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Neighborhoods of Albany, New York
The neighborhoods of Albany, New York are varied demographically, geographically, architecturally, and historically. Downtown Albany is the city's oldest neighborhood, centered on State Street, one of Albany's oldest streets and its original main street. Today downtown consists mostly of office buildings inhabited by state agencies, though a recent push to bring in permanent residents has led to proposed apartments and condominiums, many of which have failed to get past the proposal phase.[1][2] North and south of Downtown are old residential communities often consisting of row houses. North is Sheridan Hollow, Arbor Hill, and North Albany; to the south is the super-neighborhood of the South End, which consists of a multitude of smaller neighborhoods including the Mansion District, the Pastures, Kenwood, Groesbeckville, Delaware Avenue, and Krank Park.[3][4] These neighborhoods tend to have more minorities and lower-income residents than the western, more suburbanized part of the city.[5]
West of Downtown is the Empire State Plaza, which effectively cuts Downtown off from the gentrified neighborhoods of Center Square, Hudson/Park, Lark Street, and Washington Park. Collectively referred to as mid-town, these neighborhoods are often compared to New York City's Greenwich Village for their eclectic mix of residential and commercial uses, including bars, night clubs, restaurants, and unique stores. Albany's gay culture is vibrant in this area.[6] Nearby Park South, a nine-block area surrounding New Scotland Avenue[4] and home to roughly 1,000 individuals, is currently undergoing an urban renewal as existing housing units are removed or renovated and new office, commercial, and apartment buildings are added.[7] New construction includes expansion of Albany Medical Center, one of the largest employers in Albany. Nearby is University Heights, a united campus consisting of Albany Medical Center Hospital, Albany Medical College, Albany Law School, Albany College of Pharmacy, and the Sage College of Albany.[8]
Single-family detached homes, duplexes, and apartments, along with single-family houses that have been carved up into multiple units, can be found west of the older neighborhoods. These neighborhoods, such as Pine Hills, Delaware Avenue, Whitehall, Helderberg, New Scotland, and Beverwyck, tend to have larger lots and more suburban surroundings.[3] The Eastern section of Pine Hills is often referred to as the "student ghetto" due to the proximity of the campuses of Saint Rose College and University at Albany. The area from North Main to South Lake between Myrtle and Washington avenues has become home to off-campus college students living in houses carved into multiple units by usually absentee landlords.[9]
Further west, the neighborhoods become more affluent and are dominated almost exclusively by single-family dwellings. These neighborhoods, such as Melrose, Western Pine Hills, New Albany, Eagle Hill, Westland Park, Campus, and Buckingham Park, have some of the quieter streets and larger lots in the city, and more closely resemble neighboring areas of the suburban towns than they do the downtown parts of the city.[3] Further west is the W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus and the University at Albany's main campus. West of those campuses are offices and commercial properties lining frontage roads along Washington Avenue Extension, with a small housing development called The Dunes, all surrounded by the Pine Bush Preserve.[4][10]
- 1 Arbor Hill
- 2 Buckingham Pond
- 3 Beverwyck
- 4 Campus
- 5 Center Square
- 6 Eagle Hill
- 7 Helderberg
- 8 Delaware Neighborhood
- 9 Dudley Heights
- 10 Dunes
- 11 Hudson/Park
- 12 Melrose
- 13 New Albany
- 14 Normansville
- 15 North Albany
- 16 Park South
- 17 Pine Hills
- 18 Sheridan Hollow
- 19 South End
- 20 University Heights
- 21 Washington Park
- 22 West Hill
- 23 Whitehall
- 24 See also
- 25 References
- 26 External links
Arbor Hill[edit]
Arbor Hill historically the area from Clinton Avenue (formerly called Patroon Street) north to the Livingston Avenue Railroad Bridge (where North Albany begins) and from the Hudson River west to Lexington Ave., was outside Albany's first boundaries as set up in the Dongan Charter of 1686. The original name of the area was Colonie (from which the name of the current town to the north comes from), incorporated as a village on April 9, 1804; it was annexed by the city in 1815, at which time Patroon St. became Clinton Ave.[11] The current name, Arbor Hill, comes from the nickname of the Ten Broeck Mansion ("Arbor Hill"), the mansion is still an important cultural and historical museum. The neighborhood has many other historic and cultural spots including the Palace Theatre and Quackenbush House (downtown), and the St. Joseph's Church (in Ten Broeck Triangle, actually a sub-section of Arbor Hill). Demographically it is predominantly African-American.
Buckingham Pond[edit]
Residents enjoy the hiking path with ducks and geese at Buckingham Pond as well as local amenities within easy walking distance on New Scotland and Western Avenues. Homes are primarily single-family and are located on tree-lined streets, some with medians.
A neighborhood of interior streets between Central and Washington Avenues, Beverwyck is mostly a residential neighborhood. The neighborhood received its name from Beverwyck Park, which in turn was named for Albany's original Dutch name, Beverwyck.
See also: Beverwyck Brewery
So named for its proximity to the W. Averell Harriman State Office Building Campus,[citation needed] many mistakenly believe it was named for the nearby State University of New York at Albany uptown campus, but the neighborhood was named prior to this construction. This neighborhood features predominantly single-family homes on side streets with many retail, commercial, and office spaces on Western Avenue. US Route 20 and NY 85 are the major roads that pass through the neighborhood.
Center Square[edit]
Center Square is often compared by locals to New York City's SoHo or Greenwich Village. Center Square contains many buildings of architectural significance and is locally famous for its nightlife, entertainment, culture, and dining. Center Square includes the area bounded by Lark Street on the west, Spring Street on the north, South Swan Street on the east and Jay Street on the south, plus the upper portion of Lancaster Street between Lark Street and Willett Street. It is included in its entirety within the Center Square/Hudson–Park Historic District.
Eagle Hill[edit]
Eagle Hill is a residential neighborhood named for the Eagle Hill Cemetery.[citation needed] It borders the Buckingham Pond Neighborhood, as well as the State Office Campus, and SUNY Albany.
The Helderberg neighborhood can be roughly defined by the quadrangle formed by New Scotland Avenue, South Manning and Hackett Boulevards and Academy Road. Its namesake is a small road (Helderberg Road) that runs parallel between Hackett Boulevard and New Scotland Avenue. The neighborhood is situated between the city's two primary hospitals, St. Peters and Albany Medical Center. It borders the combined campus of Albany Law School, Albany College of Pharmacy and the Sage College of Albany, located in the University Heights neighborhood. Helderberg contains The Albany Academy, a prep school for boys and girls.[citation needed]
Delaware Neighborhood[edit]
Delaware Avenue is a main entrance to the city from the south, specifically the Bethlehem/Delmar area. The neighborhood is located southwest of the Empire State Plaza. Delaware Avenue is the western border of the South End. Only a small part of Delaware Avenue is considered the "Delaware Neighborhood". In recent years, Federal stimulus money was invested into the neighborhood to build new streets, lighting, trees, and contribute to safety.[12]
Dudley Heights[edit]
Primarily an African-American residential neighborhood, it was the first location of the Dudley Observatory. Separated from Arbor Hill by Livingston Avenue, it is mostly composed of older single-family homes. Its centerpiece is the Livingston Middle School.[citation needed]
A residential development located east of New Karner Road, south of Washington Avenue Extension, and bounded by sections of the Pinebush Preserve and Guilderland.[citation needed]
Albany's Hudson/Park is bordered on the north by Center Square, on the south by Lincoln Park, and the east by the Nelson Rockefeller Empire State Plaza. It is bisected by Madison Avenue. The neighborhood has had development since the late 20th century similar to that in the Lark Street and Center Square areas; it too has a mix of entertainment, restaurants, and historic housing. It is part of the Center Square/Hudson–Park Historic District, which extends as far south as Park Avenue. South of Madison Avenue, the Hudson/Park neighborhood is a part of the South End.
Melrose is an area east of the State Office Campus which features mostly residential homes and includes Rosemont Park. It runs roughly from Brevator St. to Manning Blvd. Melrose Avenue itself is built on the right-of-way of the first passenger railroad in the state of New York, which went from Albany to Schenectady, originally the Mohawk and Hudson, later the Albany and Schenectady Railroad. The nearby Frank Waterson Park Little League field adjacent to Westland Hills Park off Colvin Avenue was listed by Guinness Book of Records in 1992 as being the largest Little League field.[citation needed]
New Albany[edit]
New Albany is the residential area roughly located at the west end of the Pine Hills neighborhood, the east end of the Melrose neighborhood, and the northeast end of the Buckingham Pond neighborhood. Most residences are single-family homes of varying styles constructed by developers from around the turn of the century through the 1910s.[citation needed]
This is named for the Normans Kill, a Dutch-named creek of considerable size making up Albany's southern border. The neighborhood was originally called Upper Hollow, and was a hamlet in the neighboring town of Bethlehem. The name applied to both sides of the Normans Kill until the creek was designated as the boundary between Albany-Bethlehem. The neighborhood is located on a brick road off Delaware Avenue; it is largely rural and forested. Located here are Steven's Farm, a historic active farm operating stables for the official horses of Albany's police force. An old abandoned bridge, underneath the modern Delaware Avenue bridge, connects to the town of Bethlehem across the Kill, but is closed to traffic.
North Albany[edit]
North Albany is an older neighborhood located roughly from the Livingston Ave. railroad bridge (at Colonie Street) north to the city line with Menands,[13] and west from the Hudson River to Van Rensselaer Boulevard. Historically settled by Irish immigrants, North Albany has long been a diverse neighborhood with single-family homes, duplexes, apartment buildings, and older row houses, as well as older industrial sites along Broadway and North Pearl Street.
Park South[edit]
Tucked between the growing University Heights and Washington Park neighborhoods, Park South is bordered on the east by the southern end of Lark Street. The city has recently decided on a plan of urban renewal in this neighborhood of over 1,000 people in nine city blocks. This is subject to an urban development plan, which as of 2007 will not include eminent domain.[citation needed]
Pine Hills[edit]
The Pine Hills neighborhood is roughly bounded by Washington Avenue to the north, Lake Ave to the east, Woodlawn & Cortland to the south, and Manning Boulevard to the west. Pine Hills received its name from the Albany Land Improvement Company in 1891. This was also the year that Engine #10, a neighborhood and city landmark was built.[14]
The neighborhood consists mainly of freestanding multi-unit, duplex, and semi-detached houses and is home to Albany High School, the LaSalle school, the College of St. Rose, and the Alumni Quad of the University at Albany. The area of Pine Hills east of Main Avenue and north of Myrtle Avenue is commonly referred to as the "student ghetto" due to its predominant population of college students, many from Long Island or New York City.[15] The area of Pine Hills west of Main Avenue features many large Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, and Colonial Revival homes. The area where Madison Avenue meets Western Avenue a block from St. Rose is the center of a commercial area, complete with a movie theater, grocery store, fast food strip mall, retail, restaurants, a library, community playhouse, police station, pharmacy, and elementary school.
Sheridan Hollow[edit]
Although Sheridan Hollow is often mistakenly labeled part of Arbor Hill, the gorge carved out by the Fox Creek is an old part of the city. (The creek was diverted into pipes around 1797 on the north side of Sheridan Avenue, once named Fox[es] Street and next Canal Street.) The neighborhood had deteriorated following industrial restructuring. 21st-century development extending from downtown has helped revitalize the eastern edge. A Hampton Inn was constructed in this area, and there are plans to redevelop the Boyd printing plant as mixed use. A bridge carries Henry Johnson Boulevard (formerly Northern Boulevard) over the Hollow.
South End[edit]
A large and diverse area of Albany, the South End consists of several small neighborhoods, bounded on the east by the Hudson River, on the south by the Normans Kill (boundary with the Town of Bethlehem), the west by Delaware Avenue, and the north by Madison Avenue. The city's website recently touted a plan to address blight in this area and encourage development of empty lots and redevelopment of underused sites. The city's Capital South plan says it includes eight neighborhoods here, but does not list them.
Important roads in this area include Delaware, Madison, Morton, Park, and Second avenues; Southern Boulevard, and South Pearl Street. Some parts of this vast area are neighborhoods; other areas have no names and are generically referred to as being in the South End. They are sometimes separated by named neighborhoods. The Delaware Avenue neighborhood south and east of Delaware Avenue is a part of the South End, as is the portion of the Hudson/Park neighborhood south of Madison Avenue.
Some other South End neighborhoods are:
Though Kenwood is not often thought of as a neighborhood today, it was once an important hamlet along the Albany and Bethlehem Turnpike (later named South Pearl Street, today Old South Pearl Street). In 1618 it was the site of a Dutch fort and the mill of Albert Bradt, nicknamed The Norman, after whom Normans Kill is named. The former Kenwood Academy and the Doane Stuart School were located here; the latter moved to Rensselaer. The Kenwood Rail Yard next to the Port of Albany-Rensselaer and the Kenwood Industrial Park on Binghamton Street were named in relation to this area.
Krank Park[edit]
This neighborhood surrounds Krank Park. It is well used by informal baseball teams from throughout the city and is a great asset to the people of the area.
Mansion District[edit]
In the Mansion District, all major 19th-century styles are represented. Italianate is the most widely represented style in the district, and it is present in many levels of sophistication. A number of buildings use elements of both the Greek Revival and Italianate styles, but there are also some highly refined examples of these individual styles. There are also some unusual examples of the application of Gothic Revival decoration to rowhouse construction. The Mansion District is dominated by the nearby Empire State Plaza and Governor's Mansion.
Along Madison Avenue, next to and within part of the Mansion District, is Albany's Little Italy. Though residents are no longer predominately ethnic Italian, an Italian influence survives with two established Italian restaurants. A former Catholic church is being adapted as a community arts center. The Mansion District also has cultural resources in a library branch and the Schuyler Mansion museum. Parks include that Philip Street, an active park with playground and basketball courts, and Bleecker Park, a passive site containing Albany's oldest public water fountain.
The Pastures is a distinct neighborhood that features mixed-use living. Tennis courts, shops and courtyards are interspersed among historic homes that have a mix of owner- and tenant-occupied. The neighborhood is adjacent to downtown and the waterfront. This neighborhood is in the South End. By the late 20th century, it had lost much of its population but was aided by a city urban renewal program of focused reinvestment. In-city living has become desirable again among a range of people.[citation needed] It is bounded on the north by downtown, on the west by Little Italy and the Mansion District, and on the south by unnamed South End sub-neighborhoods.
Second Avenue[edit]
Second Avenue runs from Delaware Ave. east downhill to South Pearl Street; the area includes the side streets. This neighborhood is mostly residential and relies on Delaware Avenue for most retail services. Much of Second Avenue has suffered from decline, especially the half closer to South Pearl Street. Most of the side streets closer to Delaware Avenue are safe, residential streets of single-family housing.[citation needed] Second Avenue becomes Whitehall Road at Delaware Avenue.
University Heights[edit]
University Heights is home to the Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany Law School, Sage College of Albany, and Albany Medical College. This expanding commercial area contains many health care–related businesses, a few retail stores and restaurants. Health and human services facilities in the neighborhood include: Albany Medical Center Hospital, the Stratton V.A. Hospital, the Capital District Psychiatric Center, the NYS Office of Mental Health, and the NYS Office for People With Developmental Disabilities. University Heights is bounded by Park South to the north, and the South End to the south.
Washington Park[edit]
For 300 years, Washington Park have been used by the residents of Albany for recreational and other public purposes. Originally granted to the city by the English Crown in colonial times, the Park area has been used as a parade ground, a cemetery, a public square, and a welfare farm. Shortly after the American Civil War, work began on what is today's park - a manicured combination of gardens and lawn landscaped in the finest Victorian tradition. With some 100 species of trees from exotic lands throughout the world, the Park resembles a botanical garden. The park's boat house hosts "Park Playhouse" which puts on outdoor plays in the summer. The park is also host to the Tulip Fest, which is celebrated annually on the second weekend in May. Washington Park is host to numerous other public events throughout the year including a large holiday lights display, and other culturally diverse events.[citation needed]
West Hill[edit]
West Hill stretches from Central Avenue north to Tivoli Hollow, and from Henry Johnson Boulevard west to Manning Boulevard.[16] It is dominated by Central Avenue, which is Albany's "Main Street" and an important thoroughfare into Albany.
The Whitehall neighborhood features tree lined streets and sidewalks in a suburban/low density urban atmosphere of single-family homes. Whitehall has many churches and synagogues, and a Jewish Community Center. Nearby New Scotland and Delaware Avenues provide the neighborhood with hospitals and retail services.
See also[edit]
- History of Albany, New York
- Streets of Albany, New York
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Albany, New York
- ^ Chris Churchill (2010-05-13). "Downtown Homesteading". Times Union (Albany). Hearst Newspapers. p. E1. Retrieved 2007-03-18.
- ^ "Downtown Residential" (PDF). Downtown Albany Business Improvement District. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
- ^ a b c "Albany's Neighborhoods". City of Albany. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
- ^ a b c "Albany's Neighborhood Associations" (PDF). City of Albany. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
- ^ Karlin, Rick (2002-12-22). "Race Tilts Middle School Debate". Times Union (Albany). Hearst Corporation. p. D1. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
- ^ O'Brien, Tim (2007-05-09). "Lark Street Group Fills Jobs". Times Union (Albany). Hearst Newspapers. p. B4. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
- ^ Churchill, Chris (2010-06-25). "More Park South Plans?". Times Union (Albany). Hearst Newspapers. p. C1. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
- ^ "University Heights Association". University Heights Association, Inc. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
- ^ Scott Waldman (March 18, 2010). "Guess "District" Sounds Better Than Ghetto". Albany Times Union. p. D3. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
- ^ Google (2010-06-01). "Albany, New York, United States" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 2010-06-01.
- ^ French, J.H. (1860). Gazetteer of the State of New York. R. Pearsall Smith. p. 159. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
- ^ "Stimulus starts by paving the way to work," by Casey Seiler, Albany Times Union, Saturday, May 2, 2009.
- ^ "North Albany". Albany Institute of History and Art. Retrieved 2010-07-25.
- ^ "A History of Pine Hills". Pine Hills Neighborhood Association. 1977. Check date values in:
- ^ "How can troubles in Albany's student ghetto be".
- ^ Rosemary Lazaro (October 21, 1991). "Not Arbor Hill". Albany Times Union. Retrieved 2009-08-15.
External links[edit]
- Neighborhood Map, map of the various neighborhood association boundaries -Link Broken.
- Google Maps overlay, various neighborhood associations boundaries


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4:00-4:45: John King; Designing the Edible Landscape
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Discussion in 'October 2009' started by max, Oct 16, 2009.
At Memphis - Preseason Oct 17 8PM tv - you know the drill - no tv here. radio: 950 WWJ
Roscoe? No chat on radio only days?
Is the game on radio anywhere??? Is there a TV link anywhere??? Whassssuuuupppp!!
looking at the score...man this is horrible...Memphis?? Really??
yeah Pistons down 28-7 with 2 mins left in the first qtr
According to the boxscore they are getting blown out but CV is playing.
still a 19 pt lead by the Grizz, but you can hear the grissle announcers here: "The Game Live" - Memphis Grizzlies Click on WBRO and the game will play thru your Window Media player http://citadelcc-wrbo-fm.wm.llnwd.net/citadelcc_WRBO_FM
Either that or get out your clock radio like I did (ain't used that boy in a minute) and turn it to 950 AM wwj.
Pistons go on a 2-point run to cut the lead to 22 points (79-57). Memphis calls timeout to stop the momentum. NBA - Detroit Pistons/Memphis Grizzlies Box Score Saturday October 17, 2009 - Yahoo! Sports I thought Memphis would struggle more with the loss of Darko...
2-point run to cut lead to 22 points? This has got to be the best sarcasm I've ever seen, lol.
Well you know I am 2500 miles from the WWJ broadcast tower in Detroit and when I try to get via the internet all I got was news....
CV, Jerebko, and Bynum with good games. Stuckey and Gordon with adequate games. Nobody else. Getting worried that this is about a 35-47 team or worse.
Games like this are needed to shut people up about Wallace/Brown or Wilcox/Brown.
You must be thinking about another forum, because I haven't seen many, if any posts on that subject.
One thing that sticks out from the box is the 14 assists to 18 TO's. Not passing the ball very well. Part of that of course is Prince being out - why would Jerebko start in his place? I thought he was trying out for the center spot. 2 more preseason games to go and the last one ( friday ) will actually be televised.
I kinda figured when they lost that game by 3 pts last week, that real team would be exposed ..since then they have been blown out in two straight games giving up an average of 114 pts per game.... Who will Joe trade in the next two weeks, Prince or Rip to bring in some defensive stopper.(s)
Nobody traded...Except Joe, who will be on his way out after the team is moved to Des Moines. Mrs. Davidson needs to clear the air about her intentions. She may be looking to sell. The time is right, as the franchise value is high.
Horrible starting lineup with JJ at the 3, the idea was to put some great defenders on the court, but it's clear that JJ can not guard the good SF's in this league like Rudy Gay. I see Q's logic, I'm thinking he used this game to see what combo's could actually work together-none of those goofy ones worked at all. I really think this pre-season is showing us that Austin Daye may work his way onto the court sooner rather than later as a legit backup SF. I really think that Rip's stay as a Piston is directly tied to the development of Austin Daye, once AD is ready to roll, he'll force himself onto the court as the backup SF, meaning BYE BYE 3 guard lineup, meaning Bye Bye Rip. It's becoming obvious that we really need a PG and a C, just like 25 other teams in the league.
This is why in preseason games , I play the quarter by quarter game. The pistons got blown out in the 1st qtr, but the other three qtrs were Ok.... its all about expirementing...soemthing a LOT of yall know something about!
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Discussion in 'November 2010' started by roscoe36, Oct 19, 2010.
here's what tads posted on DBB game thread: and that pretty much sums up our collapse.
All about the team chemistry now. Doesn't look good for the immediate future of the team. Looks like a 21 win team.
I'LL SAY FOR THE LAST TIME...watch the movie 'major league'!!!! This is as plotted a team blow up as the 9-11 plane hijackings!!
That's almost a transcript of how the Atlanta announcers sounded during the fourth quarter. A small reflection after watching through the boxscores after a night like this - Monroe might have trouble in the ECF if we encounter Orlando there. One of their guys had 8 blocks in 23 minutes tonight.
Lots of drama coming I guess. Prince PG down the stretch, but finishes with zero assists in the game? One of those 2 things should not have happened. 36-90 for the Pistons from the floor. 36-67 for the Hawks from the floor. We crushed them on the boards and won the turnover war to get this differential, but there is a reason that we were missing so many shots and they were > 50%. They have a cohesive defense with a shot blocker and we have poor defenders who aren't used to playing with each other. 1 weak link can be overcome, but when you have several, they'll just hammer away at them and there's not much than you can do to stop them. Therein lies the asymmetry between offense and defense. You can get away with having Ben Wallace on the offensive end of the court since there is only one basketball. He's good for setting picks, dunking, getting easy layups, etc. But it's hard to get away with having a weak player on defense. When you have 2 or 3 of them, there is no covering for it and you have a screen door on your submarine.
I have very incomplete information making any predictions or anaysis I have not worth a damn. But it occurs to me that everyone is totally frustrated. Kuester has almost no chance to throw a competitive lineup out there, given JJ's hurt, Monroe's a 20 year old rookie big man, Wallace is our only legit big man (and he's small and not Ben of old), and the team is playing with lots of injuries. On top of that, though, it seems to me like Kuester is trying his hardest to regain control of his team. Players seem to be sniping with him - a lot. He just punished the guys on the team who were playing tonight by sitting Stuckey - even if Stuckey was insubordinate in some way (which really seem unlike Rodney, doesn't it?) him sitting Stuckey couldn't have set well with his teammates since that forced McGrady to play tons of minutes, and possibly cost us our first win. I was glad to get a glimpse of the future with Monroe in the high post - man he looks great there, really in control and surveying the floor beautifully. It'll be nice when Daye relaxes. He's playing really tight. You know he's a great shooter - and his percentages will catch up with his ability when he regains his confidence. But if Stuckey suddenly becomes a problem, that's an enormous setback for this franchise.
Weird game, in many aspects. How about McGrady playing a season high 24 minutes after leaving the game just yesterday with a slight knee problem. How about Stuckey only getting 14 minutes. But one thing remained rock solid. Pistons late game collapses. Still no sign of a coach anywhere around winning time. I see some criticize Summers for not being great around the basket. Its not his game. The one time they let him shoot a three, he nailed it. Thats his game, let him play it. I do believe Summers was our 2nd best in 3 percentage last year. He can shoot that 3, let him. McGrady did some scoring in this one, at the basket. Created by him. Nice pass on a fast break to Monroe. He is moving a little better. Certainly not great. Still not seeing him knock down 3's, his signature scoring mode for his career. But regardless of how healthy he is, one trend continues - this team is just as good with him out there as the point vs. when Stuckey is at point. Just not a lot of difference. Kuester calls timeouts, and puts in plays. He does not recognize that people have simply been out there too long. He tends to ride a player to the point they are worthless. Security blanket type thing I suppose. Rotations were just well, weird. Ben Wallace, not seen in the 2nd or 4th quarters. Daye, despite playing quite an effective game (when not playing at power forward), sees I believe no crunch time action. JMAX got a DNP, coach's decision. Tay had a particulary good game - until it came to crunch time where he disappeared like the rest. Even though he was out there playing. The good - we played competitively, had a 6 point lead late (around the 5 minute mark), and this against a team with some obvious talent. The youth for sure was not sitting rotting on the bench. Coach mitigated his craziness in starting Daye at power forward by at least taking him out real early in each half. With no foul trouble. Wow, he actually made a decison not forced on him. And yet, he still insists on starting Daye at PF, when, well, probably the whole world thinks by now that Monroe should be starting along side Ben Wallace. (And how about a Ben Gordon / Austin Daye rotation at shooting guard.) CV is doing better, but no way he should play the minutes he does lately. More good news. This has been a horrific schedule to start the season. Since last Wednesday, the Pistons have played 5 games. Might as well say five games in one week. Despite the announcers crying about injuries, really injuries have not hurt us. For instance, how can you say we were hurt by JJ being injured, when even without JJ Kuester could not find time for Monroe to play the first couple of games. Bynum? Why give the other team someone to shoot over? Rip? We got Gordon, and Daye - who needs Rip. This team has no shortage of talented players. The team just needs a coach who can get his act together. Quit being stubborn and put Monroe in the starting unit. Are we really short handed when the coach can afford to sit his point guard for pretty much the whole game. How about up front - lets see - he did not even play one of his normal rotation players. (Maxiell). Nope, no shortage of players. Injuries are not a problem. Probably the company line being bandied about to cover for Kuester. More good stuff. Gordon and CV, within like a minute, each had a block. Both are scoring well of late. Gordon started this one out scorching hot with 11 or so in the first quarter. TMAC is getting better on foot speed, even if slowly. Coach certainly is not wearing out Stuckey nor Ben Wallace. (Still overplaying Tay though.) We started out the game at least looking like we knew how to play hoops, getting inside and to the line a lot. Tapered out though as the game went on. Only one first half turnover. And we had them 8-1 at one point on O boards. The real bad: Can't get back on fast breaks. Which is understandable with the odd rotations Kuester uses. If you want guys to run faster, play them in shorter spurts. And inside defense. Very lacking much of the game. Part of that is starting Daye at power forward, and part of that is overplaying CV. In defense of Detroit tonight, hey, Atlanta showed it not only has a great fast break game, and ability to score around the basket, but that Atlanta also knows how to shoot the outside shot. Just a lot of talent on display. Lots of tall players who can nail the shot from the perimeter. Just possible we win this one if Atlanta does not shoot such a high outside percentage. Sometimes its just not in the stars. And I see from another board that Stuckey was pulled for not running the plays called from the bench.
Hmm, I did not notice anyone posting that the Pistons did not extend Stuckey's contract - making him a free agent after this season. Just might have something to do with the rift.
Agree with your points that you can't complain about being short handed when you are sitting Stuckey, Maxiell, and Ben Wallace. Seems like we are overloaded. On the contract issue, hardly anybody is getting signed. Afflalo, and many others, despite great play. Lockout looming. On the schedule... Atlanta has also played 5 games already, and they are undefeated. We are only 2.0 games out of the playoffs at this point though.
And coach won't pull the guy, like he is absolutely not watching the game.
It is odd to hear of this behavior from Stuckey. You would not expect this type of attitude from a guy who pokes holes in his belt instead of buying a new one after he loses weight. The good: The bad: My DVR froze up and erased the game so I could only watch the first 6 minutes or so of the first Q. ESPN running winless Pistons fall to 0-5 as the lead on their scroll. KG's retort to CG's twitter comments. That has got to rank up with it being reported that Rip and Tay were crying after CB was traded as a low point in Piston history.
Well... Another good offensive game from BG. T-Mac did pretty well finishing around the rim, two double clutch reverse layups, and made some good passes. Tay played well. I thought Monroe was excellent for his first game with a substantial amount of PT. He really got after loose balls and rebounds, and man does that dude see the court. I know that people were praising his passing ability, but I didn't expect it to be as good as hyped up to be. Stuckey barely played...while this puzzles me. Not to mention he is on my fantasy team, and 5 points is just not going to cut it... I don't get on BG and CV as much for bad D, but MAN OH MAN, Charlie V made Zaza Pachulia look like Al Jefferson tonight. Now...what reason does Joe D have not to fire Coach Q at this point? He's lost his team completely, and he is very bad in crunch time. Stuckey wouldn't listen to him. Tayshaun on Kue's leader comments: "It goes both ways," Prince said. "He says we got to be more vocal; he has to do some things better, too. Obviously we're 0-4, so it ain't just the team." McGrady clearly unhappy about being taken out in the fourth. Greg Monroe should be starting, yet it took Kue an entire 5 games to give him substantial time..
are you sure that this is actually "the bad?"
We need to petition the NBA to cut the game down from 48minutes to 40 (like in college & FIBA), if they did we'd be 4-1. I think we have enough talent to compete and play .500 ball, but with Clueless on the bench, and NOBODY respecting him ............... But I will say this, if Stuckey was insubordinate, he should be benched! But if you're going to bench Stuckey for it then hold everyone else equally accountable. T-Mac, Gordon and Monroe looked good. Anyone else notice that we have a team full of 6'11" guys who can't dunk the ball off of a drop step or standing vertical jump ......... heaven help us!
I don't know.. I'm watching games and SEEMS THAT THIS TEAM IS TANKING FOR TEH SEASON.. HEY but WAIT!.. It's NOVEMBER!.. WTF?
I posted it on Monday in the Articles Worth Mentioning thread. A couple of people responded.. but I figured nobody cared... Maybe I should have created a separate thread so you all could have debated it.
For all the bad moves Kuester has pulled in this game and all others, I appreciate that he went to Monroe in the high-post for a bit. That is going to be his sweet spot, and it would be very beneficial to put him there with the ball constantly when he's on the floor. Simply making him the mop-up guy, in typical Pistons fashion, would be a mistake. I noticed that as soon as Tay stepped on the floor, those high-post touches stopped. (Shocking) In other (old) news. The Daye experiment @ PF needs to end. With Rip out there should be plenty of minutes for Daye as a backup wing.
Kuester is taking shots at Stuckey. He must have a death wish clashing with a young franchise player like this. Hawks surge past winless Pistons in fourth quarter | detnews.com | The Detroit News Three-pointers: Rodney Stuckey benched as Detroit Pistons collapse again | MLive.com
So Rodney pulls a Scottie Pippen? That's not on the coach...that's all on Rodney.
that is interesting. Rodney probably expected: leadership=glory and respect and power, instead of it he has to drag this messy team through the mud. Also vets are either aging ( ben wallace), passive( tay) or simply don't care ( rip), so it is not hard to be either commanding or vocal even for youngstas but nobody probaly wants this role now.
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passing concepts
What Is: High-Low
Whatever you do, #44, it is wrong.
Iowa runs a base Cover 2 defense, and Michigan has been adding lots of Cover 2 to their Cover 1/Cover 3 base. Meanwhile Iowa's offensive coordinator, Greg Davis, is well known for favoring a simple, West Coast-style passing offense that creates easy reads and, at the very least, open receivers underneath to dump it to.
All of that means it's a good week to discuss a defensive concept we haven't gone over in so long that the quarterback's targets last time were Roy Roundtree and Martavious Odoms: a High-Low read.
If you're a football guy already you can almost certainly tune this one out. If you're not, this is a really easy thing to see on the field that can make you sound knowledgeable when you point it out to your friends.
High-Low Defined
This is an offensive passing concept that gives the quarterback two routes that cross above and below a defender's zone, close enough to stay in view but vertically spaced enough (12-15 yards) that the flat defender can't cover either by splitting the difference. The quarterback then throws whichever route the high-low'd defender covered.
I say "flat defender" instead of "cornerback" because it's not always a CB who has that zone.
[After THE JUMP: lots of ways to stretch a man's zone.]
Hokepoints: Triangle of Doom
Brian mentioned a "triangle" route during the offensive UFR last week. I wanted to highlight that play, not just because I don't remember if we've covered what that means, but because it illustrates how the emergence of Funchess as a complementary deep threat to Gallon makes defenses do unsound (read: relatively easy to exploit) things.
A triangle is another passing concept for picking on zone, and works pretty well against different coverages. We've covered smash/high-low (which attacks the top and bottom of a zone simultaneously) and 4-verts (which gets guys to either side of a zone). A triangle is actually putting dudes to three sides of a zone. It's a slightly more complicated version of high-low, the triple-option version of it if you will.
Here's a play from the Indiana UFR. I want you to watch the bottom of the screen and how the Funchess, Gallon, and Toussaint routes work together:
|O Form
|D Form
|Shotgun 4-wide tight
|4-3 over
|TE out
|IME Gardner blows this read presnap by going to the short side of the field. He's got three guys on the wide side and Toussaint's flare is going to be open as M runs a triangle there. Instead he's looking at the wheel/out combo M is running a lot this year. Both are covered; Gardner tries to fit a ball into Butt in a tiny window, LB breaks it up. (BR, 1, protection 1/1)
The left side is a high-low. The right side of the play, even though Gardner didn't go there, is the triangle we're looking at.
I don't know if Gallon's route was a deep curl or an out or flag or whatever; it doesn't matter. I drew curl just to make the picture smaller.
In this case Gallon and Toussaint are smashing the corner's Cover 2 zone, while Funchess's curl route keeps the SAM linebacker from interfering with that. The cornerback went with Gallon (from alignment it was obvious he was more worried about the deep part of his zone than anything underneath), and that left the SAM to deal with Funchess and Toussaint. He chose Funchess, and Toussaint's flare route was open.
What Were They Thinking: Too Much Flood
Trying a new series on the blog this year, kinda like picture pages but more focused on base concepts in Michigan's offense and defense, and how the skill level and talent of our players and our opponents' interact with that. If you're like "yeah, that's Picture Pages" well, yeah, sometimes, except usually PP is about showing you something specific while I'm really trying to show how all of these mad football skillz we talk about in recruiting translate into plays with a big outcome on the game. Since I'm still pretty new at this stuff I strongly appreciate criticism and comments. Anyway this week's play:
A very slow-developing play-action where Gardner is either very lazily getting into his drop or else doing a very good acting job of a lazy quarterback who handed it off already and is just going through the motions. Because Michigan was up 38-6 and Central's front seven were getting so pwned the safeties were being forced to sell out against the run, a play-action deep pass was so set up you can hear the announcers literally wondering aloud at the snap when it would come. Or should have been. Was it? On the fourth play of the drive (following a waggle, an Iso and a zone stretch), it comes.
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Picture Pages: Multiple Flood
My Irrational Gametime Borges Emotion Meter flipped from disgusted to enthralled back to disgusted on a series of three plays on Michigan's second drive. The first play was the second and twelve play action on which an unimpressed defensive end flew upfield and sacked Robinson without giving any thought to the tailback supposedly getting the ball. Running second and twelve play action from a big I-Form set makes Homer crazy.
It got better. On the next play, Borges rolled the pocket and flooded the roll side. Via BWS:
This is another way to high-low the corner, something this series has discussed in the context of curl-flat routes against UConn and Notre Dame. In this instance the flood worked for a big-time completion as Roundtree beat the safety to the corner route and the cornerback sucked up on the Hemingway deep out.
Grady at the 20. Hemingway at the 35 with the cover-two corner. Roundtree at the 45 beating the safety to the outside.
On the next play Borges did the exact same thing, but he did it completely differently. He flooded a zoning cornerback and high-lowed him for a big gain. It was the same guy. He'd just gotten beaten over the top and sank back into the deep route, leaving the intermediate guy wide open. Gardner ignored the blitheringly wide open guy, instead chucking a terrible interception. Live this flipped me back to disgusted mode, and this lasted long enough for me to complain about two-man routes on the podcast. I was wrong. Borges engaged a decided schematic advantage here only to see a freshman (-ish) quarterback derp it.
Michigan comes out in a Gardner formation with Robinson as the slot receiver.
Now for something completely the same
Before the snap they motion Hemingway tighter to the line. The cornerback's reaction and the two deep safeties imply another zone.
On the snap they fake a handoff and then fake the end around. The coverage is revealed to be Not Cover 2. Both corners are headed deep and one safety steps up into a robber zone in the middle. This is cover three:
robber in red, three-deep in blue
Gallon is running straight downfield and will take both the corner and the topmost safety with him—Hemingway cuts his route off and he has no other vertical threats and can double. The two linebackers you see have their eyes in the backfield, preparing for an end-around. By the time it's certain Gardner has the ball Hemingway is ten yards downfield, running hard, with inside position on the robber. The linebackers are done.
Now it's a little bit of a problem that Gardner took his eyes off the defense for a long time as he executed both handoff fakes, but he is literally eight yards from the nearest defender as he sets up. He has plenty of time to read the corner Michigan is trying to high-low.
doo dee doo dee doo
You can see the playside LB heading out for Robinson's wheel route, which doesn't seem like a real option but still demands attention. There's no one checking Hemingway except that robber, who is improvising in the time-honored tradition of anyone who sees something going very wrong and runs at the red button screaming "oh shiiiiiiiiii—."
Gardner loads up and fires…
…over the head of a wide open Hemingway hanging out 20 yards downfield…
…to the bracketed Gallon…
…and throws it way short to add interception to injury. Derp.
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This is the same passing concept out of a totally different play. Michigan goes from a three-wide stack with a rollout to that side to an ace set with a couple of play action fakes, but it's the same thing for the quarterback: three options of varying depth along the left sideline. (Depending on how real the Denard wheel is. If it's not it should be.) On both plays the depths are five yards, 20 yards, and 40 yards. On both plays the playside corner is the main dude to read.
This kind of thing is all the rage in the NFL and various places in college football: Stanford, Boise State, wherever Weis is hanging his hat ("Let them try to stop a pro-style offense, which has multiple personnel groups and multiple formations."), etc. Smart Football notes the concept is one of three main ways modern offenses beat defenses:
Use multiple formations and motions to confuse the defense or gain an advantage in numbers or leverage. This approach tries to turn the defense against itself by never giving the defense a chance to get settled or to identify what the offense may do. Moreover, sometimes the defense simply fails to adjust, and the offense gains some new advantage. The downside of this approach is it leaves little time and fewer clues for the offense to make adjustments, but the idea is that "motion causes emotion" (to use the old adage) and the offense has an advantage in that it knows where it is going. This is the method employed by Boise State.
The other two are changing the play before the snap and using good old option football to force the opponent to be wrong.
The advantage of the multiple look is that it gets complex for the defense while remaining simple for the offense, particularly the critical guy with the ball in his hands every play. On back-to-back plays a zone flood wins, getting receivers open for huge chunks. Since the flood develops differently the defense has a hard time picking up on the tendency. Here the quarterback switch mitigates the effect of having the QB get to make the same read he just successfully executed, but in a normal situation you get the advantage of familiarity while the defense does not.
This may be why it feels like Michigan increasingly has no "base." Here's Boise State's RB coach on what they do on offense:
"We run plays, we don't have an offense. It makes it difficult to defend." At that time he was working with the running backs. Before this project, I wondered how an offense can't be a system. Coordinators pride themselves on establishing identities: "It's what we do" is a common mantra among the coaching profession. Urban Meyer at Florida has his spread option, Chip Kelly at Oregon has his QB run game, Steve Sarkasian at Washington has his pro-style offense that he developed at USC. Well, apparently Boise was the Seinfeld of college football — their lack of identity is their identity.
I've described the offense as "grab-bag," "cute," and "gimmickball" at various points during the year because they don't have a core play—at least not one that works COUGH power COUGH—that forces opponents to cheat and opens up your constraint plays.
Michigan fans have never seen an offense like this. Rodriguez varied his base but there was always the zone, inside and out, or the QB iso offense. DeBord literally ran a zone stretch left on the first play 90% of the time. Before that Michigan based its offense off pro-style power running (even though they couldn't run). They always had a Thing They Did.
This year Michigan has done the following things on the ground: iso, power, pitch sweep, speed option, inside zone, outside zone, inverted veer, down G, sprint counter, jet sweep. That is damn near everything possible short of triple option and trapping, and it moves from week to week. Most people, including myself, have believed this is a transitional cost of fitting Borges into an offense he didn't build. I am beginning to doubt that conclusion.
Maybe this should have been obvious given the multiplicity of Borges's SDSU offense but there's a big difference between watching a team and living it.
Even though this should be simple for the QB Gardner biffs spectacularly. Man is this a terrible decision. This isn't the error he made against State by throwing to Hemingway instead of the free touchdown offered Hopkins. Hemingway was kind of open and a good throw is a potential touchdown.
Here he's got a hand-wavingly open guy and a double-covered one. He's reading one guy, the playside corner. He's got enough time to take tea in the backfield. The playside corner is booking it downfield with his back to the guy underneath him. And Gardner still throws to the double-covered guy. If Borges didn't throw something in the press box he's a better man than I.
Anyone calling for Gardner to start should be shown this play over and over.
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9/24/2011 – Michigan 28, San Diego State 7 – 4-0
A long, long time ago now a Lloyd-Carr coached Michigan team was struggling through the 2005 season when they met Northwestern. A lot of throws to Tacopants (Jason Avant's 11-foot-tall imaginary friend) on both sides later, Michigan emerged with a 33-17 win and I embarked on one of the first of an endless procession of stat-nerd diatribes about the evils of punting.
You've probably heard it already: punting decisions have not kept pace with the increasingly offensive nature of the game, leaving coaches in a perpetual state of risk- and win-avoidance. Romer paper, Pulaski High, Mathlete chart. Etc.
In this particular Northwestern game, though, Carr went for it on fourth and five from the Northwestern 23, a decision I thought was too aggressive(!). When paired with a number of similarly aggressive calls from earlier that season, it seemed like a sea change for the old man:
In multiple cases he's made tough, correct decisions: going on fourth and goal from the one against Wisconsin, pounding it into the line twice against Michigan State, etc. Even when the strategy has backfired, he accepts the downside and persists in a more aggressive posture.
In context, the Penn State gaffe seems more like one last hit of that sweet Bombay Popsicle* snuck in-between rehab sessions than evidence of 1970s thinking taking hold. Lloyd Carr has checked himself in to the Betty Ford Center for Coaches Addicted to Low Variance. I wouldn't expect a flying-colors discharge any time soon, but he's made the first, biggest step.
*[I don't know either.]
That change lasted into the fourth quarter of that year's Ohio State game. Having acquired a two-score lead by converting a fourth and inches around the Michigan 40, Carr reverted to his primitive instincts at the crucial moment. With three minutes left from the Ohio State 40, he called for a wide receiver screen on third and ten. It gained six yards. With a two point lead, three minutes on the clock, no Ohio State timeouts left, and a fourth and four on the Ohio State 34, Carr punted. Ohio State drove for a touchdown; Carr would never again have the opportunity to kill a game against the Buckeyes.
In the moment, Carr choked. Six years on that single decision seems like the best way to explain why a lot Michigan fans found his tenure frustrating despite its high rate of success: the program was perpetually making poor decisions because a combination of fear and arrogance. Something could go wrong if you made a high variance decision, and Michigan could spit on expected value because This Is Michigan. See any game in which Michigan acquired an 18-point lead or the first half of the Orange Bowl for confirmation.
Carr coached like he had a kickass running game and killer defense no matter the facts, which was the difference between being a legend and a being a B+ coach who lost the battle with Tressel authoritatively. Hell, even Tressel blew games when he failed to adjust to the reality that sometimes his defense and special teams were not enough, and he ran roughshod over the Big Ten for nine years.
Part of the reason a segment of the Michigan fanbase (including the author) blew up at Hoke's hire is because it seemed to represent a return to that expectation-spurning 1970s decision-making.
Brady Hoke put a lot of those fears to rest by going for—and getting—the win against Notre Dame with eight seconds left. That decision was a no-brainer. If the field goal team had run out onto the field, I would have been livid. That was a test he passed, but it was one with a low bar.
On Saturday, Hoke sent out the punting team with about two and a half minutes left in the first half. It was fourth and two around midfield, and I was mildly peeved. It was not the percentage play, but I've watched a lot of football and it seemed too much to hope that even the rootin'est, tootin'est, eyepatch-wearingest pirate of a head coach would go for it. Needing more than a sneak and up fourteen in the first half, the world punts. My peevishness was directed at football coaches in general, not Hoke in particular.
And then.
And then an angel came down from the sky, and signaled timeout. Great trumpets erupted from the flagpoles, playing a fanfare as a golden staircase descended. Each of the steps was engraved with the names of World Series of Poker winners. Down from the clouds strode Doyle Brunson, clad in a jacket of hundred-dollar bills. And lo, Texas Dolly spaketh unto the people: "check-raise." Brady Hoke sent the offensive line onto the field.
This was a really, really good decision. Even if you don't believe the exact outlines of the Mathlete's calculations, it is not close: average offense versus average defense means the break-even line is around eight yards. This was not an average situation. Michigan had Denard Robinson against a pretty horrible run defense. And that number does not take into account the game situation. If Michigan gets the first down they are almost certainly robbing San Diego State of a possession. Punting gets you thirty, forty yards of field position. Getting the first down puts you in good position to score and is essentially another +1 in turnover margin. You need two yards and you have Denard Robinson.
stealing a joke from the internet: the guy on the right looks like he just looked into the Ark of the Covenant. via the News.
One speed option later Michigan was en route to the endzone and had essentially ended the game. Without that massively +EV decision they go into halftime up maybe 14, maybe 11, maybe 7 points. That ugly third quarter becomes the gut-check time most were predicting before the game. Maybe Michigan comes out on top (24-21, say). Maybe not. That didn't happen because when Michigan had its boot on San Diego State's neck, Hoke called Z 22 stomp right.
The Lloyd Carr example above shows we don't know that Hoke's going to do this consistently, that he'll stick to the non-pejorative MANBALL when the pressure is at its greatest, but so far so good. Even my doubts about Hoke's ability to math up in the waning moments of an Ohio State game are faint. When things go wrong he does not scowl or pout or throw headsets like Rich Rodriguez or Brian Kelly or Bo Pelini. He does not go on tilt. He calmly talks to guys about what in the hell they were thinking.
Hoke continues to leave best-case scenarios in the dust. Saturday night I watched Dennis Erickson punt on fourth and five from the USC 37 and thought "my coach would never do that." Then I watched Erickson chew out the punter who put the ball in the endzone because that's what happens when you punt from the 37 and thought "my coach would never do that."
That felt good. It felt invent-a-time-machine-to-assure-yourself-its-all-going-to-be-okay good. It feels like Michigan has finally learned how to gamble.
+EV Non-Bullets
Boy do I want to play poker with certain people on the internet. Evaluating the decision has popped up on every Michigan message board. It's mostly been met with praise, but man, there are a lot of people who can't estimate and multiply out there. Maybe it's Carr Stockholm syndrome.
Photoset. The SDSU photoset comes via Eric Upchurch and the Ann Arbor Observer:
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Mark Huyge is delighted to be here. From the above SDSU photoset.
It's not quite the Molk death glare. It's more like Shifty-Eyed Dog.
Try to look at Mark Huyge ever again without having that play in your head.
Eric also managed to get a picture of Denard looking sad after a win, which I thought was not possible, and this shot of a fully-padded Van Bergen about to opine on Kant:
That's a great question. Just as our rationality leads us to a belief in an objective reality, Kant believed there is an objective morality we can locate from the same process. The Categorical Imperative is an absolute, fundamental moral law on par with Minnesota losing to teams from the Dakotas. Things are either right or wrong—there are no gray areas, and context does not apply. You could call him the BJ Daniels of philosophy*.
*[Ten-cent summary of Kantian philosophy cribbed from Three Minute Philosophy, which is terrific. Philosophers wishing to quibble with my paraphrase of a comedic summary are invited to consider the moral consequences of their actions and also jump in a lake. USF fans wishing to WOO BJ DANIELS can skip to the latter.]
And the internet eeeed Countess. When Troy Woolfolk headed to the sidelines, all Michigan fans everywhere winced. When Blake Countess replaced JT Floyd in the third quarter, all Michigan fans everywhere prepared for the deluge.
It never came, and as a result everyone from my uncle to the internet to the newspapers are having little freakouts about Michigan's #4 corner. I am with all of you. The only thing stopping Countess from having a few PBUs or interceptions was Ryan Lindley's inability to throw the ball anywhere near the guys Countess had blanketed but Lindley targeted anyway.
For most of the third quarter I stopped watching the offensive backfield and started watching downfield coverage and while I won't be able to confirm this on the tape I think Countess was doing really well even when people weren't going after him. I'm with the rest of the internet when I suggest that Troy Woolfolk should take the Minnesota game off to recover from his multiple nagging injuries so we can see some more of the freshman.
I thought Avery did well, too. He had a third-down slant completed on him and was the DB victimized on the touchdown but in both cases he was right there tackling/raking at the ball. Is he doing something wrong I'm not perceiving yet? Because I think he's playing better than Woolfolk, who gave up some groan-worthy easy completions. (I don't blame him for allowing Hillman to bounce on one third down conversion because he was clearly held.)
Release the Martin. This week in the I-told-you-so files: Mike Martin is just fine. His good day last week was obscured by EMU never throwing and having quite a bit of success attacking away from him. Against SDSU he was nigh unblockable, bowling a veteran offensive line over backwards multiple times and drawing holding calls left and right. Craig Roh had two big plays and will show up doing little things when I do the UFR; Will Campbell had a couple of line-pushing plays. Hillman's YPC was still over five, so there are issues but I think a big chunk of them are localizable to…
Problems. So… everyone's talking up Jake Ryan, too. I'm with everyone in a general, long-term sense but a little less enthused about his performance on Saturday. One of the results of the first few weeks of UFRing/picture paging is that whenever the opponent tries to get outside I immediately focus on Ryan. Result from last week: three "aaargh Ryan" screams that no one in my section comprehended. He's still giving up the corner way too easy.
Also, there are two caveats to an otherwise encouraging performance from the secondary. One: Lindley and his receivers were flat bad as a group. Drops, bad routes, and bad throws artificially boosted Michigan's efficiency against him. Some of that was caused by pressure. Some of it was just a crappy opponent. Two: I wonder if Michigan's familiarity with the SDSU offense allowed them to beat the Aztecs' favorite routes into Michigan DBs heads.
Still, 5.3 YPA and actual depth at corner. +1 Mallory.
Offensive construction bits. Another week, another confirmation that running Denard is the offense. While I still groan whenever they line up under center, snaps from there were limited. I would really prefer it if they never ran I-form power on first and ten again, though. They've mixed in some inexplicably effective short play action so far; if they can't run that will probably dry up.
Things I liked: That screen to Smith. The essence of an RPS+3 is when three offensive linemen have no one to block for 30 yards. And then the much-discussed speed option debuted. I'd gotten a couple insider emails telling me it was part of the offense but thought it would be extremely bad form to publish that, so I'd been waiting. It was quite a debut.
I'm hoping we see Borges add wrinkles at the same rate Rodriguez did. He'll have to to keep the run offense ahead of the wolves. He's off to a good start.
via the Detroit News.
Tailbacks. I'm suddenly happy with Michigan's tailback situation after Vincent Smith made a lot of yards on his own, including the above touchdown where he kept his balance at about the five and managed to drag a safety into the endzone. There was also the zone play where he squeezed through a crack in the line it's possible literally no other D-I back would have fit through.
Toussaint, meanwhile, didn't have the yards Smith did but ran hard on the inside; I still like him best but understand if they're going to split duties between the top two. I feel bad for Shaw—maybe it's time to put him on kickoffs? He's got speed Smith does not.
The Denard question. So they did run a curl-flat. Denard went to the curl way late and threw his first interception. Not sure if that was schemed or just bad execution by the offense. If it's the latter that might be attributable to not running it over the offseason as Borges attempted to install his route packages, route packages that now seem like things Denard just can't do.
A three-point plan in an attempt to get Denard back on track:
- Stop throwing on the run.
- Provide some easy throws early—all hitch, snag—in an effort to get him calmed down.
- Develop some sort of counter-punch to the opponent getting all up in Denard's face on the rollout PA. A shovel pass?
Bending but not breaking. Michigan's giving up a lot of yards but not a lot of points. Frankly, some of this is luck. They are acquiring turnovers at an unsustainable rate. Not unsustainable for a mediocre defense, unsustainable for Michigan 1997. When the well dries up they'll do some more breaking.
The other thing is the secondary. Michigan's newfound ability to make plays on deep balls and Jordan Kovacs being stone-cold reliable (so far /crosses self) have erased cheap touchdowns for the opposition. WMU's touchdown came on a 15-play drive. ND touchdown drives went 7, 10, 7, and 4 plays. San Diego State's took six plays but started from the Michigan 38. The only quick drive Michigan's given up all year was ND's desperation drive, on which Michigan gave up chunks on purpose because of the time situation and then tried an NFL-style defense they weren't ready for and blew it. The longest touchdown other than that was the 16-yard pass Lindley hit in the third quarter.
Opponents have ripped off chunks on occasion, but they have not been handed free touchdowns. Michigan's at least making them earn it. That's a necessary first step on the road away from completely awful.
The next opponent. When Minnesota managed to hang with USC on the first weekend of the season they seemed like they might be more intimidating than your average Minnesota team. Then they lost to Not Even The Good New Mexico and North Dakota State and seemed even less intimidating than your average Minnesota team. Compounding matters: Jerry Kill is again out of commission with his seizure issue.
Drumline? Drumline:
I did not VOAV this week for reasons of being spooked. Boyz In The Pahokee provided the usual bounty if you are jonesing.
ST3 goes Inside the Box Score:
Matt Wile. Wait, let me try that again. MATT WILE!!! Yeah, I think he was properly pumped up to play his Dad's team. Net yards per kickoff were 50 for SDSU and 49.2 for UofM. To be even on kickoffs is a win for us. Net yards per punt were 34.7 for SDSU and 43.5 for Michigan. To gain almost a full first down per punt is huge. Two punts were inside the 20, and two were 50+ yards. #82, Terrance Robinson had 2 ST tackles and did a great job as the gunner on punts.
Wile's just lost his punting job; if that allows him to improve his kickoffs and compete for the field goal job, Michigan's kicking could be one of those strength things by midseason.
Lordfoul's weekly Hoke for Tomorrow:
Michigan needs Hagerup back.Maybe Hagerup isn't the only answer. Wile's kicks are improving it would seem, both on KOs and punts, possibly because his nerves are settling down. Kickoffs regularly made it to the goal line and only 1 of 4 punts was returned for much while they averaged 49 yards per with a long of only 51(!).
Player participation notes from jtmc33.
Media, as in files: Brady Hoke pointing at something. Hugs and Ryan Van Bergen's ripped jersey. AnnArbor.com's photo gallery.
MVictors got a few sideline shots, including SDSU's mascot:
You see that conch shell he's got in his hand? At some point in the first half he was talking into it like it was a cell phone. That is all.
Media, as in blog rabble. BWS hops aboard the Countess bandwagon and points out Denard can't throw.
MGoBlog : The Big Lebowski :: The Hoover Street Rag : The Hunt For Red October:
After the Notre Dame game, I tweeted very simply: "And the singing, Captain?" "Let them sing." The moment was too good to start worrying about the future. But at some point, the future arrives and you need to deal with it. How well prepared you are for that future plays a large role in how well you're able to handle it when the moment arrives. The non-conference schedule, particularly one played as four games at the start of the season should, theoretically, be a nice combination of challenges and the working out of kinks. Before the mission starts, you must know the capacity and capabilities of your crew.
Touch the Banner provides the usual breakdown, says we should see "no one" less on the defense. Whoah. MGoFootball highlights the tailbacks, says D is a live.
Media, as in local newspaper. John Niyo on the defense, which is extant. Chengelis on the fact the team is not vintage. San Diego State had big pictures of their former coaches as signals. The Daily on RVB's Hillman chase:
Fifth-year senior defensive tackle Ryan Van Bergen caught Hillman from behind inside the 10-yard line and knocked the ball loose for the second fumble.
Try reading it this way: a 288-pound defensive tackle caught the nation's second-leading rusher from behind in the open field — 30 yards away from the line of scrimmage.
Van Bergen got a block from fifth-year senior defensive tackle Mike Martin, but most of his help came from practice.
"But when it comes down to it, we have the most explosive player in the country in our backfield," Van Bergen said. "We get to play against (junior quarterback) Denard (Robinson), so we've learned how to take angles at guys who have speed.
"I took off on my horse just thinking, 'I've almost caught Denard before, maybe I can catch this guy.' "
AnnArbor.com writes similarly. The San Diego perspective:
"They were very emotional after the game, depressed, disappointed, upset, however you want to say," said Long, whose team dropped to 3-1 after Saturday's 28-7 defeat. "It was a very emotional locker room after the game and not in a good sense."
They probably would have done a "poor job" of answering questions, Long said, so he kept them behind closed doors. "It's my job to protect them," Long said Sunday. "This is not pro football." …
"The defense got shocked by the speed of especially one guy (Robinson)," Long said. "They got shocked by the strength they had up front and the speed of quarterback early in the game."
Nesbitt on Denard's twitter adventure. Meinke points out Michigan's massive uptick in red zone efficiency:
• Offensively, Michigan is 13-for-13 on red-zone opportunities. It is one of 13 teams in the country to have scored on every trip inside the 20-yard line this year.
• Even better? The Wolverines have scored touchdowns on 12 of those 13 trips. That 92-percent touchdown rate trails only Texas Tech nationally.
One of the main arguments made in favor of Shotgun Forever is that red zone efficiency is not a stat that shows much repeatable skill year to year and that the huge chunks of yards Michigan picked up without, you know, scoring in 2010 would turn into points if you just left the damn thing alone (and got a kicker). The early returns are excellent.
National takes. Smart Football:
- Michigan 28, San Diego State 7. Brady Hoke's new team faced his old team, and I'm still not sure, despite their 4-0 record, that we know anything about this Michigan football team. The defense seems to be improving under DC Greg Mattison, but they've been using so much movement and motion to cover up their talent weaknesses it's unclear how the defense will fare against a polished opponent. And while the offense has found a better rhythm running a Rich Rodriguez-lite Denard Robinson attack — including Denard's long TD run on the speed option — his passing line was abysmal: 8 of 17 for 93 yards, no TDs and two interceptions. He's obviously uncomfortable in the new offense. He looked like a more polished and comfortable passer last year. I chalk some of this up to the fact that the very techniques he's using are new, but he's going to have to improve for UM to have success. That said, given Michigan's favorable schedule — no Wisconsin and the easy part of the Big 10 schedule up next — we may not learn anything about Michigan until the last three weeks of the season, when they play Illinois, Nebraska and Ohio State.
No one else bothered. A couple weeks after puntosauring himself into a loss against Iowa State, BHGP documents Kirk Ferentz opening Iowa's game against ULM in a shotgun spread, demonstrating the Carr thing above perfectly.
Unverified Voracity Is Secretly Switzer
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche
EPIC. Thujone's latest paint opus has panels for Tate Forcier, Big Ten expansion, and Les Miles, but this is where it's at:
As always, Thujone comes with a CARTOON PENIS warning. Do not click if you are in a situation where being caught looking at a cartoon penis would be compromising.
Epic in the other direction. Chris Brown's latest at Smart Football is one of those posts that instantly illuminates a part of football that was murky before, and this one even comes with locally-relevant content. He describes the "snag" and "y-stick" plays you may have seen in your copy of NCAA 12 (or any year since '08 since they haven't changed it since). They incorporate stretches both vertical (i.e., making a cover two cornerback pick between a high guy and a low guy) and horizontal (i.e., making a flat defender pick between an outside guy and an inside guy) with routes that do well against man coverage.
Presenting that concept taking candy from a baby:
The snag is so synonymous with the triangle concept that some teams simply call it "triangle." The basic concept involves one receiver in the deep third on a corner route (good by itself against man-to-man), one receiver in the flat, often a runningback or inside receiver (which can also be good against man from a bunch-set), and a third receiver on the "snag" route, sometimes also known as a "slant-settle" or a "mini-curl."
As a general matter, against a Cover Two defense the quarterback will have a high/low read of the cornerback; if he sinks back he can throw it to the inside receiver in the flat; if the cornerback drops he will throw it to the corner route behind the cornerback, as shown in the clip below.
Against a Cover Three defense, the cornerback should take away the corner route by dropping into the deep third, but the snag/mini-curl and the flat should put a horizontal stretch on the flat defender and one of the two should be open.
At times like this I think to myself "boy, I hope I got that right." Drumroll…
NFW Michigan can defend this as aligned, as Rogers(-1) has a nasty choice between giving up the corner or the flat and chooses poorly by not sinking into the corner. (Cover -2, RPS -2); Gordon has no prayer of getting over in time and can only hope to tackle. Also, Avery(-1) appears to be abandoning his zone to ride the WR on a little hitch farther, which means the flat is wide open; Michigan is putting lots of guys in the same areas on their zone drops
Not bad. Michigan didn't even make that snag hard; by the time the ball is gone Mouton and Ezeh are within a yard of each other and Avery isn't much farther away. I still don't think there was any way for Michigan to defend this staple play as aligned, which points to the incoherence of the defense. Everything from last year points to the incoherence of the defense, sure.
Outdoor hockey is go. The on-again-off-again outdoor game in Cleveland is on again, this time officially. It's January 15th.
I wonder what the fan breakdown will be. This one's a bit farther than the Big House but still an easy drive and Ohio State fans don't usually turn out for hockey. They do make an exception for Michigan, though, and they'll probably make a larger one for the outdoor game PR stunt. 50-50?
Let's be friends. Dimitri Martin has a one-liner about bumper stickers: "to me, all bumper stickers say the same thing: 'let's not be friends.' This is one of two exceptions:
You know what happened in 1973, I'm sure. If not MVictors has you covered.
The other exception: once I saw a guy with a black bumper sticker that read CASH, as in Johnny.
I'm surprised it took this long. Greg Mattison has declared his team a "blitzing" team:
Very aggressive. I'll take anything more than three guys this year. Also, feel the soothing reassurance of Greg Mattison talking vis a vis Greg Robinson.
Euroleague says thanks. Someone credible enough to get retweeted by Pete Thamel says he "keeps hearing" NBA owners are pushing for an eligibility structure similar to the NFL. I.E.: you can't enter the draft until you're three years out of high school.
At that point wouldn't a lot of kids scheduled to be one-and-done GTFO? It's one thing when you've got to cool your heels for a year nailing cheerleaders and maybe taking a few classes. Three years is a totally different matter. The money will be bigger overseas since they can expect some high-level performances when the #1 pick in the NBA draft is 21.
Football can get away with their structure because there's nowhere else to play and they're almost always right: you should not be playing in the NFL less than three years after prom because you will die. The Adrian Petersons of the world are exceedingly rare. In basketball there are a dozen guys coming out of high school every year who can be all right NBA players right away.
Etc.: NCAA may or may not have sent a second "we're investigating you, buddy" letter to OSU. Wholly unreliable local radio host "The Torg" says "Ellis" from the SI story has talked to the NCAA, so take that for what it's worth.
Martavious Odoms's alarming cast should be off in two weeks so no big deal. Nobody knows who the starting running back is.


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Anyone else think Beth Ditto looks mad crazy like Madonna during certain sequences in her new video for I Wrote the Book? I do, which can fall right in line with Gagagate and Born This Way blah blah blah I don't care swagger jackers etc etc ...
... just watch the video. This song and big Beth's voice KILL!
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I was browsing Hulu and thing of all the shows that were canceled way too early.
Which shows do you miss?
FireFly(of course)
This could have been an epic show and could have done at least 4 seasons.
The Dresden Files
Initially liked the show but after reading the books it was lacking in comparison. I really wish they had followed the books more closely. It would have made it several seasons and probably have eclipsed Supernatural in popularity.


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Columbus Dispatch Endorses Changes To Ballot Measures After Previous Ballot Failure
The Columbus Dispatch endorsed a proposal to make filing a petition for a referendum harder, only two years after a ballot measure shot down an anti-union law the paper supported.
In 2011, Ohio's Republican majority enacted Senate Bill 5, which drastically restricted [1] the collective bargaining rights of public workers in Ohio. In the aftermath of the bill's passage, a petition was successfully established to get the bill overturned using the referendum process for the following election. The bill was overturned [2] by an overwhelming majority in a victory for Ohio public workers.
The Columbus Dispatch's editorial board came out in favor of the anti-union law, continually reminding readers it supported restricting union's rights. The paper initially took the line that it supported the premise behind the bill but called for a compromise [3] on collective bargaining before the referendum, Issue 2, was established. However, after the deadline to fix the bill passed, the editorial board wrote another editorial in support of Issue 2 [4] and reminded readers the day before [5] the election that it endorsed Issue 2.
Now, two years after the defeat of Issue 2, the editorial board has come out to support a measure [6] that would make it more difficult to get referendums on the ballot. The Dispatch endorsed a recently enacted bill which would limit the amount [7] of time a group has to get an issue on the ballot, giving them only 10 additional days to collect more signatures if the petition is not granted the first time. From the Dispatch [6]:
While one can debate exactly what limits are reasonable, a uniform limit does not violate Ohioans' right to place issues on the ballot, it simply ensures that all are subject to the same rule.
Reasonable limitations on the petition process protect us from chaos.
The bill has been rebuked by several groups including Innovation Ohio [8], the League of Women Voters of Ohio [9] and We Are Ohio, the group that successfully put Issue 2 on the ballot. As the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported [10]:
"[Republican Sen. Bill Seitz,] is like the Wizard of Oz and we are pulling the curtain away," said Dennis Willard, communication director for We Are Ohio. "Nothing is broken. What are they trying to fix? 'Uniformity' is just a code word for 'we don't have anything better to say'."
Supporters of the bill claim that it would promote fairness and uniformity by giving everyone the same time period in which to mount petitions. But, Seitz, who is the sponsor of the bill, admitted [10] he could not cite specific examples of groups unfairly benefitting or suffering under the current law.
The editorial board also failed to disclose that the bill's roots are tied to the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council, which The Columbus Dispatch has been hesitant to make links [11] to previously. According to ALECExposed, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy, Seitz is a co-chair [12] of ALEC's Civil Justice Task Force -- the same ALEC committee that adopted model legislation [13] calling for changing the ballot initiative process and another stating that ballot initiatives [14] were not the ideal means of setting public policy.
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