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CaribbeanDrop your hook in crystal clear turquoise water, walk these white sandy beaches under the bright warm sun and blue sky, and you might just think you are somewhere deep in the Bahamas or Caribbean. It's hard to believe the Dry Tortugas, my favorite sailing destination in Florida, is only 70 miles west of Key West.
Dry Tortugas Adventureby Jack Foard, Posted January 24, 2011
It was 2000 on a warm September evening when my wife, Desir, my sister Jane,
Cruising GroundsTo Tony Smith, the word "retirement" doesn't have quite the same connotation it might have for less energetic people. There'll be no pottering around in the garden for this longtime boatbuilder and designer. Instead, Tony and his wife Sue are heading for the Pacific Northwest, towing a 28ft Telstar trimaran that's been modified for an unusual cruise.
Three Hulls on the Roadby Peter Nielsen, Posted January 5, 2011
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seasia_indian_oceanYou know you are in for a different kind of cruising experience when a) the guide book says: "Do not go ashore onto either of the Koh Liang islands. They are sites for the collection of swallow's nests to make bird's nest soup. They are patrolled by local Thais armed with automatic weapons;" and b) the charter base manager (ours was Andy Middleton, who runs the Sunsail base in Langkawi, Malaysia)
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Boat ReviewsMultihulls have been around for a long time. The Chinese reportedly sailed double-hulled junks as early as 2700 BC, and ancient Polynesians used a variety of multi-hulled craft to colonize the South Pacific. The Englishman William Dampier was the first Westerner on record to use the word "catamaran" back in the 1690s during a trip through the Tamil region in Southern India. The word itself comes
High Performance Multihull Milestonesby Adam Cort, Posted January 3, 2011
Cruising GroundsI can't say it was an easy passage. True, the weather was so benign we had to motor for four days to complete the 1,500-mile trip from the Chagos Archipelago to Cap d'Ambre, at the northern point of Madagascar. But Irene and I, aboard Moose, our 39-foot steel cutter, were tense the entire way. Somali pirates, forced south by international policing of the Red Sea route, were now striking shipping
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we did anaheim and jalepenos in a pale ale. it was delicious. I will do this again, soon.
A batch I made with a large amount of peppers was with a half pound of dried Serrano peppers (they weren't overly hot to be fair) that I added to the mash itself for a stout. I shredded the peppers so they had as much surface contact as possible. And I hopped it to the high end of balance for what BrewSmith gave me ignoring the pepper addition entirely (90m boil). The end result was not unpleasant but rather strange. I don't know if it was the oil from the pepper or the hops but while the taste was a nice mix from the wort initially, the end result was almost as if it were segregated. Some of the bottles came out extremely hoppy but not hot... Others came out extremely hot but not overly hoppy. And a 6 pack or so of the bottles that I kept around to see what age did to it came out with a strange mixture of both. It was as if it separated and the peppery part was heavier than the hoppy part (or vice versa). I really have no explanation as to why this was. It was not unpleasant. It did not cause any problems with the yeast that I could tell. It was just... peculiar. The ones I aged a bit also seemed to stay separated on the pour to a degree. It didn't look any different though.
I've not tried one since. I've considered it as they were easily drinkable in both instances (although my wife would hand it over if she got one of the heavily pepperish ones) but I've just not had the push to do so. I'm considering it in the future however, perhaps with a lighter pepper possibly bypassing the separation thing?
Ballast point does many peppered beers. They always dry hop with the peppers. Obviously, you could play around with it and figure out what suits you..but they are continuously putting out EXCELLENT pepper beers. Habanero Sculpin, ghost pepper double IPA, ghost pepper imperial stout to name a few.
Primary 1: IIPA(Simcoe/Citra)
Primary 2: California Common
Secondary 1: Infected batch with Lactobacillus
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I shotgun heady topper.
This is my recipe. Although I would like to use a little more smoked malt and citra hops instead next time.
2 lbs 6 rocorn
1 lb flaked corn
8 oz smoked malt
2 lbs amber dme
3.5 lbs light lme
.5 oz galena 60
. 25 galena 30
.25 galena 15
1 tsp irish moss 15
2 tsp lime peel 10
12 oz agave flame out
3 serranno peppers primary
Nottingham yeast
Three weeks primary then bottle.
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I think that 10oz smoked malt would be good. The hops schedule I would keep the same.
I used thw lime peel for a little more citrus flavor. Until I brewed this I had not used agave nectar yet and figures what the hell.
Habanero go for it.
My brother in law will drink one from time to time and he.'s a bmc guy.
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Four 16 team super-conferences of two divisions each = 64 teams. Win your division and play for conference championship. Four conference champions play for national title.
OK, what about #s 65 through 68? Every year the worst team in each conference is relegated out of the conference, and the previous #65-68 join their new conference. You could base relegation on a rolling three or four year average if you like.. Try to keep geography relevant to conference assignment if possible, but no guarantees.
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Carlinville spoiled Vandalia's volleyball home opener, downing the Vandals, 25-23, 25-21.
In the second set, Vandalia had two big leads – 17-9 and 21-15 – erased by a persistent Cavalier squad.
Coach Allison Smith said those leads were squandered because the team was not playing with sound fundamentals.
"We just couldn't pass the ball," she said. "We have to be able to do the little things. We have to be able to pass and we have to be able to do that every night to be effective."
Carlinville's Kelsey Card was a big part of their late comeback, slamming two hard spikes across the net during the 10-point rally to close out the match.
Smith said Vandalia's Holly Goldsmith and Sierah Ruffner, who had two blocks in the second set, did well containing Card, but again chalked up bad passes to Card's success.
"I think we still could have beaten them with (Card) in the front row, but we couldn't get the good pass up to attack," Smith said.
In the first set, Vandalia kept the game close before falling behind 14-8, but after a diving hit by Taylor Parrish hit the floor between Carlinville defenders, Haley Wollerman served the Vandals back within a point at 18-17.
Vandalia lost the handle again though, falling behind 24-19, but there was no quit in the team, as they fought back to within one before Carlinville earned their 25th point.
JV Game
The JV team narrowly won in three sets against the Cavaliers, taking a 25-20, 21-25, 25-23 victory.
Other Games
Against, East Alton-Wood River last Tuesday, the Vandals won 25-17, 25-18, the JV won 25-20, 25-15 and the freshman won 25-8, 25-17.
Against Roxana last Thursday, the Vandals won 25-21, 25-13. Goldsmith performed well with 11 kills. The JV won 26-24, 25-20, and the freshmen team also won.
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HELP! I just found head lice on my 9 year old daughter. She has very thick long hair and I noticed a bug on the top. After inspection, I realized that there were more of them. I checked my other two daughters and noticed a few dandruff looking things. I assumed they were nits but how do I tell if it's just the seborreah dermatitis that they already have? They have white patches and flaky skin in spots. I'm not sure whether to treat the other two or not.
Nits are extremely hard to pull off, the dandruff will brush off. Nits and lice need to be killed with a special shampoo then comb their hair very thoroughly with a special comb (the "nitpicker!"). It wouldn't be a bad idea to do all the kids' hair because if one has it, most likely they all do.
Change all bed linens and throw them in the washer on the hottest setting, and and stuffed animals that can be washed should go in there too. Wash all their clothes and especially hats too. PITA, but getting it done once is better than not doing a thorough job the first time and having to redo it.
I would say definitely treat all of your children. I have seen many horror stories with the chemical shampoos, including it melting all the hair off my friends 5 yo. I have had excellent results using mayo. coat the hair and scalp with a liberal amount and wrap the head in saran wrap for at least 4 hours. Wash with regular shampoo and comb out the nits with a nitcomb. This can be repeated the following day if you feel it necessary. I have five children and many years experience battling lice that has come home on my kids through the years. I feel much better using a natural remedy on the child and the chemical on the furniture/pillows. Washing the bedding the machine seems to work fine. Good luck!! Work quick!!
When I was in grade school most of the kids had headlice.the ones that did not used some kind of head pomade on their hair.If you grease your roots the lice cannot crawl on the grease. try some white vasiline on your roots.It may look greasy but it's harmless and chreap.
"try some white vasiline on your roots.It may look greasy but it's harmless and chreap"
NO NO NO! You will be SO sorry. Glob some vaseline on your hand and try to wash it off, not even dish liquid will get it all off right away, and being in your hair is just 100x worse. My cousin wanted to be a punk rocker for Halloween one year and his mom gave him a mohawk with Vaseline, we used scrub brushes with every type of cleaning solution (we even resorted to powder cleanser) but NOTHING took it all out. We had to shave his head, I am glad I wanted to be a ballerina!
I know you Goldy, you have your heart in the right place but I know first hand this is not a good idea.
Stick with an OTC lice shampoo or use a soluable natural solution like mayo. I have heard Mayo works, but you really have to coat every hair and leave it on for so long and if your kids aren't very patient you might have a house that smells like a sandwich for a while and some greasy stains on your furniture.


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'One man orchestra' Todd Green to perform in Ulen, Park Rapids
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Intrigued? These and many other ethnic instruments will be played by multi-instrumentalist Todd Green, along with one of-a-kind custom built instruments like the "Swar Rabouditar" the "Guitarangi da Gamba," at two upcoming area appearances.
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Rocker Vince Neil to open Girls, Girls, Girls strip club in Las Vegas
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The frontman plans to name his new venture Girls, Girls, Girls after the rock band's late 1980s hit.
Speaking to the Las Vegas Sun, Neil says his club will be edgy and the strippers "will look like they stepped out of a music video."
He says, "Tattoos won't be banned. ... (The girls will be) hot, provocative and edgy. I know it all comes down to G-strings in the end, but they'll start out with much sexier outfits than you find elsewhere.
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"Second, the music isn't going to be boring. None of that house, generic strip club music. This will be full-on rock 'n' roll. It will be a blast from start to finish. Yeah, we'll even play a little Motley, but tons of others, too!"
This marks Neil's latest business venture in the city. He opened his own tattoo parlor, Vince Neil Ink, at O'Shea's Casino back in 2007.
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APRIL 19 -- Some folks might not be ready to celebrate another "Day" while still recovering from the 3,000 greasy calories that were piled up while participating in Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day last week.
Earth Day is on the horizon, and everyone needs to rally to the cause like red-blooded Americans and celebrate and participate in the "Day" set aside to honor our one-and-only Earth.
It's as serious as a cheese-induced heart attack "Day," in other words.
Indeed, Earth Day is not some weak step-sister to real holidays, such as Washington's birthday, which is the day he was actually born. What? You thought it was a lucky mystery of the universe that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were both born on the third Monday of February? Well, real Americans know when George and Abe were born, and out of patriotism, refuse to work while celebrating on Feb. 12 (Abe) and Feb. 22 (George).
And when were "Fathers" and "Mothers" born? Those are the most egregious examples of "Days" that are merely commercial creations foisted off on the masses by our nation's nefarious marketing machinery in an effort to extract ransom, or at least a cheap card, from out of the "kids."
Memorial Day and Labor Day? Nothing more in the popular mind than three-day road trips to mark the start and end of summer.
Columbus Day? More like a random three-day national Indian-Italian screamfest over who "found" whom first and where pizza really comes from.
There are no such calendar shenanigans when it comes to Earth Day. It started on April 22, 1970, and it's always on April 22.
That's because Earth Day's rebellious founder (a U.S. Senator) didn't fall prey to the whole "fake holiday" calendar maneuvers that would have made Earth Day a three-day weekend just to give the masses the illusion they can get a break from the soul-sucking machine that is modern capitalistic consumerism. And it worked. Earth Day, unlike, say, Groundhog Day, is the largest worldwide, one-day "Day" ever.
The downside of that idealistic stance is that you have to take time off work to buy your Earth Day T-shirt, bumper sticker, coffee mug or poster (printed with soy ink on 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper, of course).
On Earth Day, try to save some energy and water, eat a sandwich made of locally sourced goat cheese (remind you of another "Day"?), recycle, reduce your carbon footprint for one stinking little day, or plant a tree (actually, do that on April 25, Arbor Day, Earth Day's predecessor that shouldn't be tossed into the compost heap of history).
Or, at the very least do what most red-blooded Americans do when it comes to taking a firm, even defiant stand on one of the most crucial and critical issues of the day, or in the case of Earth Day, a whole range of issues and problems and challenges that will define our lives and our children's lives.
They buy the T-shirt and forget about it for another year.
(Jon Klusmire of Bishop is considering not buying the T-shirt and actually doing something for Earth Day.)
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I think Michigan hockey is in one. There's so much jitter in the PWR -- one indication that it's not the world's most reliable system -- that the weekly "bracketology" columns that are all the rage are essentially useless, but we do know a few things: M, NoDak, CC, UNH, and Miami will be the top five seeds. Wisconsin and CC are both hosting regionals.
So I'm fiddling around with brackets and if you just set things up straight 1-16, you get this:
Regional #1
16 AH Auto
Regional #2
15 CHA Auto
7 Clarkson
Regional #3
11 Minn-Mankato
Regional #4
13 Wisconsin
5 Miami
12 Minny
This is pretty smooth, considering there are sixty WCHA teams in the field, but CC and Wisconsin absolutely can't be matched up against each other because they're both hosting and UW has to be in Madison. The switch with the most bracket integrity is to flip UW into the UNH bracket and send that to Madison, but that would strip Worcester of a #1 seed that plays its home games something like 25 or 50 miles from there and would probably send the M/Clarkson/SCSU/CHA bracket there, which would be attendance death.
The committee's other option: screw over either M or NoDak and bracket one of the top two seeds in Madison against a home team. Michigan is #2 and likely to remain there (at best) unless both CC and UND go belly-up. There's a long way to go and Wacky Things will no doubt occur, but I have a bad feeling that if Wisconsin is a four seed, we're going to play them in the first round no matter what.
Side note: All of these projections are overlooking the possibility of conference-tourney interlopers. With just two Hockey East teams and one ECAC team in the tourney right now, one or both of those conference tourneys is likely to be won by teams currently out of the field, so Wisconsin is about one slot away from being out of the tourney altogether, which is the best option for Michigan.
Side note #2: Western College Hockey takes issue with the WCHA-flood concerns expressed by Elliot Olshansky and Yost Built like so:
The Blog that Yost Built took a look at the WCHA's OOC performance. He brings up a ton of evidence against the WCHA, though all of it is still anecdotal. Wouldn't it be great if there was a system that took into account *every* game and objectively measured the quality of every opponent? Oh wait, you mean there already is a system like that? Ultimately, the beef here is with the ranking system that was agreed upon before the season started, not with the WCHA itself.
No one has questioned the WCHA's position as the preeminent college hockey conference, but I think it's fair to say that any system that says eighty percent of a particular conference should be in the tournament is broken. WCH cites the RPI as a system that "objectively measure[s] the quality of every opponent" -- and I guess you could cite KRACH as a similar system -- but RPI is a jerry-rigged ranking that gets fiddled with on a regular basis. The NCAA has changed the OOP percentage, win percentage, tough roadie bonus, and exclusion of RPI-hurting wins in the time I've been following college hockey. And they've done the same to the PWR, first increasing the length of the "L10" component to 16, then dropping it entirely, changing the TUC cutoff from a .500 record to a .500 RPI to the top 25 in RPI, and making the TUC record not count when you have less than ten games registered on top of all the fiddles with the RPI. College hockey is constantly dissatisfied with its system, and for good reason: like the BCS it regularly spits out nonsensical results.
Despite the NCAA's implicit acknowledgment that the PWR is unreliable, every year they hew to this rickety thing down to the letter, which makes no sense.
Another thrust from WCH:
I think we can all agree that North Dakota, Michigan, New Hampshire, Colorado College, and Miami are all solid tournament teams. If those six teams had formed their own conference prior to the start of the season, one of two things would have happened: Either everyone would have finished .500, or somebody would have had a losing record. Should they be excluded from the tournament because of that? The same is true in the WCHA, though to a lesser extent. If somebody wins a game, that means somebody else has to lose, even if both teams are good hockey teams.
Elliot said he'd rather see Notre Dame, Providence, and Princeton in the tournament than Minnesota, Minnesota-Duluth, and Wisconsin. But what is there, other than overall record, to suggest that any of those teams belongs in the tournament more than the three WCHA teams? If you're going to take that step, why even bother with strength of schedule at all?
I think there's a terrific argument for including strength of schedule, but what we're talking about here is overrating SOS to the point where a team ten games over .500 in one of the top three conferences is in a position to be passed over by a team below .500. Does that make sense? Is there any evidence that the WCHA is so far superior to the CCHA that we should prefer the eighth-place WCHA team to the fourth place CCHA team, especially when that CCHA team has a split against #6 seed Denver?
The problem: the NCAA vastly overrates the importance of nonconference games. They form the basis for virtually all the SOS rankings and the COP category. Then they double-count SOS in a terribly arbitrary way by declaring games against the top 25 teams to be a special category all their own (thus eliminating UNO, NMU, and BGSU from consideration because each is three points adrift of the top 25!).
It's common sense: if you are one of the worst teams in your conference, you are not one of the best teams in the country and should not be afforded the opportunity to win a national title in a nigh-random pinball machine like a single-elimination hockey tournament.
2008 CFBAs: Best Big Ten Blog
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The next award presentation - for "Best SEC Blog" - will be around 2 at EDSBS
AWARD PRESENTATION: "Best Big Ten Blog"
(...and associated blogs run by those lunatics before they migrated to SBNation.)
At some point in the fall, Orson asked me if there was anything he had to read that he was not, and I had one crystal-clear answer: Black Heart, Gold Pants. A conglomeration of three or four different Iowa fans who ran sporadically updated but entertaining blogs of their own, BHGP was originally "The Hawkeye Compulsion" before getting noticed and picked up by SBNation, whereupon they became a staple in the Big Ten blogger's diet. They're up for a bunch of other stuff, too, despite being totally unheard of at the year's start, and that's because they put out killer, killer content.
I know BHGP is smarting because they didn't win (again, you Susan Luccis you), but here is balm for their souls:
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2007 WINNER: Black Shoe Diaries
Obama will be heartened to know that the way to win in Big Ten country is to be associated with the color black.
Uh... anyway, Black Shoe Diaries is the most consistent and excellent Penn State blog out there, and with PSU blogs beginning to rival those of Notre Dame, Michigan, and Georgia in terms of sheer quantity that's no mean feat. A testament to BSD's dedication: Mike continues to follow Penn State's basketball team. While this is not technically a college football achievement, anyone even slightly familiar with Penn State basketball can only imagine the dedication put into coverage of Penn State football, motto: "basically as full of white guys but much, much better." Though this site has sparred with BSD in the past, Mike remains one of the true gentlemen of the college football blogosphere and is a deserving recipient of an award.
Here is an award.
No... seriously, this picture of JLeman should be an award.
2008 CFBAs: Best Analysis
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The next award presentation - for "The Job Award" - will be around 7 at EDSBS
AWARD PRESENTATION: "Best Analysis"
- Blue Gray Sky
- Burnt Orange Nation
- Sunday Morning Quarterback
- Saurian Sagacity
- Smart Football
- Statistically Speaking
BON's great contribution to the wonkier outliers of the college football blogosphere was diarist Horn Brain's devastating, continued expose of Richard Billingsley's ongoing debacle masquerading as a poll, but Peter, et al., also cranked out a daily dose of Texas-specific analysis that makes BON one of the top team-specific anythings out there.
They did not win, no, but there's no shame in losing to...
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Le duh! Let's take a brief gander at SMQ's front page as of right now. It contains:
- A detailed analysis of Boise State's dominance in the WAC vis a vis other intra-conference contenders
- A "we can rebuilt it" analysis of Alabama
- A detailed etymology of the term "single wing" (a guest post from MGoBlog-ite Tyler Sellhorn, but still)
- The Big Ten edition of SMQ's gigantic, perpetual "Stats Relevance Watch"
- An out-of-character but devastating fisk of Mike Freeman, aaaaand
- that video of Michigan's women's basketball coach going loco.
Not included: "Best Recurring Feature" nominee "Life on the Margins," any of SMQ's penetrating insights into what will and what did happen during the season, or his Absurdly Premature, Reasonably Anticipatory, or Frantically Rushed team previews. The only shame is that MGoBlog was not eligible so that SMQ could give this space the thorough beating it deserves. Congratulations, here is an award.
While I Was Gone
The cloaking mechanism broke. I blame Romulan saboteurs. It should now be repaired, which means mgoblog.com will work again. If this happens in the future, mgoblog.blogspot.com will still work.
Hockey split against Michigan State and Ferris State. Results: one CCHA title, one lost #1 ranking in the Pairwise, and burgeoning concerns about how good the team really is. Other than a lackluster pair of 4-2 wins over Lake State, each of which was a close game that looked more comfortable than it was because of an empty-netter, Michigan hasn't swept an opponent since the mid-January Notre Dame series. There are plenty of mitigating factors -- the Kolarik injury, some questionable play by Bryan Hogan, atrocious refereeing in the Miami series, and plain bad luck in spots -- but a 5-3-4 stretch run is quite a comedown for a team that was 22-2 before that.
Michigan's hold on a top-two spot is now extremely tenuous. Before Saturday's games they had ceded the #1 spot in the PWR to Colorado College; a CC loss to Minnesota State repaired the damage but the comparison remains terribly close. Meanwhile, an OT goal salvaged a 2-1 victory over Minnesota-Duluth for North Dakota, pushing their RPI ahead of Michigan's and giving them the #1 overall spot.
Michigan is now second with CC breathing down their neck. If CC passes Michigan, they'll miss the opportunity to take on a CHA or Atlantic Hockey autobid team. Worse, Wisconsin continues to linger around the edge of the tourney. They're currently the last #4 seed, and if that holds up Michigan's almost definitely going to draw them in the first round at home, for the following reasons:
- CC has to play at home since they're hosting,
- in this scenario NoDak is one of the top two seeds and has earned the right to get an autobid team, which they will do out East because Wisconsin is also hosting,
- UNH would be the other #1 seed and will almost definitely end up in Worcester for attendance purposes,
- the tournament selection committee always finds a way to screw Michigan since the back-to-back Yost regionals.
This last reason may be mad ravings, but the others are solid. Of course, given the way Michigan's game against Wisconsin went at the Showcase a first-round matchup with UW might not be the worst thing in the world.
Both CC and NoDak have two more regular season games before the WCHA playoffs; you want them to lose against Denver and Saint Cloud, respectively. Splits would be enough to temporarily send Michigan to #1.
As for the rest of the comparisons, Michigan's meh final two weeks hasn't lost them any ground but it hasn't guaranteed them anything, either. They have secured comparisons against State and Denver, but CC and NoDak are now neck and neck with M. UNH and Miami could conceivably pass Michigan if M flops in the playoffs. My ballpark estimate of what will happen:
- Fail to get to the Joe: Unless another of the top five implodes in similar fashion, M falls into the #5 slot and becomes the top two seed. Since Michigan will be playing at best the #8 team in the league, this is unlikely.
- Get to the Joe and go 0-2. See above. Winning those two games against a weak, non-TUC CCHA team isn't going to help them much.
- 1-1 at the Joe. Could be the #5 if the rest of the top five wins out (at least, as much as possible in the UND/CC cases), but probably the #3 or #4 seed; very probably going to be in Madison.
- Win CCHA Playoff top two seed, autobid foe in the first round.
There's plenty left to play for. One relief: there's no goddamn way we end up in a regional with North Dakota and Minnesota.
Elsewhere: Yost Built on the weekend. The Saturday game at Ferris wasn't televised, so I can't say anything. On Friday I don't think Ferris had more than one or two even strength scoring chances the whole game, but the penalty kill gave up three goals. Hill, the referee, was fine through a period, then started calling all manner of weird stuff including an interference call on Michigan after someone hit a guy who either still had the puck or had released it a split second before. Woo refs.
The Pairwise went crazy. There are ten teams in the WCHA. If the season ended today, eight of them would be in the tournament. Since these teams will continue to beat each other up in the final two weeks of the season and three of them must lose first-round playoff series, one or two will probably drop out. But at this point it would be a huge upset if only half the conference made the tournament. Which is, of course, insane.
Yost Built covered this in-depth. The WCHA's impressive nonconference winning percentage is largely built many games against the weaker conferences. Head-to-head against HE and the CCHA it's different:
Still, the top eight are 14-11-4 against the CCHA and Hockey East (and the top 4 are 8-7-2). That doesn't paint the picture of WCHA dominance that people would have you otherwise believe.
College hockey's system has always been strictly numerical and that's been both blessing and curse. The "curse" bit: rampant over-rating of a scanty few nonconference games. Most of the difference in a team's SOS comes from the wins and losses its opponents rack up in the six or eight nonconference games they play, and many of these are against the Bemjidi States and Wayne States and RITs and Alabama Huntsvilles of the world.
The WCHA is a fine conference, undoubtedly the best in college hockey. What the SEC believes it is to college football, the WCHA actually is to college hockey. But a couple of nonconference games here and there shouldn't be enough to override a season's worth of play in conference. Is the difference between the CCHA and WCHA so severe that we should prefer a WCHA team 5 or 6 games under .500 in conference over a CCHA team that's 6 games over .500? That's the situaton we have at the moment.
If a 12-14-6 Minnesota-Duluth or a 13-13-9 Minnesota gets in over 22-12-4 Notre Dame it'll be a terrible injustice. Though ND has struggled from time to time this year, they still sit 12th in RPI. What's holding them back is the Pairwise's stupid decision to count games against the top 25 double and ND's poor record against these foes. ND's nonconference schedule is tourney-worthy -- 7-3 with a split against Denver and a sweep of tourney bubble team Princeton -- and they aren't, like, eighth in their frickin' conference. The NCAA should declare by fiat that any team in the bottom half of its own league doesn't deserve a bid, and they should do it tomorrow.
So did the basketball coach. After Michigan's loss to Northwestern, John Beilein lost all his hair and about twenty pounds, then went bats in video you've already seen sixteen times:
Mmm, that's good crazy.
Tommy Amaker what? Some things are constant with Tommy Amaker, like his team sucking and causing Michigan to lose. Other things... what?
...[Harvard's] group of six recruits expected to join the team next season is rated among the nation's 25 best. This is partly because Harvard Coach Tommy Amaker, who starred at Duke and coached in the Big East and Big Ten conferences, has set his sights on top-flight recruits. It is also because Harvard is willing to consider players with a lower academic standing than previous staff members said they were allowed to. Harvard has also adopted aggressive recruiting tactics that skirt or, in some cases, may even violate National Collegiate Athletic Association rules.
(I have no idea who or what rated the Harvard class amongst the top 25 in anything; it's definitely not Scout or Rivals.) Oh, sure now he starts skirting NCAA rules to haul in good recruiting classes.
Northwestern Penn State what? Bleargh! After limping through an ugly win over Illinois, Michigan was on a four-of-five roll and faced two games against perennial doormats Northwestern and Penn State. Of course, they lost these games. UMHoops highlights the downfall in both games:
Another player posts his career high against Michigan. It's been a problem all year, whether it is Rice, Leuer, Grant,Coble, Moore, McKenzie or Battle they all do it the same way: rain three pointers on the Michigan defense. You don't win games in the BigTen when you allow your opponents to shoot 55% from deep in a game (box score).
No, you don't. Dylan continues, asserting that a 15-0 run on five straight threes is reminiscent of the team when it was run by a certain turtlenecked, fade-sporting Duke alum. Indeed, it is, and that might indicate the problems Amaker left the Michigan program still plague it and will until Beilein gets a different sort of player in. When I looked at Beilein's 1-3-1 zone I noted that said zone was not terrible against the three:
The traditional way to beat a zone -- rain threes on it -- appears less effective against the 1-3-1 than most. West Virginia was seventh(!) in 3FG defense this year at 30.3%, and opponents didn't get off an inordinate number of them: 33.7% of opponent shots, good for a middle-of-the-pack 151st. This isn't nearly as consistent as the turnovers, thoug(h. Last year's Sweet 16 outfit was still above average at 34%, but the two years before that were ugly. However, in no year did teams get off an inordinate number of threes. WVU has hovered around the national average.
This year, Michigan opponents are making it rain: Michigan is 312th (of 341) in opponent 3PT% and 217th -- well below average -- in the percentage of three-pointers opponents launch. Opponents are also making 49.4 percent of their two pointers and getting a ton of offensive rebounds; the resulting defensive efficiency (106.7 points per 100 possesssions) is an unstirring 280th. They aren't forcing the rampant turnovers Beilein's teams usually do, and thus the defense is dead.
The offense: 49th in three point shots, 301st in making them. End of story.
Baseball tied the Mets, then sucked. Michigan tied a professional team 4-4 and led in the ninth before a two-run homer. For some reason, an attempted Kevin Cislo bunt (in the fourth inning!) enraged Mets closer Billy Wagner:
If he got that bunt down, I would have drilled the next guy. Play to win against Villanova.
Uh... what kind of weird bunting bushido lesson did I and the rest of the free world miss? If anyone needs further evidence this Wagner guy is mental: Jim Rome enthusiastically agreed with him. QED.
Michigan, coming off a season-opening three game sweep of Villanova, proceeded to go 1-3 in the next four, getting smoked by #1 Arizona State twice and losing in extra innings to Portland. There was a win against Hawaii in there somewhere.
Elsewhere: Colin of Yet Another Michigan Sports Blog asked penetrating questions of a Baseball Prospectus fellow and got interesting answers
Dominique Douglas ate like five grand.
Yeah, that seems like a good idea.
2007 College Football Blogger Awards Presentation: Best Post - Analysis
The voting is finished and it's time to present this year's College Football Blogger Awards. Where possible, last year's winner, ineligible to win this year, will be presenting the award to this year's winner. Please check in at Rocky Top Talk and EDSBS for a schedule of all the awards to be presented over the next two days.
The next award presentation - for "Best Community" - will be noonish at Burnt Orange Nation
AWARD PRESENTATION: "BEST POST OF THE YEAR: Analysis"
Fiascotime Post-Mortem, by MGoBlog
Playing the Numbers Game: The BCS Computers, by Burnt Orange Nation diarist, Horn Brain
Requiem for a Triple Option, by Sunday Morning Quarterback
Simple Complexity, by Blue Gray Sky
The Divide Route in the Multiple Smash Concept, by Smart Football
2007: Pythagorean Wins Revisited, by Roll Bama Roll
"Requiem for a Triple Option," by Sunday Morning Quarterback
This could have been any of a half-dozen different SMQB posts tackling anything from statistics to the origin of the term "single wing"; I'm probably not spoiling much to tell you that SMQB won the blog version of this award in an epic landslide. As it is, there is another in this category...
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"The Divide Route in the Multiple Smash Concept" by Smart Football.
Hey, this is kind of the reason we made jury awards for certain categories. Smart Football is low traffic, posts every month or two, and exists only in the feed readers of wonky football obsessives who would like things explained to them very slowly by trained professionals in an effort to become one with their dork. Smart Football does this with aplomb, and though its posting rate and overall traffic made us pretty sure it wasn't going to win Best Analysis -- these things are usually go with what you know -- each post is a little jewel of clarity.
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I refer here to the "Smash concept" or the "Smash route." Both refer to a two-man combination with the outside receiver on a 6 yard hitch and the inside receiver on a 12 yard corner route. Some coaches and teams go further and actually refer to either the corner route or the hitch route as a "smash" route. Again, "smash" to me is the combination - i.e. the concept - rather than any individual route.
In any event, the quarterback has a progression read: (1) corner, (2) hitch underneath. In his progression read he will "key" the cornerback: If the cornerback sinks back to stop the corner route, throw the hitch; if he comes up for the hitch, throw the corner. The best way to describe this to a QB is that you have a progression read and you "read" your receivers. You simply "progress" from one to two. In doing this though you have to understand what guys you are "keying," as their reactions should determine your progression. A Quarterback must understand defenses and defender reactions, but at the same time there is no telling where those 11 guys on defense will go, and as long as he knows where his receivers are and if the QB and the receivers are all on the same page we can run a successful play. We tell him his general rule is to throw the corner route until they take it away (though by gameplan or defense you can tell him to always throw the hitch until they come up for it).
This is the basic explanation; things get more big-play oriented and complicated as they progress, but Smart Football never wanders off into seriously incomprehensible jargon. By the end you feel like you have a handle on an important facet of beating zone coverage, down to the slight adjustments in each receiver's route, and at no point are you overwhelmed. Clearly explaining a difficult, obscure concept is a terribly hard thing to do, so we give out awards for it. Here is an award.
2008 Recruiting: Linebackers And Defensive Line
Taylor Hill
|Youngstown, Ohio - 6'2" 190
|4*, #21 OLB, Rivals 250
|Other Suitors
|Oklahoma, LSU, Michigan State, Pitt
|Larry Foote
Previously On
|Taylor Hill Commits?
|Glenville-Mooney scrimmage video,
If you want to add Taylor Hill to the snake-oil bonanza, feel free. At one time Hill was committed to Oklahoma, and he had just committed to Rodriguez at West Virginia when Rodriguez left for Michigan. So he's a quasi-decommit. Even odder: Hill committed to Oklahoma before visiting the campus and didn't meet Bob Stoops until October. He promptly decommitted. (Joking!)
It's hard to decipher the split between Hill's offers and his ranking. He originally decided in June between the four suitors listed above, which means he had early offers from both LSU and Oklahoma. Normally when LSU and Oklahoma offer a kid from Ohio that's a strong indicator he's elite. In this case, both Bob Stoops and Bo Pelini are both Cardinal Mooney alums who had reason to know about Hill's existence, and when Hill told Oklahoma he was going to look around they yanked his offer. They weren't exactly desperate to hang on to him.
After Oklahoma and Hill parted ways, Hill verbaled to Rich Rodriguez two days before he took the Michigan job. He decommitted again, promising to open things up. A visit to Michigan State later, he committed to Michigan. So... do we believe the early LSU and Oklahoma offers or his second-wave recruitment, during which the big candidates were second-tier schools like West Virginia and Michigan State? Two of three gurus say the latter; Rivals is more optimistic.
What does Michigan have in Hill? The comparison above, Larry Foote, is a strong one. Like Foote, Hill is an undersized WLB who played his high school ball as a defensive end and specialized in getting into the backfield. A Scout.com report from Mooney's game against Pennsylvania power Gateway:
Taylor Hill is another player that helped change the game early on. He got a ton of pressure on the Gateway quarterback off of the edge. The Gators just never could get it going offensively due to the fact they could not establish a passing attack, and Hill played a huge role in the disruption.
His athletic director echoes the thought in a piece from late in Hill's junior year:
While several other Cardinal defenders have got a lot of attention this year — specifically, junior linebacker Michael Zordich and senior defensive tackle Ishmaai'ly Kitchen — junior defensive end Taylor Hill has flown under the radar despite a terrific season.
"This kid causes a lot of havoc," said legendary Mooney coach Don Bucci, now the school's athletic director. "When you talk about that junior class, people always name the big three of McCarthy, Zordich and [running back Brandon Beachum], but he's in their class as far as an athlete."
A local columnist summed up Hill's season after Mooney's one-point loss to Coldwater in the state championship game: "Coldwater's game plan in the state finals was, basically, to get rid of the ball so quickly it wouldn't have to block Hill."
On the other hand, ESPN's scouting report notes that he's playing out of position and has some praise for his athleticism but spends most of its length saying things like "can be undisciplined" and "can run, but needs to improve instincts and feel for the game." It's an uncommonly negative piece for ESPN. Unsurprisingly, their rating of Hill is significantly lower than that of either Scout or Rivals.
Guru Reliability: Moderate. High profile player, but playing out of position.
General Excitement Level: Moderate. A project that requires a lot of development both mentally and physically before he's ready to play, but Oklahoma and LSU offers are Oklahoma and LSU offers. High upside, high bust factor.
Projection: Obvious redshirt candidate what with the position switch and being 180 or 190 pounds and all. After that will try to find a role as a blitzing linebacker a la Foote or Shawn Crable.
Marcus Witherspoon
|Absecon, New Jersey - 6'2" 210
|4*, #14 WLB, #212 overall
|#91 overall to Takkle
|Other Suitors
|Rutgers, Tennessee
|Shawn Crable
Previously On
By the time Marcus Witherspoon committed in early June, I had a couple articles in which he claimed offers from BC, Florida, Georgia, Notre Dame, and 25 others... unfortunately, those have evaporated and I think maybe a couple of those are iffy. In any case, when Carr retired and Rodriguez was hired there was a minor panic as Witherspoon re-opened his recruiting, seriously considered Tennessee, and seemed headed there for a moment or two before re-committing.
Witherspoon was rated and recruited as a linebacker, but with no defensive ends in this class and just one in the previous year's, someone's likely to move. Witherspoon seems a likely candidate. Check it:
The Michigan commit definitely looks like a top DI prospect physically. Although he's listed as a linebacker, he spent most of the day at defensive end, and used an assortment of moves to harass the Immaculata quarterback and running g ame. He'll likely start off as a linebacker with the Wolverines, but don't be surprised if he grows out of that position after a year or two in their strength and conditioning program.
Witherspoon in the wild:
Last year Witherspoon racked up 27 sacks as his team went undefeated, winning the state championship as Witherspoon wreaked havoc on the edge. Witherspoon's coach before his junior season:
"We still consider him raw, so this (season) is going to be interesting," Holy Spirit coach Bill Walsh said. "At the high school level, he has the ability to take things into his own hands. We're looking forward to see what's going to happen this season. He's one of the special ones that make everyone else better.
"His first three steps are explosive and for a kid that big to run a legit 4.5 (seconds in the 40-yard dash), there are not too many kids who have his weight and size that run that legit speed. When you watch him on tape, he gets after it. But he still has a lot of growth."
An explosive edge rusher who's probably too small to be a fulltime defensive end in college? Add four inches and some chicken legs and that sounds like Shawn Crable, who actually spent quite a bit of time as a defensive end anyway. ESPN's scouting report reinforces that belief:
Natural pass rusher, who possesses the quick first step and lean to effectively get by offensive lineman. This excellent, vertical attacking ability is also evident in the run game. Very difficult to block him when trying to get the edge.
Concerns are expressed about Witherspoon being the product of an "attack-style defense" who might need some serious technique and responsibility work as a collegian... again, Crable.
Guru Reliability: High. They're all in the same ballpark; no sleeper marks.
General Excitement Level: Moderate++. Michigan's probably better off if Witherspoon doesn't see serious time for a year or two and then develops into a weakside defensive end. He won't have to be an enormous guy if VanBergen, a much larger guy who projects on the strongside, works out.
Projection: Obviously, this blog is projecting a move to DE. Or, rather, a non-move from DE.
JB Fitzgerald
|Princeton Junction, New Jersey - 6'3" 225
|4*, #10 SLB, #152 overall
|4*, #18 OLB, #145 overall
|80, #14 OLB, #141 overall
|Other Suitors
|Florida, Rutgers
|Victor Hobson
Previously On
|Shamefully, nothing.
|Greg Schiano followed this dude around in a helicopter.
Only CB Boubacar Cissoko has a set of guru ratings as consistent as JB Fitzgerald's: three separate services have Fitz from around the 140th to 150th-best player in the country, and all say he's an outside linebacker. Despite that the tentative plan is to play Fitzgerald in the middle.
Fitzgerald picked Michigan over Rutgers and a legit Florida offer in late August, then picked Michigan over Rutgers again on Signing Day. Other offers came from Cal, Virginia Tech, Virginia, Georgia Tech, and a wide variety of other school.
Why did he get those offers? Well, you know what they say about a guy with huge hands...
"Coach Smith had told me that at the end of his sophomore year, he took J.B.'s hand and put it on a photocopier machine," said David Fitzgerald, J.B.'s father. "He mailed it out to all these schools."
..."boy, those guys make good linebackers." And lo, the offers flowed. ESPN($):
Possesses the flat-out speed to turn and chase down backs to the sideline, rare and very impressive for size ... His overall read-and-reaction skills need improvement. We have yet to see great reactive athleticism and a good initial jump to the football. He is such a good short-range athlete that these weaknesses are often masked.
So he's a bit raw as a linebacker, but nowhere near as raw as either Hill or Witherspoon. In marked contrast to the sack-heavy statlines of Michigan's other linebacker recruits, Fitzgerald's numbers actually look like those of a linebacker: 125 tackles, six forced fumbles, two interceptions, and two sacks. He was picked the Gatorade player of the year and Newark Star-Ledger defensive player of the year in New Jersey over OMG shirtless Florida recruit Will Hill. (Side note: the "hands" article is enormous and enlightening.)
You'd think there would be more out there on Fitzgerald, but unfortunately that's all the info I could dig up. At least it's positive.
Guru Reliability: High. Not much of a position move, three-year starter, no injury concerns, consistent rankings.
General Excitement Level: High. A good bet to be a multi-year starter.
Projection: Gives Johnny Thompson a run for his playing time in the fall; ends up a frequently-used backup and is groomed for a starting spot starting his sophomore year. Ezeh will probably head out to SLB.
Kenny Demens
|Beverly Hills, Michigan - 6'1" 220
|Other Suitors
|Michigan State, Nebraska
|Chris Graham
Previously On
|The only youtube hit for "Kenny Demens" is so awesome. And Scandanavian. Commitment presser.
The high school teammate of top-ranked instate running back Jonas Gray, Kenny Demens found himself similarly ignored by Michigan for the first half of the recruiting year. By June he had picked up offers from West Virginia, Nebraska, and most of the Big Ten outside of Penn State and Ohio State.
Michigan didn't get serious about offering until Demens attended their summer camp and put in an impressive performance; the late-developing interest had them temporarily behind Nebraska and Michigan State.
ESPN spends much of its scouting report discussing his potential as a fullback; when they finally get around to the idea of Demens as a linebacker they note that his short-range closing speed "can match most of the elite linebackers in this 2008 class" -- it's too bad none of Demens' film was released into the free areas of the internet, because it's mostly him laying wood to people -- and that he has some trouble moving through the muck but is a "tough, physical tackling machine" before referencing his lack of ideal measurables and giving him about the same grade everyone else does: on the three-four star borderline.
Chris Graham may not be the most appealing comparison, but the elements are all there: a little undersized (I am of the belief the 6'1" frequently thrown around as his height is overstated), has difficulting getting through traffic, praised for his short range burst and thumping tackling. Graham never figured out how to play in control or get to the right place at the right time and was thus a disappointing starter; if Demens can play smarter he could be anything from a decent starter to a borderline all Big Ten pick.
Guru Reliability: High; they all agree and there's no reason he'd be particularly underrated.
General Excitement Level: Moderate--. Offers and ratings are pretty much in agreement; Demens is a low upside sort.
Projection: Think he's a little less likely to contribute than any of the other linebackers in the class, but not by much. It'll depend on how smart he is about maximizing his abilities.
Mike Martin
|Novi, Michigan - 6'1" 285
|4*, #12 DT, #196 overall
|Other Suitors
|MSU, PSU, Notre Dame
|Terrance Taylor
Previously On
|Say Hello to Mike Martin, Crabman
|Don't blame me. ESPN said it.
Martin committed in early June, about a month after picking up his Michigan offer. By that time Penn State, Michigan State, Purdue, and a dozen other schools had offered, but there weren't any heavyweights on his list. IIRC, he was a late-emerging sort that no one mentioned until around April or May, at which point people began to catch on. Notre Dame offered and attempted to sway Martin after the coaching change, but Martin canceled a planned visit and stuck with his commitment.
In Martin, Michigan appears to have a player almost identical to current NT Terrance Taylor. Both are mildly undersized nose tackles who were terrifying heavyweight wrestlers and powerlifters with multiple state records to their credit. Taylor was generally ranked higher (IIRC, anywhere from around #60 to the tail end of top 100 lists) and entered college much larger.
Martin doesn't look much like your stereotypical pot-bellied defensive tackle; check this video of a Martin wrestling match:
That is a slab of muscle Mike Barwis would be mildly impressed with.
This extensive highlight reel covers Martin's senior season; it often features him running ballcarriers down like he's Shawn Crable (you might want to skip the first minute, which is all still shots):
Martin is the platonic opposite of Gabe Watson, a penetrator reminiscent of USC terror Sedrick Ellis. Ellis was an All-American because he can do the sort of things Martin does in the clips above at 305 pounds and hold up at the point of attack when doubled. Martin's usually listed at 280 and is obviously way more advanced in the tao of weightroom than 99% of high schoolers: there's a chance he's just not going to get any bigger.
Guru Reliability: High.
General Excitement Level: High. The highlight reel is totally impressive, there are zero questions about work ethic or how in shape he is, and he's got pretty good guru rankings.
Projection: Will play in the DT rotation immediately, and will probably leap past Ferrara, Kates (if Kates remains on the team), et al to claim a starting spot once Taylor and Johnson graduate.
Position Grades
Linebacker: B+. Michigan picked up its share of athletes and did well in an area they had to after a disappointing 2007 class with just two sleepers, but some immediate impact sorts were needed and other than maybe Fitzgerald there doesn't appear to be a guy who can compete for serious playing time as a freshman.
Defensive Line: C-. I really like Martin and think he's very likely to be a productive starter and eventually an All Big Ten sort. But... uh... that's it. A year after picking up just one DE, Michigan got zero; the position now looms as the far and away #2 area of need for the 2008 class (quarterback, obviously, is #1 ). Losing Nick Perry hurt badly on a Signing Day otherwise full of pleasant surprises.
We'll see if Witherspoon or Koger or both end up at DE, but given the way the class was announced this is the biggest issue with the class outside of the understandable QB fiasco.


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Good question! People are often confused by this terminology. A tax appraisal is the value of a property according to the government entity in which the property is located, usually the county. The evaluations are often done on average prices in the area and may not always be up to date with regard to current market prices.
The purchase appraisal is typically ordered by the bank or lending intstitution which is granting a mortgage. The individual property is measured and viewed by a cerified appraiser and then compared to very recent sales.
It's not unusual to have different amounts for the tax appraisal and the purchase appraisal. With the nationwide trend of lower values, property owners need to determine if they are paying taxes based on an amount that is too high and not realistic based on today's market.
I hope this helps!
In the tax appraisal, as someone else mentioned, in NC they are done only once every 4 to 8 years, are usually only a driveby to see if there are any apparent changes to the home, as well as checking for any improvements done since the last tax appraisal that building permits were issued for. Typically in a tax appraisal increases (or decreases) in value are not usually made to an individual home, but are done by a particular area. For example, if you live in a rather large subdivision, they may determine what the change in the average value in the subdivison is, based on recent sales in the subdivision, and increase or decrease the value on all homes in the subdivision by that figure. An individual property may also be adjusted based on any improvements (other than cosmetic) since the last appraisal.
In short, the real estate purchase appraisal is a determination of the value on the particular date that the appraisal is completed. The tax appraisal, depending on when it was last done, may or may not be an accurate value of the home at any given time. In Henderson County where you live, the last tax appraisal was done in 2010, and effective in the tax year 2011, so may not accurately reflect the value today.
The independent appraiser is also licensed by the State of NC and most often works for the bank. The bank and FHA, VA , Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac all rely on private appraisers to establish the value of the property for loan purposes.
A tax appraiser is usually a drive by and they don't come into the house. The tax appraiser also usually isn't as keen on what true values are for each particular neighborhood or community. And most tax appraisers aren't held as accountable for their numbers as a licensed appraiser doing a report for a purchase is. But there again, one works for the bank with a serious interest in the property, and the other works for the county just trying to decide how much you'll pay them every year, along with thousands of others. Hope this helps.
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I see a lot of members mention bearded iris in their market collections. Where I live, these plants are strictly bedding plants only as the blooms wither within 24 hours. What are some of the long-lasting varieties suitable for cut flowers?
I use the large showy bearded iris in my bouquets, making sure that there are at least 4-5 buds, with one already open. I also tell my customers that as a bloom fades, to just snap off that one, and the others will open. One down side is the purple flowers as they wither, will leave a purple stain on either your hands, or a white table cloth should it fall off. I usually remind people of that. They are gorgeous in a bouquet, and when using them, I also put lots of other flowers around the iris to hold interest when the iris's are done. Right now I have siberian iris in many colors to go with them, white lychnis, astrantia, dianthus, painted daisy, valerian, trollius, tansy leaves, ect... The blooms of an iris are so beautiful, I don't think people mind the fact they have to pick off the spent blooms.
Some of my customers love iris and look forward to iris season. Others find them a bother...folks who don't want to take the time to groom their bouquet. So the subscription folks who love them get them when in bloom...long stalks with lots of buds. I occassionally will put a branch with maybe 3 buds in my smaller stand bouquets but onlyh in some of them so people can choose if they want them. I try to stay away from any of the really inky ones to sell. Plenty of bright colors that do not look so gruesome as they wither.


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