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"He was on the other side of the court, screaming: 'Good shot, Kev!'" Durant said, shaking his head in delight. "I'm thinking, this guy's an All-American type of teammate right there."
lloyd carr
The Story 2013: All Together Now
Previously: The Story 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008. Preview 2012.
Also Previously: Podcast 5.0.
I had this thing I was always going to write about Denard, and I said I'd put it in Hail To The Victors, and Seth really, really wanted it because we really, really had to send everything to the printer, and I sat in front of my keyboard and could not do it. As you're about to find out this week, putting words into a computer is something I do quite frequently. My problem is usually keeping those words relatively concise. This time I sat there, and the thing I'd had in my head for years sat there too.
We stared at each other. Nobody moved.
This is a program that has been in flux for nearly a decade now. The first indication was Jim Herrmann's one-year experiment with the 3-4 in 2004. Like everything in the Late Herrmann period, it worked just enough to make you crazy when it didn't. A year later, Michigan was running a 4-3 again, had a 9-point lead against Ohio State with 7:49 on the clock, and blew it.
Herrmann was given the NFL position coach gold watch, and because any motion towards the future must be paired with an equal and opposite motion towards the past a year later Mike DeBord was re-installed as the offensive coordinator. He completely overhauled the offense, dumping pulling linemen for a zone-stretch running game. Two years later, Rodriguez came in, overhauling everything except David Molk. Three years later, Hoke came in, overhauling everything except David Molk.
All along, the panic grew. Michigan started casting about for anyone they thought could help, whether it was mentally unbalanced defensive linemen or guys with no offers who showed at camp or defensive backs who hadn't ever played a varsity game. Or Mike DeBord. The decisions being made became increasingly unmoored from reality in the late aughts. Something named Appalachian State beat Michigan. At some point Greg Robinson was hired.
Here is a Hieronymus Bosch painting, because nothing else can represent the thought process that ended with that decision.
Chaos descended on Michigan gradually, until a bird-man and spiky monkey and plague dude and bird-hippo-thing murdered it and its magnificent beard. You can assign the various actors their roles based on your preferences, except the plague guy has to be GERG.
This is still a team in flux. Rodriguez got axed just in time for Michigan to complete its transition to spread personnel, echoes of which are still on the team today: a right tackle who was high school hurdler, a #1 receiver standing 5'8", a quarterback who's probably going to jet for 60 yards at some point this year. There are two (two!) upperclass offensive linemen.
This will be the first time since 2003 that anyone at Michigan has entered his third year—let alone fourth—in the same defense, under the same coordinator. Even as the defense settles in, the offense prepares for a drastic change in its nature. The Hoke recruiting classes are just blooding themselves in the two deep; the disastrous 2010 recruiting class looms in holes across the roster.
But for the first time in a long, long time, you can see the trajectory. No one's clamoring for the defensive coordinator's head; no one's looming over the shoulder of the offensive coordinator, ready to pull the plug on anything that looks remotely dangerous. For the next half-dozen years, Michigan is going to be an aggressive 4-3 under defense paired with an offense of titanic humans who will make safeties choose between pounding on the ground and long-range aerial bombardment. The coaches will be the coaches with the exception of a position coach or two who will probably be replaced by a Michigan legend.
On fourth down, they're going.
Deadlines are deadlines, so I wrote the thing eventually. It wasn't what I wanted. It was supposed to have turrets and buttresses and run a 4.1 40. Instead it was… okay. It's not the worst thing I've written. None of that mattered. Time was up. It was done.
In the aftermath a peculiar feeling descended on me. If I spoke German, I would crush together several contradictory words into a multi-syllabic monstrosity that would not quite entirely fail to communicate it. It was over, and that was terrible. It was over, and that was necessary. I wanted to go back, and wanted to go forward.
The thing that was keeping Michigan between states of being had dreadlocks and could outrun a photon. Denard could not do the things Al Borges wanted him to do, and Al Borges could not figure out other things to ask. And yet there he was, so we kept banging that square peg against the round hole. To do otherwise was incomprehensible.
Regrets, I've got 'em. Everyone's got 'em. But there's no going back. Finally, it's in the past. Finally, everyone can focus their efforts on refining what is there instead of throwing it all away and starting over, and then throwing it away next year and starting over again.
This is Michigan, a guy said once. What does that mean? Now we find out.
Unverified Voracity Signs That Apparatus
Important. Notre Dame is good at football.
"Sign that apparatus up to play football," says Football Coach. "Okay," says assistant football coach. "Now I am a player," says apparatus.
There is no waiting list. Michigan has finally burned out the fanbase to the point that you can get tickets just by ponying up the five hundred bucks it takes to get on the "interest list":
Michigan officials say that everyone on "interest list" who paid $500 got season tickets. No pay, not on list.
And that's a year with Ohio State, Nebraska, and a Notre Dame night game on the schedule! I wonder what will happen next year, when 1) the schedule sucks and 2) it starts off with a slap in the face I don't even want to go to.
Meanwhile, ugh:
"This game is as hot, if not hotter, than two years ago," Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon told The Detroit News. "There's enormous demand. Hopefully, that's because the fans who saw the first night game want to come back for more, and also because it's the last Michigan-Notre Dame game at Michigan Stadium for a long, long time makes it really special."
Congrats on your short-term achievement.
At least they're willing to show penalties and such now?
CTK. Schofield's up. Do not stand between him and ham:
Countdown to Kickoff 2013: Day 16 - Mike Schofield by mgovideo
Forgotten man? What? He's a three-year starter!
There is also Courtney Avery, who plans on going to law school. No mention of the safety move that he's apparently flirting with right now, which is no surprise. The "no mention" thing, not the hypothetical safety move. I chalk that up to experimentation, FWIW.
Here is a long thing. Here's the 1992 Michigan-Notre Dame game, all of it:
Should I not spoil it? Is that an insane thing to do for a 21-year-old game? I guess I'm not going to say anything about the outcome. (Except it involves a berserk alpaca and ten tons of rubber cement.)
There is also the 1972 Ohio State game in four parts. Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and uh… Still Processing.
Fourth And Long. We'll have a Michigan-relevant excerpt from the book on the site on the 23rd that will be of local interest, but the most compelling parts of Fourth And Long—John Bacon's new book—are easily the Penn State stuff:
Privately, the staff joked that the less the 84-year-old Paterno got involved, the better things usually went. When Paterno did weigh in, he often confused the situation, got players' names wrong or just yelled at them by their numbers.
Still, his assistants clung to certain symbols of the Paterno Way. "Shave your face, cut your hair," Mauti said, recalling the mantra. "If we weren't shaved for a practice, we would have to work out on Saturdays in the off-season. It got almost to the point where that's all that mattered."
Few programs in college football at the time could have claimed a richer tradition than Penn State's. It looked like Camelot—but only from the outside. Almost every Penn State senior I talked to last season repeated some version of the following: "We felt like we were protecting an image. And only we knew it."
Mike Mauti and Mike Zordich are never going to buy drinks in State College again. BONUS: There's a great story about Jay Paterno almost being eaten by the defensive line that I hope makes it out in the wild that's worth the price of admission by itself.
Oh, for Flansburgh's sake. It is 2013 and are we STILL having Lloyd Carr on lists like these?
Here are some notable Big Ten (and Nebraska) coaching force-outs ...
LLOYD CARR, Michigan (1995-2007)
Lloyd Carr retired by his own choice. The athletic director was surprised by this. That he was surprised was completely insane because everyone around the program new Carr was going to hang it up quite soon. I just… Lloyd Carr was not forced out. Repeat this one thousand times, Adam Rittenberg, and feel bad about yourself briefly.
Previewing basketball. ESPN does it for the conference at large:
Best case: The Wolverines were a dominant Louisville second half from winning the national title in 2012-13, and, while losing the national player of the year is never easy, the combination of Beilein's returning studs and his incoming talent could put Michigan right back where it was in April.
Worst case: There are questions, though. Can McGary produce over a whole season without Burke on the ball? Can Robinson evolve into a more perimeter-oriented, versatile scorer? Can Nik Stauskas be a multifaceted threat? Can Spike Albrecht and Zak Irvin keep all these gears in motion? Most of all -- can the Wolverines defend?
Not really, yes, yes, maybe? Meanwhile, Seth Greenberg puts Michigan and State 1-2 in his conference power rankings.
It remains to be seen whether Robinson can be as effective at the small forward position as he was last season at power forward, playing off Burke's penetration. If Robinson concentrates on being a basketball player as opposed to a position player, it will be in the best interest of the Wolverines.
He drops Indiana down to sixth(!), behind Iowa(!). Related: this will be the 65th straight season where I say "watch out for Iowa basketball, they look good" in November only for the Hawkeyes to top out as an NIT team.
I want this to happen just so I can see Jeff Meyer's face the next time he meets Tom Crean. Indiana decommit James Blackmon Jr. is planning a visit to Michigan, whereupon he'll presumably be offered. Why this is delicious:
Blackmon has been to Ann Arbor before, he was sitting next to Austin Hatch this March when Indiana played at Michigan. Blackmon was committed to Indiana at the time and the visit was thought to be at least part of the reason for the rift between Tom Crean and Michigan assistant coach Jeff Meyer after the game.
Blackmon is a Kentucky legacy with a Kentucky offer, so file under extreme long shot. He would fill the SG slot Michigan currently would like Devin Booker to fill, FWIW.
The worst case scenario. Actually this is Iowa we're talking about, so this should rightly be renamed "thing we expect to happen":
Spartan coach Mark Dantonio refuses to bring his team to Iowa City, saying "I'm competitive, but I'm not insane." Offensive coordinator Greg Davis calls out Dantonio in a press conference, saying "Mark ... just ... looking out for ... players. Doesn't want our boys ... to hurt 'em ... too bad. Let's ... give him ... a hand."
The government has turned Minneapolis into a quarantine zone. Chicago residents have erected hasty barricades to separate themselves from the outer suburbs. IOWA WINS BY FORFEIT
Needs more alligators.
Also in worst case scenarios, the NCAA's in the Ed O'Bannon case is "severely damages Iowa State and no one else."
Etc.: ND game is at eight on ESPN, because ABC has NASCAR. What is wrong with you ABC? Christian Hackenberg pulls even with another first-year guy (a JUCO transfer) in the Penn State QB race. Gardner Heisman hype. DOES ADAM JACOBI THINK ANYTHING SHOULD PLAY FOOTBALL?
Illinois assistant gets a two-game ban for tryna murder him some officials after the end of the Miami-Illinois tourney game last year. Guy had a case, though. SI ranks M 18th, hates on their special teams without explanation.
Unverified Voracity Puts It Through
The ghost of Lloyd Carr haunts everything. Oh yes.
Lloyd Carr stopped @Peedi3416 and I one day on the sidewalk and randomly said, "the hardest part about winning is the expectation it brings"
— Anthony Wright (@ItsAntWright) July 26, 2013
Life advice, or just Lloyd Carr musing darkly on a life he perceives as a slate-gray expanse of clouds? Does Lloyd Carr show up at orientation, pick a bright-eyed pre-med student, and tell them "this doesn't make you an adult"? I hope so. It would be very Michigan if one of their former coaches became the Dark Oracle Of Ann Arbor.
Nine minutes of game winning field goals. Right here:
Glenn Robinson III throwing various things down. Also right here:
Kate. I wish you to see this picture. I think the basketball team has gotten their Final Four rings.
A handsome man, now handsomer.
Piling on Emmert. Mark Emmert is getting hammered from all sides these days, with the latest hits a unified front from the Big 5 conferences against the NCAA status quo and an extensive OTL article detailing the chaos inside the organization:
One source said that at least one major conference has gone so far as to send a directive to its representative on the NCAA Executive Committee -- which, among other duties, hires and fires the association's president -- to make it "crystal clear that they were not at all happy with the direction of the entire enterprise under Emmert."
He picked up the dread vote of confidence a while ago.
Meanwhile, with an obviously coordinated assault on the current state of the NCAA launched by the commissioners of the top five conferences, change is coming, and soon. Emmert himself is joining the chorus:
Emmert said he expects significant changes to how the NCAA operates to be adopted within the next year.
At issue is the ability of the richest athletic programs --- which attract the massive television rights fees --- to set policy without the smaller D-I programs stopping them because of financial concerns.
"There's one thing that virtually everybody in Division I has in common right now, and that is they don't like the governance model," Emmert said. "Now, there's not agreement on what the new model should be. But there's very little support for continuing things in the governing process the way they are today."
Emmert actually may have been at the forefront of this, but don't tell anyone that. He may gone about everything in the most ham-handed way possible, but given what he's been trying to do he's likely on board with Division Zero or whatever.
I am too, of course. The gap between programs that are net spenders and those that have to figure out what to do with their buckets of money is untenable, and the players should get some more of the money coming in. If this is the way to do it, great:
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said Wednesday he wants lifetime scholarships for athletes to finish their educations and a non-athletic year for "at-risk" students followed by four years of eligibility.
"There's no one talking about this being some incremental change," Emmert said. "I think there's an interest in some pretty fundamental change in the way decisions are made, both to accomodate those (financial) differences but also to deal with concerns people have about representation ... in the policy debates."
Etc.: Ace points out that OSU has the best record against the spread in conference games over the past ten years, nationally. Michigan is barely below .500. Baseball brings in 16 kids, including the co-Mr. Baseballs in the state. They are 11 guys over their roster limit, though. That's just how baseball works, I guess?
Charlie Weis has an epiphany. Jordan Kovacs gets hazed. The randomness of turnovers is pretty much why Darrell Hazell got to Purdue. Bill Connolly previews State. Think he's way underrating LeVeon Bell and thus overrating MSU's line, FWIW. Connolly also does Iowa. Targeting is going to be a fiasco.
Hokepoints: The Marlin-Brian Q&A
- 2002 washington
- 2003 ohio state
- 2013 notre dame
- amara darboh
- blake countess
- bubble screen
- cam gordon
- donovan warren
- ernest shazor
- events
- give money to someone elseeeeee
- heiko is short
- hokepoints
- jehu chesson
- jordan kovacs
- jordan kovacs-ernest shazor: the great debate with straw people
- lloyd brady
- lloyd carr
- marlin jackson
- phil brabbs
- spring game
- spring practice 2013
- taco charlton
photoshoppers, start your GNUs
So we did the meet and greet Q&A thing, and other than the liveblog portion being pretty much a disaster, A+++ would do again. I couldn't type fast enough to keep up with all the good info in the Q&A so below I've written up those answers plus some we answered after the fact via email.
We're tentatively talking another one the Friday night before the Notre Dame game, so calendar that. If you're coming in from out of town, Jared of Sports Power Weekends, who sponsored this whole thing, mentioned he's putting together a trip for that weekend that includes tickets for the game and a private tour of the Big House before we do drinks and ALL THE SHANE MORRIS.
Some things went way better than expected and other things not so much. Didn't go well: We had no way to plug our mic into the speaker system, fortunately remembering just in time that bartenders have friends with guitar amplifiers. The other thing that could have gone better is we forgot to warn Brian that Jehu Chesson was in the audience before your favorite blogger launched into his heuristic reasoning as to why Amara Darboh would be more effective this year because Chesson is still a waif.
New heuristic: Chesson sitting = Heiko standing minus an inch.
Did go well: lots of luminaries showed up. Players current and former included Chesson, Countess, Donovan Warren, and John Duerr. An incomplete list of bloggers: Bryan Mac (aka BiSB), MGoPhotographers Eric Upchurch and Bryan Fuller, Burgeoning Wolverine Star, Lloyd Brady, M-Wolverine, Craig Ross, and LSAClassof2000. Epic shirts: Heiko's bubble screen smile, and a Branch-Morelli sweatshirt.
In things that surpassed all expectations, let me being with actual nicest guy in the universe Marlin Jackson himself. Walking out of the game to his car took about 25 minutes because he signed every hat, helmet, t-shirt or whatever thing put before him. We talked NBA decisions, how the Jake Butt TD was on Jarrod Wilson's as-yet-unadvanced field awareness, and that the biggest difference with this staff is they "teach football."
After being introduced by Brian as "the man who still has Reggie Williams in his back pocket," to kick off the Q&A Marlin talked about his Fight for Life Foundation. He was candid about his youth: Jackson grew up in the projects with a mother addicted to drugs and a father he never met. As you can imagine this isn't the best way to learn things like accountability, the value of an education, or even your own value and that of others. Marlin learned these things through Michigan; it's the goal of his foundation to give similarly underprivileged kids the opportunities he received because of his athletic talents.
Fight for Life runs three programs: Field of Dreams (link) is an in-school and after school program that basically helps get the kids back up to speed with their classmates. Seal the Deal (hyperlink) is a series of leagues and football camps for youth through high school with an educational/character-building component. R.A.P. (reach out and access your peers – url) is an SEL* program that gets kids to open up through, e.g. a discussion of their future aspirations or by presenting a paper on their favorite song lyrics. They need to raise about $200k per year to fund these programs.
* Social and Emotional Learning, the spread offense of education. Full context is linked above but you may cognate as learning that's the opposite of 'Another Brick in the Wall.'
We then talked about things like that one year the Colts paired Manning with a real defense, which receivers were the hardest to cover, and his impressions on the young defensive players at Michigan today. That after the jump. But first here's three generations of next-Woodsons:
Fuller has a nicer version on the Flickr collection but this one I took on Countess's phone is superior for capturing our new official Robot Ace Anbender headshot.
Unverified Voracity Is Working Hard To Get Ready
Is anyone else paralyzingly bored with media output of late? I mean, I just read these articles in which the answers have become absolutely uniform…
"Right now, I'm just worried about this camp and Sept. 1 and Michigan football," [ANYONE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD] said. "I never really felt like I took any steps backward or anything, I'm just going to continue to work hard like I've been doing."
…and I feel a need to link it while at the same time feeling like I am wasting your time by doing so. This is why I said Vincent Smith was a carrot. Because I am bored out of my mind with fall camp. Vincent Smith is not actually a carrot.
Don't even get me started on Countdown to Kickoff, where the most interesting thing is whether or not Doug Karsch's hair tuft will be there. It wasn't always like this:
I think this deserves Henri, the otter of ennui.
Strangely, I feel better. It could be worse: I could be a journalist trying to scrape something interesting out of this mess. Let's move on.
Ringer seems out. If you hit up Kaleb Ringer's twitter and scroll down a bit you'll get tweets from folk wishing him well on his recovery and Joe Bolden saying they can't wait for him to get back. (Also you'll get Ferris State's logo for some reason.) He mentioned something about going through a trial a few days ago, as well.
He's probably injured, is what I'm saying, and given the tenor of the tweets I'd guess it's something with a long-term recovery period. He already seemed likely to redshirt; now I'd say that probability is close to 100%. With Antonio Poole also out long-term, James Ross is going to see the field.
[UPDATE: Hoke just announced Ringer is out for the year. So is Chris Bryant.]
What I am saying. I may flesh this out into a bigger post later; for now, Her Loyal Sons put together a primer on Notre Dame's 3-4 defense. They have "cat" and "dog" linebackers that align strong and weak (or possibly to field or boundary—the post doesn't make it clear) and those guys are frequently deployed like so:
If this doesn't look familiar I have not been badgering you enough about how 1) moving to the 3-4 does nothing to help Michigan's DL issues and 2) that the 4-3 under is halfway between a traditional even 4-3 and the 3-4. Replace "CAT" with "WDE" and "DOG" with "SAM" and voila. ND will of course line up in a traditional 3-4 look and back that WDE-type-guy into coverage at times, but this assertion…
Unlike the 4-3, in which the defensive line almost exclusively rushes (save for some of the more exotic blitz packages), the setup of the 3-4 shines allows fourth rusher can really come from anywhere. While the Cat may be the pass rushing specialist, that doesn't mean he will always do so.
…does not jibe with my observations last year, when Mattison flung all manner of zone blitzes at the opponent. The fourth rusher was very frequently not the WDE.
Anyway: 4-3 under personnel crammed into a 3-4 does not use more linebackers and only exacerbates issues with having 280 pound SDE/3techs.
Outrage! Not really. Carr told John Wienke to go to Iowa:
"When Coach Carr retired, he was the one — I actually always liked Iowa — but he told me probably to go with Iowa," Wienke said. "That's probably the next-best thing that was going to be for me with my style of play."
Outrage level here is zero. Telling a recruit he probably doesn't fit is a lot different than allegedly telling the players already on campus they had a green light to transfer. Chances are Rodriguez would have phoned the kid up and said the same thing. I probably wouldn't have brought it up except for the fact that the kid is doing all that he can to honor Carr's guidance:
He's a punter now.
It's neutral you guys. The Alabama game is declared the "best of the Big Ten road schedule" by the Star Tribune [HT: Daily Gopher], which is one thing. Another is Countdown to Kickoff straying dangerously off-message at the 1:20 mark:
do not operate heavy machinery after watching countdown to kickoff
Michigan practiced at Ford Field to prepare for "all that road noise." It's a neutral site you guys. Neutral.
Yeah, let's do that. No, nevermind. Brandon said something to justify the Horror II that demonstrated his inability to grasp anything other than "attention = good." Hey, here's a bunch of CBS guys reminiscing about where they were when the Horror I happened. I bet you're going to go read that right now.
He said many other things as well, some of them appalling like moving the spring game to Ford Field. RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE. /is actually rabbling
Nonexistent CHL union still works. That's the argument from London, home of one of the more prominent OHL teams:
The CHL franchises operate as professional franchises. They are a business first and foremost. The scholarship program is great until you play professionally, then you lose it. That's not right.
They trade kids indiscriminately in an effort to make their business successful. They entice kids to come to their programs and when something doesn't work, they are tossed aside like a punctured jockstrap. Teams pay a player $50 a week and own him totally for four or five years.
That's the type of thing that needs to be addressed for the good of these players.
As for the assertion that the CHL is comprised of 60 teams that all operate as individual corporate entities, it sounds an awful lot like the structure of the NHL and last time anyone looked, the NHL had a players' association.
If they are individual entities, the colluding not to pay a class of employees is not kosher. If these guys ever get their act together they would probably get a heap of concessions without even trying.
Etc.: Oklahoma kid will fill one of your commercial breaks at Michigan Stadium this fall, is probably taller than Dennis Norfleet. I want to like this "open letter to Brady Hoke" from Grantland, but open letters are always painful. Hey, writer-guy: Brady Hoke is not reading your stuff. I am. Talk to me, not him. OSU FR Adolphus Washington is 50 pounds heavier than he was when he signed his LOI. That's probably not good from their perspective.
Michigan Museday Meets Michigan Replay, Part 2
Bob Lipson: awesome
Part I of my interview with Michigan Replay producer Bob Lipson be here, and covers the history of the show up to Bo's last year as head coach.
At that time Don Canham had recently stepped down as athletic director and Schembechler had taken over. For the first 15 seasons of Replay there had been one coach and one athletic director; now would begin a series of new ADs Liposon would have to sell the show all over again. This was no small thing. The show was a considerable side job for the coach, and it needed access to the locker room and players to interview that no other outlet got, and all of this was predicated on the AD's trust of the show's producer. For now, no big deal, right? The new AD was the longtime star of the show, so maybe lose Budweiser as a sponsor and carry on? Not so, as Bo was not as hands-on as AD as he was as football coach, and that wasn't the expectation for him. Bo still made the big decisions, e.g. firing the basketball coach in '89, but behind the scenes, the nuts and bolts of the department at that time were handled by then-senior associate director of athletics Jack Weidenbach.
Canham liked television but was never in love with the show, after 15 years however he had adjusted to it. Weidenbach, who would follow Bo as AD in 1990, maybe liked the show a little less, and wasn't resigned to anything. Jack had been around the program longer than Schembechler, and in that time had controlled everything from OSHA compliance to marketing. He knew the department inside and out, but he didn't know Bob that well.
Twenty Tons of Turf (1989-1994)
For awhile now the show was being taped on Saturdays after the games so it could run on Sunday mornings. "Fourth" network Fox had taken over Channel 2, moving CBS to 62. Feeling bold, they put in a bid to have the NFL's NFC games, and to the astonishment of many (considering the might of the other networks) won it. Fox offered Lipson the 11:30 a.m. spot right before the Lions pre-game show, a perfect lead-in for them, and a perfect place for Michigan Replay to capture more fans as they settled down for Sunday football.
But college football was now leaving the once-hallowed 1:00 p.m. standard. Driving to Detroit and back every Saturday night after a game was trial enough for home games, but on away trips it was torture. It was for Bob as well, who would sit watching games and call in which plays he wanted. If they couldn't get it in before, taping Saturday night increasingly meant waiting until the studio was done with the 9:00 news. Routinely they'd be taping from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. After a game in the dump that Minnesota used to play in (Bob's words for the Metrodome, not the author's) a late taping was a guarantee.
Attributed by Bob to their live background, they would shoot the show straight through, seldom making a mistake and almost never re-shooting something. Occasionally the coach (remember: this is at 3 a.m. after a game day in another city) would refer to "today" instead of "yesterday" but that was about it. "In 33 years we maybe had to stop five times," Bob estimated. Since there were no re-dos, the coaches on the show got a lot of practice at speaking off the cuff for posterity; perhaps this attributed to the rarity of speaking gaffes by Bo or his successors when so many NCAA coaches stumbled over the adjustment to 24-hour television.
This was the routine: taping late at night with Bob and his universally beloved terrier Zipper keeping everyone's spirits high (Michigan wouldn't listen to students' attempts to formalize a mascot but there was no doubt who filled that role for Michigan Replay). Michigan's bleary-eyed head coach would be deposited back in his bed around 5:00 a.m., and the next morning millions would tune in to see what he had to say.
Weidenbach (right/UMHistory) had good reason to wonder if the show was worth it for the '90s. On the other hand, given the positive, semi-national exposure and the increasingly substantial bottom line the show provided, he had good reason to like Bob Lipson. Bob was about to give him another one.
Canham had put turf in the stadium in 1969. That was very cool at the time—the Astrodome opened in 1965—but by 1990 it was falling out of fashion, in part due to the negative effects it was thought to have on players' joints (I've heard suggested on boards, but not substantiated, that other coaches were using it to recruit against Michigan). One of Weidenbach's first moves was to return the Big House to dirt and grass. The turf came up after the '90 football season, was rolled, and put into storage.
Nobody knew what the hell to do with it. On one hand it was 30-year-old Astroturf sitting around being all useless and in the way. On the other hand this was hallowed ground where Bo had beaten Woody's best team in '69 and Anthony Carter had caused Bob Ufer to reference Fielding Yost and Viking folklore in the same sentence.
So Lipson told Weidenbach "You give me the turf and I'll find something to do with it." Bob came up with three items he could cut it into: coasters, picture frames, and floor mats. He used his connections from years of selling ads around the state to find companies who could manufacture these items, used his connections from years of acquiring schlock for the set to make them available to the public, and came back with $800,000 for the athletic department. Today this seems like a drop in the bucket next to department runs a profit up to 20 times that, but this was a serious windfall for the university from something that had been just taking up space. As some of you may have been told on your orientation tour, Weidenbach gave half of that to the library, figuring nobody really donates to the library. The other half went into the improvements the department was making to Michigan's facilities. Bob took home a grand total of $0.00 from the project. It was a magnificent gift to the university that he loved.
Lloyd Protector (1995-'07)
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In 1995, Lloyd Carr became the head coach of Michigan and Michigan Replay gained a guardian angel. Bo overshadowed anybody you put him in a room with. Mo looked like an uncle trapped at a family event two hours after giving his wife the first "let's go" signal. In reality Moeller was less enthusiastic about the show even than he appeared. Yet the man who succeeded him may have been the most important single personality for Michigan Replay other than Lipson himself. With Lloyd the chemistry with Brandstatter was immediate and palpable. Here were too good buddies, both with evident love for their topic, chatting the same way their viewers had been during the game.
Of the people Bob says nice things about (too many to mention) the kindest words are reserved for Carr. Carr in turn had plenty of nice things to say about Bob's show. Despite more late-night tapings than any of his predecessors due to afternoon games or worse (e.g. flying home after a West Coast game) Lloyd was the show's biggest fan. What he loved about it was that the high school coaches loved it. Across the country wherever the show was on, athletes' parents and coaches saw Michigan's clean-cut, well-spoken players (and Carr's apparent honesty and affability to anyone not in a press room or a Sun Belt referee uniform), and equated Michigan with this idyllic student-athlete experience. Recruiting regulations at this time were piling up as quickly as coaches could think of new ways to pitch their programs, and then here's this big syndicated program (now at 11:00 a.m.) that's in its way a big Michigan commercial reaching Carr's target audience.
As '97 was the apogee of the Bo era, so was it the last peak of the show. Bo of course wasn't on it anymore, but episodes after the Penn State, Ohio State, and Rose Bowl victories that season were some of the most-watched in its history.
Despite its popularity with fans—mostly an older crowd—some in the athletic department were ready to throw out Replay with the rest of the anachronisms of the Canham era. Bob gave me little in the way of explanation for why a vintage Carr defense was necessary—perhaps he wasn't so sure what the fuss was about either—but he left little doubt there were people in the athletic department who were not fans of the show.
If I have to venture a guess, it was the result of several administrations coming through in quick succession, all with their own goals, versus this independent program they weren't really sure of their affiliation with, and which had gotten by all of these years because Bob Lipson had ingratiated himself with the principals. Gone already were the guys who remembered the turf thing, and gone too were their replacements. Now the athletic director was Tom Goss, a Michigan footballer of the pre-Bo era (he graduated after the '68 season) who had spent years in beverages and merchandising. Goss was determined to make not only the Big House but Crisler into a modern facility, and embarked upon the first of the modern round of renovations. The better known result of this was the stadium halo and what Bob eloquently called the "refrigerator magnet" letters on the stadium my freshman year (1998), the baby of a guy named Shapiro though Goss fell on the sword for it.
How this affected Michigan Replay was that the renovations came with a bigger video board and, importantly, a studio within the complex to take advantage of it. Summoning every ounce of goodwill he had left, Bob went to the athletic department to beg that they use the opportunity to build an honest-to-goodness TV studio, as opposed to the mini-booth they were planning. Perhaps with the intervention of a guardian angel (or guardian legend), this was approved. No more driving back and forth to Detroit, and the two hours out of the coach's game day it lost.
Bo used to sit on a stool, taping live in a Detroit TV station across from that network's (Sparty-inclined) sports anchor, while an intern flipped the reel and made Rick Leach look right-handed; now Lloyd Carr and Jim Brandstatter had leather chaise loungers in a tricked-out, purpose-built modern studio inside the Crisler complex. But Goss wouldn't long survive his expenditures, and while new A.D. Bill Martin didn't feel too strongly one way or another about the show—his job as he saw it was to fix the department's finances—more people in his department wanted to kill the show, and they were less shy about saying something. These people carried weight with Martin, and as the 2000s progressed so too did the seriousness of their opposition. What kept it going was simply Lloyd Carr, who would see Michigan Replay end over his retired body.
In 2007, ten years after his national championship season, Carr retired.
That's All the Time We Have (2008)
"Keep this replay going." –Lloyd Carr
People have come up with a lot of theories to explain the sudden and abrupt conclusion of Michigan Replay after 2007. Many claim Rich Rodriguez didn't want to do the show, either out of sansdeference for the well of Michigan or simply because his tantrumic post-loss regimen probably wouldn't play any better on TV than it did in John Bacon's Three and Out. More savvy Web browsers can discover the athletic department hired a new marketing company around that time, and extrapolate that the new agency shirts didn't think two guys sitting across from each other in lounge chairs and cutting through the mysteries of football were the right thing for the brand. There's even an erroneous reference on Wikipedia to "retiring the show in honor of Lloyd," which is impossible to reconcile with Lloyd's words to Brandy on their last show together.
Doubtless the end of Michigan Replay coinciding with the coaching change for fans created the sense that it was one more unnecessary break from Michigan tradition. Those who didn't like Rich Rod went with the reason that blames him. Those who hated Bill Martin went with that. Nature abhors a vacuum, so the public filled it with whatever fit the narrative of what they thought was going on in the erratic and nonsensical late-term Martin athletic department.
What happened was far more simple: folks in the athletic department wanted to be rid of the show long before, but Lloyd Carr had been holding them off. Said Bob, "When I lost Lloyd, I lost my protector."
He made this very clear to me and I'll try to be as clear here: Rich Rodriguez had nothing to do with the show being canceled. He wasn't any more thrilled with the idea of it than Moeller was, and he would only do it Sunday mornings, not Saturday nights (given the amount of late games Michigan now played and his post-loss demeanor, this was smart). The difference was Rich Rod had no idea of its recruiting power, didn't know Brandstatter, and didn't have the sentimental attachment to the show that Lloyd had. Rodriguez upon arrival didn't know the politics inside Martin's department, and certainly had no way of knowing the only thing that could save the show was nothing short of him demanding they keep it in his contract. The sum total of blame on Rodriguez for the end of Michigan Replay is nil.
Minus Lloyd, the elements inside had their way, and the show was canceled. Bob was rightfully sad to see his life's work suddenly ended, but stressed that he wasn't bitter: "There's nothing on television that lasts 33 years!" That's not entirely correct, since of his class of '75 we still have Wheel of Fortune, Saturday Night Live, and Good Morning America. But: Wheel of Fortune, Saturday Night Live, and Good Morning America! Lipson's idea for a chitchat with the local college coach survived exactly as long as Michigan's coinciding bowl streak, and (three channels, remember) was just as impressive.
Last year, under yet another new athletic director, David Brandon (who graduated from Michigan just two years before the show began), Lipson was invited back, this time for the Big Ten Network. However he declined, and also declined to give over the name of his show, hence "Inside Michigan Football." Bob's reasoning had nothing to do with who could control it, or when it would be taped, or anything like that. What had happened over the last three years was that Bob for the first time in his life found what a joy it is to sit on a bench surrounded by his grandchildren inside the Big House, and watch a game of Michigan football. And there's nothing in the world, he says, that's could be better than that.
Q&A and Errata
Seth: What do you think of Brady Hoke and his staff, and how do they compare to the coaches you worked with?
Lipson: I like Brady. I liked him very much during his time as an assistant…the players loved him. I don't know that much has changed now that he is the head man. I choose not to compare!!!
Seth: Something something Dave Brandon and the current state of the program/college football in general?
Lipson: Bo would not be happy. He believed games ought to be played at 1:00 p.m. and wouldn't like the night games and all of the other things. Dave Brandon is the antithesis of Canham in some ways, but that was a different era with different expectations and even though Bo wouldn't like it, there's a lot of things Bo wouldn't like. I think Brandon is doing the right things for Michigan, and that's what he should be doing.
Seth: This is WRONG!!!:
This is RIGHT!!!:
This is a question! ?
Lipson: When I switched songs I received a ton of negative mail and comments saying to go back to the original. After 3 years I did return. Much of the negative comments came from Doug Karsch during his days at WTKA.
Seth: "Whoa cool license plate!"
Lipson: The wife of a couple who sit next to us at the games [had that made for us]. She works at Jackson prison and had the plate made by convicts. We joke and say it was made by Kwame Kilpatrick during his stay there.
Gratitude rendered
To WolverineHistorian for putting up most of the videos I linked to. To D.A. from my office (not sure if he wants his name out there) who provided the contact. To the readers who suggested questions (Bob read them all by the way) and shared their memories on that thread a few weeks ago. And to the incomparable Bob Lipson, for taking the time to humor a blogger with his story. Thank you!


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Share your book marketing ideas here
I've created my first Blurb book (http://spectralight.com/myblog/2011/08/11/sneak-peak-picturesque-olmsted-falls-book-at-the-printer/) and I'm now looking for marketing ideas to generate interest and sales.
Please share things that you've tried and whether they were successful or not. Perhaps explain why you think it did or didn't succeed or if the "jury is still out."
I will start this thread with a couple of my ideas in the next posts.
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The first tip is easy! I wrote a post on my blog introducing my book (http://spectralight.com/myblog/2011/08/11/sneak-peak-picturesque-olmsted-falls-book-at-the-printer/). Now my "followers" are aware of it and can see it online.
I'm also a freelance writer for Examiner.com. I introduced my book there in an article as it is relevant to my title – "Cleveland Neighborhood Photography Examiner." (shameless free advertising).
If anyone would like to become a freelance writer for Examiner.com (the pay is almost zero but it's a great way to promote your work), send me an e-mail to email@example.com for information.
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Sep 8, 2011 4:39am PDTPermalink
Offer a bonus when someone buys your book by a certain date. For example, I've created a slide show of all the photos in my book set to music. I burned the show to DVD and it is now ready to be played on a big screen TV or on a computer. I set a price of $47 for the DVD. I don't expect to sell any at that price but it gives me the ability to offer a nice discount when used as a promtional item to sell the books.
I will create a mail-in rebate form that says something to the effect of:
Get our DVD of all the photos from our new book, "Picturesque Olmsted Falls" for only $14.77 when you send us a copy of your receipt showing your book purchase. You SAVE $32.23! Offer expires (date)
Of course, you set your own prices and discounts and see how it goes. You can always change your offer if the first one doesn't generate a good response.
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Sep 8, 2011 4:49am PDTPermalink
Get some free press.
We have a local, weekly newspaper that covers Olmsted Falls. I will be sending a news release to the reporter who writes little tidbits about people and happenings in the community to announce the release of my new book. I'll include a link to my blog so people can see it online and order it through Blurb if they wish.
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Sep 8, 2011 4:53am PDTPermalink
Send a copy of the book to a reporter and request a book review.
This would actually tie-in with my previous post of sending a news release announcing the publication of your book. They'll probably be more inclined to write some nice things about the book since you've sent them a free book to keep.
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Sep 8, 2011 4:56am PDTPermalink
Does any one want to share some new ideas to sell more books? Based on zero replies to this post other than my own – I guess not. What a shame.
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Sep 16, 2011 5:48am PDTPermalink
This is a great topic, and your suggestions are good.
I can only add that Facebook is also a good place to get noticed by placing a link on your profile page. Periodically, I comment on the link or get a friend to post it to their own page in order to refresh interest and gain a wider audience.
Personally, I would see if a local coffee shop would display my book for sale there. I imagine most interest will come from locals.
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Dec 19, 2011 2:27pm PDTPermalink
I made up business cards which have a picture of my book, and tells people that it can be previewed and purchased on blurb. I hand the cards out when the opportunity strikes. I have sold a couple books this way, despite giving lots out at a book show, etc.
I am not sure if people are just not interested, or if they can't be bothered to sign up to blurb to purchase the book.
What I have learned is that just because you wrote a book, even the people who know you still might not want to buy it.
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Dec 25, 2011 8:54am PDTPermalink
Book marketing through social networking channels like Facebook and Twitter is sure to grab you a large viewership and fan following. Pinterest is the best option. You can pin quotes from your books or special highlights to gather public interest.If your book has commercial value, then trade fairs are an ideal platform for marketing it.


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Domino's Tests Out New Breakfast Pizza
Would You Eat Breakfast Pizza From a National Chain?
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bsanf3 3 years
I would try someone else before Domino's version
Spectra 3 years
Ugh, that looks disgusting. I don't eat foods like that for breakfast, plus I don't love pizza. I will definitely pass on that one.
snarkypants 3 years
not a big breakfast person, so i'd pass. but i could see the appeal.
leeluvfashion 3 years
Definitely a No from me. 1) I prefer to start my day off eating food that will start my body's day on the right note: oatmeal sans artificial flavor with 2 types of fruit mixed in; ezekiel bread with soy nut butter, fruit on the side; etc... 2) I would not eat this "breakfast" pizza morning, noon or night; it is disgusting especially when all I can imagine is the poor little chick that died to be put on slab of crap dough, slathered in grease. Not exactly what I would call "tasty." :oy:
SeptemberLights 3 years
YES! I love a good breakfast pizza, fried egg, thinly sliced yukon golds, bacon and cheese.... NO...I do not want to try dominos version!!
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katieb82981 3 years
One of my high school best friend's parents owned a number of Pizza Huts, and, if we brought in our own eggs, the staff would make us breakfast pizzas on the weekends. They were really tasty! We had a thin crust with eggs and veggies.
lauren 3 years
I wouldn't eat this one! But I do love the one they make at Berkeley bowl! Fried eggs, bacon, fontina cheese and spinach, delicious!!!
atomicspin 3 years
Why not just serve regular pizza but cold, then deliver it? Nothing quite like cold pizza the next morning. I think I'm on to something here....
partysugar 3 years
I like really good gourmet breakfast pizzas with fried eggs on top. I'm not interested in a fast food version.
bluebellknoll 3 years
I think breakfast burittos are disgusting so I probably wouldn't like this either.
courtneyd 3 years
Wow. That looks awful. I love egg on my pizza (not scrambled), but this is just gross!
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I think it looks disgusting. A good reminder why the country as a whole has problems with weight.
Vampyre 3 years
We already have that in Australia, but they don't call it a breakfast pizza. They call it The Aussie. It is actually quite nice and fairly popular.
amber512 3 years
It looks way more greasy than regular pizza! But to be fair I also said no because I hate typical breakfast foods.
zeze 3 years
There is a bakery by my house that makes these, its way smaller than a pizza (the size of a small maybe, feeds 2-4) and its filled with veggies, some have ground beef/sausage and eggs and they put them in these really nice clay and brick ovens, it's actually delicious and very healthy and easy to grab on the go. The sell for $4 which is pretty cheap when you compare that a 1 bagel and cream cheese is about $3.50 at Einsteins.
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A local pizza chain by my old office had breakfast pizza, I think only at that location because of all the offices, and it was my favorite thing ever. Instead of getting a cake for my birthday they got me breakfast pizza.
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Giving birth to a baby is, well, kind of an emotional roller coaster ride for most of us, and that's why it's so nice to have kind, compassionate nurses and doctors cheering us on and taking care of us as we bring our little ones into the world.
But while a great medical staff can make having a baby the best experience of a mom's life -- hearing insults, rude comments, or statements that are downright mean come out of their mouths really kind of put a damper on the entire day. (And when family members say something crappy, that sucks too.)
Hard to believe, but it happens.
Check out some of the worst things people have said to moms while they're giving birth:
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Ive gotten it can't hurt that bad and my midwife for my son told me to shut up when I let out a little scream from pain. She said I wasn't allwoed to scream and if I wasnted to make noise fromt he bad to put my face in a pillow so she doesn't have to hear me.
fuck I can't spell or type worth shit lol
My nurse when I was initally brought in was a complete bitch! I was in the middle of a contraction and told me I was causing my own labor pain as she tried to put my IV in for the 8th time. Somehow, lucky me, got her AGAIN 12 hours later. She told me it would be HOURS before I had to push. Hah! Little did she know my baby was born 10 minutes later!
This isn't a thing that was said but done when I was in labor - I was induced and the nurse came in to check dilation every hour. I was in labor for 13 hours - she (TMI if you don't know how they check dilation) put her very well manicured 1" fingernailed fingers up in me at least 13 times - OMG it freaking hurt - and she couldn't understand why it hurt so much when she did it.
My husband complained after we left. Nurses should be required to have short nails if they are going to be putting them up inside you!!!!!
The doctor who delivered my daughter was not my OB so knew nothing about me. She apparently thought I was a teenager (I was 31, I just look really young). After pushing for an hour and a half, I was exhausted and flagging. She screamed at me, "You can't look pretty when you push! Let's go!" My mother almost decked her. After the delivery while being stitched up, my mom over heard her tell one of the nurses, "She just may turn out to be a good mother when she grows up."
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Aussie pair Jarmila Gajdasova and Matthew Ebden through to Australian Open mixed doubles semi
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- January 24, 2013
Australians Jarmila Gajdosova and Matthew Ebden are through to the Australian Open mixed doubles semi-finals after a tense quarter-final upset win.
Playing together for the first time at this tournament, the unseeded Australians saved one match point and needed three themselves to overcome fifth seeds Nadia Petrova, of Russia, and India's Mahesh Bhupathi 6-3 3-6 13-11.
It was the second straight match in which they knocked out an Indian-Russian pairing, after eliminating second seeds Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina in the previous round.
All of the semi-finalists are unseeded.
The quarter-final was the first time the Australians had needed to win a third-set match tiebreaker, after straight-sets wins in the previous rounds.
It was a desperate tussle, the Australians at one stage down 7-4 in the deciding tiebreaker and needing to save a match point at 9-10 on Gajdosova's serve.
They eventually clinched it on their third match point, but first on their own serve, courtesy of a big first serve from Ebden.
The temperamental Gajdosova said Ebden had kept her calm.
``Matt's (nerves) were much better than mine. He kind of held it up, he was very positive, which helped me to relax,'' she said.
The Australian pair, both first-round losers in the singles, will meet Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova and Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin in one of Friday's semi-finals.
The other will be between Czech pair Lucie Hradecka and Frantisek Cermak and another Czech player Kveta Peschke, who is partnering Poland's Marcin Matkowski.
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Furniture, electronics, toys and appliances are all things Spartanburg investigators said at least four people are accused of stealing from more than two dozen storage units in northern Spartanburg County.
In some cases, deputies said the suspects used pass codes to get into secure storage facilities.
Between Nov. 5 and Thanksgiving, three different storage facilities were robbed. Two men are in jail, and investigators hope to nab two more soon.
Cody Babb said his family's business, Lake Bowen Mini Storage, had never been robbed before. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, one of his customers called to tell him her she returned to find nothing in her unit. Through surveillance video, Babb said he recognized an SUV as another tenant's. On the video, he saw the vehicle drive into the complex with nothing and out, with the victim's belongings.
Investigators said it's the tenant's son, Donald Weathers, who is to blame for the robbery there.
The victim said she had everything stolen, from a living room set, to her daughter's high school yearbooks. She said she got about 80 percent of it back because she noticed the empty storage unit quickly, and because Babb knew who the SUV belonged to.
Investigators said they found her belongings at Weathers' home.
Lt. Tony Ivey, with Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office, said another suspect, Timothy Harris, is also in jail facing charges related to break-ins at Palmetto Storage.
Deputies also plan to arrest two more men for burglaries at Holly Springs Storage.
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Stores are opening their doors earlier than ever for Black Friday. Shoppers can head to K-Mart as early as 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day.
"This is the first time we've ever done something like that," said Billy Resnake, the manager of K-Mart in Charleston. "It's going to be a challenge. We're doing it for our customers."
Shoppers can stop at K-Mart from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving; the store re-opens at 5 a.m. for Black Friday.
"We're just trying to compete with everybody else," Resnake said. "All the other retailers have done something different in the past."
To keep up with the Jones' and quell the crowd frenzy, K-Mart will feature different sales depending on the time of day. This includes "Buy one, get one free" deals.
Resnake offered a tip for enthusiastic shoppers: know what you're buying beforehand and come early. For the door buster items, it's usually first come, first serve.
Every store at Charleston Town Center will open at midnight on Black Friday, with some restaurants and the food court opening at 11 p.m. on Thanksgiving.
"Christmas comes whether we're ready or not, so why not be ready?" said Lisa McCracken, the marketing director at the Charleston Town Center.
Just in time for the holidays, the shopping center unveiled its latest renovations, including its center fountain and new furniture.
McCracken said the best time to shop--if you want to avoid the crowd-- is early in the day or late at night.
But some shoppers said they feel like this free-for-all turns people away from the "true" holiday spirit.
"That day is set aside for my family," said Chris Richardson from Spencer. "We always enjoy being together."
Richardson and her daughter, Sarah, came to the mall Monday to shop so they can enjoy Thanksgiving in peace.
"Because Thanksgiving is just that," said Sarah Richardson. "It's time to be thankful for all that God has blessed us with."
The Charleston Town Center is open 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 12:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. on Sunday.


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Executive Chef Steve Vining is ACF "Chef of the Year"
The Athens chapter of the American Culinary Federation, The Classic City Chefs & Cooks Association, has chosen Foundry Park Inn & Spa Executive Chef Steve Vining as its 2012 Chef of the Year. "I'm honored," says Vining. "Over the Continue Reading »
October Soupfest is coming, Sunday, October 7, 2012!
Once again, Soupfest returns to the Melting Point, Sunday, October 7th, 2012! Organized by Classic City Chefs (Athens Chapter, ACF), the annual event brings local restaurants and organizations together for some friendly competition and a lot of soup to benefit Continue Reading »


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The Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation does a yeoman's job of keeping track of how much we're paying in taxes and who's paying what. It turns out that American taxpayers worked this year from Jan. 1 to April 17, 107 days, to earn enough money to pay their federal, state and local tax bills. That statistic requires some clarification, and I ask my readers to help me examine it.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, Congress will spend $3.8 trillion this year, about 24 percent of our $15 trillion gross domestic product. But federal tax revenue will be much less, only $2.5 trillion,...


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The anti-virus software guru, wanted for questioning by police in Belize, was arrested Wednesday in Guatemala.
GUATEMALA CITY -- U.S. software guru John McAfee, on the run from authorities in Belize seeking to question him in a murder probe, was arrested by Guatemala's police on Wednesday for illegally entering the country, that nation's interior minister said.
Guatemalan police said they would seek to expel him back to Belize on Thursday.
McAfee, who had been in hiding for three weeks, crossed into Guatemala with his girlfriend, Samantha, to evade authorities in Belize who wanted to question him as "a person of interest" in the killing of fellow American Gregory Faull.
"The (Guatemalan) police issued an arrest warrant for John McAfee and captured him for entering the country illegally," Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla said.
Government spokesman Francisco Cuevas said the entrepreneur would be expelled to Belize and he expected the process to be completed by early Thursday morning.
Fernando Lucero, spokesman for Guatemala's immigration department, said immediate deportation had been ruled out. McAfee's lawyer Telesforo Guerra was seeking an injunction to have him released and the American said on his blog www.whoismcafee.com that he would not now be returned to the Belize border until a higher judge reviewed the case.
The anti-virus guru was detained at a hotel in an upscale Guatemala City neighborhood with the help of Interpol agents and taken to an old, three-story building used to house migrants who enter the country illegally, said Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla.
Earlier Wednesday, McAfee said he had formally requested asylum in Guatemala, which has been embroiled in a long-running territorial dispute with Belize. There is no extradition treaty between the two countries, and there is no international arrest warrant out for McAfee.
McAfee says he fears Belizean authorities would kill him if he returned to Belize for questioning. Belize's prime minister has denied the claim, saying the 67-year-old is paranoid and "bonkers."
"Yes, we are presenting this, and I want it to be clear, because of the persecution, not because of the murder," he told the AP about his asylum bid.
"He will be in danger if he is returned to Belize, where he has denounced authorities," said his lawyer in Guatemala, Telesforo Guerra. "His life is in danger."
Guerra said he would ask that a judge look at McAfee's case as soon as possible. "From them moment he asked for asylum he has to have the protection of the Guatemalan government."
Police in Belize deny they are persecuting McAfee and say there is no warrant for his arrest. The country's prime minister has even questioned McAfee's mental state. Since there are no restrictions on his travels, it's unclear why McAfee would need any special status in order to stay in Guatemala.
The 67-year-old went on the run last month after officials tried to question him about the killing of Gregory Viant Faull, who was shot to death in early November on the Belize island where both men lived.
McAfee had engaged in a series of clashes with neighbors and authorities over allegations he kept aggressive dogs, illegal weapons and drug paraphernalia in his beachfront home on a Belize island. McAfee acknowledges that his dogs were bothersome and that Faull had complained about them, but denies killing Faull.
Faull's home was a couple of houses down from McAfee's compound.
McAfee has been living in the tiny Central American nation for about four years. He was one of Silicon Valley's first entrepreneurs to build an Internet fortune. The former Lockheed systems consultant started McAfee Associates in the late 1980s. McAfee currently has no relationship with the company, which has been sold to Intel Corp.
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From KTUU: About 10 residents of the Southwestern Alaska community of Sand Point met a man they say is a drug dealer as he got off a flight from Anchorage on Tuesday, then bought him a PenAir ticket back to Anchorage before he could leave the terminal.
According to Sand Point Police Department officer Michael Livingston, who witnessed the exchange, police couldn't confirm locals' identification of the man as he was not charged with a crime. The man does have a history in the 1,000-person community, which has seen problems with illegal drugs like cocaine, heroin and meth, as well as abuse of prescription drugs.
"Typically, what happens is a drug dealer flies into Sand Point with, say, 1,000 Percocet (oxycodone pain pills) and he has a runner sell them for 150 bucks apiece," Livingston said. "And within a couple weeks, he's leaving town with about $150,000 cash."
Livingston was at the airport to transfer a suspect in an unrelated case onto the PenAir flight to Anchorage. While he was present as a police officer, he says, his primary role was to keep the peace and maintain order.
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Wild upend Hurricanes 3-1
ST. PAUL (AP) — Nino Niederreiter and Zach Parise scored for Minnesota with the first two shots of the season against Carolina fill-in goalie Justin Peters, and the Wild beat the Hurricanes 3-1 on Thursday night despite losing their own starting goalie to injury.
Cam Ward was hurt just 4:07 into the game, an unspecified lower-body injury that forced the Hurricanes to send Peters in cold. He stopped 19 shots after settling in, but his rough start was costly.
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Ah, love. It can make an ass out of even the coolest hipster in the world. Seriously, is there anything cheesier than love itself? Think about it. Rather than being cool and independent and all untouched, love makes us want to wrap ourselves in someone else's arms, listen to Air Supply, and hop on a tandem bike to Dorkville.
The fact is, part of what is most joyful about love is cheesy. Songs change, you want to be nicer, suddenly you find yourself doodling "I Heart Rob" in an unironic way. It's beautiful, fun, and oh so very cheese-tastic.
We can't all be badasses in love and wear vials of each other's blood after all. So I asked around and compiled a list of some of the most cringe-worthy, cheesy things we have done for love. Warning: They may make your teeth hurt or cause you to vomit uncontrollably. Here they are:
What are the cheesiest things you have done for love?
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My friend's neighbors refer to eachother as "lover," like, publicly. One time they were in an arguement and she was speeding out of the driveway and he was out there yelling for her " But Lover! Wait!" hahaha God they were so strange...
I can't say I've done anything cheesy. I can say that there are things I have said/done or he has said/done, spontaneously, not knowing the other was thinking the same thing. Sometimes even voicing the same thing at the same time. It's not cheesy; it's like minds in agreement.
One time I baked my bf a heart shaped cake just because...and he loved it. :) And we both agreed that the Christmas cards his cousin and her bf made were really cheesy though...they broke up soon after.. I think holiday cards should inculde three or more people or maybe two and a pet, but other than that it looks weird...
i dont know if its because we like the same clothes. but we almost always end up dressing in the same colors. Just this past sunday for example. While he is in the shower i pick out our boys clothes, and he gets dressed while im in the shower and then dresses the boys while im getting ready. We didnt notice until on the way to church that he had a navy sweater with green stripes and i had on a navy dress with a green cartigan. Pretty sure he lost man points with his friends over it! :)
I still do the writing love notes and tossing them in his lunch box. I think it keeps the little things alive. :)
yep done all of those, but i must say the matching clothes was jeans and and icp jersy and he is much more mushy than i am. he has carried me in public, i wore heels and my feet were killing and he scooped me up and carried me from the door all the way to the car.
My husband is the cheesy one in our relationship for sure! While we were dating he snuck over to my workplace during his lunch break and left roses on my car. :-) And that's the least of the cheesy things he's done! He likes when I do cheesy things for him but I always blank out when I try to think of something to do. So I stick with the classics like having his favorite dinner cooking when he gets home or something like that.


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