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Niko Porikos grew up in an NTDP billet home. Cool story.
Unverified Voracity Would Like To Be In Your Belly
Roster confirmations. For the second straight year reporters descended upon Rich Rodriguez at a basketball game and Rodriguez confirmed that various players had left the team. Last year it was Ryan Mallett and Adrian Arrington. This year it's Butler, Horn, and maybe McGuffie:
Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez expects Brandon Graham to return, Carson Butler to enter the NFL draft and Avery Horn to transfer.
Rodriguez did not clear up Sam McGuffie's future with the team Saturday, but did say the freshman running back is still enrolled in school and coping with family matters in Texas.
I think the writing is on the wall for McGuffie, but as long as Rodriguez isn't saying he's gone there's still a chance for return.
The Graham stuff seems as solid as it can be until January 15th comes and goes:
Junior defensive end Brandon Graham told Rodriguez he would be back. Rodriguez said he didn't think Graham had even filed paperwork to be evaluated by the NFL to see his draft options. "I think he's going to have a fabulous senior year," Rodriguez said.
Bonus confirmation: an emailer says he saw Graham on campus recently, asked him if he was coming back, and got a direct affirmative answer from him.
I mentioned this in my post on the matter last week, but if the roster attrition is limited to Babb, Chambers, Horn, Butler, and McGuffie and they get Brandon Graham back, that's a net win as far as next year's performance goes.
He's Charlie Weis if Charlie Weis was Charlie Weis. Oh, and not a big jerk. The remarkable thing about John Beilein is how consistently other coaches praise him. It is near-universal, and he's got the track record to back up their praise. Now, a lot of times you'll get generic blah blah about whoever they're talking about because it's TV and everything is positive, but with Beilein it seems genuine. He's not a good coach, he's the best, they say, and though I'm sure their evaluations leave out the most critical part of the job (recruiting) having the bar-none best coach in the country as acclaimed by other coaches is probably a good thing, right?
I mention it because here's Fran Fraschilla's take on M's win over Duke($):
I coached against John Beilein for four years when were in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference at Manhattan and Canisius, respectively, from 1992 to 1996. Usually, I needed two game tapes of an opponent to figure out what they were trying to accomplish on offense. With Canisius, I was watching every tape we could get our hands on.
No coach gave us as much trouble preparing for his team as Beilein did. What started out as an offensive experiment at places such as Erie Community College and LeMoyne College with athletically challenged players became -- slowly -- a work of art at Canisius, Richmond, West Virginia and now Michigan.
If he can recruit at a Michigan State sort of level, the sky is the limit. Even with success it will take time to ramp that sort of thing up—Michigan isn't going to take Huggins-esque shortcuts like hiring the AAU coach of Michael Beasley—but at Michigan he's got a brand name he never had before. If he pulls in Trey Ziegler or Sykes or Morgan Moses or some combination of the three, we're cooking. (Michigan has 3 scholarships to give in 2010 if they want; either Manny Harris will go to the NBA or Anthony Wright will not get a fifth year.)
We've been here before, of course, with countless Amaker recruits and even a guy like Nate Lubick, who looked to be in the bag before he decided on Georgetown. But now Beilein has something to sell.
Like this. Hopefully this quote from DeShawn Sims plays in Detroit:
"Coach Beilein believed in me. He's building a foundation and I'm glad I'm a part of it. He puts the c, the o, the a , the c and the h in coach. And he coaches you on an interpersonal level. It's amazing. I'm a better player than I've ever been and I know more than I've ever known."
And this in, uh, Germany (hey, we almost got Robin Benzing*):
Mike Gansey's e-mail came in from Germany moments after Michigan knocked off Duke yesterday for the Wolverines second win against a Top five team this season.
"Coach Beilein is a genius," wrote Gansey, who starred on Belein's teams at West Virginia a couple years ago.
*(Don't look at these stats unless you want to break something.)
Aw, nuts. Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford has been kind of good the past couple years, and for a brief moment Michigan was going to get involved with his recruitment:
…Michigan's quarterbacks coach at the time, Scot Loeffler, watched Bradford throw. He, too, promised a scholarship offer the next Monday from Lloyd Carr, the Wolverines' coach at the time.
But Carr did not call that Monday. On Wednesday, Loeffler called Wilson and explained that Carr did not call because one of his grandchildren had been born over the weekend.
Loeffler told Wilson that Carr would call the next Monday with a scholarship offer. The next day Bradford had his meeting with Stoops and Long. He committed to the Sooners before Michigan made an offer.
"There was no question we would have loved to have him," Carr said in a telephone interview. "We felt in evaluating him that he was going to be a great player."
Not like it would have mattered if Carr called, since he committed so quickly. Michigan ended up with the Coner in that class.
Plaxico? Rogers? And This? And, finally:
Did you get to the end? The part where he "earned a football scholarship from Michigan State University?" Probably some walk-on, but this obviously means something. This is important, people. Very important.
Etc.: Basketball wallpaper for you at Nothing Is Illuminated.
Still Kicking
12/6/2008 – Michigan 6, Michigan State 1 – 10-7 (6-5 CCHA)
12/7/2008 – Michigan 5, Michigan State 3 – 11-7 (7-5 CCHA)
Oh and the hockey team swept Michigan State this weekend, which would normally be a much bigger deal than whatever the basketball team did but there was the whole Duke thing and Michigan State is the hockey equivalent of Michigan's football team this year: shockingly terrible. No grand sweeping column but how about a series of thoughts and so forth and so on:
Brandon Burlon! No one had seen much from Michigan's highest-touted incoming recruit because of an ankle sprain that held him out of the first month and a half and then a series of road games but holy cow, man. Burlon was sick the entire weekend. At Yost there was a sweet behind-the-back pass to an open guy in the slot as Burlon was heading behind the Michigan State net and a sick, sick goal in which he undressed a defender and roofed a backhander shortside. I cannot believe it didn't make that night's highlight reel. Which is here:
Then at Munn he's a critical part of the game-tying goal, leaping into the rush to create a two on one and sliding the puck over to Hagelin for him to bork in to the open bork. He was a second-round pick for a reason; that reason appears to be "is sick with puck."
David Wohlberg! Is also on fire. You can see some of his fine work from Friday night above. On Saturday he combined with Aaron Palushaj to create the game winner; Wohlberg's slick tape-to-tape pass to Caporusso gave him a wide open net to leisurely shoot into for the winner. I think he's found a home on the top line.
Aaron and McInchak. Oh, holy God. This was the sort of thing I was fearing when I heard college hockey would move to two referees. It honestly hasn't been that bad when the CCHA has deployed a crew with one old hand and a promoted linesman. The linesman usually stays out of the way and makes only the really obvious calls.
This abortion of a crew contains two proven incompetents and they reffed like it. Yost Built:
A few minutes later Tristin Llewellyn absolutely planted Crowder as he brought the puck into the zone. He then threw an elbow to Crowder's head for good measure. Crowder retaliated and punched him in the face a few times. Llewellyn did nothing after the initial elbow but was still assessed a Roughing ATW penalty to keep the MSU power play in tact. It was absolutely ridiculous and MSU scored on the subsequent power play, a great shot by Petry over Hogan's shoulder.
Thankfully Tweedle-Dumb and Tweedle-Dumber gave it right back to us a few minutes later. Petry hit Naurato with what looked like a hard, but clean, check and eight seconds later (keep in mind MSU had the puck the whole time) the back referee whistled Petry for elbowing. Petry was all the way at his bench when the whistle went, and he started cracking up. I haven't seen a look of disbelief like that since Jack Johnson's "For what?!" reaction after he got tossed for not hitting Howells from behind.
Word. The game at Yost was incredibly chippy largely because Aaron and McInchak refused to send players for the extra two when they deserved it. David Wohlberg was dragged to the ground by his face mask and then had the crap beaten out of him and there was no power play because Wohlberg did some shoving after he was extricated. That guy should have been gone for fighting; instead he gets a coincidental minor and the rest of the game continues being a bitch-fest. When a freshman skill forward like Czarnik ends up with a misconduct for telling you what an idiot you are, you've probably screwed up.
Negatives. I was not much of a fan of Llewellyn's weekend. His screwup towards the end of the five-minute major Friday sent State on a 2-on-1 and
I have your hat. If you are the intrepid Michigan fan who tossed his hat on the ice after Turnbull's game-clinching empty-netter, I have it. We ate at a place near the arena after the game and happened to sit near the guy who runs the penalty box (and Jeff Lerg), and he bestowed it unto me. So, yeah, if you want it email me and we can arrange a dropoff.
Airing of grievances. All right, it must be said: "Can't Turn You Loose" (the Blues Brothers song) is out of control. Believe me, no one loves it more than I do but there's something wrong when you're playing it during the first intermission and then in the second intermission it lasts seven minutes. It is way too much and actually verges on annoying, which is sad because in proper doses it's one of the best traditions at Yost. Just not for 30 minutes every game.
Also, the "everyone dances" thing was cool at the end of last year but I miss it when there was one cajoled fat guy or nutball in a costume who would dance for our amusement. Now it's just "hey look at everybody moving around sort of." Even the return of Superfan could not restore order.
Also also what in the hell is with the band director deciding that "Let's Go Blue" really needs to be played at triple speed? The whole band has been a disaster this year. The student section can hardly hear it in its new location. The director is killing Can't Turn You Loose, thinks playing "YMCA" is a good idea, and has for some inexplicable reason decided to make it impossible to clap along with Michigan's oldest cheer.
And no one is yelling at him to dance. This is letting the terrorists win. When Michigan is winning comfortably you yell at the band director to dance. He won't until this Haithcock guy is gone, but one day the students will be yelling at the band director to dance because that's what they always do despite the fact that he never dances and the band director will dance and cancer will be cured. Do not let terrorist cancer win. Yell at the band director to dance.
The situation. Michigan has hit the halfway point and it's amazing how much that one stupid game against Western changes the situation. Win that and you're 12-6, well on track to make the tournament and still in with a chance at the CCHA. At 11-7, though, it's kind of ugly. Michigan needs to get their crap together and make a push starting now otherwise making the tournament will be touch and go all season. It's ridiculously early for this sort of thing, but Michigan sits #18 in the current pairwise rankings. (Top four: Northeastern(!), Princeton(!!), Vermont(!!!) and Cornell(!!!!)).
The next four games will be huge. Michigan rolls into the GLI with the best record of any of the participants. They open with Tech, which has gone from respectable back to awful (2-13-1 and a –33 goal differential) and then face either Michigan State, who you know is struggling, or North Dakota. North Dakota is normally a bear of an opponent but this year they're just 7-8-1 and have a goal differential of +1 and that's after murdering Harvard 10-1 on Friday. They'll be down Rust and Palushaj but it's not exactly a loaded tournament this year.
Then they get Miami at Yost in January, which will be the biggest series of the year by far. Sweep them and Michigan is suddenly five points back with two games in hand and is in the thick of the CCHA race. Get swept and they're out of it, looking for home ice in the first round, and staring down the barrel of a tourney miss. Much hinges on the next four games.
Night And Day
12/6/2008 – Michigan 81, Duke 73 – 6-2
A little under a year ago I wrote one of MGoBlog's top five emo posts ever after a midweek loss to Minnesota in an mostly empty Crisler arena. About 100 Minnesota students with way too much free time were present and responsible for the only noise in the arena.
At halftime, there was a big to-do about Crisler's 40th anniversary and brought back most of the guys from the 1968 team, including Cazzie Russell. Crisler is sometimes called "the house that Cazzie built" and they told him this and I had this reaction:
So he stood with his bearing, and listened to his accomplishments -- which are many -- and was then told he stood in the House Cazzie Built and that seemed like kind of a cruel thing to tell a nice old man who never did you any harm. The House Cazzie Built is half-empty, overrun by bums from half a continent away, and home to a team likely to set records for futility.
Michigan has not so much as reached the NCAA tournament since 1998, an impressive feat matched by an ever-dwindling list of maybe ten major-conference teams. Being there is an act of masochism. But hey... new lights!
Beaten down by it all, I left halfway through the second half. Michigan trailed by 20.
On Michigan's last possession of the first half, DeShawn Sims got loose—barely—on a back cut and Jevohn Shepherd zipped a seeing-eye bounce pass through two Duke (Duke!) defenders. Sims threw it down with a roar, Crisler exploded, and Jay Bilas exclaimed "that is Michigan basketball!"
Wait… what?
This is Michigan basketball:
This is Michigan basketball: 226, 283, 199. That's Michigan's rank in turnover percentage in the final three years of the Amaker era. This is Michigan basketball: 1998.
I know this. I have seen my share of the stuff. I've created rules like "I stop this liveblog once we go down 20." I've specifically avoided any sort of drinking game involving number of turnovers or possessions that aimlessly pass it around the perimeter until someone has to chuck up a contested three as the shot clock expires because dying of alcohol poisoning after watching a Michigan-Boston U game seems like the most pointless way you could possibly go. Michigan basketball doesn't beat Duke, it starts a game down 34-2.
When you find a guy who can coach, things change. DeShawn Sims and, even more remarkably, Jevohn Shepherd have changed for the better. Crisler is on its way. It was sold out and raucous on Saturday. In January the regents will vote on first-stage approval of a practice facility. Next year the program will use its allotted 13 scholarships for the first time in recent memory. Shepherd is the only senior on the roster.
When you get a win like Duke a couple weeks after a win like UCLA, people call it a "program building" win. Programs are all about perception. What is Michigan basketball? Back door dunks and the 1-3-1 and wide open threes and great turnover margins and horrible rebounding. Floppy-haired white kids from Indiana and inexplicably faithful black kids from Detroit. Brandon Graham rushing the court…
…and DeShawn Sims finding his mother afterwards to hug her and cry.
This is Michigan basketball. That other stuff is the past, finally.
- Okay, now for the coldly rational section of the post: this whole tourney thing isn't in the bag. I think you're going to see this team gack up a couple Big Ten games it "shouldn't" because Manny has an off day and the interior defense gets crushed and the rebounding gets crushed and so on and so forth. I think we've seen Michigan play over their head a couple times and reality will settle in at Illinois or Iowa or Wisconsin or whatever.
They can go .500 in conference now, though, and probably get a bid, and 10-8 with a BTT win is a lock. 20-10 major conference teams with wins over Duke and UCLA get in.
- Those of you who took the under on patently false Bilas accusations that Tommy Amaker wasn't given enough time at Michigan get a dollar. I don't know if he just got over it or he was told, point-blank, to get over it, but there wasn't a peep about it all game.
And, like, good. Bilas occasionally latches onto something and just won't let go but other than that he's the best color analyst in college basketball outside of Bill Raftery (onions!).
- Sims and Harris were obviously brilliant. Somewhat less hyped: that was Kelvin Grady's best game ever. No one on Duke could stay in front of him and he used that to set up the back-to-back ONIONS threes from Novak, a Sims dunk when time was running out, and a sweet layup on which he looked off a Duke defender. Of course, there were also about three missed layups in there. If the guy can just learn to finish…
- Speaking of back-to-back ONIONS threes: Novak can play. He and Douglass are those guys who start for Butler for three years and are the stars of the show when they're seniors and everyone's like "how did this mid-major get so good?" Or they're Mike Gansey. Or Joe Alexander. I cannot stress this enough: when it comes to talent evaluation Beilein is as many standard deviations above the mean as Amaker was below it.
- Anthony Wright's second-half contribution was brief: comes in game, gets extremely unwise loose-ball foul that sends Duke to the line, exits game. The rotation changes I was complaining for (Shepherd for Wright, Grady for Merritt) were mostly executed, though Merritt continued starting.
- Football Muppet posts: 2. Basketball Muppet posts: 2. I think basketball is going to win.
Duke Muppets
Wooo! Eat it! NCAA Tournament here we come! Someone get me a Klingon battlecruiser! What does that even mean? Who cares?
And, of course, you can't have one without the other…
This is ridiculous.
Post-Mortem: Quarterback
A position-by-position look at Michigan's 2009 season.
Preseason Expectations
The season preview's section on quarterbacks was pretty grim. The main comparison point was the 1995 season, when Scott Driesbach started as a freshman and was knocked out for walk-on Brian Griese. In retrospect, that's freakin' eerie, man. If the coaching staff hadn't inexplicably decided to go with Sheridan at the beginning of the year it would be a virtual carbon copy of that season's QB situation, except for the fact that Sheridan isn't going to lead a national championship team, get drafted in the third round, and have a decade-long NFL career.
That didn't mean 1995 was any good:
Michigan quarterbacks combined for 16 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, completed about 53% of their passes, and struggled to crack seven yards per attempt with an All-Star cast of future NFL receivers: Amani Toomer, Jay Reimersma, Mercury Hayes.
That set the stage for a discussion of the three options. Sheridan:
He's the son of Bill Sheridan, currently the linebackers coach for the Giants and for three years a defensive position coach under Lloyd Carr. He was honorable mention all conference in high school. He's about six foot, maybe six one, supposedly more mobile than the competition but more limited in terms of arm strength. And that's all anyone knows about him.
What limited intelligence we have from practice reports indicates Sheridan is a typical Northwestern quarterback, noodle-armed but bright and mobile-ish. He's been more consistent than the competition, throws well on the run, and contrary to rumor can heave the ball farther than five yards, as this video of the "Beanie Bowl" indicates. He could be a non-liability who successfully keeps the heat off the other skill position players, and how's that for Backhanded Compliment Of The Year?
Threet is a classic dropback artillery piece in the Navarre/Mallett/Grbac mold, 6'5" and ponderous. He was a well-respected recruit, getting four stars from the gurus and landing in the top ten pro-style quarterbacks, but reports from practice have him tentative, erratic, and slow both mentally and physically. In the winter he was lauded as an emerging leader who the team actually liked, unlike that Mallett guy; this has not translated to the field. Sheridan's likely to struggle at some point and Rodriguez keeps saying he wants "two guys he can win with," so Threet will see the field at some point. He's reputed to have a bigger arm and more big-play potential… for both teams.
And Feagin:
He's a heck of an athlete, the small-school player of the year in Florida last year and third in their Mr. Football voting. LSU and Miami offered him as a WR/DB.
Unfortunately, he does not appear to be much of a quarterback at this point. Rodriguez claimed Feagin would "have to make an impression in the first two weeks" if he was going to be a serious candidate for playing time; a recent curtailment of his snaps indicates this impression has not been made. A week or so ago, Rodriguez made it clear he was not an option early: "He's not close to being ready."
I do have some inside baseball indicating that the coaching staff expects to work him in at some point during the season just to see what he can do; the most likely outcome is a few drives here and there that end poorly and a position swap once Beaver and Newsome hit campus in January.
When pressed (by myself) for a definitive answer on the quarterbacking situation in the "five answers, five questions" post, I provided this:
It is possible this ends well. Michigan will surround Sheridan with a deep and varied set of receiving targets, and the spread 'n shred can turn a wobbly-armed but heady passer into Zak Kustok or Bret Basanez. It doesn't demand the precision howitzer Carr's pro-style system did. The physical limitations (and senior year injury) that forced Sheridan to walk-on somewhere don't have to be fatal.
But if we're being honest with ourselves there's little chance it starts well. The note of distress coming from practice observers and press conferences is clear, and the scary thing is a lot of the reported problems are things like "throws bubble screens backwards." (Michigan fans are going to find out how spoiled Chad Henne's unerring accuracy on screens made them.)
(Oh Holy God how I wish that sentence was not 100% accurate. Also the sentence before it.)
Though practice reports got less alarmed as fall camp progressed—there was even video evidence of Sheridan completing passes farther than six yards downfield—Michigan's best hope here is for something functional, a guy who can throw a bunch of screens and keep the offense moving.
This was the best hope. It did not come to fruition.
The Horrible Truth
It was immediately, bloodily obvious that whatever hopes Michigan had for the quarterback situation should be tossed out the window. The Utah game aftermath:
Every rational thought in your head suggests that the whole walk-on or freshman-the-coaches-are-panicked-about at quarterback, the line of baling wire and the occasional confused chicken, and freshmen everywhere at the skill positions will combine to yield an offense worthy of Yakety Sax, but until you actual see the damn thing in action you can hold out hope it will be otherwise.
We have seen it in action. It could have gone better.
There was a single-sentence bullet that's so very poignant now:
Feagin? I mean… he couldn't have been worse.
Thus dies optimism in the House of Bo.
Threet then came in as a starter for the Notre Dame game and played spectacularly given the situation:
…that was a massive step forward from Threet, a performance virtually any freshman would be pleased with. Threet was confident, mostly accurate, and mostly right. Mental mistakes were limited to a couple of open receivers he passed up for more difficult throws and that one pass that should have been intercepted. (The other BR was a fly route on third and long which would have been a punt if intercepted.) He looked like a viable quarterback now and for the future.
That didn't last, though. Wisconsin:
As far as how the day went? Poorly. In past years we've had a metric where you add up all the good (CA+DO), add up all the bad (everything else other than PR), and take out all the screens to come up with a Competence Ratio. Threet's competence ratio in this game is 48%, which is below the 50-50 Mallett line and well short of the 2/3rds ratio that is a normal good quarterback. This was a major step back from the Notre Dame game.
Toledo was bad, too, but I chalked that up to Threet being injured, and that was obviously accurate. This from the Penn State game was, too, except I had to go back and chart him after the Minnesota and Northwestern (and upcoming Ohio State) games:
I'm not charting Sheridan anymore, by the way, as there's no point. We're very clear on his deficiencies by now and he won't see the field again after this year unless he's the last survivor of a meteor impact.
Threet returned for Michigan State:
So, yeah, ugly, ugly performance from Threet, back on the downswing from a good half against Penn State. I don't think this is all on his head, though. As Sean McDonough noted, it looked like Threet was really looping passes out to his receivers. He reminded me of no one so much as deposed Auburn starter Chris Todd, who can rainbow slants. I saw it, man.
Anyway, that elbow is obviously still bothering Threet.
And then Sheridan came in, got nicknamed Death, defied that nickname by going 18 for 30 in a dominating win over Minnesota, got re-nicknamed Suicidal Kitten in the aftermath, and didn't defy that nickname at all. Exeunt 2008.
2009, And Beyond
I mean no offense to Nick Sheridan, a scout-team quarterback pressed into service by a series of unfortunate events so vast in their scope as to be unprecedented at a program like Michigan, but God willing we never see him on the field again. And The Coner(!) is behind him. And Justin Feagin is a slot receiver.
So. We are left with this guy:
Steven Threet. At times (specifically, the Notre Dame game and the first half of the Penn State game) Threet looked like a D-I quarterback you can make a New Year's Day bowl with. He looked bonafide. And some of his less stellar moments can be blamed on youth, a new system, a shaky line, a horrible set of receivers, rain, elbow injuries, and the general bloody-mindedness of the universe. He even proved somewhat nimble.
You are waiting for the "but." Okay: but I just don't see it. On those keepers he was somewhat nimble on he was injured, twice, and that seemed like no accident. Threet's reaction to incoming defenders was to sort of slow down and attempt to Heisman them or juke them or something—what, exactly, was never clear—and that lead to a lot of incidents where Threet's upper and lower bodies were in extreme disagreement as to which direction the whole should be going. Separated shoulders and elbow injuries and concussions followed. There's a reason football put in that slide rule for quarterbacks, and it's because of guys like Steven Threet. He gon' die if asked to run 15 times a game.
And I don't think that's fixable. That's an instinctual thing. Running back is the spot in both college and the NFL at which you can throw in a freshman or rookie and do pretty well for yourself. You are trying not to get yourself killed, and you revert to base instincts.
So can Rodriguez deal with a quarterback who will die if you ask him to run 15 times a game? Probably not. Or, at least, there seem to be no point when you've got a couple guys who can do that and probably won't be that far off him in the passing game, at which Threet was incredibly inconsistent last year.
I'm not writing him off. Threet, unlike Sheridan, will be a viable competitor for the starting job next year. I even expect him to be the opening day starter. I don't expect he'll make it through the year as the starter, though. A discussion of Shavodrick Beaver and Tate Forcier is more properly executed in a recruiting post, but suffice it to say both are guys Rodriguez brought in for his system, and they'll get a spring to see what they can do.
(Threet picture found with aid from the indispensable Mike DeSimone.)
Unverified Voracity Sizes Spartans
Hockey-izing. Michigan takes on Michigan State in a home-and-home this weekend and desperately needs a sweep to keep on any sort of pace for the NCAA tournament. Fortunately, Michigan State looks far more obliging this year when it comes to that sort of thing:
MSU is 10th place in the CCHA with an overall record of 4-9-3 and a conference record of 2-6-2-2. They haven't won a game since Halloween night when they beat WMU 3-1. Since then they lost seven in a row, bookended by two ties. Before exploding for four goals in a 4-4 tie against Minnesota, the Spartans had scored 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 goal in their last seven games. It's like they're starting Billy Sauer in net every night. They've scored more than 2 goals just three times this season.
Hogan will play Friday and if things go well is expected to get the start Saturday.
If you're interested in going to Munn, there are huge numbers of tickets still available. I will be in attendance.
Looking a little farther down the road than this weekend: Matt Rust and Aaron Palushaj have been selected to the USA World Junior Championship team and will miss the GLI. Michigan takes on Tech in the first round and either State or North Dakota in the second. Also, Steve Kampfer's return looks to be sooner than anyone expected:
Junior defenseman Steve Kampfer is back skating with the team and could return by the Great Lakes Invitational according to The Wolverine. Kampfer had said a few weeks ago that he was about a month from being full strength and that any decision to return to the team was in the hands of head coach Red Berenson.
That would put his return in early January, which would be great. Given Michigan's scoring struggles it also might mean a return of Chris Summers to forward.
Scapegoatin'? People have been muttering about a potential change at defensive coordinator ever since Justin Siller turned Michigan's secondary into Swiss cheese, and this might be an indication the mutterings have some validity:
Miami (OH): We hear that Michigan defensive coordinator Scott Shafer is interested in the Miami (OH) head coaching position.
That's from "Football Scoop," which is a website I've never heard of and may not be credible. I tend to give any site that reports on the fate of schools from Michigan to Eureka College the benefit of the doubt.
There have been some rumors—nothing solid—suggesting that Shafer was not likely to be back next year; this could be a symptom of that. For the record, I remain ambivalent about a potential change.
Rick Leach. No one in associated with the program has been more publicly supportive of Rich Rodriguez than Rick Leach, and here's another example:
"I'll make you a promise before I go," he said. "My promise to you is, I know that day's coming. Maybe you had your fun and got your pound of flesh out of Michigan after 33 years. I don't care if it's Mark Dantonio, Charlie Weis or - you better believe it - Jim Tressel. Your freakin' day is coming."
This will draw immediate comparisons to Charlie Weis' statement last year that people should "have their fun now" (or, if you're Syracuse, in the future) but here it's a loose cannon ex-quarterback and not, like, the freakin' head coach.
Not a good week for Michigan State receivers. Remember Charles Rogers? Yeah:
Former Detroit Lions wide receiver Charles Rogers is being held in the Oakland County Jail on $100,000 bond for a probation violation.
Jail records show the 28-year-old Rogers has been locked up since Wednesday.
I still think Plaxico wins.


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How To Hone Your Alpine Psycheby Andy Kirkpatrick Nov/2009
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I was emailed by a climber this week asking if I had any ideas on improving mental attitude for alpine climbing, which I guess means, �how do you feel less worried about hurting yourself and push your limit�. So here's a brief run down of ideas on making you feel like Silva Karo!
Don't have kids
I struggle with my alpine psyche just as much as the next climber, and having children, and partners, and parents, who love you doesn't help. This was brought home to me this year climbing Zodiac with Ian Parnell, who it's far to say is one of the most balls-to-the-wall climbers Britain has ever produced. Anyway, being a father put a big dent in his psyche on that route, and this man, who'd led A5's and more chop-routes than anyone I know, was turned into a semi-gibbering wreck on a pitch he'd have flown up pre-daughter -some thing he freely admitted to. All of a sudden all he could see were ways to die -not a nice frame of mind.
Most of the best alpine climbers, with a few exceptions, aren't parents. They are fully married to climbing, and have very few things that hold them back in their passion. This means they remain more focused, and less weighed down by thoughts of responsibility; plus they can climb more, further improving their alpine psyche. The top British alpinists are slowly slipping away to the pressures of fatherhood (Cross, Parnell, Powel, Benson) while those without kids are pushing on (Bullock, Bracey, Helliker). If you are a parent then there are some climbers who manage it (Pretzl, Fowler, Turner) but it's never easy, but it does give you that 'fowler-esque' drive to make every second count when you're on the hill.
But anyone who has kids knows, the sacrifice of ice and snow is one well worth it. Sure, it makes life harder, and puts a dent in your climbing, or crushes it all together, but what you gain WILL be worth the sacrifice, even if it doesn't always feel like it when you're pining for the mountains when sat at the ball pool.
Build a positive alpine picture
It's easy to get into a very negative frame of mind about alpine climbing, seeing only the hazards rather than the beauty. This mental picture weighs down on your psyche, colouring your alpine dreams with dark hues that just aren't there in reality. If all you see are crevasses, avalanches, rock falls and storms, then you're in a bad place. Sure these things are there, but they minor players in the brightest most beautiful playground on the planet.
Don't believe the hype
Reading books by me or Mark Twight would probably give anyone the willies about alpine climbing, and although they are perhaps good texts on the mindset of climbers pushing their limit, they tend to be quite bleak. Read books by Rebuffat and Bonatti to find the romance that is alpine climbing. For me and Twight alpine climbing is a one night stand, but for these guys it was a courtship.
Feel up for it
Twight said 'the fitter you are, the harder you are to kill', and this, probably more than anything, has the biggest effect on your psyche. If you climb technical objectives (rather than cardio ones) then I'd argue that actual fitness was less important than people imagine, and just being able to climb Scottish V and rock climb Severe in plastics (with some jiggery-pokery) whilst carrying a rucksack, and all day, will get you up most ED routes in the Alps. What's important is that you feel as fit as you can be, meaning training hard before you go.
Training for alpine climbing is like no other training, and is best done by pushing yourself as much as possible, and in as many ways as you can. As a starter I'd focus on building stamina (mental and psychical) as well as strength. If I was to set out the best training you could do I'd say it would be a combination of triathlon-type training mixed with cage fighting training!
Many people say they don't have enough time to train, but one hour a day of really intensive training is all you need, and by intensive I mean training that makes you want to puke.
One month of this type of training before a trip will really iron out any self doubt.
Get the skills
I've met a few SAS guys over the years and the thing that impressed me was not their ability to get difficult jobs done, but their ability to never stop training for those jobs. This meant that, when the time came to do something dangerous, they knew instinctively what to do, both as an individual and as a team.
This carries over to alpine climbing, meaning practicing as much as possible the techniques and systems that you'll rely on. Once you have a technique in the bag you will feel confident you can do it and that confidence will increase your over-all confidence. If you're into big easy routes this may mean training your rope techniques - moving together, self rescue etc. - to the point that it's second nature (trying to remember how to tie in short on the Frontier Ridge isn't great). For harder alpine routes practice jumaring (with prussics, tiblocs, ropeman, jumars and belay devices), aiding, hauling, simul-climbing, self-rescue and bivys so when that time comes, you're not learning it on the job.
Get a good partner
It's possible to climb hard with a partner you've never met before, but building a good partnership is the ideal. Like Posh and Becks, a strong partnership is stronger than both parties combined, plus a partnership that trains together, stays together.
What's your motivation
If you're struggling with your alpine psyche it may be worth asking yourself if you really want to be alpine climbing in the first place? Maybe you're a rock jock and would be better off doing big safe alpine bolt ladders, or via ferratas, or big walls, and leave all that snow behind. Maybe skiing would scratch your itch, or perhaps just a spot of nice alpine bouldering would do it for you. Are you alpine climbing because that's what you feel you should do next?
Get a leg up
Climbing with much more experienced climbers can be a big shot in the arm for a climber, giving you the opportunity to watch and learn from someone who's already learnt from their mistakes. Also tackling a much harder route on a top rope can put harder climbing into perspective. Employing a guide for a day or two in the UK, or Alps, is well worth it (make sure you get a guide who's willing to teach you, not just drag you up a mountain).
See the magic
The Alps is an amazing place. It's also a place you can go climbing. By which I mean it's worth seeing the Alps as more than just mountains to climb, because on 9 out of 10 days you won't be able to climb them. Explore the trails on foot, searching out amazing vantage points; ski up to huts for the night; explore the range on a bike;go canyoning; paint a picture; do anything to make your alpine trip fulfilling. You may find that, the less you need the mountains tops, the nearer they become.
Alpine climbing sucks
Alpine climbing is a mugs game. It's an expensive and often fruitless search for the irreverent, filled with limitless frustration and unsatisfied desire, and broken dreams and nightmares fulfilled.
Alpine climbing will strain or destroy relationships. It will break up unbreakable partnerships. It will bankrupt you. It will break you. It may well kill you.
Do you still want to be an alpine climber?
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Although the evidence shows that acetaminophen is safe for young children, parents have to be careful with it, pediatricians noted. Giving too much can be toxic to the liver, causing poisoning and even liver failure.
In 2010, there were 270,000 reported overdoses of acetaminophen, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers. Dosing errors involving children's acetaminophen products accounted for almost 7,500 cases -- nearly 3 percent.
In an ideal world, the parents of infants and toddlers would still consult with their pediatrician or pharmacist to get the proper medication dosing, said Dr. William Basco, director of general pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina.
But the reality is that many parents aren't doing that and are instead guessing about proper dosing. "There is no benefit to having parents guess at the right dose," Basco said.
Drug makers, including McNeil Consumer Healthcare, which makes Tylenol, also support the change.
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First, are you sure they're actually scratches and not just streaks? You've tried cleaning the screen with a microfiber cloth or other lint-free cloth and not been able to remove the marks? I've been using a smart cover with my iPad and given how it operates can't really see how debris would be dragged across the screen so as to actually scratch, though I can't say it's impossible.
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That's a staggeringly hypocritical comment coming from the likes of you.<quoted text>blah blah blah... It's as though you all are reading from a script.
You're typically parroting a "script" written by a bunch of 2000 year old superstitious goat herders and you have the gall to accuse me of not being original?
Perhaps the reasons our responses look similar is because we all see the same logical fallacies in the arguments presented to us. Ever think of that?
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A Merry Prankster Christmas... Not exactly what one would expect!
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October 7, 2015 | Men's Golf MEN'S GOLF WINS EMMANUEL INVITATIONAL BY SIX STROKES HYDE PARK, Mass. - Sophomore Colin Cordero (Bolton, Mass.) carded a 77 for to lead the Emmanuel College men's golf team to a team score of 352 to top the field at the Emmanuel Invitational quad-match played at the par 70 George Wright Golf Course. Mitchell College wasn't far off the pace with a team score of 358 to finish second while Suffolk University combined for a 362 for a third place finish. Daniel Webster College rounded out the field with a 364. [Read More]
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Company of Heroes: Vietnam Conflict is a total conversion modification for the PC game Company of Heroes. We are aiming to bring all the most iconic weapons and equipment of the Vietnam War to the RTS genre, and will be including helicopters, jets, tanks, new maps, new abilities and more. Our aim is to do for Vietnam what the original CoH did for WW2; to mix elements of realism and tactics with amazing graphics and fantastic gameplay, to deliver 'Nam as you've never seen it before.
This is a quick update from the Vietnam Conflict Development Team, to show you guys what we've been up to recently
Posted by ColonelMoore on May 4th, 2010
We've been hard at work the past few weeks, after having a short break. So today, we have a quick update for you all to show you what we've been up to, and I hope you enjoy what you see. This is Part 1 of a two part update; the second part will follow shortly, so check in soon.
First up, we have the revered F4 Phantom II, one of the most legendary jet aircraft ever built. Given many nicknames, including "The Triumph of Thrust over Aerodynamics" in honor of the fact that it is... well... a little large, Vietnam would not be complete without it.
Next up, we have an extremely versatile disposable anti-armor launcher, the M72 LAW, which has stood the test of time as it is still used today for building and bunker-busting duties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And finally, for the Aussies amongst us, we have the Australians' powerful L1A1 SLR, nicknamed the "Rifle of the Free World" and its support weapon variant, the L2A1 Light Machine Gun.
Check out our Image gallery for the larger versions, and please leave a comment telling us what you think. I hope you've enjoyed this update, stay tuned for Part 2, on it's way very soon, and thanks again for your support.
Vietnam Conflict Development Team.
Wow...Great detail on these...
Will the m72 law work the same way as the panzerfaust?
Great models and textures guys, this mod will be awsome
Woah they look awesome.
I am looking forward to the next update.
Keep up the good work.
Awesome, fully support this, also how long have you been makign this before it went public?
No more than a week. We decided to do it, worked on some stuff to release when we announced it, and we're moving along nicely. Thanks for your support ;)
this looks siiiiiiiiiick!!!!
really interesting mod, :)
this is F*cking awesome
great work, nice textures as well :)
Although on your vehicle renders please lower the specular and glossiness levels as they look to bright.
Wow, posted on May 4th? 4 dead in Ohio? Do I smell intentional?
We assure you its completely coincidental, in fact I havent even heard about the 4 dead in Ohio
Wow, I made mistake here :p, I thought you meant a recent shooting. Apologies, but still - coincidental
Gorgeous work, keep it up :)


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WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Association for Homecare supports tough anti-fraud measures for Medicare, and we hope that the Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on this issue this week will focus on effective measures to prevent theft of taxpayer dollars. The American Association for Homecare represents providers of durable medical, or home medical equipment and services.
We have zero tolerance for fraud and will continue to work to help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the HHS Office of Inspector General, and other federal officials to more effectively regulate this sector.
Several years ago, the American Association for Homecare proposed to Congress a 13-point Medicare Anti-Fraud Legislative Action Plan that included tougher penalties for fraud, more site visits, and real-time claims audits to prevent fraud at the front-end of the process rather than relying on the ineffective pay-and-chase system. Parts of our 13-point plan have been proposed in several congressional bills and were adopted in the recent health reform law. However, we encourage Congress to adopt all of our proposals to ensure a comprehensive approach that shuts down avenues for Medicare fraud. Details of the 13-point plan can be viewed at www.aahomecare.org/stopfraud.
It's important to point out that providers of home medical equipment must now be accredited by a deemed accrediting organization and they must also post a surety bond. These two requirements took effect a year ago, October 2009, and fraud associated with the home medical equipment sector has likely declined since then. We encourage federal officials to assess and report the rate of fraud since those requirements took effect.
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MONTPELIER — The space is being called gorgeous, but the cost "eye-popping." Vermont lawmakers are applying those terms to office space at the National Life building in Montpelier that has been renovated to house the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources and other state agencies.
Members of the House Institutions Committee say they were given a rough estimate last year that the project to move the Natural Resources Agency into the building that already housed the transportation and commerce agencies would cost around $2 million.
The more recent estimate? $8.65 million.
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Live! From Washington D.C.: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Opens Up News Conference
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Category: Credit, Legal, Real Estate, Video
Looks like an interesting panel — anyone near D.C. on April 15 should consider going . . .
10:10 a.m. — Panel One: Current NRSRO Perspectives: What Went Wrong and What Corrective Steps Is the Industry Taking?
- Daniel Curry, DBRS
- Sean Egan, Egan-Jones Ratings
- Stephen Joynt, Fitch Ratings
- Raymond McDaniel, Moody's Investor Service
- Deven Sharma, Standard & Poor's
11:30 a.m. — Panel Two: Competition Issues: What are Current Barriers to Entering the Credit Rating Agency Industry?
- Ethan Berman, RiskMetrics Group
- James H. Gellert, RapidRatings
- George Miller, American Securitization Forum
- Frank Partnoy, University of San Diego
- Alex Pollock, American Enterprise Institute
- Damon Silvers, AFL-CIO
- Lawrence J. White, New York University
12:30 p.m. — Lunch Break
1:15 p.m. — Panel Three: Users' Perspectives
- Deborah A. Cunningham, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association
- Alan J. Fohrer, Southern California Edison
- Christopher Gootkind, Wellington Management
- James Kaitz, Association of Financial Professionals
- Kurt N. Schacht, CFA Institute
- Bruce Stern, Association of Financial Guaranty Insurers
- Paul Schott Stevens, Investment Company Institute
2:45 p.m. — Panel Four: Approaches to Improve Credit Rating Agency Oversight
- Richard Baker, Managed Funds Association
- Jörgen Holmquist, European Commission
- Mayree C. Clark, Aetos Capital
- Joseph A. Grundfest, Stanford Law School
- Glenn Reynolds, CreditSights
- Stephen Thieke, Group of Thirty
The roundtable is expected to end at approximately 4:15 p.m. with concluding remarks by Erik R. Sirri, Director of the SEC's Division of Trading & Markets.
In the fall of 2006, Congress passed the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, providing the SEC for the first time with authority to supervise credit rating agencies. Using this authority that became effective in June 2007, the Commission has adopted two major rulemakings, has conducted an extensive 10-month examination of three major credit rating agencies, and has several pending proposals to further the Act's purpose of promoting accountability, transparency, and competition in the rating industry.
Category: Bailouts, Credit, Legal, Regulation
I mentioned the "cult of equities" earlier this morning; An article in the Atlantic on the Cult of Finance is making the rounds: The Quiet Coup. I found it very similar to Bailout Nation. If this sort of stuff floats your boat, then you will love the book — it gets much more granular than…Read More
Category: Credit, Derivatives, Legal, Markets, Politics, Regulation
Since the credit crisis began, I have frequently found myself in agreement with Paul Krugman. Not everything, but for the most part, especially on many major points, we are sympatico: He has been correct about Moral Hazard, about the folly of these many bailouts, about the advantages of nationalizing the banks. And, I suspect he…Read More
Category: Bailouts, Credit, Derivatives, Federal Reserve, Legal, Regulation
The AIG bonus hearings on executive compensation the current "bonus bill" is a sideshow that avoids addressing the lack of enforcement of existing law.
To the layman it appears, had the law (below) been enforced, we would get to the root of the problem. Of course Congress has no interest in reducing the lobbying dollars they can collect from firms that rely on those TARP dollars. They would rather pretend to be ineffective populists than effective legislators and responsible public servants.
Doesn't anyone feel that we could get more accomplished if we enforced the following law?
§ 1352. Limitation on use of appropriated funds to influence certain Federal contracting and financial transactions
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Dan Greenhaus is at the Equity Strategy Group at Miller Tabak + Co. where he covers markets and portfolio theory. He has contributed several chapters to Investing From the Top Down: A Macro Approach to Capital Markets (by Anthony Crescenzi).
This is his most recent commentary:
Suspending Mark to Market Remains Unlikely
Decreasing transparency has never, and will never, be the answer
I will reserve comment about the proposed changes/amendments/guidance regarding FAS 157 until such adjustments are implemented, but I wanted to make a few quick observations regarding FAS 157 and related topics:
To begin with, FAS 157 does not establish the concept of fair value accounting. Companies have been
reporting assets at fair value for years. What FAS 157 did was establish an outline for how companies
should value assets through the Level 1, 2, 3 system with Level 1 assets being the most accurately valued and Level 3 being the least accurate, the so called "mark to model" assets. Suspending that system would, in my mind, unquestionably increase market uncertainty by increasing management input with respect to the valuing of assets. How in the world anyone thinks reducing transparency, which is absolutely what would occur, is a good idea is beyond my understanding. I do not subscribe to the belief that the perceived lack of transparency now, the effect of distressed markets, excuses further reductions in transparency by removing the guidelines, outlines and disclosure requirements as laid out in FAS 157.
Secondly, I also do not subscribe to the belief that somehow these assets are not being priced to their "true" value. While there is certainly some temporary impairment due to market volatility and perhaps some underpricing relative to hold-to-maturity value as we believe it to be today, the fact remains that an asset trading at a significant discount to its true value would attract buyers in larger numbers than we're seeing. The truth is that these assets are not seeing the interest they otherwise might be for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that the "true" value of these assets are in contention right now. Could the value be higher than, say, 30 or 40 or 50 cents on the dollar? Sure. But I don't know that and with high levels of macroeconomic uncertainty hanging over our heads, I believe that many market participants are staying away for fear of incurring losses on these positions.
Why does the US taxpayer have to guarantee every single transaction done on Wall Street? Since when is that our obligation? If the taxpayer is on the hook to bailout systemic risk, then don't they have the right to prevent that systemic risk? Or alternatively, reserve for/insure it? I keep hearing that Wall Street must…Read More
Category: Bailouts, Credit, Derivatives, Legal
It looks like the FASB is in full retreat on fair value accounting. Below is an artifact from the period we published today in The IRA. Author is a very well respected analyst who worked for the Fed in the 2007 period and tried to sound a warning about the supervisory implications of a FVA regime. I am going to do a victory lap at AEI today when we convene the latest "Deflating Bubble" session. – Chris
The Institutional Risk Analyst
March 17, 2009
The following article on fair value accounting ("FVA") was authored in May 2007 by a researcher who at the time worked for the Federal Reserve System. The paper, which was not approved for publication by the Fed Board's bank supervisory staff, outlines some of the issues in a transition to FVA, issues that have turned out to be critical. Many of these issues now may be obvious to students of financial institutions and the general public thanks to the financial crisis, yet two years ago the paper was dismissed by the Fed's staff in Washington. To us, the story around this article provides yet another example of how the intellectual closed-mindedness of the Fed's Washington staff results in bad public policy.
Some background for context. The Fed and other bank regulators historically did not push back on supervised firm accounting "choices" or otherwise second guess the external auditor on valuation issues for financial firms. That is, if a financial firm could get its paid accountant to sign off on a choice of valuation methodology — choices which in many cases are based purely on "stated intent" at the time to hold an asset for sale or to maturity, then the paid regulator at the OCC (figure roughly 50 examiners for each too-big-to fail bank) and its more poorly staffed step-brother, the Fed (roughly 7 examiners per TBTF bank), would simply accept the decision without question or review.
During the bubble years, the author and other members of the federal bank supervisory community fought internally and with the banks against apparent inconsistencies in accounting choices — for example, the same large bank would put a big chunk of liquid exchange traded equites that turned over frequently into AFS, while putting illiquid slow-to-turn distressed debt in trading. Most regulatory accountants, though knowledgeable and well meaning, were in some sense lazy, as they felt it much more important to maintain GAAP and regulatory accounting parity, then it was to have more correct reporting based on actual facts and behavior.
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