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|David Plati
Welcome to a notes and comment column in its 13th year, penned by CU Associate Athletic Director David Plati, who is in his 28th year as the Buffaloes' director of sports information.
Plati-'Tudes No. 94 ... An easy selection to match to a jersey number: College Football Hall of Fame inductee and two-time first-team All-American Alfred Williams (who wore 91 when with the Broncos) ... Why do newspapers lecture us on the environment (which I am fine with, I'm an environmental SID), but they do nothing about recycling or collecting those plastic bags they're all delivered in? ... Ever catch yourself in a moment where you're whistling something bizarre? I did that the other day with the "Theme from Rhoda." Some things just can't be explained... Few probably know that Colorado was created out of four different territories shortly after gold was discovered in the state back in the 1850s; the initial name of the area, slightly larger than our current size, was the Territory of Jefferson. Had that held, we'd be JU (or UJ), and we might be the Nickels instead of the Buffaloes (for those really interested in trivia, key players around that time have streets named for them in Denver including Steele, Williams and Gilpin).
Trivia Questions
The opening four mind teasers:
CU—What is CU's connection to the first three Rocky movies?
Who Am I?—I was originally a walk-on for the Buffaloes, but earned a scholarship working hard on special teams. I eventually started on defense by my senior year and led the team in tackles. I forced the fumble on the opening kickoff against Texas A&M, which led to the quickest touchdown from scrimmage in CU history (13 seconds into the game). Nationally, however, I am known for something as far away from football as can be. Who am I?
Music—Who is Kent Lavoie?
Name That Tune—From what song is this lyric passage from: "Well another man might have been angry ... And another man might have been hurt ... But another man never would have let her go ... I stashed the bill in my shirt."
|Quick Hits
Colorado was 18th in the final fall standings of the Learfield Director's Cup; the men's cross country team earned 85 points and the women's 57 in their respective NCAA championships for CU's 142 total points. The good news is that they will again count skiing after inexplicably kicking it out last year; the bad news is it's still a competition for those schools that have several national contenders in sports that only field 10 or so teams capable of winning a title, as we do in skiing (in short, it really doesn't mean all that much, it's usually an annual battle between Stanford and North Carolina, which rank 1-2 in the fall standings) ... The cross country teams gave us the fall semester's top moment, when both claimed the inaugural Pac-12 championships in Tempe; the morning of our football game, kudos to those who attended both events that day, as almost 300 CU fans showed up at cross country meet to spur the Buffaloes on, cowbells and all ... Did you see where Texas basically ripped off our long-time phrase that Bill McCartney first instituted here in 1983: "The pride and tradition of the Colorado Buffaloes will not be entrusted to the timid or the weak." They tweaked the order and added a word, otherwise, a total plagiarism job. Many here were none too pleased, but as long as they don't claim we ripped them off, we can laugh about it. Sort of ...Women's World Cup Tie To CU Football: Long-time football stat crew member Wally "Bill" Taylor has a famous second-cousin: none other than U.S. women's soccer star Abby Wambach (recently named the Female Athlete of the Year). Most proud of his younger relative, he told me, "My mother and Abby's grandmother are sisters. Her mom, my first cousin, grew up down the street from me. I'm thinking of going to London next year to watch her in the Olympics." Bill does defensive stats in the press box, teaming with Jack Landon (who's been on the crew since the early 1970s) since the mid-1990s ... If you haven't read Ted Miller's blog on ESPN.com about the differences between the punishments the NCAA handed down to USC and Ohio State, you should; of course, we want to see what the NCAA does to Paul Dee, the arrogant and condescending former Miami, Fla., athletic director who got his jollies scolding many of us for minor infractions when his shop was allegedly in one of the worst orders in NCAA history. He'll beat the rap because he's retired, but he's one of the biggest hypocrites I've seen in my 30-plus years in the business. Talk about vacating someone of any accomplishments...
Super Buffs
How cool was it to see both of our first round draft picks, Nate Solder (New England) and Jimmy Smith (Baltimore) duke it out in the AFC Championship game? And both were in the starting lineups. Likely impossible to research unless one has months to do so, but it can't be that many times have first round rookies from the same college faced each other in a chance to go on to the Super Bowl in their first season ... Baltimore had more Buffaloes, with center Andre Gurode and receiver Patrick Williams, not to mention SID office alum Patrick Gleason; Moses Cabrera, a former Buff strength assistant, gets to accompany Solder to the big game as he is now on the New England staff. Solder will try to become the seventh Buffalo to earn a Super Bowl ring as a rookie in the league, joining Terry Kunz (Oakland, 1976), Eric Coyle (Washington, 1987), Barry Helton (San Francisco, 1988), Matt Lepsis (Denver, 1997), Vili Maumau (Denver, 1998) and Tom Ashworth (New England, 2001).
Top 12 Moments of 2011
Here are my selections for our top dozen moments of 2011, knowing full well I couldn't include everything; they are in no particular order, other than the first one:
- Colorado officially joins the Pac-12 Conference on July 1, ending a 15-year association with the Big 12 and a 63-year run with six schools (and 53 years with a seventh) of the former Big 8 Conference.
- The ski team claimed its 18th national championship, the sixth since the sport went coed in 1983.
- The cross country teams sweeping the Pac-12 Conference championships in Tempe, as with the addition of the Buffaloes, the league has become the toughest in the nation in the sport and Mark Wetmore's teams sent notice that they hope to continue the dominance they enjoyed in the Big 12.
- The men's basketball team's sensational NIT run to New York, with perhaps the catapult being the comeback from 22 points down against Texas to defeat the Longhorns as Tad Boyle's first CU team set a school record for wins in a season with 24.
- The women's hoopsters nearly matched the men's feat, getting hot late in the year and were one win away from the WNIT Final Four.
- Football closing the season with two wins in the last three games after a 1-9 start, culminated with a 17-14 win at Utah that snapped a 23-game road losing streak. It was also revenge some 50 years later for the '61 team, which saw Utah come to Boulder and leave with a 21-12 win to deal the Buffs their only regular season loss that year and any end chances for a national title. The win prevented Utah from winning the Pac-12 South in its first season; a rivalry might just have been reborn.
- The men's golfers winning back-to-back tournaments to open a season for the first time in history as well.
- The women's soccer team posting the first Pac-12 win by any CU program, a 1-0 upset of Cal in Berkeley.
- Emma Coburn's USATF title in the steeplechase after her fantastic outdoor track season (and don't forget former Buff Jenny Barringer Simpson did the school proud with her win in the 1,500-meter run at the world track and field championships in South Korea).
- The atmosphere of the Pac-12, especially at those football road games where CU had overflowing attendance at alumni functions and thousands of fans in the stands.
- Four Buffs were high picks in 2011 drafts: Nate Solder (New England) and Jimmy Smith (Baltimore) to the NFL and Alec Burks (Utah) to the NBA, all in the first round. Brittany Spears (Phoenix) was a second round WNBA pick, but with much fewer teams than the NFL and NBA, she was the 19th pick overall.
Hatfield's & McCoy's?
Former CU sports info student assistant and assistant SID Allie Musso will tie the knot this September with former Cherry Creek and Colorado State quarterback Matt Newton. Congratulations to both; the wedding will take place in the Bay Area in California. Dating for almost two years, they've already overcome who to root for in the Rocky Mountain Showdown and when the Buffs and Rams line up in other sports...
I Think We're Owed A Check Or Two
Okay, so we get drilled for roughly $6.9 million as a penalty for leaving the Big 12 Conference; that was in the bylaws, so we sucked it up. Even though it's mainly in there due to the value of the TV contracts, which ESPN and FSN did not reduce after CU and Nebraska departed. So it basically wound up being a spanking for us both since the 10 schools wound up all making more money. The $15 million plus withheld from CU and NU allegedly was split between Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M. But it seems to me that with A&M and now Missouri leaving the league a year later, those two schools should owe us a refund; I mean, we basically gave them a bonus for staying in the league a year longer than we did. So in my world, whatever is withheld from them come departure time, a slice should head to CU and NU from the Big 12 (you know the schools aren't going to ante up). What's fair is fair. And with Colorado and Nebraska scheduling most of the BCS opponents in non-league games in our time in the league (22), we made those TV contracts more valuable as opposed to the lineup of cupcakes most of the other schools played (it's why some conference games started being moved into mid-September, much to our chagrin). Why should Baylor get the same share for playing Wofford or Sam Houston State that'd we'd get by risking our season playing at Georgia? Easy answer—it shouldn't.
Was That ESPN.COM/EA Sports CU-Michigan Competition Rigged?
Going back to that competition between traditions on ESPN.com last summer, that was the opinion by more than a handful of people of the mid-June competition that pitted CU's tradition of running out behind Ralphie against Michigan's team. Just under 80,000 votes were cast, and Michigan's banner beat out the live buffalo, 62-38%.
Well, if that's what the vote actually was, so be it; it means 49,300 or so voted for UM, not even half of their attendance for an average home game. That's just under our total number for a home game, so they had the fan base advantage from the get-go. But many people looked inside the numbers, including myself. Colorado won 42 states, Washington D.C. and the world vote; Michigan won eight states: Michigan (91% of the vote), with its next largest win in Alaska (56%, receiving 33 of 59 total votes cast); after that came Illinois, New Hampshire and Ohio (all 54%), and then Indiana, Iowa and New York (all 51%). Colorado won Colorado with 90 percent, four states with 70 percent of the votes, and then 22 others with 60-plus percent (five of those were 69%). In short, when adding the vote counts assigned per state, Ralphie was well over 6,000 votes ahead of a plastic banner and the total votes added to almost 55,000. But the map showed 79,533 votes; where were the other 24,000? I had to know, being a stat geek and all.
I sent an e-mail to ESPN.com editor David Albright about what was happening. He answered within minutes and here's initial response (verbatim):
"Polling is handled within our SportsNation group so I reached out to them for an explanation ... there appears to be a map data collection error that is resulting in some of the total votes not being accounted for in the map display ... but they said the overall vote total represented in the bar chart is correct ... the production and engineering folks are going to further explore the problem and I will let you know if I get any more information ..."
Then after I asked if the had any more information since the margin grew to just under 24,000 votes, again seemingly each one to Michigan, this was the response:
"We've moved on to the quarterfinal round ... and we're not showing the maps moving forward because there's still an inconsistency between total votes and what's showing on the maps ... so the total votes are what's being used to determine the winners in each matchup ..."
I'll take David at his word, he's been a stand-up guy many times before in our Email exchanges and he's not with SportsNation; but something stinks. How does an inconsistency add up to 24,000 votes all going to one school (I mean, is this a Chicago mayoral election?). One thing for sure is that I will not be forwarding any more e-mails with links for people to vote as these, as several of you pointed out, appear to be predetermined and it's all about collecting website hits for advertising rates (or the site was hacked by a Michigan fan who pulled off some shenanigans; interesting that in round 2, the Michigan match-up with Clemson again was well ahead of the other pairings, including Nebraska-Oklahoma (now that made no sense at all—I'd figure that'd be the one getting the most attention).
But without being able to explain it, for the time being, SportsNation appears to be a giant fraud that suckered many of us in.
Speaking of Polls
I can't remember which talking head on an ESPN college football show once again said that the coaches polls is voted on by SID's and graduate assistants (might have been Matt Millen), an uniformed opinion that keeps that belief alive. Jon Embree was a first-time voter this fall, and my role, as it has been dating back to when coach Mac had a ballot, is coordinating a weekly worksheet with updated records and to remind the coaches to vote Saturday night, usually not the first thing on their minds long after game day is over. Often, Mac, Rick, Gary and Dan would reel off their ballot to me and I'd phone it in; Jon and I did that the first few weeks this season but he actually liked phoning his own ballot in to USA Today and did so all but maybe one time the last two months of the season. Guys like Millen always say coaches don't watch any other games; as I've stated before in these parts, that's total bunk. They enjoy watching other teams play, and by the time the season is over, they've seen plenty of schools on tape, well more than most media voters.
CU's Top Trios
In my last P-Tudes, I listed what I thought were our best trios in all sports. For basketball in 1954-55, I selected Burdie Haldorson, Bob Jeangerard and Charlie Mock; it was hard pick the third person of that trio, as this could have been a starting five, but I recalled the late Fred Casotti talking about Mock. P-'Tudes reader Brian McMillan offered this assessment: "I don't think you can select that trio and leave out Tommy Harold and Mel Coffman. That was truly a 5 or even 6 [Jim Ranglos] player TEAM. Tommy Harold missed the USF game and although Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, and Hal Perry were stupendous the Buffs really missed Harold."
Hard to argue that ... and no reason to!
1-2-3: Big 8 Rules
When LSU, Alabama and Arkansas ranked 1-2-3 in both the Associated Press and ESPN/Coaches polls of November 20, it marked just the second time ever that one conference owned the top three spots. The final 1971 AP poll (after the bowls) had Nebraska, Oklahoma and Colorado from the old Big 8 atop its standings, still the only time that has happened in a final poll. Almost immediately, some of the current day "experts" couldn't help but compare that the three SEC teams were much better than those in the Big 8.
|CU's Ken Johnson to pass at Ohio State in 1971
Well, that's pure hogwash, the kind that drives the bloated SEC PR machine, and as usual, with little or no research done. The SEC feasts on cupcakes for the majority of their non-league games (heck, in mid-November FCS schools were the norm for at least three schools), and with very limited exceptions, they never lead the South for non-conference play (I'm thinking Back To The Future and Needles' line to Marty: What are you McFly? Chicken?!). In 1971, Nebraska beat Oregon, Minnesota, Texas A&M and Utah State; Oklahoma topped SMU, Pitt (on the road), USC and Texas (in Dallas); Colorado won at LSU and Ohio State, both ranked in the top 10, and beat Wyoming and Air Force at home. The SEC three this year? Alabama's non-league wins came over Kent State, at Penn State, North Texas and Georgia Southern; Arkansas defeated Missouri State, New Mexico, Troy and Texas A&M (the latter at a neutral site); but kudos to LSU, as it beat Oregon (in Dallas) and West Virginia, two league champions away from home, Northwestern State and Western Kentucky. So in non-league play, that's nine top wins for the '71 Big 8 to just four for the '11 SEC; bowl games remain to be seen, but Nebraska (Alabama), Oklahoma (Auburn) and CU (Houston) cruised to bowl wins. But, in my opinion, backed up by former Boulder Camera sports editor Dan Creedon, this SEC three can't hold the proverbial jock of those Big 8 three.
|Top Regular Season Games on ABC/ESPN
Who says the Pac-12 doesn't draw viewers nationally? The conference had four of the top seven regular season viewerships in 2011 on the ABC/ESPN platforms:
USC at Oregon (ABC, 80% of country) and Oklahoma at Baylor (20%): 6.1 rating/9,744,108 viewers
Oklahoma at Florida State (ABC): 5.8 rating/9,307,428 viewers
Oregon at Stanford (ABC): 5.4 rating/8,726,183 viewers
Stanford at USC (ABC 76% of country) and Clemson at Georgia Tech (24%): 5.3 rating/8,426,144 viewers
Ohio State at Michigan (ABC): 5.1 rating/7,958,233
Oregon vs. LSU (ABC): 4.6 rating/7,750,648
Notre Dame at Michigan (ESPN) 5.2 cable rating/7,540,945 viewers
|The P-'Tudes Mailbag
Q: I was thinking you should name your all-Buff underrated (football) team of the past three decades in the next Plati-'Tudes. Those of us in Buff Nation would love to hear your thoughts and perspective.
A: Great idea; this question came from longtime Buff fan Curtis Esquibel. Now I guess this would be how you would define underrated; I'll attack it from the perspective of those players during my time as SID (1984-2011) who were worthy of but didn't earn first-team all-league honors because there was someone from another school equally or more deserving and the chips just didn't fall our way (and this was no easy task, as at most positions, it was hard to narrow down; for example at fullback, how do you select two between Anthony Weatherspoon, George Hemingway and Brandon Drumm? You can't, so I added where I thought it was reasonable...):
|D.J. Hackett
Quarterbacks (2): Mike Moschetti (1998-99), Joel Klatt (2002-05).
Running Backs (5): Lee Rouson (1980-84), Lamont Warren (1991-93), Herchell Troutman (1994-97), Bobby Purify (2000-04), Rodney Stewart (2008-11).
Fullback (4): Anthony Weatherspoon (1984-87), George Hemingway (1987-90), Brandon Drumm (1999-2002), Lawrence Vickers (2002-05).
Wide Receivers (5): Rico Smith (1990-91), James Kidd (1993-96), Derek McCoy (2000-03), D.J. Hackett (2002-03), Scotty McKnight (2007-10).
Tight Ends (2): Sean Brown (1990-91), Matt Lepsis (1993-96).
Offensive Linemen (6): Bill Coleman (1986-89), Derek West (1991-94), Melvin Thomas (1994-97), Tom Ashworth (1997-2000), Brian Daniels (2003-06), Ryan Miller (2007-11).
Defensive Linemen/Ends (4): George Smith (1982-84), Brian Dyet (1986-89), Darius Holland (1991-94), Kerry Hicks (1992-95), Nick Ziegler (1995-98), Tyler Brayton (1999-2002).
Linebackers (6): Dan McMillen (1982-85), Darin Schubeck (1983-86), Sam Rogers (1992-93), Ron Merkerson (1994-97), Hannibal Navies (1995-98), Brad Jones (2005-08).
Secondary (6): Solomon Wilcots (1983-86), David Tate (1984-87), Greg Thomas (1988-91), Dalton Simmons (1993-96), Donald Strickland (1999-2002), J.J. Billingsley (2002-06).
Punter (1): Mitch Berger (1991-93).
Kicker (1): Jeremy Aldrich (1996-99).
Kick Returner/All-Purpose (2): Jeremy Bloom (2002-03), Stephone Robinson (2003-06).
If someone obvious is missing, most likely they did make either Associated Press or coaches' first-team all-conference; but I could have missed someone, too. So feedback, as always, is welcomed!
Q: You're involved in doing the football schedules; why didn't CU downgrade it (2011) to get some easier games for Jon Embree's first season?
A: Well, you don't just downgrade a schedule; remember, these are done years in advance, there are penalty clauses for cancelling, and you certainly don't want a reputation in the world of scheduling that you're a school that cancels out. Leaving opponents scrambling at the last minute is not good business. That being said, we had an FCS school lined up if the return game in the California home-and-home series would have been wiped out or selected as one of our nine conference games. Cal did not want out of the game, as they had its own issues playing in San Francisco last fall instead of Berkeley due to stadium construction, and thus, the reason we played it as a non-league contest. We did add the game at Ohio State for a $1.4 million payout, believed to be a record for a one-time visit to an opponent stadium, but we did that largely because of the $6.8 million the Big 12 penalized us for leaving the conference and we had to offset that as much as we could. The Hawai'i series was set in 2007 (we also meet in 2014-15), and CSU is obviously an annual staple. The remainder was the initial Pac-12 conference game slate.
Q: Like many, I am concerned that we're only getting two- or three-star players to commit. What's your take on the "star" system?
A: (Licking my chops). The star system is perhaps the biggest joke in all of college athletics. Those services assign stars based on who is recruiting them (e.g., they get lists from some of hot schools and make them four or five stars), and also based on schools that heavy subscription bases to their services. I have been told this several times through the years by people who work for these places, so if anyone contests this, they're flat-out lying. Example: Tyler Hansen commits to CU, is a 1-star QB; Michigan and Iowa show some interest, and he's a 3-star, or as Tyler put it, he had a heckuva week playing Madden on his couch that week. Most of these guys aren't the experts they say they are, they have coaching sources slipping them info. Always go back five years earlier and all of these places easily miss on half of their top 100 or 150 players; they just never tell you. Sure Coach Mac built our programs with some top kids, but an eye for talent and potential didn't hurt either; FACT: since 1989, CU has had 67 first-team All-Conference performers (or better); 34 were high school All-Americans, 33 were not (and those 34 were not all 4- and 5-star players).
Want more proof? I had an interesting conversation with Ted Miller (ESPN.com) at the Rose Bowl. He told me ESPN's 150 is skewed for the same reason—lists from certain schools and picking more players from areas where the fan bases are rabid about recruiting. This year's ESPN 150 has 18 players from Georgia (population 9 million) and 11 from California (population 41 million). Statistically, that can't happen but there are more rabid fan sites in the south than in California, so it caters to that fan base. And if you look at the so-called team rankings, isn't it amazing that certain schools either have none or at most one two-star (or less) player? They haven't spotted any one in their camps or on film that's not a "three" star performer that they have a commitment from?
So don't be suckered in, it's a business that recruiting spun off, and apparently, a very lucrative one. But it's almost all bull, and most coaches will agree with the above assessment.
Q: It seemed to me that our offensive linemen, in particular, dropped weight between last spring and this past fall. Was that a trend team-wide? Is that something the OL coaches wanted? Or was there not enough time for the diminished weight to be replaced?
A: Nothing that was orchestrated, so there was no rhyme or reason to it; when Steve Marshall was here in his first stint, he had guys like Andre Gurode and Victor Rogers checking in over 300 pounds. I know Ryan Miller personally wanted to play at around 295 as he thought he'd gain some quickness. Some of the weights likely dropped due to an emphasis in more conditioning and less outright lifting with our new strength coach, Malcolm Blacken.
Q: I've seen in the past some games-lost-to-injury numbers comparing different seasons. Obviously, this year we've been decimated in the defensive backfield, but how snake-bit has the team been as a whole?
A: When all was said and done, this was our second worst year injury-wise since 1987, when the participation charts we started to maintain became more detailed as to why someone did not play, instead of just listing it as DNP. We lost 20.1 percent of the possible 572 games in the two-deep (13 games times 44), or a total of 115 games by those players to injury, second only to the 20.8 percent (110 of 528) lost in 2008. This year's number jumped to 141 games lost when counting those players that were not ticketed to redshirt (with that 12.8 percent figure being the highest since the info started to be tracked in 1987).
Q: I read that there was a bit of a dustup in the press box following the win at Utah, and that you actually had to physically intervene ... can you shed some light on the story in the next Plati-'Tudes?
A: Ha ... that was totally blown out of proportion. Our coaches were exiting the press box, and to get to the elevator, they had to walk behind where the reporters sit; they were exuberant, so I just tried to get them to lower their voices a bit, even though not many people were in there at the time. Some guy got in my face about them and started yelling at me, calling us no class, etc., so I basically told him to get away from me. It really was no big deal.
Things That Make You Go Hmmm...
I'm actually a BCS, anti-playoff gut (plus-1 would be fine). But it was curious not to see any reaction to Nick Saban's plea for the voters to be fair with their final ballots. In my world, Stanford or Oklahoma State deserves a crack at LSU. Why? Well, Alabama had its chance, had it at home, struggled offensively (60 plays for 295 yards, 40 of which came on the first two plays of the game, and 198 yards on nine plays, meaning 51 plays netted 97 yards – ugh), missed field goals left and right, etc., etc., etc. Why do they get a second chance? And remember, they had a subpar game against an FCS team late in the season and got a pass for that. LSU now has to beat a team twice, which is no easy task (they were even worse on offense with just 239 yards on 58 plays, and 132 on 52 after taking out their six big plays), and should they lose, why should Alabama get the nod over LSU if they split two games all because of the timing of the game? Regardless, being a college football junkie, I'll be watching.
Website(s) & Links of the 'Tude
Good News Dept.: It was good, no, great to see a so-called "blogger" lose in a court case when sued for defamation of character; the verdict was unanimous. An insurance professional by trade, she had zero journalistic ties or training and used to Internet to spread lies and innuendo. Well, she's now out $2.5 million and hopefully will set the tone for people to stop this sort of thing without checking facts (story: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/22/bloggers-not-journalists/). I know there are two or three people I'd like to go after, and still might, you just never know. But it is good to see a responsible judge and jury protect someone from malicious lies without hiding the cowardly author behind a shield law. Valorie Simpson (the late golf coach Mark Simpson's widow) recently won the 2011 Boulder Dancing With The Stars competition; see it here on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYHETyyCfjY ...
Former Buff Sightings
Fred Jones (football '03) and Torin Williams (basketball '87) are both working in law enforcement. I bumped into Fred at a Denver Broncos game, where he also occasionally works with Phil Jackson (football '01), also a policeman. Williams, who transferred to Arizona State his junior season, lives in Tempe, Ariz., and was officiating a basketball game attended by former Buff assistant SID Preston English.
Congrats Shouts & Sympathies
- Congrats to CU Associate AD/Development Jim Senter, who was elected to serve as the 2nd Vice President/Secretary of NAADD: the National Association of Athletic Development Directors for 2011-12.
Cory Higgins
- Good luck to Sebastian Heisele, a member of the Buffalo golf team who graduated with a degree in Architecture in December. He is foregoing his last semester as a collegian and has turned professional, and will head to qualifiers in January to try and play on the Asian Tour; he'll likely also play some events in Europe and in his native UAE.
- Huge kudos to Kara Grgas-Wheeler Goucher ('01), who qualified for the U.S. Olympic marathon team in Houston on January 15 by finishing third in the final qualifier. She blazed the course in 2:26.06 to earn the third and final spot. However, there was some heartbreak for another former Buffalo, Dathan Ritzenhein ('04), who ran the fastest marathon of his life in 2:09.55 but finished fourth, eight seconds back of the last spot. But congrats to him for his personal best and for representing the Buffs with class in his defeat.
- Congrats to Sara (Gorton) Slattery ('05) for winning the 2012 PF Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Half Marathon on January 15. She covered the 13.1 mile course in a swift 1:16.24, winning by over two minutes and claiming a nice $1,000 for her efforts.
- Congrats to former Buff Cory Higgins ('11), who made the roster of the Charlotte Bobcats. Along with Alec Burks ('11) on the Utah Jazz and of course Chauncey Billups ('97) on the Los Angeles Clippers, that's three Buffaloes on regular season NBA rosters for the first time since the 1992-93 season (Matt Bullard, Jay Humphries, Alex Stivrins).
- And while I am on hoops, a shout out to our student section—they are coming out in force that we haven't seen for a long time—and they are one of 80 student sections vying for The Naismith Student Section of the Year Award. Let's all try and reward them: by visiting www.facebook.com/ILoveCollegeHoops, Colorado fans can vote for the C-Unit as the top student section in college basketball.
Brad Jones
- Congrats to former Buff linebacker Brad Jones ('08); he recently became a Youtube sensation for tackling a fan who ran out onto the field in the Green Bay Packers home finale on January 1. See it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CgQOHrMSmM (and there are several other angles if you type in "Brad Jones tackles fan").
- Congrats to former Buff placekicker Mason Crosby ('06); he's racked up 649 points in his first five seasons with the Green Bay Packers, a league record for the most points by a player in their first five years in the NFL. In that same season finale where Brad Jones tackled a fan, Mason also had a tackle and a fumble recovery to "pad his stats."
- Congrats to Nate Solder ('10), who was named to Pro Football Weekly's NFL All-Rookie team.
- And if you didn't see it locally in the news, congrats to Matt Russell ('96), the former CU All-American linebacker and Butkus Award winner who was recently promoted by the Denver Broncos to their director of player personnel.
This Tudes' Number: 11,056
That was the attendance for the CU-Arizona men's basketball game on January 21; it was the first sellout of the season at the Coors Events Center and the sixth in the short tenure of head coach Tad Boyle; that's the number for the previous six years before his arrival. Greg Hansen, (Tucson) Arizona Daily Star sports columnist, wrote this after CU's 64-63 win over Arizona: "I'll say this about CU's Coors Events Center: It's a miniature version of The Pit at New Mexico (with a much better fight song)..."
Runner-up: Congrats to Linda Lappe's women's basketball team which started off with the second best start in school history at 12-0; granted, the schedule wasn't the toughest, but considering the team needed a lot of games to form some chemistry after the graduation of all-time leading scorer Brittany Spears, it's exactly what had to happen. The CU women allowed just 51.7 points in their 11 non-conference games, limiting the opponent to just 33.2 percent shooting overall (34.6 percent on two-point attempts and 29.7 from three-point range). The opponent was held under 50 points 11 times in Linda Lappe's first 45 games as head coach for the Buffs.
Trivia Answers
CU—One of the announcers in Rocky, Rocky II and Rocky III was Stu Nahan (who also was in Fast Times At Ridgemont High, interviewing Spicoli after his surfing win; see him here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKrpl-KBTzQ; couldn't find one from the Rocky movies). In 1979, Continental Airlines flew Nahan to Colorado every week to film the Chuck Fairbanks Show (Fairbanks' first season; there were no clips). Nahan died in 2006 at the age of 81.
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"Kissing Fish" Baby Quilt - Free Pattern!
30 comments:
- Karen said...
This is a gorgeous quilt. Thank you very much for sharing the pattern. Your photos are really clear and easy to follow. Congratulations on a great first tutorial!
- October 7, 2010 at 1:02 AM
- My Sweet Prairie said...
Right on! Yay for you!
Nice job and very pretty quilt!
~from me in Canada
- October 7, 2010 at 4:42 AM
- AnneMarie said...
Very cute quilt!! And nice job on the tutorial! I was wondering if I could feature it on GXQ if you're interested?
AnneMarie @ Gen X Quilters
- October 7, 2010 at 6:05 AM
- Elizabeth D. said...
Cute! I love how you quilted it, it looks great. Thanks for sharing!
- October 7, 2010 at 6:29 AM
- Lee said...
AnneMarie, of course, I'd LOVE it if you shared it! Thanks so much to everyone for the comments!
- October 7, 2010 at 9:07 AM
- Chelley said...
Thank you so much for sharing this pattern! I love it! This one is definitely going on the "to do" list!
- October 7, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- Kati said...
Very cute pattern. I love how it comes together. I might use this for some autumn FQs that I have been debating on how to use.
- October 7, 2010 at 8:01 PM
- Danielle said...
A great tutorial for a great quilt! Thank you so much! Oh and I love your three generations pinwheels quilt too - that's going to be beautiful! Danielle
- October 8, 2010 at 4:28 AM
- angela said...
Great tutorial! So glad you visited me today - so I could find your blog!
And that single girl - it's on my short list and I have the pattern....maybe I need to get going on it.
So what are you doing with that Figgy Pudding!
- October 8, 2010 at 6:47 PM
- Judy said...
Great tutorial....need to put this one on my list of must makes!
- October 9, 2010 at 5:39 AM
- Lee said...
Thanks for all the comments! I'm glad the tutorial seems relatively clear. Let me know if you use it!
Angela - well, at the moment, "working on" something with Figgy Pudding really means that it's cut and sitting in a pile in the corner, waiting to be pieced. : ) But I should be getting to that this week and hopefully posting about it then.
- October 9, 2010 at 9:41 PM
- Di2Quilt said...
This is a great tutorial! Thanks for sharing :)
- October 13, 2010 at 7:49 AM
- everythingquilts said...
Oh I just love this quilt. Spotted it over one another blog. She thought it was too cute not to share and she was right. She added that you shared the pattern with us on your blog and so clickidy click here I went. I've added a link to your cute quilt pattern on my blog list of tutorials by others. That way I know I can always find my way back here. Thanks for sharing your work with us. I hope to find time to make this one day very soon. Have a wonderful day!
- October 13, 2010 at 10:10 AM
- eileensideways said...
love the colors, piecing and quilting. wonderful tutorial. thanks for sharing.
- October 19, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- Petit Design Co. said...
I love this quilt, so cute
- October 22, 2010 at 4:25 PM
- CBear said...
LOVES IT! I will be making this very soon!
- October 29, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- Ashley said...
Adorable pattern name. The pattern is very easy to understand and I might have to try this one out!
- November 11, 2010 at 3:37 PM
- fiberdoodles said...
I just love this!! Thank you ;0)
- March 8, 2011 at 1:47 PM
- Coisas da Laura said...
Congrats for the great pattern and thanks for sharing with us. Very generous!
Hugs from Brasil!
- May 12, 2011 at 6:09 AM
- tangleknot said...
wow! this is a beautiful quilt! I love how the colours play off each other, almost making it shimmer in the light.
- October 4, 2011 at 1:26 PM
- Michelle Bell said...
I am a beginner quilter, and self taught sewer. I saved this quilt a while back on pinterest. I'm currently working on two quilts for gifts and I plan to make Kissy Fish my 3rd as a gift for my SIL who's expecting a little girl this summer! Have you seen pics of other quilts with your pattern? Once I get mine done (don't hold your breath-like I said I have until summer) I will share it with you :) I think she will love it! Thank you!!!
- January 7, 2012 at 11:25 AM
- Jen Conlon said...
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- January 28, 2012 at 3:42 PM
I have a question about your setting triangles....are their bias edges on the edge of your quilt? Did you have trouble with that? I thought bias edges were to be avoided, and that you'd need bigger squares for setting triangles, so that the big side (hypotenuse?) is on-grain. I am so scared of setting triangles for this reason. Thanks. Love love love your quilt and am trying to make it for my grandbaby.
- January 31, 2012 at 1:56 PM
- Lee said...
Hi Janet - good question! Personally I didn't have any trouble with it. I think the concern with bias edges is that they may stretch and distort. My rows came together just fine anyway, and the quilt didn't seem to get bent or distorted during the quilting process, so I didn't have a problem with it. But there's certainly a chance those things could happen. If you want to avoid it, you could always cut larger squares (twice as large? not sure if my math is correct), and cut the squares into 4 triangles instead of just 2. That would give you triangles with straight-grain edges.
Thanks for reading! Please post a picture of your finished quilt to my Flickr group, http://www.flickr.com/groups/1773074@N21/. I would love to see it! : )
- January 31, 2012 at 2:59 PM
Thanks...you make it sound not-so-scary! If I get this little guy put together, I'll post a pic.
- January 31, 2012 at 3:55 PM
- Sallie said...
Saw this at Craizee Corners blog today and think it is so cute! Thank you for sharing!
- February 11, 2012 at 12:57 PM
- QuilterLaura said...
What a lovely quilt. You did a fine job with the tutorial. I haven't made it yet, but it's on my list! Thank you so much.
- April 1, 2012 at 8:12 AM
- QuilterLaura said...
This is a lovely quilt. Thx so much for the tutorial, you did a great job! I have not made it yet, but it's on my list. Thank you so much.
- April 1, 2012 at 8:13 AM
- Simone de Klerk said...
Wow, looking at the quilt didn't make me think it would be so easy to make those blocks. I thought there would be lots of triangle cutting. Beautiful!
To be added on my list what I want to make one day.
- August 13, 2012 at 8:08 AM
- Erin said...
love the quilt, but i would love to make it in a larger size, either full or queen. how would i go about changing the size? would i make bigger squares, or just a lot more of them?
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To what extent are we responsible for the people around us? It is the late 1800s, in the American West. Talmadge, who has been tending his groves alone in the decades since his sister's mysterious disappearance, discovers two feral pregnant girls stealing his fruit. Rather than chase them off, he feeds them and prepares beds made of leaves. All is calm until the girls' fraught past forces its way into the orchard. Talmadge will spend the rest of his life trying to atone for how he believes he failed one of them on that crucial day. "He has got it into his mind that he is to be the savior of that girl, and it won't let him alone. He is going to die of it," says Caroline Middey, the local midwife and Talmadge's confidante. A novel of missed opportunity, courage and revenge, Amanda Coplin's debut, The Orchardist (HarperCollins), gathers quietly like a storm, rages and then recedes, leaving the reader shaken yet standing in a place of calm.
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Whether you want to dress up or bring a pop of color to an otherwise average ensemble, you can truly finish an outfit with accessories. These Salt Lake residents show how necklaces can enhance a look.
Irene Stone, teacher
"My style today was based on comfort, but I like to find inspiration on the runway. My leggings are from a street market in Seoul, South Korea; jacket is from H&M; boots are from Urban Outfitters; and necklace is from Forever 21."
Mohamed Abdullahi, refugee case manager
"My fashion is inspired by hip hop mixed with the style my dad and uncles used to wear as kids. I love styles from the '60s, '80s and '90s. My shirt is Calvin Klein from T.J. Maxx; vest is from Urban Outfitters; jeans are from Hot Topic, and shoes are from JC Penney."
Margo Meyer, administrative assistant
"My style evolves over the years. Right now, I'm into unexpected, yet classy, fashion with pops of color. My shoes are from Forever 21; pants are Target, and my sweater, denim shirt and necklace are from Banana Republic."


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What is the meaning of the speed indication on an elliptical? It ranges up to about 9 or 10 at what is a high speed run for me. Is there an approximate conversion to mph?
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It would likely be dependent upon your machine but I did find this.
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Sundance Parties, The Bing List and Going Home
Just before Sundance started last Thursday I received a gift in my Inbox. Some might consider the Bing List the Holy Grail of partydom. When I saw it right there on my screen I felt instant Nirvana. Really? For me? It was 5 pages long with parties, events, locations and contacts. Everything you need to gain access to the exclusive suites or all-night parties. The list is so coveted that it had to be deactivated and re-passcoded twice because people were selling it on Craigslist. Read More


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Nearly seven decades later, Charles Daubek Jr., 94, still remembers the "wonderful feeling" of first seeing the house – their first – that his parents saved, scrimped and borrowed to buy while he served as a private first class during World War II.
An only child and never married, Mr. Daubek has lived in that home in Hastings on Hudson since returning from the war in 1946. The fraying roof and rusting mailbox tell one story: at his age, he has neither the money nor the physical stamina to make repairs. But within the walls live a lifetime of memories – his memories – of special times with friends and with his parents, all of whom were buried years ago.
"It's a terrible thing when you got to skimp and you don't know if you can make it or not," he said.
Read his profile in The New York Times. Learn about critical support he receives from Catholic Charities and its affiliate, Dominican Sisters Family Health Service, to help him to continue living independently.


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Belgian soulful pop artist Selah Sue blends reggae and funk to create a memorable sound with her awesome raspy vocals as we've seen in her videos. With her already internationally multi-platinum self-titled debut album set for a US release on August 21, Selah is ramping up to take folks by storm on her upcoming tour.
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Interview with "Darkness" - UFC fighter DaMarques Johnson on fighting and the Best of the Beehive
The family section of Best of the Beehive is particularly unique this year. We're putting together our own "family," made up of locals who deserve the recognition. Like any family, "the Utahns" are a big mix of personalities, from a state representative to a really, really smart junior high student. Read More


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Michael Joseph Alstott
Position: RB
Height: 6-1 Weight: 248 lbs.
Born: December 21, 1973 in Joliet, IL
High School: Joliet Catholic
College: Purdue (school history) (Alstott college stats)
Drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2nd round (35th overall) of the 1996 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 48 (1602nd overall since 1950)
6-time Pro Bowler & 3-time First-Team All-Pro (fine print)
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John Webster was a key member of Idaho's NCAA champion 1940 boxing squad. Fighting in the 175-pound division, Webster won his own individual title at the 1940 NCAA Championships. He was also a member of the Idaho squad that traveled to Louisiana to take on LSU in a dual meet before a packed house. Webster and the Vandal men prevailed and brought home the Sugar Bowl title. Eager to do anything he could to help the Idaho men win, Webster fought not only at his own division, but also moved up for dual meets to the heavyweight division against fighters who outweighed him by 25-30 pounds to give Idaho more team points.


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|Britt earns national team spot
OTTAWA - University of Idaho men's cross country and track athlete Barry Britt was selected on Monday to represent Athletics Canada at next month's North America, Central America and Caribbean (NACAC) Cross Country Championships.
Britt, a Vandal sophomore who earned first-team all-Western Athletic Conference and USTFCCCA All-Region honors earlier this year, was one of five Canadian men selected to run the 8,000m course in Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday, Feb. 19.
Britt finished seventh overall and sixth among Canadian athletes at Canadian Cross Country Championships in November to earn a spot in the selection pool, and learned of his selection this week.
"Since I was in high school, I've always wanted to represent Canada," Britt said. "It's an amazing feeling - it's such an honor to represent your home country."
In his first season with Idaho cross country, Britt enjoyed a breakout year. He posted a team-record 8k time of 24:00.28 in a seventh-place finish out of 239 runners at the Charles Bowles Invitational, and was the top Vandal finisher in three of the team's six competitions, and was the team's No. 2 finisher in the other three.
He was also honored on Oct. 16, 2010, with his first career WAC Cross Country Athlete of the Week honor.
While this will be the fourth time Britt has donned a Canadian uniform, it will be the first as a senior competitor. He competed in the 2008 and 2009 NACAC Junior Cross Country Championships and the 2009 Pan Am Junior Track & Field Championships for Canada.
"I've been on a lot of national teams and I am always impressed by the energy condensed when a young athlete puts on the Canadian uniform. These squads are talented, they're focused and they'll race together as true teams." Canadian national team coach Dave Scott-Thomas said in the Athletics Canada official release. "Full credit to the athletes and their personal coaches for working through the cool twilight of a Canadian winter and blasting into the Caribbean sun."


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Michelle Obama: "Dig a little deeper"…for our campaign!
While her hubby flies around the Hurricane Sandy disaster zone in South Jersey to look presidential and leader-like on the taxpayer's dime, the missus is getting busy urging supporters to "dig a little deeper" and donate money…to the campaign.
Michelle —
I know we ask you to do a lot, and I cannot tell you how grateful I am for all you've done — but with six days to go, we all need to dig a little deeper.
Right now, all of the progress we've made together is in danger of being undone. We just found out we're being outraised in this final month by a wide margin.
We've always known this race would be close, and we've always known we'd have to work harder than the other side — the question is, will you step up and do that right now, before it's too late?
Please chip in $5 or more today:
We've beaten the odds before — by coming together and giving all we can. Let's do it again. Barack needs you.
P.S. — Any donation you make by midnight tonight will automatically enter you to bring a guest to Chicago to meet Barack and have front-row tickets to his speech on Election Night.
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A man told Wilmington police officers he was robbed at gunpoint early Saturday morning while waiting at a traffic light, according to a news release.
The man, who had just stopped at a fast food restaurant, was in his car sometime before 3:55 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of Carolina Beach Road and Shipyard Boulevard waiting on a traffic light when three or four men approached his car.
The driver told police one of the men pointed a gun at him and threatened to shoot him if he did not open the door. When the driver opened his car door, the men got into the car and ordered him to give up his possessions, according to the release.
The driver told police he was hit with something and did not recall more about what happened. Police are investigating the robbery.
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Mens Lights Host H-Y-P, Eye Return Of Goldthwait Cup vs. Top-Ranked Duo
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There may not be a weekend as important as Eastern Sprints, but this one is as close as it gets for the Princeton men's lightweights.
Of the four rowing teams at Princeton, the lights are the only one that gets a true H-Y-P weekend. After back-to-back road trips following a bye week, the Tigers get to host their two biggest rivals for the Goldthwait (V8) and Vogel (team) Cups Saturday morning.
If you want to make it even bigger, you can add the fact that Harvard is currently the top-ranked program in the nation. Yale is second.
Yes, this one is big.
"The race this weekend is very special for all teams involved," said sophomore Casey Ward. "We only race Harvard and Yale on Lake Carnegie once every three years so for a lot of guys this is their only shot to win this one at home. The intense rivalry between the three schools and the unique presence of a points trophy that counts every single boat class at the regatta makes this weekend extremely personal.
"The points trophy makes this weekend an extreme team effort that unites every guy from the top varsity boats on down through the freshman boat," Ward added. "This high-pressure situation brings out the best in all the competitors."
Harvard leads the all-time Goldthwait Cup series with 43 wins, while Princeton is second with 25. Yale has won 19, though it hasn't taken the Cup since 2006. The Crimson has also won three straight on Lake Carnegie, including a win by .7 of a second in 2010 that ended Princeton's 20-race win streak.
In fact, Princeton has the longest winless streak in this race on Lake Carnegie. Prior to the three straight Harvard wins, Yale took this race in 2001. Princeton's last victory came in 1998, when head coach Marty Crotty was an undergraduate rower for the heavyweights.
But this Tiger team comes into the weekend with momentum following its Wood-Hammond Trophy victory over Penn and Georgetown last weekend.
"The overarching goal is always Eastern Sprints, but I think we are trying to live in the moment right now and focus on this weekend as if it were the only race that mattered this year," Ward said. "The atmosphere is saturated with excitement and a heightened sense of focus this week and every boat has been eager to get to work. There is no denying that this race is a special one and that all the teams across the league will be looking up the results on Saturday afternoon because this race has a big impact on the perceived "pecking order" of all the boats in the league going into Sprints."
Rowing will begin at 9 am with a second freshman 4+, and it will continue every 20 minutes until a third varsity race at 10:20. The Goldthwait Cup first varsity race is scheduled for 10 am.
A victory for Princeton would mean that every varsity eight would have at least one loss heading into Sprints (May 19). Top-ranked Harvard defeated Cornell early this season, while the Big Red followed with a tight home win over Princeton. The Tigers have won the remainder of their races this season, including both of its early-season races on Lake Carnegie.
Men's Lightweights v. Harvard/Yale
9:00 am • Second Freshman 4+
9:20 am • First Freshmen
9:40 am • Second Varsity
10:00 am • First Varsity
10:20 am • Third Varsity
Open Women v. Dartmouth/Penn
10:40 am • B Four
11:00 am • Varsity Four
11:20 am • Second Varsity
11:40 am • First Varsity
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My heavy metal heart is hurting – Ronnie James Dio is gone. When Dio died of stomach cancer on Sunday May 16th the rock world lost one of its greatest voices. Passionate heavy metal fans love to argue about their favorite bands, but no one disagrees about Ronnie James Dio. You could claim that you liked one singer more than another, or that Maiden was better than Priest, but if you brought up Dio people would always say, "No fair, no one compares to Dio!" It's the reason why Jack Black and Kyle Gass made Dio the ultimate rock icon for Tenacious D and even featured him as the voice of rock in The Pick of Destiny. (If you have not seen Dio play himself in the film's song "Kickapoo" go find it now!)
Dio's voice had ultimate power and ultimate control. It was often called operatic in much the same way that people think of Roy Orbison's voice. While Dio's voice came to represent heavy metal, he reached early success as a hard rock singer in the band Elf. Listen to his vocal and emotional range on "Never More" from Elf's self titled debut in 1972. Elf spent time on the road opening for Deep Purple, and when Ritchie Blackmore left DP in 1975 he asked the members of Elf to be his new band and called it Rainbow (on the first album the band was called Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow). The first song on side one of that album, "Man on the Silver Mountain" is the sound of hard rock becoming heavy metal. Blackmore's guitar and Dio's voice both sing and wail together in the tradition of Plant and Page or Ozzy and Iommi. Soon enough Dio would replace Ozzy in the metal band of all metal bands Black Sabbath. The sound of "Neon Knights" and "Heaven and Hell" is metal through and through. Both songs were played a million times by thousands of metal bands in basements and clubs during the 1980s. After Sabbath, Dio went on to form his own band called simply Dio. I guess I'm a sucker for first albums, but "Holy Diver" and "Rainbow in the Dark" from Holy Diver (1983) are still classics.
I had a chance to meet Dio last year when he came to Cleveland on the 2009 Heaven and Hell tour. The show was great, the band rocked both new songs and Sabbath classics, and Ronnie could not have been a nicer guy. I'm glad that after all these years I finally had a chance to meet the man himself and to tell him how much his music meant to me and millions of other heavy metal fans around the world. I mean, this guy invented the rock horns for crying out loud! Ronnie James Dio is gone. Catch the rainbow Ronnie and long live the rock!


text: Dec 28, 2012 19:15 Sean Payton, Saints agree to multiyear contract extension Sean Payton, Saints agree to multiyear contract extension Associated Press file photo by LUIS M. ALVAREZNew Orleans coach Sean Payton leaves the NFL owners meeting in March in Palm Beach, Fla. SHELDON MICKLES | Advocate sportswriter Dec. 28, 2012; 7:00 p.m. Comments While New Orleans Saints fans won't see their team in the playoffs, they did get something to be happy about Friday night. Head coach Sean Payton — who fans feared might leave the team to join the Dallas Cowboys after the contract extension he received in September 2011 was rejected by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell — will remain with the Saints. Saints spokesman Greg Bensel confirmed the new extension for Payton via email Friday evening. Citing league sources, Fox Sports first reported the Saints and Payton, who is eligible to return from a season-long bounty-related suspension after the Super Bowl on Feb. 3, had agreed in principle on a new contract. While there were few details about the extension, ESPN reported that it was a five-year contract. Saints punter Thomas Morstead, who Wednesday was voted to the Pro Bowl for the first time, quickly welcomed the news when he tweeted: "BOOM HE'S BACK!!!!" ESPN reported Nov. 4 that Payton, who is serving his suspension for misleading league investigators looking into the team's alleged bounty program, had his original contract extension voided. According to the report, the contract wasn't approved because it included a clause that would allow Payton to leave if Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis were suspended, fired or left the team — which Goodell said would set a bad precedent for other contracts. That quickly led to talk that Payton, whose two children live in the Dallas area, would become a coaching free agent and possibly seek a job with the Cowboys. Before being hired by the Saints in 2006, Payton was the Cowboys assistant head coach under Bill Parcells from 2003 to 2005. In that time, Payton developed a solid friendship with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. When the report that Goodell nixed the original contract extension came out in November, the Cowboys were 3-5, and there was rampant speculation Jones would dump third-year coach Jason Garrett at the end of the season and likely turn to Payton. But with five wins in the next six games, Garrett rallied his team back to a tie for the NFC East lead going into last Sunday's matchup with the Saints in Cowboys Stadium — which was dubbed the "Sean Payton Bowl" by one national writer. Even though the Saints beat the Cowboys in overtime 34-31, Saints fans got some good news when Fox's Jay Glazer reported before the game that Jones would not replace Garrett regardless of what happened in their final two games. "I didn't hear that and have not even thought about anything different than Jason being our coach," Jones said after the game. "I know that I shared with nobody living anything other than Jason Garrett. But seriously, to be real serious about it, I have no thoughts about making a coaching change." Despite the setback to the Saints, Garrett and the Cowboys have a chance to win the NFC East title and make the playoffs for the first time since 2009 if they beat the Washington Redskins on Sunday night. Heading into last week's game with the Cowboys, several Saints said they weren't worried about Payton leaving because of his affinity for the team he and Loomis have built and he likes the fans and community as well. "I don't think about it. … I'm not worried about it," quarterback Drew Brees said then, echoing comments he made three days after the report came out. "I truly believe that he'll be here, and it will all sort itself out." "We let (Payton) know we appreciate him, and we have something good here," added cornerback Jabari Greer. "He knows what we have here. If he makes a decision, we'll embrace him, we'll accept him." During his time with the Saints, Payton has compiled a 67-37 overall record — including a 5-3 postseason mark. He led the Saints to 41 wins from 2009 to 2011, counting the playoffs. Under Payton, the Saints have won three NFC South titles and have played in two NFC Championship games. They claimed the conference title in 2009 and went on to a 31-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV — the only Super Bowl appearance in the franchise's 46-year history. Payton needs 27 more victories to overtake Jim Mora, who won 93 games from 1986-96, as the winningest coach in club history. The Saints, who have played the 2012 season under two interim coaches — Aaron Kromer and Joe Vitt — are 7-8 going into Sunday's season finale with the Carolina Panthers in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. The last time the Saints didn't make the playoffs was in 2008, when they finished 8-8. Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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