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New Mexico State's 7-foot-5 sophomore center has already put the Aggies on the national scene this season. Sports Illustrated featured Bhullar and his younger brother Tanveer this year. On Monday, Bhullar was the first and most common question San Diego State players addressed to the media during the Aztecs NCAA Tournament press conference.
Bhullar should, and most likely will, receive even more attention once the Aggies touch down in Spokane, Wash., leading up to their Round of 64 NCAA Tournament game against San Diego State on Thursday. The contest is scheduled to tip off at 7:57 p.m. (MDT).
"Sim is going to be the story just because of his height and that's fine," NMSU head coach Marvin Menzies said. "He's a humble kid. It's not like he started getting that attention when he got here. He will tell you it's not about him. He's probably getting a little tired of it, but what are you going to do? He's 7-foot-5."
Menzies limited Bhullar's availability last year, especially in San Jose, Calif., where the Aggies fell to Saint Louis in the Round of 64.
"It's going to be crazy because last year coach Marv was trying to protect us," said Bhullar, who is just the second player to be named Western Athletic Conference Tournament Most Valuable Player in back-to-back years. "I wasn't doing media and there was a lot of people there.
The first questions San Diego State players took during their Monday press conference involved Bhullar's frame compared to other players who they've gone up against.
"I think it's going to be about quickness, but those are hard matchups," said the Aztecs 6-foot-8 forward Josh Davis, who said New Mexico's 7-foot junior Alex Kirk had been the biggest player he's gone up against this season. "It's similar to New Mexico, but I think quickness will be the key. Kirk is pretty big. It's about quickness and fronting them, so they can't throw it into the post."
Despite Bhullar's imposing stature, San Diego State forward Winston Shepard said Monday that Bhullar is not the best player on the Aggies roster.
Yet he's certainly the most visible. And if it hasn't been the case already, the rest of the country will be made more aware on Thursday.
"There has been a lot more media this year than there was last year, but it's been a good year overall with more people taking notice about the school and our program so that's a good thing," Bhullar said. "I'm used to it. I'm a humble guy. I don't look for the spotlight. I just answer the questions and go on with the day."
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The libraries are asking patrons to create an original design logo that represents the cooperation and connection between the two libraries.
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|Cochlear Implantation Via the Middle Fossa Approach: Surgical and Programming Considerations.
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|OBJECTIVES: To report the results of cochlear implantation via the middle fossa approach in 4 patients, discuss the complications, and present a detailed description of the programming specifications in these cases. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective case review. SETTING: Tertiary-care referral center with a well-established cochlear implant program. PATIENTS: Four patients with bilateral canal wall down mastoid cavities who underwent the middle fossa approach for cochlear implantation. INTERVENTIONS: Cochlear implantation and subsequent rehabilitation. A middle fossa approach with cochleostomy was successfully performed on the most superficial part of the apical turn in 4 patients. A Nucleus 24 cochlear implant system was used in 3 patients and a MED-EL Sonata Medium device in 1 patient. The single electrode array was inserted through a cochleostomy from the cochlear apex and occupied the apical, middle, and basal turns. Telemetry and intraoperative impedance recordings were performed at the end of surgery. A CT scan of the temporal bones was performed to document electrode insertion for all of the patients. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Complications, hearing thresholds, and speech perception outcomes were evaluated. RESULTS: Neural response telemetry showed present responses in all but 1 patient, who demonstrated facial nerve stimulation during the test. Open-set speech perception varied from 30% to 100%, despite the frequency allocation order of the MAP. CONCLUSION: Cochlear implantation via the middle cranial fossa is a safe approach, although it is a challenging procedure, even for experienced surgeons.
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With a vibrant atmosphere throughout, this upmarket and trendy venue has one of the best locations in Durban with stunning views of the Indian Ocean, lush lawns and a glistening pool. The decor is kept crisp and clean with whites and blues stylishly complementing each other.
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Dogs and their owners in the Milton area will soon have a new outdoor playground as the city prepares to open north Santa Rosa County's only dog park.
Earlier this month, the city inked a deal with the Santa Rosa County Commission to take over management of Optimist Park to use - at least in part - as a dog park. The agreement gives the city responsibilities for the park for 10 years.
"We need that dog park at Optimist Park," Milton Mayor Guy Thompson said. "Dog parks are becoming more and more popular. There needs to be an outlet for that. I know it's needed, and it's something that is desired." ...


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Littleton, Colo. (AP) Littleton police are accusing a soccer coach of kidnapping and sexually assaulting one his 13-year-old players.
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Myers taught goalkeeping skills at a nonprofit league called the Littleton soccer club. An online biography shows he previously played professionally in Oklahoma for the Tulsa roughnecks in 1984-85 and then the Oklahoma City Warriors until 1992.
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Pay Above Msrp When Ordering????
If you pre order your camaro ? will you just pay the msrp plus the extras (add ons) ? can the dealerships still have a price mark up? be thinking about that.. cause im putting a deposit down to order one when the dealerships gets the info in December
you just need to find a dealership that wont mark up, and do it before you put a deposit down. I wouldnt pay above MSRP whether i was ordering or not.
I've never paid over MSRP for any car, not going to start now. There are dealers who will sell at MSRP, you just have to look for them.
If you have to have your car in Feb i get the feeling you will pay mark up but once it comes to the end of the model year and they need to sell some cars , well I am sure that price will come down a bit Even though its going to be a long production year.
Yes, some dealerships will gladly take deposits and talk price later.
Get a MSRP or less guarantee! And if it's a few months later, lets talk $xxx over invoice - How's that sound?
- Xanthos
yeah, im in the same boat. all the dealers here suck, and wont even email me back.
How long are we talking in a "few" months after? Is that 3? or 7? I would just really like to have mine around april.
I will have $10k to put down on a loaded SS/RS LS3 June 1st 2009, I better be able to get one at MSRP OR LESS, OR its HELLO BMW 135i ...
Or you could go see CamaroScotty.
Scotty, you're alright. I might hafta fly-n-drive when it's buy time.
I'd gladly pay 1000 over invoice, as long as 1000 over invoice = less than MSRP.
- Xanthos
Many dealers will try and get over MSRP as long as they can. They actually did that with of all cars the G8. For the first month or so they were asking 4k over MSRP. Since GM will be building 100k cars in the first 12 months I think it is safe to say that within a few weeks or perhaps a couple of months cars will be availible for MSRP or under. If ordering I would do the deal for MSRP or less otherwise I would not consider ordering from the dealer. This car is not like the ZR1, there will be plenty to go around pretty quickly as GM has a substantial manufacturing effort dedicated to this model.
I hope i get a good price
I work for general motors so i get 15%off MSRP and 18% off options.
ill be ordering the the convertible for my wife,can't wait to see this car.
have to see if it can match up to my vette
CamaroScotty is a salesman after my own heart... volume and value keep you in the game for the long run. No sense charging 10k over MSRP if that's the only one you sell for 3 months when you can get out 10 in the same time frame by just charging MSRP. Then you get 2 of the most valuable things to a saleman: a good rep and repeat business!!
ALL HAIL SCOTTY :bow::bow::bow::bow::bow:
Which means that sounds pretty damn good!
Well, I know some people do.....you should have read some of my anti-msrp or less pm's! :bonk:
100,000 in the first year is 10,000 a month. GM will want to build and sell. If too many dealers add to the MSRP after April 09 I think GM will investigate why??? MSRP should be very easy by April 09 IMO.
I want to know when White will be available???
Thats white with black stripes???
May have to come to you for a Convertible. Bit of a hike from MD but might be worth it.
All you have to do is have the financing pre approved. Take that with you and you'll get the car at MSRP. No Chevy dealer nowdays is gonna let a customer with the cash walk.
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REGINA -- After a career-year, receiver Taj Smith has landed himself a new contract, inking an extension with Saskatchewan and avoiding free agency next month. Smith would have become a free agent on February 15.
Smith will be entering his third season with the Green and White. The 30-year-old Newark, New Jersey native followed up a solid rookie campaign by starting all 18 regular season games in 2013, registering 1,007 yards and seven touchdowns on a team leading 78 receptions.
He also totaled 11 receptions for 186 yards in the West Semi-Final and West Final before adding one catch for five yards in the Grey Cup.
The product of Syracuse University will enter 2014 with 125 career catches for 1,697 yards and nine touchdowns in 31 regular season games.
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We developed a systems model to recommend water allocations and invasive plant management to improve hydro-ecological performance of diked wetlands. Model recommendations are subject to constraints like water availability, spatial connectivity of wetland units, hydraulic infrastructure capacities, vegetation growth and responses to management, plus financial and time resources available to manage invasive vegetation and water. We developed a hydro-ecological performance metric which we call the weighted usable area for wetlands that represent the available surface area that provides suitable hydrological and ecological conditions for priority bird species. The metric combines habitat suitability indices, water depth, vegetation cover, weights by priority species and the wetted surface. We applied the model at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, which is the largest wetland complex on the Great Salt Lake, Utah. Stakeholders participated by helping to identify the problem through interpreting results. We ran the model for a base case representing hydrologic conditions in 2008 and seven scenarios that independently consider changes in water availability, financial budget, vegetation responses, and gate operation. We compared model-recommended management actions to past management activities and found that more dynamically managing water levels can increase by almost two-fold wetland hydro-ecological performance. Model results also show that wetland performance is more sensitive to changes in vegetation response, gate operation, and water availability than to changes in the financial budget. This participatory modeling effort demonstrates a framework to develop and apply hydro-ecological performance metrics for wetlands and embed those metrics in models that recommend management to improve wetland performance.


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Rihanna Is A Japanese Goddess In Tour Version Of 'Princess Of China'
The moment that Coldplay was introduced to 'Princess Of China,' they all agreed that Rihanna would be the best person to sing with them on the track, and after a few months, their request was fulfilled. They ended up with a unique track that's heavy on synths with perfect melodies from Chris Martin and Rihanna – an instant mega hit.
A few weeks ago, Rihanna shared photos from the set and a few days ago, Coldplay teased footage from the video during one of their concerts in Edmonton, Canada and now, nothing gives us more joy than to announce that the tour version of the video has finally premiered.
Since it's the tour version, Rihanna is the only one featured in the video as she delivers her parts to the song. Standing in front of an ever colourful and ever changing background, she wears the looks that she previously dubbed "Gangsta Goth Geisha."
One of the looks show the singer in a black strapless dress with a high split accessorizing with her trademark red lipstick, smoky eyes, super-long golden nail extensions, gold earrings and a traditional Geisha hairstyle and hairpiece. With this look, she has multiple sets of hands dancing behind her much like Buddha.
Rihanna also wears a purple silk kimono with red highlights, gold hoop earrings and an ofuku hairstyle with a hairpiece as she dances with a red silk scarf.
Chris Martin told MTV, "Rihanna's bit on our record is my favorite bit,. When the song came out, it sort of asked for her to be on it. And I think at this point, we have nothing to lose, and so we've been trying some new things and trying to break down the perceived boundaries between different types of music."
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It would be understandable if Daryl Hixenbaugh set the bar low for the Belle Vernon Area baseball team.
After all, four seniors from last year's playoff team are now playing collegiately.
However, Hixenabugh has never been known for setting the bar low.
The veteran coach who is returning for a second stint at BVA is happy to finally get things going after a solid winter full of conditioning in which Hixenbaugh saw the stellar leadership skills of his seniors.
"The leadership shown by the senior class since I was hired has been very impressive," he said. "The team inside (preseason practices) appears to be very talented and hopefully that talent will translate to wins once we get outdoors."
The Leps return four starters from a year ago, including a pair of three-year letter winners in senior pitcher Dylan Pietrantoni and senior catcher Parker Lynn.
Pietrantoni could also see time at both first base and third base while Lynn could also see time in the infield and will play collegiately at California University of Pennsylvania.
The other two returning starters are also seniors in right fielder Niko Tasser and Dylan Stark, who could see time at both first and third base as well as on the mound.
Other seniors who will be in the lineup include center fielder Cody Menges, left fielder Matt Bashioum, and shortstop James Amoroso with Adam Holliday seeing some time at first base.
Junior Joe Ruffolo will also play first base; junior Isaiah Engstrom will see time in the outfield; and sophomore Evan Hannan starts the year at second base.
The Leps have depth on the mound.
Joining Pietrantoni and Stark on the mound will be fellow right handers Ruffolo, and junior Noah Stulock and a pair of southpaws in Bashioum and Menges.
What kind of expectations does Hixenbaugh have for the team?
"With the leadership of this senior class, I will be very disappointed if we don't at least compete for the section title and or a playoff berth," he said. "This team is very talented and has set goals."
The Leps play in the rugged Section 4 AAA with West Mifflin, Elizabeth Forward, Ringgold, South Park, Thomas Jefferson, and Carrick.
Hixenbaugh, with his 30 years of experience as a Major League Baseball scout and nearly as many as a high school coach, did not hesitate when asked what he felt the keys would be to a successful season.
"Our pitching should be solid as long as no one gets injured," he said. "We have to get timely hits, and we have lots of speed."
The Leps open the season Saturday when they head to Uniontown for an exhibition game before hosting three more exhibition contests next week to prepare for section play.
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There is no question Desert Hills has developed into a quality football program.
Although the Thunder history is certainly a brief body of work, the success generated within that time is impressive. A co-region championship (2012) and state final appearance (2011) within the last two seasons have certainly heightened the expectations from folks residing on the south side of St. George.
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Curtis 50 Cent Jackson's renewed dedication to the art of filmmaking is creeping up on everyone. Though his $1M bid for the title 'Things Fall Apart' fell through – the Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, just won't let him – he still managed to make 'All Things Fall Apart'.
In fact, the title made no difference. If anything at all, it goes to show that Curtis Jackson will give anything to have his way. Still, how he succeeded in making All Things Fall Apart, in the span of an hour and 48 minutes, beats me!
Despite Curtis Jackson's verve and commitment for this proverbial role – losing some 60 pounds (from 214 pounds to 154 pounds) – This film falls apart in a little over 10 minutes. I can applaud the man for his determination, not his film; I think his willingness to improve his acting, go the extra mile, befits a memorable mention in any circle, especially for an independent film.
This is a fact I wish to share not because you need to know how much weight he lost, but because I wish to forewarn you about the plot itself, the cinematography, the direction and such. If you can concentrate on the noteworthy parts of the film, you will appreciate the work '50' has done here. You'll be amazed that indeed, Deon, (Curtis Jackson), in the span of your 1 hour and 48 minutes, lost some 60 pounds of weight.
By the middle of the movie, his face is so hollow; he looks nothing like the actor we became familiar with at the beginning of the film. And there are moments when his appearance even distracts from his performance. Certainly we believe that the character, Deon, is at the end of his rope, and I was reminded of Christian Bale's work in The Machinist, 2004.
That's why you wonder where the film went after Curtis' cancer. This is the reason Mr. Curtis Jackson should have hired a screenwriter. Or at least the direction should have insisted on a more cohesive exploration of an athlete at death's end with cancer.
Notwithstanding, you may acknowledge that Deon's cancer has put an abrupt end to his hope of making the NFL draft. It comes at a time when Deon is at the top of his game, even though you never get to understand why he's such a prolific athlete the whole film. What's worse, All Things Fall Apart doesn't give anyone a sense of why so much is invested in Deon – a family's hope, a family's belief – and real sacrifices made by Deon's mother, Bee (Lynn Whitefield).
Now, wouldn't you hope a film like this would at least play on Deon's commitment to playing football again, vis-a-vis his family's fear of his inevitable death? I hoped that Deon would keep fighting for a comeback in football because of need, weary skill and perhaps, pride, until he eventually does, and kicks ass! What else could he have lost?
But in a metaphor of a final scene, so quintessential of such films, Deon scores the touchdown of his life, and dies! A plot that could have borrowed from Darren Aronofsky's, The Wrestler 2008?
Further, a subplot which only made a mockery of the main plot reveals that the whole film just needed work! We fight to glean from the story that Sean, who's constantly cast in the shadow of his more successful student-athlete brother, Deon, is unhappy. He can't get a girl while Deon can get anyone in skirt, into his bed.
At one point, Sean's love interest, Sharon (played by Tracey Heggins from Medicine For Melancholy fame) easily becomes Deon's lover. This affair becomes a revolving door opening in and out of the brothers' relationship.
Furthermore, with the cancer now in Deon's head – far from near his heart – and the hope of ever returning to football fades into oblivion, his scholarship is quickly revoked.
Why in the world would a college revoke the best footballer's scholarship when he is taken ill with cancer? In senior year? Perhaps in a desperate attempt to propel the film over the hill of total contempt for Deon's adversaries, not a single teammate, coach or school mate would come to visit Deon in hospital or at home – not even once? However, this attempt pushed the film over the cliff to the realm of the c'est pas possible! This film matched stupefyingly on, devoid of any reality.
All Things Fall Apart pretty much fell apart from here on – not that you couldn't see it coming. But if you can excuse it, you can appreciate another thing. Deon's mother, Bee, remains resolute in the face of all the hardship; the story invoking the strong black mother character. She gets the extra job, and another job, and another, to support her children. This part marched out of step with the rest of the film.
Metaphorically, the last scenes were not a real attempt at story telling, cinematography or direction. Deon, having had some success as a car dealer at Sean's company, organizes a dinner in the middle of a football field, in a big tent. Is this a dream?
Deon invites all of his family and friends. The men are dressed in these expensive white tuxedos and the ladies in some fine assorted attire. It's a celebration but you don't quite know why.
Deon seemed happy. This is all he wanted – to see his family happy again – and expunge any guilt he may have felt for letting his mother down. To have crashed the dreams of an entire family, though through no fault of his, he felt a burden and a cost to repay.
So he starts outside this makeshift tent, when no one is looking and sprints towards the goal line. Deon's arms outstretched into the air, and scores the touchdown of his life!
What an ending!
In no way does it diminish Curtis Jackson's effort in losing all that weight for an under par, probably close to a first draft script, sweaty direction and pupil cinematography. If anything at all, if I were Curtis, I will feel cheated!
Nonetheless, what other way is there for a young man without good company break into this industry other than to make one bad movie after another, until hopefully, by some lucky strike of genius, he gets better?


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recruiting is legit yo
Position Paper: Recruiting Early
Patrick Kugler, Chris Fox, Taco Charlton and Shane Morris
You may be aware that Michigan's off to a start unprecedented in the recruiting rankings era not only for them but for the Big Ten. Hints of this include relentless "Hello" posts on the front page, your strange desire to actually watch recruits' highlight reels, and Michigan State fans linking a post I wrote a while back scoffing at an MSU class that would beat Michigan four straight years.
The only other area school to rack up so many commitments so quickly is Penn State, which has piled their classes nearly full from time to time over the last decade. Even they haven't been as aggressive as Michigan. Three years ago they had 11 guys by the end of May and 15 by July. Michigan is sitting at 15 barely a month after the 2012 class signed. Their other notably quick-filling class was 2004, when they had 16 of 25 guys by August. Back then that was super quick; nowadays that would hardly raise an eyebrow.
Since Michigan's guys are almost without exception highly touted, this has caused mostly rejoicing in the Michigan fanbase. Rivals have responded with various binky-clutchings and hopeful narratives. There's also a certain portion of the Michigan fanbase that is concerned that Michigan is locking themselves in too quickly. They probably have an entire room full of various insurance contracts covering everything from dog attacks to the zombie apocalypse, but they exist. Occasionally they email me.
Here's a brief primer on why you should be happy Michigan has crammed its class full of four stars by mid-March. In retrospect this post is probably unnecessary.
This Is A Bad Idea Because Penn State Or Texas
Early Texas commit Sergio Kindle can lift a car and plays in the NFL. Early Penn State commit Austin Hinton was a 6'2" offensive lineman. He does not play in the NFL.
The Penn State counterpoint is obvious: look at the profiles these guys have. Michigan has one recruit (Khalid Hill) who isn't on at least one of the early top 250/300s. They have enough four-star sorts to guarantee themselves a top 5 class already, on every service. Nine commits list an offer from Alabama, Ohio State, and/or Notre Dame, and that's without accounting for Shane Morris, who committed too early for heavy hitters to offer him, and the likelihood others would have picked up offers from the above if they weren't clawing their way into Michigan's class.
In contrast, a lot of Penn State's early guys were guys like Jed Hill*, Austin Hinton, and Dan Lawlor, low-to-mid three stars and saw their careers play out like they were that. PSU's '04 class saw just two four stars among the 15 who committed before their senior years, and most were barely that: Rivals gave 10 of them their lowest 3-star ranking or worse. It wasn't much different in '09. Three of the 16 early commits had four stars. They were outnumbered by guys who finished with two stars. This isn't a comparison.
Texas is. For years they've piled touted recruits like cordwood on their junior day and pursued some select out of state kids after locking up half or more of their class by this time every year. After falling on some hard times, they fired a bunch of coaches, brought in new blood, and took not one commit at their revamped junior day. A new day has dawned at Texas, which has only thirteen commits in mid-March.
Meanwhile on Mack Brown's Wikipedia page…
…five top five finishes in ten years once Brown's recruiting took hold in 2001 and no final ranking lower than #13 until the recent Davis/Gilbert implosion. If adopting Mack's deal with the devil means we'll get complacent and pay the piper in 11 years, tell me where to sign.
*[Googling for images of PSU recruits past who did not work out reveals that Hill is now a BEEFCAKE model. I pass this long in the spirit of knowledge and an effort to increase female readership.]
We Don't Have Enough Information On These Guys
I asked all the guys who applied for Ace's job a question: "why do Michigan's recruits tend to slide when rankings are revised?" It was admittedly a bit of a trick question since the mention of Michigan implies that is relevant information; it's not.
I think only one person gave me the right answer, which is that touted recruits are expected to drop because they're already rated in the top 1% of high school football players. The threat of moving down is much greater than the potential to move up. As the year goes on, kids will show up at camps or blow up in their senior seasons and get placed above Michigan's current commits, and they'll fall for no other reason. When Ondre Pipkins surges to five-star status he slides every other recruit in the nation down a slot. That's why Scout is reasonable to give only their top 250 four stars right now when their entire 300 will have four at the end of the year—they're saying that the guys at the end are likely to slide off as unknowns or late bloomers leap ahead of them. On average, Michigan's committed recruits should see their rankings slide in the 10 months before next February.
That said, Texas recruiting class rankings the past ten years: #2, #3, #3, #5, #14, #5, #5, #20 (just 15 kids), #10, #15, #1. Texas's rankings have been depressed by relatively small sizes since they don't oversign—for example, when they finished #15 in 2003 they were second to Michigan in average star ranking*. If the Longhorns have seen their class rankings backslide because they're jumping the gun, it hasn't been by much. The on-field results didn't suffer until they encountered the kind of complacency bred by wild success.
Meanwhile, what are Michigan's coaches going to find out about Michigan's recruits before their senior seasons? Nothing. Recruits will go to a bunch of camps over the summer that college coaches can't attend and rankings will go up and down. There's one event at which coaches actually get new information about the guys they're recruiting: summer camp. The thing is, Michigan got most of the kids in the area into their camp last year. It's now more a tool for the subsequent class. Michigan had Kyle Bosch on campus a half-dozen times before he committed. They've got nothing new to learn until September.
*[That class: Burgess, Woodley, Crable, Hall, Long, Kraus, Jerome Jackson, Ryan Mundy, Brandent Englemon, and guys who didn't play. It finished #17 in the overall Rivals rankings, which is nuts. No one takes opportunity cost into account.]
Michigan Expects These Guys To Be Committed In February
A favorite of opponent fans. Decommits are increasing at about the same pace early commitments are and inevitably a guy or two is going to find that he fits better somewhere else. Last year Michigan lost commits from Caleb Stacey, Anthony Standifer, and Pharaoh Brown. Standifer was probably an academic thing since Notre Dame turned him down when he tried to commit a few months later.
In their place, Michigan signed air after a string of late recruitments went against them… and still lassoed a class somewhere between 5 and 10 in the country. If they experience the same attrition rate next year, they'll probably replace the departures with decent three-star sorts or better… and a class solidly top five. Decommits are more common, but they are not common.
Michigan's Going To Miss Out On Emerging Seniors
The most fun is when the person making these arguments makes this one back to back with the previous one. It's true that there's going to be a four star or two who emerges and gets snapped up by MSU or Iowa or something and goes on to be a thorn in Michigan's side. When you've got guys who you think are nationally elite already in your class, that's worth a shrug. Also, when someone falls out of the class or there's more attrition than expected, Michigan will have the room to take a Willie Henry or a Frank Clark or a Dennis Norfleet.
This Doesn't Matter Because Michigan's Decaying Old Staff Had The Worst Possible Transition To Its Kind-Of-Incompetent New Staff, Operated With No Upperclass Quarterbacks For Three Years, And Hired Greg Robinson
That's the ticket, Michigan State fans.
In Conclusion
Recruiting good players is good. I probably didn't need to write this post.
The Rest Of The Class
Tim provides the day-to-day but we haven't had a 1000 foot view of Michigan's recruiting in a while. Here's that.
Ondre Pipkins, Kyle Kalis, James Ross
With the addition of Ondre Pipkins Michigan is down to about four open scholarships and one vast gaping hole that really needs filling, wide receiver. In the opinion of the internet, nose tackle has a fairly large hole that still needs a good bit of filling, too.
Let's dig up UFR alter ego for a quizzing:
How many players will end up in the class and how will they get to that number?
Michigan's current roster features 18 players with junior eligibility, including Stonum, 20 with sophomore eligibility, and 26 with freshman eligibility. That's 64 players, leaving Michigan with 21 spots for next year.
Michigan will have the option of bringing back the following players for fifth years, or more to the point, not bringing them back: Mike Cox, Roy Roundtree, Terrance Robinson, Brandon Moore, Patrick Omameh, Ricky Barnum, Elliot Mealer, Rocko Khoury, Kenny Demens, JT Floyd, and Jordan Kovacs.
Most of those guys are contributors. Cox, Robinson, Floyd, Mealer, and Moore could be offered a firm handshake if needed. A couple of those guys will emerge into guys Michigan needs to keep around. Moore will be the only upperclass TE on the roster other than Ricardo Miller, who's going to need a lot of bulk if he's going to contribute. Michigan needs upperclass OL, the RB situation is unsettled, and any warm body in the secondary is something to latch onto with claws. It seems like they'll get two, maybe three of the necessary spots by not offering fifth years.
The other two will resolve themselves in the next six months. Losing two or three guys between now and Signing Day would be somewhat low amount of attrition for anyone, let alone a team radically changing its offense and defense.
What do they do with the last four spots?
IA WR Amara Darboh – via Public Paul & Media
They clearly need at least one WR after taking none last year and seeing the previous year's class whittled down to just Jerald Robinson and Drew Dileo. One of the other three spots appears ticketed for a sixth OL.
The last two are wild cards. It seems like they've thrown in the towel on acquiring another quarterback and the only running back they're seriously involved with is Bri'onte Dunn, an Ohio State commit. They've stepped up the chase for cornerbacks Armani Reeves and Yuri Wright recently. Even if that has something to do with Terry Richardson's wandering eye, both Wright and Reeves have said Michigan had a change of heart and wants another corner in the class.
And then there's NT, which currently has Ondre Pipkins but is still desperately thin. In-state prospect Danny O'Brien is a consensus four star who has all manner of folk working on him; if there's a spot still he's at least 50-50 to take it.
So your final four or five spots:
- WR. As of two days ago this was a murky area with some vague options, but now Michigan appears to lead for IA WR Amara Darboh and CA WR Jordan Payton, both four stars. So let's make this one of them.
- WR. Probably the other. If not, a generic three star we haven't heard about yet.
- OL. With Jordan Diamond getting a little fuzzy about things this could be any one of a half-dozen guys, all of whom are highly rated. Likely to be another tackle but Josh Garnett, one of the top ranked guards in the country, is moving up his visit.
- DT/CB. Everyone wants the DT, I think, but Michigan is apparently recruiting corners again. Michigan's in the top two for Wright and top three for Reeves, though Reeves is set to announce and it looks like Penn State. Complicating factor: Wright wants to announce at the AA game.
- DT/CB/RB. If they get a fifth or sixth spot chances are they'll focus on skill position players, a second NT (if they did not already acquire one), or another corner.
What class rank will Michigan end up with?
This will vary by site, as it appears Scout and 247 are higher on the class than Rivals and ESPN. Michigan's currently #1 in Scout's rankings, fourth in Rivals's and fifth in ESPN's. (ESPN's does not reflect the addition of Pipkins. ESPN thinks Pipkins is meh, though, so if they got a bump it wouldn't be a huge one.)
We can actually calculate Michigan's final score if they close out the class with Darboh, Payton, Diamond, and O'Brien, which is realistic. Scout assigns points like so:
Team Rankings are a math formula that based on a player's rating and his rankings. 5-Star is a rating, No. 1 quarterback is his ranking.
5 Star = 200 points
4 Star = 120 points
3 Star = 40 points
2 Star = 20 points
The No. 1 player at a position is worth 100 points, counting down to the last ranked player at his position to 0.
For Example, assuming Scout ranks 100 quarterbacks.
5-Star, No. 1 QB = 300 points
4-Star, No. 10 QB = 210 points
3-Star, No. 50 QB = 90 points
2-Star, No. 75 QB = 45 points
The Team Rankings are compiled of the Top 25 players per class. Some teams will over-sign, but only 25 count towards the Team Rankings.
Diamond is a five-star and the #10 OT. The rest are four-stars. O'Brien is the #13 DT, Darboh the #23 WR, and Payton the #12 WR. Collectively they're worth 902 points. Some guy with three stars worth around 90 points will get the boot because of the 25-per-class limit. This would give Michigan about 5800 points. Last year this would have been good enough to tie for second with Florida State. (Previous comparisons are probably not valid since scores seem much lower overall.)
Other services will probably be a bit less generous but if they finish strong it's easily a top five class, which will spur yet another round of Brady Hoke grape peeling in the media, which will help recruiting down the line unless those pesky game things get in the way.
Dear Diary Picks Its Poison
I don't know and don't want to know why it turned up pounds of shirtless man meat on page 1, but add "OHL" to things you should never search for on Google Images. "Existentialism" on the other hand, is quite entertaining.
Dear Diary,
Say you're a top Ontario hockey prospect. Your dream is to play for Michigan, but Michigan is not even allowed to contact you:
Stacked somewhere in between the Oshawa Generals and Bowling Green was a letter with a block M in the corner. It contained a brochure for the University, a questionnaire, and the contact information for the coaches. Turns out, I had not been emailing coach Berenson at all, but now I had his real address. I emailed him and got a response from an assistant coach. He told me to call him.
WHAT?! I can call these people?! How was this not explained to me before? I had never bothered to email any other school and since the player must initiate contact, they couldn't reach out to me.
You don't know if Michigan will even offer you because it's too early on NCAA's schedule for anything like certainty. You are surrounded by people who want to see you in the OHL. You are drafted, and given a contract:
I sat down with the GM, who knew that I was considering college. He basically explained to me the benefits of the CHL, the education packages, and the unique experience of being a young local celebrity. He was very polite about it, but told me that if I was signing, he wanted it done within 2 weeks.
The diaries were blessed again with the concluding Parts II and III of JimLahey's epic personal tale that illustrates just how difficult it really is for hockey talent to cross the border, even for those who desperately want to play NCAA. Well written and poignant, with everything from twists to cliffhangers to a surprise ending, its plot is worthy of an episode of Law & Order. Except it happened to this guy. This guy: Diarist of the Week (again).
There was only one other diary this week, but it's a good 'un: ebv returned to do another analysis of correlation between defensive talent and performance, and also defensive experience and performance. Ganking charts:
Experience / Talent:
He used the Rivals depth charts so that's guys on the two-deep, not the starters. The comments had a lot of suggestions, and this overlaps with them, but I think there are a couple of factors that really need analysis more than average age and star-rating of two-deep:
- Size of classes over 5-year period. A 3-star who made the two-deep out of 108 potential defensive players recruited is probably going to be more qualified than a 3-star who made the two-deep out of 40 defensive players recruited.
- Run it again with just starters. The two-deep still includes a lot of guys who might not be ready to play, because the scholly limit and dress limit and whatnot. If the great teams have a 5-star junior or senior starting and two hyped freshmen backing them up, it won't show with an average age.
- Gimme a "worst starter" breakdown too. Xcalibur once tried to test that when Michigan was rolling out Kovacs at free safety and every team we faced began running most of its plays directly at Kovacs. If there's a "weak link" effect for defenses, that will throw off your performance metrics for the team defense.
- Related to above: Distribution?
5th yr Sr Sr / RS Jr Jr / RS So So / RS Fr True Fr Avg. Team A 3 5 5 5 4 2.91 Team B 9 1 1 1 10 2.91
You are looking at teams with very big differences. Team B can field a much more experienced starting 11, but any injury or bust or low-rated older guy means a true freshman is likely starting. Team A's distribution is far more likely to be seeing players in their middle years handling significant time. You can do the same thing with star ratings:
5-star 4-star 3-star 2-star Walk-On Avg. Team A 3 5 5 5 4 2.91 Team B 9 1 1 1 10 2.91
Any busts from B and you are starting a 2-star or a Walk-On. Distribution among the starters would tell us if there's a weak link effect too.
After the break (in honor of jg2112's poor scrolling wheel) I realign the NHL and suggest a playoff system.
Unverified Voracity Overrates Texas Linemen
development: Boren does not haz it. brilliant photoshop via TTB
Development. A killer post on BHGP analyses schools' NFL draft performance relative to what you'd expect given their recruiting rankings. The conclusions:
- Stars matter. No surprise. Guys with five stars are more than four times more likely to be drafted than those with three.
- Michigan is average. They've had 21 draftees and expected 20.6. This places them 29th amongst 66 BCS teams. I'd bet Michigan would have done very well if this study focused on a time period five years earlier; in my imagination their "development ratio" starts off near OSU's, gradually drops as the OL degrades late in the Carr era, and implodes in the aftermath of massive attrition under Rodriguez.
- USC, Ohio State, and Iowa outperform. Interesting diversity at the top, as the #1 school is also the #1 recruiting school—impressive—and three through five are Iowa, Cal, and Wake Forest. Clemson is sixth, further proving that the Tigers have been the worst-coached BCS team of the last decade.
- Duke sucks. Duke sucks.
- U-S-BIGTEN. I'm going to gank this chart:
Rank Conference Recruits Drafted BCS Expectation Development Ratio 1 Big Ten 172 150.4 114% 2 Pac 12 166 152.0 109% 3 Big East 94 87.8 107% 4 ACC 183 177.2 103% 5 SEC 216 223.8 96% 6 Big 12 157 189.7 82% 7 Non-BCS 121 295.4 40%
If you're interested in going to the NFL, avoid the Big 12 and head north. Also, I'm guessing that non-BCS number suggest that Rivals' drilldown rankings (e.g., three stars being rated 5.5, 5.6, or 5.7) have some merit.
- U-S-RICHROD. West Virginia has the highest "win ratio" amongst BCS teams despite not sending anyone to the league, and while that's an artifact of being the best team in the Big East over the period surveyed WHY DID YOU HIRE GERG AARGH
I have a slight beef: study author UpUpDownDown looks at these numbers strictly through the lens of player development. He breaks conference numbers down further into offense and defense, and then further breaks down offense into skill and offensive line, finding the Big Ten murders everyone on the OL and on D while the Big 12 struggles immensely in those two categories. This is attributed to playstyle, specifically the Big 12's addiction to passing spreads.
I think there may another element at work: scouting services overrating certain sections of the country and underrating others, particularly the Midwest. Rivals (the source of the rankings used) doesn't even have a Midwest analyst. Meanwhile, OL rankings are particularly inaccurate since many high school kids need to put on 50 pounds before they can play in college. The flipside—skill position players more easily projectable—sees a much, much lower spread amongst conferences. The worst-performing conference is the ACC at 94% of expectation; the best is the Big East at 108%. That's a much lower spread than you see in the D and OL numbers, one that looks like an even distribution distorted by a little randomness.
If there was a regional bias in recruiting rankings, hard-to-evaluate OL would be the place it would show up most prominently. I think there is. Your ratings are just wrong when Wisconsin has two four-star linemen in the last five years, as they do on Rivals. They are not evaluating linemen correctly. I'm not sure what Big 12's hole of suck on defense represents but I'd be more convinced it was a playstyle thing if they were running 3-3-5s or something. Going up against Blaine Gabbert and a bunch of other passing spreads doesn't make much difference to anyone but a few linebackers, it seems.
In any case, it's a really interesting post you should read all of.
We have done derped. We have lost our superiority when it comes to not erecting embarrassing billboards:
One: Paul Reiser probably came up with the text. Two: it's on I-94, which goes from Canada to Indiana without even brushing up against Ohio. Three: it's derp enough to put up a billboard after you win something. It's extra super derp to do so after not winning since 2003. Five derps out of five.
Recruiting digression. Brady Hoke : linebackers :: Rich Rodriguez : slot receivers. Michigan now has eight in two classes and speculation naturally turns to where these guys all fit. Specifically, can any of them play somewhere else?
The answer for all four in this class appears to be "no" unless Bolden or Jenkins-Stone pack on a lot of pounds and end up at WDE. Ringer's six-foot and Ross six-one and they'll both end up around 230. On a football field guys that size play LB, FB, or RB and nothing else. Even Bolden and RJS are stretches at DE. Those guys are linebackers one and all.
Last year's class, if you don't remember:
- MI QB(!)/LB Desmond Morgan.
- TX LB Kellen Jones
- OH LB Antonio Poole
- OH LB/TE Frank Clark
According to Rivals, none of these guys is more than 6'2" and Morgan is the heaviest at 225—the others are all at 210. No one's mentioned safety for any. So… these are all linebackers too unless Clark swaps to TE, which is going to be at least as crowded as LB if Ron Thompson signs up to be the fourth tight end in the last two classes.
Someone's going to lose out and get flipped to fullback; other than that, all these guys are linebackers for life. That gives Michigan 13 next year, which is a bit excessive for three starting spots. Or at least it would be if we weren't currently enduring a wasteland at the position. I'd guess the 2013 class is homeruns or one random three star picked up late.
Further recruiting digression. The top ten kids in the state are probably Ross, RJS, Devin Funchess, Mario Ojemudia, Aaron Burbridge, Dennis Norfleet, Terry Richardson, Ron Thompson, Dan O'Brien, and Matt Godin. (Ben Braden might be in there somewhere, too.) Michigan has three, is presumed to be the heavy leader for two more (Godin and Thompson) and is in a short group of leaders for Ojemudia, Richardson, and O'Brien. If the chips fall the right way Michigan could get 7 or 8 of the Michigan top ten, which is not only far better than Rodriguez ever did but would be better than Carr's best instate efforts by some distance.
Part of that is it seems like Michigan is producing better football players these days—everyone in that top ten save Norfleet has a Michigan offer, or would have one if his grades were better (Burbridge). That never happened under Carr. A big chunk appears to be Hoke doing work.
Too good to be true. Red might have believed he'd get his whole team back after exit interviews but Mark Burns of the Daily has responded to/fueled/confirmed rumors that Brandon Burlon is gonzo. Some speculation is that he's seriously pisssed off you guys that he was passed over in favor of Clare for the Frozen Four games.
Losing Burlon hurts, but at least Michigan seems well-covered on the back end. Clare will draw into the lineup regularly and the spot opened up by Langlais's graduation will be filled by incoming freshman Brennan Serville, a guy rising up NHL draft boards. He should go in the middle rounds.
Meanwhile in hockey news of a bizarre and speculative nature, Mike Babcock's son is winding his way from the USHL and crazy rumors that Michigan will take him and Babcock will coach him after Red leaves have duly cropped up. Yost Built collects those.
Etc.: Woodson at Mott. ESPN finds out that people are betting huge sums of money on Pop Warner. Ufer as bespectacled track athlete. Holdin' the Rope graduates:
The Appalachian State debacle was my third day on campus. My freshman tickets sat me in Section 16, far away from my fellow students. I sat next to a white-haired old man--whose natural hair color might've been blue--and his son each week. My enduring memories of that first game are conveniently sparse; my first memory is of Chad Henne zipping a passing to Mike Massey in the opening drive. I saw it all from my bird's eye seat in Row 96 of Section 16; it was perfect and logical, a rational manifestation of our pre-season top 5 ranking. Then, the defense took the field.
BON on firing Jim Tressel not once but twice. Linebacker fundamentals: man coverage.
Reviewing The 2006 Recruiting Class: Top 50
Brandon Graham and Ricky Dixon
A few years ago I took a look at the Rivals top 100 and attempted to evaluate the success or failure of the kids in it, ranking each player on a five point scale and coming up with an average. It was pretty interesting but an enormous pain in the butt and the vague desire to repeat that study for future classes paled in comparison to the mountain of tedious research it required.
But if ESPN is going to do the tedious research for me, I'm on board. What follows is a reprise of the earlier post's methodology. Players are rated on a five point scale:
- Total bust.
- Contributor but a marginal one, or a not-very-good starter.
- Average starter.
- All-Conference-ish player in a BCS league, likely NFL draftee.
- All-American-ish player, likely to be drafted in top two rounds.
These should roughly correspond with star rankings. Players on the borderline will be assinged a 3.5 or whatever. Players who don't make it for reasons other than talent—injury, grades or being a total knucklehead—are noted as such. It's a bit much to expect recruiting analysts to project who is going to rob a liquor store.
This post covers the ESPN top 50. The table below has rankings from the three major services and a brief explanation of what happened to them.
|Myron Rolle
|Three year starter and second-team All ACC at FSU; left for Rhodes Scholarship before senior year. Sixth round pick of Titans, NFL backup.
|Percy Harvin
|All-purpose Florida ninja. First round pick of Vikings, offensive rookie of year.
|Vidal Hazelton
|50 catches for USC as soph, injured, buried on depth chart, transfer to Cinci, injured in first game at UC.
|Andre Smith
|Three year starter left to be top ten pick after true junior season.
|Matt Stafford
|Instant starter at UGA, first pick in 2009 draft.
|DeMarco Murray
|Part of backfield platoon for first three years; 1200 yards at 4.3 YPC as senior, two-time AB12, expected to be 2nd-3rd round pick
|Sergio Kindle
|Three-time AB12, AA as senior, second round pick of Ravens, Butkus finalist
|Taylor Mays
|Brutal headhunter was four-time AA. Second round pick of 49ers.
|Micah Johnson
|Three year starter had some injury problems but was 1st team All SEC as junior; undrafted, practice squad type in NFL.
|Antwine Perez
|Transferred to Maryland after one year, worked way into starting lineup as junior, probably won't be drafted.
|Maurice Evans
|Monster sophomore season (12.5 sacks, Hendricks finalist) followed by minor legal trouble, disappointing junior year, early NFL draft entry. Went undrafted and is a practice squad guy.
|Mitch Mustain
|Left after Las Cronicas Locas, transferred to USC, sat on bench, lost to ND in only start.
|Jevan Snead
|Beat out by Colt McCoy, transferred to Ole Miss. Mediocre two-year starter there. Idiotically entered NFL draft after 20-int junior year. Surprise: undrafted.
|Stafon Johnson
|Member of USC diverse but mediocre backfield as soph/junior. Dropped 275 pounds on his throat before senior season. Entered draft anyway, made team, immediately destroyed ankle.
|Tim Tebow
|Is Tim Tebow.
|Jai Eugene
|Started nine games as a sophomore but was LSU's nickel guy after that; bacup safety as senior.
|Al Woods
|Contributor for four years, starter as senior. No college accolades but a fourth round NFL draft pick.
|Marcus Ball
|Problem-ridden LB suspended three times before transfer to JUCO, then Memphis. Was starting for Tigers before getting suspended again. http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/nov/05/porter-suspends-tiger-senior-safety-ball/
|Sam Young
|Four year starter surrounded by utter incompetence. Sixth round pick of Dallas
|Brandon Warren
|Contentious transfer after excellent freshman year; booted from Tennessee; at North Alabama.
|Gerald McCoy
|Two-time AA was third pick of NFL draft.
|Eddie Jones
|Started as senior, contributed before that. Six sacks, one honorable-mention AB12. May go at the tail end of the draft.
|Allen Walker
|Three year starter but not a notable one. No accolades, won't get drafted.
|Carl Johnson
|Three year starter and enormous human; projected to go in the fourth to sixth rounds of the upcoming draft.
|Reshad Jones
|Two year starter was twice second-team All SEC; picked in fifth round.
|Allen Bradford
|Another member of USC's consistently mediocre backfield. Had bust-out senior year until sidelined by injury.
|Markeith Summers
|Mostly a backup; did start as a senior but finished fourth on the team in receptions.
|Jim Barrie
|Career ended with ACL explosion.
|Jermaine Cunningham
|Three year starter was second team all SEC as a senior; second round NFL pick.
|Chris Wells
|Human battering ram was brutally effective when healthy. First round pick.
|Brandon Graham
|The best player in the history of awful defenses, Graham was an AA in 2009 and a first round pick of the Eagles.
|Richard Dickson
|Three year starter had 30 catches as soph/junior. Dropped off a bit as a senior. Second team All SEC twice; undrafted but stuck with Lions.
|JB Walton
|Transferred to D-II school after academic issues.
|J'Marcus Webb
|Played in every game as a freshman, then succumbed to academic issues. Got drafted in seventh round and started 12 games as a rookie.
|Damon McDaniel
|Seven catches in two years; transferred to Hampton; didn't do much there.
|Adron Tennell
|Vague contributor didn't do much until he was a senior and even then just 24 catches.
|Emmanuel Moody
|More mediocre USC tailbacks. Moody had about 400 yards each year he was at USC; he transferred to Florida and did little.
|David Ausberry
|Started as junior but was unproductive; moved to TE; played a bit. Won't get drafted.
|Jeremiha Hunter
|Three year starter was second team AB10 as senior. Probably will get drafted at tail end.
|Byron Maxwell
|Nickelback until his senior year, when he was a decent starter. May get drafted.
|Terrence Austin
|Second team AP10 as kick returner; also a decent receiver. Seventh round pick who stuck with Redskins.
|Dustin Earnest
|Career backup. Did contribute a decent number of tackles as an upperclassman.
|Raeshon McNeil
|Okay two-year starter was passed over by NFL.
|James Aldridge
|Mediocre runner averaged under 4.0 YPC for career; moved to FB as senior.
|Mike Goodson
|Started off with a bang but production tailed off. Fourth round pick.
|Konrad Reuland
|Transferred to Stanford, started as a senior in TE-mad Harbaugh offense. Won't get drafted.
|CJ Spiller
|Insanely explosive do-everything RB/KR/PR was a top ten pick.
|Ricky Dixon
|Two catches in two season; tranferred to Texas Southern.
|Akeem Hebron
|JUCO, then three years at Georgia where he didn't do anything.
|LeSean McCoy
|Prepped, went to Pitt, and was the Panthers offense for two years. Second round pick.
So what does this say?
The 44 players who didn't bomb out for unrelated reasons averaged a 3.4. On average a player from ESPN's top 50 turned out to be a borderline All-Conference type. In buckets:
5: 11
4 (and 4.5): 8
3 (and 3.5): 14
2: 7
1: 4
75% of ESPN top 50 players were at least average-ish starters on big time college football teams or Notre Dame. 43% of them were All-Conference types, and 25% were All-American types. That's a good strike rate at the very top.
It's not as good as it was when I looked a the 2002 class. That Rivals top 50 averaged 3.5 and only had 13 guys 3 or below. However, three guys were punted on and twelve more weren't rated for one reason or another. Only six dropped out here. Sites may be more careful these days about character/grade rumors.
Who won?
Can't say yet until we get through the whole 150 and check out Rivals and Scout lists to see their embarrassing misses, but the above looks ugly for ESPN. There are four flat out busts on the above list. On two all three sites were fooled; on two they weren't. Those two were
- Ricky Dixon, an LSU receiver two did nothing and transferred. ESPN had him 48th. Scout had him a generic three-star; Rivals had him towards the tail end of their four stars.
- Damon McDaniel was 35th to ESPN; Scout had him 29th amongst WRs and Rivals had him 69th. All were somewhat wrong, but ESPN was more wrong.
There are seven meh guys, and on most ESPN was more wrong. Some of them are moderate differences that we'll probably see when we run across outliers in the Rivals and Scout top 50s, but on a few ESPN whiffed hard:
- #27 Markeith Summers was a generic three star to Scout and just hanging on to a fourth star at Rivals.
- #42 Dustin Earnest was 83rd on Scout and a generic three star ILB to Rivals.
Rivals was also considerably less wrong about Jai Eugene; both other sites got Clemson CB Byron Maxwell, LSU TE Richard Dickson, TX QB Jevan Snead, USC S Antwine Perez, MI DE Brandon Graham, OSU RB Chris Wells, and USC RB Emmanuel Moody better pegged than ESPN. There aren't many examples of the reverse, just small gaps in evaluations. We'll see if that holds up once the whole picture is tediously put into Excel.
Unverified Voracity Confirms The Obvious
Obvious. As part of his annual defense of the recruiting-industrial complex, Doctor Saturday has surveyed many things. Now he has struck upon the most over- and under-achieving teams as seen through the lens of recruiting classes. The overachieving list has a variety of causes:
- Oregon. Spread genius.
- Oregon State. JUCO/grayshirt addiction.
- Virginia Tech. FSU, Miami, UNC, and Clemson all recruit like demons and suck on the field. The methodology here prioritizes wins over teams with good classes no matter their results on the field. The ACC champion is set up to do well here.
- Iowa. Own Penn State, greatly benefit from Michigan's implosion.
- Stanford. Harbaugh. Sigh.
The underachieving list… well, you don't even have to look, really. Guess which big time rivalry finishes 1-2? You get zero opportunities. You got it anyway:
Hurray! In Michigan's case the underachieving is due to massive attrition, a change in program philosophy, the program delightfully eating itself alive, and the dumbest hiring decision in the history of the world. Notre Dame had a decided schematic advantage.
The rest of the lame are UCLA, Texas A&M, Miami, and FSU. Unsurprisingly four of these teams have changed coaches in the last two years. UCLA is going to have a hard time not firing Neuheisel next year, leaving A&M the only school that may be able to dig out under the current leadership.
Special K is a disease. He infects the world. I could help but think about Special K when I read about UConn's spelling cheer. It's the generic spelling cheer wherein you spell out the thing you like and repeat it three times. Example: "B-A-C-O-N bacon bacon bacon!" In this case it's U-C-O-N-N. It would be better if it was bacon, but it's UConn.
UConn's version is actually a cool tradition, however, because of this guy:
His name is Kenny, and the reason UConn has a cheer almost as good as B-A-C-O-N is because this lone nut created it via force of personality. People love this:
The reason Big Red's cheer has caught on and become a marker of UConn's success for the past 20 years is because, unlike so many things at UConn games, it is organic. There is no sponsor. It is not forced. It is not pre-packaged. No, instead it is a reflection of pure joy at the success of the young men who step out on the court wearing the jerseys that say "UConn." It is beautiful, and cheering along with Big Red is one of my favorite parts of being a UConn fan.
Unfortunately this year the cheer has been pirated by the PA guy and is deployed at times completely irrelevant to the game situation. It's basically WHO WANTS SOME FREE UCONN CHEER. In two years it will be WHO WANTS SOME FREE UCONN CHEER BROUGHT TO YOU BY CORPORATION. It is in this way that genuine things are co-opted and destroyed by marketers.
Also: bacon, bacon, bacon.
Filling in another hockey blank or two. Hockey gets a 2012(?) commit from Max Shuart, a nephew of former Wolverine captain Alex Roberts. Shuart's playing for major midget—unusual for a Michigan recruit at this stage in his career—and has filled in with the U17 team this year. He's got no points in three games with the U17s.
Michigan also just picked up an Alex Kile from Compuware for 2013. Kyle leads his team with 18-19-37 in 32 games, and is ninth in the league in scoring. He was a 14th round pick of London in the OHL draft—it's always hard to tell how much of that seeming lack of respect is talent and how much is signability.
MHN points out that Kile and Shuart were born only ten days apart, so Shuart may be ticketed for 2013 instead of 2012. That would make more sense since a guy who's doing well, but not amazingly, in midget doesn't seem like a guy who's going to make an impact in two years. I couldn't find anything on the internets indicating either guy was getting early hype, FWIW.
Random two year old sings fight song. Aww.
Is there a way to avoid this pun? Rumors of Soony Saad's departure for Europe are no longer rumors. Michigan's going to have to replace basically all of their scoring next year, which totally sucks because with Saad they were probably Big Ten favorites and in position to establish the sort of success that sustains itself over years. Now I'm not sure who the hell is going to be probably better than Robbie Findley.
Yes, dolla bill. The number for Michigan's guarantee game against Air Force: 1.1 million, which tops Ohio State's million-dollar payout to Navy by a few thousand dollars but not their $2 million guarantee to Colorado. It's a little scary that we just went back to a mid-90s Michigan DC and we're going up against the triple option, no?
Bug status. Items fixed:
- The iPhone app.
- IE bug where content would show up way down the screen. (Inline CSS wasn't getting used on pages other than the homepage, for some reason.)
- Up/down voting has returned. It's a bit different, as an update in the software brought a new widget that tracks up and down votes separately and more obviously. There's also a setting to "dim" comments that fail to meet a certain threshold; I picked –5. No idea what that will do yet. [It appears the answer is "nothing," but maybe it puts classes on these items that I'm not doing anything with yet.]
- Have restored image upload facilities for trusted users using WLW. There is new login information that can be found in the post that explains how to use WLW with MGoBlog.
List of known issues in approximate order of importance:
- IE 7 users (and I think just IE 7 users) are having issues seeing the box wherein comments are composed. Note: I don't even try to support IE 6, so if your company hasn't updated its browser in ten years I cannot help you.
- The message board is ugly and uses space inefficiently again (but at least there are permalinks).
- Voting is not applying points to user accounts.
- mgolicious is not automatically updating.
- Sidebar pagers are goofy.
- The message board homepage is also in an undesirable state.
If there's something else wrong email me about it, please.
Etc.: There was a very silly AnnArbor.com article that chalked up Forcier's departure to the "impossible expectations" placed on his shoulders, such as going to class and not taking incompletes. It cried out to be fisked; The Wolverine Blog has fisked it. Tom Harmon is the #5 Big Ten Icon, so 1-4 better have dominated jungles, too. Braves & Birds explores why commentary is so dumb. Wrestling takes out OSU and Indiana; I stumbled across the OSU dual on BTN and decided "what the hell" since Michigan was ahead. It was surprisingly entertaining.


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The Associated Press reported that he also averaged 31.6 yards per completion. The religious connotations to John 3:16, a famous Bible verse, were too much for many to chalk up to chance.
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When he wore the Scripture verse on his eye black during the National Championship Game in 2009, the term "John 3:16" was reportedly Googled more than 90 million times.
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My aunt is one of the 21. God knows she's made some poor choices as a young girl growing up on poverty and destitution, but no one deserves to have their entire life taken away for a crime with no victim(s). I am so grateful to the President for seeing the inhumanity of these destructive sentencing guidelines. My hope is that the countless other poor souls whose lives have been lost in the "war on drugs" will soon be redeemed and restored back to their families and communities as well. God is great, and I am grateful that we have some gracious and compassionate leaders like President Obama who understands that our nation can't afford to just throw people's lives away like trash. We have to rehabilitate, reform, and restore our fellow Americans as we would hope to be restored should we ever find ourselves on the wrong side of a draconian, punitive and oppressive legal system.
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