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UNION COUNTY — The development of a "regional growth framework" for a 14-county region that includes Union County was the goal of an open house sponsored by the Catawba Regional Council of Governments at the Union County Advanced Technology Center Thursday evening.
CONNECT Our Future is an initiative that deals with the future growth of a 14-county region that includes the North Carolina counties of Anson, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Stanly, and Union, and the South Carolina counties of Chester, Lancaster, Union, and York. The region's population — which currently stands at approximately 2.4 million — is projected to grow by 50 percent in 20 years and to double within 40 years and the goal of CONNECT Our Future is to develop plans that will enable the region to successfully cope with and benefit from such growth.
The initiative is being undertaken by the Catawba Regional Council of Governments which serves the South Carolina counties and the Centralia Council of Governments which serves the North Carolina counties. The initiative is a reflection of the economy of the region which is centered on the urban area of Charlotte, N.C., linking it with the ring of suburban communities that includes Rock Hill in South Carolina and Gastonia in North Carolina and rural areas like Union County in South Carolina and Lincoln County in North Carolina. The economic interconnectedness of the region means that all of its constituent counties will be affected by the growth that is expected to occur over the next four decades and officials in both councils of government have undertaken the CONNECT Our Future initiative to solicit public input on how to deal with its impact on the region in the years ahead.
That input is being solicited through a series of events sponsored by the councils of governments, the latest of which was an open house at the Union County Advanced Technology Center. The open house was itself a process in which those in attendance were invited to provide information and to learn about CONNECT Our Future, its background, the need for a plan for the next 40 years, and the process of developing that plan.
"What we're in now is the first phase of the process," Robby Moody, senior planner for Catawba Regional Council of Governments, said. "After they sign-in for the open house, we have a map on which people can place dots representing where they live, work and play."
In addition to this demographic information, one of the information boards that lined the conference room in which the open house was held stated that the first phase of the CONNECT Our Future process is designed to gather information from residents about their community, what they value about it, and the challenges it faces. This information will in turn "be used to develop evaluation criteria for measuring growth options and provide input into the needs of the region."
The open house process began at the map and demographic survey but continued around the room as participants were invited to read the information boards that formed a rough semicircle.
"What someone will do is come through and read the boards at their own pace," Moody said. "The boards provide them with information on the need, the project, and the process."
The boards that provide information on the need look at the impact of population growth on water supply, agricultural land and open space, jobs, transportation infrastructure, and housing.
The boards about the project itself describes CONNECT Our Future as "a three-year process for the 14-county bi-state region in which our communities come together to address problems we share and plan for the growth we face. It is funded by a $4.9 million HUD grant and $3 million in-kind local match already committed by organizations throughout our 14-county bi-state region. We will work together to create a regional growth framework to address the issues we face, and to build on the needs and the plans that already exist in our communities."
Cole McKinney, Geographic Information System director for the Catawba Regional Council of Governments, said that the development of the framework and its availability to the communities of the region is the goal of CONNECT Our Future.
"At the end of the project there will be a regional growth framework," McKinney said. "That's really just a guide as to how we collectively agree to grow.
"The most important part of this is that it is all voluntary," he said. "There is no requirement that the localities incorporate this into their plans. The tools and the directions and all the components that come out of the project will be available to the counties."
The boards dealing with the process explain that it involves input from residents, business people, and elected officials from throughout the region. They also list the next phases of the process, the second of which will take place in mid-2013 with public forums on community growth options; the third, which will take place in late 2013 and early 2014 with public forums on regional growth options; and the fourth, which will take place in mid-to-late 2014 with open houses on the framework for growth.
Once participants have finished reading the information on the boards, they are then asked to fill out a survey — hard copy or online — on what they think is important for the future of their community and the region. The answers provided by participants at Thursday's open house — and at the rest of the 30 open houses being held as part of Phase One — will be the basis for measuring how the region should grow.
For more information on CONNECT Our Future, go online at connectourfuture.org.
Editor Charles Warner can be reached at 864-427-1234, ext. 14, or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Existing home sales to be revised lower
What a joke. All of it. Corruption, collusion, incompetence and fraud. Everywhere. From the Capitol steps to the SEC, CFTC, CME and now the NAR.
We better pass some laws or vote or talk some more before things get out of hand. As long as we continue to vote and pay taxes I'm sure regulators will look into this and clear it all up. Probably just a misunderstanding.
Do you know what "rehypothecation" is? It's when a brokerage (or Fed Primary Dealer such as MF Global) steals or "borrows" client funds to use as collateral to pay back creditors in order of importance beginning with CDS's. Used to be bond holders but that changed in 2005.
If you have a trading account anywhere, be it Ameritrade, Schwab, Scottrade or the late Lind Waldock, your account will be "rehypothecated" to creditors if/when they go bankrupt. Lind Waldock was the #1 commodity broker used by farmers and metal dealers to hedge their crops and businesses. All their money and accounts were and still are frozen. Money is gone and our CME had a job to guarantee funds much like the FDIC does. But they ain't stepping up to the plate either. This is outright theft and collusion which is destroying market credibility and will probably lead to much higher food prices next year as farmers will not hedge anymore but merely price in unforeseen events instead of paper insurance. It's all coming apart whether you know it or not.
Sorry for the mixed post but it's all one big pile of lies, greed and fraud. I celebrate it's exposure.
Existing home sales to be revised lower
By Blake Ellis @CNNMoney December 13, 2011: 6:51 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- If you thought the U.S. housing market couldn't get much worse, think again.
Far fewer homes have been sold over the past five years than previously estimated, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday.
NAR said it plans to downwardly revise sales of previously-owned homes going back to 2007 during the release of its next existing home sales report on Dec. 21.
NAR's existing home sales numbers, released monthly, are a closely followed gauge of the health of the housing market.
While NAR hasn't revealed exactly how big the revision to home sales will be, the agency's chief economist Lawrence Yun said the decrease will be "meaningful."
Really? A brokerage can take the money I have invested and consider it their asset?
Is it all funds, or is it just money I have in my account that is not currently invested in anything?
(Either one is unacceptable, but the 2nd option worries me less.)
Good question Scooterbug. I did not explain it well as my emotions usually overpower my typing speed. As I understand it, rehypothecation is a use of only the cash in your account. The word comes from the hypothetical ownership a broker has over your account. If they "Re-hypothecate" your funds they are re-assigning them to a creditor. Much like a sub-lease but in the MF Global case it's for keeps. Though they weren't a ponzi, they went down like one as Corzine raided all cash accounts.
If you know anyone who had cash in a Lind Waldock (owned by parent company MFG) account, that cash is gone. Postions which were held were transferred to a new brokerage but still frozen. Silver and gold which were held in trust in their vaults was also rehypothecated. Either one should worry you. These are dominoes.
Make no mistake. This was an economic "hit" on commodities in order to stave off a Comex default. Gold/silver are the lynchpin and battleground for currencies. Rule of law has no place in war apparently.
Thanks - IMO this is stealing. Those are not their assets.
Another question - if a bank fails, can it do the same to contents of your safety deposit box?
It is theft indeed. A few well known economists have spoken out that their funds are gone. I know a few people personally as well. This is why I say get out of paper and all counter-party risk. Take the penalty on your 401k and get out. If you can't get out then it never really was your money to begin with was it? 401k's are just another indirect tax and control of dollars. If you don't hold it, you don't own it.
Another good question Scooterbug. SDB's are not FDIC insured. So, do you trust your neighbors or the bank? A tough dilemma. Lead and lead delivery systems make a good deterrent. They shouldn't touch SDB's regardless of what happens however there is precedent for not being able to access yours unless a Fed/IRS representative is present. Just comes down to whether you feel your goods are safer in your possession or you trust the too-big-to-fails and there won't be "bank holiday" in the name of national security and all that entails.
I'm taking advantage of the manipulation buy selling the dollar rally and buying the hard money sale. Before inflation comes the deflation scare. There may be more on the way. Fed has stated their mandate to fight deflation. Deflating now due to Euro worries so there is a panic run into dollars. After dollars turn sour what will be left to store your wealth?
Luckily I do not have a 401K.........or more than $50 in a brokerage account.
Sounds like it is definitely hitting the fan though! Thanks for the update.
Also appreciated the article about how the housing data is completely wrong!
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I believe TNJed is talking about financial brokerages, though this thread is about real estate, so please don't be confused about real estate brokerages taking your account money.
Scooterbug, what TNJed is talking about is no different than the gov't using your money you have in your Social Security account for other things. The gov't likes to call it surplus money.
And, while not trying to scare any artists out there, if you are an artist and you hang your art in a restaurant, hair salon, etc to sell on consignment or for promotion, AND IF the establishment declares bankruptcy, the creditors can take your art as damages, since it is considered as decoration for the business by the gov't. Ain't life just grande?
Now, back to real estate. If you want to keep up with the local real estate, I don't fudge the numbers on my reports which you can find on here or my website.
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Murray is correct. Rehypothecation is a financial brokerage term and has nothing to do with real estate or NAR's 4-years of number fudging. None of this should reflect on our fine local business people. It's just the larger wheel which is coming off. Prepare accordingly. Or don't. C'est la vie!
Whoa! Hold it right there Skippy!...that's some dangerous advice you're bandying about without knowing anything about an individuals' retirement account or background. I know this is a real estate thread, but I hope the folks reading this advice aren't as gullible as the "investulators" who threw the dice and lost the dot.condo game.
What do you know about the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC)?-- judging from your comments--apparently nothing.
To keep this thread Real Estate-centric...the NAR lied?? Gee, who saw that comingBut hey...Top Ramen tastes a whole lot better when you eat it off of a Granite Countertop. (Mr & Mrs Too Much Homebuyer)
Not meaning to jump on this real estate thread but there's some very dangerous and very wrong advice being passed about as truth.
And it ain't.
According to TNJed I should liquidate all IRAs and 401Ks and pay a 10% penalty and 35% tax to protect myself.
IRAs generally can not be set up as margin accounts if used for leverage. The SEC allows some brokerages margin but only to settle a trade. For instance you sold 10K SPY, then bought 10K VBR inside your IRA. Without margin, you would have to wait until the first trade settled before you could purchase anything else.
401K assets can not be loaned either.
Only if you sign a margin agreement can assets be loaned from a non-qualified account either
Plus SIPC insurance goes to 500K and at Pershiing there's an extra 1M.
Most importantly MF Global was doing their own investing. Outfits we use like Scottrade, Shareholders Service Group custody assets for clients, big difference. Probably TD, too.
Liquidating your 401K and IRA would be a 45% bite. It's your money if you want to give it away, knock yourself out.
Buz - I checked my Scottrade agreement and it seems to say that they can rehypothocate at will, but I think that only applies to margin.
It's #61 and #62 on page 7.
Call Scottrade to verify.
Confirm your account's status.
Shelly is of course correct that there is no one single answer for all of us. Many different things to be taken into account for an individual or couple's financial situation. Age, health, cash flow, debt, dependents, etc. I don't expect anyone to read my words and run out and do what I suggest. I do hope people take responsibility for their own investments however and just not assume that it's all being taken care of by government backstops. They don't do a very good job of managing their own not-for-profit businesses, so why would any rational person assume they will handle your private money better?
Think about what Buz said about the fees involved in gaining control over your own money. Yes, that is indeed a steep cost. Why is that? Because, taking money out of the system is akin to pulling the rug out from the fractional reserve model. They don't want to leave that up to chance so many hurdles and fees are put in your way to discourage even the thought. Works pretty good doesn't it?
I am merely of the opinion and belief we are entering a period of time where return of capital is more important than return on capital.
I know enough about SIPC to know it is a government sponsored private corporation who took MFGlobal into receivership and appointed James Giddens as trustee. Giddens firm of Hughes, Hubbard and Reed has also served as house council for SIPC since it's inception in 1970. This trustee has full discretion to freeze all accounts and collect fees with zero oversight. That's a lot of responsibility, freedom and conflict of interest for a government chartered, private corporation to be the entity responsible for accountability on behalf of the public.
I'm not going to expect anyone from within the system to look out for my best interests even though that's exactly what they're supposed to do. In fact, whether it's the church or state, continuity and survival of the system is more important than any 'minor' indiscretions. Whether it's a priest or a CEO gone wild, their betters will convince you there is nothing to see. These blatant conflict of interests directly oppose the systems reason for existence. It's quite a conundrum.
Time will only tell who has a seat when the music stops. My sincere and most humble best wishes to all.
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Election Guide: Prince George's County 2012
A look at the people and questions on the ballot this election year in Prince George's County.
With Election Day drawing near, Patch is devoted to bringing you the information you'll need when you head to the polls on Nov. 6.
The presidential race headlines this year's election, but Maryland voters also face the most significant lineup of ballot questions in memory: Same-sex marriage, congressional redistricting, in-state tuition for undocumented students and an expansion of the state's gambling industry.
Here's our guide on the candidates and issues we'll be covering. Bookmark this page for updates.
Presidential race:
President Barack Obama: Maryland is a reliably Democratic state for presidential candidates. Obama held a fundraiser in Owings Mills on June 12 as well as campaigned in Baltimore with Gov. Martin O'Malley. He visited Towson University for a basketball game in November 2011.
GOP Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney: The former Massachusetts governor visited Maryland in March. Remember the Etch A Sketch comment that continues to be brought up in the waning days of the campaign? That came on the day Romney visited Arbutus. In explaining how the candidate will avoid being pushed too far to the right on the issues during the primaries to capture wide appeal for November's general election, spokesperson Eric Fehrnstrom, in a CNN interview, likened Romney's positions to an Etch A Sketch. "You can kind of shake it up, and we start all over again," he said. Political opponents wasted no time in capitalizing on what was perceived as a misstep. Nonetheless, Romney won the Maryland primary in April.
U.S. Senate:
Sen. Ben Cardin: The incumbent Democrat is seeking a second term in the U.S. Senate. He has shared many of his views in his blog on Patch.
Daniel Bongino: Cardin's Republican opponent is Daniel Bongino of Severna Park. He is a former Secret Service agent.
U.S. House of Representatives, 4th District:
Rep. Donna Edwards (D), Rep. Edwards took Maryland's 4th Congressional seat via a special election in 2008. She serves on the House's Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and Science and Technology Committee. In this year's campaign, she has won endorsements from The Gazette and The Washington Post.
Faith Loudon (R), Faith Loudon has been a community and political activist for 30 years. She was the Republican party's Woman of the Year for Maryland in 2010. She lives in Severna Park.
U.S. House of Representatives, 5th District:
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D), Rep. Hoyer is serving his 14th term in Congress. In November 2006, Hoyer was elected by his colleagues in the Democratic Caucus to serve as House Majority Leader in the 110th Congress. His election as Majority Leader - which is the second-highest position in the House - makes him the highest-ranking Member of Congress from Maryland. Issues of concern include: education, energy, environment, equal pay, healthcare, jobs, economy, small business, transportation, and veterans.
Rep. Tony O'Donnell (R), In 1994, Rep. O'Donnell was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates representing District 29-C. Since that time O'Donnell has served in leadership positions including serving as the Maryland House Minority Leader and is a member of the House Environmental Matters Committee. Issues of concern include: reforming entitlements and the tax code; ending the fraud, waste and abuse; balancing the budget; American energy policy; regulatory reform; healthcare reform; immigration reform; traditional marriage; and education reform.
The Nov. 6 ballot features seven statewide questions and seven specific to Prince George's County, plus the renewal of a state appeals court judge.
Question 4: The Maryland "Dream Act"
The Dream Act would allow illegal immigrant students to pay in-state tuition at institutions in the University System of Maryland if their parents filed to pay state taxes, if they graduated from a Maryland high school after attending for at least three years and if they graduated. Passed by the General Assembly in 2011, opponents launched a petition effort that blocked the legislation from taking effect and landed it on the 2012 ballot as a voter referendum.
In the summer, Dream Act supporters joined forces with same-sex marriage advocates to campaign for both issues. http://montgomeryvillage.patch.com/articles/familia-will-be-focus-of-push-for-dream-act-and-gay-marriage
A yes vote on Question 4 would allow qualifying undocumented students to pay in-state tuition.
Question 5: Congressional Redistricting
Gov. O'Malley's plan for redrawing Maryland's eight congressional districts according to the 2010 Census—passed during a General Assembly special session last fall—fanned partisan flames and upset minority advocates but survived a court challenge that claimed the map violated the federal Voting Rights Act.
In July, critics collected enough signatures to put the redistricting plan on the November ballot. County and state Democrats and the NAACP also have criticized the redistricting map, claiming that the redrawn districts dilute the voting power of racial and ethnic minority groups.
If voters reject the plan, the districts will have to be redrawn in time for the 2014 election. Democrats currently hold six of the state's eight congressional seats.
One of the most significant changes was the inclusion of large parts of northern and western Montgomery County in the 6th District. U.S. Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett (R) of Buckeystown has held the 6th District seat for 10 terms. The inclusion of Montgomery County, where Democrats enjoy a significant voter registration advantage, is seen as a challenge to Bartlett.
A yes vote on Question 5 would maintain the redrawn districts. A no vote would require state lawmakers to redraw the districts in time for the 2014 elections.
Question 6: The Civil Marriage Protection Act
On March 1, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed into law a bill allowing same-sex couples to wed in Maryland. Despite celebrations from supporters, opponents in May of same-sex marriage turned in about twice the number of signatures they needed to send the law to referendum in November. Supporters of same-sex marriage such as Equality Maryland mobilized support, canvassing and holding public events. Groups that oppose same-sex marriage, including the Maryland Marriage Alliance, http://www.marylandmarriagealliance.org/ solicited support and raised funds.
A yes vote on Question 6 would allow same-sex marriages in Maryland starting in 2013.
Question 7: Gambling expansion
Legislation passed in the 2012 special session would allow table games such as poker and black jack at Maryland's five casinos and allow a sixth casino. That sixth casino would be in Prince George's County if a majority of Prince George's voters approve Question 7. The measure would also increase the number of video lottery terminals from 15,000 to 16,500.
Democratic party leaders say the move will correct the mistake of limiting casinos to only slot machines when gambling was allowed in the 2008 referendum, while opponents argue that there is no guarantee that the $200 million expected to be generated will actually end up in the state education fund.
Want to know all the facts and who said what about Q7 before you vote? Check out our primer.
A yes vote for Question 7 would allow a sixth casino, the introduction of table games and the increase to video terminals.
*Questions 1 and 2: Require judges in the orphans' courts for Prince George's and Baltimore counties, respectively, to have practiced law in Maryland before taking the bench.
*Question 3: Remove elected officials from public office when they are found guilty or plead no contest to a criminal charge, rather than waiting until sentencing. The state Senate and House had passed the law unanimously.
*Question 8 asks whether to renew Stuart R. Berger for a 10-year on the state Court of Appeals, the state's second-highest court.
Countywide Questions
Question A would enact the Census-based redrawing for the County Council districts via a public hearing and council resolution.
Question B would amend the county's procedure for approving of multiyear contracts.
Questions C through G would allow the county to borrow money and issue bonds to pay for the design, construction, expansion, renovation or repair of county properties by as much as the following amounts:
- Libraries: $45.1 million
- County government buildings: $75.8 million
- Public Safety Facilities: $156.3 million
- Public Works and Transportation Facilities: $193.3 million
- Community College Facilities Bonds: $156 million
5:32 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Stop spreading the lies about question 4.
"if their parents filed to pay state taxes" is a LIE. All they need to do is file a return, NOT pay taxes.
Read the bill and it states this very clearly. In fact, the word "withhold" is actually crossed out. And the sentence "had Md. tax withheld" is also crossed out.
Dorothy Ginter
9:29 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
There's another place to get more information about the election in Prince George's County: unbiased information with answers to questions about issues from the League of Women Voters to the candidates, and more information, both pro and con, about all the ballot questions, both Maryland's and local Prince George's County. It's at lwvmd.org or pg1.lwvmd.org and click on the 2012 General Election Voters' Guides--Prince George's County.
Dorothy Ginter,
LWV in Prince George's County
3:02 am on Monday, November 5, 2012
Make a special note to remember to watch the Free and Equal Election Debate between third party candidates, Gov. Gary Johnson and Dr. Jill Stein to be aired tonight on Monday evening, Nov. 5th from 9:00 - 10:30 pm Eastern Time. Perform a worthwhile civic duty, and be certain to listen in on this historic debate so that you can make an informed decision on voting day. Third party candidates who will be on the ballot in most states deserve to be heard.
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Make a special note to watch the Free and Equal Election Debate between third party Presidential candidates, Gov. Gary Johnson (Libertarian) and Dr. Jill Stein (Green), to be aired tonight on Monday evening, Nov. 5th from 9:00 - 10:30 pm Eastern Time. Perform a worthwhile civic duty, and be certain to listen in on this historic debate so that you can make an informed decision on voting day. Third party candidates who will be on the ballot in most states deserve to be heard.


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Automation, control, and instrumentation shows, events, conferences, and training in 2013, include:
International Web Handling Conference, IWEB 2013, June 2-5, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Okla., http://iweb.okstate.edu
Sensors Expo, Rosemont, Ill. (near Chicago), June 4-6 www.sensorsexpo.com
NFPA Conference and Expo, June 10-13, Chicago www.nfpa.org/conference
RSTechED (Rockwell Automation), San Diego, Calif., June 9-14 www.RSTechED.com
1st International Mobile Machine Control (MMC) conference, June 12 and 13, Nuremberg, Germany www.can-cia.org
Siemens Summit, New Orleans, June 24-27 www.usa.siemens.com/summit
NIWeek (National Instruments), Aug. 5-8, Austin, TX www.niweek.com
Pack Expo, Sept. 23-25, Las Vegas, www.packexpo.com
Emerson Exchange 2013, Sept. 30-Oct. 4, Grapevine, Texas www.emersonexchange.org
25th National Robot Safety Conference, Oct. 14-16, Indianapolis, Ind. www.robotics.org/events
ISA Automation Week, Oct. 18-24 www.isa.org/events
Solar Power International, Oct. 21-24, Anaheim, Calif. www.solarpowerinternational.com
AutomationFair (Rockwell Automation), Nov. 13-14, Houston www.automationfair.com
SPS/IPC Drives, Nov. 26-28 SPS/IPC Drives, Nov. 26-28, Nuremberg, Germany www.mesago.de/en/SPS/
Industrial Automation Show 2013, Shanghai, Nov. 5-9 www.industrial-automation-show.com
European Robotics Week 2013, Nov. 25-Dec. 1
Chem Show, Dec. 10-12, New York www.chemshow.com
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Past shows, previously listed above, are shown below.
ProMat, Jan. 20-24, Chicago www.promatshow.com
Automate 2013, Jan. 21-24, Chicago www.automate2013.com
ARC World Forum, Feb. 11-14, Orlando www.arcweb.com
SANS North American ICS & SCADA Summit, Feb. 6-15, Lake Buena Vista, Fla. www.sans.org/event/north-american-scada-2013
ATX West, Feb. 12-14, Anaheim, Calif. www.atxwest.com
Engineers Week 2013, Feb. 17-23 www.eweek.org
Robotics Industry Forum, AIA Business Conference, Feb. 20-22, Orlando www.robotics.org/events
ROS-Industrial Consortium meeting on new capabilities and innovation in industrial robotics, March 6,7, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas http://rosindustrial.org/ric/events.htm
Fieldbus Foundation 2013 General Assembly, Shanghai, China, March 12-15. www.fieldbus.org
SANS 2013, March 8-15, Orlando, Fla. www.sans.org/event/sans-2013
ABB Automation & Power World, March 25-28, Orlando www.abb.com/apworld
Hannover Messe (Hannover Fair), April 8-12, Hannover, Germany www.hannovermesse.com
Invensys 2013 North American Conference, April 22-24, Greenville, S.C. http://iom.invensys.com/EN/Pages/IOM_Events.aspx
ESC Design West, April 22-25, San Jose, Calif. www.ubmdesign.com
Interphex, April 23-25, New York www.interphex.com
CSIA Executive Conference, May 1-4, St. Petersburg, Fla. www.controlsys.org
Windpower, May 5-8, Chicago www.windpowerexpo.org/2013
OPC Day Europe, The Netherlands, May 15, 16, www.opcfoundation-events.com
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She Touched My Heart (Fall 2003)
Almost every night, those first 3 to 4 weeks of college in September of 2003, was very lonely for me. I lived in a dorm room on campus alone, which I liked but on the down side it gave me time to be "in my head." I would think to myself, "I am 34 years old, and I have nothing!! I have 4 suitcases of hand me down clothes from the early 90's!" I had been clean from drugs and alcohol for the majority of those 3 years, except for a 4 day binge in summer of 2002 which caused me to go BACK to the program. I had some valid questions going through my head, questions like, "is this worth it?" "What is going back to school going to accomplish?" "Why should I stick it out?" "If I choose to stick it out I will be in school for many years ahead of me." "When will my life begin?" I knew my parents were happy that I was well and in school, but how did they REALLY feel? I'm sure they were crushed! Imagine this, who has a child and pictures this child to be addicted to drugs into their adult years only to overdose and end up in rehab? No parent EVER thinks of this, EVER! They all have high hopes and do the best they know how from what was passed down to them. I also had thoughts like, "what women would ever be interested in a man like me?" I had nothing to offer but my heart. Those long nights staying up and thinking of my past and trying to piece together a future were long and lonely. During the day it was great, college students everywhere, classes from 7am to 3pm, I worked from 4pm to 11pm…but I will tell you, form 1130pm to 430am it was a battle within my head and heart, wrestling with God begging Him to reveal my future, and, it happened. In His perfect timing after being in college for 4 weeks, the woman that caught my eyes 2 months prior who I FOR SURE thought was either married, engaged, or in a serious relationship on her way to get married, was working in the Café that night. After her work tasks were accomplished and the Café had slowed down around 8pm at night she sat next to me and was actually interested in talking to me! I was off that night doing school work. She opened up and shared her life with me, her passions, her interests etc. I could not believe it, she was NOT married, engaged, or in a serious relationship on her way to get married, she was in the same place I was, NOT LOOKING. Perhaps we were both at the right place at the right time, only by God's perfect timing!! I knew something special was happening, my heart was pounding, and I knew in those 2 hours of us talking my guards were going down. There was something authentic, raw, and organic about her. What it was, was the fact that she was speaking to me at a very deep level not just from a surface "hey what's up" level, but a deep meaningful place called, her heart. She spoke to me from her heart and it captured mine. Little did I know 10 years ago this September I would be married to this incredible woman named Angela!!! The Lord placed Angela in my path and in my heart 3 times prior to that night. In my pride I rejected Angela because I was scared. The fact is, that God was allowing me to experience a loving healthy relationship for the first time in my life and I was scared. Never did I have a healthy relationship prior to this, how could I? I was on cocaine and drunk every night. Those lonely nights in my dorm room ended. I had a friend who I can call at night who would listen to my pain, a friend that would stay up with me all night on the phone just to hear my story. She was there for me from the beginning. The Lord allowed her to find that key that I had hidden for over 3 decades, the key that opened up the vault to my heart, Angela found and opened it. It was a new sensation, a new journey; I was falling in love, REAL LOVE.
Reading, writing, understanding Greek (2003)
It is humbling to think 13 years ago I was entering a program for a 19 year cocaine addiction and today I am starting a nonprofit organization and seeking qualification for 501(c) (3) status to help others with their own personal journey of drug addiction. I cannot lie, it has been a hard road until now and this is just the beginning. The journey, my story, is not over; it is only a different chapter. I remember leaving Chicago where my family and friends were. It is there where my roots were grounded. The Greek culture was and still is engraved in my heart. I am blessed to be able to read, write, and speak Modern Greek, but other than my family back home and some friends that I speak on occasions, I really do not speak Greek that often anymore. I came into a whole different culture where everything was different for me. When the professors in undergraduate school (2003-2004) used words I was not familiar with I remember trying to translate (in my head) in Greek first so I could take good notes, that did not work because by the time I figured out what they were saying it was too late, they had moved on to a different subject. I felt like I had a learning disability, like I was dyslexic. When people talked to me using unfamiliar words my response was delayed, so you can imagine how the other person could have thought, "Wow his brain is fried from drugs" and some even teased me about that. I mean did they think THAT would hurt my feelings? It disappointed me at how shallow they were but I was the one feeling sorry for them. Little did they know what the truth really was? Today it is much different. I do not have to pause any longer, I respond quickly but the sad thing is I miss my Greek culture. I miss having to pause to "think" in Greek about what is being said to me. Does this mean I have lost my deep-rooted Greek culture? Absolutely not! It only means I have grown. I have matured. I have been speaking with many Greeks from Chicago these last two years and they ask me, according to our conversations in Greek, "from what part of Greece are you from?" When I tell them I am American-Greek from Chicago they complement my Greek.
Anyway, my initial plan was to go to school for one year and return to Transformation Life Center (the program that's saved me from drugs and alcohol), work there, live there and pursue a Master's degree in Counseling from a university in NY. I already had a BS in Business Administration but I needed to "brush up" on how to read and study. I remember barely getting my college degree back then from DeVry. I wasn't studious. So I decide that I needed to go back one year, get a one Year Bible degree, I was fascinated with what the Bible had to say, and then come back to TLC. After one month I realized that "there is no way I can receive a Master's degree with the way I process things in Greek, in my head, and how I am having such a difficult time understanding people. So I stayed 4 years and received my 2nd Bachelro's degree. In the beginning I wrestled with God's idea about me staying in college at the age of 34 for 4 years!! But like always God wins, here I am 10 years later, with a master's degree, completed my doctoral courses working on my dissertation.
The first year away from the program TLC was not easy but it was a blessed one. I met my wife to be!!!
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Visiting Meigs forced five turnovers and racked up a season-high 410 yards of total offense Friday night, as the Marauders ruined opening night festivities at the new River Valley athletic facility following a 46-18 decision in a Week 3 non-conference football contest in Gallia County.
The Marauders (1-2) handed first-year frontman Mike Bartrum his first-ever varsity coaching victory, and do so in dominant fashion after leading wire-to-wire in the contest. Meigs led 12-0 after one quarter and took an 18-6 edge into halftime before outscoring the Raiders (1-2) by a 28-12 clip in the second half, giving MHS its ninth straight decision over the hosts.
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Burt added his second rushing TD and the final score of the night with 3:58 remaining, plunging in from three yards out to wrap up four-play, 37-yard drive that brought the game to its 46-18 finale.
River Valley committed all five turnovers in the contest, including three fumbles and two interceptions. The Raiders, however, did manage a small 22-21 edge in first downs on the night.
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We have fewer lame-o wins than anyone! Except Georgia! Pat Forde scours the ten winningest programs in college football history to find the out how many of those wins have been run up against East York Veterinary School. Michigan's docket:
Michigan (19). Total wins: 900. Junk wins: 57 (at least). Percentage of all-time wins that are junk: 6.3. Persistent pigeon: Case Institute of Technology (Ohio), 26-0-1 record. Scheduled junk win that turned into a bad loss: Cleveland AA 8, Michigan 4. What, you were expecting Appalachian State? (Since the game was played in 1891, the AA is not believed to be Alcoholics Anonymous.)
That's actually fewer than anyone in the top ten save Georgia, though Georgia did lose to an empty patch of grass in 1943. The worst offender is USC, with 102 Doris Beautician School beatdowns.
Meanwhile… 8-4, huh? Sounds preview-licious. If only I had known about this Cleveland AA game before Michigan played State.
Is that an axe between your legs or are you just happy to see me? Oh, it's actually an axe.
Via Heiko and his insatiable appetite for panoramic photos. Larger version.
Get there. All weeks are championship weeks:
"Probably just as much as you guys are thinking in your heads," Mealer said. "As much as you guys have been hearing it, we hear it even more. And for you guys, it's probably overbearing and redundant and things like that -- I'm sure, because I can see all the smiles when I brought it up -- but for us, that's why you come to Michigan.
"For us players, it's not redundant, it's not, 'OK we get it.' It's, 'Remember last year? We lost a game here, we lost a game there, and we kept ourselves out of that game.' So we accept the constant reminder of it."
Mealer said there's a picture of the Big Ten championship trophy in the team's Schembechler Hall meeting room. There are roses painted on the walls, a not-so-subtle reminder of the bowl that awaits the league's champion.
This one maybe a little more than most.
I'm not sure I can do this any longer, @umichcompliance. I started following Michigan's compliance feed for some reason. Maybe I needed more dry statements of things I can't do and have never even thought of doing in my life.
It's been a passionate affair so far, but I'm not sure if I can deal with the mindboggle on the regular. To wit:
Michigan Compliance
@umichcomplianceThe NCAA prohibits the sale of any item with the name, picture or autograph of a currently enrolled student-athlete.
That seems like a pretty reasonable restrict—
Let's not forget, Dude—that keeping pictures… uh… items with the name, picture, or autograph of a currently enrolled student-athlete… on, uh, your official, you know, website… that ain't legal.
Burkhead may not play. Sounds like Nebraska tailback Rex Burkhead may sit out Saturday after tweaking an ACL sprain last weekend:
Huskers coach Bo Pelini said this aggravation isn't as bad as the one in the Ohio State game, but the repeated issues have him inclined to rest Burkhead for a week. Pelini said Burkhead is day to day and has improved since Saturday.
"He felt really good going into the [Northwestern] game, didn't have any issues in practice," Pelini said. "He's frustrated and obviously disappointed he's had to deal with it. It's been too bad."
Backup/co-starter Ameer Abdullah hasn't ben much of a drop-off: he's averaging almost 6 yards a carry on 86 attempts, with impressive output in the three Big Ten games he's played in—5.5 YPC. He's faster than Burkhead, albeit slighter. Former top 100 recruit Braylon Heard should also get some carries.
Also in Nebraska, reviews of their latest game.
Pitch perfect. The MZone is actually written by Stephen Colbert.
"Nation, I've always been a big fan of Michigan State football coach and scowling man most likely to tell kids to get the hell off his lawn, Mark Dantonio. His enduring sportsmanship, like getting into public feuds with 21 year old college kids by mocking their height, along with always looking out for the health and best interests of his players, evidenced by holding them out at least two plays when they get an on-field concussion, have made him a role model Spartan fans can be proud of before, during and after the burning of their couches."
Fourth line FTW. The top takeaway from Friday's one-off hockey game against Bentley was the fantastic play of what was nominally the fourth line of Andrew Copp, Zach Hyman, and Justin Selman. They scored twice, dominated play when on the ice, and must have locked themselves into additional playing time as Michigan kicks off their final CCHA campaign against Miami:
The line of Hyman, Copp and Selman has "really given our team a life," according to Michigan coach Red Berenson.
"He told us what we needed to do to have a good week in practice," Selman said. "He was making sure every day we were going as hard as we could. We kind of worked off what he was doing and followed in his footsteps.
Copp came from the same lineage as Danny Fardig—the guy on the USA NTDP roster who bounces from the U17s to U18s to fill in on the fourth line and never score—but has shown some soft hands early. Hyman played with a high energy level, as well. I haven't seen Selman enough to really get a read on him yet, but the line's performance speaks for itself.
Clare will return to the lineup against Miami, BTW. Mike Szuma was okay as a sixth defenseman on Friday. Michigan Hockey Net has a Bentley recap.
Siberia also FTW. Preds winger Sergei Kostitsyn is spending the lockout playing in Siberia. This is what Siberia looks like. In May.
Kostitsyn, 25, who joined the Predators from the Montreal Canadiens in June 2010, also said he hated life in North America and labelled Columbus "the gloomiest" city in the States.
Unfortunately, he could not continue ripping on Columbus because Omsk was invaded by thousands of red plastic figures at that very moment.
Thinking alike. BWS picture-paged the zero-yard Denard run that featured as an exemplar of Michigan State going ape on run plays in the just-posted edition on this site. Yeesh:
I think the only deep ball in this game was out of an I-Form to a double-covered Jeremy Jackson. Gotta loosen those guys up—yeah, you might turn the ball over if you bomb it deep but if you're just punting in three plays anyway…
How Purdoed it. Doesn't work as well as "Purdon't," I guess, and is equally dumb. Anyway, Ross Fulton's latest breakdown of the Ohio State offense is even more interesting than normal since it deals with topics often found here in the aftermath of OSU's extensive struggles against the Purdue defense. Purdue loaded up to stop Miller, won a lot of battles on the line of scrimmage, and OSU could not punish Purdue cheating off the slot receivers. This sounds awfully familiar:
The Buckeye passing game was perhaps most successful when OSU could get their hurry-up offense going and catch Purdue in uncertainty. This led to the second Buckeye touchdown. But all too often Ohio State missed available opportunities. For instance, Devin Smith several times had man coverage beat. If Braxton simply leads him to the corner and lets him run under it, it was a potential touchdown.
More acutely, Ohio State was not able to punish Purdue for cheating off their slot receivers. It was not simply for a lack of trying. Miller sailed one bubble screen over Corey Brown's head. On the clip above, he held the ball a second too long, allowing the Purdue corner to make a nice play. But other times it appeared clear opportunities were available that OSU did not take advantage of. Traditionally, this has been an automatic check with Meyer and Herman. The offense will continue running the pre-called play but the QB will simply pull and throw the football. Perhaps Meyer & Co have not yet given Miller the ability to do so. But by allowing alley players to cheat into the box, a spread offense quickly loses the numbers advantage it gains from the QB run threat.
That's how you end up with 100 yards at halftime against Purdue. OSU started bashing straight ahead A-gap power from the pistol and running their veer a gap inside the crashing LBs, but Miller's exit cut their response short.
Hey hey!
OSU must find more consistent ways to punish a defense that cheats alley defenders. Whether it is with wide receiver screens or bootlegs, OSU cannot allow a defense that much free rein. OSU must not also let opposing defenses dissuade them from sticking to what they do well. Though this is somewhat counter to the previous point, I believe they work together. The Buckeyes must continue to work to establish their base run game and then use play-action to exploit an opposing defense.
This mindmeld thing is creeping me out.
Etc.: Hero police robot back on duty after 'unstable man' blasts it with shotgun. You will be surprised to know this happened in Nebraska, not Detroit, home of police robots. [HT: Corn Nation.] RAWK HELICOPTER FLYOVER. Mmmmm… Dwayne Bacon. Hundred Level video released. O'Bannon lawsuit update. [HT: Get the Picture.] Getting our mean on at MNB. Nebraska equals points. OSU adds an Oregon home and home to their far future.
Michigan Museday Pulls Bazooka
Shouldn't Spock be in this?
Hi. Me. Back. So before that much-appreciated vacation, I used this space to talk about constraint theory of offense and provide a rock-paper-scissors matrix for offensive/defensive play calling in various offenses. Today I'm on to Part III, the one where I tell you that Rock-Paper-Scissors is only a fraction of the football head game, because the actual decision trees are far too complicated for even a coach to play all of the interactions, let alone teach them. Moreover, unlike in RPS, or super-advanced-nuclear-capable-canid RPS, there are levels to things: scissors cuts paper better than it cuts (but still cuts) woven kevlar.
Rock-Paper-Scissors is a game you learn to play on the bus ride to school in 2nd grade or thereabouts. It is a very simple, 2-dimensional, triangular matrix:
…meaning every point interacts with every other. It's one dimension past a coin flip but you still only need to remember three interactions (yellow lines). Based on your personal capacity for testing the limits of social institutions, you either very quickly or eventually tried to insert an additional dimension to the triangular matrix, and realized that you were exponentially increasing the amount of interactions you had to remember.
Your 2nd grade mind didn't draw this; it just exploded the same way it might if you interlaced Grbac to Howard, Wangler to Carter and Robinson to Roundtree into the same video. Then it came up with a brilliant way to add a point without adding dimensions:
Bazooka!!! Bazooka blows up rock. Bazooka turns scissors into mangled slag. Bazooka leaves only scant streaks of carbon where once was paper. This idea is not totally silly, since defensive coordinators call bazooka like all. the. time.
Bazooka = Vanilla
Just as the offense wants to get really good at one basic thing and then do that thing all the time, many defenses are deploying the same concept. It's a bit harder for them because they have to react to various offenses on the schedule and various plays, but the concept's the same: the defense wants to stay in a scheme that is basically sound, and will mix in blitzes and different coverages as constraints, so that they can keep running their well-practiced, mostly sound blanket defense. Bazooka is a jack of all trades, solid against the run, solid against the pass, solid against tomfoolery, and vulnerable only to great offensive play and their own physical/mental limitations.
Defenses are a bit more varied than offenses but the most popular vanilla D these days, as I mentioned in the earlier discussions, is a Cover-2 zone (above-left) against run-first teams, or the Tampa 2 against pass-ier teams (above-right).
The difference between those two is in the MLB's coverage duties—in a Tampa he has the deep middle, in a regular Cover 2 he has the short middle and can be more involved in the run game. Everybody, including the cornerbacks, are hovering around close enough to gang-attack running plays like a pincer; and soft spots in the zone (everyone has them) are relatively small and difficult for non-accurate quarterbacks.
If these guys are all reacting correctly and aggressively to the run, if the cover guys are fast enough to close their zones, and the four rushers can generate pressure with regularity, this defense can bazooka anybody's rock, paper, scissors, candle, Vulcan, or whatever. Of course that is way easier said than done—remember offenses are recruiting, training, practicing, and designed for attacking this scheme.
Offensive rock is made to beat defensive bazooka. I want you to look at the above and imagine various offenses succeeding against them. ISO running forces the linebackers to read run, read the hole, and get there in time to take out a lead blocker and lead runner who by design are getting there ASAP. West Coast passing lives in those soft spots under and between the coverage. Air Raids attempt to warp the zones into providing bigger holes by flooding and stretching them. Option running makes a balanced coverage into an effective numbers advantage for the offense at the point of attack. Vanilla defense is made to stop whatever's thrown their way, and offenses gain success by making Mr. Jack-of-All die a consistent bleeding death.
To see vanilla defense in action throw a dart at any recording of Iowa in the last 12 years; their M.O. is to stick to this maniacally. The converse in-conference would be Michigan State. On the way home from Europe this weekend I randomly sat next to MSU LB Chris Norman. Other than "Wisconsin's offense was way tougher than any of the SEC teams," and "lol Michigan's uniforms last year," Norman happily admitted "YAARRGGH SPARTY SMASH!!" is the coaches' favorite blitz, and that they'll run it or something like it more than any other play. Some teams like paper.
So there are exceptions but the exceptions can be beat with your properly executed scissors. The point remains that all matrices aside, much about football comes down to defeating your opponent's bazooka, or vanilla thing, or "rock" defense with your rock. If you recognize this particular bit of wisdom from DeBordian philosophy, well yes in this DeBord is absolutely right. But if you don't properly mix in your constraints, and you always run rock to the same spot/guy out of the same formation, and you shuffle your fullba…uh let's not go there.
Next time (last one? I think it is but I keep stretching these): What's Our Rock?
Michigan Museday in Rock, Paper, Scissors
This is a follow up to to Doctor Rocklove a few weeks ago, where I identified the influence of offensive sets on philosophies. If you're not familiar with offensive theory you should go back and read that. If you're a football coach you are welcome to pinch the bridge of your nose and shake your head, for this is only going to cover about 20 percent of what you know to be the basics of offensive football.
The point today is to look at some of the base plays of various offenses, and a few of the constraint plays that they use to counter, and what defenses do to counter that. In doing so I hope to find stumble upon a better explanation of Borgesian offensive theory than the "grab bag" this space has previously suggested.
That Thing You Do
You've probably read enough college football boilerplate by now to have heard a coach talk about "what we'd like to do." This does not have to mean one play, but it often means one concept—very much like a play—which the team will be able to execute to perfection against the defense they want to see. That play is usually going to be low-risk, and if executed flawlessly against the vanilla defense it's built to beat, it will gain a consistent 5 to 7 yards. It can be run out of many formations, and you will practice it a thousand million times until you are sure it will work every time unless the opposition "cheats" to beat it.
For Vince Lombardi it was the sweep. For Wisconsin (and virtually every high school in our division in the late-'90s) it was the ISO. It could be the Triple-Option (Bo), or the Zone Read (Rodriguez), or Hitch-n-Out (Walsh) or Levels (Peyton Manning's favorite), or 62 mesh (Captain Leachbeard). With passing offenses, which is Borges's thing, it's important to note that the core concept itself can often be a package of plays which work off of each other, none particularly favored; for running the same concept will vary where on the line it will attack.
You can go crazy for your core concept. You can practice it incessantly. You can recruit players whose skills best fit what they're supposed to do on that play. You can even focus physical training on developing muscles that are used on that play. The better you are at that play—and this is a sliding scale—the more the defense has to move someone or do something to "adjust" to you. But this is a zero-sum game, so if you're moving a defender to stop the base play, he's no longer doing the thing he was doing before. He is making something else way easier than it should be. He'll do this anyway, until you make him pay.
Constraint Theory of Offense and RPS
What you choose as your core play or concept will determine much about the other things your offense does, because now you add plays to punish defenses for adjusting to your base play. That's what coaches mean by "constraint"—you are constraining the level to which the defense can react to your bread and butter. What you are essentially doing is creating an environment in which you get to run your core play, which you've practiced more than any other play, exactly how you drew it up as much as you can.
Certain concepts are almost always constraints because they won't work against vanilla defenses. Delayed handoffs work because the defensive line is closing on the quarterback as if it's a pass play. Halfback screens work well against blitzes but if a linebacker is in man on the running back, a vanilla defensive concept, you're screwed.
Defensive wins in rock, paper, scissors are rare and lucky guesses; usually a D's successes come from outstanding execution of a vanilla defense, for example if the nose tackle shoots past a playside block and forces a pitch on a speed option (as if that could happen).
Defenses have constraints too but theirs are limited by the offense's greatest advantage: whoever has the ball chooses the play (the D's advantage is so much more can go wrong with offensive execution). Defensive constraints translated to boilerplate sound like "we took away the run and made Denard beat us through the air." What they mean is the defense was cheating against the offense's base play all game but leaving themselves more open to the constraint plays, betting on poorer execution by the offense.
Dantonio last year sent two blitzing linebackers up the middle on many occasions, taking away Michigan's bread 'n butter play "Denard-'n-stuff." This forced Michigan into our constraint, which was targeting open receivers in short zones, but then Dantonio took this away by having safeties replace the blitzing LBs. This opened up another constraint by making deep coverage completely up to the cornerbacks, but then a trash tornado covered that constraint for them.
What the constraint theory does for playcalling is create a kind of matrix of offensive adjustments to defensive adjustments and adjustments to those adjustments. For a typical varsity high school team that matrix is probably 20 plays, and for college football it's more complex, and in the NFL the adjustments are so myriad and subtle I'd have an easier time teaching EMI/RMI shielding (it sounds hard).
Because the shades of gray in such a big decision matrix make for convoluted understanding, I've tried to (over-)condense the basic constraints of four basic offenses. There is way, way more but these are a few of the constraint packages that Michigan used last year.
Offensive Concept: I'm bigger, faster and stronger than you are, so I'm gonna hit you so hard your momma cries, then evoke masculine metaphors.
Defensive Concept: Control the point of contact, win 1st down, never let the train leave the station.
Offense | Defense | |
Rock | Man-on-man blocking, backs hit 2nd level at full speed running vertically. Repeated success quickly tires defenders, especially if the backs are regularly hitting defensive backs, and sets up soul-crushing play-action. | Read and react. Have LBs who can react quickly to the right hole (5-2, 4-3 under, 3-4), or b) have superior DL beat their blocks while the LBs maintain their gaps (4-3). Zone behind that so CBs can pincer. |
Paper | Prey on the reacting linebackers by running play action, then rolling the pocket away from the point of attack and passing deep. | Blitz their favorite gaps. The point is to control where the point of contact occurs, so the sooner that happens, the sooner one of them will take out the lead blocker, and the sooner the ballcarrier is tackled. |
Scissors | Screens, draws, and quick, short passes to curl and out routes to take advantage of corners' fears of something deep. | Back off into safe coverage--these days it's cover 2 man, meaning the cornerbacks are in man on WRs with safety help over the top. This takes the CBs out of run support but any pass deep is into double-coverage. |
Timed Passing (West Coast)
Offensive Concept: A symphony of route design and timing that puts defenses into a progression of impossible choices.
Defensive Concept: Throw off your timing, suffocate your routes, kill your conductor.
Offense | Defense | |
Rock | Quick routes by receivers and RBs that make a zone defender commit to one guy, then hit the other guy before another defender can come up. | Cover-2, and faster, smarter zone defenders who pass off receivers seamlessly, so that the O has to check down to nothing, throw into a super-tight window, or just runs out of time before the pass rush gets home. |
Paper | Run the ball with power, delayed handoffs and screens. Once the defense is thoughtlessly stepping backwards when the QB is, they're no longer able to react to something as basic as a RB and his convoy pointed downhill. | Zone blitz, i.e. drop DL into coverage while random LBs and safeties blitz or squat in short zones. Reads and blocking are much more difficult, and small windows become no windows. |
Scissors | Throw "hot" into the pressure, with pre-arranged hot (post-snap) reads that both the QB and his receivers make. | Levels/Robber. Drop back in a 3-deep zone while rushing 5 (often the SLB/nickel). Robber reacts to runs/screens or replaces guy who blitzed for instant pick/scared QB. |
Read Passing (Air Raid, Pro)
Offensive Concept: Spread, mesh, read, and gun, so on any given play, at any spot on the field, we can put it where you ain't.
Defensive Concept: Anywhere you can get, I can get faster
Offense | Defense | |
Rock | Spread to pass. The O-line is spread to basically neutralize line play (DL will break through eventually but seldom right away). Receivers run "mesh" routes against each other, then cut off their routes when they've recognized the D in order to find soft spots in the zone. | Cover-3 zone, trusting your LBs to intelligently route receivers and react and trusting the QB and WRs can't connect on all of their 7-yard passes and that soft spots are small. |
Dynamite with a cut-able wick | Curls, and/or bubble screen whenever the defense is obviously backing off. Dana Holgorsen has altered this to delayed handoffs and screens by using two RBs and putting one in motion to simulate the spread. | 3-5-3. The Air Raid threatens the whole field to open up the easy passes off of two crossing routes, so forget pass rushing and clog up the middle. |
Scissors | (This is just mean) Four Verts: suddenly the deep receiver is no longer just a quick glance to keep you honest but a high-low with the seam. | Press man coverage/blitz up the middle. |
Option (Triple-Option, Zone Read)
Offensive Concept: Reverse the traditional 7-on-6 "numbers" advantage of the defense in the running game (i.e. their front 7 versus 5 OL and a running back) by having the quarterback participate, and "blocking" an edge defender by optioning off of him instead of wasting a body.
Defensive Concept: The cat has more patience than the mouse.
Offense | Defense | |
Rock | Isolate an unblocked front-7 defender against the QB and another accessible option he can go to once the defender commits. | Change up the edge attack so the QB is reading the wrong guy or walking into a trap. Scrape exchange, slant the DL, etc. |
Paper | Fake the option and then send a quick seam over the heads of the oncoming defenders. | Cheat extra defenders (8 or 9 in the box) into the area where the option will occur so nobody gets isolated and/or blitz into one of the options (e.g. CB blitz or MLB blitz into RB's hole) so unblocked guy can focus on one option. |
Scissors | Option 3. This is the FB dive in a triple-option and the bubble screen in the spread 'n shred, and is a constraint called by alignment. | Line up "clean" with safeties still in coverage, and if they option do what you can to delay the decision and await the cavalry. |
Next time in this series: vanilla defenses, and the best offense for Michigan this year and beyond.
Picture Pages: Two-Way Hopkins II
Last time on Picture Pages we looked at a 35-yard iso on Michigan's first drive against Minnesota. A 35 yard iso means someone did something terrible on defense or your tailback did something ridiculous; Michigan was playing Minnesota so it was the former.
So Michigan scores a touchdown and gets the ball back and opens up with the same set. Minnesota again has both safeties rolled up.
On the snap the line pass blocks but the backfield executes a historical reenactment of The Battle Of Minnesota Sucks At Isos.
There's a gap in the line that Hopkins is thundering towards again and by the time it's clear Denard has the ball the three LB type substances have started moving towards the LOS:
When Hopkins hits the LOS the two guys who could hypothetically cover him are four yards from the LOS and stationary.
This is what it sounds like when doves cry.
Items of Interest
Constraint theory right here. Minnesota just got hit with a big iso and got chewed out on the sideline about it. They are hyped up to stop it, so when Michigan shows it again the LB and S suck way up and leave Hopkins open for a big gain over the top. This works not only because Minnesota overreacts to it but because of the omnipresent Denard threat posed in the shotgun. That means the Gophers are operating with essentially zero deep safeties.
This is what happens when you can force the defense to cheat. An actual opponent playing this way probably would have given up five, not 35, on the first iso, but that's enough to force them to cheat to it, whereupon bang.
This isn't unique or new. Literally every program in the country except Ohio State* tries to do this. Michigan's old-school waggle is an example. The hope with Borges is that he'll use them frequently to score lots of points instead of occasionally as part of a bler offense run by 70s thinking. Denard is a hell of a thing to try to stop without cheating, much more threatening than Michigan's four-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust running game was in the late 90s and early aughts.
This is the stuff you get in the shotgun even when Denard is not running because the zone read demands attention at all times. Under center Denard's legs mean waggle or Incredibly Surprising QB Draw, neither of which forces safeties into the box.
We saw a bucket of constraint against the Gophers. This is in part because the Gophers are so bad they have to cheat every play in the hopes of stopping the opposition.
I think it's also in part because Borges is finding his legs in this strange environment where your quarterback is one of the most threatening rushers in the country. Michigan tried the waggle a bunch earlier this year (and in spring) and got little out of it; against the Gophers that was ditched in favor of plays that use fear of Denard's legs as a major component of their success.
Hey man, nice touch. Denard floated a nice catchable ball to Hopkins about 18 yards downfield. He could do that because there were no safeties, so I've got no problem with the throw.
Let's see if Shaw can block this. Because this is a 75 yard touchdown if a fullback isn't running it. Also Hopkins almost dropped this.
Picture Pages: Two-Way Hopkins I
One of my early complaints about the Denard-Borges fusion cuisine was the grab-bag nature of the offense. By that I mean the sense that Michigan's plays were generally unrelated to each other and worked because they were new or the opponent was poor, not because they put the defense in a bind trying to defend one thing while another was happening. You can only run throwback screens out of an ace set a limited number of times when you don't roll the pocket out of an ace set effectively; you can only run a quick pitch that plays off a FB dive a limited number of times when you never run the dive.
That complaint is increasingly invalid as Michigan refines what it does. Full Minnesota disclaimers apply, but the most encouraging thing about last week's game other than everything was the series of gotcha plays that gashed Minnesota. BWS did a great job of showing how Michigan's long-overdue deployment of the sprint draw* (in this case a bonafide counter with a pulling LT) looks just like the QB run game that has been the heart of Michigan's offense for a year and a half. The sprint draw is a constraint play that punishes you for cheating on the offense's bread and butter.
That's one example. The Fritz package is another example. Michigan got a speed option blown up the first time; when they came back to it they ran a quick pitch that played off that option. This is what it looked like:
Check that safety on the far left hauling ass to the presumed option side. He gone. By the time Toussaint hits the corner ain't nobody here but us chickens:
Minnesota is exceptionally bad at all things but this is the kind of stuff that gives defensive coordinators hives. That looks just like OH CRAP DENARD OPTION until it's too late.
But wait, there's more! If you were surprised when Michigan opened up its second drive with a lovely touch pass from Denard to Stephen Hopkins, that makes twelve of you. He'd set Minnesota up for it on the previous drive.
*[I do have a slight disagreement w/ that post, FWIW: On that play it's clear Huyge is expecting to kick out the DE. When that DE comes inside rapidly Huyge looks like he's losing him. Lewan is supposed to hit the backside B gap, which has a marginally blocked guy in it. If Lewan doesn't block the DE there's a chance he shoots up into Shaw for a loss. I think you leave the safety for the RB.]
Play The First: New School Iso
It's first and ten on the Michigan 38 on the first drive of the day. Michigan comes out with what is for them a power set: shotgun with two backs and a tight end. Minnesota rolls both safeties to 7-8 yards and plays way off the WRs.
They're going to run an iso off the right side of the line. Iso kind of looks like inside zone—no one pulls, you try to combo defensive linemen—but you get a lead back roaring up in a designated hole. On an inside zone a blocking back will usually flare out or head backside to provide another gap on one end of the line and the running back will read his blocking and pick a hole.
Here it's straight upfield, hole or no. This train is headed A-gap.
It's Minnesota so there is a hole. Schofield and Molk send the NT to his knees. Omameh locks out the other DT and Denard holds the backside end with the threat of his run. A crease forms in the intended spot:
Hopkins thunders into it and lowers the boom.
And that's all she wrote. The two DTs getting annihilated and Hopkins thumping the MLB such that he provides a crease away from the Gopher free hitter—visible in the left frame above and stuck behind the Hopkins block in the second—gives Toussaint a free pass into the virtually nonexistent secondary.
Note that Molk is still waiting for someone to block. Minnesota is not good.
Toussaint runs through a diving tackle attempt and is eventually run down because he has to break his stride to do so. 35 yards.
Items of Interest
Minnesota is awful. I award them no points, God have mercy on their souls, etc. Not much else to say.
On this play three separate Minnesota defenders are crushed by their Michigan counterparts and Molk is just like hanging out because the Gopher LB is hanging around on Robinson when Robinson is being contained by a DE. Against a real team this is an eh gain.
This works for a lot of reasons but the paramount one is the Hopkins block. This is awful Minnesota play, but Hopkins makes it count by getting a driving block on the LB that kicks him out of the lane. If the guy gets inside of Hopkins Toussaint cuts out into an unblocked safety and picks up five or so yards unless he makes him miss; even if he manages that the process of making him miss will probably get him tackled by the backside DE.
But Hopkins lowers his shoulders and lifts the LB out of the hole, eliminating two guys and turning this into a big gainer. Without one guy eliminating two you can't pick up a bunch of yards when an extra safety is in the box*, especially on an old-timey quien es mas macho play like an iso.
*[And by "an extra safety" I mean two extra safeties; Denard + shotgun == extra guy in box is standard. Here both safeties are rolled into the box.]
Don't get down about Toussaint's speed because of this play. Yes, tackled from behind by a Gopher, but the ankle tackle he ran through put him off balance and slowed him up; without it this is likely a touchdown.