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ESPN 150 Notables
ESPN likes them some Gareon Conley
ESPN is the last major ranking service to deposit a top X on us, which they've done today. The name that jumps off the page is OH CB commit Gareon Conley, who's 63rd overall after getting mostly meh three-star reactions. (Scout does have him in their top 300 but at the tail end where they're still giving out three stars for now.) Ten other Michigan commits make their 150:
- #37 Shane Morris
- #63 Gareon Conley
- #75 Mike McCray
- #92 David Dawson
- #97 Logan Tuley-Tillman
- #98 Dymonte Thomas
- #105 Chris Fox
- #107 Jourdan Lewis
- #112 Kyle Bosch
- #115 Taco Charlton
- #121 Patrick Kugler
ESPN has also rated the rest of the class. All are four stars save Khalid Hill and Wyatt Shallman, and Shallman may be held back because he's rated at fullback (as the #1 FB) instead of on defense. The four stars:
- Jaron Dukes is the #29 WR; the last 150 guy is #18 and the first three star is #41, indicating that ESPN may have been generous with the stars this year.
- Jake Butt is the #4 "TE-Y"—ie, guy on the line instead of an H-back sort—and the first of those guys not in the 150. He's got the same rating as Marcus Baugh, the OSU commit who is, so he's probably just outside.
- Ben Gedeon is the #32 ATH, an odd place to stash a guy clearly destined for linebacker. He's nowhere near the 150 or the three star drop.
- Deveon Smith is the #28 RB, not near the 150 and about six slots from their three-star dropoff.
As for uncommitted players of note, with serious interest in bold:
- #15 Su'a Cravens
- #27 Kendall Fuller
- #42 LaQuon Treadwell
- #56 Eddie Vanderdoes
- #68 Ty Isaac
- #74 Demorea Stringfellow
- #120 Joe Mathis (yeah, yeah, nevermind)
- #149 Sebastian Larue
I was kind of hoping they'd throw a fourth star Hill's way so he wouldn't be lonely.
Unverified Voracity Holds Secret Tournament
Sitebulletins. We are two weeks away from the Spring Game and the it's hard offseason after. We'll be ramping up the usual stuff—profiles of the incoming freshmen, ranting about offsides in hockey, recaps of our insane predictions—and yes, now is the time when a Sugar Bowl UFR gets done. All timely like.
There are a couple of complicating factors, most prominent: knee surgery. I'm having it. Unfortunately they've moved the date from April 17th—blissfully amidst nothing at all—to April 10th. That's four days before the Spring Game. Glarble. I'll do my best to give you the usual breakdown, but I'm not sure how with-it I'll be. I'm supposed to be able to walk in two weeks, so hopefully I'll be coherent after four days.
The other project, one that I wanted to get started on earlier, is whacking the server in the right spot so it's a bunch faster. This should be doable, but it is going to take some time. Between that and the surgery don't be surprised if my posting frequency drops a bit. I'll get at least one thing up a day; the rest of the time is going to be spent on laying a groundwork for keeping things upright when next season rolls around. Death to the 503.
goodnight, sweet prince
Read this. I linked it in the game recap post but really, if you haven't read Zach Helfand's article on the Cornell game you should:
GREEN BAY, Wisc. — The crease is empty now.
The custodians in the Resch Center stands are picking up trash, and with plastic gloves they shove Skittles wrappers and used napkins and programs that show a picture of a 5-foot-6 goaltender that used to play for the Michigan hockey team into a large plastic trash bag.
It is a quarter till midnight.
Below them, on the ice, the crease is empty.
Forty-nine minutes ago, at 10:56 p.m., it wasn't. Forty-nine minutes ago, there was a goaltender named Shawn Hunwick lying on his right side across that crease, and a puck was there, just past the crown of his helmet.
It's one thing to execute a long-form article over weeks and another to bash something really good out on deadline. Helfand has chops. Googling reveals a planned graduation date of 2014. I feel old.
Stephen Nesbitt also has a good column on Hunwick's exit, one in which Hunwick says a blog called him a "waste of space." Doesn't sound like me, but I do like Fawlty Towers… hmmm… phew. No hits except some false positives in which commenters call each other wastes of space.
As long as we're moping about the Cornell game and early exits, the HSR writes on Michigan's last three tourney losses, all of which were 3-2 in OT after a disallowed goal. Ay yi yi. Holdin' The Rope is also attempting to hold its head together with its hands. Center Ice previews the incoming recruits.
We must prevent anyone from attending this event. The NCAA is bound and determined to prevent any hockey regional from selling out, even the best conceivable scenario of Minnesota-North Dakota at the X:
-That said, the NCAA did their best to neutralize any home ice advantage at the XCel Center by making sure no one would attend. Tickets for each session cost $57, and there was no re-entry between the two games on Saturday, meaning fans were pretty much stuck inside the XCel all day if they wanted to see both games. The end result of the blatant price-gouging was an announced crowd of 10,974 for a regional final between Minnesota and North Dakota. That doesn't look terrible, but as Brad Schlossman of the Grand Forks Herald pointed out, last week's WCHA Final Five quarterfinal held at the same building between Denver and Michigan Tech, and played on a Thursday afternoon drew an announced crowd of 11,489. The NCAA ran an event less successfully than the WCHA. This year's regional final was also outdrawn by the 2007 regional final between the same two teams, but held in Denver.
The prices for regionals are so ridiculous they can't even sell out a Minnesota game in Minnesota.
I just don't even know, man. There's a Michigan fan on the USCHO board who rails on this broken playoff system, spawning huge multi-page threads that make me want to find the people who think it's impossible to move back to home regionals and throttle them.
College hockey needs to grow the sport at home, where it's in competition with the CHL, and not in Tampa or St. Louis. Move to two weekends of best two out of three series on home ice and follow it up with a Frozen Four. You bring the game to the people who support it, not hundreds of miles away, and cease the embarrassment of having three thousand people in arenas that seat three times that many. The current system is essentially a giant middle finger to the people who fill arenas during the regular season.
Even when they can get it right, they don't: Michigan is hosting in Grand Rapids next year when there is a Toledo regional available. That's an extra four hours roundtrip so Bowling Green, a school with almost no chance of making the tournament, can host. And WCHA fanbases all get shut out.
A little more Merrill info. Red, at least, expects him back:
As for Merrill, a second-round pick of New Jersey, Berenson said: "Merrill will get some interest, but right now his heart is at Michigan. I don't see him doing anything."
While Red's been wrong before, that's a think in the right direction on my Bayesian Merrill departure meter. The Daily also throws this in an article on Wohlberg's departure for the AHL and other matters:
Sophomore defenseman Jon Merrill is the only Wolverine who hasn't appeared to make a decision regarding his status for next season.
Not sure if that's an assumption or the prospect of losing Brown/Guptill is not on the table. That would be nice, getting everyone back. It's happened. It's rare, but it's happened. Once, I think.
Anonymous surveying. Rothstein took some anonymous survey questions($) when he was giving exit interviews to the 19 seniors and returns with word that Jerald Robinson is the pick for breakout player. One comment on him:
"He obviously hasn't played that much, but he has everything you need to be a great receiver. All he needs is the opportunity, and once he gets that, I know he'll do well. I think he'll definitely have a breakout year this year, because Junior (Hemingway is) leaving and (Darryl) Stonum isn't on the team, so we need him to step up, and I think he will."
Ryan, Toussaint, and Denard(!) are 2-3-4. There is much else of interest behind that paywall, but… yeah, paywall. I can probably tell you that Rothstein asked whether players liked Rodriguez and got generally positive but mixed responses. The responses to the same question about Hoke: "Yes – 19."
These grapes are truly sour. I either missed this or just forgot about posting on this article. Whichever it is, here it is. Possibly again. It's an Andy Staples piece from January on decommitments of top 100 recruits that has a couple of fascinating figures:
Of the 500 players ranked in the Rivals100 for the classes of 2007 through 2011, 73 (14.6 percent) decommitted at some point during their recruitment. Of those, 62 (12.4 percent) ultimately signed with a school other than the one to which they originally committed. …
Of the players who decommitted, 34.2 percent either failed to qualify, transferred or were dismissed. … Of the players who made one commitment and stuck to it, only 18.7 percent either failed to qualify, transferred or were dismissed.
The washout rate for guys who picked more than one school is almost double that of players who stuck with their one true love. So we didn't want Pharaoh Brown anyway. (Yes. Yes, I did want Pharaoh Brown. Fiddlesticks.)
About 15% of players end up switching. That seems higher in the South, FWIW, as some of those switches are involuntary. I'd guess Michigan loses fewer from this class, and going forward in the Hoke era.
Irvin hype clarity. I haven't been entirely sure what to think about Zak Irvin since the recruiting sites have such divergent opinions on him. Scout has him a generic three-star; Rivals thinks he's a top 50-type player. Via UMHoops, here's an indication that local observers lean towards the latter. The Indy Star is commenting on the snub of Bryson Scott, a Purdue commit who was only named to Indiana's second tier junior All-Star team:
Six players are named to the core team and it's pretty clear in my mind that's he's one of the six best players in the junior class. I'd rate him or Hamilton Southeastern's Zak Irvin as the top in-state prospect currently in the 2013 class. Plus, Scott has led his team to the regional each of the last two years and he averaged more than 25 points a game as a sophomore.
Irvin is on the "core" team that will scrimmage the seniors twice in preparation for their annual game against Kentucky.
Etc.: Keith Olbermann eulogizes Bert Sugar, Michigan grad and story fountain. MSU lists 6'7" Tyler Hoover as a starter at DT. Many happy Masseys to him. This would be much more fun if MSU's OL was the shambles it should have been last year. Michigan is back on Monte Morris. Rittenberg goes to Sweet 16, comes back advocating for home sites in CFB playoff.
Illinois is depressed. Wisconsin redshirts everything that moves, which is why their classes have gotten so tiny.
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.
Unverified Voracity Is A Hayseed
Shane, Dennis. Dennis, Shane. Shane Morris isn't just getting to know unsigned recruits. He evidently showed at Detroit King's latest basketball game looking… not from around here:
Slice o' life, that. This was apparently part of a thing where the De La Salle kids showed up looking like farmers and chanted the usual private school things at a public school. This was uncomfortable because in this case they're all black and the other kids are all white. Commence newspaper hand-wringing.
It's been a long time. Wolverine Historian posts video of the last Michigan basketball team to win the Big Ten. There's no three point line.
Also the shorts being worn are hip-huggers. It's been a long time.
Just don't even try. Cleveland alt-weekly explores the fetid underbelly of American sports fandom that is the Bucknut. Spencer Hall is tapped for a take:
It was in January of 2008 that sports blogger Spencer Hall found himself sitting amid a thicket of OSU fans at the BCS National Championship Game in New Orleans, with No. 1 Ohio State squaring off against No. 2 Louisiana State. In the first half, LSU's All-American safety Craig Steltz went down with a shoulder injury. About ten OSU fans surrounding Hall stood up in unison, with their index and middle fingers bent together into a mushed "O" shape.
Hall figured he knew what was up, but he asked what the gesture meant anyway. A nearby fan grabbed his fingers together into the shape.
"Pussy," he said.
The pussies went on to win, 38-24.
"It's really hard to get over the anecdotal evidence," Hall says today. He writes about college football for SB Nation, a gig that lets him see up close each big program's fan base — and the stereotypes rivals throw at one another. He's mocked up a vivid profile of the Buckeye Everyman.
"It's everything negative and easily mockable about the Midwest compressed in a single entity," he deadpans. And it's more than just a vibe. The classic Bucknut has a defining set of traits all his own.
"The stereotype is angry, probably has a goatee, probably watches MMA and wrestling on the side, may live with his mother — may. And also, he's perpetually defensive about Ohio State's struggles.
"They wear jerseys," he adds. "People don't wear the jersey in the SEC. It's not something adults do.
The men who poop in coolers, or tackle handicapped dudes, or make Grant Bowman's mom have a close personal understanding of the men at the Alamo, or… like… are the president and athletic director and local newspaper. Apparently the Dispatch published Kirk Herbstreit's address and a map to his home in 2009. Well done, pretend newspaper.
The article is long and ruthless. Read it.
Denard plans on being a quarterback. Good to know. Borges on how Denard needs to improve:
"We should see it with the timing of his throws and him having a better grasp of route structures, audibles and protection checks," Borges said. "He'll also improve with decision-making, knowing when to throw it away and when not to run. And if he can get better with his footwork issues in the pocket, it should reduce interceptions and increase his completion percentage."
Also the not chucking it to double-covered guys. Also that.
Just like everything else. Shaw Lane Spartans analyzes Rivals rankings and finds that the everyone's-a-winner mentality is beginning to pervade them as well:
The quality of the "average" Big Ten prospect increased from an average of 2.80 in 2002 to 3.04 in 2012. Since NO ONE who gets a scholarship offer and gets signed before the rankings are done gets a zero star ranking, I derived the 30 percent number above as (1.04-.8). Even without that, the increase from 2.8 to 3.04 is still a nine percent increase. Meaning on average according to the star rankings, the average Big Ten player is 9 to 30 percent better than they were in 2002.
The gradual nature of the move suggests it's not a philosophical change, and it certainly doesn't seem like the conference is bringing in more and more high-level recruits relative to the rest of the country. In fact, the entire Big Ten fanbase on Rivals spent last year complaining that no one in the region was ranked because the company wasn't even bothering to employ a Midwest analyst. Only two Big Ten schools cracked the Rivals top 25—the obvious ones—as Penn State saw its class implode. If anything last year was probably the worst year for Big Ten recruiting in the sample; it saw the highest-rated kids.
Rivals four-stars jumped from 244 in 2004 to 320 last year; three stars more than doubled from 660 to 1513. Increasingly Rivals is abdicating on making calls at the lower end of things and just throwing everyone in the same three-star bin.
North Carolina bit. They got a slightly inflated OSU penalty: one year postseason ban, fifteen scholarships over five years. So much for this new era of tough NCAA sanctions. USC's complaints that the NCAA was just "jealous" look less and less ridiculous with every passing case.
Andy Staples lays out the case that for people who don't care about the ethical implications of following the NCAA amateurism guidelines, the cost-benefit analysis is easy:
A program can spit all over the NCAA rule book in an effort to reach or remain at the highest echelon of college football, and as long as that program cooperates with the NCAA during the investigation of its alleged "crimes," the Committee on Infractions will respond with a suite of penalties that contain far more bark than bite. …
For a case that involved academic fraud and players taking money and goodies from agents, North Carolina will lose 15 scholarships over three years and will be banned from postseason play for the 2012 season. Former assistant coach John Blake, who was accused of steering players to agent Gary Wichard in exchange for payment, was given a three-year show-cause order that bans him from recruiting. That essentially renders Blake unemployable at the college level.
Meanwhile, former UNC safety Deunta Williams flat-out accused the SEC of paying people. If he can prove it, someone's getting a one-year bowl ban. This is why people use the #smh hashtag. I understand now.
Carrick: undervalued. 2012 hockey D commit Connor Carrick is not high on draft boards. Scouts still say things like this about him consistently, though:
The scout also mentioned that little heralded and often overlooked defensemen Connor Carrick and Matthew Grzlecyk are deserving of late-round picks.
On Carrick: "He'll probably be a late pick. He's thick, he moves the puck well, he has offensive instincts, he can shoot it. He has some holes away from the puck." The scout also said he thinks another year of development in college (he's committed to Michigan) could go a long way, but feels Carrick's the type of guy that can step in and contribute immediately on a college team.
Think a bigger version of Langlais, something the team really needs on the power play. Depending on how NHL signings go he could be a third pairing luxury or a guy Michigan really needs to step up immediately. Michigan could really use a big step forward from Serville over the offseason.
Etc.: Shaw Lane Spartans examines MSU's weird unbalanced thing they tried with minimal success last year. Parts three and four of Phil Birnbaum's analysis of David Berri's work. Conclusion: David Berri does not know what sample size is. Hokefluff from Orlando. Burke is a second-team All American to CBS Sports. The CCHA named him third-team All Crisler Arena. Big Ten matchups today.
Unverified Voracity Brings Back The Old Man
The Old Man is coming. The Old Man.
The Old Man is coming.
The McCrayken is alive. All of the internets to user mdoc, who responded to the winged-helmet-kraken request instantly:
This blog is rooting for Mike McCray to be a destructive force so hard.
Penn State's death has been greatly exaggerated. OR: look what we can do when we have a head coach! PSU's 2012 class was terrible. All their good recruits ended up with Urban Meyer and they replaced them with two stars snatched from the MAC. That's going to hurt for a while. Despite that, Nittany Lions fans are probably feeling more chipper than they thought they would about their program's intermediate-term prospects. They've recently swooped in on the following recruits:
- QB Christian Hackenberg, a consensus four star claiming offers from Alabama and Florida.
- DE Garrett Sickels, who is rated a lot like Mike McCray (ie: top 50 on Rivals, solid four-star elsewhere)
- CB Ross Douglas, a three/four star tweener.
They are almost certain to add five-star-ish TE Adam Breneman tomorrow. By doing so they've become the only Big Ten team kind of sort of keeping up with the big two when it comes to shiny stars next to high schoolers' names. The Sandusky effect is looking pretty short-lived.
All you have to do is look at OSU's last class to know that this is good for Michigan. A strong Penn State takes recruits from teams who play Michigan all the time and puts them on one that plays Michigan 40% of the time; also it would be really nice if there was someone strong enough in the East to prevent an annoying B10 championship game instant rematch.
I'm with Fitz, sort of. Pat Fitzgerald does not want 6-6 teams to be excluded from bowl consideration:
Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald hopes the Big Ten does not support potential legislation to limit bowl games to teams with at least seven wins.
"The best part of bowl games is about the opportunities -- not just the teams, but for your students, your fans, your alumni, your fans in the area," Fitzgerald told the Tribune on Tuesday. "I'm not for limiting it."
Paging Captain Renault. I agree that if a couple teams want to play some football it's better than watching ping-pong, but I'm not a fan of goofs in blazers bleeding college tuition out of the system. Leave it at 6-6 and severely reduce ticket guarantees. That will cause a bunch of bowls to collapse and solve the problem organically.
And this is 95% of the reason I linked the article:
"I'm not for five-win teams even being able to receive a waiver," Fitzgerald said. "That's tough noogies. If you have a losing record, you are out. A .500 record should be the benchmark."
I love Pat Fitzgerald. May he coach at Northwestern for 30 years.
Al Borges and the interesting things. Borges was on the Huge show recently and the resulting conversation had an unusual density of interesting things said. Borges admits that the early-season (and Iowa) forays into a more pro-style offense were a mistake:
"I think had we had to do it over again, we would have been a little more spread offense early on and gotten better at that. We kind of weaned ourselves into more spread offense as we went. That's really what was best for Denard at the end of the day."
He also makes a great observation about where Denard is at his most dangerous in the passing game:
"Denard is better in the pocket than rolling out," Borges said. "The thing with Denard, where he scares the defense the most, is when he sits in the middle of the pocket, comes underneath the rush, and poses not just a passing threat to the defense, but a running threat too. If you roll him out all the time a lot of time what they did is they would pin us into the sideline where Denard's improv skills aren't used near as much."
Whole thing is recommended. Borges references the "drastic leap" from year one to year two in his passing game. If Denard can just set his feet regularly and not throw into double coverage, Michigan will be cooking.
Sounds good to me. Andy Staples has a fascinating article on the potential impact of full cost of attendance scholarships:
For years, doomsayers have predicted a scenario in which the wealthiest 50 or 60 schools compete only against one another. If such a scenario ever came to fruition, it would have its roots in the debate over the full-cost-of-attendance scholarship.
Doomsayers? As long as we're talking about football here that sounds like heaven.
The article goes into arguments both for and against, with the small schools making arguments that moving some of the money currently going to coaches and facilities to players exacerbates competitive inequity. They don't make the case that this isn't a good thing, and then Nebraska's chancellor just blows it up anyway:
"You can tell me that I can't give them bagels with cream cheese and I can't give them more scholarships and I can't do this and I can't do that, and I follow those rules," Perlman said. "But then what I do to recruit competitively is I spend the money on other stuff. So I build facilities where there is no limit on what I can do, and I make those facilities far beyond what normal students live in because there's no limit on that. There's a standard understanding about regulatory environments that if you regulate something, people will move to the part of their activity that isn't regulated."
At worst the proposal takes the middleman out of competitive inequity.
It sounds like the big schools are getting increasingly exasperated with small schools with no financial weight imposing restrictions on them because they like to pretend they're DI schools when they're really just Indiana State. Eventually some sort of split is coming.
"The kids who are on solely need-based aid can basically work 20 hours a week or whatever and earn a little pizza money or earn a little money for tattoos or whatever they want," Young said, tongue planted firmly in cheek. "Our athletes, on the other hand, work 40-50 hours a week for the school, and they don't get anything except what these other kids get without having to work for it. It seems when one thinks about simple equity, from that perspective, it's hard to argue that these kids shouldn't get something."
You're all right, Washington president Michael Young.
Wat. Brady Hoke is going to loathe this:
Hoke, Beilein and Brandon —along with U-M softball coach Carol Hutchins and a handful of business professors— will host a six-day executive education program intended to teach business leadership through lessons learned in U-M sports. Those lessons, according to a recent U-M announcement, include the trick to "transformations in times of crisis," as well as how to teach people "new ways of doing things" and how to "take on fierce competitors and produce winning results."
Only $15,000! Some people have too much money.
Etc.: Possibly random Hardaway renaissance is retconned into narrative. Please be true, narrative. Mitch McGary's "defensive impact" draws high praise—that would be nice, wouldn't it? If you've got ESPN insider this Wolverine Nation piece in which recruits are anonymously surveyed on recruiting tactics they've faced is a must-read. Excellent Yost student section retrospective. John Beilein for everything.
Trade mag article on how Michigan Stadium amplified the band. Maybe next year they'll have a piece on how they made it sound better in section 44. : (
Unverified Voracity Grows Evil Beard
The only reasonable explanation. Michigan State lost the outright title, still won a share, and collectively reacted like this…
…the likely explanation is that they were more focused on denying Michigan than their own team. That game meant very little in the grand scheme of things to MSU. It mattered to OSU and Michigan.
No, it wasn't hard to root for Ohio State yesterday. I didn't even notice.
Irrational optimism getting less irrational. Michigan has two five-star sorts in its upcoming recruiting class and the guy I'm most excited about may be the other dude. That is 6'6" shooting guard/potential Burke backup Nik Stauskas, who just outdueled Nerlens Noel, a 6'10" center who recently reclassified to 2012 and instantly became a top five player after doing so, for tournament MVP at the NEPSAC championships. He is not just a shooter($):
Nik Stauskas (Mississauga, Ontario/St. Mark's)
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Stauskas finished with 19 points but his impact on the game far exceeded that total, as he not only scored the ball in different ways but also facilitated for others in both pick and roll as well as drive-and-kick action. While the complete versatility of Stauskas' offensive repertoire was on full display, the most impressive part of his performance was that innate star quality that allowed him to make big play after big play at the most pivotal moments of the game.
The main thing keeping him from being another five-star type recruit is his athleticism. That shouldn't prevent him from being a shot generator at the college level—he'll enter with far more skill than Stu Douglass had, for one. I mean, look at his evil beard:
IF that does not fill you with confidence, nothing will.
Stauskas also drew raves from NERR. Meanwhile, Mitch McGary's Brewster team suffered an upset while Glenn Robinson III helped his team win their first sectional title since '97. All that and more at UMHoops.
McCray/Gedeon/Levenberry: Linebacker is the new offensive line
brief comment on the linebacker crunch. My trapper keeper with Michigan's projected recruiting class surrounded by hearts has at least two slots for linebackers, but if the third guy is going to be O'Daniel/Levenberry/Gedeon it probably has three. Sam Webb first thought this was not the case, but recently reversed course.
It should be clear why after a quick glance at the depth chart by class. With announced positional rearrangements taking Beyer and Paskorz away from the SAM spot, that is now the sparsest position on the depth chart. Insert First World Problems GIF here. Michigan has three more years of Jake Ryan, two of Cam Gordon, and nothing else. Even if you figure one of the 2012 recruits is destined to move down—something the coaches denied on Signing Day—that would seem to make a third linebacker a reasonable acquisition.
Even if that's the case now, if O'Daniel and Levenberry hew to their current plans and take their decisions to Signing Day there's a pretty good chance room opens up for one of them. The current assumption on this site is 22, but that assumes Michigan only loses two players to attrition*.
That's an extremely conservative estimate. If Michigan gets up to 24, they can take…
- Another RB
- Two more WRs
- A third TE
- Another CB
- Two DL
…and still have a couple spare scholarships. You may have spotted the assumption here: Michigan will only take one three-tech/SDE type in this class. I think that's reasonable after taking four (Wormley, Godin, Strobel, Henry) last year, especially with two 2011 recruits coming off redshirts and the possibility/likelihood that Wyatt Shallman ends up weighing 280 by his sophomore year.
When all is said and done the bet here is Michigan has a couple scholarships to play with in January and SLB is an excellent candidate to use one of those spares even if Michigan already has a couple linebackers committed. It sounds like McCray and Gedeon are about to drop; if Levenberry changes his mind and attempts to commit on his Spring Game visit he's not getting turned down.
BONUS HYPOTHETICAL EXTRA SCHOLARSHIP DISTRIBUTION DESIRE: Cornerback. Michigan… uh… has fewer blue chip guys there than anywhere else in the last two classes.
/runs around laughing maniacally
//falls in trough
/continues laughing maniacally
We do it better than Todd Graham.
*[Two more players are assumed to not be getting fifth years.]
A rule to live by. Orson just tossed this off and I'm thinking of embroidering it on a sampler or something:
Never have anything to do with a recruit who wants to sign after Signing Day.
This may be sour grapes.
June building stuff. The Washington Post highlights Cato June, new head coach at Anacostia High School in DC. He's filling his staff out with a familiar name:
June quickly turned to [retired HC Willie] Stewart, asking him to help coach the Indians next fall. He also named his close friend and Michigan roommate Walter Cross, the 1997 All-Met Offensive Player of the Year from Oxon Hill, as his offensive coordinator — the same position Cross held at Potomac (Md.) this fall.
Apparently anyone in DC can transfer without a reason, so if June gets things off the ground Anacostia could be a fertile ground for recruiting—not that Brady Hoke needs another one.
Bye-week hockey events. Michigan pulled the worst possible opponent in the second round thanks to Northern Michigan going down in flames against Bowling Green and all other higher seeds holding. They go against Notre Dame, who gave them a very tough weekend about a month ago. The Irish are 19th in the Pairwise and entering a do-or-die weekend for tourney hopes.
The key for Michigan will be watching Notre Dame's goalies play as poorly as they have in all games not against Michigan. Steven Summerhays put up a .945 in the M-ND series; for the year he's at .908.
Pairwise. Michigan's off weekend saw them move up thanks to a one-point weekend from Minnesota-Duluth that cost them the regular-season WCHA title and put their one-seed in flux. Michigan still doesn't win that comparison—I told you it would be tough—and still wont even if they sweep next weekend despite UMD drawing 12-22-2 Minnesota State. Michigan can win the comparison by sweeping ND and doing better than UMD at the conferences' respective finals… as long as UMD doesn't lose this weekend.
Weird system: you are rooting for UMD to win this weekend and get annihilated at the Final Five.
BONUS CCHA BIDS ODDITY: remember that period in the season when seven CCHA teams were destined for the tournament? That's been whittled down to four as of today. Five of the first six teams out of the tourney are CCHA teams. Western, Lake Superior, and ND can still play themselves in.
It's March, so it's time for huge Daily profiles. Luke Glendening is first up:
It was late April 2008, and the Michigan hockey assistant coach had just extended a one-year tryout offer to Luke Glendening, a forward recruit from The Hotchkiss School, a prep institution in Lakeville, Conn.
"You're on a one-year tryout," Powers told Glendening. "If you're good in practice, you'll stay."
Powers left him with one last word of warning.
"If you have somewhere else to go, you should probably do it."
We're living in the golden age of angles, I'm telling you.
A fantastic idea. Mike Spath proposes a new format for the NCAA tournament:
To start, the NCAA should collaborate with the NHL to form six permanent sites, rotating among the six for the four yearly locations: Boston, New York, Detroit, Minneapolis, Denver and Toronto. The Frozen Four would also rotate among those six cities instead of taking us to Tampa Bay or Washington D.C.
That would be excellent. You might want to add a Philadelphia or Pittsburgh but that's fine. No more Green Bay, St. Louis, Tampa, etc. Take the money the NHL is giving you and use it to lower ticket prices so you get a local crowd—part of the horrendous attendance in Fort Wayne was the $90 session passes—and try to fill those buildings as much as you can. If you want to "grow the sport" you can promise a local regional/FF to areas considering the addition of hockey programs.
In response to this idea, the NCAA announced the next six Frozen Fours would take place in New Zealand.
Retconned history. The New York Times has a look at how the Big East fell apart featuring this tactical error back in the day:
Tranghese tried to tell the Big East's university presidents and athletic directors as much as early as 1989 when he was Gavitt's assistant. Gavitt thought the conference needed to bring Penn State into the fold. Penn State was an independent at the time, looking for the security of a conference.
The membership voted no, with St. John's, Villanova and Georgetown leading the resistance. At the end of the meeting, Gavitt asked Tranghese what he thought about the decision. "I said, 'We will all rue the day about this decision,' " Tranghese said. "I understood how big football was. I didn't understand how big it was going to become.
"At that point, the Big East had so much success in the '80s, everybody sort of forgot about it. But I felt looking back on the history of the Big East, that was probably the biggest mistake we made."
The conference has been regularly pillaged since and will be a nationwide amalgam of mid-major football schools minus flagship Syracuse as a result. I wonder if the Big Ten would still be ten teams today if the Big East hadn't screwed it all up in the late 80s.
Etc.: Wojo on Sunday's events. I bet a dollar Burke and Cody Zeller end up splitting the freshman of the year award. From Old Virginia takes a look at where lacrosse is headed, speculating that Michigan will eventually end up in a "Western" conference with OSU, PSU, Detroit, Air Force, and Denver. BSD recaps the PSU-M game from their perspective. Michigan engineers elect Bender to school board.


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well ladies this weekend was the end of all contact we would have or had with the SMIL and FIL. My DH and i stress the D in that went down and had it out with them both. Told them that this bullshit is over the edge and were not having LO raised in this type of environment. SMIL cried and FIL said that it was all because of me (the usual bullshit im the bad guy blah blah blah) and then they brought my parents in on it...and my dad laid into both of them. My mom is watching LO mon-friday for us.. until my DH gets off work.. and apparently that is so wrong (even though SMIL would never quit her job to help and id never ask her to! I dont even want her to be around my son!) needless to say police were called and DH and I are filing a restraining order against them both. My cell, DH cell and our home phone have been changed and they are both blocked on facebook along with anyone who would side with them (step siblinings, grandparents everyone). I thought my DH would take this much harder because this is his BIOLOGICAL FATHER that were dealing with and his new wife but he honestly couldnt care less, i've never seen him like this at all. So with the support of our friends, my family and his mom and her boyfriend what's done is done.
So ill edit in the details leading up to all that crazyness
friday night i got home from work and DH was sitting on the couch and i asked him if we could talk about his dad and his step mom. Previous to this our LO crib and furnature for the nursery started being delivered on friday so i posted on facebook about how cute everything looked and how i was so greatful that my mom and gram had paid for the nursery furnature. Well DH's SMIL commented on the post pretty much outing me about how i was a terrible daughter in law because I didnt include her in picking the nursery furnature and how this is their first grandchild and they have the right to be involved **read my previous posts and you'll understand why i hope this women... well has some not so nice stuff happen to her** That was the straw that pushed DH over the edge, he's been on my side all along we were just waiting for a more... not in public place to confront them and just end things. So on Saturday DH went down to his dads garage and asked him to talk (not knowingSMIL was there) in the mean time my mom and dad came over to help me set up the furnature, well when i filled them in on what was going on my dad decided to go to FILs work with DH (they are closed on saturdays but he catches up on work so there were no customers in the gargage at the time). So DH pretty much told his dad where the bear shits in the buckwheat and we are done with them.. we want no communication nothing from them. SMIL was in the office listening in and came out and FREAKED out on DH and my dad and my dad lit into them. Her reasoning for her behavior... it wasnt fair that my parents are more involved in our LO's life then they are (even though DH real mom only gets involved when she needs too, doesnt cause drama and quite frankly is more involved staying out of itthen these two wackos will ever be). Due to mine and DH's work schedule my mom is going to be the full time baby sitter and DH's mom will fill in a day or two a week... apparently that makes them bad people because i trust them more then i do SMIL and FIL. So after DH told her to piss off she got in the car and stormed off. which is how the emergency RO came into play. SHE SHOWED UP AT MY HOUSE AND ALMOST BROKE MY BACK DOOR TRYING TO GET IN. When the police got there she was all "i just want to talk this out i dont want to miss out on LO's life" Police asked me what i wanted to do and the next 2 hours were spent filing the motions to get the ball rolling on the RO. She is just bat shit crazy and until she gets help I want her to just.. be gone.
I hope I can stay strong and when the bitch comes crawling back begging i can just stand up to her... but this is a step in the right direction.
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Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane's brand of comedy thrives on shock value, but even he has to draw the line somewhere.
Just a day after the explosions at the Boston marathon, clips from a previously aired Family Guy episode were edited to seemingly depict the bombing and started circulating online. Fox pulled the upcoming episode of the show. McFarlane slammed the clips as abhorrent. Naturally, when the video surfaced, there were the conspiracy theorists, who started pointing to a planned attack by the US government. Others were offended and outraged by what seemed like an extremely inappropriate joke at the expense of the victims. Series creator and voice actor McFarlane tweeted this message about the clips: "The edited Family Guy clip currently circulating is abhorrent," he tweeted. "The event was a crime and a tragedy, and my thoughts are with the victims."
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|Photo Viewer
|Digital Audio Playback
|Text To Speech
|Voice Control
|Traffic Information
|Dynamic Content Services
|Removable Memory Type
|SD card
|Battery Life
|Up to 4 Hours
|Parts Warranty
|1 Year
|Labor Warranty
|1 Year
Navigation Features
Traffic Information
Picture Viewer
Built-in Bluetooth
Mounting Options
Power Requirements
Computer Requirements
Map Software: The nüvi 465-LMT comes loaded with City Navigator North America NT 2010 software, which contains mapping detail of the entire United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. The maps feature nearly 6-million points of interest (POIs), such as hotels, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs and attractions.
Free Lifetime Map Updates: The Garmin nüvi 465-LMT includes free lifetime map updates which give you the most up-to-date maps for the life of the Garmin GPS unit.
Note: Free Lifetime Map Updates entitle you to receive up to 4 map data updates per year, when and as such updates are made available on the Garmin website, for this specific Garmin product only until this product's useful life expires or Garmin no longer receives map data from its third party supplier, whichever is shorter. The updates you receive will be updates to the same geographic map data originally included with your Garmin product when originally purchased.
SD Memory Slot: The nüvi 465-LMT has an SD memory slot for additional map data from optional SD memory cards. The unit can also display photo images from an SD memory card.
Antenna: The unit has a built-in antenna in its top panel. In order to obtain an optimal signal, the unit must have a clear, unobstructed view of the sky. It the unit is mounted in a vehicle with a coated windshield or an in-screen heating system there may be difficulty in obtaining a good signal.
Touch Screen Display: The unit features a bright, 4.3" (diagonal) widescreen LCD with touch screen controls. The display has a resolution of 480 x 272 pixels with an aspect ratio of 16:9. The screen has a manual brightness adjustment for best visibility.
Screen Color Mode: You can select one of three color modes for the display screen:
Truck-Related Features: This unit was designed by truckers for truckers, with features that are tailored to the OTR trucking industry:
Information Pages: The information provided by the nüvi 465-LMT is found on various display screens called pages. The pages give you the following information:
Where To? During navigation, you can search for places by pressing "Menu", then "Where To?" You can select an Address, NTTS (for truck-related POIs), Go Home, Points of Interest, Recently Found, Favorites, Extras, Intersections, Cities, Browse Map, and Coordinates. You can also access Spell Name for direct entry of your new destination, or browse the map. You can search for locations near your present location (default), or select a different city, your current route, or your destination.
Where Am I? The "Where Am I?" feature gives you instant access to important information in case of an emergency. When you select "Where Am I?" from the menu, you get the coordinates (including elevation) of your current position, plus the nearest address and intersections. There are also buttons to help you locate the nearest hospitals, police stations, or gas stations. You can also save the location for future reference.
Custom Points of Interest: The nüvi 465-LMT will accept custom points of interest (POI) databases, available from various companies on the Internet. Some custom POI databases contain alert information for points such as safety cameras and school zones, and the unit's proximity alerts can notify you as you approach one of these points. To download custom POIs, you will need the Garmin POI Loader software, available on Garmin's website.
Map Orientation: You can select one of three map orientation displays:
Vehicle Icons: The default on-screen icon representing your vehicle depends upon the operating mode. When you're in the truck mode your on-screen icon is a tractor trailer. In the automobile mode, it is a blue sports car. In the menu, you can select other vehicle icons, or you can choose from dozens of downloadable vehicle icons from the "Garmin Garage" website.
Route Preferences: When calculating a route, you can select the following preferences: faster time, shorter distance, or off road.
Avoidances: You can program the unit to avoid certain things that may be undesirable on your route. Examples of things that can be avoided include U-Turns, Highways, Toll Roads, Traffic, Carpool Lanes, Unpaved Roads, and Ferries.
Waypoints: You can manually mark and name any map position as a waypoint for later recall. Up to 1000 waypoints can be saved into memory.
Indoor Use: When indoors, you can activate the built-in simulator and practice using the unit. This turns off the GPS receiver so it's not searching for satellites.
World Clock: The world clock allows you to display the current time for four locations throughout the world. You can also display a map of the world showing which portions are in daylight and which are in darkness.
Unit Converter: You can convert area, distance, speed, temperature, volume, and weight.
Calculator: The calculator allows you to perform simple arithmetic.
Garmin Lock: Garmin Lock is an anti-theft feature. You can set a 4-digit PIN and a security location (such as your home or office). Every time the nüvi 465-LMT is powered on, you must enter the PIN, or drive to your security location.
FM Traffic: The nüvi 465-LMT can receive traffic information broadcast over the FM Radio Data System (RDS), when connected to the supplied Garmin GTM 25 FM TMC (Traffic Message Channel) receiver. When you are in a coverage area, the traffic delays are rated by severity with color-coded icons. If you encounter severe traffic along your route, the unit will automatically recalculate the route for you to avoid traffic delays.
Picture Viewer: The nüvi 465-LMT can display photo images (JPEG files). The image files must be stored on an optional SD memory card or transferred to the internal memory.
Panoramio: The Panoramio website provides photographs that include location information called geotags. These photos can be downloaded into the nüvi 465-LMT or SD memory card, and the unit can route you to the location.
Bluetooth Communication: Many Bluetooth-capable cellular phones are compatible with your nüvi 465-LMT and can use it as a hands-free car kit. The nüvi 465-LMT has both a microphone and speaker, so no additional equipment is necessary to integrate your Bluetooth phone. Available options will vary by phone, however, generally these apply:
Bluetooth Compatibility: Visit http://my.garmin.com/bluetooth/phones.faces for a complete list of Bluetooth compatible mobile phones.
Mounting: The unit should be securely installed when used in a vehicle. The unit comes with a mounting bracket that includes a lockable self-adhesive base. The removable mounting arm and cradle can be adjusted on the ball-and-socket bracket for best visibility. The unit must be installed where it has a relatively unobstructed view of the sky.
Optional Pro.Fit G3 Vehicle Specific Mounts: The Garmin nüvi GPS units are directly compatible with the optional Pro.Fit G3 series of Vehicle Specific Mounts (VSMs). The G3 Series mounts have a ball-and-socket mechanism that perfectly fits the nüvi mounting cradles, giving you a custom mount designed for your vehicle. Please check the Crutchfield Vehicle Selector to see if a G3 Series VSM is available for your vehicle.
Rechargeable Battery: The nüvi 465-LMT operates on your vehicle's battery using the included 12-volt cigarette lighter power adapter, the built-in Lithium-Ion batteries, or household current using an optional AC adapter. The Lithium-Ion batteries provide up to 4 hours of use, and require a 4-hour charge to full capacity. Stored data, such as waypoints or unit settings, are not lost when the unit is disconnected from a power source.
Internal Memory: The nüvi 465-LMT comes with an internal flash memory for storage of supplemental maps and photos. When the unit is connected to your computer, the nüvi 465-LMT is recognized as an additional drive.
Interface Capability: This unit can be connected to a PC or Mac via USB cable (not included). This interface allows you to download additional map information to the unit's flash memory or an optional SD card. The unit has a standard Mini-USB Version 2.0 jack.
Note: The nüvi is not compatible with Windows 95, 98, Me, or Windows NT. It is also not compatible with Mac OS 10.3 or earlier. This is a common limitation of most USB mass storage devices.
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If you didn't know, the Science Channel cast Morgan Freeman as the host of its new series, "Through the Wormhole."
Having played God on screen in several films, it's a role that Freeman seems comfortable with. In fact, he really believes he IS God.
We found that out when he sat down with TheWrap to talk about an upcoming segment called "Did We Invent God?"
Let's just say Mr. Freeman didn't hold back.
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Before I start, I'm going to apologize, I just needed to vent and feel free to turn back now before I get started.
I ran into an old "friend" today, she is a woman in her 40s whom I havent seen much of in about a year.
As a background, she used to keep her horse at the same place as I kept Bandit. We were both DIY, if she were on holidays, busy, couldnt get out I stepped up and helped and mucked out for her. This worked two ways, and she offered to do him for me twice a week, on the days I worked. I always thanked her for this, and was always very very grateful. She had a huge falling out with a friend, who also kept her horse there, and I did my best to be there for her throughout it.
Anyway, after several months herself and this friend patched things up, I found out I was 6months pregnant, and everything went down the toilet. The day after I found out I was pregnant she called me and said she couldnt help with Bandit as it was too stressful. Bandit is 17, you open the gate and he will turn himself out and let himself in. This was fine - he was my responsibility but I still felt slightly let down that at such a confusing/stressful/changing time in my life she decided to change things. Throughout my pregnancy she did her best to not help me in anyay, and I clearly remember her and a few others sitting on the backs of their cars while I carried in bags of feed. It never occured to them to even offer to help an 8 month pregnant woman. Then 8 weeks after having a section she was there when I went to load a pony that hadnt worked out for my daughter, and she hopped in her car and drove off as I was walking him to the box. I loaded him by myself with a sleeping baby in the car, again I know this was my responsibility but never have I come across somebody who would as much as lift the back ramp of the horsebox. Also, both times I felt let down, but said nothing.
Anyway, things changed, we both moved yards, ect. SHe lives in a town about 5 min away, so when I see her we've always exchanged the pleasantries - asking after horses, family, ect. Such is life, we all change to what suits us best.
Today I ran into her at the gym. She was sitting down chatting to another woman and I was going in for a workout. She looked up at me, to which I gave her a smile and a nod. She quickly turned around in her chair, said something to the other woman who loudly said "ohhh is it?" and looked me up and down. The woman I had been friendly with failed to acknowledge me in any way.
I've come home from the gym quite annoyed and upset and needed to vent. My husband responsed with how did I know they were talking about me... but c'mon it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure things out.. so I can't vent to him.
I feel very let down after the incident, and I'm sure somebody is going to say or think "buck up and get on with it" but I'm wondering if we ever get out of that school yard mentality of talking about somebody. I wouldnt dream of being so rude to somebody.
So like I said, I'm sorry for being such a moan.. I just thought we were all meant to change after grade 12?


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A party without my friends
My humble vision for SF includes reparations for black peoples in the Bay View, giving back stolen vacant land to Original Peoples, makng the more than 30,000 empty units in San Francisco available for poor, houseless, and foreclosed on peoples to live in. For landlords to rent at least one apartment per building to families in poverty at reduced or no rent, for doctors and dentists to see at least three patients per practice for a sliding scale starting at $0 — and for people to not question "where their money is going" when they give 50 cents to a panhandler/street newspaper vendor while never questioning where their tax dollars go to politricksters and CEOs of corporations. For the SFPD to arrest, profile, and harass drunken white people who spill out of Bay to Breakers and Golden Gate Park concerts with the same voracity that they do poor youth of color — cause then maybe it would actually have to stop.
And finally for all racist, classist laws that target us poor folks, like sit-lie, gang injunctions and stop and frisk be repealed for their flagrant and disgusting unconstitutionality so that public space will remain truly public and people might truly be free.
Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, is a founder of POOR Magazine.
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Synutra Won't Recall Milk as Government Probes Death of Baby
Synutra International Inc. said its products are safe and it won't recall any, following a media report that one baby died and another fell ill in China after drinking the company's powdered milk.
"We firmly believe this is an isolated incident unrelated to Synutra's products," Zhang Liang, chairman and chief executive officer of the Beijing-based company, said in a statement yesterday. "We have chosen to not recall any of our products because we are confident that they are safe."
The incident is the second in two months related to milk safety in China, where authorities in December found products from China Mengniu Dairy Co. containing excessive levels of a toxin. China is intensifying safety measures after melamine- tainted formula from domestic companies including Synutra killed six babies and sickened 300,000 in 2008 in the nation's worst food-safety incident.
"China's domestic dairy companies need to rebuild consumer confidence," Jason Yuan, an analyst at UOB Kayhian Holdings Ltd. in Shanghai, said by telephone from Shanghai. He declined to comment specifically on Synutra.
A baby boy in Jiangxi province's Duchang county suffered diarrhea and shaking and died after drinking milk from Synutra, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday, citing an online posting. His twin sister also fell ill and has been discharged from hospital, Xinhua said.
Testing Samples
Commerce authorities in Jiangxi were investigating the company, Xinhua said. They sealed the same batch of Synutra products in Duchang and sent samples for testing, according to the report.
The head of the consumer protection department of Duchang's Industrial and Commerce Bureau, who only gave his surname, Cao, when contacted by Bloomberg News, said the bureau is waiting for test results.
"Although the cause of the incident remains to be known, it highlights the public's growing attention to the dairy industry," Titus Wu, an analyst at DBS Vickers Hong Kong Ltd. said by telephone.
Synutra products from the store where the ill infants' formula originated have been removed, the company said in the statement. All Synutra products, including the batch in question, are thoroughly tested and analyzed before they are shipped, it said.
Stock Plunges
Shares of the company, which sells milk under the Synutra and Shengyuan brand names, fell 10 percent to $4.24 in Nasdaq stock market trading yesterday.
Synutra plunged 27 percent on Aug. 9, 2010, the largest one-day drop in almost two years. The Oriental Morning Post reported on the same day that three girls diagnosed with premature development in which they appeared to have grown breasts all consumed the company's baby formula.
An investigation found no links between Synutra's baby formula and premature development in the three infants, China's Ministry of Health said on Aug. 15 that year.
Sales in China's baby-food market will almost double to 136 billion yuan ($22 billion) by 2015, from 68 billion yuan estimated for 2011, according to Euromonitor International, a London-based researcher.
The milk-safety incidents have dented consumer confidence in Chinese milk and allowed foreign brands to gain market share.
Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. had a "temporary increase in demand" as competing products were pulled off shelves, the company said in its 2008 annual report. Nestle SA, the world's largest foodmaker, will spend 2.5 billion yuan over the next five years to boost output in China and help farmers produce better quality milk, its Greater China Chairman Roland Decorvet said this week.


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Early investor in foursquare. In other words, you better check your ass in!
Say hi to the office squatters, Chester (human) and Fuzzy (dog).
Candy jars in the conference rooms with a good selection - great for your sweet toothed co-founders
Bryce is a very tall man
Grab a Run OATV sticker!
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A member of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's art committee describes the new aerial sculpture hanging in the heart of our Seattle campus.
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This is our home, our headquarters and where the Gates family has lived for generations, and we will work tirelessly with our partners here in the Pacific Northwest to ensure that all children have the opportunity to thrive in in stable families, great
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To mark the launch of DSW's "Let's Save Lives" petition, DSW's Executive Director Renate Baehr introduces the campaign and its goals - focused on bring attention to the need for increased political and financial support for global health R&D.
"Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It's what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates
The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.
"The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter
"When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates
In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.
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CAPELLI'S CAPTIVE VIRGIN (4) by Sarah Morgan: With every fiber of her being, Lindsay Lockheart hates having to turn to Alessio Capelli for help. Lindsay once turned down Alessio's advances and she knows he hasn't forgotten. But she hasn't heard from her sister Ruby, and Alessio is only person who can help, since his firm employs Ruby. Alessio not only knows where Ruby is, he's about to fire her. But he'll save Ruby's job if Lindsay steps in to take her place until she returns. Lindsay's determined not to get involved with Alessio, and he's equally determined they will. May the battle begin! This wonderful story runs the gamut of emotions as two people damaged by their parents' relationships learn to trust and open up to each other.
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Message in a skullcap: U.S. student expands on pilgrim tradition
One lucky U.S. pilgrim switched zucchettos with Pope Francis on Wednesday, but only for a moment.
One lucky U.S. pilgrim switched zucchettos with Pope Francis on Wednesday, but only for a moment.
The organization that manages the Vatican's assets said Tuesday it would submit its operations to outside financial review in what could be the first such audit of the Vatican's coffers.
The Vatican is about to launch its own cricket club and will field a women's squad if it finds enough players.
"It may be that instead of watching players who go out to play with cricket caps on, we're going to have a series who play with veils on as they bat up," said John McCarthy, a former cricket player and Australia's ambassador to the Holy See.
Saying he wanted to ensure the spiritual care and religious formation of employees, Pope Francis announced he was making the new secretary-general of Vatican City a bishop.
The Vatican announced the pope's decision to make Fr. Fernando Vergez a bishop Tuesday and published the pope's letter explaining the decision. The 68-year-old member of the Legionaries of Christ was named secretary-general in late August.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone stepped down Tuesday with a speech praising the pontificate of retired Pope Benedict XVI and stressing its continuity with that of Pope Francis.
Francis Chronicles: In his first address focused on women, Pope Francis on Saturday said "women are called to service, not servitude."
In Rome, there is a debate over whether a former Nazi officer responsible for the massacre of 335 Italians in 1944, including 57 Jews, should get a Catholic funeral.
Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of seven men and women, including a Canadian and an English founder of two religious orders for women.
He also declared the Italian medieval mystic, Blessed Angela of Foligno, a saint, foregoing the usual process of canonization and without formally recognizing a second miracle.
Pope Francis accepted a proposal Wednesday by Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes, allowing Blessed Angela to become a saint immediately. The Vatican made the announcement Friday.
Pope Francis' decision to call an extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family in 2014 demonstrates how important he believes the family is and the urgency he sees in responding to problems Christian families face, said the head of the Pontifical Council for the Family.
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, council president, said it is obvious that the pastoral challenge of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics will be part of the synod's discussions, just as it's obvious they were part of his private discussions with the pope in mid-September.
On Tuesday, the Vatican warned churches not to get ahead of Pope Francis and take the reform process into their own hands.


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For over 10 years Joan has worked for the Alaska office of the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) on park protection issues for national parks in Alaska. Previously Joan has worked as a seasonal ranger for the Park Service in Denali and Sequoia and for the Forest Service in the Chugach and Tongass National Forests.
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July 11, 2016
Black Belt Intensive Summer Camp
This Summer Camp is held at the Orange County School of the Arts in Santa Ana from 9:00am-12:00pm July 11th-15th, 2016. Grades 9th-12th. See link below for more information.
July 11, 2016
Intro to Martial Arts Summer Camp
Introduction to Martial Arts Summer Camp at the Orange County School of the Arts. Monday-Friday, July 11th-15th, 2016 1:00pm-4:00pm. For children 4th grade to 7th grade. See link below for more information
June 10, 2015
Amsler plays James Bond at OCSA
Master Amsler and the Advanced Taekwondo class performed a demo on stage at the Orange County High School of the Arts in Santa Ana on June 4th, 2015. The theme song is "Another Way to Die" from the James Bond movie Quantum_of Solace. Hope you enjoy it.
Hope you enjoy it.
May 12, 2015
Master Amsler having fun playing drums.
Drumming for Faculty Follies at the Orange County School of the Arts was a "kick" with three sold out performances. OCSA Teachers had a blast entertaining the students and parents at the Web Theatre in Santa Ana. Amsler played "Uptown Funk" and "All about that Bass".
January 31, 2015
Elective Showcase 1/31/15
Black Belt Class performing Radio Active for the Elective Showcase at the Orange County School of the Arts, Santa Ana.
January 30, 2015
Advanced class at OCSA
Advanced class preforms Uptown Funk at the Orange County School of the Arts during the bi-annual Elective Showcase.
January 13, 2015
New Schedule effective 1/13/15
Starting Tuesday, January 13th, 2015, we will be changing our class schedule. Please click on "Programs" above Thank you!
Thank you!
January 06, 2015
OCSA begins their school year
Master Amsler begins his 15th year teaching Taekwondo at the Orange County School of the Arts located at 1010 Main St. Santa Ana, CA.
January 01, 2015
Rank Exams
Rank advancement applications will be given out to qualifying students by the instructor when students show their proficiency of the assigned curriculum. Please return the application two days prior to taking the test so we have time to prepare. Rank Exams will be administered by Master Amsler during the regular class time or immediately after class ends.
January 01, 2015
Dream Vacation in Cabo!
How about a dream vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico? Your own 3 bedroom villa that sleeps up to 8 people. Dates still available for 2015 and they can be yours for 50% off rack rates (only $375./night). Call 714-504-5060 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com and reserve the best villa in Cabo today!
January 01, 2015
T-Shirts HAVE ARRIVED
Students may purchase our official T-shirt to wear in class during sparring classes or regular class. Just ask Master Amsler or Miss Brittany for your size next time you come to class. Remember to only wear your full uniform when testing for rank. Thank you.
January 01, 2015
To-Do List Now Online
Click on the link below to print the to-do list for your student. Students will earn a star at their next belt rank exam if they have turned in at least 4 to-do lists since their last test!


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She's grown accustomed to public scrutiny, but when multiple media outlets called foul on her claim that she was raped at Oberlin College by a "Republican named Barry," Lena Dunham couldn't stay quiet.
It's going to be an exciting New Year, as "Girls" is poised to make a big return on January 11th, 2015. And to keep the hype building, HBO has just unveiled a new preview trailer that's as inspiring as it is dramatic.
The sixty-second clip establishes that Season 4 will continue along the same lines as previous storylines, including plenty of relationship dynamics. It seems Marnie is dating a musician, Shoshanna is still pining for Ray and Hannah is all about planning her future with Adam.
Stirring up some serious excitement, HBO has just released a new teaser trailer for the forthcoming fourth season of "Girls."
In the clip, Hannah Horvath ( Lena Dunham) has traveled to Iowa for a writer's workshop in hopes of overcoming her writer's block.
It's been a pretty rough week for Lena Dunham as she's attempted to promote her new book "Not That Kind of Girl" overseas.
Following a report from the Truth Report website that alleged the "Girls" actress molested her younger sister Grace years ago, Lena's legal team is taking action.
She's no stranger to controversy, but Lena Dunham is adamant that people know that she never did anything sexually harmful to her little sister Grace.
The "Girls" actress has been under fire after a conservative blog took issue with portions of her new book "Not That Kind Of Girl" in which she recounted being curious about the female body and looking at her sibling's private parts.
She's been trying to promote her new book "Not That Kind Of Girl" but Lena Dunham has hit a serious snag in the form of a new story by TruthRevolt.
The website in question recently ran a story titled, "Lena Dunham Describes Sexually Abusing Her Little Sister," based on an excerpt from her book in which she talks about looking at her sister Grace's lady region.
In addition to promoting her new "Not That Kind Of Girl" book, Lena Dunham is also leading the charge to get more young ladies involved in the political process.
The "Girls" star is featured in a new video for the "Women are Watching" campaign, premiering exclusively on Glamour.com.
Showing some love for her English fans, Lena Dunham showed up at the Secret Garden at Shoreditch House in London on Wednesday evening (October 29).
The green-haired "Girls" star donned a white floral slip dress as she promoted her new book "Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned," signing autographs and posing for photos.