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Peppers at 10, which seems low.
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Unverified Voracity Catches Up With Kelly Baraka. Yes, Again.
Baraka Obama-a. Remember Kelly Baraka? Unless you're an old-school M recruitnik probably not. If you don't: he was supposed to be a total ninja RB before a number of high school pot arrests saw him lose his shot at an M scholarship. He never made it anywhere else and has regularly featured in "where are they now?" features end up with the Kalamazoo Xplosion, a minor league football team. Not that you needed me to tell you that with a name like "Xplosion."
Yeah… anyway. About that ninja bit:
LeGarrette Blount ain't got nothing on Kelly Baraka.
Video revamp. Inside Michigan Football sans browser-crippling software:
Schilling's beard is a confidence-building one.
Slings and arrows. The Mathlete takes a look at luck over the past two years in the Big Ten and nationally, re-running last season based on performance-adjusted PPG metrics and slicing out some of the huge swings from random plays like fumbles (he leaves in interceptions). Unsurprisingly, Michigan hasn't been on the kind end of things:
I had some questions about whether this "luck" factor was really luck, but there doesn't appear to be any correlation between excellent teams and good fortune. OSU and Penn State average out to be basically even. Iowa nets out around –2. Michigan State's 9-3 2008 team was the second most-fortunate in the country that year, something that checks out in the statistics. It passes a cursory sanity check.
So, then: Northwestern is your official Big Ten lucksack with Minnesota a distant second. If I'm reading the graph right, the Wildcats have been the luckiest team in the country two years running. The negative outlier for 2009—that dot sitting right at –3.0 on the y axis—is Oklahoma, by the way. Not that you needed to be told that a seven-win Stoops outfit suffered its share of outrageous fortune even beyond the Bradford injury.
One stop scouting. The NTDP moved to the USHL this year, which the NHL scouting community loves. Previously, the development team had puttered along in the NAHL, in which draftable prospects are few and far between. Now they're in the USA's premiere junior league and scouts are going "eeee":
"The whole design of the program has given us the selfish benefactor of comparing the Under-18 team on one weekend against the University of Michigan and older players, and then watching them against their group peers the following weekend. But because this is such a select team, an elite team, we think that the elite 18-year-olds should be able to compete against the 21- and 22-year-olds who were not selected in the draft. Those players are older and more savvy but for some reason were passed over."
This should help the NTDP hold on to some of the elite Americans they've lost in recent years. (Example: Stefan Matteau, son of longtime NHLer Stephane Matteau, has accepted a slot according to Michigan Hockey Net.) The 2011 NTDP is a relatively motley bunch. Michigan hasn't recruited anyone from it, a rarity these days. That will change for 2012, as Michigan will have at least two on next years U17s. Boo Nieves is a holy lock for the team and Heisenberg says Connor Carrick has already accepted an invite.
Anything that helps the USHL get on even footing with major junior—something that point equivalencies and NHL alumni suggest is in the process of happening—is good for college hockey.
More Brandon panting. David Brandon loves America:
"Expanding the tournament, I believe is a bad idea … there are certain things that if they are not broke, don't try to fix 'em. If there is a better, more outstanding platform out there than the NCAA Final Four and basketball tournament, you have to tell me what that is."
Not that this matters as the 96-team tournament becomes a foregone conclusion. I can't wait for that 9-24 matchup that will determine who has the right to face at eight seed. Guh.
While I'm on Brandon, contrast Michigan's hiring process with the fiasco that went down in Eugene after Mike Bellotti was presented a $2.3 million going-away present after accepting a job with ESPN:
[Oregon president Richard] Lariviere made two things clear: that he initiated the change in leadership and that university officials made missteps in dealing with Bellotti's contract that no longer will be tolerated.
"This institution did not follow acceptable business practices in the past," Lariviere said. "That will not be repeated by my administration."
Makes the hundred grand or whatever Michigan spent vetting candidates seem like the chump change it is.
Lariviere fired Bellotti because of an "increasing need for strong financial and business management"; the ESPN job was a late development that seemed to allow all parties to save face. (Then it blew up in their face, but it was a nice try.) The trend in athletic directors is clear: CEO types.
Walk it back. Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick has read enough livid emails about Notre Dame's national cachet and the potential damage to Catholicism that would result from Our Lady joining up with those secular hooligans and is now changing tack on Notre Dame's role in Big Ten expansion:
That, Swarbrick insists now, was not a signal that Notre Dame is more open to finding a home for football in the Big Ten or any other league.
"The only things that could make it happen are the sorts of radical change in the industry that would cause upheaval and impact a lot more (schools) than Notre Dame," he says. "You wind up with only three conferences. You wind up with two tiers of conferences. Now, all of a sudden, it's not three divisions in college; it's four. It's the big change.
"I don't see that happening."
Please reduce your ND-to-B10 DEFCON to 85. Swarbrick adds:
"I really do believe strongly that we're sort of uniquely positioned to continue to chart our own course."
Sort of uniquely positioned? DEFCON back to 84!
In other Big Ten expansion news, Barnhardt writes about a 16 team Big Ten, spurring another round of PANIC duly shot down by DocSat, resurrected by the St Louis Post-Dispatch and OSU athletic director Gene Smith:
"I believe that if we expand, you probably ought to look at more than (just adding a 12th school)," Ohio State athletics director Gene Smith said.
Stressing that was his opinion and may not be shared by some colleagues, Smith added that he believed the impact "would be pretty massive."
A sixteen team Big Ten is stupid. I complained earlier that an expansion to 14 would see Michigan play Penn State 29% of the time; going to 16 would drop that to 12% (eight conference games) or 25% (nine). That's not a conference any more. The only way it could work would be to adopt promotion and relegation. Whenever I bring this up people point out that the radical swings in team quality characteristic of college football could doom very good teams to irrelevance, and they're right. But it makes more sense than pretending to be in a conference with a team you play once every eight years.
If you're going to expand like that, I think 15 is the number. My completely bats proposal for a 14-team Big Ten is mathematically unworkable, but if you add a 15th team you can break the conference into three divisions of five that play each other and two (or possibly three) opponents in each of the other divisions, and then you can have relegation/promotion crazytimes at the end of the season. This will never, ever happen.
I'm hoping this is all a game of chicken to convince Notre Dame to sign on the dotted line. Expansion of the Big Ten past twelve teams is an idea on par with a 96 team NCAA tournament.
Reviews of a mixed variety. Local scouting service "Best of the Best" returns from the MSHAA playoffs with impressions of a number of players, three of them relevant to your interests. Isaiah Sykes:
He doesn't have a jump shot to save his life, but you'd be hard pressed to find a better finisher and slasher in the 2010 class statewide. Also drop dimes like a 5'9 PG. Terrific rebounder, and is great at getting the defensive board and starting the fast break and making something positive happen with the basketball. High majors are recruiting him, and it's warranted, would be a good late pick up for any up-tempo college team.
Carlton Brundidge:
He's already committed to Michigan, but I don't know if he'll be successful in that system. In order to succeed at the highest level, picking the right system will be a absolute necessity for him. At the end of the day, he's a SG, and that's the bottom line. He produces and gets the job done, at that's what every team needs. He's a very good finisher for his size at the high school level and he can score in bunches when he gets rolling. All in all, his upside is limited in my opinion.
Decidedly negative, that. Hopefully he can develop a jumper over the next year and a half. Finally, Amir Williams:
A defensive phenom no matter the game because of his length, size, and timing, his effect on the game will be felt no matter what. He is also a hungry rebounder, who attacks the glass. Those are two big positives that you'd like every big man to have in their game, once the offensive part of his game becomes more consistent, we could be looking at another McDonald's All American out of the Country Day program.
Etc.: Rich Rodriguez's most recent presser in youtube form: part one, and part two. TSB unbreaks One Shining Moment. Dienhart surveys the explosion in assistant coaches' salaries.
Unverified Voracity Goes Eeee Once More
More meta UFR stuff. Biological fun fact: because of Chris Chelios, Mike Comrie, and my loose affiliation with the Wings due to a childhood spent in then hockey-free Colorado, I migrated my NHL fandom to the Edmonton Oilers a while back. How's that working out? Just fantastic, thanks.
One of the compensations of following the sort of team that would sign 70-year-old Nikolai Khabibulin to a four-year deal without giving him a physical is that the blogging community around the team is spectacularly good. I've read Lowetide and MC79 for years and have just stumbled on the SBNation Oilers blog. It has a post called "Groupthink, Confirmation Bias, Hockey Fans And Microstats." I put in in the feed reader three times.
Anyway, here's UFR motivation in a nutshell:
In the world of sports fans, confirmation biases abound. It's impossible for individual fans to record, catalog, process, analyze and interpret the results of hundreds of independent events occurring constantly throughout a game, but it's much easier to pick out those events and sequences of events that support their conclusions. Any hockey fan that has sat silently shaking their head while the crowd piles on an undeserving player recognizes this immediately. It's a powerful psychological force, especially in a setting like sports. Fans can confirm their biases for themselves and immediately fall back on thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands of fellow fans to confirm what they already know.
It seems that the Michigan fan's groupthink these days has been pretty accurate. Most of the people who have come in for internet horsewhippings have subsequently fluttered in and out of the lineup (Mike Williams, JT Floyd, Obi Ezeh, Jonas Mouton, Dorrestein/Huyge platoon) or been moved to less terrifying spots for their athleticism (Kovacs). Even so, it's nice to have UFRs around for when it's unjustified, like when Steve Breaston was getting killed for dropping about the same number of balls as any other receiver on the team.
And yes, I will UFR the Ohio State game, probably about a week after spring practice finishes up.
Right, I forgot about the pablum. So Da'Sean Butler suffered an ugly ACL tear in his Final Four game against Duke and then had that uncomfortable moment with Huggins.
But before that he said a bunch of nice things about Beilein:
"Everybody has to buy in, and you have to get the right people," Butler said, referring to Beilein's offense, which requires discipline and precise shooting. "You've got to get the absolute right people for that system, because if you have even one person that doesn't understand or doesn't care to understand, a cancer on the team of some sort, then it can throw everything off, honestly.
"The system works. That's the best system I've ever been part of in my life as far as just running an offense. It suited me so well. I think everybody kind of gets into, you've got to get all these five-star and whatever recruits, and for him, you just need to find the right players who can obviously make shots, but who will work hard. And if you find that right group, and not like prima donnas, it could be a very good system."
I guess that's nice but I bet the "whole lot of nothing" quote Butler dropped a few days ago resulted in a sharp thwack on the head and a reminder to never say anything that could be construed as not wildly positive. On the other hand, Huggins is still running Beilein's 1-3-1 regularly. That does seem meaningful.
Might be time for another "eeee" tag. Yes, more David Brandon hype ahoy:
"I don't put a disproportionate amount of emphasis on any one year, but clearly this year was a year we hoped for better and certainly lost a little bit of momentum in terms of our improvement," Brandon said. "But that doesn't detract from my belief that going forward we can regain that momentum, and our program is going to get bigger and better and stronger when we get those practice facilities in, and we do some things that will afford us to be able to recruit a little more aggressively. It's going to help both those programs a lot."
He manages to strike a balance between acknowledging things have been disappointing and offer public support of his coaches in response to the machine-gunned "when can we fire this guy?" questions he appears to field 24/7.
That comes from an article that focuses on the future of the basketball program with a couple of Brandon quotes that give an indication of what the U has planned for Crisler:
"We need wider concourses, we need more restrooms, we need better amenities in terms of food service and service opportunities for our fans," Brandon said. "We need to re-seat the bowl, think differently about the kind of seating that we use and probably put in some kind of club-seating opportunities to give special experiences to people who are willing to take advantage of those.
"Probably come up with a different game plan as to where we put the media and just how we professionalize that arena."
Emphasis mine. That sort of talk would be an anethma about Michigan Stadium—though it is basically undergoing the same process—but is welcome in reference to Crisler, which is what you'd get if you took Joe Louis Arena and turned off half the lights. If Brandon can fulfill his goal of having the broadcaster who declared Crisler one of the worst in the country return to eat crow*, Michigan's facilities renovations will be essentially complete. The last thing to do would be another Yost renovation that brought in video boards and some other things.
*(This has to be Bilas, right? I imagine this happened during one of his many defenses of Tommy Amaker.)
This was a Malcolm in the Middle plot. MVictors has detailed Michigan's tumultuous 1909 on his blog and in HTTV, and now we have a postscript thanks to mgouser and extremely unusual person Alaska Hokie. Michigan QB Joy Miller was the Demar Dorsey of his day, except with academic laziness (the classes: he had none) substituting for juvenile robberies. He was eventually booted from the team and ended up cleaning pots for a horrible woman in Alaska. Or something close to that:
Famous Football Player on the Wolverine Team is Located at Walla Walla Working as Laborer.
Disappeared Months Ago From His Home and All Trace of Him Has Up to the Present Been Lost.
WALLA WALLA, March 19.—James Miller, the famous quarterback of the Michigan team last year, who has been missing from his home for several months, was located in this city yesterday working as a laborer. His mind is a total blank and he is quite unable to recognize his friends. He was elected to the captaincy of the Wolverine team for next season.
The end. It was Washington, but same difference.
Assessing Spartans. Dr. Saturday has struck upon Michigan State in his ongoing series of previews. In doing so he breaks the cardinal law of predicting the Spartans:
Man-for-man, his isn't the most talented offense in the conference, but given the close-to-the-sweatervest approach at Ohio State and widespread inexperience at Penn State, I'd put my money on MSU leading the conference in scoring at a little over 30 points per game. Just like last year, though, part of that will be out of necessity, to overcome the growing pains of a pair of new and/or ineffective cornerbacks, specifically, and a back seven in general that just doesn't have the horses to seriously contend for the conference title or one of the floating BCS slots. Assuming the offensive line holds up, though, the passing game will have a few eye-popping afternoons, and a Gator or Outback Bowl bid likely awaits after a borderline top-25 finish in the neighborhood of 8-4.
That is not within a game or two of .500, which will be its undoing. Spartan .500 gravity is one of the universe's most powerful forces.
Etc.: Devin Gardner is walking around campus in a sling. He's still practicing, though. Canadian hockey writer/broadcaster person Bob McKenzie sent his son to St. Lawrence to play college hockey. The younger McKenzie has just played out his eligibility, causing the elder to post on his experience with college hockey. Browser-crippling version of Inside Michigan Football #3 up.
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Take the women and the mead; I'm not coming out of the basement. If Michigan's hockey team just died like Vikings, FL TE Carlos Carvajal is living like one:
He emerged from a local ten-year-old's He-Man rerun last Wednesday and is in the midst of a series of hilarious foibles in which he adapts to the modern world. He will master his strength, get the girl, and go to college. There will be a short-lived spinoff show at Purdue, Louisville, Tennessee, or another place that looks kindly on men wielding swords longer than themselves.
No, Michigan is not involved, but who cares? Carvajal's hair should be in the running for Name of the Year.
Good work there. You know that vandalism that took place in Michigan Stadium? Yeah…
It's not exactly earth-shattering. The turf should be fixed for the spring game, at which point it's getting replaced anyway. It did give Orson a chance to continue his campaign against the area media, at least.
Guh. 96 team NCAA tournament reaches DEFCON 2:
"I said from Day 1 that I would support the decision that came out of the (NCAA's) Board of Directors, which ostensibly is linked back to the presidents (in) the conferences," Delany said. "And if that's where it ends up, I support that."
Asked how he expects the expansion issue to play out, he said, "It's probable."
Won't someone think about the children? Is anyone going to care about any first round game at this point? What is the point of folding the NIT into the NCAA tournament? What is the NCAA's problem with a reasonable playoff field in either basketball or football? Is this the most roundly-despised inevitable idea in history?
The latest from spring. Inside Michigan Football translated into a non-browser-crippling format by anonymous heroes of the internet:
Maybe? No. But you keep waving your gums around. Jack Swarbrick had to open his mouth about conference affiliation. Hubbub ensued, and I pretty much dismissed it. But he keeps talking about it and every time he drops something it seems slightly more plausible than before. The latest tiny step towards plausibility comes from a KC Star article in which the Notre Dame AD elaborates on his previous comments:
"The traditional model, where a conference had a fixed fee media rights deal, if you added somebody you sliced the pie a little thinner," Swarbrick said. "When you're dealing with equity in a network ... it's a situation we haven't had before."
At this rate he will elaborate ND right into the Big Ten by the 23rd century. He also said stuff about the Big East being an "extraordinary" partner and so forth and so on. I peg the chances of ND joining the Big Ten in the near future at 1.5%, up from 1%. Points to Mike Dearmond, the author, for deploying "tizzy" in his article.
The worst Final Four ever… and Butler. I guess it would have been more frustrating if Ekpe Udoh and Baylor had made it, but Michigan State, West Virginia, and Duke suck pretty hard because they are Michigan's primary rival, the school that Michigan yoinked its current coach from, and Duke.
Here's where I point out that Udoh's coach hired John Wall's AAU coach in the hopes of landing him and falls on the Calipari end of the dirtiness scale.
Etc.: UMHoops scouts Cody Zeller and Yogi Farrell. Georgia president Michael Adams is the guy who attempted to kill the "World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party" nickname and appears to be spectacularly corrupt to boot. Naturally, the NCAA is considering him in their search to find Myles Brand's replacement.
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At least there's that. Darren Everson has a great piece on Michigan's recent malaise and the hockey team's bounce-back that won't have much news for anyone who's lived through this year but is a great summary if you need to explain why you're sitting in the bathtub clutching yourself to someone who's not a Michigan fan.
Mary Sue Coleman shows up at the end to provide a throwaway quote, prompting a complaint from Dave Birkett about her tendency to show up in the WSJ but turn down local requests. This is probably because the WSJ asks her questions like "Do you like to win?" and local papers are more likely to ask eleven questions in a row about the threat Demar Dorsey poses to local schoolchildren. You must lie in the bed you have made.
Give me back that filet of goalie. Give me that goalie. If you've been watching the NCAA tournament you, like me, must have the bizarre Filet o' Fish jingle stuck in your head. There is but one thing as persistent this day:
Shawn Hunwick had a decision to make:
Go to Albion and become the school's first goaltender, or ...
Walk-on at Michigan. [ed: this story manages to spread one sentence over three(!) paragraphs, which must be a record.]
For the few moments the blinding television lights remained locked in on him, Shawn Hunwick played it cool.
In almost three years at Michigan, Hunwick played exactly 18 minutes of college hockey. But he never complained, never skipped, and never asked for playing time. He just kept his mouth shut, and did his job.
There is also an article from [NEWSPAPER REDACTED]. It covers exactly the same ground as the 37 other articles about Shawn Hunwick. Give me that fish.
Berenson's locked Hunwick in an electrical closet since the CCHA finals in a desperate attempt to keep his head on straight. We'll see if it works. Hunwick finds the electrical closet roomy, by the way, and thinks it's an honor to be in an electrical closet at Michigan.
Meanwhile, Louie Caporusso on avoiding that Air Force thing again:
But according to Caporusso, the formula for avoiding an early exit like last year is simply "shooting the puck on net with a purpose."
"If we give him a lot of confidence and start building him up in our head, then it's only going to make it harder on us," Caporusso said. "I find if you brainwash yourself to believe that they don't have a good goalie, you're better off putting the puck in the net."
The final countdown. Center Jon Horford just signed on, replacing Ben Cronin's wonky hip with a rail-thin post with some touch near the basket and good passing skills.
I don't want to steal too much of UMHoops's thunder as Michigan approaches what will be a critical couple weeks for the basketball program, but a high level overview: Michigan has two scholarships open and they may fill both of those slots despite the jam that would cause in the class of 2011. The candidates:
- Mount Pleasant SF Trey Zeigler. Ziegler is similar to Manny Harris, but higher rated on average. He is down to a top five of Michigan, Central, State, Arizona State, and UCLA. Complicating factor: his father is the head coach at Central Michigan. Zeigler could sign up to help his dad, whose job security is shaky.
- Detroit Denby SF Isaiah Sykes. Sykes can't shoot but he can get to the rack at will and is in the 6'5" range with long arms and a feverish desire to rebound. He has no offers after a high school career that saw three transfers; he didn't even play the first half of this season.
Michigan will obviously take Zeigler if they can get him. Sykes is the wildcard. Beilein's been to a number of his games recently, spurring both UMHoops and AnnArbor.com to get video and scouting reports on the guy. If Zeigler ends up going elsewhere—the tenuous conventional wisdom is that it's probably CMU or M—I can't imagine Beilein won't offer Sykes and end up with him.
Would Michigan take Sykes if it got Zeigler, though? Maybe. Michigan could free up another scholarship in 2011 for a post if they did not offer Laval Lucas-Perry a fifth year, and it's possible they wouldn't have to do that if someone transferred because of a lack of playing time in the aftermath of Zeigler, Sykes, Hardaway, and Smotrycz (who will push Novak from the four to the two and three) arriving. If I was Beilein I'd make my decision on Sykes independent of Zeigler.
The spring signing period starts in two weeks.
And fin. There was some hubbub in the comments when Michigan State reinstated a number of players who participated in the PREWB. Included were BJ Cunningham and Mark Dell, the highest profile participants not immediately booted. This set Dantonio up for a buffeting.
Why I can't figure. State has lost eight(!) players as a result of the PREWB, and six of them hadn't had previous run-ins with the law. This is not like Glenn Winston's reinstatement. None of the guys who are back on the team got any jail time; just about every program in the country would have done the same thing.
You can hammer Dantonio for two things here: letting Winston back on the team after months in jail after an unprovoked attack on a pair of innocent bystanders, lying about Roderick Jenrette's freshman year suspension. The actual handling of the aftermath here seems appropriate. Both guys who played in the Alamo Bowl, by the way, are gone. That wasn't on Dantonio.
While we're on Michigan State: they've got a goofily named quasi linebacker on their depth chart too. They've got a "STAR" listed and might be moving to a 3-4, or some other defense with three dedicated down lineman and an array of hybrids.
Happy trails. The Blue Gray Sky is packing it in. This site's relationship with those guys fell off a cliff after we did an article exchange before the '05 M-ND game. Mine was a description of my experience after the painful 2002 loss, after which a young child came up to me and literally said "good game, mister" as if I had fallen into Pleasantville. I added in some stuff about Notre Dame's program not being very good, which was basically true, and how this made Michigan's rivalry with them frustrating because they did things like lose two of three to Ty Willingham.
Theirs deployed "Skunkbears" and actually featured these two sentences:
Yost was but the first in a litany of men of low character to hold the reins at UM. ... Gary Moeller was frustrated that he couldn't pick Notre Dame up, drink it, and then drive into a ditch.
It was kind of like punching your brother in the arm and getting a baseball bat to the head in return. Suffice it to say there were no more article exchanges.
Even so, BGS was one of the first blogs to materialize out of the ether and when they weren't dredging up apocryphal stories about people who have been dead for 70 years, they were drafting incredibly research-heavy pieces I was jealous of. It must have been nice to have a blog with eight or so contributors; one of them could just hole up for months and come out with a precise breakdown of formations organized by down and distance. I can't find that in particular, but I did find their "Four Plays" series, which was a 2006 version of Picture Pages on steroids. They were good. They were Notre Dame fans who posted on ND Nation, but they were also good.
Etc.: Dennis Dodd says "if there were ever a coach to root for, it's Rich Rod." Is that a good thing?
Unverified Voracity Snaps Back
Hockey bits. Whatever doubt there was about Summers returning this weekend is just about evaporated. Berenson is "over 80 percent confident" he will be back:
"I thought he looked pretty good again [on Wednesday]," Berenson said. "He's such a free skater, and that's an advantage he has. And he's a senior. He's fit. He's worked hard in this whole rehab. If he gets through the next few days, he'll play."
As mentioned in the preview, I assume this means Lee Moffie gets sent to the press box. Hogan is still out.
I updated the preview with some extra television information, but if you missed it Saturday's game is now on Comcast so everyone should get it. Channels:
- Comcast: 900
- Dish: 432 and 436.
- DirecTV: 640 and 668.
The game is also on ESPN360 and will be on ESPNU on tape delay. Hypothetical Sunday game would be on ESPNU.
Rothstein has a piece on Fort Wayne's preparations for the NCAA tourney—he used to work at the paper there—and asks whether neutral sites really work for the NCAA hockey tournament. In my opinion, not really. It's goofy to have the most important games of the season played in sterile, largely empty buildings, and moving to home ice for top seeds would help make the tourney less of a random number generator. Playoffs should strive for a balance between unpredictability and a satisfactory champion. The NBA has too little unpredictability, MLB too much. College basketball is just right. Single-elimination hockey is on the MLB side of the scale.
Also, lolsparty:
Comley says MSU was the last team out of the NCAA tournament and if Michigan had not beaten Miami, then MSU would have replaced the Wolverines in the 16-team field. He is not for expanding the current 16-team format, although I am in favor of expanding it to 24 because a couple of teams with automatic bids, like Alabama Huntsville, are in the field with a losing record.
As Western College hockey points out, 24 teams would be 40% of college hockey. It would be all but one TUC. The tourney is more likely to contract back to twelve than expand further. Hockey is already over the 25% mark, the maximum amount of tournament participation advised by the NCAA. Also, Comley's wrong. Ferris State is the first team out of the tourney.
BONUS: Junior defenseman Jeff Petry is a holy lock to sign with Edmonton. I'm hoping Tropp heads out the door, too, so that karma delivering a fatality to him is the last thing that happens to him in college hockey, but it sounds like he's leaning towards a return.
So how's that working out for you, being ornery? Ever since the Free Press Jihad started there has been a wing of Michigan's internet fandom dedicated to the proposition that Michigan should pursue a scorched-earth policy with the paper. They imagine David Brandon revoking press passes and locking anyone from the paper with temerity to show up on campus in stocks on the Diag.
A popular sentiment amongst these folks in the aftermath of Urban Meyer going all no-you-di'in't…
…at the reporter who quoted Deonte Thompson saying he was glad to have a "real quarterback" was "that's how you handle the media."
This, of course, releases the hounds. (There's plenty more if you want it.) Two of those are from Bruce Feldman and Tony Barnhardt, adults capable of stringing together paragraphs. But the latter is from Mike Bianchi and is closer to certain local folks' speed. Prepare for the one-sentencing:
First Urban Meyer quits.
Then he comes back.
Then he takes a leave of absence.
Then he doesn't take a leave of absence.
Now, incredibly, he is threatening reporters because one of his players was quoted … correctly?
Can you say Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?
Good grief, that Florida coaching job really is a pressure-cooker, isn't it?
Urban Meyer has to care zero percent because he has a two-deep at crystal football, but it's an illustration of the cliche about not getting in arguments with people who buy ink by the barrel. It doesn't matter that according to people on the same beat think Urban was basically right about this guy…
other Florida beat reporters contend Thompson's quote was merely a poor, vastly overblown choice of words by a 21-year-old who will never be mistaken for Barack Obama as a public speaker, and I can tell you some of them think Fowler has had it coming for a long time.
…any time a reporter takes a shot from a coach, rightly or wrongly, it's time to close ranks and howl at the moon. Meyer didn't even raise his voice here; his "threat of violence" was phrased as a hypothetical from the start. And this reporter basically deserves his chewing out. But get pissed off at a guy and you'll never hear the end of it, no matter how righteous your wrath is.
So… yeah, Michigan's doing the right thing by sucking it up and smiling nice for the cameras. Sadly.
How's that working out for you, being a hypocritical weasel? Win at all costs is apparently a totally awesome strategy for John Calipari:
REFUSE TO LOSE. It sounds like such a simple, inspirational phrase for a team -- and it can be. But it also describes the man. He's a scrapper, and will weigh all of his options besides losing.
Calipari has done the most remarkable coaching job of this season, and nobody is close. Think about it: He convinced John Wall, Xavier Henry and DeMarcus Cousins to come to Memphis, inserted clauses into their letters of intent so they could go somewhere else if Calipari left, convinced Memphis to keep its Notice of Allegations from the NCAA quiet for three months, took the Kentucky job before anybody knew about that notice, then convinced Wall and Cousins to join him in Lexington. That is refusing to lose.
Can you guess who wrote that? It's freakin' Mike Rosenberg, the guy who's spent the last two years ripping Rodriguez for recruiting one kid who got in trouble, slightly exceeding allotted NCAA practice time, and a bunch of other inconsequential or totally imaginary crap. I'm too busy slamming my head into the desk to analyze this, so I beg you to head over to Braves and Birds for righteous indignation.
Etc.: I really wanted the Tebow Wonderlic prayer thing to be true because I thought it was hilarious. Football players pray all the time. They pray before games. They pray during games. They pray when they score touchdowns. They pray when someone's injured. They pray all the time. So Tebow wandering in and saying "HAI GUYS LET'S PRAY" so often that football players were getting exasperated at him was an awesome mental lollercoaster yesterday. So of course it is 0% true.
Kenpom's doing very well through the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, but don't tell my bracket that. [shakes fist at Kansas] [feels douchey for bringing up his bracket]. Wisconsin fans want to demand more out of Bo Ryan. This is because they are insane.
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"A fertile ground for dangerous upstarts lately." That's the accurate, expected, still painful knife Doctor Saturday gently slips between Michigan's ribs in his latest premature assessment, this of the UConn team that will inaugurate Michigan's luxury boxes and possibly clock year three of the Rodriguez era on the head before it can even kick over some MAC team's sand castle.
The assessment doesn't exactly live up the DocSat's foreboding tweet, which said he would be the first person to jump on the bandwagon of a "serious contender in the Big East." That sounds bad. It's not quite that bad in the final analysis, though:
The Huskies are a couple playmakers away from standing out as a conference favorite, and one of those guys may emerge on one side or the other. Unless they come up with more firepower on both sides, though, the existing talent level makes it hard to forecast anything better than 8-4. That's not a breakthrough, exactly, but it is a more generous guess than they've ever gotten before at this time of year.
UConn suffered through a series of painfully close losses before a breakthrough-ish game against Notre Dame launched them on a four game win streak. Syracuse, USF, and South Carolina were the other victims. In any case, UConn returns a crap-ton of starters from an 8-5 team that saw the breaks go against it last year. I don't think they'll end the year #2, but the specter of that Utah game has been duly raised.
Hypothesis damage. It's not like losing Manny Harris is going to help the team, especially if it continues to shoot zero point two percent, but I can't be the only person who has glanced at Harris's relatively meh efficiency numbers (47.7 eFG, basically equivalent to Novak) and thought that replacing him might not be the mountain it appears to be.
Here is a chart that slaps that idea in the face and tells it to sit in the corner. Presenting the top ten Big Ten players in John Hollinger's comprehensive PER stat:
|Evan Turner, OSU
|Robbie Hummel, PUR
|Draymond Green, MSU
|Damian Johnson, MINN
|DeShawn Sims, MICH
|Manny Harris, MICH
|JaJuan Johnson, PUR
|John Shurna, NW
|Zack Gibson, MICH
|Trevon Hughes, WIS
One-grunt observations on the three bolded folk: obvs, guh, wha?
Okay. I think that Michigan playing super small at all times skews this towards the players on the team who actually haul in rebounds. Still, this is one statistical measure that passes the sniff test—check out the top of the national leaderboard for Enter Samhan, Some UNI Guy, and Argh Running 40-Footer—that disagrees with the various Kenpom measures that declare Manny Harris a prolific but inefficient scorer.
Also… holy jeez maybe we could have figured out a way to put Gibson on the floor a bit more.
(HT: Inside The Hall.)
Money money money. Bleed Scarlet shouldn't feel too bad about missing USA Today's most recent FOIA rampage, a January database of revenue and expenses at public division I schools. It seems like the entire blogosphere whiffed on. I certainly hadn't seen it.
Anyway, this perked my ears up:
The vast majority of sports programs — even those that purport to support themselves — receive significant financial backing from their institutions to operate. Of the 99 institutions in the table below, all but four — Louisiana State, Ohio State, and Purdue Universities, and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln — reported receiving at least some revenues in the 2007-8 fiscal year from one of four categories of "allocated" revenues: student fees, direct state or government support, direct institutional support (general fund money), or indirect institutional support (facilities, energy costs, etc.).
Eh? Really? No Michigan? A quick zip over to the database provides an answer. It is not earth-shaking:
As of 2008, six hundredths of a percentage point of Michigan's athletic department funding comes from the university. This is not a one-time fluke, as direct support went from zero in 2005 to about 30k the next year and 50k the year after before landing at its current totally insignificant amount. What is it? I asked SID Bruce Madej:
This is how we are required to report when we receive funds to pay for work study students who assist us during the year.
That mystery solved.
Now let us ask the eternal question: why does Eastern Michigan have a football program? 86% of athletic department "revenue" comes as a subsidy.
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SCHUMER REINTRODUCES HOLOCAUST BILL: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has reintroduced the Holocaust Rail Justice Act — a proposal that would allow Holocaust survivors a chance to bring claims against a French rail company for war crimes. The bill has been a top priority for the Coalition for Holocaust Rail Justice — a coalition of survivors, family members, historians and volunteers. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has been representing the coalition pro-bono on the issue.
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This invention relates generally to lasers and, more particularly, to a high resolution spectral line selector for a waveguide laser that in operation introduces no coupling losses to a beam of laser radiation that exits a waveguide, propagates to a differaction grating, and is selectively reflected back into the waveguide.
A particular problem encountered in the design of lasers and, in particular, waveguide lasers is the energy loss associated with the coupling of the laser beam from an end of the laser waveguide to a mirror and back into the waveguide. This energy loss problem is also encountered when it is desired to select a particular spectral line for the laser radiation, as with a diffractive grating. Such energy losses are caused both by clipping of the optical field at the exit/entrance to the waveguide and by any mismatch between the amplitude and phase distribution of the returning field and that of the waveguide mode. If such a mismatch condition is present, the waveguide will act as a filter and attenuate the propagating field until the field matches the waveguide mode. This attenuation of the field results in an energy loss, which further results in a reduction in laser output power.
The amount of coupling loss as a function of mirror position for curved end mirrors with a waveguide laser having a circular bore was first characterized by R. L. Abrams in 1972 (IEEE J. Quant. Elect. OE-8, 838, Nov. 1972). Since 1972, square bore waveguide lasers have become more widely utilized but, in general, the design of the coupling optics has remained essentially the same.
FIG. 1 is adapted from the above mentioned journal article (p. 841) and shows the minimum possible coupling loss for an optimally curved single end mirror placed at a distance Z from the end of a circular bore waveguide. The parameter b is equal to 0.325 D2 /λ, where D is the diameter of the waveguide bore and λ is the waveguide of the radiation that comprises the laser beam.
As an example, for a waveguide laser having a 2 mm diameter bore where λ=10.6 μm, b will equal 12.3 cm. It can be seen by reference to FIG. 1 that in order to achieve a coupling loss below 0.5% that the mirror must be closer than 0.37 mm or farther than 250 cm from the end of the bore. If 1.5% losses are acceptable, the mirror must be closer than 1.2 cm or farther than 120 cm or exactly at 12.3 cm. The additional 2% of round trip loss experienced by the laser beam (1.5% versus 0.5% at each end of the laser) may result in as much as a 40% reduction in a typical waveguide laser's output power. As may be appreciated, the physical construction of a particular waveguide laser or other factors, such as possible damage to the optics by the cavity plasma, may prohibit the placement of coupling optics at an optimal position, such as adjacent to the end of the bore. Thus, the coupling losses experienced by the laser may be prohibitively high. Also, waveguide lasers constructed with known coupling methods must rely entirely on waveguide losses to attain mode discrimination.
In addition to these coupling losses, for those lasers that employ a diffraction grating positioned relative to an exit of the waveguide in order to provide for spectral line selection, an additional energy loss due to the grating inefficiency is also experienced. Also, such laser/grating systems of the prior art provide only a slight alignment advantage for the desired spectral line, resulting in such systems often "hopping" to other spectral lines where the laser system may operate in other than the fundamental mode.
The foregoing problems are overcome and other advantages are provided by a laser spectral line selector, constructed in accordance with the invention, that utilizes spherical optics to couple a laser beam out of the laser waveguide, a diffraction grating to provide a wavelength dispersion, and an aperture to block all wavelengths except those corresponding to the desired spectral line.
In an illustrative embodiment, the selector of the present invention comprises a diffraction grating and associated optics that image a waveguide laser's exit plane back into the waveguide with an essentially exact reproduction of the waveguide output intensity and phase distribution and with a wavelength confined to a desired spectral line.
The selector optics comprise an imaging lens and a phase compensating lens disposed between the waveguide exit opening and the grating, the lenses providing a magnification and a phase compensation to the beam passing therethrough such that the intensity and phase of the beam returned to the waveguide matches that of the exiting beam. Thus, coupling losses due to clipping of the returned beam at the entrance to the waveguide bore and coupling losses due to a mismatch of the returning field phase to that of the waveguide mode are made essentially zero. An aperture is also provided between the lenses for blocking all wavelengths except the desired wavelength from reentering the waveguide laser cavity, thus causing the laser to operate at a desired wavelength.
The use of the invention also provides for laser mode discrimination by reducing the size of the aperture in order to clip some amount of energy from the reconstructed image.
The foregoing aspects and other features of the invention are explained in the following description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a graph adapted from the prior art showing the coupling loss of a waveguide laser (expressed as per cent) along the ordinate and a value related to the position of end reflector mirrors along the abscissa for an optimally curved mirror at each position;
FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of an essentially zero-loss end reflector which is useful in understanding the operation of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic representation of a waveguide laser spectral line selector which is one embodiment of the invention; and
FIG. 4 is a schematic representation of a waveguide laser spectral line selector which is constructed in accordance with another embodiment of the invention.
This Application is related to my copending Application entitled "Zero Loss Waveguide Coupler" Ser. No. 871,886 also assigned to the assignee of the present Application and filed on even date herewith now U.S. Pat. No. 5,212,747.
The present invention advantageously makes use of the fact that the energy radiated from an exit of a waveguide laser does not propagate in all directions, but is confined to a small angle about the nominal direction of propagation of the radiation. Therefore a relatively small lens (or curved mirror) may be used to capture substantially all of the radiated energy to thereby form an image of the waveguide exit plane, wherein the lens, waveguide exit, and image locations are related by the usual, well known, geometric optics lens equation. For example, in a 2 mm bore waveguide operating at a wavelength of 10.6 μm, substantially all of the energy is contained within an f/10 cone.
If substantially all of the radiated energy is captured by a lens or mirror and used to form the image, the image field distribution will be essentially an exact scaled replica of the object field distribution (with no diffraction effects), with the exception of the addition of a spherical phase curvature. The scaling magnification (M) is equal to the ratio of the image distance to the object distance, and the additional spherical phase curvature has a divergent radius of curvature of -Mf, where M is the aforementioned scaling magnification, f is the focal length of the lens or mirror, and the negative sign indicates divergent.
It is convenient to measure the phase curvature by the reciprocal of the divergent radius so that the result of successively applied phase curvatures can be found by algebraic addition. Phase curvature is proportional to the phase deviation of the field from flat. The result of the imaging described above, then, is to scale the field and apply a divergent phase curvature of -1/(Mf).
By selecting both the image and the object distances to be the same, the image field is made to match the field at the waveguide exit except for a phase curvature of -1/f. If one-half of this curvature is compensated for at the waveguide exit by the use of a compensating lens that impresses a phase curvature of +1/(2f) upon the beam, and the remaining one-half of the curvature is compensated for by a similar lens at the image plane, the final phase distribution will have no added phase curvature and will substantially match that of the original phase distribution at the waveguide exit.
An end-reflector embodiment of such a zero-loss coupler is shown in FIG. 2. A laser waveguide 10 has an exit 12 of a bore 14, which may have a circular or square or other centro-symmetric cross-sectional shape. A curved mirror 16 images the exit 12 back into the waveguide bore, the image being a substantially exact reproduction of the intensity distribution of the exit radiation. An imaging lens 18 provides a magnification to the radiation which, in conjunction with the curvature of mirror 16, ensures that the phase of the reflected radiation also matches that originally present at the waveguide exit 12. Such as system may be considered to be a substantially perfect imager with no diffractive effects, and therefore couples substantially perfectly back into the waveguide mode.
As can be seen more specifically in FIG. 2, imaging lens 18 has a focal length of f and a magnification factor of M associated therewith, and is positioned at a distance of (1+1/M)f from the exit 12 of cavity 14.
Mirror 16 has a curvature that is selected to provide a converging phase curvature of 2/Mf, which compensates for the diverging phase curvature added to the final image by the two passes through lens 18. Mirror 16 has, due to the selected curvature, a resulting focal length of Mf/2.
The principles of the essentially zero-loss coupler described above may be advantageously employed, in accordance with the present invention, to provide a high resolution, low-loss, spectral line selector for a laser.
Referring now to FIG. 3, there is shown one embodiment of the invention wherein it can be seen that the curved mirror 16 of FIG. 2 has been replaced with a phase compensating lens 20 and a diffraction grating 22. Imaging lens 18 provides a magnification to the beam as before, the magnified intermediate image now being formed upon grating 22. Grating 22 provides a fixed angular dispersion independent of how large the intermediate image on the grating 22 is made. Increasing the distance between the grating 22 and the common focal point of lenses 18 and 20 provides for a larger transverse displacement between a focussed spot 24 of the desired wavelength and a focussed spot 26 of an undesired, rejected wavelength. Equivalently, increasing the distanced can be considered as effectively increasing the angular resolution of grating 22 while maintaining the angular dispersion constant.
For example, a two millimeter diameter grating at 10.6 microns has an angular resolution of approximately five mrad. The dispersion between adjacent CO2 transition lines is also approximately five mrad, it being realized that CO2 may be utilized as the active lasant gas medium within cavity 14. If lens 18 has an associated magnification factor of 10, the effective resolution of grating 22 will be 0.5 mrad. An aperture 28 provided around the desired focussed spot 24 is utilized to block all wavelengths except the desired wavelength in order to obtain wavelength discrimination without introducing a loss to the energy of the desired spectral line. Hence, the only energy loss associated with a spectral line selector constructed in accordance with the invention is the loss due to the grating 22 inefficiency.
It should be noted that as the effective grating resolution is increased, the diameters of the focussed spots 24 and 26 remain constant, in that the distance to the grating is increased proportionately. This is due to the effective grating resolution being a function of M and, in addition, the distance (Mf) of lens 20 from the focal point of lens 18 also being a function of M. However, the transverse separation of spots 25 and 26 will increase since the angular dispersion of grating 22 remains constant, thereby facilitating the operation of aperture 28.
It is noted that a transmissive diffraction grating in combination with a mirror, or a prism in combination with a mirror, would functionally be equivalent to the reflective diffraction grating 22. Therefore, whenever "grating" is used in this specification and claims, it shall be construed to include in its definition these other two structures.
Referring now to FIG. 4 there is shown another embodiment of the present invention wherein the positions of the imaging lens 18 and the phase compensating lens 20 have been reversed. As can be seen, the aperture 28 is positioned, as in FIG. 3, at the focal point of lens 18 in order to pass the focussed spot 24 of the desired wavelength while blocking the focussed spot 26 of undesired wavelengths. The compensating lens 20 is positioned adjacent to exit 12 and need only be large enough to accommodate the ray cone as it exits the cavity 14. Hence, lens 20 may be made physically smaller than in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3.
As can be appreciated, in other, unillustrated, embodiments of the invention, grating 22 may have a curvature selected to provide the required amount of convergent phase curvature to the beam, thereby compensating directly for the divergent phase curvature introduced by imaging lens 18. If such a curved diffraction grating is employed, compensating lens 20 may not be required. Of course, in some systems it may be desirable to allocate the compensating phase curvature in some proportion between such a curved grating and a compensating lens, each thereby applying a compensating phase curvature which, when summed together, compensates for the divergent, imaging lens induced, phase curvature.
It should be realized that a laser system having an embodiment of the present invention can never lase on any but the desired spectral line, even if the cavity modes of the laser were tuned to prevent oscillation on the grating selected line.
The use of the invention is also advantageous when it is desired to provide for laser mode discrimination. As has been mentioned, prior art lasers generally rely totally on waveguide losses to achieve mode discrimination, a method that suffers at least from the disadvantage of a lack of control and predictability. The present invention, however, overcomes such disadvantages in providing mode discrimination by reducing the size of the aperture 28. Such a reduction in aperture 28 size introduces an energy loss into the overall system due to some portion of the energy being clipped from the fundamental mode, which results in the image at the entrance to the cavity 14 not exactly matching the waveguide mode distribution. However, for a given application some practical tradeoff between system loss and mode discrimination may be determined that results in the energy loss not being detrimental to overall system performance.
If the size of aperture 28 is reduced for mode discrimination purposes, then the magnification required for wavelength discrimination may also be reduced. Such a reduction in magnification may further result in grating 22 being placed nearer to aperture 28, it being remembered that the grating 22 is positioned at a distance if Mf from aperture 28. A reduction in overall system size and packaging requirements may thereby be obtained.
It should be realized that the use of the invention is not limited to use only with waveguide lasers but, instead, may be employed in non-waveguide laser applications. Similarly, the use of the invention may also be advantageously employed in non-laser optical systems wherein it is desired to provide radiation having a given wavelength without incurring a significant degree of coupling losses.
It is to be understood, therefore, that the above described embodiments of the invention are illustrative only, and that modifications thereof may occur to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, this invention is not to be regarded as limited to the embodiments disclosed herein, but is to be limited only as defined by the appended claims.
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Laverne and Shirley, Calvin and Hobbes, Bert and Ernie, Batman and Robin. These dynamic duos have entertained the masses at some time or another.
Right now, Cardinals fans are hoping that the next dynamic duo to take to the field in Arizona is Fitz and Palmer, meaning Larry Fitzgerald and Carson Palmer.
A quarterback-wide receiver duo that fans could truly get excited about has been missing from the Valley for a few years now, ever since Kurt Warner had the audacity (joking) to call it quits after a 12-year career when he retired in January of 2010.
Thursday after the final day of Organized Team Activities (OTAs), Palmer addressed their relationship, which is a work in progress.
"We better have a rapport going and good chemistry by now. We're through OTAs and we've been throwing all off season. We have a good rapport going but it's something that we could be playing together for fifteen years and it's never perfect, it's always something, it's always a work in progress," said the former first overall pick. "It's something that we're continuing to make better and better each day but we have a good start going into vet minicamp. It's a good kickoff to training camp, but we'll be ready to roll by then."
The number of receptions Fitzgerald has recorded has steadily dropped over the past few years. The six-time Pro Bowler had 97 catches four seasons ago. That number shrunk to 90 in 2010, 80 in 2011 and just 71 a year ago, so having a quarterback with some experience is important to him.
"He's just a veteran, veteran leadership. He's just like all of us, we're just trying to pick it up and learn all the nuances of this offense, it's intricate. We're working hard to get better," said the future Hall-of-Fame receiver. "Having the veteran presence in the huddle, in the meeting rooms has been fantastic for me and I know it's been great for the young guys. It's exciting."
They both know that much like the dynamic duos listed earlier, chemistry is something that doesn't come overnight. The veterans are spending plenty of time learning each other's habits and tendencies on the field in the film room.
"Just body language of routes. There's a lot of reading on the run in this offense and seeing the same things and being on the same page for the right depths of routes and breaking at the right depths," Palmer said. "It's never perfect and it's something we'll continue to get better and better at but I think he and I are both very comfortable with where we're at for right now."
What's obvious when talking to the two veterans is that they have a mutual respect and admiration for the other's abilities.
"He can throw the ball. There's not a throw he can't make. He's got great touch on intermediate passes," Fitzgerald said. "He can put zip on them, he can feather it in there, he's got a tremendous arm and then he's got the intelligence and experience to go out there and make the plays. We've seen him do it; he threw for 4,000 yards out in Oakland."
Palmer echoed Fitzgerald's compliments with some of his own.
"It's been awesome. I threw him a ball today that maybe he and maybe Megatron (Calvin Johnson) catch. He's maybe not one-of-a-kind but maybe one of two-of-a-kind and it's pretty comforting."
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