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Unverified Voracity Requires Purchase Of Coke
U-go's in the @umich Union is giving away 2 @umichfootball tickets if you buy 2 coke products (Photo: @ByAZuniga ) pic.twitter.com/iKeFD5rRhg
— The Michigan Daily (@michigandaily) September 22, 2014
COKEAGGEDDON. Well, it happened, and they quickly ran out of tickets, and the athletic department said that shouldn't have happened like a robot programmed to impersonate a human, and now it's over. The robot bit:
Coke is a great partner of ours and had purchased a limited block of tickets for the Minnesota game for a Coke retail activation aimed at Michigan students.
What I would give for an athletic department that responded to things like this without resorting to the nonsense phrase "retail activation." The program was "pulled immediately" after the Union had already run out, ie, not pulled. There's the silver lining: Michigan tickets are still worth more than two dollars.
As per usual when these things happen, the cover-up is worse than the crime. The pattern: Michigan does something stupid or embarrassing or annoying or all three. People laugh or complain about it. Michigan releases a mendacious statement that blames someone else for the screw up, wonders why everyone is making a big deal about it, and says it was never their intent for stupid/embarrassing/annoying thing to happen. Two months later, repeat the process.
The list is getting long: running out of water after banning outside bottles because terrorists, Allstate field goal nets, enormous macaroni sculpture, seat cushions, sky-writing over Spartan Stadium, telling people they got a discount on their hockey season tickets when really they moved a Michigan State game to Chicago, and Cokeaggeddon. Nobody apologized for "In The Big House," but they damn well should have.
I would prefer an athletic department that knew enough about how thing were going to look to a persnickety fanbase to not have issues like this on the regular. I would even more strongly prefer a department that didn't go "nuh-uh" when people called them on their crap.
Backhanded compliment battle royal. Man are people saying some things about Hoke these days that they mean to be nice but come off not so nice. Mark Dantonio:
Dantonio on turmoil in Ann Arbor: "I don't think there's a bad football coach out there. ...I have a lot of respect for Brady."
— Dan Murphy (@DanMurphyESPN) September 23, 2014
Dantonio followed that up by responding "I have empathy for people" when some reporter asked him if he had empathy for what's going on at Michigan. If our athletic department is going to be a robot can it be a Dantonio-style killer robot at least?
/hail of gunfire
And then Dennis Norfleet was getting his coach's back when this came out and got on the internet the wrong way:
"In life, he's a good coach," Norfleet on Hoke
— Max Cohen (@MaxACohen) September 23, 2014
I know he didn't mean it like that but it's hard not to read it like that, you know?
Shades of the late RR period. Old pissed-off alums are coming out of the woodwork to yell on the talk radio. Former Bo QB Michael Taylor is up:
"Michigan football is not going in the right direction," said Taylor, who played for UM from 1987-89. "The leadership is bad. There are many more issues on and off the field than I care to talk about. It's sad." …
"What we've become is a propaganda football team, telling people how great we are when we're mediocre," he said.
Taylor has had an axe to grind for a while, FWIW. Hard to disagree with the last bit even so.
While Taylor's naplam job was widely reported the News is the only outlet I've seen that noted anything about Jon Jansen's immediately subsequent appearance. Jansen is on some sort of former players' committee, and says this about Taylor's complaint that players are being told to buy tickets if they want anything more than two per season (as in two tickets, total):
"It may not be the answer they're looking for, but we have started the process of getting a policy together for how many tickets you can get, how you get them, sideline passes," Jansen said. "That's the biggest thing — guys want to be able to come back."
IIRC, Taylor's beef with Brandon started when he further restricted tickets for former lettermen. It's not about "getting a policy" together. There is a policy. As per usual it prefers nickel and diming everyone to creating long-term allies.
More bloviation. Get ready for two and a half months of HARBAUGH HARBAUGH HARBAUGH posts that don't have much of anything behind them. PFT takes the lead:
…the speculation has been ongoing regarding the future of 49ers coach (and former Michigan quarterback) Jim Harbaugh for a while. Mired in a contractual impasse that has been tabled until after the season, any college or program now knows that Harbaugh is in play for a jump to a new job come 2015. With the 49ers already mired in a disappointing, stressful year, that jump could be more likely.
This gets everyone hot and bothered while not having a single quote or even a single assertion that a hot source told him something. Throw it on the bloviation pile. And reinforce the floor under that pile. It's about to get stressed.
The cycle is intact. Football team is bad at football. People say football team is bad at football. People say maybe football team would be better at football if this coach who seems to have a lot of bad football teams was no longer the coach. Media incessantly hammers coach and players at every media opportunity about The Critics, leading to people Taking A Stand Against The Critics and articles describing that event. Dennis Norfleet just did so.
If anyone thinks the massive public criticism being hurled at Brady Hoke on a now daily basis doesn't make its way into the ears of Michigan's players from time to time, then Dennis Norfleet has a message for you.
It does.
And they're pretty pissed about it.
Okay. I don't expect this conversation to go any other way, because Hoke has his team behind him and they would run through the proverbial wall for him, etc. I just don't see why anyone should care. It's all talk. Weren't we all like "I'm done with talk, show me" this offseason? We have been shown some things. Now there is talk about how bad the team is, and if you are mad at people talking about how bad Michigan football is currently I don't know what to tell you.
This is just not realistic:
"Even if we lose. If we lose, if you're a Michigan fan you're supposed to be with us 100 percent to pick us up. We need our fans just as much as we need a win. So, yes, it hurts. It hurts a lot."
It is impossible to control the emotional impulses of large groups of people, and fans are in this for themselves. They like the players, they want the players to succeed, they generally refrain from harsh personal criticism of the players. They are there to feel something, however, and when the only thing they feel is certainty Michigan is not going to make up yet another double-digit deficit they're going to talk about replacing the coach. Because that is the logical thing to do if your goals for a football team involve having a nice time with it.
That's the fundamental disconnect between fans and players and we can stop talking like any of these people have to have the same motivations. Or not, I suppose, because journalists are in this for themselves.
We're confusing to computers. Michigan has outgained every opponent en route to a 2-2 record with two blowout losses. The play-based ranking systems are having a bit of a conniption fit as a result:
[gulp] UPDATED S&P+ RANKINGS. Yes, I'll be writing about Michigan soon. http://t.co/sUnYsKN9Y5 pic.twitter.com/8DyLCfYgHN
— Bill Connelly (@SBN_BillC) September 22, 2014
Computer rankings after four weeks are never accurate but drive systems do take a lot more data than the final score into account and should be a bit more reliable as a result. It's just that sometimes not taking the final score into account particularly heavily is… unwise. Connelly on that:
On a per-play basis (in a system that counts turnovers simply as non-successes until drive data is factored in after seven weeks), they are good enough to rank 19th in the country, just one spot behind a team that beat them by 31 points and 11 spots ahead of a team that beat them by 16. But in ways similar to 2011 Texas A&M and 2011 Notre Dame, they're figuring out ways to make their failures count double, and it seems they (and their fans) know the failures are coming before they happen.
Seven of the next eight conference games are winnable, and eight are losable. We'll see if Hoke can figure out how to turn promise into reality, or if, like Texas A&M in 2011, it will take a new coach and a new quarterback to translate decent stats into good results.
He notes three teams with similar profiles to Michigan to date: 2011 versions of Notre Dame and Texas A&M and 2012 Michigan State.
Connelly and Brian Fremeau combine their ratings for something called F+ that is considerably more skeptical but still insufficiently so from the human observer's viewpoint. F+ has Michigan 32nd. Connelly used that to metric to project the Big Ten race and came up with this amazing possibility:
Record | West Winner | East Winner |
4-4 | 23.2% | 0.0% |
5-3 | 14.3% | 47.5% |
6-2 | 13.8% | 12.3% |
7-1 | 11.0% | 7.9% |
8-0 | 37.7% | 32.4% |
There is a one in four chance that your Big Ten West winner is .500 in the conference. I think we can all agree that this annus miserabilis will be totally worth it if that happens.
As far as Michigan goes, he ran a bunch of simulations with his numbers and came out with an approximately 60% chance Michigan goes 4-4 in the league and 20% chances they go 5-3 or 6-2. Again, early season computer numbers so take lightly—suffice it to say computers are not feeling real good about Hoke's job prospects.
The wounded. Minnesota's Mitch Leidner still questionable for Saturday, "all indications" that Michigan will get the Gopher backup who completed one pass against SJSU. Maxxxxxxxx Williams is also doubtful with something or other. Against that Michigan puts up Jarrod Wilson and Raymon Taylor, who dressed but did not play against Utah, Delano Hill, who left before halftime with a boo boo, and an obviously still gimpy Devin Funchess. Funchess FWIW:
"I got a little dinged up, I had to make sure everything was OK, and I just had to fight through it," Funchess said Tuesday. "I knew it was painful (that day), and it'll (probably) be painful the rest of the season.
"You're never going to go through a season and stay 100 percent (the whole way) ... I'm healthy enough to play."
Sort of. His effort on blocks is not so good.
Etc.: Hinton on Gardner. Hoke isn't going to name a QB starter after all.
No Second MSU Game At Yost This Year
We found out why the first Michigan State hockey series was "TBA" yesterday, when it was announced that the two teams would play an outdoor game in Chicago. There are about 50,000 reasons that's a questionable decision—as in the number of people who won't be at this who would if it was on either campus.
Michigan is due to get two home games against State this year, Michigan and MSU have a contract to play at the Joe annually, and the other MSU game is still ominously "TBA":
I just called the ticket office, and they said they were told that the January 30th game is at the Joe.
I, like a lot of season ticket holders, have already renewed my season tickets, and now I am informed that a game against Michigan's biggest rival is going to be in Chicago. This is how you lose people forever, Dave Brandon. But I'm sure the one-time benefit from playing in Chicago is more important than not making your season ticket holders feel like saps. Clueless. This athletic department is clueless.
Looks Like Uniformz For Penn State
As caught by an alert Joshua Henschke on twitter, the latest MDen catalog strongly implies that Michigan will wear alternate uniforms for the Penn State game:
I'm not surprised, I guess. I had just forgotten about the possibility of such a thing and was disappointed to remember we do this now.
I'm sure this will be sold as a throwback to some fictional time in the past when Michigan wore stripey numbers under coach Pterodactyl The Second and won the Big Ten thanks to their velociraptor riders, because Authenticity™.
UPDATE: actually looks like an MGoUser was first to wonder.
FIRE EVERYONE! Naw man this ain't relevant to your interests. I but I mean cumong man.
Cumong woman, I guess. Either way, y'all shouldn't have laid off the common sense editor a couple years back. "Picks Barbour" instead of "Selects Woman" would have fit and passed the "will people be irate on twitter about this?" test.
I WILL LAY A PATH OF DESTRUCTION ACROSS THE LAND. CBS Sports scouts Michigan's upcoming team for the next NFL draft, starting with one Devin Funchess:
He has excellent initial burst off the line to get vertical in a hurry with long, full strides, flashing flexible and easy movement skills rare for a player his size. Funchess tracks well with smooth body control to make natural adjustments on the ball, but has WAY too many drops on his resume and needs to improve his reliability and finishing ability through the catch point. The effort is there for him as a blocker, but his technique needs work as he's often caught off guard with his blocking assignments. Funchess is a mismatch nightmare against linebackers and smaller defensive backs and with improved consistency, he has all the makings of a future first round pick, reminiscent of a younger Jermichael Finley at Texas.
I'm not entirely sure the effort is there as a blocker after watching him opposite Jeremy Gallon, but he should be at least adequate as a wide option. The drops were a bit unfortunate but he's not in the Braylon category, at least not yet, and his ability to reach up and pluck things out of the air with one hand gives him a circus catch upside that few players have.
Also featured are Ryan ("possible top-50 draft pick"), Clark ("One of the more underrated pass rushers for the 2015 class"), Gardner("upper and lower body mechanics are a mess and he often releases while off-balance," thanks Mr. Borges and your hatred of QB coaches), and various others. Special nod to Raymon Taylor for being average at everything:
His size, speed and strength are all considered average, but he has the competitive mentality and awareness needed for the position.
The center of the bell curve, that Raymon Taylor.
OKAY YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION. Patrick Beilein is doing something his old man never did: becoming an assistant coach.
Patrick Beilein is leaving West Virginia Wesleyan to take a job on coach Quin Snyder's staff with the Utah Jazz, league sources told Yahoo Sports.
That is a 29-year-old NBA assistant coach whose dad is John Beilein, just kinda hanging out. At this point it would be an upset if LaVall Jordan didn't get the job when it is time for Beilein to hang it up, but things change and it's nice to have attractive options.
Meanwhile: wait, Quin Snyder is now an NBA coach? Specifically Trey Burke's NBA coach? When do I get a job?
WELL THAT SEEMS REASONABLE. THIS PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE ALL CAPS. Michigan picked third the East in a poll of 29 media voters that somehow came up with 33 first place votes:
Big Ten East
1. Ohio State, 195 points (23 first-place votes)
2. Michigan State, 180 points (10)
3. Michigan, 136 points
4. Penn State, 105.5 points
5. Maryland, 84 points
6. Indiana, 78.5 points
7. Rutgers, 33 points
That is zero votes that have anything other than Rutgers dead last.
I AM TERRIBLY OLD AND HAVE CHOSEN POORLY. Defensman Kenny Johnson, who I remember wandering around Yost as, like, a zero-year-old, has committed to Michigan. Kenny is of course Jack Johnson's little brother.
"It wasn't very hard to make a choice, I've always wanted to go there since I was a little kid," the '98 birth-year defenseman said. "I went to every game of my brother's, I was always running around the rink. I guess the hardest part was making the call and going to do it because I couldn't believe it was real."
I in fact remember a nine-or-ten year old Kenny wearing a "JMFJ" shirt at the Joe during Jack's sophomore year. I hoped he had no idea why he was wearing that shirt. Now he's KMFJ, which is an amazing abbreviation right there.
Kenny isn't the incredible prospect his brother was—he's more of a stay-at-home guy—but he's no slouch.
Newest Michigan 98 D recruit Kenny Johnson, 19 pts, 171 PIMs, 47 games. Made that SSM team hard to play with a few other huge D on back end.
— Over The Boards (@OTBPuckWatch) July 24, 2014
While we're talking about hockey recruiting, further evidence that recent commit Mike Pastujov is currently a big deal comes from the recent U15 select camp at which he was named the best forward:
1. Michael Pastujov (#11 Black) 6-0/186 Honeybaked U16 (Michigan) - A strong and powerful skater who committed to the Wolverines along with his brother Nick, a '98, less than a week after the camp ended. He's a flight risk to the OHL, but he's a strong skater who drives the net well. He made plays happen from all over the ice, really dishes the puck well to his linemates and he wins one-on-one battles. He's a complete package offensively.
When you're so far away from matriculating these evaluations are shaky, but there's no better place to start than from the top.
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE A TRIP TO BIG RAPIDS. Hockey's released their schedule and it is bizarre. They go to Ferris State to open the season—like before the Canadian exhibition game—and then they have a brutal nonconference road schedule after that test: Lowell, BU, BC, two against Tech. They do get UNH at Yost for what should be an entertaining series.
Unfortunately they again do that bit where they have a ton of home games during the meat of the football schedule and then a massive gap when people really want to go to hockey games. Michigan will go 41 days between home games after a home series against Minnesota on January 10th. The TBA MSU games will be at Munn and the Joe, so the next time you'll have a ticket at Yost is February 21st.
Meanwhile four straight weeks from Friday November 14th to December 5th feature Michigan hockey, and that's after another month-long break, one that features a bye week November 6th and 7th. The planning is not so good. This is the second straight year the second half of the home schedule has been really sparse.
The other thing of note is that there's a bunch of games with "possible" next to them as the Big Ten moves towards Sunday games in an effort to get more of them on the BTN. Hopefully they get that settled before tickets are issued. Moving a game time is one thing; moving entire days is not reasonable.
ENGULFED BY BLACKNESS. A sixth grade girl was at Michigan's football camp, which I guess is cute.
Ann Arbor hasn't seen a burst of speed like this since Denard Robinson wore the Maize and Blue
Ha ha! That's not true.
[reminds self of last year's running game]
Blackness is everything.
[exits slowly]
[fades to nothing made of sadness]
[Death Cab For Cutie writes song about this experience]
ENTER THE LUMBERG. Man Dave Brandon I really don't want to talk about you constantly but then you're just like
Organizations that have a strong and healthy culture make sure the guiding principles and aspirational vision are integrated into everything that is done -- hiring decisions, communication, recognition, celebration, and the way they create positive energy.
and I'm just like why don't you speak English like a human does and then you're just like
To further our guiding principle of being a "great place to work," an important -- and descriptive -- Smile Committee was created. The committee's job is to draw on the skills and interests of a broad cross-section of the U-M Athletic Department to create activities of fun and importance.
and I'm just like oh that's because you ceased being a part of our species some time ago and you're now homo executivus. Which is fine and all that but I'm just saying that I would go watch RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE EXECUTIVES in a hot second.
"War or war-related activities integral to our aspirational vision… has or have, depending on which antecedent you prefer in the previous phrase, and by "has or have" I mean 'is occurring in a timeframe consistent with that commonly referred to as "now"'… been initiated after consulting with a diverse array of focus groups, consultants, and best-in-class operational specialists including but not limited to—"
/executive shot in face
That's Oscar stuff right there. Hollywood, get on it.
I mean.
To further our guiding principle of being a "great place to work"
I'M ON THE COMMITTEE FORMING COMMITTEE. Instead of just working with the student government, which did great work surveying students and getting the athletic department to change their seating policy to something they would actually enjoy—#MikeProppeforAD—the athletic department is assembling a student advisory committee. We'll see how that works out; I am skeptical it'll be anything nearly as useful as what the unconnected student government managed last year.
Michigan is also confident they'll get past the 100k attendance number, because they just make those up anyway.
"(Some numbers may) potentially be lower than normal in the past, sure," Lochmann said. "I know there's a lot of eyeballs talking about the 100,000 -- we're not going to go below 100,000."
There could be no one in the stadium except the teams and they would announce 102,309. Ask anyone who was at the '95 Purdue doom-weather game if there were 100k in attendance.
Etc.: Stephen A Smith is just in charge of saying things for no reason. Ray Rice's suspension is ridiculous. Terrell Pryor got five games for tatgate! Rice got two for knocking his wife unconscious. Okay.
In lighter news, Detnews really excited about Alex Cook's tweetin'. Bacon on fireworks fireworks. It's probably not a coincidence that right after fireworks fireworks, Brandon gave an interview to Wojo.
ATTENTION TENNESSEE BIGS: stay away from Rome.
Unverified Voracity Has Pipes
Caris smash. Caris LeVert came to Michigan after a high school career spent as a mizzenmast. I'm saying he's thin, people. That's the joke. Or at least he was thin. This year's edition of Michigan basketball player is all swole now:
Yes yes, Irvin and Walton are also adding weight (Irvin's up to 215 from 200) but I be like dang Caris. Let's check in with his senior year of high school…
…during which he probably ripped off and reattached his arms nightly. Caris is also a legit 6'7" in shoes, so he is tall and large and is hopefully poised to rip it up this fall.
Freshman dimensions. Basketball has posted a roster. It lists:
- Kam Chatman at 6'7", 210
- DJ Wilson at 6'9", 210
- Ricky Doyle at 6'10", 250
- Aubery Dawkins at 6'6", 190
- and MAAR at 6'4", 200.
Doyle's weight is a positive. Michigan's going to need him to bang, and he's now the heaviest guy available—Donnal added ten pounds but only got to 240. Meanwhile, uncertainty about Max Bielfeldt's status for next year is all but gone: they've ceased listing him as a redshirt junior and now have him as a senior.
Fireworks nyet. I'll have a column type thing about this tomorrow, but to recap the most important completely trivial news of the week: the Michigan regents shot down the athletic departments proposed fireworks for the Miami (NTM) and Penn State games despite separating the votes. Mark Bernstein's criticism was the most pointed:
"We are not Comerica Park, Disney World or a circus ... " Bernstein said. "I love Michigan football for what it is ... and for what it is not. It remains and should be an experience, a place that resists the excesses of our culture; intentionally simple.
"The fireworks should be on the field, not above it."
I probably wouldn't have gone with "resists the excesses of our culture" but the overall sentiment is one I can get behind. Mostly I just want Michigan to be like itself, to maintain a separation from other options. Not because those are necessarily worse*, but because a bright line between Them and Us is inherently valuable when you're trying to gin up some fake-ass tribalism.
This is the most fundamental divide between myself and Dave Brandon: he wants to copy the Best In Class Leaders because that's the only thing he's ever been able to do. He could no more start a business than I could be athletic director, because every attempt would be Chipotle 2 or Also Applebees or Pretty Much Still Ponderosa. His one strategy for success is to do the thing that everyone else is doing.
Anyway. The new president is being carefully neutral about the whole situation…
"Personally, I didn't have an opinion," Dr. Mark Schlissel, who started his job this week, said Friday during a press conference with the media. "Having never attended a game there, I didn't have a sense of the cultural aspects of it. The band marching out, I've never seen. I've never seen them at a halftime show. I don't have context to really say whether fireworks matter or not. I didn't really feel like I had a valid opinion."
…but the message sent by the regents is clear. This is an organization that has just been sued because they decide things in private meetings and show up to vote things in unanimously. During the 116 votes previous to the fireworks there were eight instances of a regent voting no. Brandon just exceeded that in a single day.
The opportunity here was to provide a vote of no confidence without shooting something down that's actually important, like the budget. I mentioned that I thought a number of people towards the top were discontent but unlikely to do anything about it in the most recent mailbag; I must have underestimated the disdain.
Is this the beginning of the end? I'm not getting my hopes up just yet.
*[They are of course sometimes worse.]
Back on the market. Onetime Michigan target and temporary SMU commit Matt McQuaid, a shooting guard out of Texas, has reopened his recruitment.
For a second there it looked like McQuaid was very serious about Michigan, so I wouldn't be surprised to see the two parties reconnect. Everyone seems like a backup plan for Jalen Coleman at the moment, but if Coleman does do the weird thing and pick a Notre Dame program that hasn't really gotten off the ground under Mike Brey, Michigan wants to make sure they've got options. McQuaid is a pretty good one:
McQuaid is arguably the best shooter in the class of 2015 -- and he strengthened his case last week at the LeBron James Skills Academy, when he shot lights-out from 3-point range against the best high school players in the country. There were at least two games in Las Vegas where I didn't see McQuaid miss an outside shot. He can make shots from deep and is also capable of knocking down contested shots.
He's 6'5", so visions of Stauskas are dancing in various heads right now.
Old stuff. Wolverine Historian takes on 1986 Iowa:
Straight shooter. I may disagree with a lot of what Bob Bowlsby thinks but I can appreciate that he's not Bill Hancock:
"Enforcement is broken," he said. "The infractions committee hasn't had [an FBS] hearing in almost a year, and I think it's not an understatement to say cheating pays presently. If you seek to conspire to certainly bend the rules, you can do it successfully and probably not get caught in most occasions."
He probably thinks it's possible to fix that, and that's where we differ. I do wish someone in attendance at Big 12 media days had heard this…
"It is hard to justify paying student-athletes in football and men's basketball and not recognizing the significant effort that swimmers and wrestlers and lacrosse players and track athletes all put in," he said. "Football and basketball players don't work any harder than anybody else; they just happen to have the blessing of an adoring public who is willing to pay for the tickets and willing to buy the products on television that come with the high visibility."
…and asked Bowlsby how much harder he was working than the assembled press corps.
Etc.: Scouting Tyus Battle, Jalen Coleman, and Prince Ali at the Peach Jam. The Game will not be at night, because frostbite. CJ Lee looks back at his time at Michigan after taking an assistant spot at Marist. A preview of the band programs this year. I'm not enthralled with the idea of trying the sing-along thing again. Peppers and Funchess feature amongst the most watchable players this year.
I like lists of sports memories that include bad stuff, because bad stuff happens. So props to the Daily Gopher for including Mike Legg (and Holy Cross) on their list of Gopher hockey moments.
Unverified Voracity Tears Down Camp
HEY. If you didn't already, read Seth's thing.
Bryan Fuller
Just a shooter. Ex-just a shooter? Zak Irvin's trying to shake the reputation that he has a campsite outside the three point line he only leaves when he needs water:
Zak Irvin smirked at the old saying. He heard it before. So did Nik Stauskas, his predecessor on the wing in Michigan's offense.
Just a shooter.
The title was stamped on Stauskas at this time last year. As a freshman in 2012-13, the 6-foot-6 guard attempted 58.3 percent of his field-goals from 3-point distance.
Now here's Irvin. If Stauskas was just a shooter as a freshman, what does that make him? Also a 6-foot-6 guard, Irvin launched a freewheeling 74.5 percent of his shots from behind the arc as a freshman.
The thing is: Stauskas was way less of a shooter than Irvin was, to the point where UMHoops was pointing out that he was even more efficient than Trey Burke in pick and roll situations. Whenever anyone asked me who would step up as the alpha in Burke's absence I immediately said "Stauskas" in a tone of voice that was probably insulting to the person asking the question.
Just-a-shooter-related stats indicate that Irvin is starting well back from Stauskas was when it comes to initiating offense.
FTRate | 29.2 | 10.7 |
Assist Rate | 7.6 | 4.7 |
TO Rate | 14.2 | 9.3 |
Also… I mean…
Irvin made a total of 11 2-point field goals in 18 Big Ten games as a freshman. His 21 free-throw attempts were three less than Mitch McGary, who played in only eight games. His 13 assists were only one more than McGary produced.
I am now sad about Mitch again, but that's pretty stark.
Michigan doesn't need Irvin to be Stauskas, what with Walton and LeVert still around. They would like him to be a third creator—hell, if Irvin gets to Stauskas's freshman shot generation numbers that would be terrific.
One thing we do know: even if Irvin does become Not Just A Shooter (drink), we will not hear that he is Not Just A Shooter (drink), because he's not a pale guy from Canada.
FINALLY. It is policy around here to ignore preseason watch lists for major awards because the last time I looked at one I was on there. But we will make a solitary exception for the one organization that seems to have watched Devin Funchess play last year:
On Tuesday, Funchess landed on the 2014 Biletnikoff Award watch list, which goes annually to the most outstanding receiver in college football.
Praise Biletnikoff.
Yes, I know this is just because watch lists place anything vaguely hominid on their lists. I'm still taking it and running.
So there's this. They changed the trophy, likely because of intellectual property issues or something like that. Now it looks like this:
The one piece of the BCS worth keeping (the crystal football) is replaced by a wagon-wheel coffee table
…leg? I think he left out "leg." But yeah.
A major blow to SMU. Megarecruit Emmanuel Mudiay was set to make a visit to Crisler for his one and only year of college basketball; instead he's taking whatever money he can get this year:
"I was excited about going to SMU and playing college basketball for coach Brown and his staff and preparing for the NBA," Mudiay said in a statement relayed by his brother, Stephane, to SI. "But I was tired of seeing my mom struggle. And after sitting down with coach [Larry] Brown and my family, we decided that the best way for me to provide for my mom was to forgo college and pursue professional basketball opportunities."
That's likely bunk, since Mudiay can just get cash on the side and the school he graduated from was co-founded by Deion Sanders and has had a number of graduate-types get shot down by the NCAA. Either way, that SMU game looks significantly less intimidating.
SMU's still going to be a challenge. They went 27-10 last year and lost to Minnesota in the NIT final; they lost only an inefficient third wheel and a low-usage OREB guy from last year's team.
That would be bizarre, but fun? Chatter about NCAA hockey expansion pops up only every once in a while these days, and when it does it's usually followed by an athletic director making grumbly noises about the general impossibility of such. So go ahead and guess which AD actually wants to make it happen. No, no, no, and no. Arizona State!
Count Arizona State Vice President of Athletics Ray Anderson among the growing number of people who like to see the Sun Devil hockey team compete at the highest level.
"I personally would love to see hockey as a varsity sport at Arizona State," he said. "We have to make a commitment to figure that out."
Penn State's departure from the club hockey ranks apparently made ASU the big dog on the block, whereupon they turned in a 38-2 season, and ASU has a relatively small department for a school of its size and revenue level.
The obvious problem: there ain't nobody to play. The nearest NCAA hockey schools are in Colorado. I guess you could slide them into the NCHC. It would still be an expensive proposition. Unlikely unless ASU gets the kind of donation PSU got.
That'll fix it. Michigan proposes fireworks after the Penn State and… uh… Miami (Not That Miami) games. I don't care, really, but it's notable that a bunch of Penn State and Ohio State people on twitter are now seemingly offended on our behalf.
Michigan football is just Dime a Dog night away from being a minor league baseball team.
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On the one hand, yeah. On the other hand, YOU'RE PENN STATE (rawwereraaarr rawwrr). YOU ARE THE CHINTZ MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE.
But anyway this is where we are: opposing fan bases are getting irritated because we are not Michigan enough.
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The 40-year-old was killed in September 2012 at the rural property he shared with his mother near Prince George, B.C.
The coroner will be able to subpoena witnesses and a jury will hear evidence, but the jury is not allowed to make any findings of legal responsibility.
A report released last May by B.C.'s Independent Investigation Office ruled that there was no criminal wrongdoing by RCMP officers when they shot Matters.
The report said Matters was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and when he came at officers with a hatchet, police fired two bullets into his chest.
The inquest will be held from Oct. 7 to 11 at the Prince George courthouse.
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A few months ago, GM President Mark Reuss perked up the ears of Corvette enthusiasts when he said the idea of a production hybrid 'Vette was "a very attractive idea."
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You either love it or hate it. That's the consensus we've come to as there doesn't seem to be much in-between when it comes to the Forgiato Widebody C7 Corvette Stingray shown at SEMA last week.
We admit that "Aston Martin Blue" exterior color is a little tough for us to go for too, but those curves are so cool! It's a car that's totally at home in the SEMA Dub Show and to see it live is to appreciate the look and the workmanship that went into the build. But I couldn't imagine this as a daily driver.
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3.93 / 5.00 6,285 ViewsI got alot of complaints that my game had no challenge, so i gave it a challenge!
I like it
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A backround, some audio, and a main menu. I would also like some littl eblood animations when zombies die
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i didn't see the first one, but this has no challenge especially when you can machine-gun fire your shotgun, and it also ends at killing 95 zombies that die with one hit
2/5 cause it stopped at 95 kills
up the spawn rate, add achivments and a store, freshen up the images and itll be awesome!
and please dont stop at 95 kills :(
Thanks, I`m getting to work on another one.
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Simple fun shooter game that gets challenging very quickly, but it would be a bit better with something in the background and more sound effects or music.
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a tale of two cities: new york contemporary sales by Judd Tully
The evening contemporary sales in New York this week resembled a tale of two cities. Sotheby's so-so $11.2 million performance on Nov. 19 exited with a 29 percent buy-in rate and was similar to a number of less- than-stellar evening sales since the market downturn in late 1990. In fact, it was the lowest tally of the '90s. That's not a big surprise since the property, aside from a handful of significant exceptions, was nothing to write home about. Still, 32 of the 42 lots that found buyers fell within or exceeded their pre-sale estimates. Given those somewhat plain parameters, the sale came close to matching its $13.7 million pre-sale low estimate. It would have looked much stronger if the evening's most expensive lot, Francis Bacon's twisted Seated Figure on a Couch(1962) (est. $2 million-$2.5 million) had sold. But it bombed at $1.78 million, apparently one bid shy of its secret reserve. Considering the picture had been shopped around and was owned by a well-known European dealer, its spurning was a surprisingly close call. The top lot turned out to be Forest Scene, Roy Lichtenstein's German Expressionist re- do of Franz Marc's 1911 Blue Horses. The billboard-sized painting made $2.09 million (est. $1.8 million-$2.2 million) and sold to an anonymous telephone bidder. West Coast collector Eli Broad was--in uncharacteristic fashion--the underbidder at $1.85 million. The passion just wasn't there. In any case, the landscape became the fifth highest price for a Lichtenstein at auction. Great prices were achieved for Alexander Calder and Andy Warhol. And there were plenty to go round as Crag with Flat Top, Calder's standing mobile from 1974, made $332,500 (est. $200,000-$250,000) and Four- Foot Flowers, Warhol's hothouse silkscreen from the recently assembled collection of Californian Donald J. Christal, realized $519,500 (est. $350,000-450,000). Nine Multicolored Marilyns (Reversal Series), hailing from another consignor, hit $376,500 (est. $350,000-$450,000). It last sold at auction in May 1995 at Christie's New York for $585,500. Hey, everything is relative. In the eye-brow raising category, Poppies, Richard Diebenkorn's large-scale still life from 1963, sold for a fragrant $497,500 (est. $200,000-250,000) to San Francisco dealer John Berggruen. It was an evening of contrasts. Richard Artschwager batted zero as two of his building paintings from the mid-'60s crashed at $38,000 each. Eva Hesse's superb ink wash with charcoal drawing from 1966 made a record $118,000, $5,500 more than Lichtenstein's circa 1965 drawing, The Memory Haunts My Reverie. Cindy Sherman made an auspicious evening sale debut with her hitchhiking Untitled Film Still, #48 selling for a record $66,300 to SoHo dealer Jack Tilton. It was deaccessioned by the Museum of Modern Art as a duplicate image, stemming from MoMA's giant acquisition of Sherman's entire series early this year. Twenty-four hours later, Christie's rang up a remarkable $33.9 million sale and shook off the stubborn shadow of the recession. In less than 90 minutes, the contemporary market came up-to-par with the steadier gains made in the Impressionist and modern arena. Willem de Kooning's Woman was the standout star of the evening. The painterly icon of the Post-War Abstract Expressionist epoch fetched a whopping $15.6 million and was the first time since November 1989 that a contemporary picture shattered the $10 million mark. The painting is the most expensive work of art to sell in any category at auction in 1996. It surpassed last week's highs set at Christie's for two Monets,The Artist's Garden in Vetheuil and Nympheas which brought identical $13.2 million prices. The price is second only to the record $20.68 million set in Nov. 1989 for Interchange, de Kooning's 1955 masterpiece. (Only Jasper Johns' False Start, which sold at Sotheby's New York in Nov. 1988 for $17.05 million, exceeds Woman.) Until Wednesday evening, there hadn't been such a high-profile property to test the market's strength. It was a stunning and instant reversal for the laggardly rake's progress of the contemporary market. The 1949 canvas of a flaming orange-haired Madonna figure, admiring her curvy profile in a misty mirror, was first acquired by direct marketing mogul Boris Leavitt in 1955 from the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York for $2,500. Mr. Leavitt, who died last June in West Palm Beach Florida at age 91, had the painting and 32 others on long-term loan to Washington's National Gallery of Art. Last August when the estate closed it's deal with Christie's to sell his trove, the art works were removed from the museum. (Given the recent deaccession by the Shelburne Museum in Vermont of five masterworks, it hasn't been a jolly season for museums). The 13 Leavitt works realized $18.8 million, $6.2 million over its high estimate. Woman soared over the unpublished $8 million-$10 million pre-sale estimate and sold to an anonymous telephone bidder, beating out Robert Mnuchin of New York's C & M Arts, who was bidding on behalf of a private client. Bidding for the picture opened at $4.5 million and proceeded slowly in a tense salesroom at $500,000 increases. The pace quickened at the $6 million mark. One American private bidder dropped out at $10 million, leaving the contest to Mnuchin and the telephone, manned by Christie's veteran expert Martha Baer. At $13.75 million the bidding scaled back to $250,000 increments. Finally, Mnuchin shook his head after Baer's $14.2 million bid and the standing room only crowd broke into delirious applause. Even pictures familiar to the market, went like gangbusters, such as Tex, Roy Lichtenstein's war comic strip panel from 1962 that sold to an anonymous telephone bidder at a huge $3.96 million (est. $2.5 million-$3 million). London dealer Anthony D'Offay was the underbidder, apparently bidding on behalf of an unnamed American institution. Auctioneer Christopher Burge practically laughed through the sale, quipping after Wayne Thiebaud's Drink Syrups became the first casualty at lot #36, "finally." Only eight of the 61 lots failed to find buyers. Of the 53 that sold, 24 exceeded their high estimates. It was a night to remember. JUDD TULLY covers the international art market for a variety of publications, ranging from Art & Auction to The Washington Post.


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After the Darkness (Mass Market Paperbound)
What happens when the woman who has everything loses everything . . . and the man who has nothing realizes he has nothing to lose?
The young, naive wife of a multi-billionaire financial superstar, Grace Brookstein's life is the stuff of fantasy. In New York, Lenny Brookstein is the King of the Wall Street social scene, both liked and respected in the worlds of high finance and high society.
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The late novelist and screenwriter Sidney Sheldon remains one of the world's top bestselling authors, having sold more than 300 million copies of his books. Are You Afraid of the Dark? was his most recent in a long line of huge hits on bestseller lists everywhere. He is also the only writer to have won an Oscar, a Tony, and an Edgar.
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Can I bring witnesses to my SSD or SSI disability hearing?
Written by attorney Richard Culbertson
Can I bring witnesses to my SSD or SSI disability hearing?
After representing myself at the Social Security hearing, I have received an unfavorable decision. After a fall from my bicycle, I no longer have the range of motion needed to allow me to work in my field. My union sent me to one of their doctors and agreed I can no longer perform the duties of an electrician. What are my options?
In order to be awarded benefits, most claimants (dependent on age and a few other factors) must not only be unable to perform their past work, but also be incapable of performing any other work available in the national economy. You may just have to find other work.
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I agree with my colleagues that the inability to do you prior employment is not the test that Social Security uses. You must be unable to do any job, or, depending on how old you are, be extremely limited in your work ability. You should check with your union for what disability benefits may be available through them. Good Luck.
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A parody of Indiana Jones where a single stickfigure battles his way through a tunnel in order to find the treasure. Will he succeed? Well you'll have to watch the animation. lol
I made this entry for a competition at stickpage.com where it got first prize! This took around four weeks to complete and I think it turned out pretty good. It's over a minute so it didn't turn out very short and I hope everyone on Newgrounds likes it.
Ddue, lol! i love it! it was a bit fast and im not sure indianna has that much blood bu who cares!? make more! good on ya! ^_^
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Micro-drilling procedure details used for determining the soundness of wood structural members: micro-drilling wood damage testing involves drilling a 2 mm hole in timber members up to 300mm. Drill resistance and related data are processed by computer to provide a graph of wood density and other properties. This article series also compares using micro-drilling with other methods to screen both standing trees and wood structural elements for hidden damage. scribe the relationship between construction details and the occurrence of structural rot in timber frame buildings. This article series describes the various methods used to test & evaluate the structural integrity of wood-framed buildings where focus is on the condition of structural wood posts, beams and other framing members. We discuss the problems surrounding hidden rot or decay, the presence or absence of moisture or other instrument-detectable clues, and the problem of subjective decisions to replace or not-replace suspect wood structural members. Green links show where you are. © Copyright 2014 InspectApedia.com, All Rights Reserved. How does Micro Drilling Timber Assessment Work?Paul Probett, Clinton Craig, Blake Probett, Incodo Forensic Building Specialists [1] This article series on methods for assessing structural wood rot & damage is adapted & expanded from the author's "An Introduction to Micro-Drilling Technology for N. Z. Structural Timber Assessment" and is used with permission. We [DF] have added comments, some illustrations, and additional article citations. At the references section we include a link to the original article as well as contact information for the authors and Incodo Ltd., a Tauranga, New Zealand forensic engineering firm. [Click to enlarge any image or illustration] The original authors' article without the expanded discussion added here can be seen at An Introduction to Micro-Drilling Technology for N. Z. Structural Timber Assessment. Additional comments, illustrations, and technical citations addressing wood structure testing technologies have been added. We and the original authors invite and will reply to reader questions and comments using the comments box found at the end of this article. Initial technical review completed 8/6/201 Our discussion of micro-drilling is divided into three segments. Below is segment 2.
Procedure for Using Micro Drilling for Timber Damage AssessmentTesting involves drilling a 2 mm hole in timber members up to 300mm The drill is computer controlled with drill bit rotation rpms and linear penetration independent of each other and at pre-set levels applicable to the timber species. This is a change from older generation microdrills that had rpm and penetration linked and power applied controlled by the operator. Results are readable in real time via the onboard display as the graph is formed. Typical testing for 100 mm p.rad framing is about 15 seconds. Results are also processed according to developed timber specie parameters and appropriate standards (where applicable) so onboard software instantly gives a preliminary pass, fail or retest assessment of timber. Settings are adjustable to assist with the identifying of quality infractions, decay areas and splits or checks. Information is then bluetoothed to a draft report and presented in a similar format to the following graphs and charts. As highlighted in the 2010 RILEM State of the Art Report – In Situ Assessment of Structural Timber by Kasal and Tannert " If strength values are require(d) the best drills available on the market are required as well as a high level of education and experience. This, proper education of the user is a critical point before applying resistance drilling" quote Incodo endorse the above and suggest general usage, adjusting
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Hidden Spring Trail is closed until Feb. 28 to allow for renovations.
The wooden boardwalk portion of Dell Rim Trail is temporarily closed for construction that will widen this section. Signs are posted to alert trail users as they approach the closed area. There are no detours to get around this closure, which is below the water tower.
Big Sugar Creek Day Use Areas are closed until further notice for construction and repairs.
Portion of Coyote Trail are under construction and temporarily closed. While hikers can still use part of the trail, they will only be able to hike in and back out on the same section.
Equestrian users on McAdoo Trail should exercise caution due to construction work occurring along the trail.
Caution is advised when on Paved Bicycle Trail through February 2015. Repair work will be done during this time which may cause temporary detours along the trail.
While pets are allowed in most outdoor areas of the park, they are not allowed on the trail to the shut-Ins. When in allowed areas, pets and their owners must comply with standard rules.
Food and disposable containers are not allowed on the trail to the shut-ins. This includes disposable drink containers. Please plan ahead to have a non-disposable, drinking water container with you for your trip.
Coyote Campground is closed through January 2015 to allow for installation of a culvert tube. Badger and Puma campgrounds remain open.
Lake Trail at the Outpost cabins is closed due to the renovation work taking place at the cabins. The trail will reopen March 1, 2015.
Lincoln Hills Rd. is temporarily closed at various times during the winter months due to inclement weather and icy road conditions. During these times of road closure, the main campground can ...
The boat ramp on Lake Boutin is temporarily closed to allow for repairs. The boat ramp on the Mississippi River remains open for use.
Rough areas, minor debris and downed trees can occur at any time on any section of the trail due to weather variations. Staff and equipment could be encountered on the ...
Beginning in fall 2014 and going through spring 2015, there will be periodic construction work occurring in the campground. Two new showerhouses will be installed and ...
Trail users should exercise caution near MM 232.9 (Green Ridge) through January 2015. Electrical transmission line installation work is being done on both sides of the trail during this time.