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Goal-by-Goal Analysis: Michigan State 2/7/15
There are dozens of us. DOZENS!
[Patrick Barron/MGoBlog]
1st period
UM 1 MSU 0 EV 01:43 Downing (5) from Calderone (6) and Nieves (14)
Tony Calderone gets the puck via a stretch pass Boo Nieves makes from along the boards in Michigan's defensive zone. The pass comes from the same spot Nieves wasn't able to gain control of the puck last Friday (which subsequently led to a Spartans goal), so it's nice to see him seal the puck and get it out of the zone this weekend. Calderone skates to the red line before walking it back up the boards in an effort to avoid the MSU defender.
Michigan State's defenders have collapsed around the net, which is typical of their style. That's not really a criticism; if you're going to give up shots from the point and your goaltender is Jake Hildebrand you're probably going to do alright. Calderone passes to the blur at the top of the screen cap. That blur is Downing, and it's easy to see how much he's able to put on the shot from the camera's inability to focus on him.
It looks to me like the puck goes under the defenseman's stick and beats Hildebrand on his blocker side in the little green square I've drawn on the screen cap. This isn't a good goal for him to give up; despite having a defenseman in front of him in the screen cap he was able to track the puck and squared himself to the shot. That d-man in his view came in after the pass had been made to Downing and Hildebrand was starting to butterfly.
[After THE JUMP: Darth Vader makes an appearance, and it's not in discussing MSU or Dave Brandon]
Monday Recruitin' Probably Offered You
2015: Not Dead Yet
Well, I'll be damned:
In a move that comes as something less than a shock, UCLA announced Sunday that defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich "has stepped down" from his position on the Bruins' staff.
Ulbrich has been widely linked with new coach Dan Quinn's Atlanta Falcons staff and is expected to become the Falcons' new linebackers coach, per reports.
With that news, it's unlikely 2015 top-50 LB Roquan Smith will re-commit to UCLA. After taking a break last weekend, Smith will reevaluate his final four—UCLA, Georgia, Michigan, and Texas A&M—this week. With the extra time, Smith's coach believes he'll be more assured of his decision, per GBW's Kyle Bogenschutz ($):
"He's actually relieved," Harold said. "Like I told him, and the relief comes from the fact he gets more time. He went on five straight trips so of course the last trip you take is still fresh on your mind and he didn't have like two days to hash everything out. He was conflicted up until he went on television. I told him you can go with your heart now and not turn a letter in and make a better decision because I want you to be 100-percent sure.
Georgia is the presumed favorite, but Michigan should be right in the running—yes, despite the "Michigan University" sign, which Smith's coach admitted was his error, not his star player's.
There's no substantive update on Mike Weber and whether or not he'll ask out of his Ohio State LOI.
[Hit THE JUMP for updated 2016 rankings, a ton of new offers, and more.]
Basketbullets: Indiana
You should really look at the big version for the background faces [Patrick Barron]
We have a theme, a palpable theme. Michigan plays about as well as they can, is right in it with a team headed to the tournament, and cannot finish the job. Three of Michigan's last four losses have followed that pattern, with the exception a home blowout against suddenly incandescent Iowa.
That was also going to happen—the ugly blowouts against teams that can exploit the various holes in Michigan's roster—but overall it's a familiar theme: Michigan's got a bunch of guys trying their best and not quite making it. This is also known as "the Amaker tenure."
In this case Michigan had to get raided by the NBA draft, lose their top two players, and have their touted freshman spectacularly underperform. They'll be a lot better next year. Take this team, add Walton, Duncan Robinson, DJ Wilson, and a year of experience for literally everyone and you're back to being a tourney team.
Levert? FWIW, I was talking to Sam Webb during my weekly WTKA thing (Thursdays, 9 AM) and LeVert came up; he said that it wasn't a slam dunk he'd go, and I was like "er, what" and he said he likes school, loves the team, and might stick it out. He is very young for his grade. Obviously, the prospect of a guaranteed seven-figure contract is and will remain tempting.
It would be nice to finally get a guy who could go back.
Irvin bust out. Indiana does not have a good defense. Let's stipulate that. But Michigan actually saw a good deal of, you know, offense. Michigan's 13 assists were the most they'd had since the Penn State game, and rarely have they cracked double digits. That's symptomatic of an offense that's struggling and resorting to a lot of heroball.
Nobody has been more negatively impacted by this than Zak Irvin, who was an excellent microwave last year and has struggled to initiate his own offense or find kickouts from his teammates. This leads to a pattern of frustration followed by contested shots off the dribble—not good eats for your offensive efficiency.
Irvin shook that against Indiana, finishing a few buckets around the basket that were set up by his teammates and finding small windows of space for his threes. He initiated a little offense himself. He was efficient. After, Beilein praised his improved "acumen for the game," and that's about right. This was also right, unfortunately:
But if there was one nagging frustration with Irvin on Sunday, it was his struggles to finish at the rim. With eight minutes left and Michigan down nine, the forward missed a fairly routine layup. A minute later, he went up for a layup with his right hand despite being on the left side of the rim, and the shot was blocked as a result.
"He's got his head on right, and he knows that everybody has parts of their game they need to work on," Beilein said. "He realizes what some of those are, and he's working on them."
Major points to the color guy for pointing that latter problem out immediately and informatively.
Anyway, priority one for the rest of this year is for the rest of the offense to pose enough of a threat to opponents that Irvin can either find open threes or, at the very least, closeouts. He can attack those; when he's just trying to straight up beat a guy he doesn't have the lateral mobility to do that without a bunch of spins and other such moves that bring help defenders into play.
[Patrick Barron]
MAAR bust. Freshmen are up and down and hoo boy was MAAR down in this one. His missed bunny after a steal was followed by another Irvin missed bunny and those buckets combined to rankle the remainder of the game, no more so than when Michigan ended up three points short on the scoreboard.
This is no doubt an adjustment period. Teams have seen what MAAR can do and have a scouting report on him; now it's up for Michigan to get MAAR playing better than he's scouted. One priority needs to be moving him from a guy who seems to make up his mind whether it's pass or shot before the drive to one who can find the open guys under the hoop when he draws help.
And then Doyle surges. (Also Donnal.) Meanwhile, Michigan's bigs kept moderately-big Max Bielfeldt (three minutes) on the bench for the first time in forever. Donnal put up seven points on four shots; Doyle had 15(!) on 8 shot equivalents. He was one made FT from having as many points as you can without an and-one or three pointer, on 19% usage in 27 minutes.
This has a lot to do with Indiana, which got a total of five minutes from guys bigger than a willowy 6'7".
Negative: even so they still got crushed on the boards. Doyle's trying to block shots that are not good shots to block: in the first half Irvin or Dawkins or MAAR had successfully contested a drive, forcing Indiana into difficult runner from five feet. It missed, but Doyle had tried to block it and his guy was there for an easy putback. Unless you are a pterodactyl man like Anthony Davis, that's a bad idea.
Evidence of offensive improvement. Michigan's last shot went through all five Wolverines before landing in MAAR's hands in the corner for a wide open look. It didn't go down, but to be able to execute that is something resembling progress.
Also, an alley-oop! It seems like forever ago when Michigan got two or three of those a game from Robinson.
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Evidence they've got a ways to go. Blackmon (sigh) and Ferrell had a great sequence against the 2-3 in which Blackmon attacked, drawing both high defenders. Ferrell saw this and made a cut to the soft spot of the 2-3, receiving the pass and finishing and and-one against a highly disadvantaged Irvin.
That's not something we've seen much of from Michigan during their extensive opportunities to go up against a 2-3. Very, very rarely does anyone force the zone to react before attempting to get a pass inside the arc, and a lot of the time Michigan spends 20 seconds or so trying to make a pass to initiate their offense against a zone that hasn't been deformed or stretched.
Chatman thing. He did little in his ten minutes. This is something of an improvement. I did wonder what was going on on several possessions where he sat in the middle of the floor like he was flashing to the post against a 2-3. He brought a defender with him, which almost made it look like Indiana was running a 1-3-1. It was a confusing time.
Then I figured out that Indiana was just in man to man and Chatman kept flashing to the post because he didn't recognize that. This happened on three or four possessions and is another ominous sign about how far he has to go.
Must… fight… old man sportswriter… feels. SPOCK. I am not a fan of guys sitting back from their typewriters proclaiming some dude they don't know a scourge of society because he is a bit of a showoff. I think this is more reflective of the person writing it than the subject.
But, man, Troy Williams takes it to another level. Troy Williams flexes at his mom after he successfully pours milk in his cereal. Troy Williams goes to children's hospitals and mean-mugs at cancer patients because he is to date free of same. Troy Williams makes me an old man sportswriter and therefore I dislike him.
Hatch bits. ESPN story and video:
Bring kleenex.
Thing I never want to see again. A Yogi Ferrell pull-up three. I would like him to not be at Indiana, please.
Indiana 70, Michigan 67
Oh, the faces you'll show. [Patrick Barron/MGoBlog]
Just short.
Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman's last-second attempt to tie from the corner summed up this Michigan team of late. Indiana looked like they'd win comfortably for most of the game, at times threatening to break the game wide open, but the Wolverines clawed back into it late, overcoming their porous defense with timely buckets.
The final possession played out similarly. Zak Irvin, whose hot hand brought M within striking distance, was clearly the first option, but IU wouldn't allow him a decent look. As the clock wound perilously close to zero, Michigan swung the ball around the arc, and suddenly there was MAAR, standing alone in the corner.
His try caught only iron, and we're once again left to commending Michigan's effort in a narrow loss against a better team.
This team, in its current form, just isn't talented enough to overcome too many mistakes. The first half featured Indiana jumping out to a lead in part due to too many Wolverine turnovers. The second half featured a couple critical missed layups—including MAAR blowing a breakaway that would've pulled M within two—and too many offensive boards for IU.
Michigan struggled throughout on defense, failing to keep Yogi Ferrell (18 points, six assists) out of the lane whether in man or zone; Ferrell did most of his damage in the paint, either swooping in for layups or creating open looks when the defense collapsed. Troy Williams posted 20 and 8 in an impressive performance highlighted by a couple thunderous dunks.
The failings on the other end meant Zak Irvin's 23-point output (9/16 FG) went in vain. Ditto Michigan's most productive performance from a big man in a long time, Ricky Doyle's 15 points on 5/5 FGs and 5/6 FTs. While the offense clicked in the second half, the hole dug in the first proved too deep to escape.
Facing their most difficult stretch of the season ahead, Michigan has a lot of positives to take from the last couple weeks. To actually start recording some signature wins, however, they must start shoring up the mistakes.
Preview: Indiana
Michigan (13-10, 6-5 B1G) at
Indiana (16-7, 6-4)
Assembly Hall,
Bloomington, Indiana
|1 pm ET, Sunday
|Indiana -8 (KenPom)
PBP: Kevin Harlan
Analyst: Clark Kellogg
Michigan has won just twice in Assembly Hall since the 1989 championship season, and they'll still be without the services of Derrick Walton this time around, though his prognosis has ever so slightly improved:
Walton, who has missed the last three games because of a foot injury, could return this season — a potential upgrade from last week, when coach John Beilein said that Walton would be out for "the foreseeable future" because of an injury compounded by a turf-toe issue. ...
"He's in that (walking) boot and when he can walk pain-free again, then we'll start looking at it. We're doing therapy in the pool and different things with him. We're very hopeful he can return at some point this year," Beilein told reporters Saturday.
Projected starters are in bold. Hover over headers for stat explanations; I've switched over to conference-only stats for %Min and %Poss now. The "Should I Be Mad If He Hits A Three" methodology: we're mad if a guy who's not good at shooting somehow hits one. Yes, you're still allowed to be unhappy if a proven shooter is left open. It's a free country.
|Yogi Ferrell
|6'0, 178
|Dangerous outside shooter and great distributor.
|Robert Johnson
|6'3, 195
|Sharpshooter takes half his shots from 3-pt. A bit turnover-prone.
|James Blackmon
|6'4, 190
|Excellent shooter, good athlete, can help on boards. Dealing w/ ankle injury.
|Troy Williams
|6'7, 206
|Outstanding athlete, solid finisher and rebounder, not a shooter.
|Collin Hartman
|6'6, 210
|Low-usage stretch F hitting 59%(!) of threes in B1G play.
|Nick Zeisloft
|6'4, 205
|Almost exclusively a 3-pt shooter, hits 41% of them.
|Emmitt Holt
|6'7, 215
|Low usage. Solid rebounder who tends to finish his chances at rim.
|Stanford Robinson
|6'4, 193
|Slasher who hits just 38% of twos and is 0/9 from three on the season.
Indiana looked pretty solid in nonconference play, beating #28 SMU and #18 Butler before taking #23 Georgetown to overtime; their loss to #11 Louisville was quite understandable, not so much a defeat at the hands of #125 Eastern Washington in Assembly Hall.
In Big Ten play, it's been all about the home/road splits: they're 4-0 in Assembly Hall and 2-4 away from it, with the road wins coming against Nebraska and Illinois. They've dropped three of their last four, though the most recent game, a road blowout at Wisconsin with James Blackmon Jr. sidelined due to an ankle injury, is hard to hold against them.
[Hit THE JUMP for the rest of the preview.]
Puck Preview: Michigan State Again
Michigan (15-8, 7-2 B10)
Not Yost,
Thanks Dave Brandon
|8 PM ET Saturday
Villiam Haag has a top quality hockey mullet
This is the same opponent Michigan had last week in a game that would normally be at Yost but is instead outdoors in Chicago. As a result season ticket holders are enjoying a six week gap between home games. Adding insult to injury, the announcement that this game would be in Chicago came after the season ticket renewal deadline.
This is Dave Brandon reaching back to us from beyond the grave to torment us one last time, so here's an opportunity to give thanks that he darkens our doorstep no longer. It is ultimate Dave Brandon to take a Michigan State game out of one of the cathedrals of college hockey in favor of something called the "Coyote Logistics Hockey City Classic" at a three-quarters empty NFL stadium. You and your logistics can go straight to hell, or Arizona. Wherever.
But… right… the game.
Michigan State remains Michigan State. They won the Joe Louis Arena contest the way they usually win games, scraping out a low-scoring snoozer thanks to a puck that bounced off multiple things before hitting the net, and then packing all six guys on the ice inside their crease for the remainder. It's ugly to watch and frustrating to lose to, but that's just the way things go against a style like that sometimes. It's .500 hockey against just about anyone, be they overmatched or… uh… undermatched.
More detail on MSU can be found in the previous post. In brief, MSU is a defensively responsible outfit with little offensive talent and a penchant for extremely conservative hockey.
Michigan fell a couple spots after last weekend's loss. They would still be in the tournament if the season ended today… unless conference tournaments went badly. They're solidly on the bubble. Losing again would push them out temporarily and eat up another one of the losses they can sustain before the end of the regular season.
Also, Michigan is five points clear of PSU and MSU for the Big Ten title—PSU has a game in hand. (College hockey awards three points for a win, remember.)
There are few stakes for MSU, which will be missing the tournament for the third consecutive year and sixth time in the last seven unless they win the Big Ten tournament. They could get within striking distance of Michigan for the conference if they win again, but sustaining that doesn't seem in the cards.
Hockey predictions are even dumber than most predictions, but Michigan does need to adjust the way they play if they're going to have a game that reflects the talent gap between the two teams. Michigan is far too prone to giving up uncontested shots from the slot and has gotten frustrated by MSU's tendency to lay five guys on the ice in front of any shooter.
Scoring the first goal is even more important than it is usually, as when MSU has to chase a game they come out of their shell and into the uncomfortable world of trying to play actual hockey. On the other hand, they are highly adept at choking out scoring chances.
NSD Fallout: What's Worth The Outrage?
"Remember, don't say a damn thing."
It's been barely 36 hours since National Signing Day, and it's clear the top question on everyone's mind is this: What should we be outraged over?
Since message boards (yes, including ours) seem to indicate EVERYTHING, I'm here to attempt a more even-handed approach.
RAGE ON: Bait-and-Switch Coaches
Seth covered much of this in today's Dear Diary, so I'll keep this short. Yes, it's grossly disingenuous for coaches who've spent years selling recruits on the prospect of playing for their program to take other jobs the moment the ink dries on their letter of intent. I was not born yesterday, and therefore refuse to believe that now-ex OSU RBs coach Stan Drayton just happened to field an out-of-the-blue job offer from the Chicago Bears yesterday, or that UCLA DC Jeff Ulbrich is still wrestling with the decision of whether or not to take a job with the Atlanta Falcons.
Mike Weber got unlucky; he found out about Drayton after he'd signed his LOI. Roquan Smith was fortunate; Georgia coaches—out of the purity of their souls, I'm sure—alerted him to Ulbrich's potential flight before he'd put pen to paper, and now Smith will take a week to reassess his decision.
The lesson here isn't that recruits shouldn't go to a school based on their coaches. That's just stupid. They'll spend more time with their coaches—and specifically, their position coach—than any professor or faculty member over the next four years. Having a good relationship with their coaches is hugely important for their sanity; getting quality coaching equally so for their dreams of making it to the next level. Yes, they should take into account potential flight risks and hopefully choose a school they'd enjoy attending regardless of sports, but it's hard to see the bait-and-switch coming when a coach is telling you stuff like this and this.
Just as I was finishing up this post, news broke that Texas' D-line coach took the same job at Florida, despite assurances from Texas head coach Charlie Strong to just-signed recruits that he wasn't going anywhere:
Getting off the phone with coach strong "coach rumph did not accept the offer"
— Call Me Deebs‼ (@DeeChilllin) February 5, 2015
A day later, not so much.
The real lesson here is to not sign LOIs. They're binding only from the prospect's end, and while everyone signs them, they're totally unnecessary; a financial aid agreement serves the same purpose while giving a prospective student-athlete the ability to avoid just this situation.
[Hit THE JUMP for sketchy media members, sketchy greyshirts, unfortunate fan reactions, Thomas Wilcher's strong words about OSU, and something we actually shouldn't be harping on the Buckeyes about. Oh, and Graham Couch being Graham Couch.]
Unverified Voracity Got A Job Just Yesterday
WEBER FIASCO DEFCON 1. The damn day after Mike Weber signs a LOI to Ohio State, running backs coach Stan Drayton leaves for the Bears. Weber:
I'm hurt as hell I ain't gone lie
— Mike Weber (@mikeweber25) February 5, 2015
Tony Paul:
The timing of this move is odd, to put it mildly.
John Fox was named the new Chicago Bears coach in early January, and much of his coaching staff was in place shortly thereafter. It seems curious Drayton would be making the move only after Weber signed his letter of intent to play for Ohio State.
UCLA pulled a similar stunt with their DC. Roquan Smith managed to find out before he used the fax machine, but you have to think that maybe some of UCLA's defensive commits would have looked around if UCLA had announced when they knew about it a month before signing day. Just more of the usual crap.
Recruits! DON'T SIGN A LETTER OF INTENT.
I mean, if you're a random three star and they say sign this paper or we're moving on, go ahead. If you're a big deal, do this:
The NCAA last fall began allowing football prospects who plan to enroll in January to sign financial aid agreements with college programs as early as August 1 of their senior year. The agreement, which allows the college program to have unlimited contact with the player and publicly speak about him, binds the school to the prospect, but not the prospect to the school. So there's nothing to dissuade a situation like that of Josh Malone, who signed financial aid agreements with four schools before ultimately signing with Tennessee.
Sign a financial aid agreement. It's like the LOI, except backwards, and that makes schools hate it. Instead of stuff like this happening to you, you can have hilarious quotes like this apply to your situation:
"You're basically taking the word of the kid," Mallonee told the AJC. "That's part of the issue."
Yeah! A kid who might drop a school for no reason or sell a school a false bill of goods. Damn kids. Always doing mean things with all the power they have.
Meanwhile. Can't say I'm surprised about this.
Unconfirmed rumblings that an Ohio State BEAT WRITER knew the RB coach was leaving, but held off on reporting it so not to lose Mike Weber.
— Tony Paul (@TonyPaul1984) February 6, 2015
Upshot. Could this lead to Weber flipping back to Michigan? Maybe. Schools can release players from LOIs.
Institutions are now empowered to grant a full and complete release from the NLI at anytime. To do so, an official Release Request Form must be initiated by the prospect and submitted to both the NLI office and the signing institution.
There's also an opportunity to appeal when school refuses to release a player, a process that ND signee Eddie Vanderdoes successfully went through a few years back. I'm unclear on what, exactly, this means as part of the Vanderdoes case:
The victory for Vanderdoes comes after a rather lengthy (and sometimes public) spat with Notre Dame and head coach Brian Kelly, who allowed Vanderdoes to enroll at UCLA, but refused to release him from the letter of intent he signed with Notre Dame in February.
Kelly can't prevent a guy from enrolling wherever he wants, and there appears to be no partial release from a LOI. The Bylaw Blog post on the topic implies that this was a straight-up win for Vanderdoes after Kelly refused to release him.
In any case: OSU could release him if the publicity gets bad enough, or Weber could decide to go somewhere else and attempt to appeal. If he did not win that appeal he would have to sit out his freshman year and he would lose that year of eligibility, making him a true sophomore in 2016.
Weber would have to want to pursue that, of course. It's possible he gets over it.
ESPN doing Hatch things. Hatch things:
Hiring various people for 'crootin' and 'lyzin'. Michigan announced they've hired longtime college coach and Harbaugh family associate TJ Weist as a "senior offensive analyst." Weist was the WR coach at Michigan in the early 90s, when a guy named Desmond Howard was hanging out, and was most recently the OC at Connecticut.
This analyst position is not a full assistant job, so Weist won't be able to work with players directly or recruit. He'll do film, find tendencies, and advise. Usually when established coaches take these jobs they're short-term gigs before something opens up elsewhere.
Michigan's also hired Gwendolyn Bush as "director of player development." Bush is the mom of Wayne Lyons, the fifth-year Stanford transfer who's supposed to be landing in Ann Arbor.
This has led to a couple of assertions that Michigan is getting down and dirty. If so, let's be clear why: it's not because Michigan wants a defensive back who will be around for one year. It's because Bush was—uh—"team mom" for South Florida Express, a high-powered 7 on 7 outfit that launched the careers of Teddy Bridgewater and Geno Smith, amongst many others.
@gdbush24 @UMICH_Mama_G thanks for everything you have done for SFE!!! You are a big part of our success!!
— Brett Goetz (@sfecoach) February 5, 2015
SFE won the national 7-on-7 championship, which is apparently a thing that exists now, and got profiled in SI, etc etc.
Meanwhile, Lyons. The Lyons transfer thing has broken loose from the paysites and made the Mercury News:
Stanford coach David Shaw on Wednesday enthusiastically described all 22 players who signed letters of intent as part of another well-regarded recruiting class. He was slightly less eager to discuss a player who might be leaving the program.
Cornerback Wayne Lyons is reportedly considering a transfer to Michigan, where he would play one season (as a graduate student) for former Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh.
"For those guys going into their fifth year that want the opportunity to play someplace else,'' Shaw said, "I've never said no, never tried talk anybody out of it.''
Lyons started seven games last year for Stanford's kick-ass defense. Michigan doesn't really need a defensive back but they've got a slot if Joe Kerridge isn't guaranteed a scholarship (and since it's highly likely someone leaves the team before fall that's probably moot anyway). May as well fill it with a quality player.
Michicon Valley. SJSU hires a familiar name:
I'm hearing former NFL lineman and Michigan GA Adam Stenavich will be the new #SJSU OL coach with Keith Carter off to the Atlanta Falcons.
— Jimmy Durkin (@Jimmy_Durkin) February 5, 2015
Then they did the thing:
SAN JOSE -- San Jose State officially announced two of its coaching hires on Thursday, with Al Borges being named offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach and Dan Ferrigno the special teams coordinator/tight ends coach.
Greg Robinson is of course the DC. It will be… interesting to see how SJSU does this year. I predict bad.
Meanwhile in offensive coordinator hires that Michigan fans are extremely skeptical of. Tennessee is actually, officially doing their thing:
For UT followers: Mike DeBord has told his staff, colleagues at Michigan that he is leaving for Vols, per source w/ knowledge of situation.
— Evan Woodbery (@TheSaintsBeat) February 5, 2015
DeBord has never coordinated anything approximating a mobile quarterback and couldn't even find a position coach job after leaving the NFL, instead landing at Michigan for an Olympic sports administrator thing. Let's see if he can submarine Butch Jones's 80 recruits per year.
Dabo's very particular. This private bathroom thing is a thing.
My favorite thing that I've seen so far covering National Signing Day at Clemson. pic.twitter.com/EmY13lhwsv
— Brian Franey (@FraneyESPN) February 4, 2015
I've heard worse ideas. BYU signed a guy who's never played football before. Does this sound like an idea on par with hiring an Olympic Sports Administrator to be your offensive coordinator? Not so fast my friend:
Welcome Motekiai Langi to the #BYUFOOTBALL family!! #BYUNSD15 pic.twitter.com/xO8yZK1zAS
— BYU Cougars (@BYUCougars) February 4, 2015
That's no moon. Unless it's orbiting a planet. Then it totally is.
Etc.: In case you were considering taking Dave Zirin seriously about anything ever, you probably shouldn't. Vegas odds for the hockey national title are bonkers. Iowa wasn't real happy with the Higdon flip.
Signing day interviews with JayHar, Baxter, Jackson, and Wheatley (Jr).
Tu Quoque, Dear Diary
On Wednesday morning, under pressure to do so in time to headline a Signing Day ceremony at his school, Cass Tech running back Mike Weber decided on Ohio State over Michigan by the slimmest of margins. On Thursday, Weber's position coach and lead recruiter for Ohio State left for the Chicago Bears. Weber:
He also removed all references to Ohio State from his profile.
Michigan fans jumped on this because it's in our interest that every recruit and coach of a recruit and parent of a recruit believe Urban Meyer a slimy salesman (he's not). Ohio State fans jumped to defend it by characterizing Drayton's departure as a surprise to everyone including Drayton, and equating it with signing a junior transfer quarterback after Gentry's LOI was in.
When Ohio State does something shady (or not shady but treated as such in the weird morality of college sports), Ohio State fans will be the first to tell you that everybody does it. They're right to a degree, but the degree is the difference between how much heat the Earth radiates into space, and the Sun. Regardless of whether Urban knew Stan Drayton was leaving beforehand, or if Drayton knew he'd get the job until then, what's clear is they didn't let Weber know the coach he was committing to was likely to walk away as soon as they had his signature on the dotted line.
Purposely fraudulent or unbelievably unfortunate timing, the real lesson here is that coaches are free to make the best decision for themselves, and players are manipulated into signing away that liberty.
And for nothing. Signing Day, really, is only the first day of a period that stretches through April that schools may receive official commitments, in the form of a "Letter of Intent." That letter is merely a non-compete agreement in which the school the player signs with provides nothing in return. The scholarship offer is a completely separate deal.
Since Weber already sent in his LOI, his choices are to stay at Ohio State, wait a year for the LOI to expire then transfer and wait another year, or ask Ohio State to release him, in which case
he still has to wait out a year under NCAA transfer rules CORRECTION: would be free to choose any school. Ohio State can hold him to the LOI, or release him only to schools they choose. They can also rip away his scholarship for just about any reason.
The recruits are finally starting to get wise. Roquan Smith is still unlikely to end up at "Michigan University," but he was moments from sending in his LOI when news (that reporters meant to embargo until after Signing Day) broke that his coaches might not be there. Because he waited, he can now take another week to consider his options.
A Florida commit's father yesterday explained why his son is holding off too, tweeting "…Florida making too many coaching changes this is not a game it's my son's life." He followed up in response to angry idiot-who-tweet-at-recruits fans with the central moral question:
It's not, except in the warped morality of the NCAA and its apologists who think "amateurism" means players shouldn't be entitled to the same rights as every other citizen.
Signing Day is a total boondoggle. Recruits who have any sort of leverage should never sign a LOI, and should never feel pressured to commit on Signing Day. They should ask to sign a financial aid agreement only.
Meanwhile the NCAA should look at allowing players to transfer and play immediately if their head coach or primary recruiter leaves the school. It would prevent players from getting bait and switched, give coaches more job security, and ultimately plateau coaching salaries as schools come to value longevity instead of flashiness in their hiring of them.
How Karan Came. Michigan did get a highly rated running back in the class. Brian already linked to it in yesterday's recruiting post but if you missed it, Karan Higdon's coach is a MUST READ for anyone interested in how this process plays out:
I immediately called the Michigan football office and spoke with a secretary. I told her that there was a running back in Sarasota that may be worth a late look and she advised me to send and email with his profile. I sent his recruit profile and his HUDL highlights. I was contacted almost immediately afterwards and spoke with Chris Singletary. The first thing he asked was what type of kid is Karan and what his grades were.
Meta: Cumong! Brian's eye dialect for "come on!" has an origin. That diary is way more investigative and thorough than you thought it was when you saw it floating on the sidebar all week.
It also got me thinking about just how old this site is, and some of the other characters from Brian's section to be immortalized in these pages. Like "UNACCEPTABLE!" guy. And the narratively adorable moppet from the first great MGoBlog game column. That kid is probably in an English lecture right now. Which reminds me: happy 10th birthday, MGoBlog, belatedly (it was December 4).
Softball is Fun and Has a Woodson.
Sierra's gloves are purely hypothetical by now. Photo: The Californian
Softball has been initialized. This year's team will have to overcome the graduation of a great class, but returns shortstop Sierra Romero and three candidates for best pitcher in the nation. South Bend Wolverine has your full preview, to which I'd like to add my take.
A great pitcher pretty much owns in softball, and Michigan is filthy rich in them. The lefty/righty combo of Haylie Wagner and Sara Driesenga could easily be the best duo in the country if both seniors regain their forms after somewhat disappointing (for them) 2014s. Sophomore Megan Betsa is due for a season on par with the best of the Wagner/Driesenga era. They also added the top pitching prospect in the nation in Tera Blanco out of California. Like Driesenga, Blanco is as dangerous at the plate as on the mound.
And there's Romero. As a sophomore, Sierra was one of three finalists for softball's version of the Heisman. Most of that is her Cabreraian bat, which is already bopping out national records. My favorite of those: Career Grand Slams—the NCAA record is nine; half-way through her Michigan career Romero already has seven (tied for third all time with 2005-'08 Wolverine Samantha Findlay).
Last year Sierra also finished tied for seventh all time for walks in a season with 67, 20 of which were intentional (the most you get is about 250 plate appearances so that's quite a lot of walking). Since Michigan graduated her protection and two top-of-the-order bats, we could end up seeing that number skyrocket if Coach Hutch doesn't find some hitters to fill the bases ahead of Romero and clear 'em behind her. If she does, this is a national championship team.
A Special Hell for Terrible Michigan Coaches
There is a place where they man-block with Patrick Omameh, run Denard Robinson under center, and never use counters. In this place they run a 3-3-5 defense that only ever rushes three and tells its middle linebacker to line up a foot in front of the guard whose job it is to put the middle linebacker in that spot. When they punt, and they punt quite often, they only use two gunners, because that's what NFL rules say.
No, this place isn't some nightmare mashup of the worst parts of the last six years of Michigan. It is called San Jose State.
- Offensive coordinator: Al Borges
- Defensive coordinator: Greg Robinson
- Special Teams coordinator: Dan Ferrigno
I know I shouldn't watch. But I have to.
Etc. The first quadralingual med student to play for Michigan. We're gonna press.
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Iowa 72, Michigan 54
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Two weeks ago, Michigan made Wisconsin look like Iowa.
Tonight, they made Iowa look like Wisconsin.
While much of the focus will go on Michigan's 8:51 scoring drought that spanned both halves, their woeful defensive play was the main culprit in this loss, as the Hawkeyes shot 63% from the field to finish with 1.39 points per possession. All five Iowa starters finished in double-figures.
The ease with which the two teams scored could hardly have contrasted more. 52 of Iowa's 72 points came in the paint, as they ran their offense through the post with equal success against man and zone defenses; they rebounded nearly half their (rare) misses. Michigan managed just 16 points in the paint and looked completely befuddled when Iowa went to a 2-3 zone, moving little and shooting prayer after prayer.
Aubrey Dawkins scored 16 points on nine shots, hitting a couple second-half threes that briefly drew Michigan within striking distance. Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman had a couple decent drives on his way to 11 points, though he struggled to shoot from the outside. Kam Chatman had a solid stretch in the first half, scoring six points, then went cold in the second. Pick a player and he probably blew at least one assignment on defense.
The bubble didn't just burst; Iowa took a shotgun to it, and gleefully pumped in a few more rounds to the detritus for good measure. After an inspring performance against Michigan State, the Wolverines fell flat, and it'll be a long final month of the season if their effort on both ends doesn't improve.


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New Delhi: A father allegedly killed his 16-year-old daughter, who wanted to marry against his wishes, and dumped her body in a drain.
Liyaqat Ali, a motor mechanic, smothered his 16-year-old daughter on May 15 while she was sleeping in their house at Mehrauli area in south Delhi and dumped her body in a drain, police said on Sunday.
After committing the crime, Ali went to his native place Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh and lodged a missing complaint for her daughter.
When the girl`s body was recovered from a drain, Delhi police questioned her father, who broke down and told police that he killed his daughter as she wanted to marry against his wishes.

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Any one interested in obtaining plumeria cuttings or plants? It is getting close to time to bring mine in and will have to cut them back to fit in the house. The plants I am trying to get rid of are about 6-7 foot tall. There are 3 colors -pink, yellow, red orange ( bi colored). Free to anyone willing to come pick them up in October.
Do you plant them in pots (how big of pots) and move them in and out during the summer? Do they bloom during the summer? I am interested but wondering how much work this will be and what rewards-blooms. I bought bamboo orchids and tuberose in Hawaii in January and they are still alive but have not had any flowers :c(.
I plant them in the ground and in pots. They need well drained soil . You do bring them in in the winter, but you can just dig them up, put the roots in a bag and let them stand in a corner of a basement or garage ( as long as the temp stays above 40 degrees) and wait til spring and replant them. The Plants are beautiful with or without flowers, but the blooms are really what you want. By the way, I live in the Marietta area of Georgia.
The plants will get as large as you let them. Some up to 30', but don't expect that with these. When you bring them in during the winter, you put them to bed. In a dark basement, garage, closet, or just in the corner of a bed room to hang your socks on. The do best in a dark room though. You don't water or feed while they are sleeping. Just be sure the temp doesn't drop below 40 degrees. Also they don't need to be in pots either, just put the roots in a trash bag ( especially if you plan to put them in the ground.


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Well! It looks like my first semester in Spain has come to an end. I feel that in some ways I have been here for a long time, and at the same time that I have just arrived. Most of my friends have gone home now for the holidays, so this weekend I have spent mainly relaxing, which was great after a busy week of finals and writing essays. My classes at URV were Spanish literature courses, which was in some ...
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Remember when mini-concerts at the Super Bowl halftime actually gets more exposure than the actual games? Remember when Justin Timberlake accidentally ripped off Janet Jackson's top for the whole world to see? Remember when Destiny's Child reunited on stage to give props to the diva of soul, Beyonce?
Well, all those are in danger of all going away. The National Football League (NFL) is contemplating requiring performers to shell out money to be given the exposure to perform at halftime. There is some credence to this line of thinking as exposure at the halftime of America's most televised game generates an audience to up to almost a billion. There is an almost automatic assurance that the performer will get an immediate boost in record sales and worldwide tour receipts given the massive coverage.
The Wall Street Journal reports that it has narrowed down its choices to three performers for the 2015 show - Rihanna, Coldplay and Katy Perry. Negotiations with the handlers of the three artists have hit a wall after the league brought up the subject of payments.
"While notifying the artists' camps of their candidacy, league representatives also asked at least some of the acts if they would be willing to contribute a portion of their post-Super Bowl tour income to the league, or if they would make some other type of financial contribution, in exchange for the halftime gig," according to the same report.
Given that the league is already raking in a lot of revenue from advertisements during the game itself, the proposal is being received chilly by artists. The NFL does not usually pay the performers but covers the travel, accommodation and other expenses which usually run to the millions. The league also released a statement through its spokesperson Johanna Hunter who said that the goal of the league is "to put on the best show possible."
Last year the tandem of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bruno Mars drew an estimated 115 million viewers last February. They used the platform to perform their newest songs and promote their upcoming tours and concerts. There was also a recorded increase in downloads and purchase of songs right after the performance.
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TORONTO - Lionsgate on Thursday swung to a second quarter profit on sharply higher revenue from strong theatrical and home entertainment business from its Hunger Games franchise.
The mini-studio posted earnings of $79.6 million, against a year-earlier loss of $25.3 million, on revenue up sharply to $707 million.
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The Q2 driver was the home entertainment release of The Hunger Games, which included DVD, on demand and digital revenue.
Lionsgate also racked up domestic theatrical box office revenue from titles like The Possession, The Expendables 2, Step Up Revolution and Madea's Witness Protection.
Lionsgate's filmed entertainment backlog hit a record $1.2 billion as of September 30, while overall motion picture revenue during the latest quarter was $608 million, up 178 percent from the prior year.
Within the motion picture segment, theatrical revenue came in at $116.2 million, up fivefold from the second quarter of 2011.
And the mini-studio's home entertainment revenue from both motion pictures and TV was up 59 percent to $277.8 million.
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"With the home entertainment release of the first film in our Hunger Games franchise making significant contributions to our results in the quarter, we're clearly on track to meet or exceed our expectations this year," Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said in a statement, with an eye to an analyst call on Friday morning.
On the TV side, production revenue was $99 million in the second quarter, down 29 percent from the prior year quarter, as increases in domestic series licensing from Lionsgate Television were offset by fewer deliveries from the company's Debmar-Mercury syndication arm, and reduced digital media revenue.
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'Plaid Tidings' is fun, lively but not very original
One of the reasons Stuart Ross' musical "Forever Plaid" has been such a success over the past 15 years is that it inspires nostalgia in the hearts of its viewers.
Now comes its charming holiday-themed sequel, "Plaid Tidings," which is bound to do the same thing for showgoers new to the Plaid phenomenon. But for those who've seen "Plaid" more than a few times, the new show may inspire a different feeling: deja vu.
Using the old "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" adage, Ross has recycled a great deal of "Forever Plaid" in his new show, including the same intro, a lightning-fast "Ed Sullivan Show" tribute, a live encounter with Perry Como, an audience interactive musical segment, a dance number with long-necked plungers, a calypso scene, the awkward choreography and many more lines and comic bits that worked well the first time around.
While the show remains endearing and is exceptionally well-sung and cast (three of the original Plaids from 1991 reprise their roles) and it's bound to get viewers in the holiday spirit, it could be so much more (and less -- an intermission has been added and the show feels bloated at 2 hours, 15 minutes).
In "Forever Plaid," we first learned that the Plaids, a nerdy, behind-the-times men's harmony quartet on the eve of their big debut, were killed on Feb. 9, 1964, in a collision with a school bus (carrying Catholic teens to the Beatles debut on the "Ed Sullivan Show"). But thanks to an astral alignment, they've been resurrected from the dead to perform the show they never got to perform in life. (Don't worry if you missed the first show; "Plaid Tidings" neatly and hilariously recaps everything from the first show in a five-minute condensed version.)
As "Plaid Tidings" opens, the four Plaids -- energetic Sparky, asthmatic heartthrob Frankie, nosebleed-prone Jinx and dyslexic/dyspeptic Smudge -- find themselves once again in a nightclub before a live audience, and once again they're not sure why. We all know that they've been brought back to perform their long-dreamed-of televised Christmas special, but it takes the Plaids more than 45 minutes to figure this out for themselves (with a little angelic help from the late Rosemary Clooney).
In the meantime, they entertain with beautifully harmonized songs ("Stranger in Paradise" is especially ear-pleasing), and many of the same gags we've seen before. After intermission, the Plaids perform their TV Christmas special and then glide back into the cosmos on a perfectly harmonized top note. The script has a bit too much cosmic mumbo-jumbo about the Plaids earning their celestial credentials, but fortunately that gives way quickly to the music, which is always polished and first-class.
Some of the funniest new additions to the show include a brief appearance by Alvin and the Chipmunks, a holiday rap song (which the Plaids perform to their own amazement, as if by manipulation from heavenly puppeteers), and "Cool Yule," which features the Plaids' idea of late '50s hip choreography stolen from "West Side Story." Frankie philosophizes on the heartless victimization of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Smudge turns "Let It Snow" into a "Singin' in the Rain" dance tribute, and there's a lovely bell choir segment.


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The Board of Barton County Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. on Monday. Items on the agenda include approval of Township Treasurer bonds; purchase of Sheriff's office vehicles; appointment of Deputy and Special Deputy Coroners; and board appointments for the Barton County Community Development Advisory Board.
Fellsburg native, Bill Roenbaugh, has joined the 10-member board of directors of American State Bank and Trust Company. American State has branches in Great Bend, Larned, St. John, Macksville and Garden City.
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The Great Bend Recreation Commission board will act on computer hardware and software bids when it meets at 4 p.m. Monday at the Carl Soden Recreation Center, 1214 Stone St.
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The history of Midwest Young Artists (MYA) is a story of a compelling mission, dedication, and hard work. The organization was established in 1993 by parents who wanted Dr. Allan Dennis to create an orchestra for their children.
Initially renting space at the Lake Forest Country Day School, MYA is now housed in the beautifully transformed Old Stockade Building at Fort Sheridan and has grown into the premier music ensemble program in the nation. MYA graduates are accepted into the most selective conservatories, universities, and colleges in the country.
MYA reaches more than 1,000 students from more than 74 cities in the metropolitan Chicago area, with students ranging in age from 2nd through 12th grades. In 2011, early childhood development classes were added to introduce toddlers and their families to the joys of music and movement.
MYA makes a difference in the lives of its students, their families, and their communities by encouraging camaraderie, respect, and hard work, as well as dedication to the pursuit of excellence.
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After discovering that this heavenly tea is making a comeback this fall, I made myself a double strong delicious pumpkiny latte to celebrate! eee!
Well, it's also celebrating the opening of my teacup keychain etsy shop :D !!! When I think about it, maybe my shop is too specific… but then I think about tea drinkers and how amazing they are, and they deserve their own keychains dammit! There, all better. haha!
http://www.daisychubb.com/?p=1021 Daisy Chubb's Tea & Trinkets!
I have to say, I'm sitting here tonight and feeling happy and grateful for my Steepster family. I love this place we can come and feel so at home!
I'm also grateful for Red Leaf Tea's matcha program – it's allowed me to try so many amazing teas that I otherwise could not afford at this time – and I and SUPER grateful for this cheesecake matcha!
Holy tasty! Creamy and tangy and sweet – without the feeling of a heavy stomach afterwards. so… I can have as many cups as I want. I like that.
I will definitely be trying this flavour with other matcha bases, because I am in matcha heaven right now!
Aw man. I really wanna try a matcha because of all the awesome reviews. Maybe if this one comes on sale I will order it!
Cheesecake matcha sounds lovely! I'm a fan of cheesecake :) I'm going to have to order some matcha from Red Leaf! Thanks for the review
Thanks to Jillian for giving me enough for one small pot worth!
I didn't even know this blend existed, but I surely would have bought it up if I noticed it on sale! The dry leaves do not smell appealing – this could be because of the age of the tea, but it kind of smells strange!
No worries, as soon as it started to brew the strange smell went away. I brewed at 165 for 2 minutes since I was making a pot, and I have never made a whole pot of white tea before! The whole idea of using a pot is still taking some getting used to – I'm a one cup gal!
Anyways, I added a tiny dab agave and took a sip. Yummy white base! A creamy and nutty bai mu dan, with a hint of pineapple and coconut – definitely papaya and a little bit of banana for body.
It'd a mild cup, but just what I need right now to calm down my guilt for not taking another shift tonight after I already worked this morning. I'm just that sort of person though, I would have felt guilty if I couldn't work it, and resentful if I had to work it haha! boop. tea!
Now I know this matcha isn't terribly exciting (it's no cheesecake, right?) and it's not one of my favourite flavours (I wouldn't seek out a blueberry anything really)… um.. yeah it's kind of my favourite matcha right now!
It's always SO creamy and sweet and juicy and PERFECT! So hello little blueberry matcha, thanks for being you! :D
ohhh this one would be good with cheesecake too. I think I have to get this next if you don't even like blueberry much and love it!
This was my birthday tea on Sunday!
I haven't touched it for months, but I was definitely in the mood and wanted to pick a special tea to christen my new little pot!
It was perfect. Enjoyed with a dash of maple syrup!
(Here's my new pot and matching tea cup & saucer! So fancy! :D )
Aww cute set. I've had my eye on the coral print set but don't really need it. :/
Sounds like you had a wonderful celebration!
Had my birthday party last night, where I converted a few people with this tea! Yay!
Sadly, it wasn't as tasty as it has been, simply because of the vessels I had on hand. They were plastic. Wow – it affected the flavour a LOT, but since my guests didn't have any note of comparison, they were still quite impressed! I am happy for that :)
Today is my real birthday and it is kind of awful because I had a migraine last night as the party was winding down, and now today I feel weird and sick. Blargh.
I will have a blog post soon about the great tea gifts I received from my boyfriend, they are gorgeous and I am happy :)
Yay for tea, yay for new converts!
Happy Birthday! You know, my husband always looks at me weird when I comment about drinking tea out of plastic or paper cups. I tell him that it affects the flavor of the tea and he just looks at me like I've lost my mind.
Oh… and I hope the migraine goes away soon. I hate them. I am glad that I do not get them as often as I used to. I think that the increase of tea consumption has helped! :)
Happy birthday! Glad your party was a success, nice recruiting work! Feel better soon and enjoy your gifts!
Happy bday! I sometimes get headaches from parties. I suspect that it's all the stimuli. Feel better!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY (and make sure you have caffeine for the migraine!) did you by any chance have a bunch of chocolate?
That could set you off…although with migraine people it can be anything…weather, lights, candles, crowds…yuck…
celebrate anyway!
Thanks everyone! I think what set me off was a mix of the humidity, work stress, having our first guests over and dehydration! haha today is much better, and I'm enjoying many cups of tea to combat the next one!
Cream of Earl Latte on this rainy day! Ah , a dash of sugar and it's like a sweet, creamy, milky London Fog!
The perfect accompaniment to a supper of Grilled Cheese and tomato soup, enjoyed while watching Breaking Bad. :) A content moment!
I now have 5 new matchas on the way!
Cheesecake, come to momma!
To celebrate, I whipped up a quick and tasty cotton candy iced matcha latte! Whoo that's a mouthful, in more ways than one! Delicious!
It's definitely keeping me motivated while I design the game I'm working on. It's exciting! And with any luck, will pay the rent! Ah, passions. ;)
Oops – I thought for sure I reviewed this one already!
First of all, I'm a prairie girl (S'toon/Regina) and I loooove S'toon berries. Picking them off a giant plant was the best part about certain campsites. I would just stand there with a bunch of other kids and just shovel them in.
S'toon berry pies can be amazing or really bad – depends on the quality of berry. The big juicy berries make an amazing pie – the small hard ones make a crunchy/chewy type pie.
I digress! This tea smells soooo good – like a sweet, mapley berry pie! Sadly I can't get the berry taste to come out in the steep. It tastes like a sweet, maple drizzled dark oolong – dry in texture, maybe a Taiwanese?
I'm definitely missing out on the berry flavour I get in the smell.
Okay now the important part! (lol) My birthday is next weekend and I've invited some new (non tea obsessed) friends for a tea party! I'm cooking and baking, trying my hand at some gluten-free treats as well, but I was kind of hoping for some tea party advice. I'd like to set up a little matcha tasting bar, I only have one big teapot, any advice or fun ideas on how to sample a bunch of fun teas? Thanks friends!
you might be able to pick up some tea balls at the dollar store so that they can make small cups of tea. ponders I'll see if i can come up with some other creative things to do.
Thanks Azz!
Oh that's a good idea Sil – dollarstore teaballs would save on waste from using a bunch of tea sacs – I will definitely look for those!
I've planned like 30 huge parties in my lifetime, I don't know why planning a tiny tea party is proving to be hard lol
Although it's not just that – I want to hear ideas from my tea friends!!
Happy almost bday! What a fun idea! If you only have one teapot maybe just have water available for people to brew their own tea? Just present basic brewing parameters and paper tea filters and they could do their own thing. Or! Get some pitchers or bottles and prepare a bunch of iced teas, which might be more appealing depending on the weather.
It'll be great! Have fun with it!
happy birthday in advance! shooter glasses, if you have them (they also carry them at the $ store) you could prepare cocktails with tea base and serve them that way, I've done it this summer, green tea mojitos at it was a hit! Have fun!!
Daisy, if you trying gluten free, take a look at this recipe:
I replaced the cocoa with some caramel matcha from red leaf. So good! also, no added fat! Tell that to your diet conscious friends. :)
Happy Birthday in advance! Sorry to read you have to restrain from gluten as well. Here's some recipes/inspiration http://cookingwithtea.tumblr.com/
I can't wait to try this tea! Like you, I grew up gorging on Saskatoon berries in the summer :)
Does Halifax have a Chinatown? You could get a bunch of little teapots for cheap, then give them as a thank you gift/"encouragement to continue drinking tea" gift.
Personally this is was I would do. Depending on how many people you are having you could always do the gung fu steeping (there is a cute teapot at DAVIDsTEA for that) then that way you can make a bunch of different teas everyone could get a sample and then they could make a cup of the one they liked the best.
THANK YOU so much everyone!
Such awesoem ideas, I'm looking into all of them! (Oh, I'm not gluten free, but a new friend is! Also my SIL is, so I desperately want to make treats for them! Thanks for the suggestions)
And I have the wee little gong fu style teapot from Davids, so that should help.
This has all been very helpful – I actually have NO idea if Halifax has a china town, I'll have to ask around :) yay!


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Thank you for posting this, it is giving me hope! I was pregnant about 3 months ago and lost the baby. The doctors say I am good to go and everything looks perfect, so I am okay to try again. When I found out I was pregnant that time, it was actually the sore boobs and weird cramping that tipped me off. This month, I have all these weird strange symptoms that I had before EXCEPT the sore breasts and nipples. I have the strange cramping, the nausea, vivid dreams, hot flashes, and small other things. I love reading the comments and hearing it is possible. I have 6 more days until my period is due. PRAYING for good news. I want that BFP.
I'm 6 weeks p/g with # 2 and don't have sore breasts - not many symptoms other than tiredness and funny taste in my mouth.
With p/g # 1 I did have sore breasts, but I also had sore breasts just before my period - and when my period returned a few months back I never had sore breasts. I'm bf my toddler so maybe this impacts the hormones??
I did have sore breasts with DD1 but not DD2 and DS because I was nursing the toddler. It is a plus for sure!
I never had them. This thread is like 6 years old. I wonder if the OP really was pregnant.