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Niko Porikos grew up in an NTDP billet home. Cool story.
Fun With Quotes: Dantonio Edition
This week in football coaches make obvious statements about how recruiting rankings are not guarantees:
Michigan State's Mark Dantonio wary of star rating systems used to classify recruits
"If you come in as a four‑star recruit, really doesn't serve any purpose," Dantonio said.
Last year in football coach talking about a guy in his recruiting class:
"For the third straight year, Michigan State gets the top player, perceived top player by the media in the state of Michigan."
(This was Aaron Burbridge, who turned out to be MSU's only receiver not toting bricks around for hands. The previous two were Lawrence Thomas, last seen playing FB/TE/DL/horrible mutated fly-man, and the wildly overrated but still long-term starter and NFL draft pick Will Gholston.)
I mean you guys at some point we're going to get all the football coaches in a room and carefully explain to them that we don't think the rankings are iron-clad guarantees, either, and that if they could just take that as a given we could all talk about something else for once. In any case, Dantonio won't have to walk a fine line between being a hipster about rankings and trumpeting his acquisition of the top player in the state this year.
Hokepoints: B1G Bowls and the Michigan Difference
The Game 1974 via Bentley
With the new bowl lineup I thought I'd delve into the conference's history with the things this week. Chart of sane bowl names is here.
The beginning
We whomped Stanford in 1901 so bad they canceled bowl games for a decade.
Rose or Bust.
For a time there was only the Rose Bowl. Then others began to pop up and the Big Ten wouldn't let teams go (Ohio State snuck over to Pasadena after the 1920 season but that was it). Then they said only one team may take a bid from the Rose Bowl.
It's been nearly 40 years and yet any Michigan fan over 50 still shakes with anger at it: In 1973 Michigan and Ohio State met in one of the more epic battles in that epic ten-year war. After Michigan missed three field goals in the 4th quarter the game—and thus the Big Ten title race—ended in a tie. In the process the Wolverines' starting quarterback Denny Franklin was busted up. Woody Hayes, never a particularly classy individual, made an uninformed remark to the media that he's sorry Franklin wouldn't be able to play in the bowl game. In part because they believed Michigan would be without Denny, the conference's athletic directors voted to send Ohio State to the Rose Bowl.
The following year Michigan did make their game-winning field goal, but the officials missed it and there was no replay, and Ohio State again went to Pasadena. Since the Big Ten wouldn't let its teams attend any other bowl, both times a more deserving Michigan had to stay home. Overall Franklin and the Wolverines managed to go three years (1972-'74) without a bowl game despite going 30-2-1 over that span.
The whole concept was as mind-blowingly ridiculous as it seems, and the following year the conference finally got rid of the rule that had become outdated due to...
Bowl Expansion
The conference deigned to allow its teams to go to bowls again only after WWII, and then it was "you can only go to the Rose Bowl if they invite you." Once the Big Ten released its members it sparked a new round of bowl expansion (click to inbigmatate):
Note the Y axis is "Bowl Teams" not games—divide by two to get # of games. Some oddities: Michigan wasn't in the Big Ten from 1907 to 1916, not that it made any difference. Having one yellow dot in the bowl picture looks ridiculous. Michigan State went to an Orange Bowl before joining the conference. Penn State and Nebraska obviously went to plenty of bowls before they joined. Ohio State turned down its Rose Bowl bids in 1960 and '61 because of academics(!); Minnesota went in their stead.
Michigan's Placement
Since the bowl field expanded, the Big Ten's tie-ins have gone through a series of confusing shifts, order only recently having been brought into the process. Owing to its TV draw and instant draw the bowls have typically taken Michigan almost as soon as they're allowed to. As a result when you look at the conference's bowl history you can see Michigan tends to go early even in its rough years.
This is ordered by selection (starting from the left). Historically Michigan has been selected higher than its standing in the conference, the more so the lower down we get. For example in 1984 Michigan received an at-large Holiday Bowl bid—effectively the conference's third selector after the Rose and then the
Cotton Peach took Purdue as an at-large—despite finishing behind Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and tied with Michigan State, whom we lost to that year. Since then there have been progressively more stringent so-Michigan-State-won't-cry rules placed by the conference on the bowls for which teams they can select. Before it was they have to be within 1 or 2 losses of each other. Under the new system there's a tier:
The New Lineup and the Golden Vagina:
1. Teams selected by the playoff committee go to the Golden Vagina Playoff.
2. If the champion is still around they go to the Rose Bowl (vs Pac-12 or at-large), or the Orange Bowl (vs SEC or at-large) in years the Rose are the playoff hosts (2014 and every three years after).
3. BCS bowls can extend an at-large bid.
4. Citrus Bowl (SEC), Outback Bowl (SEC) and Holiday Bowl (Pac-12). Those bowls will unofficially switch off who gets first pick but really the conference will be sitting there negotiating who gets which school with the goal of rewarding better teams and changing things up a bit. Said Delany:
"Someone will obviously select first, but they may or may not get the team they want because that team may have been in that region two years in a row. We're trying to make sure there's freshness. It's hard when a team goes to say Florida five times in six years to get them really excited."
5. Gator or Music City (SEC), San Francisco (Pac-12), and Pinstripe (ACC). The first two switch off with that bid.
6. Heart of Dallas or Ft. Worth Armed Forces Bowl (Big 12), Motor City Bowl (TBA)
The only way the Big Ten champ will play the Pac 12 champ is if both are seeded as such in the playoff, or both miss the playoff. I am guessing it will not happen very often. The tier system is a rather eloquent method of handling the problem of Michigan State's blubbering over bowls falling over themselves to avoid them. See? You're on the same tier. Everyone on the same tier is the same.
Still Broken
The new system does have its problems:
- Not all of the payouts on each tier are equivalent right now—that seems like it can be negotiated.
- In a scenario where Michigan State beats Michigan in the regular season, thus winning the tiebreaker to get into the Big Ten Championship Game, and MSU subsequently loses that game and is no longer BCS eligible because they're ranked too low now, and Michigan is still ranked high enough for a BCS bid and gets one, Michigan State will still cry.
- In any given scenario, Michigan State will find a reason to cry.
Dear Diary and the Life of Pirate Al Borges
Bryan Fuller
If you've missed the bumping, Ron Utah has been following Borges's coaching history up and down the Pacific coast, and through about 14,000 plays called. Time to play catch-up:
Part I: A young Albison Issaquary Pirate Borges (that isn't his name) began coaching at Salinas High School as a 19-year-old assistant. He spent a year as an assistant at Cal, then went was a tight ends/receivers coach at Diablo Valley College. Then he was OC there, then at Portland State, then was at Boise State when they were making their transition up to Division I-AA. Then it was Oregon and UCLA.
Part II: Borges's ship is attacked and he is forced to join his hometown Cal Bears for the awful pre-Tedford times. After the mistake of joining the Indiana of the Pac Ten, Borges was ready to join the Indiana of the Big Ten, which was entering its DiNardo phase. Side note: Brian is going to be on a panel with DiNardo at a Chicago alumni event in July, the week of the Big Ten meetings. Raise of hands (or hooks) for those who think Brian will start asking DiNardo about Borges, and Gerry will be like "who is this guy?" Anyway then Borges went to Auburn and that's in there too.
Part III: After getting blamed for Auburn's awful 2007 offense under Tuberville, Borges took a year off then got a call from this guy who was taking over at San Diego State.
Part IV: Finally to the data, with career run-pass numbers and his far more efficient passing offense. We also go through his quarterbacks, and a lot of receivers with gaudy YPC numbers (evidence he likes the bomb) and running backs who mostly regressed. Ron also mentions Borges isn't really a recruiter. In the comments he mentions Borges's success on opening drives. Part V?
Diarist of the week assuredly.
Conference of the Crappy QBs.
Last week we welcomed back one of the great diarists from yesteryear, MCalibur. Fed up with passer rating, which as a standalone statistic can't differentiate between Chad Henne and Tommy Rees (see end of the diary) the diarist who is not a sword turned completion %, yards per attempt, touchdown % and interception % into passer ratings, and then used standard year-to-year improvement to project How Gardner should fare this season. He followed up this week by going through all the Big Ten's quarterbacks, and then the rest of the guys on the schedule this year. Here is his data on 11 quarterbacks assembled into a table (rank among the 11 is in parentheses).
|Devin Gardner
|132.8 (6th)
|176.3 (1st)
|177 (1st)
|98.3 (9th)
|Joel Stave
|129.8 (7th)
|168.6 (2nd)
|125.9 (6th)
|152.4 (3rd)
|Braxton Miller
|127.3 (8th)
|144.5 (3rd)
|137.8 (3rd)
|158.4 (2nd)
|Taylor Martinez
|143.5 (3rd)
|140.1 (4th)
|142.6 (2nd)
|124.8 (7th)
|Kain Colter
|169.1 (1st)
|102.5 (8th)
|130.4 (4th)
|146.3 (4th)
|Tommy Rees
|158.9 (2nd)
|124.4 (6th)
|123.4 (7th)
|119.3 (8th)
|Cameron Coffman
|138 (4th)
|119.2 (7th)
|107.1 (8th)
|145.7 (5th)
|Andrew Maxwell
|101.9 (10th)
|102.3 (9th)
|96.4 (9th)
|171.3 (1st)
|Chandler Whitmer
|124.5 (9th)
|132 (5th)
|90.6 (10th)
|94.3 (10th)
|N. Scheelhasse
|137.4 (5th)
|96.3 (11th)
|78.6 (11th)
|125.1 (6th)
|Philip Nelson
|88.2 (11th)
|100.4 (10th)
|128.9 (5th)
|81.9 (11th)
Kudos to LSAClassof2000 for algebraically finding the individual-year APRs for the rest of the conference. Since we have rivals who aren't so good at algebra here's a table of their constituent scores versus ours over the last eight years:
|vs MSU
|vs OSU
To Sparty trolls: our oldest constituent score is a major outlier. Let's high-five for being just about even this year in a metric that measures attendance and retention.
To Urban Meyer: It's true that Ohio State was trouncing Michigan since getting trounced itself in 2006…until you arrived.
LSA was also the subject of Six Zero's latest MGoProfile feature, where he explains why he's the only guy here with an adorable pony avatar other those being punished by the mods for avatar infractions. 100% percent agree on the power to delete or edit one's own posts.
Etc. And Michigan's massive endowment isn't so big when you consider other academic factors (like that we have twice as many students as comparable schools).
Best of the Boards
The thread of Michigan swag owned by the readers got huge, and makes me feel pretty crappy about my collection, which is really just a folder full of my old Michigan tickets and old copies of the Daily. Here's MgoBlueD's basement:
And here's the guest room that Wolverine Devotee keeps for when the Buckeye relatives come to town (I'm guessing):
One guy named Stonecoldwolv said his '97 national championship ring.
There was also a "what's your favorite joke?" thread which is long and excellent if you're short on material, and a fan license plate thread.
You know how Alabama installed a water fountain in their locker room? And how EDSBS suggested what other schools should do? Well 1484 covered the Big Ten. Northwestern's gonna be pretty pissed when they realize Mark Huyge's on our side.
ETC. Pipelines discussion is useful—would love to see a diary on M pipelines through the years and what happened to them. Avant's Hands discusses blowout decorum in anticipation of Spain versus 11 athletic-looking tourists Tahiti kidnapped from a cruise ship that was going by. UM Solar Car Team written up on FoxNews. Vincent Smith and Brandin Hawthorne want to play you on Call of Duty. I'm too old for that, but anyone from Team 120 wanna play Goldeneye?
Your Moment of Zen:
The recruits are grateful for the warning.
Thursday Recruitin' Moves Feet
(Don't Don't Don't) Don't Stop The Beat
Everybody, a-move your feet and feel united. Oh oh oh.
Michigan four-day technique camp concludes today, and while coverage is still trickling in, there are already offers to report for both the 2014 and 2015 classes.
Let's start with the 2014 class, which had offers go out to a pair of high school teammates in WR Freddy Canteen and CB Brandon Watson. Both prospects attend Elkton (MD) Eastern Christian Academy, which is essentially this sport's answer to hoops factory Oak Hill Academy—the academy itself is built entirely around the football program and attendees take their coursework through a larger online program. Their quarterback is David Sills, whom you may remember as the (then-)13-year-old who committed to USC, and now you exactly why USC offered such a player so early: his father, David Sills IV, is the founder of ECA. The program only played three games in 2012, as five opponents cancelled planned matchups, so what you see above—serious technique work (that's Canteen talking at the start of the video)—is what largely constituted their season, and now they're hitting the camp circuit very hard.
It's of little surprise, then, that Canteen and Watson were flying a bit under the radar heading into camp. It's also of little surprise that Canteen is really, really good at running routes. Here's 247 on Canteen from earlier this spring [emphasis mine]:
11) WR Freddy Canteen – Elkton (Md.) Eastern Christian Sills and Canteen connected often during this weekend. The 6-foot-0, 175-pound receiver was very difficult to defend and his routes were some of the best out of the entire camp. Canteen did plenty of talking on both days, but he backed it up every time.
GBW's Kyle Bogenschutz on Canteen's performance on Day 3 of Michigan's camp ($):
Catching GoBlueWolverine's eye in the morning 1-on-1's and 7-on-7, Canteen is extremely quick and very difficult to slow down off the line. Still developing from a technique standpoint with his hands, something that can be said for all high school wide outs, Canteen took some coaching and implemented it right away in the top group for the afternoon 1-on-1's, blowing by corners attempting to press, sprinting across the field on quick slants. Canteen is around 6-0 and has the frame to add some muscle but maintain that speed of his, undoubtedly earning his Michigan offer and one of the true highlights on day three at camp.
One of the top corners in the 2015 class said Canteen is the toughest receiver he's covered. Canteen's coach, meanwhile, went as far to say that he's "perhaps the best route-runner in the country," in an interview with Sam Webb ($).
The big question to arise from Canteen's offer, of course, is how this affects the current scholarship situation; while we previously thought Michigan would take one more receiver—Artavis Scott, hopefully—it appears that's not the case:
"Rutgers is still high with me," said Canteen, who was told the Wolverines would be taking two additional receivers in the class of 2014. "I don't know why people don't think that. You could still say Rutgers is my favorite school. There are a lot of mixed emotions when I really think about everything, but the top three are Rutgers, Michigan and Tennessee.
Watson's offer raises similar questions about defensive backfield recruiting—with Jabrill Peppers in the fold and Parrker Westphal a presumed commitment, space in the secondary appears tight, especially if Michigan is a serious player for CA DB Adoree' Jackson (and I believe they are). Westphal's recruitment has gone oddly quiet, so perhaps there's been some cooling off from one end or the other, which would explain why a longtime presumed lock has yet to pull the trigger—I'd compare it to the Tommy Doles situation, but Westphal's initial offer and fit with the team made a lot more sense in the first place.
Regardless, Watson has his offer, and he sounded quite excited about it when talking to 247's Steve Lorenz ($):
"Michigan is definitely right up there," Watson noted. "It's Michigan. They have top of the line facilities and academics and an amazing football program. They pretty much offer everything you're looking for. I am still going to take my time before deciding, however. I'll be up at USC pretty soon and then want to visit a few schools that I am considering most. I hope to decide before my season starts. Michigan will definitely be a return visit."
Watson missed a golden chance for a "fergodsakes," but maybe he'll learn about that on visit number two. Canteen also expressed a desire to return to Ann Arbor before making a pre-season decision; if both players make it back to campus, it sounds like the Wolverines have a good shot at adding to their class. Even if they don't, it looks like the coaches are making inroads with a program that's churning out D-I prospects.
[Hit THE JUMP for the latest on 2015 offers, including a legacy who could pull the trigger imminently, and much more.]
Michigan State football commitment No. 10, Jalen Watts-Jackson, another steal for Spartans
You may be getting ahead of yourself, MLive dude. Drake Harris had 8 catches for 243 yards against Watts-Jackson's OLSM last fall.
Unverified Voracity Dons Swag Glasses
The great coach smackdown of 2013. Sound Mind, Sound Body—an offseason camp that is set up such that college coaches can go—is too good to be true and will flame out in the near future when sixty other camps imitate it and the NCAA closes the loophole. But for now, we get things like Michigan coaches doing drills right next to Ohio State coaches that can be bothered to show up.
This is the setup for an uncomfortably hilarious moment. Mike Vrabel gets done with his drill segment early, badgers Mattison about finishing his bit when there's still time on the clock before the next rotation, and Mattison Is Not Having That. Via Sam Webb($):
"How about you coach them as hard as you can for as long as you have them?" Mattison yelled back tersely. "YOU GIVE THEM EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT!!"
Mattison then donned his swag glasses and told Lawrence Marshall "that's why you don't go to Ohio State, Lawrence."
There's a great Greg Robinson story behind that paywall still.
Run, don't walk. Outside of paywall is a terrific article by Mike Rothstein on the basketball program's unique approach to recruiting, in which Michigan offers only after June 15th of a prospect's junior year and maintains a sedulous respect for the process of getting to know kids.
"I'll throw this at people," Jordan said. "'What's your mom's name?' Because there's a curiosity of why haven't you offered. 'How many brothers? How many sisters? What's your family like? Have you considered the fact that we don't really know each other, but there is a desire for a scholarship offer?'
"So now it's like, 'OK.' It's the education."
It does seem like the Michigan offer is now something that means something, unlike a number of other schools.
There's another, almost unintentional, byproduct. By having prospects wait for an offer and go through myriad steps, Michigan has created more perceived value around an offer from the school. Instead of just another scholarship offer on a list, it is one the player had to work for.
"To see that they still wanted to offer me, it meant a lot after recruiting me for a year and seeing how well I developed and saw how much potential I had," Irvin said. "That was really special to me."
Rothstein noticed that Beilein often goes after kids who are young for their grade—Caris LeVert is a recent prominent example—and got shot down when he asked the coaches about it. So he's on to something there.
Brady Hoke problems. ESPN gives Maurice Ways a fourth star, which means the list of current commits eligible for this site's Sleeper of the Year designation reads:
- Michigan State commits
If I have to I'll open it up to kids who got just one four-star ranking, which opens the door to a whopping three guys at the moment: Ways, Chase Winovich, and Wilton Speight.
ESPN also moved Drake Harris up 25 spots to 71st; the rest of Michigan's commits had insignificant drops of a spot or two.
Sense. And sensibility. And zombies. This bowl news is trickling out so gradually it begins to remind me of the Big Ten's realignment, which was announced weekly for two months. But I think one of the priorities fans had was being able to you know, watch the Big Ten's bowl lineup and Delany has confirmed that is something on the docket:
"I think what you'll see is a truly national slate of bowls," Delany said. "I think you'll see us probably stronger on the West Coast than we've been. You'll see us as strong in Florida as we've been, but probably not as much on New Year's [Day]. I think you'll see us in Texas, and you'll see us with some games in our region, some games on the East Coast. I think it's going to be a great slate. We've made a lot of progress."
Also, the league is about to force bowls to take at least five different teams over the next six years, so no Yet Another Orlando Trip. I'm a little leery of that. The impulse behind the idea is a good one but that threatens to screw with bowl matchups.
Finally, a chorus of angels sounds from above!
"We've been trying to create a model that's more realistic," Delany said. "We'll take fewer, better tickets. If that means the payouts have to come down some, that's OK. Because it makes no sense to overpay on tickets, over-commit and find out you're really subsidizing the bowls, financing your own game."
I'm going on six years of bitching about this. No more. Freedom! (Have I told you how terrible the scholarship model is?).
Could make the West more… nahhh. Tim Beckman picks up Oklahoma State transfer Wes Lunt, who started six games as a true freshman for the Cowboys. Michigan won't see him unless Illinois rotates onto the schedule in 2016, but the addition of a quality quarterback could make the Illini the scariest 4-8 team in college football.
The one time when a coach really could claim to block a player's transfer for their own good, and Gundy doesn't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ –edsbs
Just once, Illinois, you could try looking at a photograph of the guy you're hiring before doing so. Then you would not hire the people you hire. I challenge anyone to find a picture of Tim Beckmann that does not beg to be captioned "derp" or "hurrrr durrrr" or "is what how can do?"
Okay guy. It must be brutal to write something for a newspaper in June, but uh.
Freep Guest Column: Alternate jerseys and helmets continue to impress recruits
I don't think it's working. Next time put actual fireworks in the helmets?
Gant move confirmed. Brady Hoke confirmed that Allen Gant was now at SAM, stating thusly:
"He's a rangy guy and he's got length to him," Hoke said last week. "His body has the opportunity to put weight on, the structure and the genetics of the body.
"I think that's the biggest part of it."
If he tops out at 230, think Stevie Brown rather than Jake Ryan.
We missed this, but it's a little explosion-y so let's just do it now. Sam Webb puts out a Da'Shawn Hand article about two seconds after I do a final scan through my RSS feed for the recruiting roundup. Well played.
Most of it is stuff you've heard before about Professor Needs A Raise and how the Michigan staff is his favorite staff. But while I think a version of this quote was in a video somewhere this is the first time it's in text:
"My goal is try to make a decision before December," Hand reported. "At first I was going to stretch it out, but then after talking with my pop -- we kind of had a heart to heart -- I kind of have to make up my mind. It's a big decision, but at the same time I kind of have a gist of knowing where I'm going, but I ain't gonna say that."
Etc.: Books to read from Smart Football. MC79 on data versus feelingsball.


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2012-13 Boys basketball player of the year: Jeff Merton, Community School
Standing 6-foot-6 with an athletic build, Jeff Merton could have continued to dominate in the post like he did the past few years at Seacrest.
After transferring to Community School this year, Merton developed his skills outside the paint on both ends of the court. The junior worked on his shooting range and his perimeter defense, and in the process became one of the most complete players in the area.
Merton's scoring, rebounding and defense led Community School to a 28-3 record and its second trip to the state semifinals in Lakeland. With contributions in nearly every area, Merton is the Daily News Boys Basketball Player of the Year.
"We didn't really play him in the post too much," Seahawks coach Greg Donahue said. "He's going to play a wing in college, so we got him out there. It created a lot of mismatches, and he shot it pretty good."
Merton's stats are not surprising. After scoring 21.4 points a game as a sophomore at Seacrest, he averaged 16.8 this past season at Community School.
However, the way in which Merton got his point changed. He took jumpers, he knocked down 3-pointers, he drove to the basket. Merton sank 22 3s, more than his first three varsity seasons combined (he played as an eighth-grader at Seacrest).
Despite stepping out for 58 3-point attempts (and shooting 33 percent), Merton still shot 61 percent overall from the field.
"That was my biggest point of emphasis in the offseason," Merton said. "Shooting 3s, pullups off the bounce. ... I was in the gym a lot before the season started."
Donahue said Merton's biggest, and most overlooked, asset was defense. Most nights, Merton guarded the opponents best player, whether that be in the post or the perimeter.
In the Class 3A regional finals, Merton drew Sarasota-Cardinal Mooney's Antonio Blakeney, a 6-4 guard ranked among the best sophomores in the country. Merton held Blakeney, who averaged 24 a game, to 15 points, including just six in the first three quarters.
Merton led the team with 8.4 rebounds a game, while also averaging 1.7 steals and 1.5 blocks. He set the school's single-season record with 44 blocks and had the second-most rebounds in a season with 252.
With another year of high school left, Merton looks forward to continued development before he hits college. He said Florida Gulf Coast University, Palm Beach Atlantic and Lynn University already have offered scholarships.
"This was by far my best year," Merton said. "This summer, I want to work on (ball) handling and foot speed. I want to just keep improving my all-around game."
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|Shawn Cross
|(4, 1)
|Chad Olsen
|(3, 2)
|Robert Adams
|(2, 0)
|Kyle Rockey
|(0, 2)
|Kevin Anderson
|(1, 1)
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|(0, 1)
|Jimmy Dyches
|15 (0.536)
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|Kyle Ficken
|(2, 1)
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|(2, 0)
|Matt Markey
|(2, 0)
|Ryan Leblanc
|(2, 0)
|Landon Guntman
|(1, 0)
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|Brett Yusiewicz
|(1, 0)
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|(1, 0)
|Derin Vacca
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|MISENHEIMER, N.C. � The No. 6 seed Lees-McRae College Bobcats upset the No. 3 seed Pfeiffer University Falcons, 13-10, in the first round of the Conference Carolinas men�s lacrosse tournament Tuesday afternoon.
Kyle Ficken, Matt Markey, Ryan LeBlanc and Brandon Marks scored two goals apiece for the Bobcats. Brett Yusiewicz, Forrest MacConnell, Landon Young and Derin Vacca notched one goal for the Bobcats. Branden Snyder collected 11 groundballs and Young tallied eight groundballs. Edward Dolan added six groundballs.
Andy Nesdill made 12 saves to earn the win between the pipes for the Bobcats.
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Two combined techniques were used to fashioned this helmet: hammering and embossing. Gold granules and nuggets, found in sands and gravels from river beds, were beaten into flat, thin sheets. Sixteenth-century Spanish chroniclers describe hammers made of very hard stone used by Pre-Columbian metalsmiths. The thin sheet was worked by repeated hammering combined with a process called annealing, which entails heating the metal and cooling it with water before hammering again. Tumbaga, an alloy of gold and copper, becomes brittle and hard to work if it is hammered continuously without annealing.
The embossed design on this helmet of a naked female with upraised arms parallels similar figures on gold lime-flasks. It is quite possible that the helmets and the lime-flasks may have been used together in fertility rites to invoke ancestral sources of power and ensure the regeneration of plants and fruits essential to sustain human life.
More information
C. McEwan (ed.), Precolumbian gold, technology, (London, The British Museum Press, 2000)
G. Reichel-Dolmatoff, Goldwork and shamanism: an ico, Medellín, Colombia, Editorial Colina (, 1988)
W. Bray, The gold of El Dorado, exh. cat. (London, Times Newspapers and Royal Academy of Arts, 1978)
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SES San Francisco, Live Blogging, Link Building Basics: Christoph Cemper, Debra Mastaler, Richard Stokes
This is one of those sessions where I think the presentations will be great, but especially the conversational synthesis that happens when you bring together three fantastic experts!
- Christoph Cemper, Managing Director, Cemper.com - @cemper
- Debra Mastaler, President, Alliance-Link - @debramastaler
- Richard Stokes, CEO, AdGooroo - @adgooroo
Note from Bill Hunt: This is going to be a basics session to get us primed for more advanced stuff later in the week.
Debra Mastaler
Link popularity is the biggest component for driving rankings.
"Link popularity is the measurement of the quantity and quality of the collective links that point to a page."
Four components of link popularity, broken down:
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- Anchor Text; anchor text of the link
- Relevance; the content on the pages and sites that link to you.
The first link to your site on a page matters the most. (the rest, not so much.)
What may affect your success: (the bad stuff)
- Control your link acquisition speed.
- Avoid repetitive anchor text
- Excessive reciprocal links
- Links to spammers or bad neighborhoods
Site-wide links and navigation links "are being devalued." Get links from content areas.
Balance link building with content creation. (don't get a bunch of links without new content being made...begs the question "why are they getting links?")
Guest post opportunities are the top opportunity for Mastaler and her team.
Christoph Cemper
Secret of link building (in huge, bold text on screen) "DOES NOT EXIST." LOL.
Seven Rules of Link Building that Christophs
- Relevant, In-content Links
- Domain Trust
- Natural Anchor Text
- NoFollow & Junk Links
- Strong & Juicy Links
- Avoid Spammy Neighborhoods
("Who here's familiar with co-citation?" I'm the only one to raise my hand. Interesting. I smell a co-citation blog post, soon!)
Christoph is showing some great slides with charts of backlink profiles of some top-ranking sites. I think he should share a lot more reports. Hint, hint, Christoph! ;)
* The same link has a different effect, depending on where the link links to.
Got 10 new links per month with the same anchor text for a site with thousands of links. This tripped the +30 filter and rankings dropped. Reversed links and came back.
Be sure to use alt text on images for relevance, etc. Do the same for widgets....
One of the best sources of link optimization: go back to your existing links!
Why try and get "junk" links? (ie: click here, interesting, etc as link text) Because it's part of a natural profile. Same with NoFollow!
Christoph defines juicy links as links that rank for keywords that are part of that URLs content. Nice!
One definition of a "bad neighborhood." Getting a link from a page that links to other sites that are marked as link buyers.
"We return random page ran data if we feel like to - it's fun!" - Matt Cutts
Richard Stokes
Going to be discussing: how do you scale link building?
"There are only about 900,000 active search advertisers."
Insight: The vast majority of the web is junk. If you eliminate junk links from backlink profiles, you see that "genuine links." are much lower. Link building strategies are about competing on great links, not junk links.
Link Prospect Buckets:
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- Easy-to-Get
- Junk
"In general, a link is good if it's going to be bringing you traffic....it doesn't matter what the search engines think of these links. You should go for them."
Outreach: How do you pursue a link?
- Use both phone and email
- Personal requests, no form letters!
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358. Mr. McGrath asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason for the long delay in refurbishing and providing family law facilities at Mullingar Court House in County Westmeath; and if he will set out the timetable for these works. [15394/00]
Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform (Mr. O'Donoghue): I am informed that the [347] Courts Service is preparing a five to seven year building programme to provide modern court accommodation throughout the country and that the refurbishment of the courthouse in Mullingar will be part of this programme. Court buildings are selected for refurbishment based on certain criteria including condition of the building, office locations, buildings in daily use, number of court sittings, caseload, etc. At present a number of large refurbishment projects are under way in Sligo, Trim and Cork Circuit Court, together with a number of smaller projects at Buncrana, Carrickmacross and Mallow, with a number of other projects due to commence in the near future.
The Courts Service has informed me that an architect has been appointed by Westmeath County Council, which acts as the Courts Service's agents in this matter, to prepare plans for the refurbishment of Mullingar courthouse. When draft plans have been drawn up all interested parties, i.e. the Judiciary, staff, legal profession, gardaí and other court users will be consulted in relation to the facilities to be provided there.
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Nine years after tsunami, fishermen not looking for doles
(Dec 26 is the ninth anniversary of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami) The fishing community in coastal Tamil Nadu, badly battered by the killer tsunami of 2004, now sports its original attitude - work and earn your livelihood rather than expecting doles, fishermen and NGO officials said. Post tsunami the fishing community also ensures that its children get educated at any cost while widow remarriage is not frowned upon.
On Dec 26, 2004, a devastating tsunami triggered by an undersea quake off Sumatra in Indonesia hit Tamil Nadu's coast in Nagapattinam, Cuddalore, Chennai and Kanyakumari. The killer waves claimed around 8,000 lives - men, women and children. Some 6,100 died in Nagapattinam alone. Over 230,000 were killed in the tsunami in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and the Maldives.
Following the tsunami there was flood of relief material and money so that the affected community was able to rebuild their lives.
"Normally the fishing community never expects any doles. On the other hand we used to help others. But tsunami changed that. For a long time, the community looked out for doles," said Kaliyammal Rathinavel, working with an NGO in Nagapattinam.
Hailing from a coastal village near Sirkazhi in Nagapattinam district her family fortunes turned upside down after the killer wave struck her home on the fateful day washing away all the savings, jewelry and her father's livelihood assets like fishing boats, nets and others.
Kurumtanai C. Berlin, associated with NGO Neithal Makkal Iyyakam in Kanyakumari district told IANS: "Before the tsunami, fishermen were confident and stood on their own legs. They believed that Mother Sea would provide for them."
With the tsunami taking away their fishing assets, lifetime savings and also their homes, the fishermen initially started looking out for doles. That continued for a long time till the freebies/doles ended, Berlin said.
"Today, it is back to their original nature - work and earn your livelihood," he said.
"For some time, fishermen looked out for doles as they feared the sea and also lost their belongings. With the relief funds and material they rebuilt their homes and lives. Now that relief material and funds have stopped, the fishermen have returned to their original culture," L. Milton a fishermen in Kottilpadu village in Kanyakumari district told IANS.
The other changes in the fishermen's outlook are the acceptance of widow remarriage and getting their children educated.
The killer wave left several children motherless and wives spouseless. So, out of necessity, widow remarriage gained acceptance within the fishing community in Nagapattinam.
"Soon after the tsunami, there were a lot of widow remarriages. The various NGOs who came here for relief work stressed on the need for education. Realising the importance of this, fishermen send their children to school," G.Thiruvalarchelvan of Akkaraipettai village told IANS.
Though the scars of the tsunami are still there, the people have moved ahead to rebound with whatever was available.
But what worries the fishermen in Nagapattinam is the constant attacks on them by the Sri Lankan Navy even in Indian waters, Thiruvalarchelvan said.
On Tuesday the fishermen withdrew a hunger strike following the assurance given by Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa that action will be taken to secure the release of 210 fishermen in Sri Lankan jails and their boats, he said.
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Violent protests in West Bank leave 2 Palestinians dead, 200 injured
At least two Palestinians were killed and 200 wounded in the West Bank after residents clashed with police in protest against Israel's campaign in Gaza.
According to the BBC, about 10,000 protesters marched from Ramallah towards East Jerusalem, where they were met by Israeli forces.
The protest turned violent when residents started throwing rocks and blocked one of the main roads with a barrier of burning tyres.
About 13 people were killed and 200 were injured in an Israeli attack earlier on a UN-run school in Gaza, which was being used as a shelter by Palestinians.
The school, located in the north-east city of Beit Hanoun, was sheltering several Palestinian families since Israel launched an offensive against Hamas on July 8, the report said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he regretted the death of the civilians but blamed it on Hamas.
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Restoration Of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Colonnade In St. Peter's Square
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Q: Hello, I received an offer in the mail from YesCreditOne.com. Is this a scam? Because I am having a hard time finding information about the issuer, Credit One Bank.
A: It's funny you mention Credit One Bank. A few years ago I had a roommate – albeit a short-lived one – that had horrible credit. However he was able to get a credit card from Credit One Bank. I can't recall a great deal about his personal experiences with them, but I can tell you some things I do know about the issuer…
YesCreditOne.com is not their only website
If the reason you think Yes Credit One is a scam is because the website doesn't have much information on it, then you are mistaken. The reason there is not much information on YesCreditOne.com is because it appears to be a secondary site setup solely for offers sent through the mail, like the one you received. The official site for Credit One Bank has much more information on it.
Conclusion? The YesCreditOne.com website is not actually an illegitimate scam.
But, are their offers any good?
Well for starters, it's important to point out that Credit One Bank focuses on credit cards for those with bad credit…really bad… and it's hard to classify any cards in that category as truly "good" offers since the typically charge fees and have high interest rates. So we have to look at them in context to others in their league.
Here's my review of the YesCreditOne.com card offer as of this month:
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- You get unlimited 1% cash back rewards on all gasoline purchases
- The APR listed is 23.90% or 26.90%. Both are very high but that is not unusual for cards in this category.
- The annual fee for the first year is $75.00 and $99.00 each year after that (billed at $8.25 monthly)
- I do not know if there is a processing fee or not. I cannot view the Credit One Bank card application directly because I don't have an offer code to enter. From what I can seen on the YesCreditOne.com website, there is no mention of a processing fees but I have read reviews elsewhere where people mention a processing fee (But is there for this particular card? There doesn't appear to be.)
- The credit line on the YesCreditOne site says "up to $1,500." But remember that "up to" means you may or may not get anything close to that. Purportedly it can be as low as $300 (and from what I recall, $300 is what my former roommate had as his credit limit on his card).
I don't know exactly how long Credit One Bank has been around, but it has been at least a five years or so – so yes, they are a physical company (whether it's privately held or publicly owned, I don't know) and holds an actual bank charter issued by the OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency). They are not a scam – their operation is completely legal. Now, they could be a virtual bank with a P.O. Box rather than a brick and mortar facility for all I know but that doesn't negate the fact that they are registered company.
Are they offering a great deal with their credit cards? Um, no, not exactly. Although the gasoline reward is an admirable addition and quite novel for this kind of card, their fees and interest rates are much too high. But just because they don't have consumer-friendly terms doesn't mean they are a scam. To the best of my knowledge, the Yes Credit One/Credit One cards are legitimate and if used responsibly, they can be used to build credit. However, I think there are much better deals in the marketplace for someone who does their homework. I would recommend you investigate other credit cards designed for those with bad credit scores or little credit history as well as secured cards (which require a small refundable deposit in exchange for a nominal line of credit to start).
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