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Nursing student Matt Pipitone is preparing to spend spring break in the mountains of El Salvador treating the sick.
He will join 28 classmates and three faculty members from the Palm Beach Atlantic University School of Nursing on the week-long trip, which is part of a clinical immersion course. He said he signed up for his first mission trip because he desires "to have a servant heart," said Pipitone, a junior who is double-majoring in nursing and psychology.
|Palm Beach Atlantic University Associate Professor of Nursing Dr. Christine Brooks (center) speaks to students this week about packing for their trip to El Salvador. Among the items they will take are donated clothes, shoes and new toothbrushes.
The trip represents also another first. It will be the first school-wide mission trip for the School of Nursing, which is partnering with the international Christian organization King's Castle Ministries.
The nursing students, all juniors and seniors, will be involved in medical missions in and around Santa Ana. Also, the team is slated to participate in a service learning project as part of their Community Clinical course.
They'll spend a day packing and distributing 150 bags containing oil, rice and beans for families in need, said Associate Professor of Nursing Dr. Christine Brooks, who will accompany the students on the trip.
Nursing student Katie Kraft said that it's one thing to help others in a country like the United States, where resources are available. "Being able to serve in a community where there are no resources for these people is an entirely different situation," she said.
The students are bringing with them clothes, shoes and other items to be donated to struggling families. Dr. Robert Denton, a local dentist, donated new toothbrushes, and Medwear Uniforms donated scrubs. Students raised money for the trip, and they also received support through donations from nursing faculty members and JupiterFirst Church.
This trip is one of several missions-oriented journeys that PBA students will take next week. About 80 PBA students will travel to seven countries in Central and South America during spring break on trips coordinated by Campus Ministries. One team will remain in West Palm Beach to participate in an urban immersion project.
Meanwhile, two students from the School of Education and Behavioral Studies will travel to the Dominican Republic for an educational visit to Santiago Christian School.


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The next regular, second-Saturday-of-the-month meeting of the Utah Valley PAF (Personal Ancestral File) Users Group will be on Saturday, 14 Nov 2009, from 9 am to noon in the Edgewood/Riverside LDS Chapel, 3511 North 180 East, Provo, Utah. The chapel is in the Provo "River Bottoms" behind the Jamestown shopping plaza on the east side of University Avenue. You get to it by turning east from University Avenue at 3700 North ("Will's Pit Stop") and then south on 180 East. There is a map showing the location on the group's website http://uvpafug.org .
The main presentation for this meeting will be by Marlo Schuldt on EASIER SCANNING - AN ART AND A SCIENCE. He will be demonstrating the use of a scanner so that you can see and understand the actual steps and processes you need to get better scanning results. This workshop will provide you with some very useful information, tips, and tricks. Questions will be welcome.
Marlo Schuldt is President of LifeStory Productions, Inc., an Orem, Utah based company that develops family history software and provides assistance to individuals desiring to gather, prepare, print, and share family history. He earned both BS and MS degrees from Brigham Young University in Communicative Disorders. Mr. Schuldt is married and has five children and 12 grandchildren. He recently received a patent on Heritage Collector Software - see http://heritagecollector.com/ . His past presentations for the UVPAFUG have been well-received and he has published 35 free newsletter articles on family history topics. You can read them at http://www.heritagecollector.com/Newsletter/Newslist.htm .
Following the main presentation there will be several classes taught concerning technology and family history. As usual, there will be something for everyone at all levels of expertise. The teachers and classes currently scheduled for this meeting are the following:
- Duane Dudley on Using "Record Search" to Examine Records Being Indexed
- George Scott on Getting to Know New FamilySearch (Class 2 of 4)
- Venita Parry on Genealogy on Your MAC
- Marlo Schuldt Q&A on Easier Scanning and More
- Robert Raymond on The Genealogy Game Show - video of last month's main presentation
- Merlin Kitchen on Ancestral Quest
- Dean Bennett on Tagging in Legacy
- Sue Maxwell on RootsMagic.

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Do these conditionals always necessitate a potentially reversible contingency? I.e. if A, then B (also implies) if NOT A, then NOT B?
I am wrestling with this idea in 1 Jn 1:9 for the following reasons:
1. The text appears to be throwing the weight of John's statement on the faithfulness and ability of Christ (πιστός ἐστιν καὶ δίκαιος) to forgive and cleanse when we confess, rather than the outcome of not confessing. With ἵνα ἀφῇ ἡμῖν τὰς ἁμαρτίας following πιστός ἐστιν καὶ δίκαιος, it looks like the qualification for cleansing is in Christ's faithfulness and righteousness, rather than the preceding subjunctive condition of what we do (or don't do).
2. It doesn't seem logical to me that the opposite of a conditional must always be inferred in a given language. For example, if I make the following conditional statement, "If you come to my house at 2:30, I'll be there," it does not necessarily follow that if you don't come at 2:30, I wont be there. I may be there anyway, even if you don't come. It seems possible this is the case with 1 John 1:9. Of course, I want the authority of the text to speak rather than my own reasoning here, I'm only trying to illustrate.
3. To insist on a reversible contingency (if that is what it is called), wouldn't it also in this particular case hinge Christ's being "faithful and just" on the preceding subjunctive conditional (ἐὰν ὁμολογῶμεν τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν πιστός ἐστιν καὶ δίκαιος)?
I understand "faithful and just" to be John's emphasis and that we need never wonder if forgiveness can be received when confessing, precisely because Christ is "faithful and just." Please correct me if I am wrong and I welcome any explanations you all are willing to offer.
Thanks in advance!
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Baby food doesn't have to be synonymous with blandness, and plain yogurt is...well, plain. Because it's not the most appetizing food on its own, we usually add tasty accompaniments such as fruits, nuts, cereal, or other sweets for a boost in flavor. When it comes to sweetening your baby's yogurt experience, go natural with fruits.
As they get older, you can start to add other foods to their yogurt but fruits are great to start off with. Depending on the fruits you choose to add, they can not only add another level of flavor but texture for your baby. Try preparing our simple recipe below. There are plenty of winter fruits to choose from so feel free to customize it to your liking.
Winter Fruits with Yogurt
Makes about 1 1/2 cups or twelve 1-ounce servings
1/2 cup unsulphured prunes, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1/2 cup dates, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1 medium apple, peeled, cored and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
200 ml water
1/2 cup plain yogurt
Put the prunes, dates and apple into the Baby Food Maker & Bottle Warmer work bowl fitted with the steam blade and cover bowl with lid.
Add the water to the steam/bottle warming chamber and set the measuring cup in its place.
Close the lid to lock and then turn the dial to steam.
Once the light goes out indicating the steaming is complete turn the dial to chop. Pulse several times to break up and then process continuously until completely smooth, about 20 to 25 seconds.
Add the yogurt and pulse to incorporate, about 8 pulses.
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PETER ROBL declared next month's $2 million Magic Millions on the Gold Coast as good as over after Assail thumped her Wyong Magic Millions rivals on Thursday.
The laid-back hoop was positive on the track, crossing to lead from the outside gate and more positive off it after a three-length victory from Frill Seeking and Dream Forward. "What can I say, everything went to plan and she was brilliant," Robl said. "She will win the Magic Millions like that as well.
"She just did everything right. She got across them then relaxed and on the turn I asked her to go and she put six [lengths] on them."
As Assail ($5.50) reached the line, Robl had relaxed her again but she still smashed She's A Meanie's race record. Assail's performance was as dominant as any seen from a two-year-old this season. Priced at $14 on TAB Sportsbet before the race, Assail was quickly made the $4.50 favourite for the Magic Millions Classic on January 12. Trainer Clarry Conners said he wasn't sure whether to run Assail in the $200,000 Wyong scamper but Robl was brimming with confidence. "He rode her a couple of times and in the barrier trial last week told me after that wherever she goes she will be win and he was right," Conners said.
"When I saw the barrier I ummed and ah-ed about whether to start her, but it didn't make any difference to her at all. She is still raw after two runs and two barrier trials and can keep improving."
Conners, who is a master trainer of juveniles said Assail was better than his other Magic Millions winner Mirror Mirror. He will be happy if she can fulfil Robl's prediction as he owns 30 per cent of the filly. "I bought her for $40,000 and then got left with 30 per cent of her," Conners said. "So it will be good that she keeps winning."
Matthew Smith said Frill Seeking will also head to the Gold Coast after her good second.
"The filly [Assail] is obviously very good but I think we have enough money to get into the race and it is not every day that you can run in a $2 million one," Smith said.
Dream Forward was game on debut, sitting three and four wide throughout yet sticking on for third. Dothraki started favourite and could only run fifth, just behind Gai Waterhouse's Certitude.


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The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has prepared this issue brief to provide the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Global Migration and Quarantine (DGMQ) and local health departments (LHDs) an overview of the status of refugee health programs at the LHD level. This issue brief contains information obtained from primary and secondary sources; an environmental scan of relevant programs and literature on the subject of refugee health; key informant interviews; and a facilitated discussion with local public health representatives who work directly with local refugee health programs. More »
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This map displays all the ports of entry in the United States, the locations of the CDC Quarantine Stations, and the jurisdiction of the local health department(s) in which there is a quarantine station.
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These five case studies illustrate how local health departments collaborated with local businesses and universities to respond to and mitigate the effects of the H1N1 influenza pandemic. The studies describe how the partnerships were formed, maintained, and the impact of the partnership in planning for and responding to the H1N1 influenza pandemic. A recommendation section at the end of each document provides succinct guidance for a local health department or private entity interested in engaging in a partnership. Click here for the case studies.
U.S. Port Preparedness at the Local Health Department Level
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention operates 20 quarantine stations throughout the U.S. These quarantine stations are part of a comprehensive Quarantine System that serves to limit the introduction of infectious diseases into the United States and to prevent their spread. Local health departments collaborate with the quarantine stations and support these activities; however, many issues remain unresolved with respect to planning for and responding to health-related situations at U.S. ports of entry at the local health department level. NACCHO researched and wrote an issue brief to better understand the challenges faced by LHDs when planning for preparedness activities and also to identify strengths in the current system in order to further improve planning and response activities. Click here to view the issue brief.


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"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" Starring Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman. PG-13 (intense, graphic action/violence, language).
2011's "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" rebooted the classic franchise with a new origin story. While not as action-packed as expected, it was still one of the most successful movies of the summer. Now, three years later, "Dawn" raises the bar as one of the edgiest and most satisfying action films of the year.
Serkis is officially the King of Motion Capture thanks to another completely convincing and awards worthy performance as ape leader Caesar. From his subtle facial expressions, daring movements and wide range of emotional displays Serkis/Caesar elevate this franchise to new heights.
It's been 10 years since the deadly virus, initially tested on apes, began to spread around the world. Nearly the entire population has died or soon will. A small group of immune survivors are living in San Francisco, but their time is running out as they are short on fuel and food. Leader Dreyfus (Oldman) has a plan: Get the city's old power plant working again. The only problem is it's in ape territory, where Caesar, his family and thousands of others are living peacefully away from the humans. When a team sent to investigate the condition of the plant, led by Malcolm ("Zero Dark Thirty"'s Clarke) and Ellie (Keri Russell) stumbles upon the ape community, "Dawn" quickly becomes a captivating cat-and-mouse game of trust and betrayal between and among the two sides.
Director Matt Reeves ("Cloverfield") does a great job of taking us inside the ape community. He establishes Caesar as both a strong leader and proud husband and father. And the sign language skills taught to him by in "Rise" are now being used by all the apes. But Caesar and a few of the other apes can also speak English, and as these primates soon learn, becoming more human-like has its pluses and minuses.
Reeves doesn't hold back with the multi-layered dramatic elements. There are some perfectly executed twists and surprises along with some pure, out-of-control action sequences. A few pivotal scenes are a little forced and rushed, and the score, a bit of a retro homage to the original "Apes" movies, feels out of place here. But overall, this is a serious, and seriously rewarding summer blockbuster.
LCJ Rating: B+
Also in theaters:
"Earth to Echo" (PG) Awful "E.T." knock-off. F
"Tammy" (R) McCarthy, her fans deserve better. C
"Transformers: Age of Extinction" (PG-13) Franchise brought back to life. C+
"Jersey Boys" (R) Hits range of notes. B-
"22 Jump Street" (R) Right on target. B
"How to Train Your Dragon 2" (PG) Soars, seriously. B+
"Chef" (R) Simple entree with stellar ensemble menu. B-
For all of LCJ's reviews go to lights-camera-jackson.com and follow him on Twitter @LCJReviews.


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We have to learn to live with this.
Aurora, Sandy Hook, the Boston Marathon.
The names are like a slow beat sounding out grief and sorrow.
They don't cover the "smaller" tragedies and the near tragedies. They also don't speak of the Amish girls, Columbine, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma City.
We talk about gun control, but gun control is no defense against pressure cookers loaded with ball bearings or rental trucks filled with fertilizer mixed with jet fuel.
In truth, we can not seal ourselves in a room small enough, we can not pass laws limiting enough to be safe. We are dealing with murderous humans. Humans are too smart for us to ever stop them with our prohibitions, metal detectors and regulations. We are like dogs, chasing our own tails with that approach.
Our society, our world, needs conversion.
But before we can even begin that basic task we have to face a single reality: We are going to have to learn to live with this.
The "this" we must learn to live with is the steady beat of the murderous metronome of casual killing that has become part of the fabric of our lives. Whether the killer of the day is a mass murdering young man with a high-powered weapon, a terrorist with a recipe for mayhem or a serial killer hiding in the shadows, the thing that drives them is always the same. It is, as a reader of this blog said in an unconnected quote, an ability to "not consider the person" who will die.
Murder is made possible by a disconnect from the suffering of others. It is, in the final analysis, the most extreme failure of empathy. Not, notice, as we like to say, a "failure of love." It is not necessary to love someone to refrain from killing them. But it is necessary to separate from their humanity, to objectify them and to not "consider" them and what you are about to do to them.
This nation has been raising up psychopaths the way we once raised up artists and inventors. At the same time, we live in a world of directed psychopathy that creates terrorism, which is nothing more than the murder of innocent civilians.
If we are ever going to change any of this, we will have to face the fact that we need to do more than reach for another quick fix through regulation, safety protocols and prohibitions. We can not give up enough of our freedoms to make ourselves safe from one another.
The only way to become safe from other people is to structure our society in such a way that we end the continuous abuse and disregard of our children. We must stop raising up psychopaths. To do that, we've first got to admit that we are doing something wrong. I see a complete refusal to acknowledge that running throughout our public discourse.Even if we woke up tomorrow, resolved to re-shape our homes, families, schools and institutions along healthy, nurturing lines, it would take time to turn this vast ship of disintegration away from its current path toward the rocks of social dissolution. Since there is very little hope that we will do this, we are out of alternatives.
We are going to have to learn to live with this.
If we are going to stay sane as individual people, we must accept the reality of our lives for what they are. That means accepting that Boston, Sandy Hook, Aurora, the Amish school girls, Virginia Tech, Columbine, Oklahoma City and even 9/11 are not isolated events. They are part of our national life. They are what happens. We have to face the horror of their having happened and add the certainty that they will happen again on top of it, then learn to live with this bitter knowledge.
I am not preaching and teaching a course in despair with this post. I am trying to bring us down to the hard cold reality of our situation.
We are going to have to learn to live with this.
That does not mean that we have to learn to accept it. It means that we have to stop viewing each horror as a separate event and realize that they are all connected in the psyches of those who commit them. This indifference of killers to the people they kill is not new. The blood of innocents has cried out from the ground since people left the garden.
God gave us the only answer to this. Those of us who are Christians have it, if we will just use it.
We are going to have to get used to this, this blood-soaked world in which we live. But we do not need to dive into despair and hopelessness because of it. We must, for the sake of our sanity, stop letting these horrible events take us over and cast us down. We have to get used to it and live with it and move on past it.
We need to focus on the message that we as Christians are the only ones equipped to bring: There is no death. Life has meaning. Everything we do in this life matters in eternity.
Get up off your bed of grief and despair and Catholic on. Turn off the tv and go to work. Take care of your family, clean your house, do your job and live. Pray for the injured, the dead and those who love them. If you are able to help them directly, do it. If not, you can help them best by maintaining the order and stability of the society in which they live.
We are going to have to learn to live with this. The time to begin is now.


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Neil Lennon sensationally threatened to quit Celtic after an angry altercation with fans during the 1-0 Clydesdale Bank Premier League defeat by Inverness at Parkhead.
With the home side trying to claw back Billy McKay's 65th-minute strike late in the game, the former Celtic skipper remonstrated with angry supporters behind his technical area and the match ended with a crescendo of boos from many of the frustrated Hoops support.
"They are frustrated. I disagreed with them, I didn't like what they said about the team," Lennon said. "Look, if they are not happy with what I am doing and they want me to go, I will."
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Modelling coronary calcium progression – the learning sample: Five year follow-up data of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study
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Background: It is now acknowledged that coronary artery calcium (CAC) is both positively associated with cardiovascular risk factors and predictive of coronary events. This suggests studying CAC progression and its relation to risk factors. Present data of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study allow to investigate this topic in a large (n=4487) population-based cohort.
Methods: Two electron beam scans were performed roughly 5 years apart. The learning sample comprised 1600 participants (age at baseline 45-75, 54.4% women) without coronary heart disease. Clinically meaningful classes of CAC (0-9;10-99;100-399;400-999;>=1000) are used to determine rates of progression. We further studied the association of progression with cardiovascular risk factors applying linear regression to log(Q)=5*(log(CAC(t1)+1)-log(CAC(t0)+1))/(t1-t0). Here t0 stands for baseline and t1 for follow-up examination date, and (t1-t0) is given in years. Q is the 5-year factor of progression in CAC+1. As an example for progression modelling, we investigate the effect of baseline smoking behavior.
Results: CAC progressed by one or more classes in 26.7%. Regression (mostly from 2nd to 1st class) was present in 2.6%. Median (Q1;Q3) 5-year progression was by a factor Q of 1.41 (1.00;2.59). The distribution of log(Q) was fairly symmetric and unimodal without long tails. In crude, age- and sex-adjusted, and in Framingham-risk-factor-adjusted analyses, 5-year progression was increased in baseline smokers [former smokers] vs. never smokers by
16.3% (95% CI 1.0%;33.9%; p=0.04) [5.7% (-6.2%,19.1%; p=0.36],
27.3% (10.2%;47.2%; p=0.001) [5.7% (-6.6%,19.6%; p=0.38],
28.1% (10.7%;48.1%; p=0.0009) [5.7% (-6.6%,19.7%; p=0.38], respectively. The models explained only a small fraction of the total log(Q)-variance, namely 0.3%, 3% and 4%.
Discussion: Progression to higher CAC classes in the study period was frequent, while regression was rare and may be mostly attributable to image noise. The proposed linear modelling of log(Q) yields reasonable associations between progression and risk factors. Further aspects of model building will be discussed.


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Want to share your baby's photos and milestones with friends and family online, but are too worried about privacy to use Facebook? Kidmondo, a new social media site, could be just what you're looking for.
Billed as an "online baby journal", Kidmondo offers parents a virtual space to keep track of their baby's life, using a diary, growth charts, video and photo galleries, medical journal (including a dental map, to keep track of tooth eruptions) and more. There's even an interactive tracker to mark all the important milestones.
The site also offers parents the option to collate and print all the information in book form.
Kidmondo keeps all your information private and secure – the only people who'll see your child's journal are the people you've invited. And to make sure no-one misses that vital video of your child's first steps, the site can email your family and friends to let them know when you've updated the page.
The basic package, which lets you keep journals for up to three children, is free with 100MB of storage. It offers a range of themes and colours, allowing users to personalise each journal.
As we rely on the internet more every day, could this mean the end of the humble baby book?


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If fifth-year offensive lineman Chilo Rachal has played his last game with the Bears, it will be memorable for all of the wrong reasons.
Rachal, 26, left the Bears because of personal reasons Wednesday and was placed on the team's reserve/left squad list. He was replaced on the 53-man roster by rookie offensive lineman James Brown, who spent 11 weeks on the Bears' practice squad.
Although the Bears did not provide a specific rea-son as to why Rachal left the team, one published report said he was upset after learning that he was demoted behind Chris Spencer after starting the past eight games at left guard. Rachal struggled badly against the San Francisco 49ers on Monday, when he was penalized twice for holding and tried to fling a ball out of the end zone but was ruled down for a safety.
Spencer, 30, is no stranger to the Bears' starting lineup. He started 14 games at right guard last season and two games at left guard this season before he lost his job to Rachal in Week 3 against St. Louis.
Brown, an undrafted rookie from Troy, impressed coaches during training camp but was assigned to the practice squad after failing to make the 53-man roster. He will provide depth at tackle, where J'Marcus Webb and Gabe Carimi also struggled badly against the 49ers and could be in danger of losing playing time.


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Friday, November 09, 2007
So...how was it?
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- November 08, 2007 2:14 PM
- Katie said...
I was not able to attend, however the Freep says that there is a strong bias toward tOSU. It also says that Lloyd Carr was not contacted for an interview! I find that really interesting!
- November 08, 2007 3:25 PM
- Nelson said...
I was lucky enough to see the NYC screening with a pretty even split of UM and OSU fans and alums.
The director/producer came out and said that he's gotta complaints from both UM and OSU fans that the other school was featured too long, however, I disagree.
I think each school seemed to get equal screen time and proper attention.
I also think it did a great job of portraying the somewhat ugly truth about OSU and UM fans, with UM alums being somewhat arrogant and looking down on OSU while OSU alums have that rep as the school with the inferiority complex towards the school to the north.
They did an incredible job humanizing both Bo and Woody and delved deeply into their well know relationship as enemies on the field and friends off it.
The movie covered each school in spurts of success with a UM focus on the early 1900's, OSU in the 50's and 60's, and then the Ten Year War. Then the film unexplicably rushes through the 80's and 90's of both teams and focuses on the 2002 OSU championship while leaving out the 97' UM championship (even the OSU fans said they were confused by this).
ALso, they did a piece on Tressel, but nothing on Lloyd, which seems incongruous.
These were the only 2 minor qualms.
Everything else had HBO Sports quality all over it. It will make you proud to be a Michigan Wolverine!
- November 08, 2007 3:28 PM
- Dave said...
Posted this on Mgoblog, reposting here...
That wasn't a cyst; it was the balls in Les's head growing too large to fit in his skull. The doctors had to, like, drain them of macho awesome juice or something to make them go down. And they have to do it every few years.
The screening of The Rivalry last night was pretty good. Toward the end, they did show lots of tOSU, but I didn't think it was so bad because they showed what a bunch of obsessive retards they are, mostly. I also liked that Woody Hayes was accurately shown as a fucking psycho. And yet revered by those loons down south.
Some big omissions though: No Ufer (though his voice did "appear" in the film) and, unless I missed it, no mention whatsoever of Anthony Carter (and/or the No. 1 tradition). Also, what Nelson said above about totally skipping 1997 and no Lloyd.
Still, quite enjoyable to watch and a good way to get even more pumped for our annual appointment with Evil.
Thanks to M-Zone for alerting me to this opportunity!
- November 08, 2007 3:46 PM
- Dave said...
Oops, forgot to delete the bit about Les Miles's cranial testicles... please ignore.
Also, poor Rick Leach really needed a speech writer/editor, but it was touching to see/hear just how much Michigan means to him.
- November 08, 2007 3:47 PM
- harry hasselhoff said...
I was also at the NYC screening and I largely agree with Nelson, however I feel that because the movie glanced over the 90's, it ended up tipping the balance of the movie toward the OSU side.
They really talk up Earle Bruce and how he continued the success of the Woody era, but they don't make a mention of Moeller or Carr, or even Michigan's 1997 title, though they certainly highlight out OSU's 2002 title. The only reference to the 90s was a bit on Jon Cooper and a blurb on the 95 Biakabatuka game, where I feel the real story was Michigan continually ruining OSU's perfect seasons and OSU failing to do the same to Michigan in 1997.
Also, I think the contrast between the Buckeye fans and the Michigan fans in the audience was so appropriate - the Michigan fans were largely neutrally dressed young professional types (who just came from their jobs), whereas several the OSU fans were in full Buckeye regalia, and many were middle age guys who looked like they'd made the trek from Buttfu#k, Ohio to go to the screening.
Still, it was nice to experience some of the commonalities in the rivalry. The Buckeye sitting next to me got choked up when they talked about Woody's death, and I was choked up when they talked about Bo's death.
All in all, it was still a great documentary and worthwhile viewing for any football fan. Even my football loathing girlfriend enjoyed it.
- November 08, 2007 8:34 PM
- CrimeNotes said...
1.) The early footage and story of old-timey football at the two schools was interesting and well done. First 15-20 minutes are the best. That may because it's the only part of the story that isn't extremely familiar.
2.) The Woody depiction was effective and balanced.
3.) There's a Woody impersonator named Bo Biafra that crops up every five minutes. One clip of him would have been amusing. Instead they overused him as a kind of voice of the Buckeyes' collective unconscious. It was much too much. The second time he comes on screen, there's a sinking feeling that the production is headed south.
4.) Around the midway point, a broader theme takes over. Essentially, it's passionate, unpolished Buckeyes versus aloof snobs in Ann Arbor. Ohio State comes across as a WWF/Jerry Springer hybrid. Michigan comes across as Mike Wallace chillin' at the law quad. I'm not sure who comes out worse in the depiction, but it's very broad. Buffoonish and lazy.
5.) Once Woody enters the story, it becomes the Buckeyes' movie. Thought that the handling of Bo was cursory. A segment on Desmond and the Heisman pose is really the only focus of Michigan on the field for the last 30 minutes.
6.) It's basically a long GameDay segment. Not nearly as good as the HBO documentary on the '68 Tigers or a good Real Sports segment.
7.) Read this paragraph and you can skip the movie: Football in olden days was fun. Michigan was good. Yost, Friedman, Oosterban, Crisler. Woody Hayes, Woody Hayes. Woody Hayes? Woody Hayes. Bo? Little Woody Hayes. OSU fans = crazy. Michigan fans = snobs. Earl Bruce. Desmond Howard had a touchdown. Biakabatuka was good. John Cooper. Jim Tressel.
8.) Jon Chait and Mike Wallace are impressive people, but probably not the most well qualified interview subjects to speak to the history of Michigan football.
9.) If you're even a casual fan of either school, you learn nothing new.
10.) I did think that the scales tip heavily toward the Buckeyes, but I don't think it's any kind of bias, per se. Michigan doesn't grant much media access. Woody was such an outsized character that putting him at the center probably made for a better story. To me, it ultimately played like a movie about Ohio State and its uppity rival.
Three other friends have seen it. Two of us are negative, one's ambivalent, one's moderately enthusiastic. It's not horrible, but when it was done, I kind of didn't know what the point was.
- November 09, 2007 11:55 AM
- whetstonebuck said...
"Also, I think the contrast between the Buckeye fans and the Michigan fans in the audience was so appropriate - the Michigan fans were largely neutrally dressed young professional types (who just came from their jobs), whereas several the OSU fans were in full Buckeye regalia, and many were middle age guys who looked like they'd made the trek from Buttfu#k, Ohio to go to the screening."
Oh, I get it, neutrally dressed yuppies. More of a Metro-sexual bent. Probably got off work at Macy's Men's apparel, but have to return to make up the time. I guess if you stay long enough it's a profession. Those MBAs come in handy. You didn't mention if they were holding hands.
The old "crazy" middle-aged tOSU guys who own their own businesses probably just told their assistants to keep things humming while they went off to party with the faithful.
Seems to be that way across the country.
On a side note: I get choked up when I see film of Bo. Does that make me less passionate about Woody?
I'm looking for a therapist now.
- November 09, 2007 3:37 PM
- Richard said...
One big difference between Michigan and Ohio State: yes we are a hell of a lot more tolerant of people on our campus. I count that as a victory.
- November 09, 2007 4:05 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
Take your victories when you can.
- November 09, 2007 4:10 PM
- Katie said...
Oh, I have a feeling that the next few weeks are going to be brutal on this board. Batten the hatches!
- November 09, 2007 4:17 PM
- whetstonebuck said...
At first I thought you wrote: "flatten the bitches."
I thought to myself, "self, since when did Katie become a Buckeye fan?"
That didn't make sense even in a parallel universe so I opted for rereading your statement. Now I get it. A little naughty, oops, I mean nautical lingo.
- November 09, 2007 4:27 PM
- Katie said...
Saying Flatten the Bitches, wouldn't have been a swan dive, that would have been more like a belly flop! I am glad you reread!! Although......;o)
- November 09, 2007 4:47 PM
- srudoff said...
"7.) Read this paragraph and you can skip the movie: Football in olden days was fun. Michigan was good. Yost, Friedman, Oosterban, Crisler. Woody Hayes, Woody Hayes. Woody Hayes? Woody Hayes. Bo? Little Woody Hayes. OSU fans = crazy. Michigan fans = snobs. Earl Bruce. Desmond Howard had a touchdown. Biakabatuka was good. John Cooper. Jim Tressel."
- November 09, 2007 5:26 PM


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I was going through my dailies this morning (a real life quest involving using all my reagents to create coffee, finding clothes, and reading 20 blogs before going to school) and I came across a post on the Raider's Progress that was seemingly not happy with Warcrafter.
The reason for their unhappiness?
It has nothing to do with the features of Warcrafter.
It has nothing to do with the information on Warcrafter
It has nothing to do with the analysis and conclusions that comes out of Warcrafter.
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This quote effectively echoes the sentiment of 95% of players in the game [citation needed]:
- the only reason I play is because of gear and my personal advancement. I know it sounds selfish but thats how it is.
That quote was also taken from Raider's Progress.
That's fair enough. Everyone likes to feel a sense of achievement. The best way to express that achievement is via the gear on your character. It proves that you've done certain things in the game and killed certain bosses. Raiding Guilds are composed of players that want to progress in WoW (Casual and hardcore).
Players that are in the game only for themselves can be detrimental to the Guild they are in. But sometimes, being selfish can be a good thing. If the attitude can be harnessed properly, you can easily turn a player from a loot maniac to a player who will do whatever it takes to get the loot he wants.
So how do you change the mentality of that player who is so intrinsically selfish that he doesn't seem to care about the Guild?
The Answer
You, as the GM, officer, monkey, murloc or whatever title you may have in the Guild have to make them understand 1 thing only.
Change this:
- the only reason I play is because of gear and my personal advancement. I know it sounds selfish but thats how it is.
to this:
- the only reason I play is because of gear and my personal advancement and the only way I can do that is ensure my guild is also progressing which requires gear.
It's a real obvious statement, there is no question about it. Make that person understand that it takes 25 people to move forward.In order to that, it needs hard work and effort. I don't know how many times I can emphasize that.
There are always going to be players that have a "me first" mentality in a Guild. Make them understand that in order for them to get the best pieces of gear in the game, everyone else in the Guild also has to get it at the same rate as that player or else that Guild will not move forward.
Dangle the loot that's relevant to them in front of their faces. Even they can understand that if they want that loot, they have to kill a boss in order to even get a shot at it. The "me first" attitude is fine if they understand that it comes with patience and effort.
Star Players
In every professional sports teams, there are star players. There are certain names who night after night just seem to deliver their best performances.
The Patriots have Tom Brady, who was able to deliver and lead his team to a Super Bowl
choke appearance.
The Penguins have Sidney Crosby, the best overall hockey player in the world.
The Yankees have (had?) A-Rod, who… was probably important for other reasons.
Challenge your Guildmates to be the best they can be. Recount and other DPS meters, used in the right way, can help foster a little of competition. Warcrafter and WWS can be used to show whose slacking and who isn't.
In my opinion, it's not about the methods. It's about the results. Eventually, players will realize that PvP Gear isn't going to cut it on certain encounters because sites like Warcrafter and WWS will prove that your PvE geared players will eventually top them in damage.
Just remember. If everyone brings their A game to the table, then those end game bosses won't even stand a chance.


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Wednesday, June 14, 2006
I Agree With Spartan Bob
But I digress.
This blog with the great name (at least if you bleed Green and White) had an article slamming Michigan because Michigan wouldn't play any night games in the new ABC Saturday Night Football line up this fall, doesn't have advertising, blah, blah, blah and whatever else Sparty bitches about this time of year.
However, he did bring up a point I agree with 100%. In his post, SB had a link to a Michigan Daily article from last fall in which Michigan's Athletic Director wrote an email to approximately 2,000 students in the south endzone instructing them to remain seated most of the game!
"We are asking you to respect the other Wolverine fans by not standing for the entire game," said Martin. "Students standing for long periods of time are subject to removal."
Apparently, this was sent right before the 2005 Notre Dame game because, during the Northern Illinois game the previous weekend, "there were confrontations between the Michigan students and the fans who were sitting directly behind them" according to U-M Associate AD, Marty Bodnar.
In his post, Spartan Bob ripped into Michigan for that one - and rightfully so. What bullshit! Can you even imagine students in Columbus or Knoxville or Auburn or PICK ONE getting that sort of email from the AD?! No wonder the Big (Quiet) House sounds like the grad library the week before finals and provides the lamest "home field" advantage in all of college football!
As I said in my October 2005 post, "Put the damn keys away!", Michigan fans need to do more, much more, to make the Big House the intimidating venue it should be for opposing teams. Because like it or not, right now it's just embarrassing. And I for one hope folks like the person behind the Spartan Bob blog continue to call Michigan fans out until that changes.
19 comments:
Yea Michigan Fans suck!!! go buckeyes!!!
- June 14, 2006 8:27 AM
I think we should spend a little more time trying to put an intimidating TEAM on the FIELD, rather than trying to put "intimidating" FANS in the stands.
If we have an intimidating team (and a worthy opponent, I might add*) the fans will take care of themselves.
(*Worthy opponent does not - or should not - include WMU, CMU, EMU, Ball State, Vanderbilt)
- June 14, 2006 8:58 AM
- The King said...
If you don't have the physical strength and mental fortitude to stand up for three straight hours to cheer for the Wolverines in the grandest venue in North America, then GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY STADIUM.
- June 14, 2006 11:21 AM
- Yost said...
Couldn't agree more, King.
Go watch it on TV if cheering is too much for you.
- June 14, 2006 12:00 PM
It isn't the fans that need called out.
- June 14, 2006 2:09 PM
And could you please not yell as much and hold all aplause until the end of the game?
- June 14, 2006 3:09 PM
- Yost said...
LOL, Anon. It's very distracting to the players.
- June 14, 2006 3:11 PM
- Yost said...
PS As for folks saying if the team is good, the fans will cheer -- uh, we haven't had a losing season since the SIXTIES! We won a national title in '97. We went to back-to-back Rose Bowls a couple years ago. Just when is this cheering going to start?
And as bad as 2005 was, going into the OSU game, we were 7-3 and had an outside chance of grabbing a share of the Big 10 title yet the crowd, except for a handful of moments, was lame.
Obviously the team needs to play better. Fans can't control that. But we can make the Big (Quiet) House a much better home field advantage than it is now.
- June 14, 2006 3:36 PM
I remember that UM/MSU game well — one of the most bizarre finishes I've ever seen.
But it's funny how that extra-long final second against Michigan State was completely unfair, and yet UM dismissed Penn State fans as paranoid whiners when it came to those extra two seconds that Lloyd Carr requested from the hometown refs last fall — and I was at that game in person.
Big double standard, if you ask me.
- June 14, 2006 4:20 PM
- Yost said...
"Hometown refs"? Uh, who do you think refs Big 10 games - School employees? But "Spartan Bob" was an MSU employee.
- June 14, 2006 4:25 PM
- Benny Friedman said...
Not to mention, Mike, TV replays showed the extra second Sparty got in '01 was unjustified, while the extra two seconds Lloyd got last year was the correct call.
- June 14, 2006 4:41 PM
Hey, could you guys quiet down?? I'm trying to read this blog in peace.
- June 14, 2006 11:53 PM
- Yost said...
LOL, Brad.
- June 14, 2006 11:54 PM
It's cool that JoePa got 0:02 put back on the clock earlier in the game, though. That one was fine.
- June 15, 2006 12:20 AM
- Spartan Bob said...
So, let me see if I've got this straight: Sometimes timekeepers -- under even the neutral employ of the Big Ten -- do not always keep time as the coaches and/or referees would prefer.
Coaches have the option of suggesting that there is a time mishap, and referees have the option of agreeing and telling the timekeeper to change the clock.
We have seen this happen from time to time. In fact, the clock at the Big House has been known to shut off entirely toward the end of games when the opposing team is driving for a winning score (just ask Minnesota's backup QB from last season).
In the Penn State game, Lloyd persuaded a referee to overrule the timekeeper. In the "Spartan Bob" game, he did not. In both cases, the option existed and a change certainly would have been made if requested. Neutral Big Ten officials controlling the decision in both cases.
So, either:
1. Lloyd failed to make his case
2. There was no case to make
3. The neutral officials did the wrong thing
In case of #3, even a robotic clock with atomic precision would not have solved the "problem."
I appreciate the clearing of my good name. :)
- June 15, 2006 12:35 AM
- Papa Steve said...
Spartan B,
Hardly comparable. A direct employee of MSU giving what is verifiably an intentional advantage to their own school by hanging the clock and changing the outcome of the game is worlds apart from an impartial referee granting UM the time that it was verifiably deserved, in exactly the same manner he applied that rule to PSU earlier in the same game.
As for the clock malfunction in the Minnesota game...where is the advantage gained by this supposed infraction? How was UM favored by that again? Timekeeping duties were passed to an impartial Big10 referee. If anything, it was a disadvantage in not having a clear indication for the defense as to exactly how much time was left and how to best play defense accordingly.
- June 15, 2006 5:23 PM
- Papa Steve said...
Is that true about the letter to the student section!?
Thats BS!!
UM alum/fans are a disgrace when it comes to supporting their team. They could learn a lot from Iowa fans.
One down year amongst so many excellent ones and they are grousing like they never win anything.
To any sit-down fans that read this blog...you are a beeyatch. Get off your FAT ASS and cheer or give your tickets up to someone that will.. You are NOT WANTED and there are a zillion fans that will take your seats and make a difference.
Good fans cheer harder when their team is down. They don't squat like a spoiled child until they have some reason to get up.
Be part of the cure, not the problem.
- June 15, 2006 5:28 PM
I certainly don't expect to change anyone's opinion on here, but I'll say this: if Paterno was the one who has asked for :02 during the last minute -- and yes, the time remaining does matter -- he wouldn't have gotten it.
You can call PSU fans paranoid until you're blue (and maize) in the face, but far too many close calls have gone Michigan's way when PSU plays them in Ann Arbor. If the shoe was on the other foot, you guys would scream bloody murder.
Can't wait for the primetime PSU/UM clash this October -- the first one in State College in five years. Should be a great game.
- June 15, 2006 9:08 PM
- Spartan Bob said...
Papa Steve:
First: Yes, absolutely true about the student section orders. It was published in one of the Detroit papers the morning of the Notre Dame game and the subject of much amusement at tailgates in Sparty Land the same day.
As to the clock: Leaving aside the subjective "intentional" and "verifiable" statements, I'm wondering how not seeing the game clock for several minutes(which itself could have lost a precious extra second during the confusion) could possibly not be an disadvantage for the offense. I've seen far too many games where coaches -- who can plainly see a clock and think about what they need to do -- nonetheless perform mystifying feats of time mismanagement.
Compound that with it being the end of the game, a game winning drive, and a very green backup QB...
C'mon. It's a hassle in slowed down everyday life if you're on a time deadline yet must keep asking somebody else what time it is because (for whatever reason) you can't glace up and see for yourself.
Jacking all that stress into the end of a tight football game is a situation where there is no comparison.
- June 16, 2006 6:47 PM


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i hope we're not a materialized whale
80% might be low
IT IS HAPPENING. Okay. I don't have a picture of a signed contract, or word from Harbaugh himself that it's happening.
But it's happening. I have not put a number on Harbaugh to Michigan yet, preferring words since it's impossible to put a number on something like this. I'll do this now: 99%.
I have gotten so much independent stuff from so many different sources; 247 and Scout and Bacon are all on board, with Rivals only lagging seemingly because they buy the 2011 story that Harbaugh backed out "at the last minute," something that just can't be true given the timelines. I would be utterly shocked if Jim Harbaugh was not announced as Michigan's coach by December 30th.
It's all over but the pointless rush to be the first to report that water is wet.
HAPPENING BITS.I've heard word that there's a large event on Tuesday night that the catering staff has been asked to keep secret—something that they've never been asked about before.
A son of a current coach is telling co-workers that it's happening and his dad is being retained.
1201 South State Street is getting mail addressed like this from NFL compounds:
I checked the tracking number; it's legit.
If I had to guess I'd bet that's a young-go-getter overnighting his resume and interest. Blind hope? Maybe. Probably not.
More numbers: Webb increments to 80, pending today's 85. Lorenz says it's "when, not if" and puts it at 85%. Pequeno doesn't have a number but does say Michigan boots are on the ground in San Francisco.
THE DURKIN PROPHECY. Harbaugh to Michigan is now unofficially official enough that a coaching staff seems to be in the process of being assembled in earnest. Further confirmation of DJ Durkin's presence on the new staff comes from the message board:
So, I am from Youngstown, OH. This morning, I went to my gym for a little early morning workout, and another member of my gym is the father of Chris Durkin … they are close cousins with D.J. Durkin. … he said he would starting rooting for Michigan football next season (after giving me shit for wearing Michigan shirts in the past). I asked why, and he said he has a cousin who would be coaching there next season, and when I asked if it was D.J. Durkin, he said it was.
Conversation stopped there, but basically we can infer from this that Harbaugh is coming, and D.J. Durkin knows it and will be joining him.
That's a user with only 214 points but he is a guy who signed up over a year ago, FWIW. If it wasn't obvious already since Durkin didn't take the A&M job that could have been his a week ago, it should be now.
ANOTHER NFL PERSON SAYS MICHIGAN IS A TINY FAVORITE. SI's Don Banks runs down the NFL coaching carousel, touching on Harbaugh during the Oakland section:
Most league sources I talked to believe it's down to either Oakland or Michigan for Harbaugh, and while his preference is to stay in the NFL, the lure of Ann Arbor and being able to resurrect the struggling program at his alma mater might be too tempting an opportunity to say no to. If there's a possession arrow at the moment, indications are it has begun to slightly point in the direction of the Wolverines. …
Or as one source told me: "He can go there and be God, and never get fired. That's a home he can live in and stay at. It'll be like [Nick] Saban in Alabama. He'll do whatever he wants there. I'd call that the logical place for him.''
The Raiders will try, but they're still the Raiders—perpetually moribund and possibly on the move.
Banks later dismisses Harbaugh as an option in Chicago, saying if he's leaving the West Coast it's for Michigan. That seems like a flimsy assumption to me, but local reporters continually say that Harbaugh's too pricey for the penny-pinching Bears owners. There's been little indication that Chicago will step in.
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I regret nothing, even the old meme. That's what you get for obsessively checking this webs…
…actually this may have been a bad idea.
I'M NOT SURE YOU CAN SPEAK FOR EVERBODY. John Harbaugh denies the Schefter report that Jim's family is encouraging him to take the Michigan job:
"The report that says that his family is encouraging him to go to Michigan by Adam Schefter is absolutely incorrect," John Harbaugh said. "There's been no family that I know of that has given him any advice at all. That's a personal decision, that's his to make. And that's just absolutely false."
I think that's not entirely true; even if it is, Schefter's report seemed to be addressing the wife-won't-leave meme, not John and Jack. And as I mentioned before I'm confident that Jack has been a major part of the Harbaugh acquisition process. It's Jim's decision of course, it's just that your mom and I have always dreamed… etc etc etc.
ETC.: Matt Pargoff has an extensive list of potential assistants. Licensed twitter troll TIm Kawakami's Harbaugh-49ers postmortem is on point.
Year Of The Petunias
- 2011 purdue
- big ten divisions
- fitzgerald toussaint
- game columns
- i hope we're not a materialized whale
- injury wranglin'
- inverted veer option
- iowa
- jake ryan
- jordan kovacs
- lolmsm
- photo gallery
- piped in music is the devil
- scoreboards
- special k make big ten wicked sweet dawg
- students never show up
- taylor lewan
- tiebreakers
10/29/2011 – Michigan 36, Purdue 14 – 7-1, 3-1 Big Ten
At some point, Michigan will find out what it is this year. I have no idea when that point will come.
We know they're better than they were last year. How much better remains frustratingly murky. You think you have the answer when Michigan is punked in East Lansing, but then the Spartans get throttled and Michigan beats Purdue and there they are again in the national rankings…
10. South Carolina
11. Virginia Tech
12. Clemson
13. Michigan
14. Houston
15. Penn State
…and you wonder what happened to the rest of college football. This team is transparently flawed, incapable of going ten pass attempts without throwing the ball to the other team, and one year removed from having a defense that couldn't slow down a band of coked-out lemurs. So of course they are on the cusp of the top ten, hanging out with Houston, South Carolina's dumpster-fire offense, and Penn State's bold experiment into quarterback-free football. College football 2011: contagious and 100% fatal.
With one loss and seven wins everything is on the table as long as Sparty manages to biff it once down the stretch (don't get your hopes up)… and no one knows if they're any good.
This must be what it felt like to be a Minnesota fan in the middle of the Glen Mason era. Consider: you were a national power, and then you were wretched forever. One 3-9 year counts as "forever" to Michigan fans. We are sheltered, sheltered people.
You start showing signs of life. One season you get off to a great start, and collapse. Okay. We got off to a great start! It's better than being wretched!
The next season you get off to a great start, and collapse slightly less. Okay. We are building something here.
The next-next season you get off to a great start, are ranked in the top 15, have an unstoppable ground game, and… well… is there going to be anyone on the schedule? No? No teams at all?
Ah, Michigan. Here we go. /dies
It wasn't like this before. Michigan was Michigan, fergodsakes. All victories were expected and all teams were inferior and all losses were inexplicable or unjust and there wasn't a question about any of this. Michigan was just better.
Evidence to the contrary was suspect and invariably proven—or at least argued to be—false. There was this call or this mistake or this thing, and if the game had continued until a victory was well and truly certain, the opponent would have left shattered into a thousand mournful pieces*. This mentality was so pervasive that Michigan fans still have a reputation for the above thought process even after the last five years.
I don't think like that anymore. At first I was like the materialized whale from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
"Big Ten? What's that? I wonder if it will be friendly."
Now I'm trying to figure out whether I am the bowl of petunias…
The only thing that went through the bowl of petunia's mind as it fell was Oh No, not again.
…or if something novel is happening, something like not plummeting to my doom after materializing in an area where gravity is not my friend.
The Big Ten is not helping out here. At all. Michigan's conference wins are over Minnesota, Northwestern, and Purdue, teams which have lost to North Dakota State, Army, and Rice, respectively. Meanwhile, where is the proverbial other shoe? The nearest proximate shoe just lost to the Gopher team so bad they inspired GopherQuest. Gopher blog Fire Jerry Kill shows how this is possible by splitting out various quarterbacks' stats when they are playing Iowa vs Not Iowa. Here's MarQuies Gray:
Not Iowa* 9/19 125 47.3 6.6 .5 .7 104.3
Iowa 11/17 193 64.7 11.3 1 0 179.5
And here's Steele Janz:
This is not much of a shoe.
The next potential shoe lost to the Purdue team Michigan just outgained two to one. They didn't score against the Boilers until there were ten minutes left. And they're coached by Ron Zook. Comparative scores are a dumb way to do anything because football is weird, but it kind of seems like football will have to be weird for those shoes to drop. There is a strong possibility that Michigan reaches ten games this season without playing a decent team other than 1) the one they beat thanks to a fluketasm and 2) the one they lost to in a trash tornado.
Then it's just Nebraska and Ohio State. Just.
The stakes here are simple and vast as the ground that may or may not be rushing up to meet us: a satisfying season. That's something Michigan hasn't had in almost a decade. 2006 left a nasty taste because of the way it finished. Michigan hasn't beaten Ohio State since 2003, hasn't done that and won a bowl since 2000. Expectations keep deflating but we still haven't hit the point where they cross the actual accomplishments of the football team.
I want to believe. I miss the days when accusations of Michigan arrogance were accurate. I just don't know, man. I don't feel the air rushing past my face, but it turns out I'm not very good at identifying certain doom rushing up from below.
*[Unless it was from the Pac-10 or Florida, in which case please take your 30-point victory and GTFO before we have to alter our mentality.]
Via Eric Upchurch and the Ann Arbor Observer:
Maize and Blue Nation also has a photoset, as does AnnArbor.com.
Bullets That Hope To Be In Orbit Or Something
Kovacs. I sort of had the Kovacs information but it was only one unconfirmed source so I held it and hoped it was not true. Now that it is obviously true I can tell you a couple things about it:
- It is supposed to be an MCL sprain, which means he can barely move his leg at the moment and will be out a few weeks. When the coaches say he's "questionable" for Iowa they're in all likelihood…
- …lying their boo-boos off. Kovacs did not practice Tuesday but no one noticed this because they threw Matt Cavanaugh out there in #32.
The Cavanaugh thing is the clincher after a season of mysterious fake-seeming injuries that conveniently explain things like why the national defensive player of the week immediately ate bench. Hoke will bend the truth for better PR or gamesmanship purposes. It's back to the Fort. This is a 180 from the injury-report-issuing Rodriguez, though IIRC Rodriguez would occasionally surprise by leaving off a guy who was not already known to be dinged up.
Anyway, the plan going forward is to take any Hoke statement about the injury status of a player with a grain of salt. So no, I don't believe Woolfolk was moving to safety before this happened.
We have to talk, scoreboard person. An artist's impression of the replays on the brand new scoreboards at Michigan Stadium:
The scoreboards are very big. The replays are even bigger, to the point where they are useless unless you're a helmet fetishist. Widen your shot, good sir, and the blessings of Bo will be upon you.
The next defense. After years of being an untenably young defense, Michigan has reached average-ish. Despite that they're slated to lose only four players next year, one of them a walk-on. With the swap at WLB and the seemingly permanent insertion of Blake Countess into the starting lineup the breakdown is like so:
- Three freshmen (Ryan, Morgan, Countess)
- A sophomore (Gordon)
- Four juniors (Roh, Floyd, Demens, Kovacs)
- Three seniors (Martin, RVB, Heininger)
And then there's Woolfolk, who is a starter as long as Kovacs is out. If only Rodriguez had recruited some dudes in the middle of the line you could project the returners to be non smoke-and-mirrors good. Even as it stands you've got a senior Campbell and hope for decent play from Washington, Rock, and a bunch of freshmen. They should be able to maintain their play next year.
The one true tiebreaker. Everyone's talking tiebreakers in the West division because it was looking like a bunch of cats in a sack at the end of the year before Iowa went out and ended GopherQuest. The Big Ten's are typically goofy, prioritizing head to head over a better measure of superiority: the record of your conference opponents.
The first tiebreaker should be the conference record of your opponents in the other division, which works for two- and three-way ties. Right now that looks like this:
- Nebraska: 9-4 (Wisconsin (2-2), PSU(5-0), OSU (2-2))
- Michigan: 6-7 (Purdue (2-2), Illinois (2-3), OSU (2-2))
- MSU: 4-9 (IU (0-5), Wisconsin (2-2), OSU (2-2))
If the season does end in a three-way tie here* any system that would give the nod to the team that played Illinois and Purdue or IU and Wisconsin instead of Wisconsin and Penn State is a broken system. Instead the tiebreakers are all head to head and divisional record, which makes no sense. You've all played eight conference games and proven yourself equal—it's time to figure out who played the tougher schedule.
*[Say M beats Nebraska, loses one other, MSU loses to… uh… Iowa, Nebraska wins out with exception of M loss.]
Jake Ryan edge update. I have negative complaints this week. This is also known as praise. There were no sections confused by my "AAAARGH JAKE RYAN" outbursts because the most notable thing that happened in This Week In Jake Ryan's Edge Play was Ryan annihilating a sweep in the backfield by submarining a blocker on a blitz and tackling. +3, Mr. Ryan.
Quite a find there, especially considering that Michigan picked him up because he was an effective blitzing OLB in a 3-3-5 in high school. He could be a fish out of water in this scheme.
Michigan under-center running update. It… worked? Somewhat. I have no idea how to classify things like Fitzgerald Toussaint taking a toss play opposite that Denard jet action and motoring 59 yards. That's not really manball. It's not spread 'n' shred. It's gimmickball.
It worked, though. It looked like Michigan finally got that pin and pull zone operational, possibly because they identified an issue with Purdue's DEs. If they're easy to seal the pin and pull gets you the advantages of an outside sweep in a faster-developing play. The pulling linemen have less distance to cover.
The I-Form stuff did work to some extent. As we'll see below, the extent was such that every newspaper in the state is running a piece on how
1: Lo, Bo looked down from Football Valhalla and said "I am pleased, my son." 2: "It is the will of Old that the quarterback shall taketh the ball from the center by hand and turn his back to the line of scrimmage." 3: "Motion of the ball through the air, whether forwards or backwards, is an abomination to Old." 4: "Pitches are excepted."
Judging the effectiveness of the base offense will have to wait for the UFR to break down the yardage. I'll probably have to categorize the gimmickball separately.
Inverted veer. Rodriguez played with it some but never really put it in the offense for realz; Borges whipped it out against the Boilers to good effect.
That's a play that gets Robinson going north-south with a pulling lineman if the defense doesn't force a handoff, which Purdue didn't. That was to their detriment.
I probably won't complain about showing it against a weak opponent if/when it doesn't work down the road. Purdue was nowhere near the baby seal that Minnesota was. The game remained in contact until the third quarter. This is a different thing than knowing you can name your score after the first drive.
Taylor Lewan. @mgovideo tweeted "Taylor Lewan is undead" and I have nothing that can top that. Shoot him in the head, Gholston, or he's coming for you next year. Make sure to double tap.
Students who are not reading this: you suck. Weekly complaint about student section is lodged. No one reading this is included. It is your slothful classmates who must feel the lash.
Now, there are some extreme bottlenecks upon section entry that mean a lot of student who show up on time spend 15 minutes waiting in line before actually getting into the stadium. Vitriol towards the student section up to halfway through the first quarter should properly be directed at the athletic department's crappy logistics.
HOWEVA, when half of the upper reaches remain empty throughout a Big Ten game that's on various students who don't know what MGoBlog is. There's no reason to sell those people tickets at discounted rates if they're not even going to show up and be loud. The carrot and stick:
- Assign points to students based on ticket scans. 5 for 20 minutes before the game, 2 for before kickoff, 1 for showing up at all. Validated tickets do not score.
- Reduce the size of the student section by 10%.
- Prioritize renewals based on points, not seniority. Also prioritize bowl lotteries based on this. Top 10% get half off. Anyone below some crappy cutoff gets no tickets.
I'd love to see a similar policy enacted for regular season ticket holders but that's infeasible since they're already pressing them for maximum cash and cannot easily replace people pissed off by something like that with other super rich dudes.
This is the cost of luxury seating: seeing the most expensive seats in the building half-full at best. This is most obvious at Yost, where the club seats are literally 40% full for every game.
Special K: die in a fire. I've linked to various Penn State blogs complaining about the environment at Beaver Stadium to provide ominous warnings about what our future is like, but I thought that would be in five years… not five games. Volume: ear-splitting. Choices: inane. Seven Nation Army: played one dozen times, including before opening kickoff. It's bad when I am tired of 7NA. I once listened to 7NA for a half-hour straight until someone yelled at me to stop.
HSR suggests another White Stripes song:
That works. He probably would have gotten one that does if he had chosen at random. There are more Stripes songs that are plausible than ones that aren't. Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground. You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told). Fell In Love With A Girl. Icky Thump. Conquest. Blue Orchid. Never has a local band had a better collection of killer opening riffs plausible for pump-up purposes. If the athletic department prioritized having their own thing instead of having the same thing everyone else does they might look into this.
Meanwhile, we're treated to "GET LOUD" and an animated train exploding on the videoboards. (Instead of replays, of course, because who wants to watch a football game anymore?) We are Michigan State. It took less than a season. I was all like "you go girl" to this Bando Calrissian comment:
Yesterday was the closest to a minor league baseball game experience I've ever had at Michigan Stadium. The RAWK was out of control(and more often than not earsplittingly loud), the Rocket Man deal struck me as an unnecessary gimmick (play the Space, Bitches PSA and call it a day), that train graphic on the scoreboards, everything felt extraordinarily cheap and generic. Very un-Big House-esque.
And, here' s a fun fact: One of the highlights of Homecoming has always been the alumni cheerleaders doing gymnastic tricks in the end zones during stoppages in play. It's fun, and always gets the fans really into things during lulls in the action. They were told this year they were not allowed to do flips and such on the field, or so one of them told a few of us in Alumni Band. And it was true, they basically just sat and did nothing for the entire game.
A little bit at a time, the uniqueness of Michigan is being chipped away in favor of a generic, corporate, sterile experience. Seems to me "revenue streams" and marketing gurus rule the day in DB's Athletic Department, and it really doesn't need to be that way.
Corporate ass-covering and focus-group research, all of it. What's happening to Michigan Stadium is reason #1 this site will always remain independent. This is what you get for hiring someone who made his living sending people things they didn't want in the mail.
Yeah, guy who doesn't care about any of this and complains about people who do, you're cooler than those who do. Pop that collar.
THE ONE GOOD THING: No dog groomers except once before the band came out.
ST3 goes inside the box score:
With apologies to Denard, this section belongs to Fitzgerald Toussaint this week. In fact, I will refer to him as Filthgerald. Filthgerald gained 170 yards on 20 carries, scored 2 TDs, had a long of 59 yards, and averaged 8.5 YPC. Can someone explain to me again why he only got two carries against staee? Forget that last comment, I've moved on.
There is also a way-too-early BCS standings look. No Hoke for Tomorrow, unfortunately.
Media, as in unwashed blog masses. Sap decals. Trends from MGoFootball. Maize and Go Blue with a game recap. MZone autopsies:
Yes, I'm so damn scarred by the previous three seasons that, after Purdue's initial drive, I felt a flash of deju vu all over again. But Michigan stayed the course and eventually put Purdue away, pretty much by halftime and certainly before the 3rd quarter was over.
How refreshing.
TTB on Toussaint:
Fitzgerald Toussaint is hitting his stride. Finally healthy after two years of long-term injury issues, Toussaint is showing what he can do. He had 20 carries for 170 yards, including a spectacular 59-yard touchdown run (Michigan's longest run of the year). He's averaging 6.1 yards per carry on the season. Perhaps the best part of Toussaint's game is the way he finishes runs. Despite not being particularly big, he always seems to churn his legs for an extra couple yards after contact. His yardage total was the best by a Michigan running back since Michael Hart had 215 against Eastern Michigan back in 2007.
At this point, Michigan is grabbing wins like items at an Old Country Buffet; these things might not be of high quality, but this is America and MORE is better than anything else. Yes, I am comparing the quality of Big Ten competition to the lukewarm comestibles of a buffet chain.
The Purdue point of view is unenthused or bizarrely optimistic. The former:
Purdue's execution, especially when it was really needed was atrocious. Conversely, UM shored-up the issues that had been exposed v. MSU following their bye week...and played soundly all game.
Michigan seemed to want to test Purdue physically in the trenches and Purdue failed as they looked pensive, slow and soft when popped in the mouth. The end result was a sound defeat for Hope's squad, 36-14...but it felt much worse than that score.
Yes, the final margin was 22 points, but we were close through three quarters and the difference of a few plays swung the scoreboard wildly in their direction. Things got wildly out of control after a few key mistakes, as often happens in college football.
I'm just all like… it was 36-7 at the start of the 4th and Purdue had 200 yards of offense to Michigan's 510. That's not a game that swung on a few plays. Elsewhere in his post Hammer and Rails's T-Mill gives Michigan plenty of credit, so this isn't a lol delusional homer thing. I'm just surprised anyone could do the point-at-critical-plays thing after that.
Media, as in dying legacy organizations (and ESPN). Before we get into the scoffing, the Daily covers the jetpack flight in column-length detail.
The scoffing! Man, does everyone want to seize upon this as proof Brady Hoke Gets It, This Is Michigan, and This Is Not Last Year:
Just like that, Fitzgerald Toussaint proves the Michigan football team can resemble its old self
…against Purdue.
Sometimes I wonder if my brain has mutated to the point where I'm not even watching the same game as some of these people. This is about the MSU game:
With the backs providing little to no punch offensively, Robinson was forced to become Michigan's exclusive run threat. Partly because of that, he was also subject to immense pressure in the passing game, as he was sacked four times and eventually forced to leave the contest early due to injury.
My version of this paragraph is "With Al Borges inexplicably enthralled with the passing game, Robinson only got twelve carries to go with Toussaint's two. Because of something entirely unrelated that also impacted the ground game, he was also subject to immense pressure in the pocket. Later he left with an injury caused by a late hit."
Yes, this is the usual mumbling about media narratives that have no relation to reality. You're like 3000 words into this post and are clearly addicted. Suck it up. This is the point in Requiem for a Dream where your arm is a mass of black veins and you're still shooting up.
Martin leads resurgence of traditional Michigan defense against Purdue
…against… yeah, them.
This is a different Michigan team
…than the one that beat Purdue last year.
Wolverines' 'old-school' whipping of Purdue would've made Bo Schembechler proud
This one is a wow experience. I mean:
[Toussaint] transforms into a sledgehammer when he runs between the hash marks.
He's not Carlos Brown but come on, dude. And I challenge you to distinguish this from a seventh-grader's B- paper:
Even against a powder-puff Big Ten team such as Purdue, the Wolverines regrouped after surrendering a 48-yard pass on a simple slant-screen that shredded the defense for a touchdown in the opening minutes of the game. No one panicked on the sideline. Instead, the much-maligned unit discussed it and agreed the appropriate response called for equal parts inspiration and perspiration, but no more excuses.
Holy pants. Someone agreed this paragraph should be set down in print and copied thousands of times so its wisdom could spread throughout the land, no more excuses.
Even Wojo fell prey to some extent:
In finding running game, Michigan re-joins Big Ten title race
Ann Arbor— As the day's events unfolded, one thing became clearer and clearer. Michigan is back in the running, and it got there by getting back to the running.
The Wolverines pounded a weaker foe Saturday, which isn't a big deal unless you acknowledge how it happened, and what happened elsewhere in the Big Ten. Michigan bashed Purdue, 36-14, and did the job without everyone waiting around for Denard Robinson to do the job.
Michigan's rushing offense before playing Purdue: 12th nationally. Rich Rodriguez: not involved with the decision to throw two-thirds of the time against Michigan State.
Strategy matters, simple things unrelated to hearty grit toughness can provide huge swings, coaches make mistakes frequently, and no one at a newspaper ever watches a game a second time. Facts.
Parachute Check
9/17/2010 – Michigan 42, UMass 37 – 3-0
Well… at least it wasn't as grim as it looked a with about a minute before halftime, when my head was in my hands and I could feel the cave feces covering my body as I wished for a merciful death. Maybe an albino salamander would crawl down my throat or something. Then the offense did a large number of very fast things and the defense managed to stop the UMass offense like once or twice and then they managed to not quite blow it at the end.
And so here we are. If you ever wanted to know what it would have been like if Michigan had made that field goal at the end of The Horror you have your answer: not at all good but approximately a trillion times better than the alternative. The stanktastic defensive performance was exactly what Michigan fans feared was going to happen after every defensive back within hailing distance of the two deep exploded, except worse. I kind of expected Wisconsin might put up 37 points on a series of long, grinding drives. Not so much a team that launched a stirring comeback to nip William & Mary.
That combined with the pratfall by UConn against Temple and Notre Dame's admittedly delicious overtime punking leaves an uncomfortable taste in the mouth. Last year around this time I was surveying the outlook after Michigan got significantly outgained by Indiana but escaped by the skin of their teeth. The game column was sarcastically titled "The Soaring Majesty!":
Since we didn't [lose], we should all just breathe a sigh of relief, recalibrate expectations back down a little bit, and move on. Michigan's not at a point where any win against any Big Ten team is one to freak out about. The freshmen quarterbacks remain freshmen and it's becoming clear that the defense has about the same raw talent level that last year's offense had. The only thing keeping them from plunging off a deep, dark cliff is the fact that no position on defense is as singularly important as quarterback is on offense.
Michigan didn't win a game against a non-seal opponent the rest of the year. It was this much fun: no fun.
This is the point where I take a finger, insert it into the collar of my shirt, and make an uncomfortable facial expression David Letterman has mastered and is impossible to Google. (What do you type, "Letterman shirt uncomfortable"? "Letterman neck trick"?)Just imagine you're wearing a tie and your boss has called you into his office during a period of right-sizing and you're a big vaudeville buff. It's like that.
It's like that because of the following facts:
- Jonathan Hernandez had 114 yards on 26 carries with a long of 15.
- John Griffin had 96 yards on 17 carries with a long of 19.
- Kyle Havens went 22 of 29 for 222 yards with a long of 19.
That is a complete demolition at the hands of a I-AA team without even blowing it big. UMass got two short fields when Michigan had a punt blocked and Cam Gordon fumbled an interception, but even dropping those out of the equation UMass drives went FG, punt, TD, punt, TD, fumble, punt, TD, INT; both of the short field drives started around the 25 and ended in Michigan's endzone. And at no point did they get a cheap touchdown due to a secondary implosion. They just ground down the field as if Michigan was the I-AA team. Given the level of competition, it's probably the worst defensive performance of the Rodriguez era, and that's saying something. If not for the Post-Apocalyptic Oregon Game we'd be reaching back to Bump's days to find something worse. The parallels to last year are scary.
I can tell you to look at the yardage and feel better, which still works for me to some extent. Michigan still didn't outgain a BCS opponent until the Purdue game in 2009 and they have a demolition of UConn to their name. I can tell you to look at what Purdue and Indiana and Illinois are doing and count to seven that way and then rely on someone else (MSU? Iowa? Penn State?) getting Denarded for the eighth win that would officially exceed expectations, and that helps too. I can point to Iowa's 2009 season, which started out with a one-point win over Northern Iowa in which the Hawkeyes were outgained and had to block two(!) field goals on consecutive plays to avoid the killer upset. Four games later Iowa survived 24-21 against Arkansas State; they ended the year by whipping Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl.
All of these things say football is weird and last weekend was probably an aberration and Michigan's defense will be bad but probably not that bad. But it's hard to shake the feeling of deja vu. We jumped out of a plane and went WOOOOOO because everything is fast and fun and now we're trying to ignore the feeling that the parachute might have transferred to West Virginia. Again.
But at least there's Denard, right? Right. The silver lining to all of this is that he's going to have insane stats because Michigan's got no choice. That's the ticket.
Pulaski time. This has been kicking around message boards and my head since I was annoyed that Michigan threw the ball on third and six early in the game and then whiffed another field goal: given the situation, should Michigan emulate that Arkansas high school team that never, ever punts? Consider:
- The offense is pretty awesome, making a successful fourth-down conversion worth more points than it would be if it was still 2008.
- The defense is pretty terrible, making the loss of field position from an unsuccessful conversion less of an issue than it would be with a defense more likely to stop the opponent. A good defense is more likely to get you the ball back approximately where you booted it from; Michigan's is likely to get you the ball back via kickoff.
- Will Hagerup spent the ND game shanking balls into the stands and dropped a snap against UMass, getting his punt blocked.
- The field goal kickers are 1 of 4 and Rodriguez is openly pleading for any student, clueless or not, to try out.
So… yeah. When the Mathlete did a study with his enormous database of plays he concluded that 1) your defense has no impact on the decision (something I disagree with) and 2) that if your offense is good the light is almost always green:
Maybe some of the Mathlete's assumptions are wrong there (he gives an across-the-board 10% increase in conversion percentage) but even an average offense should be going on fourth and medium anywhere near midfield; Michigan is looking considerably better than average.
I'm hoping Rodriguez starts playing with going on fourth down in mind. If anyone was ever going to test the limits of Romer-ian game theory it would be this Michigan team. It's NCAA '11 time.
Probably no need to get alarmed for next week at least. Bowling Green is 1-2 with losses to Tulsa and Troy with a win coming last week over Marshall. In that game, Marshall's QB chucked four interceptions, two of which were returned for touchdowns. MGoUser BGwolverine13 has some information on their season to date. It sounds like the starting quarterback will sit out this week after suffering a concussion, which is doubly bad for BG since their rushing offense is currently 111th nationally at 2.7 YPC.
Is it sad that we're talking about this? Yes.
Yeah, pretty much.
What happened? Michigan's first two opponents went down to defeat over the weekend, too, seriously damaging their value when it comes to projecting the future. You probably know what went down in the MSU-ND game, but UConn losing to Temple 30-16 hurts.
How did that happen? Well, the Huskies did outgain Temple by 34 yards. (WOO!) They went from 16-14 up to 27-16 down via a fumble return touchdown and a four-yard touchdown drive after a big punt return. Zach Frazer appears to be pure awful (4.8 YPA) and their defense grim in all phases. Temple RB Bernard Pierce had 169 yards on 26 carries and his long was just 38; UConn is not good.
Meanwhile, the ND-MSU game was as dead even as you would expect an overtime game to be. Michigan State ended up outgaining ND 477-461, with the final 29 yards for MSU coming on the trick play that's going to make TWIS so fun this afternoon. Notre Dame's defense was thoroughly gashed by land and sea, giving up 203 yards on 43 carries and allowing Kirk Cousins to complete 23 of 33 passes. ND ran Armando Allen just 13 times despite the fact he is very good and was picking up 5.5 yards a crack; Dayne Crist was 32 of 55 for a bunch of yards, one INT, and 4 TDs. The teams had 13 possessions each.
Conclusion? Michigan State is about Michigan's equal and the game will be a shootout nailbiter.
Goals met? On defense obviously none. On special teams obviously none. Jeremy Gallon is on a streak of five straight terrible decisions on difficult punts to field and should either be replaced or given a return buddy who hangs out ten yards in front of him and fields the crappy ones.
On offense, we did see the healthy and productive return of Junior Hemingway. Taylor Lewan got in and was reportedly mauling people, which okay I-AA team but still that's an encouraging sign when your freshman tackle gets in to replace a guy who's played well so far. And Michael Shaw put up some of those yard things that Denard always gets. We did not get to see Cox, Toussaint, or Hopkins, unfortunately. (Toussaint may still be injured. He dressed but was only participating in some drills before the game.)
The one important thing that Michigan seemed to establish is the existence of a Denard deep ball. UMass was playing tight man coverage most of the day and Denard went deep twice to beat it, hitting Kelvin Grady on a deep seam and Stonum on a fly route. Both balls were well thrown. If you add that to the rest of the stuff Denard can do, hoo boy.
A note on the interception: he had Roundtree open for a touchdown but did the same thing he did against ND where he threw the ball on a line, allowing a safety to come underneath it and deflect it to the guy running a step or two behind Roundtree.
Lloyd-ballin' it note. Hated the third and one iso to Vincent Smith, though not getting it wasn't Smith's fault since there was an unblocked guy tearing in from the edge. But the whole advantage of having a running quarterback is that you get that extra blocker, which seems most useful on third and one. Michigan should have a version of Gator Heavy where Koger, Webb, and whichever RB they think is the best blocker line up to the same side of the formation and they just Tebow their way forward.
Michigan Exposures has photo galleries from the pregame and game. You are also implored to check out UMGoBlog's gallery. MVictors catches Scooter Vaughn in a moment of extreme Scooterdom.
Mas mealer:
The Hoover Street Rag tries to maintain calm:
Now, all of the said, consider, if you will, where a Michigan fan might be standing right now. Since September 1, 2007, you have seen your team play 40 games. In that time span as of this weekend, you have seen your team win as many games as they have lost. Twenty Saturdays up, twenty Saturdays down. Twenty times happy, twenty times sad. You have seen hope crushed in the waking moments of a new rising sun. You have seen hope's corpse taken out back and burned repeatedly. You've seen redemption come from unlikely sources. You've seen a cold night in Champaign. You've seen a darn near miracle in Orlando. You've seen a comeback like nothing you've seen before in Ann Arbor. You've seen another quarterback in orange and blue leave flame trails behind him like a time-traveling DeLorean. You've seen a walk-on save the Jug. You've seen a freshman led an unlikely comeback in a shootout. You've seen all hope die on four chances from the one. You've seen an invasion of red into the Big House. You've seen a sophomore do things we only thought that other teams did to Michigan. You've seen 20 wins and 20 losses.So maybe this is why Saturday's performance doesn't bother me. It was a win. The gap between "survives upset bid" or "gets a scare from an FCS school" and losing is a chasm visible from space. We've been on the other side of that chasm, or perhaps more accurately at the bottom of it.
"We were terrible on defense," Roh said. "We just didn't look like we were prepared to play and we didn't make adjustments during the game.
"I promise you'll not see another game like that from us again."
From Roh's lips to Tebow's ears.


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Two in a row, is that enough to save Sutter's job? I certainly hope not. Although Feaster has said multiple times that getting rid of Brent is not the solution, I can't imagine what the other options are at this point.
The story of the game was losing Mark Giordano. He blocked a shot, left the game, and was put on injured reserve today. That is not good, not good at all.
Anyway, regarding the game itself it wasn't horribly exciting. However I'd rather get the two points in the most boring way imaginable, than lose a thriller in the final minute of regulation. Kipper recorded his first shutout of the year, and Calgary won two games in a row for only the second time this year. That's all I have to say about that.


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It's a small paragraph in Section 1460.18 of the City of Lansing's Code of Compliance. Some Lansing residents say they would like to see it better enforced.
The paragraph states:
"During May through October, every door and every opening directly from a dwelling unit to outdoor space that is used for ventilation...shall have supplied tightly fitting screens....All screen doors and window screens shall be in good repair and every swinging door shall have a self-closing device in good working condition."
Lansing resident, Michael Morofsky, is a neighborhood representative, and he said he's concerned for the health and safety of his neighbors who don't have screens. He said he's worried they will have a greater risk of coming in contact with mosquitoes, and possibly the West Nile virus.
Morofsky said he'd like to see the city crack down on houses that don't meet the code of compliance.
Representatives from the Department of Code of Compliance said they would check into code violations if the addresses of specific houses are brought to their attention.
However, according to department manager, Eleanor Love, more important issues like houses without hot water and heat have a higher priority.