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IMHO, Gunny, Aerostitch makes great stuff, but comparing the 'Stitch's crash protection to motoport, the 'Stitch finishes second. The big knock on motoport is that it is ugly. As a retired Chief, I know you care a lot of how pretty you look!
Seriously, take a hard look at motoport's air mesh kevlar, which I think is great for humid weather. Motoport's stretch kevlar is a fantastic material, as well, and it is easier to wear than the mesh. The mesh is tough, and it feels a little like chain mail, but it vents better than anything on the market because the whole outfit is mesh. The stretch is a little softer, and it really is stretchy. By the way, motoport makes a sport glove from the stretch material, too. I highly recommend buying a pair, and then never worrying about buying another pair of gloves. They don't wear out, water doesn't bother them.
I know Wayne (motoport's owner) has taken some knocks on the customer service front from a handful of fellers on here. I have had several dealings with him now, and I am a very happy customer.
If you have any questions, shoot me a pm. I'll send you my phone number; I'd be happy to tell you over the phone why I am so satisfied with motoport.
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Chancellor Offers Leadership Course in Scotland
MAY 19, 2006--Students at all levels of university study and from any campus can learn valuable global leadership skills through a short-term study abroad course in Scotland offered Aug. 1-17 by University of Wisconsin-River Falls Chancellor Don Betz.
In a setting rich with history at Dalkeith Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland, the Chancellor's Global Leadership Colloquium will provide an overview of the theories related to and skills necessary for the practice of effective leadership from a global perspective. Leadership is explored as an integral component of any student's career and life plan.
The international setting will provide students with an immersion in another culture while being introduced to leadership theory in order to enhance skills and discover passion for global and cultural change. The course provides a cross-cultural framework for understanding effective leadership and developing a long-term, personal leadership philosophy.
"The course promises to be a unique opportunity to understand and address some of the major global issues with classmates in the context of effective leadership principles," says Betz. "I look forward to working with students truly interested in advancing their leadership capacities by addressing actual world problems and collaborating to find solutions. We will also explore the issues confronting Scotland and learn about its peoples and their world views."
The cost of the trip is approximately $2,950 for travel, room and board plus the tuition for three undergraduate or graduate credits. Students will have the opportunity to explore Scotland as well through such activities as back-packing in the Highlands, discovering the city life of Edinburgh and attending the region's cultural events.
Brent Turner, leadership and training coordinator, and Karyn Kling, associate student services coordinator, will be assisting Betz with the course.
"This course will guide students and get them to define what leadership is themselves," says Turner. "It is cool because this experience will help students start at a big picture and see how they fit in a global setting and hopefully bring that perspective back to River Falls. It opens their eyes to the culture and even themselves. We hope to continue offering this course each summer."
At the conclusion of the course, students will compare and contrast theories and research supporting various leadership models, demonstrate an increased awareness of, and exposure to, cultural differences through the course assignments, develop a personal philosophy of leadership within an international sphere, and communicate effectively in written, oral and electronic contexts.
Betz joined UW-River Falls in 2005. Since 1999, he was provost and vice president for academic affairs and professor of political science at the University of Central Oklahoma at Edmond. From 1994 to 1999, he served as the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Palmer College in Davenport, Iowa. For 23 years he was at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, where he served in various capacities including vice president of university relations and professor of political science. While at NSU he also was founder and advisor of its President's Leadership Class and Model United Nations program. From 1982 to 2003, Betz worked with the United Nations on Middle East issues, chairing the International Coordinating Committee on the Question of Palestine, a non-governmental network pursuing peace in the Middle East based on UN resolutions. His international experience also includes service with the University of Pittsburgh's Semester-at-Sea and Chapman College's World Campus Afloat and as a journalist for the Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon.
"I look forward to interacting with interested students in this debut of UW-River Falls' enhanced commitment to leadership and its continuing development," said Betz.
For more information about the course, contact Brent Turner at 715-425-4663 or visit the Web site at http://www.uwrf.edu/leadership/ChancellorsColloquium.html.
Since 1986, UW-River Falls has been part of the Wisconsin in Scotland Program operated by the West Central Wisconsin Consortium (WCWC), an organization of five Wisconsin universities (UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse, UW-River Falls, UW-Stout, and UW-Superior). Each semester, 80 students and three to five faculty members live and learn in Dalkeith Palace. Courses are taught by faculty from the participating universities as well as adjunct faculty from Scottish and British universities. The semester program allows time for independent travel with a 10-day break and several long weekends. The summer program allows three days of travel/exploration over most weekends. A 20th reunion celebration of the WIS program is planned for July 15 in conjunction with the Minnesota Scottish Fair and Highland Games at the Dakota County Fairgrounds. For more information visit http://www.uwrf.edu/wis/reunion1.htm or call the WIS office at 715-425-4891.
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I had heard one rodder say, a rat rod is unfinished. I'm OK with that. What I'm not OK with is parts that look like they came from a swap meet & just bolted on, without even cleaning the dirt & dust off them. I had a 69 Nova, in primer, as long as I owned it, but I washed it, on a regular basis. Open the hood & the engine was painted, the chrome was polished, the plug wires were clean, etc. The interior wasn't finished, but it was clean. I took pride in it. A lot of rat rods look like the owners, just don't care. They look nasty, just for the sake of looking nasty. I like some rat rods, the rest look like they just dragged them out of a swamp. Just my opinion.
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Posted 23 February 2014 - 08:52 AM
A rod that arent finished but still road legal and can be driven. Not finished as in maby missing paint,only primer,parts of interior
not mounted,parts supposed to be chromed are still steel etc.
Posted 24 February 2014 - 12:20 PM
A few thoughts if I may.
Back in the day there were "Beaters" These were cars / Hot Rods that weren't kept up with,I.E. dirty usually unpainted/primer. Basically, just not up to par with other cars, almost a "Daily Driver" usually less. I know there was once a man got kicked out of a show for drivin one. another famous racer got the boot when he showed up with this to protest the continual changing rules they plied on him.
Another thing that comes to mind is the car () that was a fiberglass fat fender Ford Hot Rod Show car. Then the "patina" thing hit and the owner decided to have it "weathered" making it appear to be a long lost "Barn Find"
Next up is the atrocious engineering, or total lack of engineering that goes into rat rods. Can't be too much fun always worrying if yer gonna get high centered on a curb.Put some high Dollar par$t on it and it ain't no rat rod. yep. Worst thing is using perfectly good old iron for these monstrositys.
Edited by Greg Myers, 24 February 2014 - 12:35 PM.
Posted 14 March 2014 - 03:57 PM
From the pics they look like art work....I guess I am glad they exist, I have had this idea of building one from all the "Good Junk" parts from the "Bone Yard"...I like the idea of using old license plate decals for a door panel....Still trying to develop a concept...Maybe a pick up truck...
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Posted 24 March 2014 - 06:29 PM
gettin' in might happen, but out? I doubt it.
Posted 24 March 2014 - 08:45 PM
I could not get in or out...
Posted 24 March 2014 - 08:55 PM
I think revamping the nose could improve its looks 100%...but I like it from the nose back.
Posted 24 March 2014 - 09:27 PM
I think crushing it would improve its looks
Posted 24 March 2014 - 10:10 PM
Posted 24 March 2014 - 10:22 PM
I think crushing it would improve its looks
Posted 25 March 2014 - 12:44 AM
Put a sectioned grille to match the body, pull the headlights back some, lose those ridiculously tall zoomies and you've got something.
Edited by Psychographic, 25 March 2014 - 12:45 AM.
Posted 25 March 2014 - 04:41 AM
Maybe rat rods aren't so bad, but that thing sure is.
Posted 25 March 2014 - 04:52 AM
I think they are pretty creative. I have seen some that are quite cool. I don't mind them as long as they aren't a bunch of scrap wired together like a few I have seen. They need to built safely and not look like a car crusher regurgitated it.
Edited by Modelmartin, 25 March 2014 - 04:52 AM.
Posted 25 March 2014 - 04:55 AM
I hate what rat rods have become. When I picked my user name many years ago, people started building traditional hot rods using vintage speed parts, that had rust. They were sound, safe, and the start of bringing back TRADITIONAL hot rods. Now they have evolved in to Horatius pieces of junk!!!
Edited by RatRod, 25 March 2014 - 04:56 AM.
Posted 25 March 2014 - 04:56 AM
No-talent dweeb hack mashup conglomeration of ugly, dorky, and stupid.
Pity. That much effort could have produced something worth having.
Of course, that would also require a basic understanding of proportion and line...sadly lacking in this horrible mess.
Posted 25 March 2014 - 05:03 AM
I guess I'm just to old. I really don't get this Rat Rod thing. I'm not dissing it, just don't get it. In my early years I had a few Hot Rods. I've had a T-Bucket, but it was shinny and went like stink. I have had many sedan fully enclosed type cars which are my personal favorites. I had the good fortune to be of an age when you could go into a dealership and order a car that could turn 13s and below right off the showroom floor. While there was times when I had to put together an old car with what ever I could scrap up and paint it with Krylon flat black spray cans, it still looked good and functioned as an every day driver. I look at Rat Rods as a kind of an expression of one sense of humor or something.
Posted 25 March 2014 - 05:40 AM
The automotive equivalent of this...
Posted 25 March 2014 - 07:08 AM
So don't move this post to the "Definition of a rat rod post" thank you?
When I saw this car on line i thought it looked better that most and was wondering what others though? Ain't lookin' fer no definition here.
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IIM Lucknow has clearly established itself as part of the top 4 campuses in the country as far as placements are concerned. IIM Lucknow is head and shoulders above the rest of the pack. It is an unanimous view by people here at InsideIIM that IIM Lucknow has probably had the best ever summer placements as far as variety of roles goes and the kind of companies visiting the campus.
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IIM Lucknow has plenty of front-end investment banking opportunities but what puts it in a different league is the number of private equity firms and the hedge fund scene. Also, big banks seem to offer front end markets roles at IIM Lucknow something we haven't seen anywhere apart from IIM ABC.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management should be a middle office support role according to us
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None of the Class of 2013 students at IIM Lucknow who want to build a career in FMCG should have any reason to complain. Just about every FMCG name one would generally aspire for visits IIM Lucknow.
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Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Microsoft – make a terrific line-up. Throw in Flipkart,Naukri and Yatra and it gives students a great choice in technology firms and the e-commerce space. Roles at companies like Nokia, Castrol and Raymond also sound very promising. It is a general consensus here at InsideIIM.com that summer projects in these companies are very interesting and exciting. Given below are some of these companies along with names in Media and Advertising space.
(Amazon and Flipkart have also hired for Supply Chain Management roles)The above list is not exhaustive of all companies that recruited for above sectors at IIM L. Also, certain marquee names may not be mentioned due to non-disclosure agreement between the company and IIM L.)
There are other domains/sectors for which demand is usually lower relative to Finance,Consulting or Marketing. InsideIIM.com looks at summer placement opportunities in some of those sectors at IIM Lucknow below:
IIM Lucknow also shared with us names of companies who have given international offers. There are 21 confirmed international offers so far in locations like Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, UAE
Readers must note that in addition to these there could be more international stints. Companies do not always have confirmed projects and roles as early as October-November for an internship in April-May next year. For e.g. HUL is known to give interns a stint in other countries in Asia-Pacific region. We are only stating confirmed international offers below.
There are other parameters we have identified which should help everyone get a complete picture. We have stated them here below:
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The functional break-up of offers is not available yet. We shall upload it as soon as it's available from the IIM Lucknow placement committee.
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Special mention : Team InsideIIM was extremely impressed by the quality of the recruiter guide to summer placements on the IIM Lucknow website. It is very well-made , detailed and gives very relevant statistics for recruiters. You can see it here.
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- Fact that 400+ students were placed with relative ease
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Readers should bear in mind that summer placement reports will be starkly different from Final placement reports. A lot of companies only recruit for summers and not finals and vice-versa. Also, decisions taken by students in terms of which companies to apply to and which offers to accept are very different after spending 18 months in an institution vis-a-vis the ones taken after just 3-4 months as is the case with summer internships. In a few institutes there is no choice after applying to a company i.e. you have to accept the first offer received from any of the companies you have applied to. This happens especially during summers. And in times like these where batch sizes are over 350 in most places, students are insecure and apply to every company that comes and are left with an offer in hand which they didn't really want. All the data needs to be kept in context of this reality.
You may also like to read : Summer Placements 2011-13 – IIM Kozhikode
Summer Placements 2011-13 – XLRI Jamshedpur
Summer Placements 2011-13 – FMS Delhi
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This has to be the by far the best placement report I have ever read. And I am not exaggerating. I have not seen any other report give this kind of insight and details before. Kudos to the team here.
Hi Buddy, I am studying in IIM L. The no. of students opted out is not 5. Its around 40-50 or more.
Placements in technology sector were awesome ! Nice to see L being almost at par to ABC now.
The no. of students opted out is not 5. Its around 40-50 or more.
Kudos to insideiim team for the article.
Could you elaborate the roles offered by consumer product companies like google,amazon,yatra,lenovo etc
According to our estimate, the roles range from Marketing,Strategy, Supply Chain to IT across these companies.
Hi man,
The no. of students opted out is not 5. Its around 40-50 or more.
Seems the faculty and placement team in working with some solid long-term strategy there! Good effort on their part.
at least 60 people opted out.
In god we all believe, everyone else brings data to the table – Narayan Murthy. We cannot take such comments seriously unless you give your credentials and basis of your comment. We suggest readers not pay too much heed to such comments unless there is a solid claim. Also, even if this is true we still think IIM Lucknow has done quite well.
please check my ip address for checking my authenticity and nobody will dare to disclose his/her name. there are many holes in data given to you, but the opt out part is huge, 60 is just a conservative figure. it includes many iitians as well.
Holes in the data? Examples?
The no. of students opted out is not 5. Its around 40-50 or more. Who gave you the data for students who opted out from the placements ? Just ask him/her to give the details ? Even out of 6 sections one section is having 10 students who opted out from the placements .
We have published the number of students opting out as per data given by the placement committee of IIM Lucknow. Beyond that we have not made any checks. We cannot change the figures based on the comments section here. We will investigate only if we get an official email from some student of IIM Lucknow from his/her official id. We also maintain that even if that many students have signed out as claimed by some here, IIM L has still done extremely well.
Is it verified by the institute ??
The above report has been published after proper dialogue with the placement committee of IIM Lucknow
one of the best articles on placements ever. With different sites posting different figures, this is the best non biased report. Kudos to the author
- IIML student
Very nicely written…. Companies with profiles – that makes things crystal clear… However, IIM Lucknow Placement Committee is notorious for asking people to sign out of the process and get a job for themselves. Speak to any PGP1 at IIML and you will realize that jobs have been found for less than 400 people. This is not to demean the efforts of IIML Placecom.. I understand there could be a lot of pressure on them to close placements within a stipulated time and the administration at IIMs is usually not co-operative. Kudos to IIMC for putting the placements on rolling. IIML should have also endeavored to get a job for everyone on campus who is seeking one.
Shouldn't Investement Research and Equity Research be categorised as Front Office Research Roles.
They are not in IBD, so cant call the a support or middle office for it. Also, firms like Goldman and Nomura have separate teams to support trading research.
Goldman Global Investement Reseach and Nomura Research are front end roles – only thing not in IBD or S&T but in Research.
Well…companies were sent back post the placement of everyone. So forced sign outs are out of question i guess.
Placements in technology sector were awesome
Can't wait for a similar report on FMS, XLRI and IIM Indore. This is a much more transparent way of sharing placement information. Wish InsideIIM can do it for other things like academics too!
ha ha ha ha…..what rubbish….infact around 7 people from section A signed out…ask any pgp 1 student from section A…if you don't believe ..come to class tomorrow…:P
The effort was good. But the report for the no. of students opted out is not 5. Its around 40-50 or even more.
I am studying in IIML- Latest news :
50 students were forced to sign out by placement committee so that placecom can finish the process in a week and boast '100% placement'. shame on placecom !
at least 100 students are totally unsatisfied with placement and placement process because of lot of atrocities committed by placecom on studetnts. students have to beg to placecom for every issue. still they dont listen. GBM is being called to impeach placecom and change the placeemnt process at IIM Lucknow. about 50% batch has already signed referendum and placecom must resign asap to save their ass ! administration isnt intervening in the matter properly. students are very angry. its all because of placeemnt committee and their inhuman attitude towards students.
placecom were partying on final day of placecment week when at least 100 students were crying for their future because of forced signing out or not forced placement by placecom. Great change is expected in IIM Lucknow in coming days —
@ student@IIML and others : Guys, as a current 1st year in IIM-L myself, I think it is in our best interest not to air our internal problems publicly. Nobody outside is going to coming solve them for us, certainly no one on this forum. It's becoming an issue on other such sites as well. All it does is project a negative image and dramatic comments project it as much worse than it is. The GBM is being convened to discuss the relevant issues, including issues with the Placement Committee and Process as a whole. Kindly hold your enthusiasm till then. Also, for clarification of anyone who cares, the GBM is being convened for discussion on the future and not knee-jerk changes like dissolving Place-Com or any pre-decided action as such.
Just to give you an idea
Suppose you want to work in Aeronautical industry and you are being forced to appear in Civil engineering firm, what will you do ?
Just think. You will opt out from the process of placement or will compromise your goal by opting a job in a civil engineering firm
Just like you want to persue a career in Finance and you are forced to appear for companies providing Marketing profiles
It's your choice to go against your dream or try to achieve your goal by yourself.
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the overall statistics looks good, but fair opportunity to everyone? see this: http://insideiim.com/5-reasons-why-student-run-pl…
I think this is a really good place for students to get an unbiased and clear view of placements at different B-schools. Kudos to team InsideIIM for this initiative.
And its also good that you are not allowing random institute-bashing comments. Irrespective of the actual situation, the number of companies and quality of roles itself indicate a lot about the campus – I dont think its fair to take away the credit for that achievement.
hiding comments.what is this, PAKISTAN?
very rightly said.
They hide what is not good
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If this stand seems one of low tolerance, so be it.
Mr. (abc & student@iiml), Bad mouthing is simplest of thing a man can do.It just involve,saying something out &wow done. No cross verification, nothing required.The institute bears the brunt & people who used to see it in high regards,started questioning. Negative publicity spreads like fire.Nobody is concerned who is actually bearing the brunt-The students. Summer placement is not something guaranteed by an institute.An institute always want to place all its students in best positions possible.But ideal case never happens anywhere worldwide. Talking so much about elections & signouts which in the first case you shouldn't have brought it in public forum since it was rejected at student council platform itself.still like a bad loser since you brought it out, I would like to say Every committee has its constitution & jurisdiction defined. You can raise it in appropriate forum only. Don't bother others who have no concern with it. Signouts have been cross verified by faculties with concerned students & It was found that none were forced.Since as a third party (committee) to this case, We have proof of the same.(Though doubtful about you guys credentials of being students of the institute) Its sad that we the first year batch actually share seats with you guyz, who have no respect for institute. Not only you are hypocrites, you trespass the authorities, bad mouth the institute, condone your own shameful acts & still project yourself as saints. Way to go Vidyarthis- Vidya-arthis)
Not an IIMite, but can say for sure, the way u guys have defamed the insti in public, and the lack of integrity you have displayed, you guys dont deserve to be in an IIM…you are not worthy of it. Any genuine person would have fought with sweat and blood internally rather than complaining with a bad mouth to the whole world.
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This is the Eagles first win of the season and more importantly, it is a district win that keeps their playoff hopes alive with three games left in district play.
"This feels really great," said senior Daniel "Hit Man" Ortega who rushed for 128 yards on just seven carries. "Our whole team played with a lot of heart tonight. Each time Runge tried to make a comeback we answered. I am so proud of our whole team for never giving up because we still have a chance to move on into the playoffs."
Runge got the ball first and moved down to the Eagle 18-yard line before the Eagle defense stopped them on a fourth and seven.
The Eagles almost struck immediately as Jonathan Flores ran 66 yards before he had the ball stripped from him just before he crossed the end zone. The ball went out of bounds for a touchback.
Runge returned the favor as Justin Watson recovered a fumble at the Runge 19 . Six plays later, Flores powered his way in from the four-yard line for the Eagles' first score. Ortega ran the two-point conversion in to give the Eagles an 8-0 lead after one quarter of play.
Runge tied it up at 8-8 with 9:19 left in the first half. After both teams exchanged the ball, the Eagles began a drive from their own 12-yard line with time winding down in the first half.
Quarterback Tyler Quesada hit Watson with a 13-yard pass near midfield to give the Eagles a first down. On the next play, Quesada found a seam on the left side and scampered 40 yards to the Runge six.
Flores went around the right side for his second touchdown of the game. Flores also added the twopoint conversion to give-his team a 16-8 lead at the half.
"I could tell the momentum shifted when we scored right before the half," said Flores. "That was a great drive. Tyler (Quesada) made a great run to put us in position to score. Our linemen were moving people out of the way all night. Everything was going right for us."
If there was any doubt about momentum shifting, it was erased on the very first play from scrimmage of the second half. Ortega ripped through the middle of the line untouched in route to a 55-yard touchdown run. The two-point try was no good and the Eagles now led 22-8.
After holding Runge to three and out the Eagles got the ball back at their own 42. Three plays later, Ortega added another 55-yard touchdown run that looked equally as exciting as the first one.
Corey Martin added the two-point try to extend the lead to 30-8.
"Give all the credit to our line," said Ortega. "They were opening holes big enough to drive a truck through."
The Eagles put the game out of reach midway through the fourth quarter as Lionel Brown went around the left side for a 20-yard touchdown run and the Eagles last score.
The Yellowjackets would add two more scores on a long pass play and a long run but, it was too little, too late. The Eagles recovered an onsides kick with 1:02 left in the game and ran out the clock.
Eagle rushers on the night were; Ortega 128 yards, Quesada 57 yards, Brown 56 yards, Martin 48 yards, Dillon Starr 45 yards, and Flores 41 yards.
"I am extremely proud of our team for playing all out tonight," said Coach Brad Vickers. "We told them that we can enjoy this one until midnight and then we have to start getting ready for Benavides. We have to win our last four games and we got the first one out of the way. We expect Benavides to be tough at home but, we also expect to come out with a win. Thanks to our community for staying with us and we hope to see everyone supporting us in Benavides."
The Eagles will travel to Benavides this Friday night. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.


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is there such a thing as an etsy genuis? if so, this is it.
notre dame
Unverified Voracity Serves You W/ Flaming Piano
Hoke interviewed w/ bonus. Davy Rothbart got a one-on-one interview with Brady Hoke in which the man revealed he tears up at Hall and Oates songs, which is obvious in retrospect. He's just a big ol' bear. Grantland did not understand the power of the twosie and had space constraints*, so here are a couple of leftover bits from Mr. Rothbart:
Davy/Grantland: You've seen the pictures on MGoBlog of Taylor Lewan riding a "twosie" bicycle, right? What do you think of that?
Coach Hoke: [Laughing] Hey, we're happy if we can keep [the players] off of motorcycles. I'd say a twosie is okay in my book.
Hoke's favorite movies: "Silence of the Lambs. And A Few Good Men. What a powerful movie."
Hoke's favorite book: "Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. It's the story of the U.S. Navy SEAL Team 10. A book about brotherhood, skills, and accountability."
Hoke's favorite food: "Pizza. My wife's homemade pizza. We top it with hamburger, pepperoni, and maybe some feta cheese with some pepperoncinis. Artichoke hearts sometimes, and sliced tomatoes. My wife's sauce is the best. We have pizza night every Thursday night during football season. This year will be our 33rd year doing it. Just me, my wife, and our daughter... and then I bring the leftovers in for the defensive line the next day."
Orson will be so happy about that last bit. You may remember that Rothbart is the FOUND guy. He's got a book coming out soon with what he promises are many Ann Arbor-based tales.
*[I know, it's the internet, don't ask me.]
Come for the spelling, stay for the crotch explosions. Shutdown Fullback is M-Bama oriented and taking gratuitous shots at MSU:
I need someone to make a college football themed collectible card game.
OPPONENT: Taps three boosters, plays AARON BURBRIDGE
SELF: plays NCAA CLEARINGHOUSE interrupt, taps Burbridge for three turns
OPPONENT: Plays BULLCRAP ONLINE COURSES to untap Burbridge
SELF: taps two unofficial visits, plays JT FLOYD
…and so on.
Step your game up, block-MS-painters. You just got served:
Will this aggression stand, MS paint aficionados? Mmmm?
Epic Cato June. BHGP is still running down the top 25 Ferentz wins, and I knew this one was coming: their epic beatdown of #8 Michigan in 2002. I was at that game, and did not have real good time. (Are we still saying that?)
I mention it because Iowa has gifed the most Cato June thing of all time:
Okay, it's at least top five. #1 would have to be a GIF where June celebrates like Ray Lewis after someone else made a tackle 20 yards downfield.
And then he became a pro bowl linebacker. Football is weird.
Etc.: Joe Montana doesn't seem like a Brian Kelly fan. B&B on packaged plays and such. They're all the rage.
Oklahaters Be Hatin' Unverified Voracity
The new Yost. Photos from inside the barn during its renovation:
The visual effect of those windows won't be as huge since games are invariably played after the sun goes down. It should be interesting all the same. Where do the NCAA/GLI banners go now?
(Via United States of Hockey)
Pipkins back on the field. The scare was only that. I have a good source who says it was just a stinger.
More Mealer. The Daily revisits Brock Mealer's ongoing recovery, finding this sign provided by Tom at Barwis Methods:
He's getting married. Article is a dust factory, be warned.
You guys should put together a banner. ND's secondary is verging on Never Forget territory with yesterday's news that projected starting quarterback Lo Wood* was lost for the season with an achilles injury. This leaves Notre Dame with two players on their roster who were recruited at CB. They've got a few more converted types.
The Irish Illustrated guys believe they won't move starting safety Jamoris Slaughter($) and will probably turn to true freshman KeiVarae Russell, a 3.5 star player who most sites ranked as a tailback (but did think he could play corner). Slaughter moves down to the nickel for them, FWIW.
*[Who you may remember as the nadir of Michigan's recruiting success against the Irish; Wood maintained Michigan as his leader for months before committing to Charlie Weis and Corwin Brown in June of 2009.]
Extra crispy? The Bylaw Blog thinks Oregon will get hammered by the NCAA for a blatant violation of the NCAA's prohibition against "impermissible scouting services" since Penn State means new era and the rest of the membership isn't afraid of getting nailed on vague technicalities since the NCAA now has a clearinghouse for permissible services. Intent is not relevant here:
What it means for Oregon is that even if the NCAA never proves that Oregon's coaching staff intended the purchase of Lyles' recruiting service to get them access to prospects or had much contact with Lyles, the school could still face severe penalties. All the enforcement staff might need to prove is that Oregon paid for a recruiting service that did not meet the requirements. The fact that prospects connected to the owner of the recruiting service enrolled at Oregon would be an aggravating factor.
Legally, the case sets up poorly for Oregon. Politically, the case sets up even worse. Oregon's alleged violation can easily be cast as something most people want to stop: paying off a third party in order to secure a recruit's enrollment.
I'm not hopeful but Infante knows this material a lot better than I do.
Adorable moppet is probably a part of a gang that smokes pipes and plots the overthrow of Kaiser Wilhem. State of Oklahoma, what is up?
Young Cooper Barton wore his favorite Michigan shirt to Wilson Elementary in Oklahoma City and was told it violated the Oklahoma City Public Schools dress code and was asked to turn the shirt inside out. According to the dress code, students are only allowed to wear Oklahoma, Oklahoma State or apparel from another Oklahoma-state school. …
"They should really worry about academics. It wasn't offensive. He's five," Cooper's mother Shannon Barton told News9.com. …
According to the television station, the dress code was created in 2005 as part of a way to rid schools of gangs and gang apparel.
Sounds like someone high up in the food chain of the Oklahoma City school system has a burr up his butt about Texas. Or this five-year-old passes for witheringly intimidating in Oklahoma.
Life imitates terrible jokes. Ace told you that camp sleeper commit Channing Stribling is "blowing up," as the kids say, after a strong two-way performance in his opening game of the season. But Tom just posted an article at Wolverine Nation($) that contains.. well:
"I see more Ohio State fans in my area than anything," he said. "My pizza man came by and saw I had my Michigan shirt on and he said he was an Ohio State fan and yelled, 'Go Buckeyes!' "
I don't even to know how to add anything here.
Etc.: STUFFING THE PASSER. Gasaway has an insider article on ACC/Big Ten Challenge opponent NC State($). The Daily breaks down the hockey roster. I am extremely dubious of Guptill anywhere but the top line, but otherwise solid. Smart Football on packaged run/pass concepts. The NCAA is considering radically altering the structure of football staffs by allowing non-coaches to find and contact players. I'm not the only person who doesn't like Dave Brandon's vision for the AD.
Unverified Voracity Roots For Ties
- 1987 minnesota
- 1998 penn state
- bowl games
- i am driven insane by buffalo wild wings commercials
- mark emmert
- michael buckner only lawyer in america
- ncaa: the bureaucracy
- ncaa: the game
- notre dame
- penn state awful thing
- recruiting might not be so legit sometimes
- schadenfreude
- unverified voracity
- will campbell
[Programming note: Ace is at a Big Day Prep Showdown event today and will be reporting from that. Recruiting roundup will be tomorrow.]
Jamie Morris breaks the record. Via WH, the 1987 Minnesota game:
Also Michigan gives up a 98-yard touchdown run.
FOOTBAW. Also from WH, the 1998 shutout of Penn State. Try to watch the first minute of this without punching something and thinking about FOOTBAW:
Keith Jackson, man.
UPDATE/BONUS: Fumble recoveries, man.
Luck be a lady tonight.
Your tears are so yummy, Scott. Run, don't walk, to ND Nation and imbibe the thread "An emo rant: I'm still not over the Michigan loss" if the suffering of other tribes stirs even the barest tremors of pleasure in you. You will not be disappointed:
I was there...
by mg73
and the worst part for me was the 45 min it took to wade through 100,000 rabid fans screaming and singing the entire time.
I had perfect seats right under the press box on the west side with my best friend who's a UM fan. There were so many head-banging letdowns during that game: The last drive, Denard continually throwing the ball up for grabs the entire game and having UM come down with it every time, Denard fumbling and then picking it up and running it in for a TD vs Rees having the ball just fall out of his hands in the Red Zone...
Fortunately my friend was very gracious in victory, as I would have been had we won. But it still makes me ill when I think about it.
My brother's response after the game summed it up perfectly
by jameszuro
"I don't know where to start cleaning up. Firs I sh*t myself I was so happy. Then I threw up all over the carpet."
Oh, man. I have to sit down after that.
He came with the power of LAW and gave unto newspaper reporters. Are you wondering what the only lawyer in America thinks about the Penn State sanctions? Wonder no longer:
On Sunday, Buckner filed a blog entry (read it here) stating that he is "extremely concerned about the possible NCAA sanctions and urge the organization to comply with its existing processes and procedures to address the Penn State sexual abuse scandal."
Further, he wrote that sanctions could "potentially violate federal and state notions of due and fair process" because, among other reasons, Penn State did not violate an existing NCAA rule, and the NCAA is not following existing procedures available to other schools.
He's got a blog now. Batten down the law-hatches.
Even more PENN STATE~! So the thing about the sanctions that is truly painful is that the roster restriction doesn't start for two years. The bowl ban is now, the scholarship reductions are now, but the roster cap of 65 does not come into effect until 2014. But since it's open season on PSU players and what's left of their 2012 recruiting class, PSU is likely to be way, way below their hypothetical maximum this fall, and then they've only got 15 slots to try to bring that up to par next year, and that's when the roster cap kicks in. Penn State has six years of extreme restrictions. Which… wow.
Q: assuming academic-fraud-laden and booster-runner-employing North Carolina gets charged with LOIC can Mark Emmert level a similar punishment? I think that's the test case for those theorizing about the New Era Of Enforcement. What went down at UNC seems as egregious a violation of NCAA principles as what happened at Penn State, though not the principles of basic human decency. If Emmert agitates for a similarly harsh, long-term punishment of the Tarheels, then I'll believe in the new era.
I'm on the fence as it is. Emmert is clearly trying to repair some of the things that suck about the NCAA. Under his watch they jammed through the ability to offer multi-year scholarships (barely) and were only thwarted by the Indiana States of the world when they tried to offer an additional stipend to the athletes. IIRC, both of these pieces of legislation took some arcane-but-direct route that got them through the legislative process without exposing it to votes involving the Indiana States until their only resort was the override process. That required a supermajority of 5/8ths to knock down the legislation and that is the only reason (THE OPTION TO OFFER!) multi-year scholarships got through. A majority was against it.
So, yeah, rail on the NCAA because you're Drew Magary or Charlie Pierce and railin' is your speciality, but really what we're railing at is the rickety structure trying to accommodate schools that spend millions of dollars annually on a bonfire called college athletics with the major schools that can build thousand-foot tall statues of Charles Woodson intercepting that pass against MSU*. When the big players try to lurch slowly towards a more equitable distribution of their massive revenues, the small schools cry "level playing field" with a straight face and knock it down. That's the real issue, and the only solution is to hack big football schools away from Indiana State.
Anyway, Emmert seems to be ramming things through the NCAA without regard to anything except how he can Get Things Done, and the things that he wants to get done are good changes. He can't help it that he's not a dictator.
*[Just sayin']
Paterno statue position paper. Should have left it up, but removed the "educator, coach, humanitarian" text under his name. Just let people look at as they would.
We've got a poll. The writers have taken it upon themselves to replicate the preseason polls the milquetoasty Big Ten has done away with. Results:
Leaders Division
1. Wisconsin (19 first-place votes)
2. Ohio State (5)
3. Purdue
4. Illinois
5. Penn State
6. Indiana
Legends Division
1. Michigan (16 first-place votes)
2. Michigan State (7)
3. Nebraska (1)
4. Iowa
5. Northwestern
6. Minnesota
Michigan wins the championship game on 11 out of 24 ballots. If only it was slightly under 50% for the Rose Bowl this year. The inexplicable Will Gholston Hype Train continues, as he's the pick for defensive player of the year. Kawaan Short and John Simon are like "WTF I have beaten many blocks in my career page me when Gholston does yes I still have a pager also Tamagotchi."
The Elite 11 is a ridiculous thing now. You may not be following this closely, but there are now 25(!) quarterbacks at the Elite 11, which is, like, too many quarterbacks. Not only is your name silly but it results in events like this:
The third day of 7v7 began at the Elite 11 in which each quarterback takes eight throws. The duration of the day spread across a seven hour time frame makes for some strikingly different conditions. The early afternoon groups contend with a stiff ocean breeze that typically dies down late afternoon and into the evening.
Even more ridiculous was a redzone event where the QBs threw four times. Take all Elite 11 rankings with a grain of salt, as they represent little data made big. Shane Morris did well according to all observers, but did not make the camp coaches' Elite 11 list.
Isn't he doing this whenever he walks down a street? Will Campbell's Dukes of Hazzard fail magically transmogrifies into…
Michigan senior defensive tackle Will Campbell accepted responsibility for a civil infraction of blocking a sidewalk Monday morning in the 15th District Court in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Be narrower or pay $300 in fines or court costs. Campbell also has a sentencing hearing for misdemeanor destruction of property coming up. My punishment spidey-sense suggests this is a stairs-type offense that shouldn't impact his availability for football games.
Nevermind. The "Valley of the Sun Bowl" is no more. In its place:
The bastard child of the Fiesta Bowl, the Insight Bowl, will now shed its technocratic shell and become known as the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl. Please insert immediately obvious jokes about a field rigged with sprinklers and booby traps designed to take games into overtime here.
I hope other people are driven as insane by the idea people would go to a sports bar and cheer for a tie, or that someone could be watching the Detroit Randoms try a last-ditch Hail Mary down a touchdown and say "the only thing that could make this better is… OVERTIME" instead of "the only thing that could make this better is winning 68-0 and being at a place where the food comes on, you know, plates." I hate the fake BWW people so, so much.
Yessssssss. EA has agreed to give up NCAA licensing exclusivity as part of an anti-trust class-action lawsuit. The contract lapses in 2014. Bizarrely, it stipulates that EA won't re-acquire an exclusive license for "at least five years." If your position now is so crappy you're paying out a class action lawsuit settlement why would it be better in five years? I don't know.
Anyway, this opens the door for football games from other people that may not suck and may get EA to actually fix its product. A lot of folks in the comment thread were skeptical about the economics of just putting out a college football game, but I figure someone's got to take a swing. Also one guy put out a call for a CFB game akin to Football Manager. Working title: "Brian was never heard from again."
Etc.: Bonus news that will depress Penn State fans: top basketball recruit Brandon Austin decommits. UNC stuff gets incrementally worse. Luke Winn on transferring up in college basketball. Former Penn State player twitter roundup. Penn State punishment comment fallout. BHGP podcast w/ the original BSD mafia (Chris Grovich, Kevin… uh… I don't know his last name) on the Penn State stuff. The city of Grambling is saucy, yo.
Unverified Voracity Has No Return Date
Elvis says: don't do drugs. Because you'll totally overthrow Desmond Howard if you do.
One offs FTW. That Colorado game has no return date scheduled according to CU's official site:
Colorado and Michigan will renew their short but exciting rivalry with a single game in Ann Arbor on Sept. 17, 2016. While not officially part of the Pac-12/Big Ten schedule series set to commence in 2017, it will mark the fifth time the schools will play, the first since 1997.
And neither does the Oregon State official site mention a return game:
The Oregon State University football team will travel to the University of Michigan to play during the 2015 season, Beaver Director of Athletics Bob De Carolis announced Wednesday. …
"This is an exciting opportunity for our student-athletes, staff and fans to visit not only one of the great venues in college football but all of sports," De Carolis said. "But make no mistake, we will make this trip with the goal of winning a football game."
So… that ND gap can be filled by a marquee opponent instead of road games against middling to not so good Pac-12 teams. Take a picture: GOOD JOB DAVE BRANDON WOOO! Also good job Bill Martin for having luxury suites that make it important to not have home schedules like this year.
Now, about canceling the Horror II and pretending that never happened…
Notre Dame hiatus just that. Whenever Michigan and Notre Dame take a break in their series there's a small cadre of folks suspicious that it's a front for an end to the whole thing. This does not appear to be the case, tinfoil hat folk. From the Tribune:
"This was either in place when I got here or it was a request that came shortly after I got here," Swarbrick said in a phone interview Wednesday. "I didn't even know it wasn't known, frankly. It had been cooked into our scheduling model for at least three years.
"I don't think somehow (Michigan athletic director) Dave (Brandon) had been informed when he came aboard. When he called and we started talking about dates, I said, 'You know Dave, we had this bye built in and I scheduled games.' He was great. We just made it work.
"We're going to keep playing each other. It's important to both schools. This initiated with a request from up there years ago, and we said OK."
Since this is Notre Dame there is the slight but real chance Swarbrick means "heaven" by "up there." In any case, ND is coming back after the break. On the schedule. Not to the realm of teams that win a lot of football games.
And then he gave you the finger guns. Brandon on the ND hole:
But what does Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon intend to do with those two open dates on the schedule?
"Stay tuned," he told AnnArbor.com by phone on Wednesday.
You're too small. This is something that is true about Chris Wormley and Tom Strobel despite being people of this size:
Football is weird.
BONUS: Well done, photobomber who must be Wormley's younger brother or something.
ZomBCS lurches on, makes more sense. There will remain some semblance of the red carpet bowl tier that fans have gotten used to over the past decade or so, as Stewart Mandel reports that the as yet undefined selection committee will also hand-craft the four bowls that are super special but not hosting playoff semifinals. The top twelve get in, no exceptions—you're still not in the top 12, Michigan State, go away—and there will be some restrictions due to Rose/"Champions" bowl business. As a bonus, they've also decided to un-screw the bowl schedule by playing all six of the red carpet bowls on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
That's good. Less good is that the selection committee will start issuing a top 20 at midseason:
"We didn't want the top four teams to just come out of the blue at the end of the season," Swarbrick said.
This is to provide some transparency, I guess, but if they are prioritizing conference champs that's data you don't get until the season's over, making the previous polls a pointless exercise. I'd rather do away with the whole poll mentality in case some of the dumb from previous systems leaks into the new one.
Budget bits. Michigan's released its 2012 athletic department budget, which is the usual: about 10-12 million in the black with 4-5 of that set aside for a capital reinvestment fund. Things that jump out:
- Michigan is budgeting $2.4 million for "hosting, food, and special events" in the 2013 FY, a threefold increase on FY12. Alabama game effect?
- Premium seating is sold out for football and "essentially sold out" for basketball. Someone high five Brady Hoke and John Beilein.
- Despite having two fewer football games, "spectator admissions" are projected to drop only slightly, from 43 million to 39 million. Ticket price increase is a part of that and they must be including their 4.7 million from the Alabama game in that item.
- They made $3.9 million more than they expected last year.
More OHL rumblings. It's the incredibly annoying part of the year where OHL teams try to swoop in on committed players just for the hell of it. Plymouth traded for incoming defenseman Connor Carrick's rights, and then signed him. (Apparently. I can't find anything other than the link-free MHN article.)
Carrick committed to Michigan as a sophomore in high school and as a small defenseman who was a mid-round draft pick he's the archetypical guy who should play in college, so the only way this makes any sense at all is if Carrick was concerned about playing time. Michigan does return six guys who had a regular-ish shift last year and adds Trouba. But this isn't John Gibson bugging out at the idea of backing up Hunwick—Carrick only has to beat out one of Chiasson, Serville, or Clare to get PT. Stupid move for a guy who has about a 12% chance of playing 200 NHL games.
Meanwhile, an OHL source telling Matt Slovin that Jacob Trouba is 50/50 to be in Kitchener this fall is something to mention, but my initial reaction to that is eyerolling given anonymous OHL sources' tendency to play up their chances at everyone. Trouba has been more insistent that he'd be at Michigan than anyone save Jack Johnson. If he backs out that would be an all-timer. I need a sufficiently condescending youtube video to embed in these situations.
As far as Phil Di Giuseppe goes, Rivals' Michael Spath seems to be a little more optimistic as of yesterday's Inside the Fort post.
It doubles as a tombstone. The CCHA's final year will be commemorated by patches.
I'll be vaguely sad about the lost tradition until I see some good old fashioned CCHA reffing in November. Or remember Shawn Hunwick, second-team all-conference.
Mikulak killing it. Michigan's men's gymnastics Olympic hopeful is crushing the trials:
So much for the U.S. men's gymnastics team being a two-man show.
Sam Mikulak was impressive during the first day of the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials Thursday, threatening to break up the grip national champion John Orozco and Danell Leyva have on the role of top Americans heading into the London Olympics.
Looking as relaxed as if he was competing in a college dual meet for Michigan, the 2011 NCAA champion posted an all-around score of 91.80, the best on a day many of the other contenders to make the five-man Olympic team faltered.
Leyva moved past Orozco into first place in the overall standings, which combine scores from nationals and trials, but couldn't top Mikulak, at least for a couple of hours. Mikulak remained third in the overall standings but drew closer to the top two heading into the finals Saturday.
Mikulak was also interviewed by espnW. If he makes the team he is a lock to have an NBC equivalent of Tom Rinaldi narrate a sepia-toned profile, what with the broken legs == broken dreams angle.
Etc.: John Bacon on the recently departed Bob Chappius. The Ex-Peach Bowl wants to be the #6 bowl in this new rotation they've got going. Indianapolis, you're our only hope. TOC's Chris Vannini on Detroit FC. Shut up, I like it. UConn joins Hockey East, prompting BC blogs to advocate secession into a new six-team conference styled on the Big Ten. New BHGP podcast intro song.
Lloyd meets the peregrine falcon named after him, asks "why is that one not named Fielding?" He does not actually ask that.
Unverified Voracity Stops Fearing Books
I'll miss you, Birds+Books APR image header, except I'll probably still use you
APR threat: downgraded. My annual fretting about the first-year Rich Rodriguez number has been a full-post kind of thing the last few years. This year it gets downgraded to a UV bullet because of this number: 984. That's Michigan's most recent one-year score, and it's shiny enough to get Michigan over the 930 Mendoza line even with that 897 anchor. Hurray for everyone.
Unless Michigan experiences another flurry of transfers—unlikely—the next few June days on which everyone reports APR scores because it's the middle of June will be opportunities to reflect on what a swell guy Brady Hoke is. Officially standing down on APR alert.
Michigan's other sports are all doing well, as per usual.
Playoff: almost officially happening. It seems like we've had articles about the inevitably of a four-team playoff for months now. At some point if the thing is so inevitable people would stop writing about it. No one's writing about players being required to wear helmets this fall. Anyway, it seems like there has finally been a meeting with an actual single endorsed plan. It is this (emphasis added):
While the B.C.S. commissioners did not announce the details of how they would pick the teams for the four-team playoff, a source with direct knowledge of the decision said the plan is for a selection committee to "more than likely" pick the four best teams.
There will be a preference given to conference champions in the selection, but how much is yet to be determined. Strength of schedule will also be strongly considered. There have yet to be any discussions about how the finances will be split among the teams.
The selection committee will subject a sport steeped in regional biases to a different type of controversy, although one that will likely die down a bit now that there will be semifinal and final games. The two semifinal games are expected to be played within the bowl system and the national championship will be bid on like the Super Bowl.
In a joint statement, the 11 conference commissioners and the Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said that they had reached a "consensus behind a four-team, seeded playoff, while recognizing that the presidents will certainly present their views, including a discussion of a Plus-One."
That's lip service. Presidents are going to rubber stamp it. Pop champagne? It could be better but it's a huge improvement. Other than the Big Ten's self-defeating opposition to home playoff games leading them to perpetual road travels, I'm cool with it. FWIW, even without preferences for conference champions, the SEC would only have grabbed multiple bids three times.
As for where the first one will be, bet on Dallas.
Why not both? This is a revamped sports bar split into MSU and Michigan halves.
Revamped? Revamped.
VERNON TWP. — Uncle Buck's Northern Exposure is making a dramatic change in format — from a nearly topless dance club to big-screen sports bar.
In fact, it was an overload of drama, says owner Ken Canfield, that prompted the change, including a different name: Crossroads Sports Bar.
Missed opportunity there.
[via EDSBS.]
Hockey schedule: again with the front-loading. Michigan's released the hockey schedule, which again has an extremely light back end. Nine of Michigan's final 12 games are away from home (one is at the Joe) and there are just six home games (and the U18 game) in 2013. Not like they could do anything about that what with the conference going away next year. Price of leaving.
Michigan plays no road games in the slim nonconference portion of the schedule. They've got two against RIT, another one-off versus Bentley, the game at MSG against Cornell, and the outdoor GLI. They'll open against Tech and get WMU or MSU in the second game.
I hope this isn't an indication of where Michigan's nonconference schedule will go when they join the Big Ten. It probably isn't. Red has sought out tough competition as frequently as possible since the program got its footing, and with a whopping 14 games to play with—16 if M makes the trip to Alaska—they should have room for annual series against the big powers.
Context at Maize and Brew.
Should you flip your defense or not? Generally the answer is "not" these days because of spread hurry up stuff. You may remember Michigan doing this a bit early in the year, but that was a stop-gap measure:
Why to Flip
Flipping the defensive positions based on strength of the Offensive formation started as a way to keep teaching simple.
Rather than having to teach a Defensive End to play either lined up either inside a Tight End or outside shade on a Tackle, you could teach him to always align to the strength, meaning he spent all of his time on the Tight End.
The teaching got simpler, as players had to know less about the entire game, and more about their own little piece of tunnel vision. It became easy to know very little about the game while still being a very good and knowledgeable player about your own position.
No more, because if you flip your bits people will run hurry-up on your face and get you confused. Better to have a general understanding these days than a hyper-specific focus. That's a subtle way in which the game's generally increasing specialization is taking a step back.
FWIW, the coach who posted this noted that a number of guys are using field and boundary calls to set their defense instead of opponent alignment. (IE, you line up to the wide side or short side of the field no matter what the offense does.) FWIW, Mattison is one.
More uniform concepts. This time Notre Dame does it to themselves:
The second comment is an image of Chris Hall—life's winner—and his glorious Tom Hammond tie. Well done.
Etc.: UMHoops gives the 1,000-foot view on Michigan's five-man 2012 basketball recruiting class. Rothstein horning in on my season intro column by discussing Hoke's inadvertent marketing genius. Baumgardner has a series on key moments from last football season. I disagree with Baumgardner's take on the 49% TD against Iowa—he seems to think the issue there was whether Hemingway was in, but the real problem was the nose of the ball hitting the ground.
Unverified Voracity Sinks WR Ships
WR ALERT. Devin Gardner's facebook:
Stop everything you're doing for the next three months and talk about this. Certain packages are likely to include the redzone and third down stuff when Michigan has four WRs on the field. 20-30 catches maybe? Unless an enraged Al Borges refuses to field a leaker?
UPDATE: Michigan says that's not actually Devin Gardner's facebook page. Woo!
Wow. Of all the quotes to put on Joe Paterno's grave, this is the best one:
No idea if that was planned previously and now takes on a vastly sadder meaning in the aftermath or someone in the family calling a ballsy audible. But, yeah.
When Irish legs are drunkenly crane-kicking you. Tommy Rees was at a party in South Bend that was broken up because it's South Bend. City motto: Where Fun Goes to Die. He got some tickets and stuff, but then the crushing weight of life in rural Indiana finally got to him and he went "wwrrroaaaaaAAHHHH" at a cop:
Officers saw five people jumping a fence to run away and they chased them down, catching Rees and Calabrese.
In an attempt to get away, Trent says Rees kneed an officer in the stomach.
Rees got pepper-sprayed—internet, where is the Tommy Rees getting it from Pepper Spray Cop image?—and arrested on various charges including a felony that has a zero point zero percent chance of sticking.
This is par for the Tommy Rees decision-making course. Confronted by police, the options he considered included:
- calmly taking the ticket and going home
- wwwwrrrroooaaaAAAAAAHHHH!
- licking Manti Te'o's face just to see what would happen
- detaching his arm, insisting that it was actually Tommy Rees and he was Steve Miller of Steve Miller band
- transferring to any school coached by a non-mauve person
ANSWER KEY: #5: 10 points. #1: 5 points. #2: one point. #4: zero points. #5: you have been eaten by a grue'o.
So he could have done worse. Irish fans are hoping this disqualifies him from starting this fall. Opponents are hoping for his safe, addled return.
BONUS: Carlo Calabrese is as connected as you would expect a guy named "Carlo Calabrese" to be:
At 1 point, (Carlo) Calabrese allegedly told officers, "my people will get you," per police reports.
DOUBLE DRAGON BONUS: Jacobi uses the Furman suspension to troll Notre Dame about their lack of character. Well done. (BR link!)
Give us back our New Year's Day, and do so by taking it away. Remember when New Year's Day was reserved for teams that had won, like, eight games? Yeah, man, back then you really had to eke out a mediocre season to play on January first. No longer:
At the 2010 Outback Bowl, Auburn became the first team in 62 years to play on New Year's Day with a losing conference record. Five more teams have done that since then: Northwestern, Texas Tech, Michigan, Florida and Ohio State.
In the past five years, 10 of the 27 New Year's Day bowls featured a team without a winning conference record. That occurred in just six of the 221 New Year's Day bowls from 1968 to 2007.
Fans have been treated like suckers. The powers-that-be figured by putting something on New Year's Day — even if it was undeserving teams — you'd keep filling seats, watching on TV and building up ratings for BCS bowls in the coming days.
You can't even blame TV since the Big Ten's desire to cram every game they're in onto New Year's Day means four games I'd watch if given the option are on at the same time. As long as we're banning 6-6 teams from the postseason, let's ban teams with more than three losses from New Year's Day.
The erosion of NYD is a fine example of the stuff that drives me nuts the increasingly short-term thinking plaguing of college athletics: you have an institution that is loved, so you milk it for dollars until you've destroyed the meaning of that institution. Get The Picture:
The thing is, it's not like that happened in a vacuum. It wasn't an accident. It's what TV wanted. And the conference commissioners were more than happy to comply with the request, as long as the checks rolled in. Now the panic has set in as the numbers decline. But who's to say that the guys who drove the bus into the ditch in the first place are qualified to pilot the tow truck to pull the bowl season out of the ditch? Does anybody really believe they'd place the sanctity of New Year's Day above a few more dollars?
On the national level this results in Gator Bowls between 7-5 teams on NYD; on the local level it results in the reseating of Crisler with absolutely no consideration given to the guys who have had tickets for the last crappy decade.
Alienating your most loyal fans is rarely a winner unless you're winding down an industry. (See: profitable but debt-laden newspapers slashing content willy-nilly.)
How to do it. I may expand this into a larger post later, but amongst an avalanche of head-nods and "you go girl" exclamations while I read Dan Wetzel's latest article on how to construct playoffs I found myself having a serious disagreement. It's here:
There is no good way to choose the field. None. There has to be a subjective decision made, and no one likes subjective decisions.
The best of a bad situation is to have that subjectivity hashed out in a cool, calm and studied environment and then make the selection process as transparent as possible.
As such, the sport would be best served if it created a single computer formula. People could decide how important strength of schedule (preferably giving extra credence to tough nonconference scheduling) or margin of victory or home-field/road-game criteria should be. They could program the formula accordingly and then test and tweak the next two seasons.
Most importantly, they could offer it up to everyone so that teams can plan ahead, know what they are up against and track the progress as the season goes along.
I'm a math guy, but that's not going to work. There is just not enough data in a 12-game season with very little meaningful overlap between conferences. Adding MOV helps, but not enough. Even computer models that try to take every drive or play into account spit out weird results like Virginia Tech #3 overall in 2009. While any selection mechanism would fall on the descriptive side of the descriptive/predictive rankings divide*, I just don't see a computer ranking ever getting fine enough that it will be right as much as a dedicated selection committee.
You need the committee to override groupthink like "Oregon has more losses than Stanford because it played LSU, so Stanford makes it."
In other playoff ideas, I do like the idea that a conference champ ranked 5 or 6 gets in over someone who didn't win the conference. Without that limitation you get some squirrelly fields. That one seems good to me since it solves that Oregon issue.
*[IE: rankings either describe what you've done—evaluate who's had the best season—or attempt to predict the future by ignoring noisy wins and losses for a more robust underlying model.]
Stop, collaborate, and listen. Joe Stapleton talked with Zak Irvin's AAU coach and came back with some tantalizing tidbits. He's his loaded AAU team's go-to scorer and we also get some additional indication he could be BRJ 3000:
"Defensively, he's our stopper," Green said. "We put him on the other team's best player. So sometimes you've got the best offensive guy, he's going to work, but then he's got to turn around and play defense against the other team's best player. He's capable of doing both."
When the All-Stars were in zone, Irvin played at the top and was disruptive. His 6-foot-6 frame and long arms made it nearly impossible for smaller guards to get a lob pass over him, and his quickness allowed him to hound the ball without getting taken advantage of.
When the All-Stars were in man-to-man, Irvin guarded the opposing team's best player and gave them plenty of trouble. Irvin's combination of size and quickness allowed him to guard post players and wing players equally effectively.
"His best attribute right now is being a lockdown defender," Green said. "Defensively, he's always been a lockdown defender and that's never going to change."
I love players who can add value without using possessions, whether they're Aaron Craft or Ben Wallace. Irvin is going to use possessions, possibly at a Hardaway rate—in AAU the dude is an aggressive shooter. Add in a lot more value than Hardaway has at the other end of the floor, where he's an indifferent defender, and an inch or two of height and Irvin sounds like a top 50 player easy.
Etc.: Various coaches on playoffs. Considerable speculation that Alabama's projected starting tailback may not be ready for the Jerryworld game. They would plug in a five-star freshman in his stead. You are annihilating the EDSBS fundraiser. Good luck, St. Louis group trying to get a Big 10-SEC bowl game there. Seriously, good luck.
Andy Staples knows who Terrence Talbott is. More Tommy Rees jokes at EDSBS.


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NASA Scientists Study Thundersnow In The Deep South
A city that rarely sees snowfall, Huntsville, Ala., was blanketed the evening of Jan. 9 under several inches of snow following a winter storm that also produced a rare "thundersnow" or lightning flashes. This unique weather event allowed scientists at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of Alabama in Huntsville the opportunity to assemble one of the most detailed snowfall datasets on record for the deep southern tier of the continental United States.
Scientists in Huntsville were eager to measure the snowstorm's effects since the city hadn't seen a storm of this magnitude since March of 1993 when the city received a record 17 inches of snowfall. As the flakes started to fall, researchers worked to deploy several advanced radars, a large collection of snow particle measurement instrumentation and a 3-D lightning location array to gather storm data.
Advanced instruments known as "dual-polarimetric" radars from UAHuntsville scanned the snow-producing clouds Sunday night and Monday morning, measuring precipitation contents, and wind-flow while ground-based camera and laser imaging systems measured individual snowflake sizes, the rate of fall of the snowflakes, and the amount of melted water associated with the snowfall.
Dr. Walt Petersen's "Disdrometer and Radar Observations of Precipitation" group, or DROP Facility, of the Marshall Center and NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission provided a large cluster of precipitation measurement equipment currently managed at Marshall and guided the Advanced Radar for Meteorological and Operational Research (ARMOR) polarimetric radar operations as part of the study with UAHuntsville scientists.
"NASA's GPM mission has invested significant resources in equipment that can help us better determine what an orbiting, satellite-based remote sensor sees at the top of Earth's atmosphere when it is snowing or raining at the surface of the Earth," said Petersen. "The snowflakes and raindrops produced in clouds between the Earth's surface and the top of the atmosphere cause changes in the microwave radiation measured at the top of the atmosphere. These changes occur as a function of the cloud thickness, as well as precipitation type and shape, and are particularly sensitive to the presence of snowflakes or raindrops."
The snowstorm provided an excellent opportunity for Petersen's team to take detailed measurements of precipitation and use those observations as a type of database or model to simulate what the constellation of GPM satellites would see from space. By combining the observations at the ground with those of the polarimetric radar, Petersen's team expects to learn a great deal about the processes responsible for creating the snowfall, and more accurately measure the water content of the snow from space and the rate at which that snow-water equivalent accumulates on the ground.
"The snow rate accumulation is important for winter weather preparedness on Earth," said Petersen. "Several of the Southern states were criticized for their lack of planning. It would mean a great deal if we could predict the intensity of the storm to allow cities more opportunity to be ready for this type of once in a decade weather event."
Petersen and his team worked in tandem with researchers and scientists from the Department of Atmospheric Science led by Professor Kevin Knupp at UAHuntsville. Knupp's team deployed the UAHuntsville mobile X-band radar (MAX) and used it to scan over the top of the NASA GPM instruments at the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville. By combining the radar measurements from at least two of the radars, Knupp's team hopes to relate the wind flow within the storm to the precipitation measurements taken by Petersen. Knupp noted that "the atmosphere was full of gravity waves," features in the atmosphere that produce rapid up and downward motions and enhance the rate at which snow falls.
"Our team feels lucky and even surprised to have been able to marshal our collective resources to sample such a unique event in this part of the United States," said Petersen. "A team of scientists, including Dr. Lawrence Carey, Patrick Gatlin and Matt Wingo of UAHuntsville, just finished making similar measurements in Finland, yet here we are doing something similar in Huntsville, of all places."
The combined research team was able to collect the most detailed observations of thundersnow — including the actual propagation path of individual lighting flashes — ever collected in the Southeastern United States. These observations will help the NASA and UAHuntsville teams determine how electrical processes in thunderstorms function by comparing the observations to those collected in more frequently observed summer thunderstorms.
The ARMOR radar and Northern Alabama lightning-mapping array projects represent collaborative efforts between the Marshall Center and team members and partners from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. These efforts are funded in part by the NOAA/NASA GOES-R satellite program, NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and Global Precipitation Measurement Missions, all managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and NASA's Earth Science Division in Washington.
Image 1: A reverse image of snowflakes. (NASA/Walt Petersen)
Image 2: Snowfall echo observed by the ARMOR radar on Jan. 10, 2011. (NASA/UAHuntsville)
Image 3: Four ARMOR radar vertical cross-sections taken through a snowstorm. (NASA/UAHuntsville)
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Hansen demonstrates that democratic transformation has enabled such developments as political mobilization among the lower castes and civil protections for religious minorities. Against this backdrop, the Hindu nationalist movement has successfully articulated the anxieties and desires of the large and amorphous Indian middle class. A form of conservative populism, the movement has attracted not only privileged groups fearing encroachment on their dominant positions but also "plebeian" and impoverished groups seeking recognition around a majoritarian rhetoric of cultural pride, order, and national strength. Combining political theory, ethnographic material, and sensitivity to colonial and postcolonial history, The Saffron Wave offers fresh insights into Indian politics and, by focusing on the links between democracy and ethnic majoritarianism, advances our understanding of democracy in the postcolonial world.
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