or provide other academic support. "We're certainly not trying to make institutional decisions," Castiglione says. "But we think people have to move away from the excuse of not having the necessary academic resources.
…and what to do with the coaches poll, including this horrible idea:
As for possibly going back to having every vote anonymous, Teaff said professional pollsters have told the AFCA there will be a more honest vote if the balloting is done without being attached to a name, as the final December vote is that helps determine the teams who play in the BCS title game. He said coaches might feel pressure to cover themselves with their conference teams.
The only thing worse than having a group of people suffused with naked self-interest vote on who should be in the national championship game is having that group of people do so anonymously. The coaches poll shouldn't be allowed to participate in the selection process unless it's willing to publicize their ballots, period. If that causes coaches to cover themselves with conference mates, the issue is not the open ballot, it's having vast conflicts of interest in your pollsters.
If Mack Brown or any other coach is serious about killing the BCS as quickly as possible he'll take the opportunity provided by the final ballot of the year and, for example, vote Texas #1 and not vote for Oklahoma at all. Coaches poll = dead. BCS = some wack computer rankings and a bunch of ancient men who don't even watch football.
As for the academic stuff: the fifth year of eligibility is academic reform? We have a situation now where a lot of schools are shuffling marginal players onto medical scholarships or encouraging them to transfer or outright cutting them (in Ray Ray McElrathbey's case) so they can cram more guys aboard the SS Sketchy; adding a fifth year of eligibility will only exacerbate this trend.
If you want real academic reform, remove the motivation to ever have a kid leave the program: once a player is signed or enrolled, his scholarship counts against your total for four years even if he fails out or transfers or shoots up a Dairy Queen or is lost to injury. Naturally, you'll have to increase the number of scholarships available to account for average attrition. This will never happen, obviously, but I'd encourage any portion of it: a two or three year commitment from a school for signing a LOI would be a step in the right direction, too.
Missed one. I mentioned the midterm Central Scouting rankings from the NHL last week, hitting on the whole of the 2009 class but missing one of Michigan's 2010 recruits: Mac Bennett. Bennett is a defenseman from Rhode Island ranked #63—third or fourth round—by Central Scouting. Also his hockey coach might have literary ambitions:
"I first saw Mac as an eighth grader competing in a bantam tournament at the Berkshire School and you could tell right away that he was the smartest player on the ice," White told NHL.com. "He had terrific vision, could pass the puck very well and made very good decisions. He's a tough kid in the sense that he never shies away. He's not afraid to go into the corner with anybody; he's comfortable in dark places."
That's part of an extensive article on Bennett from NHL.com. Michigan beat out Boston College for Bennett's services and he should be a fixture on the blueline upon arrival.
Cowherd: still stupid. Not that anyone needed confirmation of this, but to set the record straight on the Great Cowherd Douchebaggery of 2007:
Earlier this week Colin Cowherd was talking about the necessary separation of communication between fans and folks like owners and the media. The ESPN radio host discussed his own experience and loosely mentions the incident years back between he and the now defunct M Zone. He tells his listeners, "that guy, at the M Zone, is the reason you guys can send me emails all day and I can't send them back."
This is a warped version of reality. When you are an ESPN "personality" and you respond to a curt but basically correct email with this:
The reason you can't send emails to your readers is because you're a douchebag.
Etc.: This Bill James essay is 20 years old but remarkably prescient about "insiders" and "outsiders." MVictors has an interview with Pete Tiernan of bracketscience.com. Rumeal Robinson is not a fan of Steve Fisher. College hockey realignment seems to be coming, but UNO won't be a part of it.
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The novelty of the national championship game in 3-D drew in a couple bloggers whose opinions I respect, and their reviews were pretty much the same: the 3-D effect is cool but most prominent when you're on a sideline shot, which is a crappy angle to watch a game from. Both Dr. Saturday and Bill Harris of Dubious Quality seemed disappointed with the direction, which is to be expected when you're testing out a system FROM THE FUTURE.
But what struck me was the way in which the spare production values seemed a benefit, not a drawback. Dr. Saturday:
I don't know that the "feel" had as much to do with the 3-D, though, as it did with the shockingly spare production. The broadcast usually lingered on the field during TV timeouts, stealing shots of players huddling on the sideline, cheerleaders (who look great, although they kept showing the Florida cheerleaders in much longer takes than necessary, and never made it around to Oklahoma's squad) and the crowd. Sometimes they caught coaches arguing with the refs or doing something interesting. You can see 3-D Tim Tebow hovering at the edge of the offensive huddle, waiting until the last possible second to take his headset off. There were no wooshing graphics or promos to fill empty space, only the announcers, Kenny Albert and Tim Ryan, who were often silent for long stretches during these timeouts. The feeling was exactly what you'd experience during a TV timeout if you were actually in the stadium, which may not sound like much fun. But compared to the usual cacophony of commercials, I really appreciated the broadcast remaining almost entirely on the scene without the usual bells and whistles.
(Also, that post's comments have one of the best descriptions of a blog I've ever seen: EDSBS is "college football smashed through a Decemberists song.")
And Bill Harris:
The biggest difference, and this is what surprised me most, was in the presentation. No scoreboard overlay. Almost no statistical overlays. In other words, we didn't see a bunch of useless crap and network pimping on the screen. No American Idol overlays. No website whoring. No stupid-ass, giant arrows on the field telling us down and distance, just like the scoreboard overlay is already telling us. All we saw was football.
That was absolutely great.
Harris sums up pithily: "there is zero respect for content these days."
Maybe the revolutionary aspect of this 3D experience isn't Captain EO in helmets but an alternative broadcast that diehards can access in exchange for money. If you were a Florida or Oklahoma fan, how much would you have paid to exchange the Fox broadcast with something pitched at your interests instead of people who watch college football once a year?
I've mentioned this before: the problem with sports broadcasting is that people who already care have to watch. They have no alternative. So broadcasters are free to wholly ignore their wishes and cater their coverage to people who don't care, with a heavy slice of corporate whoredom. QED: Monday Night Football's weekly 15-minute interview with a celebrity totally unrelated to football.
But we're entering an age where virtually anyone can broadcast in real time over the internet, when television bandwidth and sophistication can easily provide for alternative views on the game. How long will it take before someone creates an alternative broadcast a little more sophisticated than "Orson and Peter get drunk during a bowl game"? (Which is great but probably not something you can monetize.)
I hope the answer to this is "not long." Someone, anyone, create a pilot program, a PPV version of a game available for free except with, like, Sean McDonough and Chris Spielman and no ads and no Tebotheosis and no impulse for me to put the TV on mute. This equals cash money for you.
Cash. Money.
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Accidental news. Buried in a local-kid-does-good article on Junior Hemingway was this significant piece of news:
Hemingway, who was red-shirted this past season after suffering an acromioclavicular (AC) joint sprain in his shoulder and then getting sick is looking forward to helping Michigan overcome a dismal 3-9 campaign this past season.
A month or so ago I noted a change in the redshirting rules that would allow Hemingway to claim a his; without that change he would have been SOL.
Yes, please. Rich Rodriguez is probably in favor of this piece of legislation coming to college football conferences around the country:
The American Football Coaches Association has forwarded a proposal for an early signing day for college football recruits and it wil [sic] be reviewed by conference commissioners this Thursday.
"We're looking for an early signing day in the third week of December," Rob Ianello, Notre Dame assistant and head of the AFCA FBS Assistant Coaches Committee, said at the coaches convention in Nashville. "There are more than 1,000 verbal committments [sic] right now, and about 15 per school. Why not sign them? Is it a reservation or a committment [sic]? What we're seeing is oversigning and late switches. An earlier signing day would also be cost effective."
Not sure what an early signing period would do to stem oversigning, which South Carolina and North Carolina are now enthusiastically participating in, but Ianello's point on some "commitments" being more like reservations and not, you know, mutual is well made. I don't think there can be a whole lot of complaint about the date proposed, as it's not all that early: virtually all coaching switches will have taken place by that time.
Also, Joe Schad needs one of those red-squiggly spell-check things.
Mid-CSB. The NHL Central Scouting Bureau's midseason rankings are out and a number of future Wolverines are listed:
- NTDP forward Chris Brown is #29
- NTDP forward Kevin Lynch is #83
- NTDP forward AJ Treais is #205
- USHL defenseman Lee Moffie is #210 (last).
The CSB produces separate lists for North American and European skaters, so mentally add about 50% to everyone's ranking for their projected draft slot. Brown looks like a solid second-rounder, Lynch should go in the middle rounds, and Treais and Moffie are likely to go undrafted.
Departures of note. A host of early departures and transfers have gone down; these have been noted on the sidebar, but a recap of the departed:
- Draft: Wisconsin RB PJ Hill, Ohio State RB Beanie Wells, PSU DE Aaron Maybin (maybe)
- Transfer: Iowa QB Jake Christensen
A few more Penn State and Ohio State players are expected to declare before the January 15th deadline.
There is also everyone's favorite: a Notre Dame player leaving school for "personal reasons" but expected to return after those personal reasons get some flimsy grades at a JUCO. This time it's sophomore CB Gary Gray.
Juxtaposition. I've always thought of Gregg Doyel as a Christopher Hitchens for sports, except with severe brain damage where Hitchens keeps his cigarettes and vast hatred of the Catholic church. This is a pretty awesome demonstration of that idea:
This game will be sensational, that's all I know. But the arrogant assumption that Florida's defense will be the difference makes me giggle.
Because the truth is, the difference really could be Florida's defense.
After it gets its ass kicked by the best offense in college football history.
Florida, of course, got its ass kicked to the tune of 14 points.
Is Doyel stupid enough deploy those one-sentence paragraphs following that shot at an "arrogant assumption" without it being an attention-getting schtick? Eh… no. Doyel, more than any other sportswriter I've had the misfortune to stumble across, seems to glory in the hatred of all things.
So, yeah, Boston College fans should cower at this bad boy:
So stop the bellyaching about civil liberties and Boston College's intolerance and poor little Jagodzinski's rights and boo and hoo. Stop it right now. If you've already bitched to someone, you sound ridiculous. Shut your mouth and don't make that mistake again. If you've not bitched about it, consider yourself fortunate. It's not too late to change your mind, or in lieu of that, it's not too late to just sit this one out. Shut up. Keep your opinion to yourself.
Because you're wrong.
Jagodzinski was wrong.
This is the problem with legacy media on the internet: when you attack a ridiculous strawman like "people are whining about Jeff Jagodzinski's civil rights" without so much as a single link an example, you look like an idiot. You confirm that by following your ridiculous strawman with those two beauty one-sentence paragraphs, and you chisel it in stone if you marshal these two examples as evidence:
Florida bent over while Billy Donovan flirted with NBA jobs, took the Orlando Magic job, and then changed his mind and came back to school. Apparently he had it pretty good in a beautiful college town where he had won back-to-back national championships. Who knew?
Florida is… uh… 14-2 at the moment.
Louisville bent over while Bobby Petrino batted eyes at every school that could find his phone number -- and then, after redoing his contract and giving him every little thing his heart could desire, Louisville watched him leave for the Atlanta Falcons.
…and Agrokrag, his replacement, is 11-13. In Petrino's final season at Louisville—which AD Gregg Doyel would never have given him—the Cardinals were… uh… 12-1 and won the Orange Bowl. Not so much on the good examples there.
Unverified Voracity Says Happy Trails
There's no simple explanation for anything important any of us do. Rob Parker has been fired, and a nation says "what took so long?"
I actually met Parker once. One of the producers at WDIV's Sports Final Edition liked the blog and wanted to maybe have me on for a weekly segment that would break down a play or two in an attempt to explain why Michigan had won on Saturday and why State had lost. (Ah, the hubris of 2006.)
The segment never happened, but I did head down to the studio to do a test run. Said test run coincided with Parker's weekly segment. Like everyone else who's read a Parker column, I didn't think much of him, but he seemed like an exceptionally nice guy. Maybe he's not that bad, I thought.
Fifteen minutes later I was watching him declare that his "moles" were saying Mario Manningham would be suspended for the entire 2007 season, and all that went away. I actually had some killer inside info on the situation and knew that Manningham had been in the car when a traffic stop turned up some marijuana and vicodin. At worst Manningham would get a possession rap; as it turned out he was charged with absolutely nothing. Parker was taking a shred of a rumor and intentionally blowing it up into something sensational.
It's not like this was unusual. Parker's moles are a running joke around Detroit. Earlier this year he incorrectly identified State quarterback Kirk Cousins as a participant in the melee that laid up Spartan hockey player AJ Sturges. Dantonio duly blew up and, for once, it was justified. Parker has a track record.
So, congratulations, Detroit News. It only took you years of inane columns, weekly bouts of irresponsible, inaccurate rumormongering, and one jerk move at a press conference to get rid of Rob Parker. The courage overwhelms.
We build. We build. We build we build we build. Michigan's construction boom is such that the New York Times mentions it:
An army of ironworkers, masons, carpenters and laborers are swarming the campus of the University of Michigan these days, as the university undertakes a construction campaign budgeted at $2.5 billion, ranking it among the largest university building programs in the United States.
A dossier of projects follow: the biomedical center, the Ford School, the new business school, North Quad, and, yes, the stadium renovation. In context, the rumors of faculty OUTRAGE that Michigan was spending all of 10% of their construction campaign on a self-funding, overdue revamp of the football stadium seem a little silly, don't they?
A side note: that link comes courtesy the Ann Arbor Chronicle, a budding, professional, and transparent online news source that's an interesting look at what might pass for a local paper in a post-newspaper world. They've got some crowdsourcing going on—a twitter feed that aggregates readers' information about local traffic issues—a fairly robust set of local advertisers, and interesting content. Like, hey, did you know the TCF bank building on South U has the word "tit"—rumored to be a tribute to Michigan coeds—bricked into it?
Recursive hockey recruiting. Yost Built linked to the hockey recruiting bit from Friday and in doing so posted something I'll link here, which may break the internet. We'll see. The item is on the chances of forward commit Luke Moffatt donning the winged helmet, and it's nice:
The Kelowna Daily Courier had an article about some of the Kelowna Rockets prospects who are playing in the World Under 17s at the moment. If you'll recall, Luke Moffatt was drafted by the Rockets in the WHL Draft. Their Assistant GM said that this is as good of a US team as he's ever seen in that tournament. He's very complimentary of Moffatt, though he says it's a wait and see thing on if he'll end up in Kelowna.
I recently received a very positive email about the chances of him ending up in Maize and Blue. Things can change, but right now I'm not starting a Luke Moffatt DEFCON like I did with Jack Johnson. I like the odds of him ending up in a Michigan jersey.
Ver' nice. Insert disclaimer with mention of Jared Knight, an erstwhile Michigan commit now plying his trade in the OHL, here.
Come on. A message boarder pointed out this in Rosenberg's delicious fluffy num-num on Michigan State's Citrus loss. State has a fourth and five from Georgia's 39 and calls for a fake punt:
MSU coaches had studied Georgia film intently — 12 games' worth of film in the interminable wait for the bowl. They knew the Bulldogs always spread their defense against a punt. Naturally, the coaches figured they could fake a punt and run up the middle for a first down.
And what happened when the Spartans lined up?
Georgia's defense was bunched up in the middle of the field. The Bulldogs had apparently used their interminable wait for a bowl to tinker with their punt defense. Maddening.
Maddening! Except this is a punt on fourth-and-makeable from the opponent's 39. Every program in the country is in a punt safe there; Dantonio's fooling no one. It was an idiotic call and punished appropriately. Then, later, Dantonio punts on fourth and one from the Georgia 44. People keep falling all over themselves to praise Dantonio even when he displays a grasp of game theory Nixian in its incompetence.
I am annoyed, and unsurprised.
Very cool. UMHoops now has a man on the scene in Los Angeles, and said man has a video camera and the intent to scout Darius Morris. Dylan says "this isn't exactly a highlight film," which it's not. It's actually more useful. Highlight films are just "this guy hit a three this guy hit a shot this guy hit a shot ooh dunk"; only Zack Gibson does nothing but put dunk on your face.*
Oops. ESPN's having a bunch of people make random predictions, because random predictions are incredibly valuable content. This one is particularly valuable:
4. Combined with 2008 QB signee Justin Feagin, the Michigan Wolverines will play two true freshmen in a QB rotation until one comes to the forefront and takes the reigns of Rich Rodriguez's spread offense. Shavodrick Beaver (Wichita Falls, Texas/Rider) and Tate Forcier (San Diego/Scripps Ranch) will battle with Feagin.
Tate Forcier is apparently a slot receiver at Tulsa now. (Update: the Beaver mention has been excised.)
*(HT: Club Trillion, which is the only good thing to come out of Ohio State ever.)
Get A Life
The last couple days have seen a minor internet hubbub about Rich Rodriguez's statement that Michigan fans should "get a life," or something like that. That's all 95% of the people who have seen this story have comprehended. In their minds, Rich Rodriguez sat down at a press conference and said "everyone who's upset about 3-8 needs to get a life."
He did not.
On Saturday someone posted this on Rivals:
"Way to tough it out McGuffie. Maybe his little fingers were cold?"
Someone else posted this on Scout:
"I've never been more excited for senior day
goodbye and good riddance."
No links, as both are locked behind paywalls (and the Rivals one is probably lost in the ether by now) but it's not like anyone familiar with the depravity you can find on any message board more confrontational than Hello Kitty Forever is surprised by this genre of comment. You could dig them up on most message boards after a horrific loss. I do it on a weekly basis.
The men who said these things are in need of anger management or a kitten or something to do after a loss other than get so angry steam comes out their ears and they post stuff about amateurs their mother would slap them for. You might describe this something as a "life."
Rich Rodriguez was asked about them because all years of struggle must be followed by stock question #49: "Do you read the horrible things written about you on the internet?" Rodriguez responds:
This is a public position. It's not like a politician, I'm not running for office. I mean, God bless them. They choose to have that public scrutiny. As coaches, we know it's part of the job, but we don't choose to have it. Most of us would rather not.
But the biggest thing that is disappointing is when somebody, not necessarily the media, but when a fan or somebody would make it personal to your coach or to your players. Especially to the players, because those guys are amateurs. When they would make a personal comment or say something that's not related to coaching or not related to playing.
I don't get on message boards. I don't think anybody, any of our players or family should. But it's amazing some of the things that people would say or amazing things people will yell at you of a personal nature. You almost want to tell them get a life. I mean, there's a whole lot bigger problems. You lose a ballgame, and then you look at the economy or after every game I usually get to meet one of our veterans or somebody. You know, to take it personal on a coach or player to me, I don't think it's ever right.
But I'm glad fans have passion, but it's still kind of I guess a lot more bolder. You all would know. It's a lot more bolder what people would say and write. Not you all, but bloggers or whatever, than it used to be. We've seen it coming for a few years.
Absolutely, right? The saddest thing about the internet is this sort of anonymous hatred. I love the internet. It gave me a writing outlet and a job and online scrabble. But, man, trawling through message boards after a loss in search of some scrap of useful news and/or analysis is depressing. It kills my productivity. It makes me want to do something else. And it's because of these little hate factories that just lose their head and spew.*
Here Rodriguez talks about this, gives a reasonable answer across four paragraphs, and even manages to conclude it with "but I'm glad fans have passion." He is obviously talking about that small segment of the fanbase that runs to post bile on the internet and almost seems happier when the team loses. Guess which part of this four-paragraph response got put in an AP story?
"It's amazing some of the things that people would say (on a message board) or yell at you of a personal nature," Rodriguez said Monday. "You almost want to tell them, `Get a life.'
"There's a whole lot bigger problems. Look at the economy."
Cue sarcastic responses from around the internet. Here's one from increasingly retarded Deadspin:
He's right. The economy is dreadful in the Great Lakes State right now. That's probably why your fans don't like paying $60 a pop to watch your comically inept offense destroy everything they hold dear. Or that their school had to pay $2.5 million to West Virginia University just to get you out of the contract you bailed on. Or that you're earning another $2.5M to deliver the most losses in school history. (And they have a lot of history.) One fan even has to sell his allegiance to pay the rent.
That guy's a Michigan State fan, so fine. I get that I have to think Mark Dantonio is a ridiculous insecure hothead who is just so perfectly Sparty No(!)* and this guy has to think Rich Rodriguez is a heartless mercenary cheerleader-nailing guy.
Then there's this from Kevin Donahue (emphasis mine):
I have just four letters for Coach Rod: STFU.
Is it unthinkable to this college football fan that the one guy who cashed in more than anyone else in this sport in the last twelve months would dare question the passion of fans. Hey d-face, you are where you are today BECAUSE fans care about this game.
I'm not even a Michigan fan... and this pisses me off BIG TIME.
Rich Rodriguez takes some time to talk about the internet's depressing tendency towards mocking and anger in some depth. The media takes the three sentences sure to generate the most outrage and create the dumbest image of Rodriguez, and the internet responds with mocking and anger.
I mean… what can you even say here? The way information spreads is messed up. Thanks to the restrictions of newshole the AP writer has to snip out 90% of what Rodriguez says. He picks the lines sure to cause commotion when taken out of context. Thanks to the epic fail of the newspaper industry, everyone with the story headlines it as sensationally as possible in order to get their OMG hits. Given the opportunity to whack the piñata, the internet does so. The whole thing is depressing from stem to stern.
You know, the media complained for 13 years about how gruff and inaccessible Lloyd Carr was. Then they get a guy like Rodriguez who's far more open and they heap crap on him. The net impact of this will be to make Rodriguez gruff and inaccessible.
I don't understand. Unless you assume that the people running newspapers cannot model the future beyond tomorrow's newspaper, it makes no sense. Oh. Ohhhhh. It appears I do understand.
*(The comments here can be vicious at times because there is a cabal of people committed to relentlessly policing stupidity. Sometimes I wish it didn't have to be like that, but when I go read comments other places I am swiftly disabused of that notion. The cost in lack of civility to people outside the tribe is far outweighed by the maintenance of a coherent identity. No regular here would dare post the things that lead off this post and if they did they would be ridiculed by a dozen people before I had the opportunity to deploy the banhammer. This has happened multiple times. Everything I delete already has several responses asking the poster to FOAD.)
**(Okay, seriously: seriously. No, seriously: if Michigan wins on Saturday Michigan State plays Penn State for a trip to the Rose Bowl. Which is THE ROSE BOWL. Dantonio's response to the question "are you rooting for Michigan?"
"I'm not rooting for Michigan… I have too many good friends and too many people that wouldn't let me back into their house to let me do that. So Go Bucks."
Seriously. Sparty, man. Sparty.)
I Make Big
11/8/08 – Michigan 29, Minnesota 6 – 3-7, 2-4 Big Ten
(via Rodrigo Gaya and the Daily)
Football is the strangest sport.
Baseball and basketball and hockey are too transparently random to be strange. Sometimes you just lose despite largely outplaying the other team; that's not strange, it's just puck luck or hot shooting or whatever baseball equivalent you'd like to offer. You hit the ball hard and it goes into someone's mitt. You toss rubber at the goalie and hope. You engage in a series of independent random trials worth two or three points. In all these activities the chance is right on the surface.
Football, though… in football inexplicable things happen on a regular basis and they're all gussied up to look like Flat Out Heart. You might think that, eventually, close observers would figure out this tendency and start saying things like "watch for the inexplicable thing!" but no, not really.
This is of some comfort to me in a season where the only thing more reliable than Michigan's ineptitude is this blog's ability to incorrectly forecast future events.
To be fair, if you had collected everyone on the planet who thought Nick Sheridan would lead Michigan to victory over a 7-2 team, no matter how fraudulent, and put them in a room that room would contain Nick Sheridan's mother, that one guy on the message board with the annoying, unkillable optimism, and a bushman who speaks one of those clicky languages and erroneously believes there to be free sandwiches because of a mindboggling linguistic coincidence.
Then at some point during Michigan's opening field goal fiesta Sheridan scrambled out of the pocket and threw across his body. I guarantee you every single Michigan fan watching the game thought this was a horrible idea and that in approximately two seconds Minnesota would be running the other way with the ball. Somewhere, a Michigan fan stuck at a wedding had an eerie feeling of deep foreboding as the Michigan fanbase's collective brainwave screamed "nooooooooo" in slow-motion.
Complete, first down, eventual scoring drive, final yardage for 435, final yardage against 188, 29-6 victory.
Back in the day when computer cases came bolted on with a dozen tiny screws and floppy disks were floppy, if you wanted to have decent sound you had to buy your sound card separately. My friends did this, and it was there they met Dr. Sbaitso. Dr. Sbaitso was a weird little AI program that would converse with you that Creative Labs shipped with their soundcards to show off their speech software. It was the early '90s. It was free software. If you swore at it, it would complain that that kind of talk would give it a parity error. You can imagine the hilarity.
Though I never interacted with him myself, for years after conversations would occasionally take abrupt detours into Sbaitso lingo. The thing that lingers in my head to this day is this:
This was inevitably followed by some sort of fooshing noise that indicated great expansion.
Over the past five weeks as Michigan slid from 2-2 to 2-7 and victory became a thing once remembered, everybody wanted someone's blood. It didn't matter who you are, you wanted to bash someone with a brick. For some, it's Rodriguez or Martin or Shafer. For others (Wolverine Liberation Army most prominently), it's anyone who would come on the internet and say something rashly dumb. For me, it's the media that took the opportunity to lay the foundation for Rodriguez's premature firing.
Scorn, condescension, and mockery are the only things coming from Detroit columnists not named Wojo these days, as they rush to be the first to pile dirt on Rich Rodriguez's grave (but, of course, only after telling you that's it's far too early judge).
Look at this from the Detroit News in the aftermath of the Purdue game:
But what should be as distressing to Michigan's football camp as this incomprehensible string of losses -- five in a row -- is Rodriguez's attitude.
"I know what's going on," he said Saturday, as if he is aware of deficiencies no one else seems to recognize
Does he really believe that?
I find it amazing that Lynn Henning finds it possible to condescend to someone who's proven over the last twenty-five years that he's one of the best football coaches in the profession. After all, Lynn Henning has proven over the past twenty five years that he is Lynn Henning.
And then, of course, the Worst Columnist On The Planet*:
They're [Michigan fans] spoiled. They're arrogant. They feel entitled. They took 9-3 seasons with annual losses to Ohio State for granted, lusting for their program's rightful destiny. And they will demand significant improvement from Rodriguez in his second season or he will face a BCS-or-else ultimatum in his third year.
Saban's quick Alabama transformation just made it harder for every other coach.
This is so obviously retarded in a thousand different ways (for one: Saban has a senior multi-year starter at QB) that it hardly warrants a response. But there is one thing that is dangerous here: the suggestion that Rodriguez should be on a short leash.
In a word, no.
Rocky Top Talk, a fine Tennessee blog, was kind enough to have me on their latest podcast, whereupon we talked about coaching changes and the creepy similarity of the two programs* and, uh, how Alabama fans hate me. At some point Joel asked for advice, which was kind of odd but he asked. In response, I asked what the talent level looked like and he said the general opinion was that next year would actually be a step back. Then I noted that last year Tennessee had one of the most disappointing recruiting classes in the nation and that this year's class would likely be substandard what with the coaching change and all and advised patience. Sustained, gritted-teeth patience.
Because without patience you acquire unreasonable demands like "take a 3-7 team to the BCS in two years with a (probably) true sophomore quarterback or we fire you, confirm every stupid thing the media has incorrectly said about the Michigan fanbase, and start all over with someone definitely less proven as a successful head coach than Rich Rodriguez."
Screw that. Screw Sharp and all his ilk at the Detroit papers ready to leap upon the carcass of Michigan football because they're too stupid and shortsighted to do anything else.
Nick Sheridan was nicknamed DEATH up until the moment he threw that "nooooo" pass across his body. I had too little data, but I made big.
Michigan fans assumed this all-singing-all-dancing-all-freshman offense would be basically as effective as other crappy offenses from Michigan teams past. They had too little data, and they made big.
The Detroit media would like to assure you that it's way too early to judge Rich Rodriguez but my god what a horrible coach who is mostly at fault for Michigan's failure to acquire a chintzy bowl bid. They had too little data, and they made big. (They will continue to do this.)
Now Tennessee and Washington and Clemson and maybe Auburn and a bunch of other teams will be scouring the nation for coaches upon there is precious little data, because the ones on which there is much data are already out of reach. If Michigan goes searching again prematurely they will not find a guy with a proven record of success like Rodriguez. They will not find a coach with two BCS bowl wins to his name. They are wishing and hoping.
We got extraordinarily lucky; there is enough data to justify Rodriguez the five years coaches all used to get, and we should give it to him.
*(if you absolutely must see the entire thing I will link it (nofollowed) but I urge you to not click here: .)
**(No, seriously. I always thought Tennessee, a traditional power with an awesome fight song that operates at a recruiting disadvantage because its home state is talent-deficient relative to its peers and has a national championship from about a decade ago, was pretty similar to Michigan. Then Joel from RTT was talking with me and mentioned that Tennessee had been coached by a total of two guys over the last 32 years (16 years each for Majors and Fulmer) and I was like… whoah.)
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Are they talking about taking away the fraud money now? I thought they were printing billions every month..QE3?
Honestly, I haven't heard or read a drop of new all week, except of what I pick up here at the DP, which has to be parced out between truth and far-fetched sensationalism.
I saw Missouri had a succeed petition and was going to sign it, but decided I was already on some list somewhere and felt caution that I did not need to be volunteering my name onto any whitehouse lists.
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