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Last week, we announced that over a dozen extra extensions were coming to Joomlashack, thanks to a merger with Alledia.com.
So, if you're a member of our Extensions Club, you will suddenly get 400% more value. Instead of 5 extensions, you'll have access to about 20.
Alledia's extensions include some of the most popular extensions in Joomla, such as OSMap, OSYouTube, Tabs and Sliders and more.
Today, we're can add one more to that list: JCal Pro.
JCal Pro is one of the most popular calendar and events components in Joomla. Initially, JCal Pro will move to Alledia. But, it will then move to Joomlashack during the merger.
We intend to make Joomlashack a one-stop destination for all your Joomla needs. We hope you'll agree that this another big step in that direction!
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We're going to merge Alledia.com into Joomlashack.com. If you're a member of our Extensions Club, you will suddenly get 400% more value. Instead of 5 extensions, you'll have access to about 20.
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Earlier this week, we published our roadmap for Joomlashack.
One of the key points on the roadmap was this:
"We're going to focus. During the last 11 years, Joomlashack has released over 100 templates. That's just too many to keep updated and supported. Over the next few weeks, we're going to retire some older templates, particular those that are only available for Joomla 1.5 or 2.5. All future releases will be for Joomla 3 only."
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About one month ago, we welcomed Joomlashack into our larger OSTraining team.
Since then we've been hard at work creating a roadmap for Joomlashack. Here are the 7 major items on our roadmap for the next few weeks:
- Joomlashack is releasing templates again! This week, we released Clementine. In the next couple of weeks, we'll release a new and responsive version of Vintage. We also have a 100% new design in progress. Stay tuned for major improvements to our selection of Joomla templates.
- Joomlashack extensions are getting updates again! All major bugs with Joomlashack extensions will be fixed very shortly.
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As you may know, Joomlashack University became powered by OSTraining in 2013. Since then, Eddie (the CEO of Joomlashack) and I have continued to collaborate on a number of ventures and companies.
Eddie, who has become an integral part of the OSTraining team, asked me to help him with Joomlashack. He wanted Joomlashack to move forward more quickly and with more resources.
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- Importing audio and video files
- Creating and using sync points
- Using snap editing commands
- Customizing crossfades
- Editing to acquire multiple sync points within the same cue
- Creating a 30-second condensed edit
- Exploring alternate edits and alternate songs
- Mixing and bouncing down the edit
- Compressing QuickTime movies
- Conforming an edit if the length of a shot changes or if a scene has shifted
Skill Level Intermediate
Another type of conform that we're going to look at is the type that can occur within a queue. So perhaps the movie is the same before your queue, but during your queue the shot has been shortened. What that means is that the end of your music queue, everything after that shot that has been shortened is no longer going to play in sync that way you initially intended it to. So what we're going to need to do in a case like that is re-edit the music to work with the new picture. So first, let's import our new picture file-- File > Import > Video--and we're going to select ELI_Clip 3.
You can click OK to remove the previous movie from the session, and click OK again and choose where you want to save the guide tracks that you're importing from the picture file. Now let's zoom all the way out again with Option+A or Alt+A. And before we move on, let's mute the old audio from the old clip since we don't need to hear that, and now let's spot the new picture into place. So let's go into Spot mode with F3, click, and enter the time code for the start of the video. And this time let's sync our audio to the video without using spot.
We've done this once before, but again, another way to do it is to use our snapping technique by Ctrl+Clicking the audio file, which will snap it to the start of our selected picture file. We're going to lock both of these. So I'm going to reselect the audio file we had selected last, and I'm going to zoom in real quick. And if you want, you can make the picture look like it did before, Ctrl+Command, or Ctrl+Start+Left Arrow to hide the thumbnails, and Ctrl+Down Arrow to shrink the size of the video track.
We can see that at the beginning of the video the audio on the new guide track from Clip 3 and the audio on the old guide track from Clip 1 are in sync up until at certain point, but then we can see that they're no longer in sync, because their waveforms no longer match. So let's take a quick look and see what's changed. First I am going to mute the music, so we can just hear the audio only. (clip playing) In this particular case, our conform has happened right here. We're going to scrub the video track by moving our cursor along the audio track until we find the very first frame where the edit happened, which is right here.
This shot of Eli running in the door is now shorter than it was, because in the original version the camera zoomed in to the nurse standing in the hallway, and now it cuts directly to Eli as he runs down the hall. What that means is we need to make our music now match the shorter version of the picture. Let's look at our music. The end, which we had synced up to Eli putting the broom through the door, will probably no longer sync like that. So let's see where it plays now. (music playing) And as we expected, that place in the music now plays later than the place in the timeline where Eli puts the broom through the door.
So what we need to do is conform the music somewhere near where the picture change was made, so that all of the music afterwards plays roughly as intended. Right around this break might be a good place for us to look. What we can do is start by shortening the break and see if we can make a musical edit in here that will allow us to keep our sync at the end of the queue. So I'm going to cut right on the transient, halfway through the break. I'm going to select the rest of my edit and cut it, and we'll try shortening the break by a bar.
(music playing) We'd be pasting the rest of the queue starting on this downbeat, but we want to make sure it lines up here. So let's have a listen to this. (music playing) So now we can see this displays much more closely to how it was initially intended to the original version of the picture, but we need to clean up our edit still.
So let's take a look at that again. (music playing) And this actually works pretty well, but there were some cool effects that we had in the middle of this break. So let's say if we can get some of those back in there. (music playing) Let's make sure we get everything in there very cleanly. It looks like this is slightly different, timing-wise. We're going to need to make sure that we get this edit in the right place.
So again, a quick way to move everything is to select from the cursor to the end by Shift+Clicking after and cut Option+ Tab and paste. Or another technique would be to use a region group, which is Command+Option+G or Ctrl+Alt+G, and then you can literally move the entire region group all at once and un-group it later with Command+Option+U, or Ctrl+Alt+U. So once we've copied the end of the edit earlier, we can place our cursor where we want to paste it, cut the tail off of that region with the S key, and paste it into place.
And now we can take a listen to this edit and make sure it plays properly. (music playing) And so we are doing a bit of a stutter, but in the electronic genre that actually works pretty well. If we wanted to smooth this out, we could perhaps do a longer crossfade across here with the F key and have a slightly smoother transition between the two sounds. (music playing) It sounds a little bit like a filter sweep. Or we could just do a very quick and abrupt edit, either of which I think worked perfectly fine for this.
So now that we've conformed one of our queues, the next thing would be to conform any other versions of those queues or any other queues that we had cut to the same picture. Feel free to do that on your own if you'd like, but we're not going to do that in this video. But if you can't get it to look exactly like it did, just trust your instincts and try and sync up the main points, or find new sync points that make it look good in a different way.

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We've all heard the question, "are you're comparing apples to apples?" The services of service-oriented businesses like web developers are difficult to compare exactly. It's not like comparing identical iPhones with identical features from two different stores. Service offerings are different. Service providers have different levels of expertise, education, creativity, social skills, technical skills, business aptitude, foresight. Even if you are comparing apples to apples…show me two apples, and I'll show you one bruised, small, mushy apple from Walmart and one big, shiny, round, crunchy apple from the local farmer's market. Sometimes we say, "please don't compare apples to oranges." The web design industry is filled with both apples and oranges of all shapes and sizes, and there is one common thread that goes through the entire lot of them…each one of them can put together a website. Beyond that commonality, their paths diverge. The services from Redhead Web Development are neither apples nor oranges. What we provide is more like a big bowl full of chocolate covered strawberries. We are professional web developers. We are artists. We are detailed, finicky, perfectionists when it comes to content and copy. We constantly study, we learn and refine the craft. We don't cut corners. We are e-commerce experts. We are marketing minds who freely share ideas beyond web design. Some of these ideas have earned thousands of $$ for our clients. Our skills are broad, and our minds are focused. We are in the business of building business. When you are considering […]
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Students in this course study the principles applied to health information management functions; health data development, staffing, operation, and project management; organization, and availability and analysis of health information for quality of care and regulatory compliance.
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Deconstructing Michigan's 2012 Red Zone
Pull up the NCAA official stats and Michigan's red zone efficiency looks great, ranking third with scores on 93% of trips. Brendan Gibbons had a lot to do with that as Michigan connected on 14 field goals in 46 trips. But as tends to happen in these situations, the truth is much more complicated the NCAA would have you believe.
After the concept of fumble luck, 3 <> 7 may be the second statistical pillar of MGoBlog. The NCAA's stat does not believe what we believe. Their rankings are based on a simple equation:
[Times scoring in the Red Zone]
[Trips to the Red Zone]
For the NCAA 3=7. An equally simple measure that has been strangely ignored is Points Per Trip (PPT). By that measure (and taking out meaningless second half trips and games against FCS teams), Michigan drops to 44th at 5.2 PPT in 36 qualifying trips.
Red zone Efficiency is a very easy stat to overreact to. The sample size is small and a couple of fluky plays can swing the ranking either way. When you expand the study beyond the end result of the trip and look at the 110 individual plays that comprised Michigan's 2012 red zone offense, there is at least a little more sturdy basis for evaluation, although the smaller the sample set, the more likely there is a large piece of luck involved in any outputs, whether positive or negative.
Second Down was not our Down, and Other Findings
To evaluate each play I looked at the touchdown percentage for drives at each possible possible down, distance and yardline from inside the 20. Every play either makes the offense more or less likely to score a touchdown on the drive. A first and goal from the 1 yard line results in a touchdown on the drive 91.4% of the time, therefore a touchdown is worth 8.6%. Second and goal from the 1 results in a touchdown 87.3% of the time so getting stopped on first down is worth –4.1%. Each play is evaluated based on its impact to Michigan's chances of scoring a touchdown on the drive. Even though the odds of a field goal dropped slightly as you move back within the 20, for this study I just wanted to focus on the effect on potential touchdowns.
Michigan ran 43 first down plays on their qualifying red zone trips last season and put themselves in a situation more likely to result in a touchdown on 47% of them. Even though their plays were slightly more likely to be negative than positive, the positive plays had a higher magnitude, resulting in a net positive of about 52%, or half of a touchdown.
Second down was where the problems started. Michigan ran 39 qualifying second down plays in the red zone and only 14 of them bettered their chances of reaching the end zone. Michigan finished at –221% on second down, a loss of over two touchdowns due to poor second down performance.
Michigan actually held up well on second down rushes, improving their odds on 12 of 23 second down rushes. The problems were centered around second down passing. After the Robinson to Gardner touchdown on the first 2nd down red zone pass of the season, Michigan went 0-9 with 2 sacks on the next 11 pass plays. Michigan quarterbacks locked into Devin Funchess and Jeremy Gallon in these ill-fated situations as the were targeted on 7 of the 9 incompletions. The incredibly surprising play action was not the only issue, only 2 plays were noted as play action in the UFR's and another 3 were listed as waggle or rollout, but one of those was the initial touchdown.
Where Michigan struggled on second down they excelled on third down. Michigan got a first down or touchdown on 16 of 28 third down plays and reversed their second down loss with a +324% change in their touchdown odds on third and fourth down. Michigan's binary down success was largely driven via the pass but the situation greatly changed when Devin Gardner came on for Denard Robinson. Denard was 1-5 with a sack on third down while Devin Gardner went 5-5 (all for first downs or touchdowns) with a sack. Where the second down plays were focused on two different players, Gardner third down passes were to 4 different players on the five completions.
Gardner's third down prowess continued on the ground with a +122% rating on five third down red zone carries. The lack of confidence in the traditional running game around the goal line was evident as only 4 of 13 red zone carries on third and fourth downs were taken by running backs. Toussaint and Vincent Smith both went 1/2 on their attempts.
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So Devin Gardner was pretty good in the red zone. Over all plays he was +432%, or over 4 touchdowns added over the course of the season. In fact, Gardner's success was probably unsustainably good. I don't have touchdown's added for all players, but if you look at pure points added in the red zone, Gardner's five game red zone average was the second best season ever to Tim Tebow's 2007 Heisman season. Gardner is really good in the red zone but it is going to be very tough to sustain this level for a full season, only one player ever has.
But what about the other Wolverines?
The only other Michigan player to finish with a positive number was Justice Hayes, by a hair. Hayes' singular red zone carry against South Carolina netted him a 2% increase. Among the other running backs, Thomas Rawls was –12%, Vincent Smith was –66% (although he was actually the most valuable receiver) and Fitzgerald Toussaint was –117%. All three were making positive plays less than 50% of the time.
Denard finished with a slightly negative red zone contribution for the season, with –39% but on a team low 39% positive ratio. As mimicked by his career, Denard showcased a lot of valuable game changing plays in the red zone, but struggled with consistency. In the end, his 2012 red zone negatives outweighed his positives.
On the receiving side, targets of Vincent Smith, Jeremy Gallon, Drew Dileo and Devin Funchess all finished on the positive side while Roy Roundtree was the sole receiving target to end with a negative rating with pair of 3rd and Goal targets from the 7 falling incomplete.
What It Could Mean for 2013
As noted above, red zone efficiency is fickle stat and can easily swing. With that said, based on small sample size splits, here are some pros and cons heading into the season.
- Keep taking care of the ball, no QB interceptions or RB fumbles in the red zone is a great streak to keep up
- Even with rocket-shoes Gallon and The Funchise, Michigan was at their best when spreading the ball around
- Devin Gardner will probably not be as good in the red zone as he was last year but his success was strong enough that it was more than just sample size
- Stay aggressive and hopefully the third down success can hold, but hopefully more trips can be resolved before then
- Fix second down passing, 1-10 with 2 sacks, was really ugly
- Need contributions from the running backs in the run game. Too many trips were dependent on Gardner/Robinson bailing the offense out.
The two biggest things that seem like more than just fluky outcomes of limited play counts are the success of Devin Gardner in the red zone in both running and passing and the failures passing the ball on 2nd down. Some of this is due to the incredibly surprising play action, 5 of the 12 UFR'd plays where listed as PA, rollout or waggle, but the other six plays weren't any better.
At this point I have no clue how to keep my expectations for Devin Gardner on earth. There are lots of sample size issues with only five games under his belt but those were five pretty spectacular five games from him and he was at his best in the highest leverage situations. I don't think he can do it for a whole season and hopefully the defense and running game mean he doesn't have to, but man, that guy made a lot of plays last year.
A New Way of Looking at Down and Distance Success
While everyone is busy breaking down the scrimmage film with a Jim Garrison-like passion, I thought I would sneak a little preseason preview of some concepts I have been thinking about for how to measure success on a down by down basis. If you want to avoid the nerdy details, skip down for some pretty charts.
Looking at down by down success is a tricky thing and right now there are only limited tools for how to evaluate how an offense is utilizing its most precious resource. The only mainstream tool is third down conversion percentage. This tool's simplicity is both its weakness and a hidden strength.
Third down conversion rate does not take into consideration how hard your third downs are to convert. Two teams could have identical conversion percentages but if one team has a lot of third and shorts and the other doesn't the team that doesn't is accomplishing a much tougher job than the first team. That absence of context is also the hidden strength. Third down percentage isn't a great predictor of how good your team performs on third down as much as it is an all-encompassing look at how good your team is at getting to manageable third downs and then converting them.
The newer stat that looks at all downs is the Success Rate metric, one I have been on record as not being a huge fan of. Success Rate is a more nuanced look at each down and assigns them a binary pass fail grade depending on whether they meet certain threshold criteria. A binary makes some sense on third down and more sense over the collection of downs, but there is too much opportunity for other value to come and go for the binary to be of major use.
A third way is an expected value (EV). How much value is each team adding or subtracting on given downs. This is a literal value look at ranking teams by what they are accomplishing on a given downs. I have traditionally used this metric but again, it lacks the detail of what is really going on behind the numbers. An EV look tends to lend a lot of value to big play teams and punish consistent gainers. There is evidence to support the rankings coming out that way, but again, I don't think the numbers tell a good football story in one dimension.
The Early Downs Breakthrough
As I began digging into this I pulled all kinds of numbers looking at each of the three downs separately before it dawned on me, first and second down are really a package deal. They are the offense's opportunity to either do something big or maximize their chances of a third down conversion, first and second downs and typically on the offense's terms. You can only create big plays so often and even being good at getting in great third downs all the time still means you are having a lot of plays with a chance for the defense to get off of the field. 3rd and 1's are converted 72% of the time by the offense, so if you get in three of those situations the odds are nearly two to one that you get stuffed on one of them. Being good at avoiding third downs is a better skill for an offense than getting in manageable ones (although both are obviously preferred).
So to that end, I put together three key metrics for an offense for 1st and 2nd downs:
Early Conversion %: Percent of first downs that are created prior to third down. An average team will convert at about 50% with the best offenses closing in on 60%, like the 2011 Oregon offense.
Bonus Yards: This is a big play metric. For the plays that create a conversion, how many yards beyond the sticks does the average play go. Average teams are around 6.5. Mike Leach's 2005 Texas Tech team was one of the best ever at 9 yards beyond the stick.
Average 3rd Down Distance: The first two metrics are about the successes, historically, most football coaches are more about minimizing the negative. This metric is for them. For the 50% of the time that the average team faces a third down, how many yards are they typically facing. The average team still has 6.5 yards to go on an average third down. Last year's Air Force team that Michigan faced was the best of the last 10 years with an average distance faced of 4.0 yards for the season.
Third Down
Now that early downs have hopefully been understood a little better, it's time to look at third down and focus on a true measure of the down itself. One option that's sometimes used is to break down the conversion rates into yardage buckets representing short yardage, medium, etc. This isn't the worst way to go about it, but still isn't great. Unless its over a large portion of time, sample size problems are likely and you still potentially have problems, although much smaller now, of where do the actuals trials fall into the buckets. Too many buckets and the splits become hard differentiate, too few and there is little continuity to what you are measuring.
To try and solve these issues, here is my suggested stat:
Adjusted 3rd Down Conversion Percentage: Each third down distance has an average conversion rate that looks like this:
1 yard to go converts at 72%, 10 yards to go at 28%. If an offense converts a third and 1, they get +28% for that play. Fail and it's –72%. Average up all the third downs for a period and you are left with a single number to reflect how a team has done on third downs, that isn't weighted by being better at first and second down. The other nice thing is that it is naturally anchored to zero. An average team is at +0%. 2011 Wisconsin with Russell Wilson and Montee Ball was the best Big Ten third down team at +16%. 2011 Alabama was the best third down defense at –15%.
2012 Results
Taking all the above analysis, I pulled the results for last season and put them together in a fancy new Tableau table (click to control the view [ed-S: we know; we're working on the links]).
2012 Offense
Circle size represents average third down distance
So, Michigan was pretty good on a down by down basis, last year. Only Clemson and A&M where better at third downs when accounting for yards to go. Michigan was also one of the best teams at avoiding third downs altogether, converting on first or second down about 54% of the time.
The other big take away from this is that there are a lot of Big Ten teams at the left hand side of the chart. It's a bit hard to tell from this view, but Big Ten teams are some of the best at managing third down distance but some of the worst at everything else. Fully half of the teams in the conference are in the lower left quadrant of teams that are bad at both. An offense whose goal is to get into manageable 3rd downs is an offense that is set up to fail.
2012 Defense
Michigan lands pretty average across the Big Five conference landscape in both early downs and third downs on the defensive side. The strength of Michigan State's defense really shows up here, as they only allowed teams to convert before 3rd down about 2 out of 5 times.
I am trying to put together a package of weekly reports and rankings that I can publish online. If anyone has any thoughts as to what you want to see that aren't otherwise available, I am open for suggestions.
I think these charts do a good job of reflecting what's happening on a down by down basis. What they don't show are the impact of big plays and high leverage plays like turnovers and red zone plays.
Predicting the 2013 Offensive Line Output
1 Future 1st round round draft pick
+2 Freshman starters
This year's Michigan offensive line is a somewhat unusual combination. The entire interior of the line has graduated, none of whom where drafted. Left tackle Taylor Lewan passed up a chance to be a top 10 draft pick for one more year of Michigan football. The line's second best player is also back in right tackle Michael Schofield.
What Michigan loses in experience it replaces with recruiting profile. Based on early camp reports, Kyle Kalis appears to have locked down his starting spot and comes in with the highest ever recruiting profile for a Michigan offensive lineman. Projected to join him are fellow redshirt freshman Ben Braden at guard and either Jack Miller or Graham Glasgow at center.
Since the end of the RichRod era produced a two year window where only two scholarship linemen remain, I wanted to see if there were any other programs with the dichotomy of two or three older starters, one of which would be a first round draft choice the following year and two starters that have barely been on campus for a full year. There were three teams over the last four seasons that fit the mold:
2010 Alabama
The Taylor Lewan: LT James Carpenter, 2011 1st round pick
The Michael Schofield: C William Vlachos, 2.5 year starter
The Kalis/Bradens: RT DJ Fluker, 2013 1st round pick was a highly touted redshirt freshman
LG Chance Warmack, 2013 1st round pick, true sophomore
The Glasgow/Miller: RG Barrett Jones, 2013 4th round pick was a 2nd year starter and redshirt sophomore
Biggest differences: In comparison to Michigan's new three, Alabama had Barrett Jones who was a returning starter and had a top 200 recruiting profile, significantly higher than whoever wins the center job for Michigan
Key Stats*
Yards/Carry: 5.6, 11th among BCS schools
Sack Rate: 9.3%, 113th in FBS
The 2010 Alabama team was just coming off of a National Championship and a Heisman trophy for Mark Ingram in the prior year. The team was Alabama's only team of the last four years to not win the national championship. They were loaded at running back with the defending Heisman trophy winner Mark Ingram backed up by future first rounder Trent Richardson and future second rounder Eddie Lacy. It's hard to have a much better projected future than this team did, even if 2010 was the "bad" year. The yards/carry was outstanding but the sack rate jumped out as a surprisingly awful stat.
*Yards/Carry is without sacks, only competitive plays (1st half or within 14 in the second half) and against FBS competition
Sack rate is [sacks allowed ]/[sacks + pass attempts] under the same game conditions as yards/carry
2011 Stanford
The Taylor Lewan: RG David DeCastro, 2012 1st round pick
The Michael Schofield: LT Jonathan Martin, 2012 2nd round pick, third year starter
The Kalis/Bradens: LG David Yankey, redshirt freshman
RT Cameron Fleming, redshirt freshmen
The Glasgow/Miller: C Sam Schwartzstein, redshirt junior and 1st year starter
Biggest differences: The ages and experience of Stanford group match up almost exactly to Michigan's this year. They lacked an elite recruit like Kalis among the new starters but did have Andrew Luck running the show behind them.
Key Stats
Yards/Carry: 5.8, 4th among BCS schools
Sack Rate: 3.1%, 7th among BCS schools
The 2011 Cardinal team went 11-1 in the regular season and finished the year #4 in the AP Poll after a loss in a classic bowl showdown with Oklahoma State in David Shaw's first season as coach after taking over for Jim Harbaugh. If any program personifies what Michigan is aiming for it is Stanford. Tough, power rushing game with a deadly quarterback passing to tight ends, a season like this one might still be a year away for Michigan but the style is exactly where Michigan wants to be this season.
2012 Oregon
The Taylor Lewan: LG Kyle Long, 2013 1st round pick
The Michael Schofield: C Hroniss Grasu
The Kalis/Bradens: LT Tyler Johnstone
RT Jake Fisher, former Michigan commit
The Glasgow/Miller: G Ryan Clanton
Biggest differences: Last season's Oregon offensive line was a bit younger than even Michigan's this year and Kyle Long took a very different path through football than Taylor Lewan. The Oregon newcomers last season had a significantly lower recruiting profile than the three new Michigan starters. In terms of system Michigan and Oregon will obviously be very different in terms of what they are trying to do when they have the ball in both plays and tempo.
Key Stats
Yards/Carry: 6.9, 1st in FBS
Sack Rate: 4.2%, 37th in BCS
This is the weakest among the three connections if only because the offensive systems between Michigan and Oregon are so different. You can't argue with the results, though. At nearly 7 yards per rush Oregon spent last season running past opponents yet again and finished with another top 5 ranking.
2013 Michigan
So I think most Michigan fans would take any of those three offensive seasons. The head to head examples are all quite positive but I think the biggest concern from those comparisons is that Michigan's 2012 yards/carry was much worse than any of the comparison teams' prior years were. For all three of the similar teams, the prior season had been outstanding and the examined season was very good but a small step backward. Michigan is coming from the opposite direction.
Stanford and Alabama are certainly two programs who look a lot like Hoke's vision for Michigan both in terms of style and outcomes. History says that in general this roster is still another year away, but based on three teams with offensive lines similar to Michigan, the true unveiling of the Borges offense could come this year.
The Value of a Well-Aged Quarterback
Previously I looked at true freshmen quarterbacks to see how thankful we should be thank Devin Gardner has taken the reins and Shane Morris has a year or two to learn the ropes.
For the True Freshman evaluation I looked at how the quarterback himself fared. To look at how a team's offense fared I pulled team offensive performance and grouped them by quarterback starts going into the season and quarterback age. For example, last year all quarterbacks from the class of 2011 were grouped together if they redshirted in 2011 or saw spot playing time. If they started as true freshmen they were considered second year starters.
As noted in the prior article, starting true freshmen quarterbacks is not a formula for winning games. Teams with them at the helm operated 3.9 point per game below an average team. For reference, last year's Michigan State offense was about 5 points below average.
With even one year of seasoning on the bench, that number moves even higher. The NCAA didn't start publishing official starters by game until 2009 that I can find so this data only represents the last two seasons. There are some small sample sizes in play here but at the same time, the trends are logical and pass a smell test.
Players in their second year have performed better after going through growing pains on the field in year 1, but players from the prior years class tend to have better debuts as second year players as opposed to true freshmen.
For players in their third year, there isn't much progression for the guys who have been starting from day 1, but the second year starters show a big leap from 2 points below average to over a point above. At this point the value from the extra starting experience has disappeared and the players with a combination of on and off the field time have passed the most experienced group. Their classmates who have sat for two years fare about as well as the second year starters.
By the time players are in their fourth and fifth year in the program, everyone with some starting experience performers at a similar level near 2 points above average. What is interesting is that the one group who is a strong outlier are the guys who have hands full of splinters from all the clipboard handling. Guys who have sat for their first three years on campus typically aren't worth the wait. Their debuts are typically on par with a player much younger. As with all of these categories there are exceptions all over the place but a guy waiting his turn this long is more often a guy who couldn't win the job than a guy who was just waiting behind a better option. There are a lot more Joe Bausermans than Tyler Wilsons.
If you flip the chart the more obvious conclusions show up in that the older a quarterback is the better he does. This shows up as consistent across all seasons of starting with the glaring exception of third year players becoming starters for the first time. With 2 or 3 years of eligibility left this looks like the quarterback sweet spot. You have probably given the quarterback a redshirt year to preserve 3 years of starting time. Two years without starting provides the opportunity to learn without getting too stagnant. This window also opens the door up for highly touted recruits to see the field with plenty of time shine without taking too many rough outings to get there.
It should be noted that these are all averages and there are many variances and exceptions to each situation. Just because you are choosing between a true freshmen and a third year player for your starting quarterback doesn't mean that the third year guy is the best choice. This is just meant to be a high level look at the general progression of quarterback. With that said, getting Shane Morris two years (unless DG blows up and goes pro) or prep could be a big benefit to keeping the offense moving forward through a changing of the guard at quarterback.
A Brief History of True Freshman Quarterbacks
Matt Barkley, Giant Jimmy Clausen and Shane Morris
Up until late last season, most Michigan fans were preparing for the possibility of starting this season in the hands of a true freshman quarterback. Prior to last season's Nebraska game, this season was shaping up to feature a quality quarterback competition. Devin Gardner was the former five star dual threat quarterback. He had looked shaky in his brief appearances and during the Spring Game. At the time, some were wondering if his current stop over at wide receiver could be a more permanent move. Russell Bellomy was the last minute addition to Michigan's first recruiting class under Brady Hoke. His physical tools were limited but he had put up a solid showing in the previous spring. Bellomy and Gardner were still largely unknowns as college quarterbacks at the time, but what was known didn't lead many to think there was a strong option on campus. For many, the hope for the 2013 quarterback position rested in five star commitment Shane Morris.
Everything changed at the Nebraska game. Denard Robinson was injured and with Devin Gardner largely at wide receiver, Russell Bellomy got his shot. Bellomy struggled mightily, Gardner was permanently moved back to quarterback and produced a fantastic closing stretch. Meanwhile, high school senior Shane Morris came down with a case of mono and saw his stock slide back with a limited senior year.
Now the picture is much clearer. Devin Gardner has locked down the starting spot, Russell Bellomy tore his ACL, and Shane Morris likely will miss out on a redshirt season, but will be able to spend some time learning from the sideline before being thrown into live action. MCalibur did a great job looking at what Devin's season could look like. But what would the world look like if Shane Morris was in a position to take over just months after his Senior Prom.*
*This fulfills my professional obligation to reference Senior Prom in any article about true freshmen.
The Short History of Success
The answers aren't pretty so there isn't any point in sugar coating. I looked at true freshmen quarterbacks since the 2003 season that played at least 10 games and averaged at least 20 plays (passes+rushes). During that time only eight qualifying quarterbacks have had a positive PAN (Points Above Normal, Opponent Adjusted). Only three have been greater than +1. For reference, last year there were 58 quarterbacks who had positive PAN with at 20 plays per game. There obviously aren't a ton of true freshman playing most of the snaps in a given year, but eight players in eleven seasons to be above average is a tiny number.
Four of the eight were from BCS programs and of those Robert Griffin, Tyrod Taylor and Terrelle Pryor all had a rushing portion of their game that really helped them. That leaves one pro style true freshman BCS quarterback in the last 11 seasons who had a positive PAN. That player was Matt Barkley in 2009. It should also be noted that the 2009 USC offense was the most highly ranked offensive unit in terms of recruiting profile in the internet era of recruiting. And it's not that close. Surrounded by all of that talent a true freshman Matt Barkley had a PAN of +1.1. For a 2012 comparison, +1.1 is right between David Ash of Texas and Tevin Washington of Georgia Tech. Over 11 years, that is the best case scenario for a player in Shane Morris' situation. And although the pipeline is beginning to fill up, the 2012 Michigan offense probably isn't quite as loaded as Barkley had in 2009.
If you include the dual threat quarterbacks, the best BCS season was Terrelle Pryor's first
professional season at +2.7. At nearly 3 points above average per game, Pryor's value moved him into Top 30 range, along the lines of Matt McGloin at Penn State last season. Here is the full list of eight who managed positive territory.
|Jeffrey Godfrey
|Terrelle Pryor
|Ohio St
|Matt Barkley
|Kevin Kolb
|Robert Griffin
|Tyrod Taylor
|Virginia Tech
|Nate Davis
|Ball St
|Spencer Keith
|Kent St
The Long History of Failure
With only eight players passing the average mark, that leaves the rest to fall below. The average season for all other true freshmen quarterbacks was nearly –3. The worst was Jimmy Clausen's 2007 season at –8. The average performance is on par with Zach Mettenberger's performance at LSU and if you watched a good LSU team at all last year, you knew none of their success was due to him. Clausen's awful 2007 would have barely edged out Sean Schroeder of Hawaii to escape being the worst quarterback performance of the season.
The lack of success of true freshman isn't necessarily indicative of future failure. Even Jimmy Clausen made an All-American list and got drafted in the second round. Teddy Bridgewater, Braxton Miller, Chad Henne, Matthew Stafford, Brady Quinn and Josh Freeman all turned below average true freshmen seasons into great college careers and/or high draft selections.
What it Means for Michigan
Thank goodness for Devin Gardner's breakout performances. No matter how good a true freshmen quarterback is and how good their supporting cast is, the first season they are going to be a limiting reagent for the offense. In the coming weeks I am hoping to get a look at quarterback career progression to see if there is any sort of an optimal career path where some experience can avoid some of the struggles noted above but still provide the opportunity to get elite talent like Shane Morris on the field as much as possible. Chances are Michigan's current quarterback timeline should fit nicely into a high value historical path. A year or two to develop behind Devin Gardner combined with Morris' strong recruiting profile mean that he should be in an excellent position to succeed when his time has come. Luckily for us, that doesn't have to be this year.
Recruiting Mid-Way Point, By The Numbers
Dr. Hamlet III, consensus 6 star recruit
For the 2013 signees, the average Michigan commitment occurred on April 16th. The only other years a program has bested that average was in the heyday of the Texas Junior Days. This year has been a bit slower than last but that was almost certain to happen. In fact, prior to last season, Michigan's previous earliest average commitment was for the 2012 class when the median decision date was in mid-July.
Jabrill Peppers' commitment brought the 2014 class up to ten commitments (excluding Brady Pallante from the 2014 numbers). Barring an unlikely wave of Rodriguez level attrition the 2014 class should be over half way to an 18-19 member class.
The Seasons of Recruiting
Over the last five years, here is how the top ~500 recruits for the class have committed by commitment month:
The recruiting cycle typically begins slowly in March, sees a bump in April (Spring Game commitments?) before dropping back in May. The start of the summer sees another increase as players are typically between school and fall camp. The activity really dies down through the heart of football season before ramping up over the final three months of the cycle. The median Top 500 recruit typically commits sometime in August.
Michigan is clearly still ahead of this cycle for the 2014 class, even if they are behind last season's breakneck pace.
Class Comparison
Comparing 10 commitments mid-cycle isn't a truly valid comparison but just to see how this class has compared to Hoke's other classes I did it anyway.
A consensus top 10(ish) and a consensus top 100 sure help out the curve. The top end of the 2014 Michigan recruiting class has already been established as the best during Hoke's tenure in Ann Arbor. The rest of the group is a bit behind the last two years but that is mostly due to comparing a whole 10 member class to date versus the top 10 from prior seasons. The fact that the comparison holds up as well as it does speaks to the start the coaching staff have had to this cycle.
So where does this project out to? I projected an 18 player class with the following players adding their names to Project135.
Da'Shawn Hand
Malik McDowell
Parrker Westphal
Unknown Top 150 Defensive Back
Unknown Top 150 Wide Receiver
Unknown Top 500 Offensive Lineman
Unknown Top 500 Running Back
Unknown Top 500 Linebacker Chase Winovich
Wide receiver and defensive back both have several strong options still on the board and a top level rating was assumed. For linemen, linebacker and running back the options are bit less clear and I projected more of a 3/4 star borderline type of player. Westphal and McDowell are both consensus Michigan leans and Da'Shawn Hand is strong possibility and why not!
The top end of this potential class is a clear step above the 2013 class and equal in the middle. The drop at the tail end is a combination of small class effect and some conservative estimates on the remaining unfilled positions in the class. Continuing with the annual "Everything in the Offseason is a Positive Thing" theme, a minor lag in the tail end of the class isn't a bad thing. To me it can be an indication that the staff is actually evaluating talent and looking for players they want as opposed to opening up the 247 composite rankings and offering down the list.
Top Class Potential
Not to be the burster of bubbles but it ain't happening. This class will be too small to have a shot at the overall title. Over the last twelve cycles Rivals has only had 10 classes ranked in their Top 10 with fewer than 20 commitments. Only 2007 (2nd) and 2009 (4th) USC have managed to crack the top 5. To have any shot attrition will have to force the class size into the 20s and even then it will probably take 22-23 to make it happen.
Is this a negative thing? Not really. You sign the best players you can with the scholarships
taken from scrubs you have. When you look at the projected curve above, Michigan has a good chance to pull a better top 18 rated players this year than last. Rivals rated those 27 recruits #5 in the nation and this year's might struggle to beat that rating with 18 players that are considerably better than the top 18 from last year's #5 class. Michigan won't win the top class ranking but that doesn't mean they might not have the best class come February.


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Hi I'm Ceri. I'm twenty one years old and have just become a University graduate.
Writing has always been a passion of mine. I have written many stories in my short years, but never actually finished one. This was my main aim in joining Wattpad - and I'm pleased to say I succeeded! 'Ignite' was my first complete novel - and there is another sequel as a part of the 'Mutant Academy' series planned.
I am, however, now working 7 days a week in the demanding theatre industry, and my mind is being torn away from thoughts of a super school for mutants. My love for writing is still strong though, and I am trying to find time to write on my commute from the countryside to the city, and back again.
In the meantime - I absolutely love to hear from you all so please get in touch with any thoughts or inspiration, for 'Ignite' and the Mutant Academy series, or just writing in general!
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How to Write Fast
Don't believe anybody who tells you it's easy to write fast.
It's not.
They may mean it's easy to write fast when your editor stands up in his cubicle on the other side of the newsroom and glares at you because it's after 5 p.m. and your story was supposed to be filed before 4:30.
Or it's easy to write fast when you have to be out of the newsroom by 5:25 so you can hit the freeway before traffic backs up and leaves you no chance of making it to the day care provider's house by 6 when she starts charging overtime by the minute.
In other words, it's easy to write fast under intense pressure.
Most freelance writers don't face that kind of pressure. It's probably why we stopped working in newsrooms in the first place. We don't have daily deadlines and we're not bound to getting things done during normal office hours because most of us work from home. Our pressure is self imposed. We take assignments – probably too many because who can say no to work when it means extra income – and then it's up to us to figure out how to get it done on time.
So freelancers have to device other ways to meet deadlines.
This comes up a lot in freelance circles. Writers have some pretty creative solutions for pushing themselves to finish work on time. Some set a timer. Others use the carrot method and promise themselves a reward when they finish – a cookie, glass of wine or long soak in the tub. Sue Poremba, a freelance writer and editor in State College, Penn., meets electronically with a freelance writer friend once a day to freewrite for 30 minutes as a way of forcing themselves to work on tasks they've been putting off. David Fryxell, author of Write Faster, Write Better, (Writer's Digest Books, 2004), is a big beliver in outlines for articles, even short ones. J.A. Konrath, author of the Lt. Jaqueline "Jack" Daniels thriller series, advocates getting words on the page no matter how bad you think they are.
I've come up with a few tricks of my own:
Work when you're on – I work best early in the morning, so when I'm on deadline I get up early and write. For me, a solid hour at 5 a.m. is as productive as two or three draggy hours in the afternoon.
Unplug – Turn off email. Close the browser. Log off the message boards. Do whatever it takes to eliminate distractions. This is especially hard for me because I often fact check information on Websites as I write and checking one site can lead to checking MyYahoo, my blog stats, my favorite bloggers. Just pull the plug.
Don't let yourself be disturbed – When I worked in a newsroom, I put a sign on top of my PC monitor to keep people from bugging me on deadline. Other writers used headphones to listen to music. Now I work in my den and if other people are around I just close the doors.
Be prepared – It's easy to start writing a story if you've finished all the research and reporting, reviewed your notes and made an outline – written or mental – of what you want to say. By that point the words are practically oozing out of me. But cut corners on the basics and the words just won't come. It's your brain's way of telling you that you've still got work to do.
Got your own secrets for writing fast?
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No other ideas at the moment, but I'm a big fan, too, of just getting it on the page.
And I find the newsroom example with someone standing over you while you write horrifying. I'd never be able to write like that…fast or slow. I'm a wave-the-person-away kind of writer. Stand beside me, behind me, or in front of me to get my attention while I'm trying to concentrate at the keyboard, and I might just have to ask you to leave.
Thanks for the tips, though. I like your blog.
Jackie Dishner
I completely agree with using your optimal time of day to advantage. As a mom, I find that even more important than I did early on. I know that on any given day, my most productive hours will be early morning, before Little Person needs take center stage. I work much later too, but my most efficient work almost always happens before 8am.
But other than that…the whole idea of writing fast is absolutely foreign to me. If I'm under a short deadline, it usually means I will be working through dinner or into the night, not that I will somehow be inspired to put the pedal down. I work at one rate, the one that gets the job done right. I admit it. I've yet to shorten my work time and still achieve quality results.
I have to agree with Jackie. That newsroom example is a horror show. I could never work under those conditions–at least, not without chronic hair loss.
I can write fast, but it's a skill I've honed over the years and it depends both on what type of writing I'm doing and what I'm willing to sacrifice for the speed.
For clients, I always rely on the old axiom:
I can can do good, I can do fast, and I can do cheap. But you can only have two of those at a time.
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Ok this is going to sound just so wrong. What about drugs? In particular, nicotine? I have discovered that some very prolific writers, Mark Twain and Churchill to name two, could only write while smoking. Do a lot of writers smoke, chew, do the patch?
I found your post just now through your comment at Problogger. Thanks for the article. I'm a horribly slow writer. I'm just about to start writing a new post though… so I'll try out some of your tips.
Here we go…
Marshall Jones, Jr.
I found this post from the comment you left at problogger.net.
His article was great, but there are some good tips here too.
I too found the post from the Problogger comment…see it does work…and enjoyed both posts. But they also raised a question for me, or maybe it's more of a plea to fellow writers since, as a freelancer, this is an income question for me.
I hear people talking all the time about writing articles in 10-15 minutes; 500+ words rolling off the fingertips with no effort and all that. I think it gives the buying public a very wrong idea of what's involved in quality writing. I think we can all agree also that that sort of talk has contributed to the idea that a 500 word blog post is only worth $5, or $15 as an eZine article if you post it for them.
Yesterday I wrote four longer pieces for Squidoo, hubpages, etc. Each was around 1,000 words and each still took me over an hour. The key to the speed was the fact that I knew my subject cold. The day before I was able to do half as well because the keywords and subject I was working with then was not one I knew. Today, I have four pieces to do and can honestly only think of two unique topics. It's going to be a long day.
I think we need to be much more open about the amount of time it takes to research and plan that 500 word article. How long do you spend finding pictures to use, or fact check after you write as well. Do you allow time for one or two reread/rewrites.
There is a difference between the stream of consciousness style of writing that is a blog post on a well worn subject…or a ranting comment like this one…and an article or post that imparts hard information for which we expect to be paid.
As writers, would you agree we need to make this difference more clear to our clients? Wouldn't it make sense to start that by talking among ourselves that way as well?
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When I was working on my BA, I find that there were period of time when I worked at my best- I was efficient unlike any other time. I understand what you mean by finding your zones or moments when you're at your best. Second, you're right on about unplugging- I like to say disconnect, turn of the internet, TV, Twitter and so on.
Focus at the task at hand, I use a timer to boost my productivity.🙂 Thanks for sharing!
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I have just watched this film. It's black and white, of course. The one with William Holden in it, though I don't think there are any other versions of Sunset Boulevard. I must say how it creeped me out. The house does indeed look like the house from Great Expectations, and Norma Desmond looks like a living spectre! It's something about her eyes, the way they widen crazily. And the butler is so stiff and mechanical it's sometimes hard to believe he's a human being.
The whole thing was quite menacing, though, and I couldn't sleep after I watched it in the dark, too. Strangely enough, my friend, who was watching with me, didn't seem frightened by it at all. How could she not be?