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MORRISON – Martin Jay Dykema, 51, of 11506 Garden Plain Road, Morrison, died Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at a rural farm in Morrison. He was a self-employed farmer.
Martin was born April 6, 1961, in Morrison, the son of Don and Ruth (Feldt) Dykema. He married Leanne K. Grater on Oct. 4, 1981, in Morrison. He was a member of Morrison United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife, two daughters, Erin (Josh) James and Kate (Cody) Goodwin, and two sons, Nolan Dykema and Thomas Dykema, all of Morrison; four grandchildren; his parents, and one sister, Julie (Jim) Brown, all of Morrison; and one brother, Jerry Dykema of Beaumont, Texas.
He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents; paternal grandparents; and one sister, Lynn Johnson.
Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday at Morrison United Methodist Church. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the church, with the Rev. Dan Schenck, pastor, officiating. Interment will be at Rock Creek Cemetery in Morrison.
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How much of an influence does the demand side of ferrous scrap have on the direction of scrap pricing as opposed to, say, foreign demand or other variables? Even more than you might expect.
Scrap prices have moved in tandem with the changes in overall scrap demand every year for the past 10 years, based on annual average numbers for both measurements; if ferrous scrap demand rises or falls, prices move in the same direction. You have to go back to 2003 to find a year when the two were out of sync.
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First, lets take a look at annual pricing movements, comparing the volume of scrap (in millions of tonnes) that mills have purchased from dealers and brokers with pricing (an annual average of AMMs weekly indices for No. 1 busheling, No. 1 heavy melt and shredded scrap, delivered to consumers) each year (2013 is a projection):Scrap prices moved in the same direction as mill purchases every year. But comparing ferrous scrap export tonnages (also in millions of tonnes) with the same average pricing shows that in 2009 and 2010 prices moved in the opposite direction of demand, which certainly puts at least a slight dent in the argument for the strength of export influence:Overall domestic and export demand--the total tonnes sold by scrap dealers and brokers each year--shows that prices moved in the same direction as overall demand:
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What's the utility of the slot in this situation, then? Why not throw to him in the flat or switch him for Webb so you have either an extra blocker or one on ones with the outside receivers?
Picture Pages: Throwing Rock Against A Slant
UFRing the Purdue game was a blast from the past, and in a frustrating way. After the first drive Purdue spent much of the day with eight guys in the box, and Michigan ran at them anyway. Since Michigan's always based out of a three-wide formation this is the equivalent of having nine guys against a tradition I-form; Purdue spent the day showing really soft man zero that may have morphed into cover three after the snap but still should have provided Michigan ample opportunity to exploit the big chunks of space Purdue was leaving open.
Look at Roundtree here:
That was his whole day: sitting by himself and never getting a bubble. There were a lot of reasons for this—primarily the weather and Michigan's reluctance to do anything risky against a Purdue offense that's much worse than Michigan's defense—that were in retrospect correct. At the time it was very frustrating.
Anyway, this Picture Pages is about what this eighth guy in the box allowed Purdue to do. Going into the UFR I was hoping I'd see something that would explain why the offensive line seemed to get whipped so badly, and I think this is it. So that's the setup above. It's Michigan's third drive of the second half. They start on the twenty, it's first and ten, and Purdue has eight in the box. Michigan runs a basic stretch at them.
A moment after the snap you can see that the Purdue linemen are slanting away from the stretch instead of flowing with it. This is not something you see often:
At the mesh point Robinson sees the slot guy containing and Kerrigan moving upfield past Huyge, who's releasing, so he hands off.
A moment after the handoff we see that Molk has completely sealed the playside DT. Normally on a stretch play this means the opponent is dead meat. That's because the playside DE has to maintain contain and sets up outside the OT, which means running a good distance outside, which means there's a huge lane for the tailback and whichever guard is playside gets a free release at one linebacker in a lot of space.
Here the DE has not maintained contain. He's slanted inside Lewan and threatens to get upfield for a TFL. Also the MLB is driving hard to the outside. Schilling either aborts his release to rub the DE or just gets caught up on the Lewan block in an effort to get out on the charging LB:
A moment later we see that Molk has erased both DTs with the seal but the playside DE is sitting in that hole. Lewan knows he's lost the battle and starts shoving him past the tailback. Smith has to go outside, where he's got a lead blocker in Hopkins against two Purdue linebackers. Schilling has no chance on the MLB since he shot for this exact hole at the snap:
A moment later Hopkins kicks one guy, Lewan shoves the DE, and Schilling is following the other linebacker into the hole. Smith's cutting up because he doesn't have much of a choice.
Linebacker is now the blur between Schilling and Smith. Schilling's managed to get him to run past the play a bit and he's got to make a diving ankle tackle…
…but he does:
Michigan receives zero yards.
Object lesson type objects:
- Purdue can only do this because they have eight guys in the box against six blockers. One goes with Denard, so that's seven on six. Normally you see playside DEs set up outside on the stretch because if they don't that lead blocker to the outside threatens to pound a single linebacker and send the tailback into the secondary. Here Purdue outnumbers Michigan, which allows them to slant that DE inside and still get two guys on the perimeter when Lewan pushes the DE past the back. Purdue consistently answered the "one safety or zero" question with zero, and these were the results. Here they get the play to go exactly where they want to and kill it.
- I don't think anyone blocking did anything wrong. The only block in question is the one on the playside DE where the guy gets under Lewan because he's slanting inside. If that DE gets past Lewan into the backfield that's a major issue but a main principle of zone blocking is you take the guy where he wants to go faster than he wants to go. Guy wanted to go inside, Lewan shoves him inside and opens up a crease at the LOS. Extra linebacker makes the play. The only thing I think Michigan could have done here is a weird anti-scoop where Schilling shoves the DE outside of Lewan instead of shoving the DT inside of Molk. I don't know if anyone's ever tried that so it's hard to blame the players.
- This is actually close to breaking for some yardage maybe? Despite all this Schilling's good-faith effort to do something with that filling linebacker and Lewan's ability to create a decent hole sees Smith almost cut past the charging LB, whereupon he'd get somewhere between five and many yards. He can't.
That's not a serious knock on Smith on his most effective day as a Wolverine. A back with the ability to make the cut he does on this sloppy field and the speed/power to run through that ankle tackle attempt would be a special guy indeed; hopefully Demetrius Hart can be that guy.
So, yes, I think I did find an explanation in what Purdue was doing that partially exonerated the offensive line. Michigan saw this front all day and kept running into it, which resulted in a crappy day on the ground. In this case the "crappy day on the ground" is 4.3 YPC excluding sacks, which is basically what good DeBord teams averaged on the ground. Since DeBord absolutely loved to run "away" from the extra guy and out-execute in the face of herculean odds, this makes sense.
Michigan's offense is going to net a huge RPS minus in UFR because of this rock, rock, rock playcalling, but don't take that too seriously. I get why they did it when Denard threw two horrible interceptions and a lot of his simple hitch routes to the sidelines were fluttering ducks. The conditions affected his throwing significantly, and allowed Purdue to spend 80% of the game running cover zero. When they stopped this on Michigan's late third-quarter drive from their own four, Michigan went right down the field until a clipping penalty on Lewan put them in second and forever.
More tomorrow when the offense UFR drops.
they just didn't happen to run it here (or really any time against Purdue) but he's still an option. In theory the wlked up S (at least that what it looks like) should get caught between taking Denard or getting outside help on the slot.
His utility is to threaten a bubble screen, except Purdue ignored it because Denard's passing suffered greatly in the poor conditions. It's kind of what Brian was talking about in the section after the first picture.
fumble if Denard threw behind Roundtree. That's part of the reason why RR didn't want Denard throwing bubble screen. If Denard was throwing fine, Michigan would have used a lot of bubble screens. Regardless, Michigan still won.
But as Hannibal notes below, bubble screens are way safer than throwing downfield, in fact all of Robinson's poor decisions/throws came from targeting Purdue downfield. And the coaches let him throw downfield all game.
We are complaining that Coach Rodriguez went conservative on offense when he had the lead, it was pouring rain, and his QB demonstrated that any passing play had a good shot at being points for Purdue. Oh wait, and clearly Purdue's offense was being out performed by our defense.
We really have our priorities screwed up.
My conclusion from Brian's analysis is that, despite having the odds stacked heavily against ROCK, we still managed to pound it forward against this team! IN the driving rain!?! Maybe you guys haven't stood in the pouring rain for 3 hours at Fall Temperatures, but even with gloves on your hands stop working. You literally lose the ability to grasp objects with your fingers.
Now I never played QB in High School, but I have thrown and caught a football before, and if my memory serves me well it required use of your fingers gripping the ball to work well.
Bottom line is, if it's a dry day in Ann Arbor Saturday, expect the Wisconsin Game to be an Illinois shootout.
I'm even thinking that Wisconsin might make the mistake of using less than 7 people to stop the run game. Well maybe just hoping.
his QB demonstrated that any passing play had a good shot at being points for Purdue.
Again: Denard went 13-21 passing (62%) and averaged 8.4 yards per attempt. His two interceptions both came in obvious passing situations. In non-obvious passing situations, he did fine.
It wasn't obvious passing situations that made him inaccurate on the day as a whole. The pick 6 was so far behind the receiver that my father-in-law asked me who he was throwing to and I had to guess because the receiver wasn't on the screen in the replays.
This does seem weird. I don't care if they were throwing ducks or there was sleet, those are some pretty safe passes. Unless they were setting something up for this week, I don't like it.
It does seem to explain why guys were wide ass open 2 yards downfield in the 1st half and it was an easy 10-15 yard gain. Sitting in my living room I couldn't figure why we went away from it. I guess this explains some of it.
The weather was a factor but it is hard for me to believe any coach (especially RR) would be comfortable with less than a two score lead precisely because of the conditions. One turnover deep in your own territory and, poof, there goes the lead and potentially the game.
Hence the lack of a bubble screen. If that pass is behind the receiver, it could be a fumble and a turnover.
the Rod was deliberately limiting his playbook so as not to give Wisconsin and OSU too much game film to peruse. My guess is that we'll see some significant new packages in the next two games that the defenses won't have prepped for.
If RichRod has dared limit his playbook much this season (with all the external pressure) and held back outside of necessity (e.g., because of Denard's inexperience), then he's got some *huge* ... equipment.
I can't see how he wouldn't have pulled everything out of the bag by now.
Based on what we saw out of WVU during the RR tenure, I think it's safe to say there's some items they've been holding back special for Tressel (and to a lesser extent Wisconsin)
If it wasn't safe enough to throw bubble screens, then why were we throwing the ball down field on every 2nd and third and long when our opponent has one of the country's best pass rushers? Those are the down and distance that gave Denard all of his problems. His two picks came on drop back passes when we were badly behind the chains. I only counted two plays where Denard pump faked it and took off with it. He got 11 yards once and 17 yards the next time. Where was that play in the entire second half?
I guess I don't really care what the answer is as long as this one game was an outlier.
I didn't like the 2nd and long 3rd and long drop backs either....with Denard I like the ISQBD and then see where we are. We had a lot of these type situations near midfield or on their side of the field where I thought ok it's 3rd and 15 let's do the qb draw or a screen and see if we can't pick up the 1st that way. If we don't get it maybe we're close enough to go on 4th.
The pick 6 was a perfect example 2nd and goal from the 18 up 11 I was thinking don't do anything stupid. Let's try something safe and at worst we're at a chip shot fg.
looked like Purdue stayed in that base defense as long as it wasn't an obvious passing down. So it was a dare to throw and we couldn't execute. Overthrows, drops, fumbles, penalties, inexplicable picks. I thought the OL would prove to be the major culprit, but even with a bit of a down day, we should have had 4 TDs on offense. Maybe 5.
Denard was 13-21, averaging 8.4 per attempt. I'd say it wasn't so much an issue of us not executing as us not really trying to attack them downfield. His two INTs came in extremely obvious passing situations (2nd and goal from the 18, and 3rd and 19).
that Denard didn't connect on where Stonum or Hemingway had steps on their guy. the quip about execution was meant to indicate that weather was a significant factor, too. the run/pass ratio wouldn't be so skewed otherwise, i'm sure.
Granted it was against Purdue, but it was nice to see Smith have a good day. I know he hasn't had quite the season we all thought he would, but the ACL injury rule of thumb was always a full year to be back to 100%. He's coming up on almost exactly one year now and the last few games he seems to be making more of the cuts and little bursts we saw last year. I think he can have a real strong finish to the season.
I know at least one play that we have yet to see from Rich's Offense and that is the Triple-Option. This play was the backbone of Rich's West Virginia team. We have yet to see Denard even do this but If Denard can run the Triple-Option like Pat White did Look Out!!! their we be nothing stoppin this Offense except itself because Rich's West Virginia teams never had the passing game Rich has in Michigan.
seems to know why we don't do this (or maybe I don't remember). This isn't any more difficult it seems than doing the read handoff and then throwing, yet we do that all the time. It seems like Denard would be absolutely deadly running that way with a pitch option, but I'n sure RR is smarter than I, and for some reason doesn't want to do it.
Back to the idea of the bubble screen, that play is WIDE OPEN here once Denard gets into the mesh point. And if that is the defense Purdue was running all game, its hard to believe we didn't exploit that more.
Now I know some of you mentioned the risk of a fumble on a backward pass, but as you can see from the pictures, Roundtree is well in front of Denard by the time he hands off to Smith.
If DRob pulls that ball, #32 on Purdue would have bitten hard (in fact he was already in the process of doing so), allowing Denard a very easy throw to Roundtree for a big gain.
There would have been almost zero chance of a backward pass, and the only risk is that a deep player comes down fast and pick sixes it.
I don't quite understand why we didn't do this a ton, especially since its a much safer play than many of the other passes we attempted (ie the TE seem late in the game).
But I'm just a guy on MGoBlog, so I'm sure the coaches knew much more about what was going on then I do.
I agree with your point that the backward pass is a pretty minor concern. I don't think they ever intentionally throw that pass backwards (probably exactly for that reason. It usually comes out of the shotgun with the receiver staying put or sliding out and slightly forward. You don't often see the WR take significant steps backwards. This concern is overblown.
Re: reverse scoop on the DE:
What if Lewan just passed off the DE to Schilling in this case, since thats where the DE wanted to go and Schilling looks like he was in a better position to seal him, and then Lewan could get out on an LB?


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Brother act: SV alums join forces at St. Mary's
Published 12:05 am, Thursday, March 31, 2011
St. Mary's Derek and Reagan Moczygemba are having the type of baseball season they'll remember a long time.
Derek, making his debut with the Rattlers after spending last year at Blinn College, has made a quick impression with a .310 average and 23 RBIs. His older brother is steady as ever during his fourth year as a starter by sporting a .350 average with two home runs and 22 RBIs.
Their contributions are making a difference for 11th ranked St. Mary's (25-6, 16-2), which leads the Heartland Conference.
Winning on a regular basis and producing big hits is nice, but what makes this season special is the Moczygemba brothers are getting a chance to enjoy it as teammates.
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"Reagan being here definitely influenced me," said Derek, who is plays in the outfield. "He's one of the leaders on this team and I wanted to be part of that."
Reagan welcomed Derek with open arms.
"Not too many brothers get to play college baseball together," Reagan said. "It's been pretty cool. Derek's always been a good player who wants to get better."
While they are contributing on a regular basis, that competitive Moczygemba spirit that surfaced during their days of backyard baseball is still going strong.
Being around sports all their life (their father Joe Moczygemba is an assistant football coach at Smithson Valley) provided some of the fire.
However, a bigger portion comes from their determination to outdo one another. If one of the brothers gets a big hit, the other tries to get two hits. That incentive even showed during an intra-squad game at St. Mary's when Derek was on the mound and Reagan came to the plate.
"It was different," Reagan said, "but it was fun at the same time. He didn't throw any inside pitches, because I told him if he hit me, I was charging the mound."
Although Derek saw quality competition while playing for one of the premiere junior college programs in the country, the introduction to NCAA Division II baseball at St. Mary's wasn't easy.
But the younger Moczygemba had one thing in his favor. His older brother had already been through it.
Reagan's guidance helped when Derek was in high school. He saw no reason why it wouldn't work with the Rattlers.
In the beginning, sophomore's game time consisted of filling in late or pinch-hitting. When he started coming up with clutch hits, St. Mary's coach Charlie Migl decided to see what the younger Moczygemba could do on a regular basis.
Derek has given Migl a good show. "I've been trying to help my team," Derek said.
Reagan, currently playing third base, has made his experience count. He's been through his share of slumps during his stint at St. Mary's, but found ways to fight through it.
That's the message the senior tries to deliver to his younger brother.
"The experience gives you confidence, because you have been there before," Reagan said.
Since this will be their only year as college teammates, the Moczygemba duo hopes to help St. Mary's to a banner season. The Rattlers had a good run this past season in advancing to the South Central Region before losing to Abilene Christian. This time, they'll be looking for something better.
That would bring pleasant memories for a lifetime.


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2009 Women's Soccer
Rose-Hulman 2, Bluffton 1
Rose-Hulman pulls out 2-1 victory over Beavers
October 24, 2009
By: Brent Schroeder, sports information assistant
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - The Bluffton University women's soccer team fell to conference opponent Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology by a 2-1 count on Saturday, October 24, 2009. The Beavers dipped to 7-9 on the season and 1-6 in the Heartland Conference, while the Engineers improved to 6-1 in conference play and 7-8 overall.
The Beavers struck first on a kick by Katy Wisby (Lancaster/Bloom-Carroll) that gleaned off the right post for a 1-0 lead in the 7th minute of action. Rose-Hulman answered quickly when Annmarie Stanley notched a goal less than thirty seconds later. The game winner was scored in the 28th minute by Eli Baca. Rose-Hulman outshot Bluffton 13-2 in the first half and 18-6 overall. The Beavers racked up nine fouls in the match.
Katy Wisby and Kourtney Lewis (Arlington/Riverdale) had Bluffton's only shots on goal with Wisby tallying three of the four and Lewis making up the difference. Freshman keeper Molly Martin (Brookville) finished with five saves in the contest.
The Beavers wrap up their season next Saturday, October 31, vs. Anderson University at home. The contest is slated to start at 12 p.m.


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Blind Squirrels
10/21/2012 – Michigan 12, Michigan State 10 – 5-2, 3-0 Big Ten
Denard Robinson is 13 of 29 for 143 yards; he's run 20 times for 96 yards. His team is down a point and has managed to turn 120 seconds into eighteen without moving the ball anywhere near plausible field goal range. A few drives ago Jeremy Gallon was as wide open as you can be on third and goal and Denard blasted it hard and behind the guy—if it was to keep it away from a defender it was because the throw was late—or Michigan would lead by three.
Behind me, some Michigan State meathead has spent the better part of four quarters screaming "throw it, Denard, huh huh huh." Juggalo Nation, reprazent.
"Is this guy really a QB I'll say my mans vento is a better QB lol. S/O to my boy vento by the way."
-Denicos Allen, MSU linebacker, on Denard and MSU walk-on QB Tommy Vento, 9/1/2012
Michigan has second and eleven but more importantly they have seventeen seconds to get in field goal range. State shows a three man rush but also sends Denicos Allen; Allen stunts inside Will Gholston, who Lewan has nerfed, and hits Ricky Barnum at full speed. Barnum gives ground—a lot of ground. Allen is flying up into the pocket, where Denard would be.
Denard has started to roll.
"DENARD IS SOOOO BAD! And it makes me feel so good."
-Kyle Artinian, MSU safety, 9/1/2012
The roll is bad. The roll takes out most of Michigan's routes, spends time Michigan doesn't have, removes downfield possibilities Michigan desperately needs. In the stands, my heart sinks. I have seen this script before, not just watching Michigan, but watching everyone. Michigan's win probability is sinking like a stone with every step Denard takes outside the pocket.
Denard stops. The roll steps have gotten Roy Roundtree a bracket, and made the middle of the field lonely.
Barnum has continued shoving Allen past everything. Gholston, lined up against Lewan, is as relevant to the play as I am. Denard sets his feet.
"I can play quarterback for the school in blue."
-Jamal Lyles, MSU linebacker, 9/1/2012
Denard decides setting his feet is not for him. He starts moving up in the pocket as the State nose tackle sheds Elliot Mealer.
Dileo's head is in a better spot to tackle someone than Gholston
As all of this has occurred with half the people on the field, the other half have been fighting hand-to-hand in remote locations. Drew Dileo has started outside, then come inside of MSU safety Isaiah Lewis. Lewis is tracking, in decent position. Dileo is entering a window between two underneath defenders. It's huge since Denard's temporary roll has caused Max Bullough to chase Roundtree—the roll truly was doomed.
Denard is moving up in a pocket that is less a pocket and more a space occupied by a no-longer-blocked Michigan State defender by the moment. He has not rolled. He is stepping into the future, whatever it brings.
Denard cocks, and throws. The stadium stops. The throw has to be on a line, at Dileo's chest. It's 20 yards downfield. As each frame ticks by, universes begin and end.
"Even a blind squirrel can get a nut ever once in a while...,"
-Nick Hill, MSU running back, 9/1/2012
It's in the number—not numbers. Drew Dileo only has one. It's #9. Denard uses the enclosed space in that number as a bullseye.
Michigan rushes to the line to spike the ball. Mark Dantonio watches Michigan execute a maneuver that cost him a game last week when his team went all John L Smith on it.
I keep thinking about how this clown beat us in the clutch. Sure, we beat ourselves, but for all the times we've shit on him for his arm or lack of, what did he do in the final minute?
Pride comes before... DAMN IT!
-Venomous G. Duck, 10/21/2012
…I mean, the guy knows. He's heard it all, whether he'll admit it or not. In this game the defenses dominated as both quarterbacks struggled to about 5.6 yards per attempt. The difference: Denard outrushed MSU's offense by himself and threw a meaningless interception on an end-of-half Hail Mary while Maxwell chucked one into Kovacs's chest after Michigan State had been set up with good field position. Run and armpunt that, homeboy.
"We've beat Michigan the last four years. So where's the threat?"
-Mark Dantonio, 4/18/2012
The remainder of Michigan State's season is a choice between not going to a bowl game and helping Michigan make the Rose Bowl.
Michigan State found a few nuts when one Michigan coach hung on too long and a second employed Greg Robinson, and couldn't wait to tell everybody every day all day. In the aftermath, they're asking Brady Hoke if they're as important as Ohio State and saying it's a real rivalry and it's level footing now, because Michigan is apparently also busy cutting off recruiting coordinators for no apparent reason and talking trash because Michigan State is losing a game. The little brother thing keeps getting brought up because it is the truest thing anyone has ever said about a 100-year-old football program.
Whatever. Michigan is rounding up a selection of ass-kickers and has its sights set on bigger things than one game against a program that's never been in a BCS bowl and hasn't seen Pasadena in 25 years. It doesn't matter if MSU or Iowa is Iowa. What matters is in Schembechler Hall, and MSU players watching Michigan play Alabama know it.
After the game, DenardX tweeted something about walk-on quarterbacks.
Me and the rest of the QBs after the game with our home boy Paul Bunyan!!! #GoBlue @teamdgizzle @rbellomy
As of press time, Denicos Allen has not given a shoutout to his boy Tommy Vento.
Eric's photoset:
Parkinggod highlights:
Other highlights from a guy named noonkick. Field level end of game video:
Presser videos from mgovideo: Hoke, Lewan/Roh/Roundtree, Dileo/Gibbons, Roundtree is going to love that Paul Bunyan trophy yo. MVictors photos. Maize and Blue Nation photos.
Brady Hoke Epic Double Point Of The Week. Come on down, Drew Dileo. You caught over two-thirds of Denard's passing yardage and are now The Threat. Viva slot receivers.
Honorable mention: Jake Ryan (obvs), JT Floyd (they tried but could never bust him), Greg Mattison (I mean, my God), Denard Robinson (HEYYYY COLUMN LADY), Taylor Lewan (Tom Lolston), Kenny Demens (LeVeon Bell, welcome to 2.6 YPC), Jordan Kovacs (ditto).
Epic Double Point standings.
3: Jake Ryan (ND, Purdue, Illinois)
2: Denard Robinson (Air Force, UMass)
1: Jeremy Gallon(Alabama), Drew Dileo (Michigan State)
DEE-FENSE. That image above is just perfect. LeVeon Bell crapped out 2.6 yards a carry against OSU… and 2.6 yards a carry against Michigan. That's all DL stuff and while the Michigan State line had the services of Dan France, they were out two of their three starters for most of the OSU game and did not have Treadwell much; Treadwell went the whole way against M and AFAIK Ethan Ruhland did not make an appearance. Dion Sims was gimpy; other than that it's basically the same performance against the same team.
Bell never got caught behind the line, which makes the 2.6 YPC even more impressive since Michigan didn't RPS their way into any TFLs. Michigan won the battle on third and short against LeVeon Bell. Thumbs up.
CLOCK MANAGEMENT. That was verbatim tweet I sent out Saturday and holy pants, WTF. Some of that was crappy luck and crappy decisions—Toussaint catching the Butterfield/Breaston memorial DON'T YOU DARE CATCH THAT pass, Denard checking down in the first place, but at one point the entire stadium was on its feet screaming SNAP THE BALL at once after Michigan let almost 20 seconds run off the clock for no apparent reason. Michigan had already burned nine seconds before the review on the Denard third-and-two lunge; they burned off a few more before snapping the ball.
If this was a one time thing it would be a one-time thing; after last year's Iowa two-minute debacle it's an issue. I don't think this is much on the players when they're looking to the sideline for a call, especially after Michigan burned two timeouts in this game just trying to get the playcall in.
Michigan huddling for half the playclock is killing me. There's no reason to do it, it doesn't seem to help their attempts to audible out of obvious blitzes, and their lack of practicing at tempo is an obvious detriment when they need to go fast.
Jake Ryan crazy thing of the week. This is not actually the Maxwell sack pictured at right, which came about after Ryan went around the 250-pound Bell like he was not there for Michigan's only TFL of the week. Though that was pretty awesome, you guys.
Even so, the crazy thing Ryan did this week was facing down three blockers on a screen that MSU had set up like whoah, trashing the guy who peeled off to deal with him, and holding Michigan State to seven yards. Michigan booted state off the field on the subsequent third and short.
Totals: 10 tackles, 8 solo, Michigan's only sack. HE'S SLIGHTLY GOOD YOU GUYS SRSLY
JT Floyd. It was clear once MSU started taking regular shots downfield that they had identified JT Floyd as the weak spot on the Michigan defense, but he held tough. The catch-and-YAC five yard hitch first downs from the Purdue game were eliminated entirely; he got beat deep by a step or two each time but was in good enough position that the throws had to be perfect lest he pull the press Michael Floyd and live (or "trail") technique.
The throws weren't perfect, and the only long completions Maxwell managed were against Thomas Gordon (bad play by him on a ball he would have had a play on if he found it) and Raymon Taylor (got an interference call and gave up an admittedly spectacular completion late). Floyd got off without issue.
What's more, MSU's big idea to get a touchdown on short yardage was to line up a fullback over Floyd and run Bell at him. Floyd held up, got the edge, kept leverage at the numbers, and prevented Bell from getting outside, whereupon Desmond Morgan helped him tackle. The guy had a target on his back all day and came through with flying colors.
Fumbles. Are a bitch.
Somehow Michigan did not recover this one, nor the other one, despite having nothing but Michigan players surrounding the Spartan who clutched the ball like it was a nugget of gold.
Denard, my man. I am totally down with the whole "not getting torn limb from limb by defenses" thing, but…
…dude, there is a time and place to put your body on the line and turning your 44 yard run late in the fourth quarter into 50 is it.
Denard's bad throw to Gallon. Eric got a great shot of it:
Watching the replay, Denard is throwing it in the heart of the window between the two linebackers. Gallon should be sitting between the two guys; he overruns it a bit. My thinking here is influenced by seeing Borges at that coaches clinic, where he mentioned that he wants his QBs to hold up his receivers against zone coverage.
Still, probably at least 75% Denard. He's rifling that at a guy barely ten yards downfield so his margin for error is extremely small; he doesn't read the fact that he is wide, wide open and he can just soft toss it to him.
Matt Wile: most useful backup kicker ever. Matt Wile may not have displaced Keith Stone Sasquatch Brendan Gibbons as Michigan's starting kicker but he's the best third-most-important kicker since I've been watching Michigan football. He:
- kicks most kickoffs into the endzone
- is a pretty effective pooch-punter
- had a good plain-old punting record last year when Hagerup was jittery
- nailed a 48-yard field goal that, along with all other field goals, was the winning margin.
If either kicker got injured he'd step into their shoes. Michigan should be fine on the kicking stuff for a while now. Note foregone pun.
Hagerup confidence : 2012 :: Gibbons confidence : 2011. Whatever happened with Hagerup last year to tack a four-game suspension on to his OSU suspension from 2010 led to a lot of shanks and mortifiedpunter.gif. After a couple of Sugar Bowl shanks, Wile displaced Hagerup for the rest of the game.
At that point it was writin' off time, like Gibbons after 2010. When Hagerup was still atop the depth chart in September, that made people suspicious. It wasn't alarming like Gibbons since Wile was around and fairly established, but it was only 50-50 to stick. Stuck it has. Hagerup's averaging 47.5 yards a kick and would be fourth nationally if he had enough punts to qualify.
Special teams coach: do we have one or not? The fake punt was… frustrating. Michigan's trying to set up a return, which you can't really do against a spread punt anyway, and they're playing a team that loves nothing more than faking punts and field goals. Somehow this combination results in three guys leading the punter and blocking no one at all. Michigan's even got a designated special teams/TEs guy, but they can't cover or block on punts and they got gashed for 30 yards by a punter. WTF.
Michigan did get a big return out of Gallon at the end of the first half but even that emphasized the difference in punt coverage. Gallon had to split two unblocked guys and then run laterally past a second wave. Meanwhile the one Hagerup punt that was not a 48-yard, five-second-hang unreturnable moonball was a free 15 yards for the punt returner since MSU doubled a gunner and no one else on that side of the ball got downfield.
Whatever they're doing with the kickers is great… but is that anything other than hot babes visualization exercises? I'm not sure. Everything else is questionable at best.
Game theory bits. There wasn't a whole lot of interest from my eyes but a couple of decisions have sucked up post-game airtime.
- MSU threw on second down on their last drive. Not even close: right call. LeVeon Bell was averaging 2.6 yards a carry and had just been stuffed for nothing. Maybe you want some slants or a hitch or something instead of what they threw but you can't assume Michigan is going to run the worst successful two minute drill ever. All running on second down accomplishes is spending a Michigan timeout; getting the first down ends the game.
- Michigan punted on fourth and seven from the MSU 42 early. Did not have a problem with this. Not in true no man's land, yardage pretty big, and if you're in the kind of game that ends 12-10 puntosaur technology is the right tech.
- MSU attempted a 38-yard field goal on fourth and one from the 21. This was debatable—one of reasons puntosaur tech makes sense is that even if you get the first down you're probably kicking anyway. Is MSU going to score a TD? Eh… probably not. A 38-yarder is well within the range in which you expect your established PK to hit it. Even so… that was fourth and capital-S Short. If MSU is intimidated by Michigan's short yardage defense… well, I get that. Probably a mistake but in a puntosaur game I get it.
The assumption you're making on those early calls is that you are in a puntosaur game. IME, that was clear from the get-go.
Oh for crap's sake. Dollars to donuts this is new LSJ beatwriter and slappy Graham "Alex Carder Best Quarterback In The State™" Couch:
I don't know if you guys saw after the game, but I almost got trampled out there. [MGo: -_______-] Have the fans ever trampled the field like that after a Michigan State win? Is this rivalry getting to the level of Ohio State?
[update: Heiko says it was a photographer, not Couch; stuff below stands.]
No, and no.
Couch derided Junior Hemingway—yup, Junior Hemingway—for his classlessness after the game in a tweet, going so far as to hashtag his tweet "#classless," because he interpreted Michigan's rush to get a Paul Bunyan trophy that was on the sideline last year but not this year as taunting. He's since deleted the tweet, because nothing goes better with stupidity than cowardice.
BONUS: This blog already has a "Graham Couch's laughable homerism" tag from his days covering WMU.
Pom poms. I thought I was good when the guy three rows in front of me was an Air Force veteran—so said his hat—who would clearly rather eat glass than wave a pom-pom, but then some Ladies who Just Wanted To Have Fun ended up two rows in front of me. At some point I had to say "please don't wave those so high" because I couldn't see the field, at which point they said "it's a football game" and I said "I KNOW I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT."
I don't know, man. This isn't an old man thing, it's just… if there are pom poms it is a guarantee that some dip in front of you will forget that there are people behind them and act affronted when you say there are people behind them. This is amazingly consistent in my and my friends experience: ask the kind of person who waves a pom-pom during actual football plays to not do that and you will be subjected to a "whateva, I do what I want" style rant and petulant extra-vigorous pom-pom shaking. And yet if I was to take the pom-pom and stuff it down the pom-pom waver's throat, I would be the one removed from the stadium.
Pom poms suck, because society.
Special K. False hope is worse than death.
What the incentive program should be. Any student who wasn't in the stadium at kickoff shouldn't be allowed to buy tickets next year. I mean, seriously: a 3:30 kick for the only decent home game all year and the upper 20 rows of the student section are half-full means the student section is too big.
We had Witvoet's crew for the game. After calling a penalty on State, he let Hawthorne have it. I'm not sure what Brandin did, but I'm just glad he didn't draw an unsportmanlike penalty call.
* The officials let it be known early that they weren't going to stand for any shenanigans this year, calling Lewan for a somewhat touchy late hit. I wish they would have sent a message by calling a penalty on the team responsible for all the shenanigans last year, but they kept things under control, so no complaints.
bronxbblue has a new thing called Best and Worst:
Best: "It's an in-state rival. But we have bigger expectations"
I'm sure this is a bit of coach-speak, but it is also something that needed to be said. Since, oh, the Eastern Michigan game, I don't think most people saw MSU as a legitimate Big 10 championship team. The offense was too crippled by a porous line, poor WRs, and a somewhat-shaky QB to keep pace with teams like Wisconsin, UM, OSU, and Nebraska. The Iowa game cemented their ceiling for the year at 7-8 wins, even with an elite defense.
Outside of the Alabama game, though, UM's ceiling was never defined. Notre Dame was a tough loss but one that felt more self-inflicted than the team meeting a superior opponent. Purdue and Illinois proved only that UM was probably as good as Louisiana Tech and and Marshall. MSU, frankly, was not going to validate UM's season, but only give them another breakpoint from which to calibrate their potential.
And that's what Hoke encapsulates in this statement. He recognizes that MSU is a rival and the game mattered, but this wasn't the season.
Spartanfreude section. The "Post Your Big (Jail) House experience" thread is pretty good from an M standpoint—no one reports much untoward aside from some verbal sparring, and even that is pretty tame.
I was in Section 8 and saw some arguing going on. On the way back to the car had 3 assholes walking in back of us talking shit like everyone above said, "Little brother put back in his place again", "Leveon Bell for Heisman....", "130 seasons of football and 900 wins", "UM is back in their rightful place". This yapping went. on for the whole walk thru the golf course. Mind you that I took my 74 year old dad to the game. I finally blew. Stopped in my tracks and had a few words. That slightly shut them up.
A 74-year-old man had to listen to people describe how many wins Michigan had acquired, and was exposed to the opinion that Michigan State is not as good at football as Michigan. #thugs
This Guy:
Cut my hand open, Michigan fans threatened to "throw me out of the stadium" for cheering, got my backpack stolen, bought macaroni salad on the walk home. Typical saturday. Also I got called ugly a lot. I'm like a 6 let's be real.
Edit: in retrospect, I probably swore around children a lot more than I should have
Also This Guy:
It's an awful place. Will never return after my last visit in 2010, when I had to be retstrained from attacking Walvies who kept telling me to go back to jail. Nothing about the experience is fun, no matter the result.
And this guy made TWIS but you get a taste early:
Rolled out of bed today more upset and sick than last night
This sucks. Facing the world this week with every UM drag sporting that cocky arrogant grin, wearing their colors -unwashed.
I hate this.
Many if you rcmb'rs are too you to remember all the games from late 80's until Dantonio era.... I hate this week. I can't wait for the first one to offer some sort of mild apology or winning with fg's... Kill.
That is the same This Guy who complained about the Michigan fans who had the audacity to tell him the game would be close and Michigan wasn't good last week. If this man was ever exposed to a real taunt his head would disintegrate into a fine mist.
Blog folks. HSR:
Spock: Well, Michigan was quite fortunate to have won that game.
Kirk: Woooo! Don't care! Wooooo! Woooo! Woooo!
Spock: Four field goals is hardly the offensive output necessary over the long term to win the Big Ten Championship.
Kirk: Don't care! Don't care! Woooooo! Woooo! What the Dileo?!? Wooo!
As J. Lehman was interviewing Hoke during pregame (above), I heard a woman on the sideline (with a sideline pass mind you) gesture over to Hoke and ask, "Is that the coach?". I gave the Jim Halpert stare to anyone who wanted it. And a lot of guys wanted it.
BWS points out that Michigan passed on 7 of 26 first downs, and only 5 of 22 before the two-minute drill. The lack of a reliable play action option really hurt in this one. I'm not sure why Michigan can't throw outs to their slot receivers.
The MZone has wallpaper and shiny helmet taunting. Five takes from MNBN. Holding the Rope. Maize and Go Blue. TTB.
The Only Colors has postgame react from the MSU perspective:
There aren't going to be any four-game winning streaks in this rivalry again for a long time. ("It takes four years. Of course it will be a long time." Shut up, guy). MSU will get the favorable schedule U-M has enjoyed for the next two years, and both teams are starting to stockpile talent. (If you bring up recruiting rankings, I'm going to punch you).
MSU fans are still clinging to the recruiting-rankings-are-meaningless thing. They're in for a harsh reality check once Michigan's recruiting rankings are paired with something other than crippling attrition, lackadaisical talent evaluation, and crappy coaching. Maybe not next year, when Michigan's breaking in a new quarterback and the upperclass talent levels are still relatively even, but after that… back to the salt mines, Sparty. Or maybe Alabama, OSU, and USC are only good because of their helmets.
SBN's Bobby Big Wheel was randomly at the game and randomly ended up on the field and wrote a thing defending being on the field:
…most college kids use "if it feels good, do it" as their main decision-making rule, not a six-factor test. Thus, a few jumped on the field. At first, I smiled and wondered how I'd get out of the stadium, but more people started jumping the fence. Michigan Stadium goes out instead of up, and the student section seems to run 100 rows deep. So, I learned that when you have a mile of drunk, yellow-clad college kids behind you and someone says you're rushing the field, you're rushing the field.
That's how I, a 28-year-old, job-having person, rushed the field at Michigan Stadium. And I did it con gusto. I joined in the chants, yelled "wooooo!" a lot and got my picture taken with the band. It might have been the rum and "Coke" (I suspect that the mixer was either another type of rum or a non-poisonous brand of varnish) that I'd been taking swigs of during the game, but it was still a fantastic experience. Please keep in mind that I have no ties to the University of Michigan beyond a sister in grad school there. Never mind that; running around a football field makes you feel alive.
I have to admit I rolled my eyes at the field-rush, which was epic in its half-assery. The first students over the wall waited for the team to leave the field, basically, and then it was a slow trickle as only 30-40% of the people in the front row at any particular juncture actually wanted to get on the field. The contrast from last year's OSU field rush to this one was appropriately vast.
Q: I can't remember anyone ever rushing the field outside of the 1997 OSU game before the two incidents mentioned above. Can anyone else?
The HSR is figuring out what's going on in the game based on Ace's ability to keep all of his veins in his head. Dr. Sap's decals go to Dileo, Floyd, and Gibbons, plus others. Brady Hoke's Pet Viking reprazent. MVictors did this:
MVictors is pretty cool, yo.
There is another Wangler. Not Jack Wangler. Another another Wangler. Michigan picked up a commit from a guy who makes Logan Tuley-Tillman seem small.
Media folks. Nesbitt column. Baumgardner explains what happened at the end of the game with the "classless" business hopeless unprofessional slappy Couch mentioned:
Moments after Michigan's 12-10 win over Michigan State on Saturday in Ann Arbor, Lewan, teammate Roy Roundtree and a host of other Michigan players rushed the field and sprinted toward the Spartan sideline.
They were, of course, searching for the famous Paul Bunyan Trophy. But the effort was futile.
"This was my first time beating Michigan State, so I don't know how this works," Lewan said, believing Michigan was supposed to receive the trophy from MSU after the game. "I ran over there to get the Paul Bunyan Trophy, because I remember (MSU having it on the field once before).
"I didn't see him until I went into the locker room. ... I think they were upset about it."
The Michigan victory brings the trophy back to Ann Arbor for the first time since 2007, even if it wasn't brought onto the field Saturday.
After beating the Wolverines for a fourth straight time last season, Michigan State players were seen celebrating with the massive trophy on the field at Spartan Stadium. On Saturday, though, the exchange was more low-key -- it was done somewhere inside the stadium tunnel, and the trophy was waiting for the Wolverines in their locker room after the game.
More classless behavior.
Wojo. Gibbons called the attempt to ice him "pointless." You've come a long way, baby. Chengelis no doubt jinxes Gibbons.
Michigan is 20th in both polls. Jennings on The Threat, who is a football player. Grades. Numbers. Avoiding predictability.
if people would prefer something more. . . bowling? I mean, c'mon--that is the real Michigan deal!
It's a traditional game against a fine academic institution with a proud, century-long tradition of football. And it's a divisional game. And they even have a winning record at 4-3. So what if the rivalry has been a bit one-sided? And who cares if the famous trophy is ugly?
Make no mistake about it, it's a big game coming up on November 3. Maybe the biggest home game of the season so far.
People degrade the rivalry because when you watch it it is so obvious that one team cares about it more than the other, which kinda sucks for a rivalry.
that's one of the things that I'd say in favor of the Minnesota rivalry--it's treated with equal disdain by both sides.
(And I think the irony of my post has been missed somehow.)
cares a lot more about the rivalry than this team, why did this team get a celebration penalty and the fans rush the field. It is not that that team cares more about it than this team, it is just that "this" team had dominated the rivalry for so long that it never knew what it felt like not to dominate. None of this "they care more," "we care less" and any other such nonsense. It is a rivalry and that is OK.
Scoreboard, and nothing else needs to be said.
They aren't our biggest rival. That's why they wanted to replace OSU as the last game of the year, and want to be on that footing.
It's OK. Like I said below, with ND bitching out, MSU is now definitively our #2 rival, so beating them is a BFD.
victory lap around the doctor's office. But it is from relief, not joy.
I like the idea of this satirical post, but you tried to be too subtle (tone) and too obvious ("home game," unless you're the first Minnesota fan I've ever known to exist).
Well, that's kind of embarrassing. I've thought for months now that from here out the games alternated home and away, and that the schedule was home to Minnesota then @Northwestern.
At least I didn't make plans to go to Chicago for the game on the 10th.
2003 OSU featured a field rush. I think the protocol is if you beat OSU to win the Big Ten, that is an appropriate time to rush the field.
no one will ever win the conference on their home field ever again.
Unless, of course, they start playing the championship game on campus sites. I'm not holding my breath.
I'm hoping that the adoption of a playoff will give the NCAA the fortitude to abolish conference championship games. That week in December should be for the playoffs. (I'm not too optimistic about this, though.)
Didn't quite work that way in basketball--if that's any indication the conference championship games will be treated as a play-in round and the conferences that don't currently have one will find a way to make one.
But that's different, because basketball doesn't have the same time constraints - or the health concern about players playing in too many games.
Not sure I understand the time constraint point--in football we're talking about a single game per conference, which uses up one week. In basketball we're talking about a full conference tournament, but again it takes up one week. D3 runs a 32-team postseason playoff and they're done more than three weeks before the MNC game. They start week 12, of course, but there's easily time to run even a 16-team FBS playoff (that's the biggest I've ever seen anyone suggest) and get it done the same date we finish now, even with conference title games.
That's not to say it would be a good idea. The health concern is real and I wish I had your confidence that the powers that be will take that as their highest consideration here, but in my lifetime I've watched the season go from nine games to thirteen and the effect on players' health hasn't seemed to be too much of a concern to the people that matter.
Yup, that was a fun one. Fairly orderly, lots of wooooo-ing, and got a picture with Wave Guy.
Everyone crammed down to the front of the student section after the Brabbs game-winner against Washington, but it's a long drop to the field and the first few rows thought better of going over it and so there wasn't a field rush. Which was fine. Best that it's saved for OSU.
Memory and all that, but I think there were a lot more field rushes before they lowered the field. Used to be you could practically hop over it and back....now it's quite a drop.
That 2003 field rush was sweet sweet victory
I was in the field rush as it was the end of my Junior year (well, football season for that year). It was pretty darn orderly. The field should be rushed as often as possible. It's fun as heck, and, well, if you don't like fun, you're a real drungus.
I was in the Big House for that game, in Section B. Facing a sea of students bearing down on me, I was one of the first over that wall. That W punched our ticket to Pasadena.
well might have. We still have to go through Lincoln, Iowa City, Minny and ohio.
My wife is still mad that I kept her from rushing the field that game.
old to rush the field. With my luck, I would have thrown my back out.
I remember it very vividly for 2 reasons:
1. I was on the field and saw a mob rushing toward me in a weird "U" shape and reali zed they were carrying a goal post and I was about to be trampled inside the uprights.Willed my drunken, stubby little legs to Huckleberry speed and got out of the middle.
2. On the way out of the stadium I grabbed a blue metal folding chair from the field and carried it out as a trophy past several of AAs finest. Still have that chair. Statute of limitations has run.
Anyway, that clinched the 1977 Rose Bowl, which is the only one I ever went to. Ah, those were the days when we could bring coolers into the stadium and we even brought a keg one game which they allowed because we had a ticket for it.
Cool story, huh? Gotta get back to my lawn.
It was a fun game. Beat Ohio and go to the Rose Bowl. There were police guarding the goalposts, but the students didn't bother with them and just celebrated on the field.
the same thing last year against ohio. The police didnt care about rushing the field as long as the goal posts were not damaged or there were people in the tunnel.
In addition to winning the Big Ten, that field rush in '03 was also the "100th Game" between M and OHIO.
I feel a quiet sense of satisfaction today. My 9 year old daughter, on the other hand, felt compelled to wear a Michigan t-shirt, sweatshirt and hat to school. I'm just hoping that her teacher, an MSU grad, and gym teacher, another MSU grad, can take it in stride. She said she may have to run extra laps for the M wear. I said that was fine, as long as she sang The Victors while doing it.
Make sure Brandon hears about it if she had to do extra-laps, more homework, etc. Free luxury box seats, yo!
No Gibbons honorable mention for Epic Double Point of the week?
He made 3 sub-40 yard kicks.
I'd say he did what he's supposed to do.
Yeah but didn't Brian originally dub Gibbons 'The Threat' with a reactionary post all to himself post-victory? Then there was an edit to acknowledge Dileo's clutch performance afterwards ... so, I feel like Gibbons deserves the recognition that goes with doing your job inside of a pressure cooker.
IIRC the post was by Ace. I do, however, feel that hitting the game winner against State with five seconds left deserves a double point honorable mention.
Dileo had four mid-range receptions. I'd say he did what he's supposed to do.
He averaged 23 yards on 4 receptions. His long was 35.
I'd not call that midrange.
He also caught the game winner when the other recievers weren't exactly covering themselves in glory. Dileo caught the same pass that Devin did not catch later in the game.
I'm fine with giving everyone a Hoke Double Point Award to hang on their walls but Gibbons didn't even kick the hard FG.
Well, Dileo didn't catch the game-winner; he caught the ball that set up a 38-yard FG for the win, that was kicked by Gibbons. Let's agree that both deserve finger points for doing their jobs well.
As stated above, his pass wasnt a game winner until Gibbons put it through the uprights.
BTW, your name is too easy a target when coupled with your demeanor in these posts. I hope you are nicer in the future.
I wasn't even really getting into the double point conversation. I was just pointing out that saying that someone "just did their job" is not a good way of evaluating how crucial their play was for the game. An OL's job is to protect the quarterback and to open up holes for the RB. If they do their job all day long, they get drafted in the first round but they almost never get credit on a game-to-game basis. A DB's job is to make sure that receivers don't catch passes. If a DB breaks up every pass that comes his way, he just did his job, but he's also the only DB to ever do that.
Dileo's job is to catch the balls that are thrown to him. He did that. Gibbon's job is to put it through the uprights. He did that. However, the game is not won without either of those guys. BTW, the hardest kick isn't the longest one; it's the one with the most pressure on the kicker. In this game, it was the game winner.
Oh, and the 35 yard reception was a 10 yard pass with a 25 yard run off of PA.
Bigger factor was Morgan. His tackles on the goaline were crucial.
Michigan State did not find any nuts when "one coach held on too long". Let's give Lloyd credit for the 6 straight against sparty that he closed on. They got theirs over RichRod. Leave Lloyd alone on this one, please.
Lloyd did fine on the field, but his recruiting was pretty awful in his last few years, and he left Rodriguez with a tire fire of a roster. He should share some portion of the blame for the first few losses in the streak.
the cupboard was empty argument. I always forget about that one.
- Love, Stevie Brown
Your valid example doesn't disprove the argument. In 2008 we started a walk-on sophomore at QB. Our leaders in carries and receptions were both true freshmen. We had some good players, but not nearly enough of them to be a credible BCS-conference team.
I'm not saying we would have lit the world on fire, but had Lloyd stayed for 2008 we would have easily beaten MSU and fielded a more than credible team. First off it's not Lloyd's fault his successor had no use for the number 2 qb in the 2006 class (This issue was clearly documented in bacon's book and nothing hints it was Lloyd's fault). And Arrington and Manningham would have stuck around too most likely. With that passing game minor would have done fine at rb. Lloyd deserves some of the blame for the 2008 fiasco but I still really think it's limited to his failure to support his successor, not for "sticking around too long"
In the interest of fairness I think it needs to be said: there's a real chance that Mallett would have left even if there'd been no coaching change. It's no secret that Carr wasn't enamored of his attitude,and I don't think we can assume that the usual "if you don't want to be here" transfer-paper-toss would have worked in this case. (I don't assume that it wouldn't, either, or even that we'd have been happy with things if it did.)
That problem was not Carr's fault; it also was not Rodrguez's fault. It's understandable to me that RR wouldn't have wanted to deal with it.
I've been quite critical of RR's tenure, a lot more so than most here...but that's one issue I don't hold against him in the least.


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The Manly Sea Eagles have emerged with a hard fought 20-6 win over the Penrith Panthers in front of 15,806 fans at CUA Stadium to edge a little closer to the right end of the table.
The Panthers had a disrupted start to the match with Shane Elford suffering a back injury during the warm-up, leading to a last-minute shuffle that saw Lachlan Coote starting in his place. By comparison, the Sea Eagles came out all guns blazing and quickly opened the scoring after some nice play from Matt Orford was finished off by Tony Williams for an early 6-0 lead.
The home side had plenty of chances during the first half with sloppy handling proving to be the biggest problem, but they stayed in the game with some great defence - most notably when Lachlan Coote and Gavin Cooper combined to knock David Williams into touch when the pink-bearded winger looked certain to score. The Sea Eagles extended their lead by 2 thanks to a penalty goal but a defensive lapse gave the Panthers a try right on the stroke of halftime and an 8-6 scoreline in favour of the visitors.
A slow start to the second half by the Panthers proved to be the crucial period of this contest as two quick tries to the Sea Eagles inside the first 10 minutes opened up the 20-6 lead that eventually became the final score. Ex-Cowboy Ben Farrar made an eye-catching start to his new life as a Sea Eagle by scoring the first try and making the break that led to the second. Despite their best efforts to reduce the gap, Penrith simply dropped far too much ball to let themselves threaten the scoreboard - although Lachlan Coote went very close after an intercept play but was knocked into touch by a desperate tackle from David Williams.
While neither team will move too far on the competition ladder as a result of this one, the Panthers will find themselves under all sorts of pressure to retain their Top 8 spot in the coming weeks unless they can sort out their terrible completion rate. The Sea Eagles will happily lock up another 2 points on the ladder but won


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Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter
49ers HC Jim Harbaugh on USC QB Matt Barkley and the process leading up to the draft: "Tis the season for ripping apart someone's game."
Thought I would make a new thread for general draft articles out there..Mods, can merge / delete whatever if they don't approve.
As info..Phil Savage is an ex-NFL GM and now heads up the Senior Bowl.
DRAFT COUNTDOWN: Savage's 'Six in the Box' Defenders
Senior Bowl "Countdown to the Draft"
With six weeks left before the NFL Draft begins on April 25, Senior Bowl Executive Director Phil Savage goes inside the numbers and "counts down" their significance with his own unique perspective.
"SIX-in-the-Box" Defenders
With the prevalence of so much "11" (one-running back/one-tight end/three-wide receivers) and "12" (one-RB/two-TE's/two-WR's) personnel being utilized by NFL offenses, the answer on the defensive side of the football has been the Nickel package (five-defensive backs with a combination of SIX defensive linemen and linebackers). The SIX defensive linemen and linebackers can be arranged in a 4-2 or 3-3 front with the five defensive backs providing run support and coverage from the secondary. It is imperative for NFL clubs to find "front SIX" defenders that have the versatility to play both the run and pass, while also having the ability to pressure and chase down the modern day quarterback who has mobility and a quick release.
The evolution of the Zone-Blitz schemes as well as the volume of pressure-packages being used by defensive coordinators is only enhanced when they can employ athletes that have multi-dimensional skills. With that said, here is a set of SIX draft-eligible prospects that should be able to stay on the field for all three downs with particular success on 3rd down:
"3-3-5" Package (with OLB as DE)
DE Ziggy Ansah BYU (DE and Sub DT)
-At 6052/271 and running 4.63, Ziggy has the physical tools that will make him a likely top 10 pick. He is an ideal fit as a 4-3 DE that can turn speed to power and affect the QB. Plus, not only can he drop off into zone coverage, but he also has some experience as an interior rusher during his two-year career at BYU. Ziggy may have the highest ceiling of any prospect in the draft, it will be fascinating to see which team has the courage and vision to take him early.
DT Sharrif Floyd Florida (DT)
-This Junior declare not only has the size and strength to defend the point-of-attack in the run game, but also the up-field quickness to penetrate and puncture the pocket on passing downs. With his active hands and athletic feet, he can win early and then close to the QB with his short-area burst and effort.
DT Datone Jones UCLA (inside Sub DT)
-Datone is a defensive end by trade and has shown the versatility of fitting in a 3-4 or 4-3 scheme. The value of his game comes when he can slide inside on Sub downs and rush from the interior and that is why he is showing up in some mock drafts as a potential late 1st round pick.
OB Dion Jordan Oregon (outside Sub DE)
-Dion spent much of his senior season playing in space as an outside linebacker in Oregon's version of the 3-4. He possesses the tools to become a quality pass rusher from the outside with his speed and length. Regardless of where he is chosen, Dion will get plenty of chances to rush off the edge as a rookie. Finished his career with 29 tackles-for-loss and 14.5 sacks.
OB Barkevious Mingo LSU (rush/drop OLB)
-KeKe is a classic "hybrid" defender with the freakish athletic ability needed to rush the passer or drop off into coverage. More "threat" than actual "weapon" right now, offensive teams will have to account for him because of his acceleration off the corner. Like Jordan at Oregon, he completed his career with 29 tackles-for-loss and 15 sacks, so it will be interesting to see which of these two prospects ends up with the more productive NFL career.
IB Alec Ogletree Georgia (Nickel/Mac ILB)
-This former free safety has grown into the 240lb range with long arms and obvious range. He is a classic run-and-hit "Will" linebacker on early downs with the coverage ability to match up with running backs and tight ends down the field. And, with his big-time acceleration, he is always a threat to blitz from off-the-line. Ended his junior season with 111 total tackles, 11.5 tackles-for-loss, 3 sacks, 9 hurries, 5 pass breakups and an interception.
Here are the next dozen prospects that will be considered as "SIX-in-the-Box" defenders:
DE- Margus Hunt/SMU (DE/DT), Cornelius Washington/Georgia (DE/DT/OB),
Bjoern Werner/Florida State (DE/DT)
DT- Star Lotulelei/Utah, Sheldon Richardson/Missouri
OB- Jamie Collins/Southern Miss (OB/DE), Jarvis Jones/Georgia (OB/DE),
Corey Lemonier/Auburn (OB/DE)
IB- Jon Bostic/Florida, Zaviar Gooden/Missouri, Khaseem Greene/Rutgers,
Sio Moore/UConn
Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter
49ers HC Jim Harbaugh on USC QB Matt Barkley and the process leading up to the draft: "Tis the season for ripping apart someone's game."
@Gil_Brandt: I'm not buying the Jaguars', Eagles' and Browns' interest in Geno Smith. #smokescreen http://t.co/zE34Rbqpwd
CMart.....Tnx for posting Savage's stuff. Kinda like him. Humor me for a second. Let's say Jets do Revis trade with Tampon Bay and get #13. How would you feel about Warmack at#9 and then Ogletree at #13? Could be alot worse, and probably will be.
Of course you need teams to trade down with. So if you can't trade down I'd rather take an OLB prospect in place of Ogletree perhaps a Mingo or Moore (assuming Jordan is long gone). Isn't Ogletree more of an ILB especially in a 3-4? And isn't #13 aliitle high?
I'd have no problem with Warmack or Cooper.
Disclaimer: I don't watch film and still reading the various draft reports via draft sources.
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@PatKirwanCBS: talkin'w' Trevardo WilliamsofUConn-Explosive! OLB in a 3-4 type-He said interviews w/Colts&Broncos went well
@Gil_Brandt: Joe Montana just called me. Wants an honest evaluation of his son, who will work out at Super Regional Combine 4/7-8 in Dallas. #nopressure
@Gil_Brandt: I'll take look at young Nate Montana at the combine, and give Joe my honest thoughts. Joe's not attending. Told him he'd have to come armed.
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@TonyPauline: Am told Andy Reid, Kansas City Chiefs brain trust and OLine coach were in BYU several days ago to workout Braden Brown and Ziggy Ansah
@TonyPauline: New England Patriots worked out Don Jones/Arkansas St today at both cornerback and safety...
@MoveTheSticks: Here are the QB matches I hear most often from NFL sources: Bills-Geno, AZ-Glennon, JAX-Nassib, PHI-Manuel for what it's worth.
Aaron Wilson @RavensInsider
Sources: Michigan State running back Le'Veon Bell has Jets, Cowboys visits, private workout with them, Buccaneers: http://profootball.scout.com/a.z?s=127&p=9&c=2&cid=1278735&nid=6202895&fhn=1 …
Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter
A Bills contingent including their HC, GM, asst GM, Pres are scheduled to work out Tennessee QB Tyler Bray in Knoxville, next Sat.
@AdamSchefter: Alabama RB Eddie Lacy, who missed combine and ALA Pro Day due to hamstring issue, will work out for teams April 11th.
@TonyPauline: Buzz at the BYU pro-day is Jamar Taylor/CB/Boise State, could slide into the late part of round one.


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Public To Vote On Names For Exoplanets 127
An anonymous reader writes In response to the increased interest by the public in astronomy, the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the world authority that names objects in space, is giving the public a chance to name up to 30 planets from a pre-selected group of 305 exoplanets. "Before you get excited about naming HAT-P-7b after your first pet goldfish, it's worth taking a look at the restrictions the IAU places on its minor planet names. The 16 characters or less must be 'pronounceable (in as many languages as possible)' and non-offensive in any language or culture. The names of living persons are verboten, pet names are 'discouraged,' and you can't use a name that is commercial or has political, military, or religious connotations." The proposed names can be submitted by astronomy clubs and non-profit organizations interested in astronomy and votes will be cast by the public from across the world.


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July 4, 1854: An Independence Day celebration was held at the Methodist church in Verona
July 4, 1914: The Durhamville band provided the music for the celebration at Sylvan Beach.
July 4, 1994: Amusement rides were part of the celebration at Hamilton for the first time.
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Interested in Language
hi i m shebik
now I am working in a private firm in qatar,
i started my career here about 4months.
first 3 months were probation period.
I received my salary on a probationary basis for the last 3months. and my employer offered me on the offer letter that they will sit with me at the end of the probation period and discuss about the complete salary package.
then 4th month also over. I received the same salary.
yet they didn't arrange a meeting to discus and declare my full salary package and other benefits .
Now i need to remind them about this matter.
so can you help me to send a remind letter to my GM to arrange a meeting .?
I think it would be a better idea if you drafted a letter yourself and posted it. Perhaps someone would then be kind enough to review it for you.


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Originally published on September 24, 2013 5:52 pm
A large earthquake shook a remote part of central Pakistan Tuesday, and so far local authorities have only reported a few dozen fatalities so far. But according to estimates by the U.S. Geological Survey, the death toll could be far higher. The quake also gave rise to a mysterious island off the coast of Pakistan. The island was likely created by frozen methane that was shaken loose by the shaking. It pushed its way to the surface and created a muddy piece of land that will soon be washed away.


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Collection to feed hungry families begins Oct. 19.
Continuing the tradition of generosity started three years ago by WION, the Community Food Network will coordinate this year's fourth annual County-Wide Food Drive. The collection of non-perishable food and household items to feed and supply families in need across Ionia County, begins Oct. 19. The drive will run through Nov. 16.
Last year, more than 8,100 pounds of food were collected for distribution by county food pantries.
Groups have food drives throughout the year, but many don't realize there are 14 food pantries in the county, said volunteer Penny Beeman. Food pantries often feel as though they are competing for donations.
"The County-Wide Food Drive is the one time each year that food pantries work together. Donations come to a central location, volunteers count and sort them, and food pantries work together to figure out a fair way to share all the donations," Beeman said. "This is what makes this food drive so special – it takes the whole county working together to help everyone in need."
One of the drop-off points is the office of Dr. Travis Harshman, DDS in Ionia, where staff and patients will participate in the collection for the second time. Patients who bring food items receive tokens, which they can save up and trade in for gifts.
"It's one of the many things we like to do as an office to give back to the community and help those who need the help," Treatment Coordinator Kathy Felty said, adding that the community is welcome to drop off donations as well. "By the time we're done, we have a big table full of items to be donated."
Ionia Wash King began its "Suds Drive" last year the week before Thanksgiving, when employee Rae Ann Young set out a can to collect money.
"We got to talking about it, and thought, why don't we do a year-long collection of change (to purchase laundry soap and household cleaners)," said Young. "It seemed like a perfect fit, and it's convenient for people to drop change in the can when they cash out."
So far, $100 and some cents have been donated by Wash King customers. The collection will continue until Nov. 15. Non-perishable food and household cleaners also can be dropped off during business hours.
The food drive is composed of "mini-drives" held in local businesses and community organizations. Mini-drive locations so far include:
• Belding Middle School
• Ionia Middle School
• Ionia Moose Lodge (Nov. 1 to 15)
• Ionia Wash King
• WION Radio offices
• Dr. Travis Harshman's office
• Lake Odessa Fire Department
• Portland Fire Department
• Saranac Fire Department
In addition, the Ionia Kids Club will host the MADD Movies Food Drive from 6 to 9 p.m. on Oct. 26 at First Christian Church, 130 E. Washington St. The public is invited to enjoy dinner and a monster movie for $10 per person or $5 plus a bag of food. Proceeds will support the food drive.
Donations from the mini-drives will be delivered on Nov. 16 to the Ionia County Intermediate School District, where they will be sorted. Up to 10 not-for-profit recipient agencies will pick up donations at 1 p.m. on Nov. 17 for distribution to their clients.
The top 11 foods most requested by food pantries include: peanut butter, tuna, canned soup, dry soup packets, canned stews, cereal, canned fruits, canned vegetables, pasta, rice and instant potatoes.
The top 11 most requested household items include: laundry soap, dish soap, toilet paper, paper towel, tissues, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, hand sanitizer, dryer sheets and paper plates.
For more information and a complete list of mini-drive locations, visit www.ioniahost.com/fooddrive.html, e-mail email@example.com or call Beeman at 616-755-8050.


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The Ultimate Warrior is coming out of retirement and will be making his WWE videogame debut in WWE 2K14. Popular in the '80s and '90s, he retired in 1999. The only way you will be able to play the "Founding Father of Life Intensity," however, is to pre-order the game.
"Immortality is inspiration, pure and simple. An example to others that they, too, can do things larger than the life they are actually living, and Ultimate Warrior was the pure embodiment of this belief, in what has proven to be a very attention-getting and inspiring way," the Warrior said in a statement. "It was my good fortune to be his creator and performer, and I am humbled by all those fans who've not only kept his legacy alive, but deepened it over time. In WWE 2K14, Ultimate Warrior's creed, 'Always Believe,' lives on."


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Ivo Radanov
K-Tek Corp.
The times, they keep on changing. In the 1990s, noncontact level measurement technology was beginning to be deployed in powder and bulk applications. It was the heyday of ultrasonic technology. At that time, lasers were still rare and expensive measurement devices, used mainly in survey-distance measuring. Due to continuous advances in technology, laser diode prices dropped from $150 in the late 1990s to less than $20 today. This made laser technology an attractive and affordable option for noncontact measurement.
Today, we have three primary noncontact level and distance measurement technologies in use: ultrasonic, open-air radar, and laser. Laser measurement systems have two significant advantages: they can measure any solid surface at any angle, and they can measure with narrow beams.
With wavelengths of <1 µm, the surface of almost any dry material appears rough to a laser. The defused reflection emanates from an exact spot on the reflected beam. This is why lasers measure distance precisely; the natural reposing angles of dry bulk materials do not matter to a laser-based system. At the same time, the optical lens of the laser device can focus the outgoing beam to a size of 2 in./50 mm with beam divergence of less than 0.2°, resulting in a small footprint over long ranges.
Ultrasonic and open-air radar have beam divergences of 9° to 11° (some special designs can achieve 4°). With wavelengths from 2000 to 50,000 times that of a laser device, ultrasonic- and radar-based instruments measure surfaces perpendicularly, to assure a good return signal. Both operate well when aimed at smooth surfaces, such as powders.
However, lasers have been applied successfully in a broader range of level and positioning applications. For example, in petrochemical applications, granular plastics are stored in narrow, tall silos. This presents a challenge for most noncontact measurement technologies. Lasers are reliable and cost-effective as they easily install in existing silo nozzles, regardless of location. A built-in aiming laser targets the conical silo bottom. Because lasers can measure any surface at any angle with a narrow beam, level detection can also be applied to empty silos. This translates into accurate measurements of the last few grams of material and prevents cross-contamination of different types or grades of material as they are run through the silo. The same principle applies in the food industry.
Previously the domain of nuclear transmitters, laser-level measurement products have also been applied in high-temperature and high-pressure reactor vessels with industrial sight glasses. The laser's ability to measure through sight glass provides benefits not available with nuclear transmitters: end-user convenience, low cost of ownership, and cost savings due to lower maintenance and administrative regulations.
Laser technology goes beyond single-point measurement. It can be used as an alternative to conventional belt scales. The laser scanner and its belt-speed sensor are self-contained, requiring only a 24-V-dc power source. There is no external control box or complicated field wiring. This makes it possible to commission and configure the device without stopping the conveyor.
Laser technology goes one step further—to three-dimensional material surface profiling. Because lasers have the unique ability to measure any solid surface at any angle with a narrow beam, it is a natural migration for lasers to be applied to sophisticated material profiling of complex shapes. Three-dimensional laser scanners bring volume accuracy of dry materials in silos and stockpiles to as low as less than 1%. These devices use a rotating laser head for a multipoint laser scan to measure uneven surfaces. A three-dimensional map of the surface is created and the onboard microprocessor calculates the material volume and mass. The benefit is what all end-users seek: fast and accurate product inventory measurement on demand, and, as a result, better process control.
Ivo Radanov is product manager for laser products at K-Tek Corp. (Prairieville, LA). He has 22 years of experience in research and development, engineering, and product development. He holds a degree in electronics engineering and a postgraduate degree in control devices and robotics systems. He can be reached at [email protected].


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|Riot police fired tear gas to separate clashing protesters in Egypt's second city of Alexandria on Friday, AFP correspondents reported, as tensions rose over a new constitution. Lines of black-clad officers kept apart thousands of Islamists on one side and hundreds of anti-constitution protesters on the other. Dozens of rival protesters pelted each other with rocks in running battles.
The violence broke out on the eve of the final round of a referendum on the draft charter, which is backed by President Mohamed Mursi and his Islamist supporters.
Alexandria, which voted in the first round of the referendum last weekend, has seen several clashes between pro- and anti-Mursi protesters.
On December 14, opposition protesters besieged a mosque in the Mediterranean city, prompting running battles between rock-throwing groups of men, some of whom brandished swords.
Islamists organised Friday's rally to protest last week's siege of the mosque, sparked by a cleric's call for people to vote yes in the constitution.
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They came first for the Muslim's junk,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Muslim.
You can see where this is going, but it's still funny. Read the rest here.
I seldom fly, and I've never had any problems walking through the perfectly safe radiation of the body scanners, so I can't get too terribly excited about this. Soon after 9/11, when the images of falling planes and burning towers were still fresh in our minds, the Bush adminstration passed over all kinds of proposed security measures at airports because it would cut into airline profits. I trust the market to thwart any practice that aggravates travelers enough to make them take the train instead.
But I'm wondering about another intrusion– a hand in my wallet.
Last year I went to cash a paycheck, drawn from Bank of America, at a branch of Bank of America. They wanted to charge me $7. They called it a 'convenience fee'. No 'my word is my bond' here. No gratitude for the bailout. They didn't want to be inconvenienced to honor their own check.
So I mentioned this to a co-worker last week and she said, 'Did they want to fingerprint you?' She said that they had required this of her husband. I said I'd show them a finger, but not for a print.
Is this really happening? Did any of you readers get hassled this way at the bank?
Some commenters here felt that it is lax to let citizens vote without ID. But I'm feeling like we are being led by convenience and nagging to 'show our papers' when dealing with corporations. I'm sick of being asked for my CVS card. Or my phone number or email. It's none of Bob's Store's business where I live.
On the other hand I've started Facebooking, giving away all the details of my banal life. But there's some things I'll share with the world wide web that I should not have to discuss with my bank.


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Have you ever thought of catering and sustainability?
Our family has recently been blessed with some wonderful occasions, among them, the birth of our first grandchild, the engagement of one of our daughters and the bar mitzvah of our youngest son.
When celebrating a family simchah, there's often a need for catering. Once you have picked a venue, you are pretty well committed to the caterer and what the caterer offer.
Whether at a shul hall, a stand-alone banquet hall or a condo party room, energy costs are embedded in the room-rental cost. The cost of electricity and natural gas used to prepare and heat the food is embedded in the catering fee.
How would you like to be in a position to make the following offer to the caterer? "I am willing to pay $50 a guest. Are you willing to share with me the savings you enjoy, because I have brought you a solution that can be used in your food-preparation phase to reduce your electricity consumption in kilowatt hours, your electricity draw in kilowatts and natural gas consumption in meters cubed?"
If you were the manager of operations of a catering operation, would you accept such an offer? If you were a member of a synagogue building or house committee that provides a turnkey facility to an in-house or visiting caterer for a percentage of revenue, how would you react?
Would you use the savings to reduce the price to the simchah's hosts and attract more business by differentiating based on price? Do you keep the savings to improve your profit margin for the benefit of your synagogue members, catering hall owners and catering operation?
In industrial kitchens, ventilation on demand or demand-ventilation control is used to reduce electricity costs.
Most catering operations are industrial kitchens. They generally have an on/off fan-control system, with no ability to vary the fan speed.
Demand-ventilation control capitalizes on the fact that cooking appliances spend many hours in an idle or ready-to-cook mode that does not need the same ventilation rate as a cooking condition. Two-speed or variable-speed fans can achieve reductions in exhaust and make up airflow when appliances are not being used to capacity or have been turned off.
On-demand ventilation solutions can vary the speed of the fans based on temperature, smoke and steam or temperature alone. These systems increase fan speed when necessary and reduce fan speed when cooking decreases.
The longer a kitchen stays open and the higher the number of hoods used to ventilate the cooking area, the more benefit there is from a ventilation-on-demand solution and the shorter the pay-back period.
Enbridge has published a Boston Pizza case study that shows a 74.6 per cent annual natural gas consumption reduction was equal to 14,100 meters cubed and resulted in a $4,250 savings. A more detailed report stated that a 61 per cent reduction in electrical draw by fans was translated into about $1,500 in annual savings.
Perhaps your synagogue or caterer has an operational cost reduction opportunity to explore.


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Dear Editor:
Ah, yes, it's the Tuesday after Memorial Day… possibly one of the best mornings for people watching the Hoboken work force provides us. Tired and weakened from the holiday weekend, they walk one by one in almost perfect unison on their way to the path train; head down, sporting their coffees in either hand, ear buds in their ears listening to their favorite playlist which serves as their final escape before entering the work place. As you watch their display of defeat, you can't help but feel a bit sorry for them. If there's one thing that I've learned during my tenure here in Hoboken it's that no matter what the elements, weather or otherwise, are thrown in front of the Hoboken youth on Memorial Day weekend, there is only one thing on everyone's mind: to celebrate our nation's heros through a demonstration involving what seems like endless amounts beer and barbequing. A weekend of celebration and fun inevitably leads up to this moment… the moment of your beeping alarm viciously yelling at you to return to your daily grind early Tuesday morning. You grumpily get out of bed and stare at it, debating whether or not to crawl back in. You turn on your coffee pot and begin your morning routine in a fog that is lifted by the only positive thought running through your head: 'Ugh, it's Tuesday… four more days until the weekend.' You leave your apartment, possibly forgetting something important behind in the process, and head to that one place you loathe so much, your cubicle.
Memorial Day has traditionally served as a transitional time of the year marking the unofficial start of summer, putting the depths of winter and the disappointing spring weather behind us. In the corporate world it also marks the start of summer attire, trading suits and ties for polo's and skirts. It's also the start of the true outdoor happy hour and the life-saving Friday summer hours, allowing those fortunate enough to escape to the beach before the all traffic starts to get a head start on your favorite weekend beach activity. So for those sitting there in the office wishing they were else-where, just take these facts into consideration. It's Tuesday, it's raining, Memorial Day weekend is over and you're tired… big deal. Put on your favorite internet radio station, write that email, micromanage that new summer intern and drink that pot of coffee. It's the start of a new summer season, one that will be full of new adventure, excitement and sunburn; and because of this, no matter what day of the week it is, the weekend and your summer escape will always be just a few days away. Although it's cold and dark in the office, the future is looking about 90 degrees and sunny and wearing your favorite bikini.
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