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Unverified Voracity Likes Pimpkins
Videos du jour. CTK hits up Cam Gordon:
Countdown to Kickoff 2013: Day 17 - Cam Gordon by mgovideo
And the BTN talks M:
Gardner is lauded as "awfully impressive," the OL and WR "deep and talented," and "Fitz looked pretty good"; Howard Griffith entertainingly (and accidentally) refers to "Pimpkins" when talking about the defensive line. DiNardo is just nuts about Mattison.
If you'd like to compare tones, here's the MSU talk. They "lean" Maxwell at QB, but DiNardo says he couldn't pick a guy based on 147 snaps in that practice.
The BTN also has interviews with Frank Clark, Blake Countess, and Taylor Lewan.
That poor EA midlevel exec who has to call up every team individually. Following the lead of the NCAA, the Big Ten and SEC are getting out of the licensing business with EA sports:
"Each school makes its own individual decision regarding whether or not to license their trademarks for use in the EA Sports game(s)," the SEC said in a statement. "The Southeastern Conference has chosen not to do so moving forward.
"Neither the SEC, its member universities, nor the NCAA have ever licensed the right to use the name or likeness of any student to EA Sports."
Ed O'Bannon has 'em on the run.
Good lord man. The Schofield family would do just fine in the Amazon river:
"Schogiving" is a giant Thanksgiving party in either late July or early August, depending when the Schofield boys report to football camp. The party ballooned to 50 people this year with at least 15 pounds of pork tenderloin, a 35-pound turkey and a 20-pound ham. The food is prepared by Kathy in the Schofield kitchen.
"She kind of made up a holiday," Schofield said. "She wanted to do it. Our whole family is there. She wanted to make a giant dinner and it became our entire family and friends."
CATCH FOR THE CATCH GOD. Drew Dileo was good and underused last year and it would be beneficial for the team if he was good and properly used this year. I'm generally not a fan of KC Joyner's very basic statistical whatnot articles($), but YPA is YPA:
There are a lot of reasons to think that Michigan's offense will be better in 2013 and Dileo is one of them. In the eight-game sample detailed in the aforementioned article, Dileo racked up a 12.2 overall YPA and an 11.9 YPA on passes that were thrown to him when he started the play lined up as a slot receiver. That latter trait should come in very handy as the Maize and Blue make the full transition to Al Borges' pro-style passing offense.
Joyner names Dileo a potential breakout guy if he gets more opportunities, and I'm with him. More on this in the season preview, but Dileo was very, very good a year ago and I would like him to get five opportunities a game instead of 2.5.
A tribute to McMurty. From Wolverine Historian, as per usual:
Booker on finalists. A little more detail from the local paper:
"Michigan's been recruiting me since the eighth grade, Michigan State's been recruiting me since the ninth grade," Booker said. "They've been around for a while and I have great relationships with both coaching staffs. I've been to both campuses multiple times on unofficial visits, but I haven't visited (either) of them with both my parents at the same time and I want to do that."
Meanwhile, Kentucky:
"With Kentucky and coach Calipari, you can do everything in basketball you want to do," Booker said. "He puts players in the (NBA) and wins national championships, and builds dynasties. That's what you want to be a part of it, winning national championships and living out your dreams. That's what coach Calipari's been doing the last few years."
But Kentucky might take itself off the board here soon.
Dez Bryant doesn't like it. Dez Bryant opens up about his suspension from the NCAA:
"I did lie. I came back. I told the truth and they suspended me indefinitely," Bryant said. "The way the guy was talking to me was like I did something wrong. I didn't know it was OK for me to go to someone's house."
Bryant said he lied because he was scared.
"Right, so I got scared and I lied," Bryant said. "I feel like if anybody else was in my position they probably would have done the same."
He's all like yeah he should be able to sign things:
"Yes. He should be able to," Bryant said. "He should be able to sign as many autographs and make as much money as he wants, because it's his name. I feel like he's the one who created it. He should be able to do whatever he feels as long as it's legal and I don't think there's anything illegal about signing a picture of yourself and making money off himself. Shoot, the NCAA is making money off of it when they're selling those No. 2 shirts. Why can't he make a little bit of money off of it?"
Is there an answer to that question?
Happy trails en route? It sounds like Michigan is going to lose 2015 SF Luke Kennard to Kentucky:
"It was really cool getting to sit and talk with coach Cal about my game," Kennard said. "Cal's main message to me was just that he wants me in a Kentucky uniform. He told me let's get it done."
While Kennard still denies having a favorite at this time, the class of 2015 product said that he likely will make a decision sometime after his junior season of high school basketball.
Asked about the chances that Calipari get his wish to get him in a Wildcats uniform, Kennard responded, "There's a good possibility."
Unfortunate after Michigan put so much time into the kid, but they'll be fine.
Herbstreit likes us. ESPN man on Michigan:
"But how can you not like Devin Gardner? He's 6-4, he's 215 pounds. He fits perfectly into what Al Borges wants to do. I think Al Borges, to his credit, did the best that he could in a very, very difficult set of circumstances with (former Michigan quarterback) Denard Robinson. Denard will be always hailed and remembered by Michigan fans as being a hero, and yet when you're Al Borges and you're trying to run more of a West Coast, pro-style offense, it's hard to try to make that spread, running-style quarterback work in your system. But they made good strides and did the best they could."
Herbstreit doesn't like back-to-back games for Michigan and Ohio State, which means he is not having a stroke.
Etc.: If you need some faith healing, just leave Tuscaloosa. Michigan will take its time replacing Frank Beckmann. Keith Jackson, anyone?
Unverified Voracity Has A Lot Of Video
Countdown to Kickoff exists again. Talkin' with Devin Gardner:
Countdown to Kickoff 2013: Day 30 - Devin Gardner by mgovide
So that explains that. If you were wondering why Michigan's option plays weren't actual option plays the last couple years, well, yeah:
"We did it [the Wildcat] in OTAs and a couple of times he ran the ball and fumbled the ball and he didn't know how to pitch," Bradley said, according to the Register.
The one time he did try to pitch on a speed option was when he got lit up in the backfield, and that was a fumble.
Oklahoma State was not always good. Wolverine Historian presents the 1992 non-classic:
Gardner on Darboh. I think both of last year's wide receivers are on pace to work out, and Darboh is ahead of the curve:
"He's just a great athlete," Gardner said of the wideout. "He's strong, he's fast, he catches the ball well. He's pretty much everything you could ever want in a receiver."
Gardner compares Darboh to Junior Hemingway, but fast. No, seriously:
"He goes up and gets the ball just like Junior. And he runs fast."
I'll take it.
O'Bannon-related victory. I thought Sam Keller's lawsuit had been folded into the O'Bannon suit, but apparently not. They've just won at the appellate level:
By a 2-1 vote, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said EA's use of the athletes' likenesses in its NCAA Football and NCAA Basketball games did not deserve protection as free expression under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
EA is disappointed that free speech doesn't cover important things like college football videogames using the representations of people without mentioning it to them, and plans to appeal, for all the good that will do.
They'll have to name him Lack Of Seat Cushions. Sorry, those are the probably fictional, possibly offensive stereotypical Native American rules:
I don't make the probably fictional, possibly offensive stereotypical Native American rules. I just enforce 'em, lady.
Jordan Paskorz: I'm not dead yet! Michigan could use some tight end depth with veteran Mike Kwiatkowski departed, and Jake Bu—MAH GAWD THAT'S JORDAN PASKORZ'S MUSIC, AT LEAST I THINK IT IS BECAUSE I'M NOT SURE HE EVEN HAD SOME:
[Paskorz's] career has since been derailed by seemingly interminable instability.
But that's about to change, as he enters his second season at tight end and seems to have fought his way into the rotation as a blocking specialist. …
"What I like is, we settled him into that position and I think he can be a guy who gives us a little more on-the-line-of-scrimmage movement. That's exciting."
At 6'3", 251, he is about the right size to be more of a pusher at TE. AJ Williams is a guy Michigan will ask to fill that role as well, but he needs a lot of technique work to get there. We'll see if the talk translates into playing time.
When do I get to be on a bulletin board? Because if Steve Everitt's lighthearted jab at Kirk Cousins qualifies…
…surely I can come up with something vile enough to get up there despite not being a viking. Hey, Spartans! You smell! Bad!
I'll work on it.
In related news, Dave Brandon once again reiterated that he doesn't want a night game in the series. This is correct. I hope the real reason is wanting to tweak MSU by playing anyone but them at night, but I'll take "don't want a bunch of East Lansing people drunj" after the Gathering of the Juggalos that was two years ago.
Speaking of. UTL II Hype Video:
Glenn Robinson: now he can jump. Yeah, now:
His vertical is up four inches to 12'3".
Etc.: Introducing Dr. Gay Hitler, who was of course from… Ohio, and the son of George Hitler, and a dentist.
Here is a class of 1927(!) alum talking bout her days on campus. Oregon has some money. People don't like dynamic pricing, except for that one guy on facebook who hasn't been to a game since 1982 but likes being a prick to people on the internet. Bill Connolly previews Ohio State. Lewan talks Gholston punch.
Unverified Voracity Abandons The Field
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We are not worried about this frivolous lawsuit. NCAA Football is dead, you guys:
NCAA will not renew EA Sports contract
The NCAA has made the decision not to enter a new contract for the license of its name and logo for the EA Sports NCAA Football video game. The current contract expires in June 2014, but our timing is based on the need to provide EA notice for future planning. As a result, the NCAA Football 2014 video game will be the last to include the NCAA's name and logo. We are confident in our legal position regarding the use of our trademarks in video games. But given the current business climate and costs of litigation, we determined participating in this game is not in the best interests of the NCAA.
Paired with the credit-rating downgrade the NCAA just received, that sounds like a team of lawyers running around in circles shouting "THINK OF SOMETHING" to each other. Most favored bomb-thrower Patrick Hruby:
What gives is lawyer-ese. The NCAA is never going to publicly say that the O'Bannon case has them scared, because that would imply they've done something wrong and therefore have reason to be afraid of adjudication. However, the current facts of the case don't look good for it: O'Bannon's claim is rooted allegations that the NCAA and co-defendants EA Sports and the Collegiate Licensing Company colluded to profit from the unauthorized use of former players' NILs – price-fixing their value at zero – and documents uncovered by the plaintiffs' lawyers during discovery strongly support said allegatioons.
The other tell? Check out the rest of the NCAA's brief statement, which says that "given the current business climate and costs of litigation, we determined participating in this game is not in the best interests of the NCAA." (Bold added.) In this case, current business climate and costs of litigation are lawyer-ese for ruh-roh.
Individual schools and conference can still license their trademarks to EA. Will they? I'm guessing yes, as Kotaku explains that most of the licensing is through the CLC, making the NCAA's decision "nearly a technicality."
If not get ready for EA Sports Football Type Substance And Incredibly Easy To Edit Thing 2015. Back in the day when I was playing the college version of Front Office Football I had to download a file to turn "South Bend" into "Notre Dame," and such, but it's a lot harder to import winged helmets than change names.
Shots fired. Will Muschamp is pretty cheesed off at Urbs, you guys. SEC Media days are ongoing, and Muschamp's turn at the tiller included this gem:
Muschamp, who succeeded Meyer as the Gators' coach, is even borrowing a page from Michigan coach Brady Hoke, who won't even call Ohio State by its full name.
"That's really a dead issue with me," Muschamp said Tuesday at SEC media days. "In both situations, we were turned in by Ohio. We didn't do anything wrong. The University of Florida didn't do anything wrong. And so we appreciated our friends from Ohio making sure we're compliant with NCAA rules. They certainly know a little bit about that subject."
That zing was followed up by a personal shot at Urban Meyer for fostering a murderer he is responsible for. No, seriously:
"You can't expect a coach to know where all 125 players are all the time," Muschamp said. "But you also can't stick your head in the sand and think everything is OK. You're 100 percent responsible."
Arrest Urban Meyer! Unless that would help his recruiting, which it might. Arrest Urban Meyer or take a picture of him checking out a Justin Beiber concert?
I hope you guys are better at real defense than computer defense. Ondre Pipkins played Dymonte Thomas in NCAA and came out with a screenshot that is just all kinds of wrong:
Are these 30 minute quarters? Why are you taking Ohio State? Why has Ohio State scored if that was the case? What is going on? IS URBS GOING TO FLIP DYMONTE?
Slive pushing. Self-interest, sure, but self interest in the name of providing a fig leaf of player compensation is better than the alternative:
"The NCAA has not been successful in meeting the full cost of attendance of our student athletes, whether through the so-called miscellaneous expense allowance or some other model that provides broad access to additional funds," said Slive, about to begin his 12th year as commissioner.
The issue, in a nutshell, is that some schools can afford to pay the stipend and some can't. Those that can't are able to keep the idea bottled up. Those that can, like schools in the SEC, are getting tired of it.
"Conferences and their member institutions must be allowed to meet the needs of their student-athletes," Slive said.
Slive followed up by saying that in meetings with other conference commissioners "there appears to be a willingness" to go through with a cost of attendance adjustment, at least until individual schools submarine it through the override process.
Mitch staying. SI spotlights Mitch McGary in a manner that'll get your salivary glands going:
When he submitted his name to the NBA's draft advisory board, McGary was told what he already suspected: He was a surefire first-round pick, and very possibly a lottery pick. The vast majority of college players would have jumped at that opportunity, but McGary defied convention and announced he would stay in school. "I want to prove to people that my potential is much greater than what I showed," McGary explained. "The way I look at it is, so far I've only cracked the glass. Next year I'm trying to break through it."
McGary is down to around 255 after starting last season twenty pounds heavier—too heavy—and you could see the increased stamina and athleticism late. That was the #2 recruit in the country, and Michigan figures to get that this year.
TSN's Mike DeCourcy, meanwhile, says McGary is still a load even at the lighter weight:
4. Jadeveon Clowney was a big topic of conversation at SEC Media Days. What current college hoops player could take your head off if he played football?
DeCourcy: Michigan's Mitch McGary. Not messing with that dude. If Mitch had been the Wolverine in possession of that football instead of Vincent Smith back in the Outback Bowl, it might have been Clowney whose helmet went flying.
So much for that. If you were hoping that Fox Sports 1 would be an alternative to ESPN, it will, but not in the way you want:
…to differentiate FS1, to lend it personality and create a distinct brand, Fox is going with a concept that David Hill, chief executive officer of Fox Sports, calls "jockularity." The plan is for FS1 to be the funny, irreverent, less serious sports channel.
Among other things, that involves hiring a couple of Canadian pranksters to anchor the network's flagship program and building another show around Regis Philbin.
So much for that unless the Canadian is Norm Macdonald.
Never say die. The Big Ten has created a new bowl at Ford Field, but the Pizza Bowl guys won't let it die:
Ken Hoffman feels there's no reason Ford Field can't handle playing host to two bowl games starting in 2014.
Hoffman's Little Caesars Pizza Bowl was on the outside looking in following the news Wednesday the Detroit Lions bowl game was official, starting Dec. 30, 2014, with a Big Ten team going up against a team from another power conference.
Guys. It's over.
Etc.: Eleven Warriors' guide to visiting Ann Arbor is seemingly designed to get you to dislike Ann Arbor, but I guess it's aimed at guys who get ATV catalogs. Pro sports attendance beginning to suffer in baseball and basketball. Average Boston Red Sox ticket cost: 88 dollars! FIFA can't sell the World Cup to pay-TV in the UK.
Music City Bowl will pit an SEC team versus an ACC/B10 team for the next five years. A la carte ESPN projected cost: 30 bucks. Thanks, people who don't care about sports but pay for ESPN anyway. Old man yells at cloud. Potential VCU rematch in the second round of Puerto Rico.
O'Bannon Stuff: Actual Judge, Actual Lawyers
OR: Hear, hear, let's have a hearing
People stood in front of a judge and talked yesterday, which happens all the time but only rarely is it the Ed O'Bannon case, which has been going on for years and will continue to go on until the sun is a feeble red dot in the sky* and people come to the conclusion that the NCAA is nuncupatory.
O'Bannon and his crew are trying to get a class certified, which would take their case from a few irritated dudes to everyone who has or is playing NCAA sports right now. Results are unknown at the moment, but the gist of it is that the NCAA is in trouble. The judge asked why the O'Bannon folk didn't have any current athletes as plaintiffs if they were trying to certify a class of NCAA athletes; O'Bannon's lawyers said flat-out they would add one. Cue the obvious reference:
The Curt Flood of major college sports is probably on a campus somewhere in America right now. He's probably participating today in some "voluntary" summer weightlifting or conditioning session. His head coach probably makes seven figures, and his school's conference probably signed a megabucks television deal in the past few years.
Curt Flood lost, which no one not actually employed by an athletic department wants to see happen here. The plaintiffs have been saying they have current guys interested for a while but have left them out so far because they didn't want to expose them to retaliation, which… honestly, would be the best possible thing for them. Can you imagine if a kid was added to the lawsuit and the NCAA took away his eligibility? The resulting war would make Helm's Deep look like a Kentucky home game.
SI says legal experts believe the class will be certified, and highlighted a Lionel Hutz argument from the NCAA:
"If you go in front of a camera and know you're going in front of a camera ... you're fair game for TV," Curtner said. "Cheerleaders, mascots, lots of people appear in these broadcasts, and there's a uniform practice in this country that these rights are not individually sold."
Curtner, in turn, drew a skeptical chuckle from the judge when Wilken subsequently asked, "So what is it the colleges are selling when they sell rights to show their games?"
"They are selling exclusive access to their stadium or arena," Curtner responded. "They're telling CBS, you can come in and broadcast this, and no one else can. ... That's all they're selling. They're not selling individual [players'] rights."
Sonny Vacarro said that's the dumbest thing he's ever heard, and while I've been on too many Ohio State message boards to concur it's up there.
The NCAA is going to lose this, right? I can imagine no other way it goes when almost a decade ago various people within the organization itself were asking the same question I have: when literally every move you make is focused on increasing revenue to the detriment of tradition and even common sense, how can you argue that amateurism is, like, a real thing?
"The biggest concern I have is that such a position really does allow for the maximum commercial exploitation of the [student-athlete] and if that occurs, will it be long before we can defend not giving them a piece of the profits?"
But weird stuff happens with lawsuits, I guess. If they do go ahead with the whole-enchilada lawsuit with current players and everything, it is a higher-risk strategy than going with the slow-and-steady approach other reformers have undertaken. But with NCAA correspondence consistently acknowledging the plaintiff's argument, risk seems a relative term.
"off the record, most of those I've spoken to at the NCAA and CLC are in favor of the players being more identifiable not less." –EA sports guy
*[astronomically incorrect, yes, I know.]
Go O'Bannon, Go
Yesterday, the NFL settled with a group of former players who had sued them for using their identities without permission. What's more, the NFL had an insane-seeming clause barring those same players from using their own identifies:
Hall of Famer Elvin Bethea and five other retired players filed the federal class-action lawsuit in Minneapolis in 2009 accusing the NFL of blatantly exploiting retired players' identities in films, highlight reels and memorabilia to market the league's "glory days."
"The retired players who created these glory days, however, have gone almost completely uncompensated for this use of their identities," the plaintiffs said. "Notably, while exploiting the identities of retired players for commercial gain, the NFL prohibits retired NFL players from using their own identities as players to promote themselves commercially."
Instead of facing down a court case, the NFL settled to the tune of 42 million dollars. Because they were going to lose, hard. Yesterday was a good day for Ed O'Bannon.
O'Bannon, of course, is the former UCLA basketball player irritated enough that he was in an EA Sports game to launch a class-action suit against the NCAA for almost the same issue the NFL just settled on, down to the insane-seeming cause. In the NCAA, those athletes sign away their publicity rights in perpetuity as a condition of the scholarship they get. But as anyone who's followed discussion about a coach's multimillion dollar buyout clause knows, just because it's in a contract doesn't mean its enforceable. Thus the pending class action.
O'Bannon and company have shifted tack from the relatively paltry amount of money provided by video game publishers to the Big Kahuna, amending their complaint to target game broadcasts. The NCAA's last response is to prevent the class from being certified thanks to a precedent they earned in a different breathtakingly cynical fight:
The NCAA relies heavily on its victory in a case regarding scholarship limits. Walk-on football players filed a class action against the NCAA arguing that in the absence of the 85 scholarship limit, they would have received full athletic scholarships. The court in that case refused to certify the class, because each player would have to prove individually that he would have received a football scholarship.
Yesterday, a bunch of motions in that case were made public, and everyone seized on this Jim Delany statement to laugh at the most hollow threat not made by a Jong-Il in the past 50 years:
Rather, it has been my longstanding belief that The Big Ten's schools would forgo the revenues in those circumstances and instead take steps to downsize the scope, breadth, and activity of their athletic programs. Several alternatives to a "pay for play" model exist, such as the Division III model, which does not offer any athletics-based grants-in-aid, and, among others, a need-based financial aid model. These alternatives would, in my view, be more consistent with The Big Ten's philosophy that the educational and lifetime economic benefits associated with a university education are the appropriate quid pro quo for its student-athletes.
Stupid or deceitful? I think the latter given Jim Delany's extremely malleable opinion on playoffs, but then again he is the man who gave us "Leaders and Legends" and wrote an open letter about how the SEC is poopy pants in 2007, thus dooming us to ALL THE SEC since. We may never know.
This is an organization that feels a university education is a sufficient quid pro quo for work that earns various people seven-figure salaries to play glorified secretary, and then fights lawsuits that would open up those university educations to more people because that might impinge on those seven figure salaries.
And this, of course, is a man who has spent the last twenty years thinking about nothing but money. He created a television network for money. He added Nebraska for money. He split Michigan and Ohio State in the vague hope of getting more money if they played twice. He added Rutgers and Maryland for money despite the fact that 11 of the 12 fanbases in the Big Ten would rather boil themselves in oil than play those teams in anything. Once he is presented with the idea he might have to share some of his money, he threatens to take the whole damn thing out of the system, into another system that will be exposed to the same legal precedent that prevents you from outrageously sharecropping athletes. The answer is probably "both." As Michael of Braves and Birds put it on twitter:
Delany's declaration is one step removed from threatening to attack Fort Sumter. "Our whole economic system is built on exploitation, so if you require that we pay our labor, we'll secede!" - Delany as Jefferson Davis.
As it becomes increasingly clear that the value of a university degree is coming unhinged from how much it costs, athletic departments continue to pile up more and more money that has to go somewhere. Increasingly, that is to the Jim Delanys of the world:
Michigan Budget, 2006
- Revenue of 68 million dollars
- 21 million spent on "salaries, wages, and benefits"
- 11 million spent on "financial aid to students"
Michigan Budget, 2013
- Revenue of 130 million dollars (a 91% increase)
- 44 million spent on "salaries, wages, and benefits" (a 109% increase)
- 18 million spent on "financial aid to students" (a 64% increase)
Despite the increase in athlete outlays, really there is no increased value there for the folks actually making the money. Instead the athletic department adds sports (lacrosse) and the University continues its unsustainable tuition spiral. The net for the athlete is the degree, then and now. When Texas A&M offered Bo a million dollars and he was reduced to tears because he had to choose between securing his family and staying at Michigan, that was maybe plausible. Today? Bitch, please.
According to a recent report in USA Today Sports, athletic directors at FBS schools are paid an average of $515,000 annually, an increase of more than 14 percent since … 2011. At the low end of the scale, Louisiana-Monroe AD Bobby Staub took home $109,923; at the high end, Louisville's Tom Jurich pocketed $1,401,915. Over the last two years, the number of athletic directors making $1 million or more has jumped from six to nine, while the number making $800,000 or more has risen from nine to 15. None of this is entirely new. Back in 2010 -- that is, when unemployment was at 9.9 percent and the nation was still reeling from the worst financial crisis since 1929 -- at least 10 public schools gave their athletic directors pay raises of $75,000 or more.
But you feel that a university education is the same bonus it's always been. You feel that it's fair that every extra dollar the players on the field make is destined for someplace other than their pockets. I feel that if every athletic director in the country disappeared tomorrow, no one outside their families would notice, and that if you took the best player off of every BCS football team the country would collapse into riots and chaos by Thursday. Useless vampires of college sports, I hope the courts annihilate your business model so thoroughly you end up shining Denard Robinson's shoes.
"People who have talent and bring something significant to the party expect to be paid fairly. I have no problem stepping up and paying talent for what they deserve."
Unverified Voracity Throws It Down
Iowa: not very good. BHGP on the Hawkeye depth chart at guard and RB:
IOWA FOOTBALL TAKES ON MICHIGAN SATURDAY (/GROAN).Here's the two-deeps. Conor Boffeli is your left guard this week. Jordan Walsh, Austin Blythe, Nolan MacMillan and Boffeli have all had a turn playing turnstile there since Brandon Scherff and Andrew Donnal left the Penn State game due to injury. Neither Mark Weisman nor Brad Rogers are listed at running back or fullback.
Last week, Damon Bullock got to play an Iowan version of Poor Damn Toussaint, rushing for 1.9 yards a carry against Purdue, the #85 rushing D in the country. Iowa is not good. FWIW, the game was off the board yesterday but has now been set at Michigan –20. Iowa is not good.
YAHHHHHHHHHH / Bryan Fuller
Basketball: possibly very good. I took in my first non-tiny-stream version of Michigan basketball last night*, and this happened:
"I probably should've dunked it," the Michigan freshman forward joked. "I missed a little tip-in, I was kind of upset about that."
It was awful. I'm so depressed.
The Wolverines' freshman forward showed off every facet of his game, and his potential, scoring 21 points on 8 of 9 shooting. He went 3-for-3 from behind the 3-point line, he finished off alley-oop dunks and even grabbed six rebounds.
Oh right that part well you guys just aren't demanding enough excellence. It is only by doing so on the internet that excellence can be achieved.
But seriously folks. !!!
Let us take a brief moment to consider Jordan Morgan, who continues to lose weight and get more athletic. He uses this additional athleticism to be incredibly annoying. Here is a screen in your face. Here is a hedge of your screen that puts you in the corner six feet from the three point line. Also it comes with free batting at the ball. He is going to rotate back now and not block your shot but just make it so that when you jump you're bouncing off him a little. And then he will run the floor.
Morgan's still undersized and may still be foul-prone against better competition, but this year Michigan can turn to Mitch McGary and Jon Horford when that happens instead of a badly miscast Evan Smotrycz, so I don't even care that much except Morgan does seem a step or two better than those guys because of the aforementioned embodiment of the most annoying noise in the world.
Big guys have a tendency to make that senior step up—Chris Young, Pete Vignier, Graham Brown—that makes them loveable lunch-bucket little-coaching-squee machines, and Morgan is in that year even if he's a junior thanks to the redshirt. There's a reason he's starting.
He'll probably see his minutes reduced against teams that can put out a post guy who can simply outhuge him; other than that it's going to be hard to get him off the floor.
Other things:
- Vogrich > Stauskas at the moment because of defense, Stauskas > anyone in terms of three point shooting ever. Totally not getting ahead of myself based on three games.
- The defense started off a little ugly, but after it was 26-25 ten minutes in the Jags scored only 29 more points in the final 30 minutes. It doesn't seem like it will be a strength, though. That's the tangible thing Michigan will miss without Novak/Douglass.
- Jon Horford thunderdunk + Tim Hardaway thunderdunk + GRIII alley-oop festival == John Beilein looking at his team, thinking about the dudes he coached at Cansisius and wondering if it's even the same sport.
- Not a huge fan of the two post setup. If you're going to do that one of them has to be able to operate out of the high post or shoot—not necessarily threes, but midrange jumpers—and I'm not sure Michigan's posts are prepared to do that yet. McGary might be a high post guy in time. They'll probably run it 10 minutes a game or so.
- McGary's blown layup thing definitely looked like a guy used to having more up than he currently has. Looks like he'll have time to round into shape.
- Fact: Spike Albrecht is better than half of the guys Amaker recruited.
- Hardaway took no threes. In fact, there were exactly two shots all game that irritated me, one a long contested heat check Burke three, the other a long Hardaway two with 20 seconds on the shot clock. Two is kind of an amazing low number.
*[Defensive defense of self: It's hard for me to carve out the time to go to Crisler early in the week because I am working so hard for you, reader, and hockey versus MSU against BBball versus Slippery Rock is no contest.]
The vexer is now the vexee! Or maybe vice-versa. I'm vexed.
Will Campbell wrapping up vexing career by playing his best football
Commence the Rodriguez rabbling!
"It's been bumpy, it's been up and down," Campbell said. "I wish I was under this coaching staff all four years, but I wasn't, so the opportunities they gave me I just tried to capitalize on.
"I'm not saying that (the previous staff held me back). I was just lazy and young, and didn't realize the opportunities in front of me."
You could have had a stuffed animal rubbed on your face, man. That was the opportunity you missed in favor of eating cheeseburgers and playing video games. Verdict: good call.
Format set, mostly. The people who made the playoff thing got together to hammer out some playoff details. They are:
- A 12-year contract featuring a bucket of money delivered by ESPN.
- The Rose, Sugar, and Orange Bowl all have set lineups, with the Orange featuring the ACC champ versus the highest ranked SEC/Big Ten/Notre Dame entity that did not make the playoff or the Rose/Sugar.
- The highest ranked team from a minor conference—Big East now included—gets an auto bid to an "access" bowl. In years when the Rose/Sugar/Orange are all out of the semifinal business that means there is essentially one slot up for grabs.
- It's unclear what happens when the Rose hosts a semi and the Fiesta/Cotton/Peach bowls are acquiring teams. When the Rose/Sugar are hosting semis they will not allow the Big Ten or SEC champ to be in the Orange Bowl to make the Fiesta/Cotton/Peach setups more attractive in a long term TV contract.
- There is another bucket of money coming for the title game.
More documents, more facepalming for the NCAA. Get The Picture has been all over every document released as part of the Ed O'Bannon case's discovery process, and here's the latest palm-to-forehead moment:
Davis then writes: "Here's my concern -- Eil [sic] is a current player on the Ole Miss team. Is using his actual number and attributes (height, race, etc.) too close to reality thereby using Eli's likeness (if not his name) and causing an eligibility issue?"
Another NCAA staffer, Melissa Caito, wrote in response: "Pls be cautious as you move through this -- any more 'watering down' of the video games will likely move the manufacturers to cease operations with us."
I'm not a lawyer, but that seems bad.
Another document made public Monday by the plaintiffs lawyers showed the results of an NCAA commercialism and licensing survey in which 12 of 150 responding Division I schools said they "engage in the sale of licensed products bearing a current student-athlete's individual likeness."
This was 2004 to 2006. I wonder what constitutes "likeness" here—it's possible some schools admit that putting 16 on a jersey and selling it is enough, while others are like "16, never heard of him, who's named 16 lol nobody."
Etc.: MGoUser hops on reddit to ask if people actually show up at other schools. Burke is now 20, also scoring and assisting. Billy Taylor documentary is FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY. Even the most reasonable minds have to wonder about whether there is some conspiracy at Penn State. Oh… against Penn State? Oh. Safety blitzin'.


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γ-Secretase Modulators and Presenilin 1 Mutants Act Differently on Presenilin/γ-Secretase Function to Cleave Aβ42 and Aβ43
Cell Reports, Volume 3, Issue 1,
Pages 42-51,
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DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.11.028
Masayasu Okochi
Shinji Tagami
Kanta Yanagida
Mako Takami
Takashi S. Kodama
Kohji Mori
Taisuke Nakayama
Yasuo Ihara
Masatoshi Takeda
Neuropsychiatry and Neurochemistry, Department of Integrated Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Department of Neuropathology, Faculty of Life and Medical Sciences, Doshisha University, Kizugawa 619-0225, Japan
JST, CREST, Kawaguchi, 332-0012, Japan
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► A concept to explain the production of AD-associated Aβ42(43) is proposed ► Aβ42(43) is not only a product of, but also a substrate for, γ-secretase in cells ► The mechanism underlying the action of γ-secretase modulators is proposed ► Enhancing γ-secretase function to cleave Aβ42(43) is a strategy for anti-AD drugs
Deciphering the mechanism by which the relative Aβ42(43) to total Aβ ratio is regulated is central to understanding Alzheimer disease (AD) etiology; however, the mechanisms underlying changes in the Aβ42(43) ratio caused by familial mutations and γ-secretase modulators (GSMs) are unclear. Here, we show in vitro and in living cells that presenilin (PS)/γ-secretase cleaves Aβ42 into Aβ38, and Aβ43 into Aβ40 or Aβ38. Approximately 40% of Aβ38 is derived from Aβ43. Aβ42(43) cleavage is involved in the regulation of the Aβ42(43) ratio in living cells. GSMs increase the cleavage of PS/γ-secretase-bound Aβ42 (increase kcat) and slow its dissociation from the enzyme (decrease kb), whereas PS1 mutants and inverse GSMs show the opposite effects. Therefore, we suggest a concept to describe the Aβ42(43) production process and propose how GSMs act, and we suggest that a loss of PS/γ-secretase function to cleave Aβ42(43) may initiate AD and might represent a therapeutic target.


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My cozy home-away-from-home
Thomas Gappmayer
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- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Sometimes I wish I could go back and have conversations with my past self--you know, tell Past-Thomas to buy shares of Google, pick up a few bitcoins, etc...if I could, one of the ones I would have with past-self would go like this:
Future Thomas: You know, Past-Thomas, your tent really isn't working out too well for you, is it--don't you get tired of setting that thing up in the rain? And really--do you enjoy constant condensation and poor ventilation? How's that 7 pound packweight treating you?
Past-Thomas: Oh, you know, I guess it's fine. I'd like a better tent, but with all of them so expensive, I guess I'll just keep on suffering.
Future-Thomas: Your call, mate. Tell you what--eventually, you're gonna break down after your tent fails in an all-out rain storm up in the Lone Peak Cirque, and you'll end up dropping a few hundred to get yourself a nice, new iTent...but if you don't believe me, see for yourself. Spoiler alert: once you try to hide under that big rock near the meadow camp, it's gonna flood, too. Don't worry, you'll pull through the night--but not without a ton of swearing, a soaked-through sleeping bag, and an awkward cuddle sesh with your partner.
My only regret is that it took me so long to buy this tent. Perfect for one, cozy for two (great for alpine climbs), and an all-around killer design. Buy it now...before you get caught in a full-on gail storm in your mediocre, heavy old tent--take Future-Thomas's advice on this one, and you'll thank me later.
Handles Tropic to Alpine
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- Gender: Male
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
(Amen to Andy Paul!) As a matter of fact, " Jump in, and you ARE sheltered"- as in a bivy sack. Then, you can take your time installing poles, when the blizzard mellows, or after you take your much-needed nap :) I'm fortunate to have the 2-door version so:
1) It vents well even in the tropics :)
2) Person who tends the stove (practically immobile) can stay warm/comfortable, while tentmate is free to move around assist/help gather clean snow for the cook, enter exist tent without interrupting kitchen work or risk tripping over stove
3) Wide Vestibule roof, so roomy for kitchen duty, can be vented on top to vent stove fumes, yet stove below is protected from wind.
Some improvements could be made on design i.e.,::
1) Loops for guy outs given one twist before sewing on so they open easily and would be glove-friendly. I WILL replace mine with plain loops of cord.
2) I WILL get rid of vestibule buckle (extra weight). If I decide to bring vestibule, I'll tie it on at start of trip. If not, I leave it behind- simple. Tying vestibule on also makes it easy to place it on either door.
stashed on a ledge in the high sierra
Andy Paul
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the i-tent fits nicely on granite ledges
Simple, practical. Bibler/BD kills it.
Andy Paul
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I've had this tent for 6 years and have to say, it is the most BOMBER shelter for the weight, ever. Bibler kills it. The single wall two pole set up is unbeatable...storming outside? Jump in, snap poles and you're sheltered. It has endured downpours in Alaska and mid winter in Colorado, and I've gotta say, it keeps the bad stuff out without condensation forming on the inside due to the unique toddtex material. The bathtub floor is bomber enough to pitch it in a puddle.
Only suggestion is get the Eldorado if you're more than 6'2". It's snug with two but not uncomfortable.
Big investment, but a tent that will last decades of heavy use.
I-tent in the Wasatch
Taylor Morgan
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Holy Grail Batman
Cedar Wright
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This really is the best fast and light tent out there. Super light super low profile for setting up on sloping snow ledges etc. Super Water proof, Super Bad Ass.
Dwayne Vincent
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4 season 2 person under 5 lbs, outstanding!!
Old Schooled.
MB Designs
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Bottom line....Best Tent Ever. Period.
I've had mine for over a decade and it's never let me down. I saw some other whiner post about how when you zip the door when it's raining water "pours" in.....all lies. It's called slap the door from the inside a few times to knock any water off the outside before you zip out. Anyways, if you're a hard backpacker or mountaineer and are thinking about saving a few bucks by rolling with something else, buck up and shell out the extra couple hundge and get the I-Tent. You will realize. The El Dorado kicks ass, too. And Black Diamond's custy service is top shelf.
By the way, all you guys are super jealous because I have the old school model before Black Diamond with the little chimney vent instead of the topside deal. Which is the cat's meow. Oh yeah, and some other dude said his is coming apart at the seams? Re seam seal it on a yearly, man, and unless the damage is too far along you should be good to go.
Sons Of Montana
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Agree! Rain pouring is expected with any dome tent without a vestibule.
Re: coming apart... Backpackers should be handy with thread and needle. unless you want to buy things new each time you have a little rip here and there. Get some good nylon thread and fine needle and McNett Seam-Grip and you can fix a lot of things.
A classic
Dave Watson
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Pretty much the standard for single-wall assault tents. Provides much more peace of mind than the lighter BD first-light. Small foot-print allows it to be placed on the tiniest ledges and the 2 pole design is quick and easy to set up (not as quick and easy as the MH EV2). Strong, breathable and light, a winning combo.
Do you sell a bag for the tent poles?
Mark Englund
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Do you sell a bag for the tent poles?
Brent Doyle
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Black Diamond has excellent customer service and I bet they'd be willing to help you out:
Best of luck!
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Bag? Why spend more money and add weight to your pack?
Use your footprint/tarp. Put stakes and poles in tarp/footprint. Roll footprint/tarp
Sweet Tent
Nick Devore
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I love the I tent, it is nice and light and water proof and very east to set up, especially in a storm. I lived on Denali for a month in this tent and it was perfect. You can either take the vestibule or if your going solo and dont want it you can leave it behind making the tent even lighter. after using Bibler tents I will never go another brand.
Sweet Tent
Nick Devore
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I love the I tent, it is nice and light and water proof and very east to set up, especially in a storm. I lived on Denali for a month in this tent and it was perfect. You can either take the vestabule or if your going solo and dont want it you can leave it behind making the tent even lighter. after using bibler tents I will never go another brand.
Denali base camp
Nick Devore
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My humble home while skiing on Denali.
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Nick DeVore and his I-Tent on Denali
Chris Davenport
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Did the tent come loose at all being sideways way up there in AK? was it hard to get in and out of like that? Is the entire state of Alaska like that or just the further up you go?
Great solo tent, but still good for two
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This is my go to tent for solo trips since it is so light, but still bomber. It is fine as a two man tent, but it is a little tight. If you anticipate limited area to pitch a tent, i.e. you have to dig a platform of a steep slope, this is the tent to have. It fits people to 6'2", but is snug for them. At 5'10" I am perfectly happy in this tent, no matter what the weather throws at me.
Quiet in the Wind!
Mountain David
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It took me a long time to learn to set up my I-tent. But with practice it has become easy. I've used it in very windy conditions in Patagonia: No wind noise due to taut skin.
I have never had condensation problems as I have with silnylon tarp tents.
I'm 5' 10" and barely fit, so I would go for the larger Ahwahnee, but I got a great buy on e-Bay.
I wish the tarp tents would use the breathable fabric, to make a lighter 3 season tent.
The I-tent works well in wind, snow, hail, ice. An amazing tent.
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The "Grommet" is a snap. The female side of a 10-mm snap.
Amended Review: downside
Mountain David
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I forgot to mention two negatives.
One is that the poles fit into grommet-like slots which aren't adequate, and if you let the pole slip out, it can easily make a hole in the floor of the tent. My tent is patched in two places from such occurrences.
When it is very wet, and you open the door, water pours into the tent. It's best to use the vestibule in very rainy climes. (you set up the tent from inside, so that's a big plus in rain!)
Bomber and Simple
Evan Stevens
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So tried and true. For single wall tents, it is the most repairable and waterproof of any I have used. The ultralight single walls will NOT keep you dry, but the I-tent has kept me dry in Cascades downpours for days on end. Small footprint, easy to set up, add the vestibule on for extended room.
Whats the difference between the I-Tent...
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Whats the difference between the I-Tent and the Black Diamond Eldorado? Whats the deal with Black Diamond and Bibler? Seems BD sells Bibler stuff sometimes, but sometimes not. Thanks.
Tyler Olander
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The Eldorado is 5 in. longer than the I-Tent merely for taller people or more gear space. Black Diamond bought Bibler in the mid-90's, but they retain the Bibler name probably because of its unique tent construction.
A Little too small
MountainMan Cowboy
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Go for the El Dorado instead for a little more leg room. Even a 5'6 person will appreciate it for the extra 3 oz. of weight.
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I've only had the opportunity to use my tent once, but I can already tell it is worth every penny. It sets up in seconds. It is sturdy as a rock. The I-tent is tight though and I can see why it isn't recommended for people over 6' tall.
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Format: | 15 Blu-ray |
Starring: | Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Joe Pantoliano, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving |
Directors: | Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski |
Genres: | Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller |
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Collections: | Superb Sound |
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Matrix - Blu-ray |
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Matrix Reloaded - Blu-ray |
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Matrix Revolutions - Blu-ray |
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Rental release: | 24 Nov 2008 |
Main languages: | English |
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The Matrix is clearly a 90s classic, and while the BD transfer isn't that amazing, it beats the now murky looking previous DVD release and replaces it with a sharp picture with great colours and contrast. Unfortunately this is a poor disk without even an interactive menu that some of the older DVDs have the cheek to list as a special feature. We have to wait for another release while the US gets a packed collectors set. The sequels probably look as good, but lets be honest, who wants to watch them twice.- Was this review helpful to you?
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One of the best sci-fi trilogies
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Daily Links for the LA Angels including Scioscia won't commit to Trumbo as his full-time first baseman, Morales cleared for baseball activities, Opening Day roster announced and much more...
Daily Links for the LA Angels including Scioscia won't commit to Trumbo as his full-time first baseman, Morales cleared for baseball activities, Opening Day roster announced and much more...
This might be my favorite post of the off-season to write every year. We can preview the team all we want, but nothing is more fun than boiling down the season so that it really depends on one player. This year was definitely one of the toughest yet, but after much consternation, I think I finally figured out the answer. The most important Angel of 2011 Is... Dan Haren. Allow me to explain.
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2010 Stats: 224.1 IP, 13-12, 3.01 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 233 K
2011 ZiPS Projections: 201.1 IP, 15-8, 3.53 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 195 K
2011 Bill James Projections: 222 IP, 14-11, 3.45 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 199 K
2011 Marcel Projections: 193 IP, 12-10, 3.50 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 176 K
2011 MWaH Projections*: 215 IP, 16-9, 3.38 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 192 K
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The season hasn't even started, but the Kazmir situation has already reached a critical mass. Public consensus is that Kazmir has nothing left, but that hasn't stopped the Angels from keeping him in the rotation. But how long will that last? Is this just delaying the inevitable or should the Angels start making different plans for their embattled pitcher?
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Water hand pumps of Nepalgunj has started going dry due to long spell of dry hot weather that shot up the temperature.
Dozens of hand pumps had dried up within a week. The people of Nepalgunj started facing shortage of drinking water owing to drying up of water sources. The local people are now depending on water supplied by Drinking Water Corporation (DWC).
"We are depending on our neighbourhood to get single drop of water for past four days", said Meraj Ahamad, a local and added "we have not bathed for last four days after our hand pumps dried up".
The population of Nepalgunj is above 3, 00,000 but only 4300 lucky people are enjoying water supply facilities from Drinking Water Corporation.
According to Drinking Water and Sanitation Division Office (DWSDO) of Nepalgunj, more than 1,100 hand pumps were set up here. Many people set up hand pumps at their homes when they found DWC distributing dirty water at their home.
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Nepalgunj is known as the hottest town in the nation. Air Water Field Office informed that the temperature of Nepalgunj reaches upto 45 degree in the summer time. Going by the high summer and long dry spell, the town is likely to break all its past records in terms of recording temperature this year.
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