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Offense Unit By Unit, 2008
Rating: 1.
|Nick Sheridan
|Steven Threet
|Justin Feagin
The last time Michigan's quarterback situation appeared so dire it was 1995, Lloyd Carr's first year, and the quarterbacks were true freshman Scott Dreisbach and walk-on Brian Griese. Michigan was playing in the "Kickoff Classic" that year against Virginia. Michigan Stadium baked, Dreisbach started, and the team sucked. Down 17-0 at the half, Michigan looked lifeless.
One of the weirdly vivid memories of my life is listening to an affable Virginia fan tell us Michigan was not going to win the game if they kept letting that freshman throw the ball. We nodded in rueful agreement.
He would turn out to be wrong by one Mercury Hayes toe. Dreisbach finished with 374 yards on 52 attempts,* Michigan won, and all that quarterback stuff was quickly forgotten until the next week and the week after and especially when Dreisbach got injured and Brian Griese was called forth from obscurity and inserted into the starting lineup. This was good in the long term. In the short term, it was brutal:
|Comp %
|Brian Griese
|S Dreisbach
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.
So none of that was particularly good but the team didn't exactly implode. Tim Biakabutuka ran and ran and ran and then ran some more in a 31-23 win over Ohio State and Michigan went 9-4. Not a nuclear waste site by any stretch of the imagination. So… there's a chance.
This year, your nominal starter is the walk-on and the freshmen appear set to wait in line. Nick Sheridan (left) is the walk-on. 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?
Sheridan's main competitor is redshirt freshman Steven Threet (right), who enrolled early at Georgia Tech only to bolt for Michigan when Jason Forcier saw the writing on the wall and transferred. In January the writing reformed itself to read "please come back Jason," but what can you do? Hypothetical newspaper-bearing time travel guy should stop screwing with Michigan fans and tell Forcier to stick it out.
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.
Freshman Justin Feagin talks a great game. He's got the meaningless puff quote down cold. See this on Pryor:
"What if he does go to Michigan? Shame on me if I sit back and think he's better than me. If he wants to play quarterback, we'll have to fight each other for the job. If I win the job, then I'll know I beat out the No. 1 quarterback in the nation."
He's also 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.
If David Cone sees the field something has gone very wrong.
Running Back & Fullback
Rating: 4.
|Brandon Minor
|Mark Moundros
|Carlos Brown
|Vince Helmuth
|Sam McGuffie
|Kevin Grady
|Mike Shaw
Like quarterback, Michigan loses a four-year starter and program icon here. Unlike quarterback, there are six options of at least moderate viability and chances are some player or combination of players emerges into a strong Big Ten starter. Four players were listed as co-starters on the first depth chart; they're discussed here.
|Brandon Minor
|Vandy 25-yarder
|State's too easy
|Zone during The Horror
|ND's too easy
|Sweet spin
|MN is too easy
Brandon Minor is your nominal starter. After a few exciting glimpses his freshman year, Minor proved to be just okay in the more extended audition granted by Hart's ankle problems. Minor was healthy during the spring while Brown was not and is reputed by all to be a demonic worker, so he is the first back in practice. For whatever reason, though, I remain skeptical of his ability. I went back and scoured the UFRs, finding these comments:
Minor is an obvious step down [from Mike Hart].
Brandon Minor missed an obvious read on one of the carries I charted above; I think the running back job is going to be wide open next year. Minor runs really upright and seems perpetually on the verge of getting his clock cleaned; he also clearly lacks Hart's ability to pick through traffic. The spin move on Zbikowski was sweet, though.
Both Brown and Minor showed some indication they will be decent to good Big Ten runners next year.
Minor, I thought, was the better of the backs, consistently running with power and picking up YAC.
That's not entirely helpful when I'm trying to make the case for someone else to start.
Numbers might be: he averaged 4.3 yards a carry, eight tenths of a yard off both Hart and Carlos Brown's 5.1. Even if you hack Brown's 85 yard touchdown against Minnesota down to Minor's long of 46 yards (also picked up against Minnesota), Brown holds a significant edge in YPC.
Minor runs too upright and stiff for my tastes. He's clearly slower than Brown and the fleet freshmen, has little wiggle, and tends to plow over and through defenders instead of trying to avoid them. Sometimes this ends with Minor spectacularly trucking someone; sometimes it ends with Minor taking a wicked shot from a headhunting linebacker or safety.
In the best case, Barwis gives Minor the half-step he needs to get the corner and he's a poor man's version of Darren McFadden. In the worst case he's David Underwood. He must be physically dominant to be effective because he's not going to make people miss much and he doesn't have Hart's remarkable balance. IMO, he gets his fair share of carries throughout the year but is clearly less effective than at least one other tailback and possibly two.
|Carlos Brown
|Loping vs Purdue
|Behind Jake
|Tripping over Leman
|Nice first down
Carlos Brown has a knack for picking up annoying hand injuries. Last year Brown busted his hand in fall practice and missed the early portion of the season; in spring he cut or broke his finger or something in a "freak weightlifting accident." I suspect Barwis bit it off and spent the summer growing a replacement in a jar.
He was also the more impressive non-Hart tailback in 2007, deploying his speed to good effect and, as noted, coming out of last season with a Hart-matching 5.1 YPC thanks to the exceptional generosity of Minnesota's defense.
After his first extended action I summarized him like so:
He seems like the exact opposite of Hart: a guy with questionable vision and little in the way of moves who has the speed to jet into the endzone if you give him a crease (and he sees it). The questionable vision could be due to inexperience -- he spent the spring at defensive back, then broke his hand -- and might develop in the future; Hart-like moves are not likely to. His two slashing touchdown runs were encouraging and he seems much less likely to get decapitated by a charging safety than Minor; he'll have a shot at the job next year. We're likely to see a four- or even five-headed rotation early.
Brown's been moonlighting at quarterback in what must feel like a reprise of his high school career, when he was a quarterback in name only tasked with using his extraordinary athleticism to take Incredibly Surprising Quarterback Draws further than they had any right to go. If Brown does take live snaps at QB, it will be part of a Wildcat (or wild mustelidae) package; he's little threat to throw the ball except as a diversion.
Brown was a big recruit and has the sort of outside speed that Steve Slaton did; I think he'll end up with the slight edge.
Sam McGuffie needs no introduction. Mixtape ho:
He flips over people for fun. People leap over him for fun. When he leaps over people for fun and there is no fun because people tackle him they post it on Youtube like it's a big deal. He is an internet phenomenon. If you try to bring any of these things up to him he will scowl at you. His teammates call him "Vanilla Ice," which no doubt also draws scowls.
I'm on record expecting McGuffie to kick ass:
I'm not one of those who scoffs at recruiting rankings, but their [Rivals'] continued skepticism about McGuffie is puzzling. He has the offers (Michigan, Florida, USC amongst a host of others), the stats at perhaps the highest level of competition available in high school football, and reel after reel of jaw-dropping highlights. He has the fourth-highest SPARQ rating in the history of whatever the hell a SPARQ rating is because he showed up at a combine before his junior year of high school and ripped off a 4.32 40, a 3.83 shuttle -- I'm not exactly sure if my calculations are correct, but I believe this means he finished the shuttle before he started it -- and a 41' vertical leap.
He's a little small, and his his disappointing senior season was injury-wracked to the point where his nationally televised showcase game saw him spinning 180 degrees before contacting tacklers and driving meekly at the feet of oncoming blitzers, but even the skeptical Rivals named him last year's best running back in space and publicly wondered why he was heading for Michigan instead of a school that would spread him all over the field like Wes Welker—white guy, natch—and take advantage of his crazy speed and cutting ability.
Uh, check. He's nominally first on the depth chart already, and will see time all over the field. It begins.
A second freshman, Ohioan Michael Shaw (video), was listed as a wide receiver on the fall roster but features as a tailback on the depth chart. He was a running back in high school; he figures to spend quite a bit of time motioning to and from the slot.
The hype is building on Shaw because he chose the right time to juke a couple defenders and plow slot-sized freshman cornerback Boubacar Cissoko. The media was there doling out oohs and aahs as appropriate and a practice legend is born.
There's more to Shaw than proficiency in the "Michigan drill," though. He hovered just outside the recruiting sites' top 100 lists and spent the spring tearing up the track until he was banned for transfer-related shenanigans. He is fast. And he is fast. And he is fast. At the Penn Relays, Shaw won the 200 meters and anchored his team's winning 4x100 and 4x200 relays, causing his coach to break down in tears:
"I've been coaching since the '60's," Coach Waggoner said of his 46.4 anchor, Mike Shaw, "and I've coached a lot of guys, but he's one of the best."
He is fast.
He is also other things. McGuffie's not the only guy drawing superlative praise from Fred Jackson. Jackson on the nagging injuries picked up by the starters:
"Those two guys right there, I PROMISE you that you stay nicked up too long, it's going to hurt you tremendously,'' Jackson said.
Because Shaw and McGuffie can play right now, he said.
Shaw and McGuffie are two of the most exciting freshmen he has ever coached at Michigan, he continued.
They're Justin Fargas fast, but can cut better.
Fargas-who-can-cut is this program's Loch Ness monster.
Avery Horn is fast as hell but redshirted last year because he wasn't ready to play in college. He ripped off a couple impressive runs in what passed for the spring game but has received little mention in the fall and seems far down the depth chart. Michigan picked freshman Mike Cox over top-100 instate back Jonas Gray when both attended the Michigan camp; he was a middling recruit with offers from Maryland and BC and will probably redshirt.
Both players who saw time return, but the position has changed significantly. Under Lloyd Carr the fullback was a thick-necked ogre tasked with smashing his face into linebackers. He was the target of maybe three or four passes a year and never, ever got to take a handoff (no, BJ Askew doesn't count).
At West Virginia, Rodriguez deployed a thick-necked ogre who ripped off a 50-some yard touchdown against Oklahoma. Owen Schmitt was the hammer on option dives and an important outlet in the passing game; he touched the ball 59 times last year. Michigan fullbacks, as a unit, had three catches for eleven yards, all of them no doubt on third and long. This is why Rodriguez doesn't actually have a "fullback." Rather, he's got an "MX" back, and he's got to block and catch and run.
This is a projection based on some practice reports and common sense, but once Kevin Grady manages to process the copious amounts of alcohol no doubt still flowing through his veins, he might be the guy here. Grady doesn't really fit in with the new offense except as a downhill runner and blocker and now that the "fullback" is a guy who is actually an important cog in the offense he might be amenable to a move, especially if/when it becomes clear that players quicker than he have a death grip on all the tailback carries.
|Mark Moundros
|Debord Ugh
|Crushing Gophers
Mark Moundros and Vince Helmuth are the more traditional options. You can find reasons either has an advantage over the other: Moundros is older and was the starter last year; Helmuth was more highly rated, should improve more quickly, and operated as a battering ram tailback at Saline High. I lean towards Helmuth.
Wide Receivers & Tight Ends
Rating: 3.
|Greg Mathews
|Toney Clemons
|Martavious Odoms
|Carson Butler
|Junior Hemingway
|Darryl Stonum
|Terrence Robinson
|Mike Massey
|James Rogers
|LaTerryal Savoy
|Mike Shaw
|Kevin Koger
Despite the early departures of Mario Manningham and Adrian Arrington to the NFL, Michigan has stockpiled a considerable amount of talent at wide receiver and tight end and the dropoff shouldn't be severe. There will be a dropoff, though, as no one on the roster save maybe Darryl Stonum can hope to replicate Manningham's explosive deep routes, and Stonum is just a freshman.
|Greg Mathews
|Iowa scoop
|NW waggle
|NW post
|Easy ND score
|PSU Cross
|PSU Something
|Pride comes before the fall
Junior Greg Mathews is the most experienced returning player. As a sophomore he was Michigan's third receiver, catching 39 passes for 366 yards. A YPC under 10 always signals possession receiver and that's Mathews' rep going into his first year as Michigan's primary target. The upside here is Jason Avant, a reliable guy on a variety of short routes with outstanding hands and the strength to get off a jam. (We haven't actually seen the outstanding hands, yet, as Mathews has been reliable but unspectacular in the catching-stuff category, but Avant's reliability was only a theory before Braylon left.)
Mathews is unlikely to be much of a vertical threat, however, and a credible deep threat will be important when it comes to keeping safeties from breathing down Sheridan's neck.
Past Mathews things are uncertain. Four or five players vie for one and a half spots. Sophomore Toney Clemons spent the spring working out of the slot because the only other alternative was walk-on Jim Potempa, a player so obscure that the Michigan Stadium public address announcer messed up his name more than once during his half-dozen garbage time carries last year. With the arrival of the impressive, tiny duo of Martavious Odoms and Terrence Robinson, Clemons is likely to move back to the outside where he belongs... eventually. Robinson's "tweaked" knee, about which more later, leaves Michigan with one credible slot option and that's a true freshman. Expect Clemons to move inside and out regularly; his long term home should be on the outside.
|Junior Hemingway
|First catch
Junior Hemingway suffered a severe ankle sprain in the fall and remained limited by it throughout fall camp. Though recruiting guru opinions on him varied wildly, Hemingway had a ton of early offers from national powers and turned in a productive senior year. He seemed ahead of Clemons when the two were freshmen, but the new coaching staff hasn't seen him healthy. He may not make a contribution until midseason. The impression I got from the limited time he saw last year and all the recruiting info I gathered is that Hemingway was a version of Marquise Walker, a spectacular leaper and potential jump-ball threat that lacked something in top-end speed.
One player not lacking in top end speed, Darryl Stonum, was Michigan's highest-rated recruit in the 2008 class. An NFL prototype wide receiver out of Houston, Stonum picked Michigan over USC, Florida, and everyone else. He's a candidate for immediate playing time after enrolling early and participating in spring practices, and has a top-end ceiling on par with any of Michigan's terror wide receivers from years past.
Normally the most optimistic projection for Stonum's freshman year would be something similar to that turned in by Mario Manningham—27 catches, 433 yards, 6 touchdowns—but the early enrollment should help him see the field earlier and more frequently. Forty or even fifty catches is not out of the question.
Stonum's listed as a co-starter at one outside receiver position with surprise LaTerryal Savoy, who's seen almost no time in his three years in the program to date. Savoy was a sleeper out of Louisiana with no other major offers and seemed destined for a career of total obscurity until the moment the depth chart came out with his name atop the list. It's doubtful Savoy's suddenly become a much better receiver, so the bet here is that once Hemingway's injury and Stonum's inexperience subside so will Savoy's prominence on the depth chart. He could be a Tyrece Butler sort who hauls in 10-12 catches.
Those five will be your main targets on the outside. If there is a severe need Michigan could strip the redshirt off freshman Roy Roundtree, the kid who decommitted from Purdue and set off the whole snake oil brouhaha. He's gotten a few approving mentions from Rodriguez during his hourly press conferences, but Roundtree is about 6'3" and weighs as much as slot ninjas a half-foot shorter than him. A redshirt seems advisable.
Zion Babb and James Rogers are in hot competition for the title of most egregiously wasted redshirt of 2007; both bounced to and from the secondary, seeing meaningless snaps that did little to prepare them for roles they're not going to have this year anyway. Neither was big recruit. Rogers was a high school running back plucked from obscurity at Michigan's camp; Babb was a middling recruit out of California. Rodriguez hasn't mentioned either of them this fall and playing time is likely to be sparing. Rogers is reputed to be ahead of Babb.
Slot Receiver
The arrival of Rich Rodriguez brings with it a smurfy new position: slot receiver. In the spread 'n shred these guys are the targets of all manner of different things that aim to get a little electron-sized bastard in open space against a linebacker or safety: option pitches, bubble screens, reverses, etc. This is all terribly exciting, as Michigan now threatens to have four or five Steve Breastons on the roster at all times. This should be a great boon in the return game; in the context of the offense it provides a ton of YAC opportunities that reduce the burden placed on the quarterbacks.
Michigan had none of these guys on the roster, or even in the recruiting class, until Rodriguez came aboard, but in the brief time allotted him he filled the position with authority. Martavious Odoms is from small-school Florida powerhouse Pahokee. His recruitment was extremely strange. He picked up an early offer from Notre Dame, and some months later he had a truly impressive collection for a 5'8" guy: Iowa, Rutgers, South Carolina, LSU, Oregon, Alabama, Tennessee, Auburn, and Rodriguez's then-home of West Virginia.
Odoms' reaction to all this was to sit around doing nothing in particular as most of those schools filled up their classes. There was a cursory visit to Auburn, some discussion of USF and a grayshirt offer from Miami—by then so jammed with players they were trying to get Odoms to campus as a track athlete—and then signing day came and Odoms... did nothing. He ended up signing a few days later, and Michigan fans scrambled to find out just who the heck this kid was.
He's small to the point where he only exists on alternate Tuesdays but he's been playing on Pahokee's varsity since he was 14 (he was an eighth grader at the time) and was smoking guys in the state championship game by the time he was a sophomore. Unlike many guys Odoms' size, he's always been a receiver, and few players can claim to have the extensive in-game experience he has. Practice reports have been universally positive, praising his hands, toughness, silky-smooth moves and ability to make the first tackler miss. I go back to what a Floridian high school football veteran and Friend of Blog told me unprompted when Odoms committed:
He's a tough SOB. Small cat, really tough, will remind you of Steve Smith. Very, very fast. I'm a huge Martavious Odoms fan, you'll love him.
Watch out for him; this is one of those guys you see named "Moss" playing for Miami and think to yourself "goddamn why can't we ever have kids like that?" Practice reports are very encouraging; he sounds like a Steve Breaston if Breaston had been a natural-born receiver. He's listed as the starter in the slot for Utah. You will see plenty of him.
Meanwhile, Terrence Robinson's recruitment got off to a slow start because a junior-year transfer forced him to sit out 2006; when he saw the field for Klein Oak in 2007 he outrushed, outplayed, and outshone top-100 Texas commit DeShaun Hales. He also did this:
Odoms spent five years at Pahokee smoking opponents and winning state championships while Robinson sat out with a transfer and played quarterback and running back and such; even if Robinson hadn't "tweaked" his knee Odoms would be the odds on favorite to start in the slot. Robinson will be out for a few weeks and then work his way into the lineup.
Tight End
|Carson Butler
|CMU waggle
|Iowa cross
|Iowa tiptoe
|Iowa cross #2
|Good block(!)
|PSU waggle
|Purdue waggle
|Very bad block
Rich Rodriguez is going to have to use his tight ends a lot more than he did at West Virginia, because he's got six of them and one has the potential to be ridiculously good as long as he's not asked to block anyone ever. That fellow is Carson Butler, who came back from Lloyd Carr purgatory to claim the starting tight end spot after Mike Massey's season-ending knee injury against Northwestern. Butler is the combination of freakish athletic gifts and frustrating mental errors that always gets dubbed "enigmatic" and this preview will be no exception: Carson Butler is one enigmatic mofo.
His promise is obvious. In the Citrus Bowl, he took a tight end screen and loped 65 yards downfield (skip to 2:00) with the bulk of the Florida secondary in pursuit; no one on the Florida team could make up ground and it took a safety with an angle to force him out inside the ten. That is a very fast man in an improperly large body. Properly deployed, he could be an All-American.
Butler's drawbacks were equally severe, though. He false-starts with frustrating regularity. Asking him to block a pass rusher is asking for a helmet in your quarterback's ribs. This outing against Michigan State was a typical performance:
Ugly, ugly, ugly, especially on the part of Butler, not only complete fail in pass protection but also the culprit on several run plays that went nowhere and the recipient of two critical penalties, one a stupid personal foul and the other a comically inept holding call on Michigan's final drive.
Is it much of a mismatch when your super-athletic tight end blocks like a 180 pound wide receiver? Not really. Evidently Rodriguez agrees since Butler is listed as an OR with not only Mike Massey but freshman Kevin Koger.
I have no idea what to expect out of Butler this year. He could be an All-American caliber performer (he's unlikely to get enough catches to be an actual All-American) in a contract year for him. He could lose his job in week two.
Mike Massey, meanwhile, returns from that knee injury. In three years of sporadic onfield action, Massey hasn't done much except almost make a couple of spectacular catches. He was the tentative starter last year until the injury in the Northwestern game. He seems totally average, a guy who will catch the balls he should and make most of the blocks he should but excel in no way whatsoever.
Freshman Kevin Koger picked Michigan over Ohio State and has been mentioned as someone who could see playing time this fall; he is the third co-starter on the depth chart. The most likely outcome is a smattering of snaps in preparation for a starting job next year.
|Martell Webb
|Nice block
Martell Webb was Butler's backup once Massey went down and sometimes the temporary starter when Butler had seriously pissed off the coaching staff; he made no catches and drew no notice in UFRs. He did have an excellent block against Minnesota, for whatever that's worth. Webb was a nobody recruit when he committed to Michigan, but ended up a four-star to both Scout and Rivals; he's also that 6'5" basketball player that's all the rage at TE. He could be pretty good if given the opportunity. Given the surfeit of tight ends on the roster and some reported issues with drops in practice he probably won't get that opportunity until 2009.
Steve Watson redshirted last year and seems to be way down the depth chart. Sparing playing time at best for him; watch for a potential move to the OL. Brandon Moore has an imposing frame at 6'6" and had been offered by a who's who of college football programs by the time he committed to Michigan, but has gone totally unremarked upon this fall and seems a likely redshirt. If he fills out like whoah a move to tackle might be a possibility, but in high school he was regarded as a no-block TE with excellent hands.
Offensive Line
Rating: 1.
|Mark Ortmann
|Tim McAvoy
|David Molk
|David Moosman
|Steve Schilling
|Perry Dorrestein
|Ricky Barnum
|Rocko Khoury
|John Ferrara
|Dann O'Neill
Perhaps the saddest indicator of the potential looming tragedy that is the Michigan offensive line is this: last year this depth chart went three deep. There's no one but freshmen unlisted this year and, uh… four freshmen in the actual two-deep as hypothesized above.
The line took a hit it could not afford to sustain when certain starter and once upon a time touted recruit Cory Zirbel went down with a knee injury, forcing either David Molk or hastily converted defensive lineman John Ferrara into the starting lineup. Michigan is now one injury away from serious issues indeed.
|Steve Schilling
|Clocking Illini
Steve Schilling is the only returning starter on the line. Unfortunately for Michigan, last year he was frankly bad. There are a ton of mitigating factors—a freshman-year bout with mononucleosis was followed by a shoulder injury that spring, so he was basically being thrown on the field as a true freshman—but bad is bad. Vernon Gholston shattered him into little bits in the OSU game, which saw Shilling rack up a record –12 in pass protection. After the Illinois game he came in for a bit of criticism:
The problems in pass protection have been matched with frequent issues in the run game. One sack and a dangerously batted pass were on him as he failed to contain Illinois DE Doug Pilcher. At the moment, the great hope of the 2007 offensive line, that Schilling and Boren would turn out to be better than the departed Bihl/Riley combo, has not come to fruition. It looks highly unlikely to get there any time this year.
There is the potential for massive improvement here. Practice observers have indicated that Schilling now looks like a bonafide collegiate lineman after being far too small last year. As a freshman starter and former five-star recruit the expectation is he takes a major leap forward. He'd better.
Mark Ortmann draws the unenviable task of attempting to replace the #1 pick in the NFL draft. This is his fourth year in the program and practice reports had him on the verge of starting for the last two seasons, but there was presumably a reason he was stuck behind the uninspiring Schilling last year. This year he's Michigan's starting left tackle virtually by default, as there is one other non-freshman tackle on the roster. He could be okay. He could be really bad. We have no indicators either way.
Interior Line
David Moosman slides into Zirbel's spot at right guard. He's not from Wisconsin despite this blog's repeated insistence that he is. He's from Illinois, and I have inside info that he's very nice to his GSIs. Moosman was a four-star recruit who picked Michigan over Wisconsin and is entering his third year in a college program, so he could be good.
Dave Molk is a feisty, undersized center from Illinois who was one of only two offensive line recruits in Lloyd Carr's final Michigan class. He fits much better in this system than Carr's, as it emphasizes his mobility and places a much smaller premium on size, but Rodriguez made it clear he was battling John Ferrara for a starting job. Two weeks ago Ferrara was a defensive lineman. Crap.
Tim McAvoy saw sporadic time last year at both guard spots due to injury and general lethargy on the part of others. Like Ortmann, he nas stuck behind an extremely uninspiring starter (Alex Mitchell) and doesn't have much in the way of recruiting hype to fall back on. He's been a defacto starter since the departure of Mr. Plow; lord knows if he's going to be any good.
There are virtually no backups as long as Cory Zirbel's knee injury persists, and the word from Rodriguez is that could be the entire season. Mark Huyge exists, I guess, but he's a redshirt freshman Michigan snatched away from the MAC. He's unlikely to be ready. He's also got a high ankle sprain and will miss a chunk of the season. As mentioned, John Ferrara was whiling his time away at defensive tackle until the Zirbel injury forced a position switch. Ferrara's never blocked in his life. He may start.
At tackle, Perry Dorrestein is most famous for having his one-point-something GPA outed by the Ann Arbor News; insider buzz has been totally silent on him. He was a decent recruit.
It's down to true freshmen, then. Rodriguez has specifically said these guys are not ready to play but the situation might demand it of them. Guard Ricky Barnum is the least unprepared. He was a highly-rated Florida commit until Rodriguez wandered by with his snake oil cart and has gotten some public praise; he's probably the second guy off the bench in the event of issues with the interior line. Rocko Khoury has been garnering praise as a center and will start the season in the two deep.
God willing, four other freshmen will redshirt. Tackle Dann O'Neill was a top-100 recruit and has great upside but is not prepared to play this year. Kurt Wermers and Patrick Omameh would never, ever see the field in a normal year but this is not a normal year and they could wander onto the field if things get dire. Elliot Mealer is out with a shoulder injury suffered in the tragic Christmas Eve crash that killed his father and girlfriend.


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POMONA, Calif. (AP) – Sheep and goats may not be known as party animals, but they're increasingly at the center of the celebration as petting zoos grow in popularity for birthdays, graduations and other bashes.
Petting a gentle animal of any kind seems to appeal to young, old and in between. Daycare centers, schools, churches and even nursing homes rent mobile zoos that will bring animals and handlers to them or organize trips to petting zoos.
"You can see the absolute joy as they are sitting there stroking some animal, particularly if it's the first time in their life they have touched one," said Sky Shivers, superintendent of Fairview Farms at the Los Angeles County Fair, 35 miles east of downtown LA. "There is tranquility, an exchange of emotion that's amazing to watch."
Shivers, 63, of Prague, Okla., said a good zoo is as educational as it is entertaining, reeling off several fun facts: baseballs have wool in their cores; doctors use the intestinal lining from some animals to graft serious burns; female goats have beards like males; and while sheep prefer grass to weeds, goats want it the other way around.
Sheep and goats are popular because they only have bottom teeth and are safer around children.
"Ponies and donkeys have teeth on the top and bottom and are more likely to nip fingers," Shivers said. Even so, pony rides are often coupled with petting zoos, and can often be found during the holidays at many pumpkin patches and Christmas sales lots.
Rental fees range from $200 to $325 per hour, depending on the number of animals and the particular business.
The animals run the gamut from tortoises to hares. Some include exotic critters like wallabies and llamas while others offer creatures that can be found closer to home, such as deer and donkeys.
People often like to see babies, so Brendon Kline features baby chicks, ducks and bunnies, small potbellied pigs and a baby goat at Party Animalz Farm in Brogue, Pa.
"A lot of the older people enjoy it as much as the children do," Kline said. "A lot of them grew up on farms and these are animals they don't see every day anymore."
All God's Creatures in Chino Hills, 40 miles east of Los Angeles, features Serenity the silly goose and Goliath, an 80-pound turtle.
Owner Lori Bayour takes the animals on the road to hospices, city neighborhoods, parties and a rodeo.
Faith Lundgren loves to watch her grandson at Bayour's petting zoo each October at the Industry Hills Charity Pro Rodeo.
"The animals don't shy away from the kids at all," Lundgren said. "Sometimes they even make the first move. They enjoy being there as much as the kids enjoy having them."
Not everyone thinks petting zoos are a good thing.
"We think they're a bad idea," said Meredith Turner, spokeswoman for the national advocacy group Farm Sanctuary. "Animals are often not in good health, they're kept in an unnatural environment, and they teach kids that animals exist for our entertainment, when in actuality, they exist for their own reasons."
Animals need to be clean, healthy, gentle and insured. Handlers should provide feed for the animals and clean up after them. Another must is a sanitizing station so those who pet the animals can wash their hands.
A bad experience for a child can last a lifetime.
"You can't leave them alone," Shivers said. "They will get knocked down and scream and cry and be afraid of animals for the rest of their lives."
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Mother Nature Roughs up California,
Mother Nature gave California a serious hammering this past winter, with stiff winds hurling near-record amounts of snow on the Sierra Nevada, emptying buckets of water on the lowlands, and throwing in a tsunami on the state's northern coast. But through it all, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) worked tirelessly to keep the highways clear and traffic moving — to the public's appreciation.
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Things got bad enough that in April Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., issued an emergency proclamation for 19 counties following storms that pummeled California. They included, Amador, Butte, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Madera, Mariposa, Mendocino, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Sierra, Stanislaus, Sutter, Trinity, Tuolumne, and Ventura counties.
Every Caltrans district received some pounding, especially during a two-week period of late winter bluster, but some got more than their fair share. For example, District 3 Director Jody Jones informed Sacramento headquarters in late March that "as of 6 a.m., we have had 709 inches of snowfall (on Interstate 80) at Donner Summit so far this year. The record is 780 inches set in 1951. That was the year a passenger train got stuck up there," Jones wrote, recalling a stranded luxury train, the Southern Pacific's "City of San Francisco."
District 3's (Marysville) famed Sierra Snowfighters endured serious pounding while clearing snow on the I-80 and U.S. Highway 50 corridors. More than a dozen storms contributed to a winter with near-record snowfall. Along I-80, 740 inches of snow were measured on the Donner Summit's Castle Peak (elevation, 7,239) — the second highest ever recorded at that spot. Most of it fell between March 14 and 28. Average summit snowfall is 430 inches.
"We had 12 rotary plows working in tandem all night — going back and forth and they couldn't keep it cleared." District 3 Director Jody Jones
District 3 used more than 300 pieces of equipment, and 200 dedicated employees worked through blizzard conditions, plowing snow and performing avalanche control to maintain safe road conditions for traveling motorists. The severe winter storm, with high winds and snow accumulation of up to 18 inches in foothill communities, contributed to power outages that shut down government offices, schools and businesses in some areas for as long as three days.
Jones wrote to Sacramento headquarters on March 25: "We were able to open I-80 to vehicles (no trucks) about noon today. It had been closed all night due to zero visibility. We had 12 rotary plows working in tandem all night — going back and forth and they couldn't keep it cleared. The westbound lanes are above the eastbound lanes, and we are having to move the snow twice because there is nowhere to put it. We are clearing the westbound lanes by pushing/blowing the snow onto the eastbound lanes and then pushing/blowing it again over the side. The snow was falling so heavily that as soon as they finished, it was snowed over again."
Caltrans crews would have done their best regardless of who was watching, but it's always nice to receive a little positive feedback. For example, John A. Rice, general manager of Sierra at Tahoe Snowsports Resort, wrote to Bill Netto, a maintenance supervisor in South Lake Tahoe: "With the sheer volume of snow we experienced this past winter, I know your crews were pushed to their limits to keep the roads in good shape. From our perspective, they did an awesome job managing the snowfall and potential avalanche conditions on Highway 50."
Mark Treiber, a permanent resident of South Lake Tahoe, added: "The Caltrans crews in our area have been darned near heroic. Awesome job! [It's] difficult to understand how they do so much snow removal in such a short amount of time."
Meanwhile, as District 3 was defending itself against heavy blows to mountain passes, its Structures Maintenance engineers on March 24 concluded that scouring had become critical on piers under the 10th Street Bridge, which crossed the storm-swollen Sacramento River. This was a critical link on State Route 20 (SR-20) between Yuba City and Marysville. And it was one more three-aspirin headache during a winter full of such challenges.
The North Region Office of Surveyors answered the call. Within hours, surveyors gathered up their equipment and went to work. They had to design and fabricate brackets to fasten laser targets to the bridge structure to aid the surveying process, establish control of the situation and set up equipment.
All work was done during a rain storm and 40 mph winds. Making matters worse, office support was unavailable because District 3's headquarters had suffered a power outage. Despite challenges and within hours, the crew installed equipment and began monitoring the bridge for dangerous movement. Monitoring continued around the clock for 11 days with surveyors taking measurements every two hours. Due to their efforts, the bridge stayed open to the more than 40,000 vehicles that use it every day.
Meanwhile, District 10 (Stockton) contended with some brutal opposition of its own. Braving hostile weather, crews battled large boulders, damaged roads, flooding, avalanches, extreme snow, white-out conditions, potholes, rocks, mud, and debris slides. And that doesn't include a nasty sinkhole on Highway 99 discovered during a stormy Friday afternoon.
The winter produced the second-highest recorded snowfall for SR-88 in the Caples Lake area. By the end of winter, the level stood at a tad over 555 inches, some 2.4 feet short of the record 584 inches recorded in the winter of 1982-83. Despite those numbers, from November 30 through March 27, crews kept Carson Pass open 97 percent of the time and Carson Spur clear 87 percent. They performed a controlled avalanche at 2 a.m. and led caravans of travelers through these operations, allowing them to reach their mountain homes safely.
Meanwhile, SR-140, an all-weather route into Yosemite National Park, had its own problems. Some 30 slides occurred during the height of the winter season in the Merced River Canyon. District 10's crews fought during the day to clear the road and open traffic to one-way control.
However, work was forced to stop at nightfall. The California Highway Patrol closed the area after dark because steep, rain-soaked canyon walls sloughed off debris that made driving unsafe in the gloom. Caltrans brought in additional crews to remove the tons of debris that fell onto the road.
A crew was dispatched to remove numerous trees and limbs that fell or threatened to fall onto the road. Caltrans' efficient use of resources ensured the heavily traveled route was ready to greet spring visitors heading to Yosemite's magnificent waterfalls and spectacular spring flora.
The weather situation was just as dire in parts of southern and central California. District 8 (San Bernardino) faced its greatest winter challenges along SR-330 in the San Bernardino Mountains, running 14 miles north from Highland into Running Springs. On December 21, as the southland was experiencing one of the most devastating storms in more than 20 years, District 8 maintenance crews were conducting routine inspections along the serpentine SR-330.
Several locations were cause for concern. Inspections continued through the night until early morning when maintenance crews began to escort motorists through the route due to debris and slides – eventually closing the route because of dangerous conditions.
The next morning crews came upon a large slide on SR-330. They quickly mobilized separate contractors, and began repairs at three locations with major damage, as well as several other sites nearby. The cost for Mother Nature's rampage: approximately $21 million.
District 8 and its contractors reopened the roadway in June to commuter traffic during peak hours. Contractors conducted all work behind barricades and posted flaggers at the three locations with major damage to ensure the safety of Caltrans and contract workers, and the commuting public.
District 5 (San Luis Obispo) was having one of its busiest seasons ever along the Big Sur coast, including several construction projects worth tens of millions of dollars, and preventive maintenance in response to the major Big Sur fire in summer 2008. Then on March 16, District 5 was hit with a new set of challenges along the scenic coastline. A 150-foot section of the southbound SR 1 at Rocky Creek collapsed, shutting down the entire roadway between Carmel and Big Sur.
Crews worked to stabilize the area, detour traffic and secure the area to ensure public safety. A contractor hired within a week of the damage began a $2.5 million emergency fix. The road is now open to controlled traffic, but a permanent repair will likely take a year or more and require a new 700-foot roadbed on either side of the collapse.
A week later, a slide south of Big Sur at Limekiln Creek dumped tons of rock and mud on the roadway, closing Highway 1 for a few days and temporarily isolating the community. When it was cleared on March 27, another slide struck at Alder Creek, and the highway there was closed until June 9, opening in time for the summer tourist season.
Through it all, Caltrans District 5 maintenance crews, engineers, planners, traffic managers and information officers worked long hours to manage the closure, respond to traveler/resident issues and design temporary and permanent repairs. All three road sections are now open thanks to the district's hard work.
In perhaps the oddest winter event of all, District 1 (Eureka) sparred not merely with rain and snow, but with a rare tsunami, resulting from a spring earthquake in Japan. The tsunami, or "harbor wave" in Japanese, also did significant damage in Santa Cruz to piers and small craft.
District 1 (Eureka) has participated since 2008 in the Emergency Alert System, which attempted to prepare the area for a tsunami. The practice exercise scheduled for March 23 was trumped and turned real on March 11, and crews in Del Norte County assisted with tsunami-related road closures in addition to responding to several slip outs and erosion issues along U.S. Highway 101. Ironically, the District learned enough during the emergency response to cancel the planned exercise for later that month.
In addition to winter weather issues listed above, there were less dramatic, but still significant problems.
In Humboldt County, Highway 101 north of Garberville was closed for almost five days due to a massive mudslide that covered all four lanes of the highway. In the Fresno area, District 6 dealt with rockslides and local flooding that closed SRs 41, 168, 178 and 198.
Also in Orange County, District 12 had a wet and busy winter. A succession of winter storms hammered Orange County and kept District 12 Maintenance crews scurrying for much of the season – with flooding on SR-1 in Huntington Beach, and stretches of southbound I-405.
In summary, despite the worst punches winter could throw, Caltrans weathered the storm and kept travelers and goods moving throughout the state.
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DuPont cuts earnings outlook, citing corn-seed sales
(4:15 PM ET) WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Chemicals giant DuPont DD, +3.65% cut its second-quarter and 2014 profit outlook, citing a worse-than-expected performance in its agriculture arm and also its performance chemicals line. DuPont cited lower-than-expected corn seed sales, higher-than-expected corn seed inventory write-downs, lower-than-expected crop protection herbicide sales, and lower-than-expected selling prices in refrigerants for mobile and stationary applications, which offset better-than-expected soybean sales volumes. It now sees second-quarter operating earnings below last year's $1.28 a share, and sees 2014 earnings per share between $4 and $4.10 a share. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected second-quarter earnings of $1.46 a share and 2014 earnings of $4.28 a share. DuPont traded lower in the after-hours session on the news.
ConAgra fourth-quarter revenue beats expectations
(7:55 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- ConAgra Foods Inc. CAG, +3.61% said Thursday it swung to a loss of $324.2 million, or 77 cents a share, in the fiscal fourth quarter from a year-earlier profit of $192.2 million, or 46 cents a share. Adjusted per-share earnings fell to 55 cents from 60 cents. Net sales fell 2.8% to $4.44 billion from $4.56 billion a year earlier. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected per-share earnings of 58 cents on sales of $4.42 billion. "We are disappointed with fiscal 2014 overall, and we have a very focused sense of urgency directed toward improving our results," said Gary Rodkin, ConAgra Foods' chief executive. ConAgra said it plans to continue its $1 a share annual dividend and expects to reduce debt by about $1 billion in fiscal 2015. The food company said it expects per-share earnings to grow at a "mid-single digit rate" in fiscal year 2015, with an expected "high-single digit rate" of annual per-share earnings growth in fiscal 2016 and 2017. ConAgra shares rose 0.9% premarket.
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(7:28 AM ET) (Corrects to remove adjusted EPS number that was from the year earlier) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Accenture ACN, +1.00% said Thursday it had net income of $881.8 million, or $1.26 a share, in its fiscal third quarter, up from $874.1 million, or $1.21, in the same period a year ago. Revenues rose 7% to $7.74 billion, above the company's expectations, as new bookings totaled $8.8 billion. The FactSet consensus was for per-share earnings of $1.21 and revenue of $7.546 billion. The consulting firm said it now expects fourth-quarter revenue of $7.45 billion to $7.70 billion. For fiscal 2014, the company is expecting revenue growth in a range of 4% to 5%. Earnings per share are forecast in a range of $4.50 to $4.54, compared with a previous range of $4.50 to $4.62. Operating cash flow is forecast at $3.3 billion to $3.6 billion. Accenture said it expects to return $3.7 billion to shareholders in 2014, through dividends and share buybacks. Shares were not yet active in premarket trade.
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(5:19 AM ET) LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Philip Morris International PM, -2.24% has cut its full-year earnings projection for 2014, citing unfavorable currency impacts and price discounting in Australia. Diluted earnings per share for 2014 are now forecast to be in a range of $4.87 to $4.97, compared with the range of $5.09 to $5.19 given on May 7 by the tobacco maker. "We continue to face significant currency headwinds, an improving but weak macro-economic environment in the EU and known challenges in Asia, partly offset by a robust performance in a number of markets and the contribution of our business development initiatives," Philip Morris's Chief Executive Andre Calantzopoulos said in a statement on Thursday. "Furthermore, we have recently witnessed significant price discounting at the low end of the market in Australia." Philip Morris, which is holding a two-day investor meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, also said it expects to take a pretax charge of about $495 million, or 24 cents a share, in the second quarter of 2014 as a result of halting cigarette production at a factory in the Netherlands.


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-Android のスパイ ソフトウェアは、役に立つか。
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There are many benefits of installing spying software for Android. Here are some of the many benefits you can get from installing it:
インストールします。 アンドロイドのスパイ ソフトウェア allows you to keep tabs on your kids, particularly their daily activities on mobile phone/smart phone, including messages, received and missed calls, phone book entries, and others. This will let you know if they are cheating on you or not.
Note: it is illegal to spy your spouse with Mobile Spy Apps without his or her permission.
It's hard to check the productivity level of each and every employee you have in your office. It may look like they are working hard on their desks, but, sometimes, it really isn't the case as they are really "hard working". With the spying software for Android, you can check whether they are doing what they are assigned or just slacking off.
使用して、 アンドロイドのスパイ ソフトウェア, you can check whether they are browsing the Internet using their smartphone, chatting with their friends or their relatives through SMS, or just watching videos and listening to music during their work hours. By installing the software, you can effectively raise your office's productivity level by a whole lot.
携帯電話から離れてコンピューターも不適切なオンライン行動が起こる危険性の高い場所となります。アップルの Mac OS X コンピューターで従業員を監視するため有効にしてください。 Mac 用 Easemon 従業員のモニター!
These days, crime has become very rampant, no matter in real world or cyberspace. Your kids may run into kinds of potential dangers when they surf online. You need to know what they do with smartphones and restrict the use of the device. And, when your kids are out and about and haven't come back home yet, it can be quite worrying.
と、 アンドロイドのスパイ ソフトウェア, you can check what kids do on their Android phones. You can also block apps or even lock the phone remotely. It is possible to get their locations anytime and anywhere. This software will surely make you feel at ease, as you will know that they are safe and sound.
あれらはインストールから得ることができる多くの利点の 3 つだけ、 アンドロイドのスパイ ソフトウェア. Of course, it is recommended that you get the best spying software for yourself.
One of the best spying software you can opt for Android is Mobile Spy App. It is virtually undetectable and can't be seen on the mobile phone's task manager. With it, you can easily check others' mobile phones discreetly and without causing any alarm from them.
So if you want to check on others secretly, opt for Mobile Spy App right now!
任意の互換性のある iPhone、ブラックベリー、アンドロイド、ウィンドウズ モバイルや Symbian OS ベースのアップル、サムスン、ノキア、モトローラ、HTC で多くのモデルを含むスマート フォン もっとその
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Unreal Engine 3D modellers
Budget £10-80 GBP
We're looking for a group or individual who can produce high quality enviroment object packs for Unreal Engine 4.
The game will be a first person shooter, produced by a small indie team on a tight budget.
Each pack will make up 1 level, the size of each level will be 505 x 505, in total we will require a minimum of 10 packs, so this will lead to ongoing work.
In the near future we will also require weapon packs and playable characters with animations
To give an example of what we require, see this link [url removed, login to view]
To get started we would like the first pack to have an Industrial theme and look abandoned and old, example material can be supplied.
We will require :
5 large buildings with 3 to 4 floors, each building must have multiple entry/exits and a balcony in places with fire escape stairs, the walls in some places must be destructible, interior and exterior walls can be blown open and include roof access.
10 medium sized buildings with 1 or 2 floors,the walls in some places must be destructible, interior and exterior walls can be blown open and include roof access, balcony also required in some places and with fire escape stairs.
10 small buildings, such as storage tanks/silos, sheds and storage areas.
5 types of walls in various sizes, with at least 1 damaged version and a gate.
5 types of fences in various sizes, with at least 1 damaged version and a gate.
A variety of pipes and ventilation of various angles, some small and some large enough for a playable character to enter, with at least 1 hole to be used for entry.
Road, path and sidewalk components for modular and/or spline set up.
Catwalks for joining the rooftops.
Various foliage, 5 types of trees and other smaller bushes and plants.
50+ props to be added, including folk lift trucks, skips, large and small bins, wooden crates, traffic cones, rubbish piles, random debris and other items to make the level feel natural.
A variety of working destructible interior and exterior lights, including street lights, traffic lights and fire exit signs along with interior lighting.
All source files must be sent when the project is completed and any errors discovered later must be corrected.5
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text: Henry Barajas is the co-creator, writer and letterer for El Loco and Captain Unikorn. He has also written and lettered short stories for two successful Kickstarter SpazDog Press projects: Unite and Take Over: Stories inspired by The Smiths and Break The Walls: Comic Stories inspired by The Pixies. He is the Newsroom Research Assistant for The Arizona Daily Star and was nominated for the Shel Dorf Blogger of the Year award for his work at The Beat. You can follow him on Twitter @HenryBarajas and Google+.


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This feral dog's a paradox like a flaccid masturbator
Classic procrastinator, napping, saving crap for later
Rap addict, massive hater with some Pringles on my shoulder
Middle fingers for the censors and some pencils in my holster
Finna choke ya, King Cobra, I'm a nutty, riled punk
Rising up, I'm on fire like a fucking Thai monk
Vile tongue; I'm a hothead, guess I'm kind of feverish
And I never beat my bitch, I just make the beat my bitch
Ironic as a bleeding Crip, lazy as baked teens
But one day, every rapper's gonna be a fake me
ADHD, anxiety, depression
You could hide a giant in the bag I stash my meds in
I don't need a pension, I need a private island
And I ain't 18, but I've got two fucking nines and
A fine, lab-black pair of Vans, I'm a hound, ho
I rap and fags crap their pants, spit the brown note
[Hook x4]
Naughty, rotten rhymer
Naught-naughty rotten rhymer
[Verse 2]
Harder than Kevlar, larger than Reptar
Smarter than them cars that's smaller than Rex arms
I block typhoons and shock schlocks -- Raichu
I rhyme smooth as knives move through five dudes
Or Five Guys, I'm going HAM with a burger and fries
Lion Pride, I'm grinding with this damn murderous mind
Merlin of wordplay -- Scrabble shit; it's black and white, like cattle, if
The question that they're asking is whose swagger is the nastiest?
The answer's clear as two times two, Flo Rida to a 2 Live Crew
We're nasty as we want to be, wannabes get duped as soon
As I move in, jewels luminous; I'm Booker, cause I do it, this
Lunatic is moving kids with music, getting doobies lit
Locker room vocabulary, cockapoos ain't half as fairy
As this faggot scaredy-cat who brags of gats I swear he lacks
Suckers quit, I'm up in this bitch like a tampon
I make these pussies bleed 'cuz I'm a king and they just damn pawns
[Hook x8]
Naughty, rotten rhymer
Naught-naughty rotten rhymer
On Old Faithless. Beat and lyrics by 15-year-old Coydog. The hook samples Eminem's "Just Don't Give a Fuck".


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Schools in Abington and Rockland are reviewing their dismissal procedures after a boy was abducted in Rockland on Tuesday.
ROCKLAND – School administrators in Rockland will be re-evaluating their pick-up and drop-off procedures in the wake of the abduction of a 9-year-old boy.
On Tuesday afternoon, the boy was picked up by an unknown man in a car near the Memorial Park Elementary School. The man released the boy unharmed about 25 minutes later in the area of Lake Street in Abington.
"We're going to look at all of our pick-up and drop-off procedures at all schools," said Rockland Superintendent John Retchless, who added that the school system's administrators would be meeting on Thursday to discuss potential improvements to the procedures.
While first-graders are required to wait in the playground until parents walk over and pick them up, students in the second, third and fourth grades are allowed to walk to their parents' vehicles in the parking lot.
At dismissal on Wednesday, three Rockland police officers were present as students left the building.
Retchless said that the adult presence outside of the school, both at drop-off and pick-up, was increased on Wednesday and will remain augmented until the end of the year.
Generally, paraprofessionals are the adults who are outside monitoring the students, Retchless said.
"We want people out there who know the kids and know the families," Retchless added.
Other measures being considered to enhance security at the school are the installation of surveillance cameras and bringing in an outside group to work with students on what they should do if a stranger approaches them.
In Abington, administrators reviewed their dismissal policy and procedures on Wednesday and took a number of other steps to address the situation, said Superintendent Peter Schafer.
A letter containing "stranger danger" tips from the Abington Police Department was sent home to parents of students in pre-kindergarten to eighth grade and students received an age-appropriate review of the situation in their classrooms.
"We're not allowed to lose kids. You continue to work hard to make sure it doesn't happen," Schafer said. "I'm a parent. There would be nothing in life that would be harder than that."
In the wake of the abduction, parents voiced fear and anger as they picked up their children at Memorial Park Elementary School on Wednesday.
"I think it's ridiculous," said Dee McDonald, while she waited to pick up her son. "I'm mad as a parent."
McDonald added that she was hoping the school would make changes to the pick-up procedures after the abduction.
"They need to figure out something better because, when they let the kids out the back door, they just run rampant," McDonald said.
Michelle Spengler said she was "shocked" when she saw coverage of the abduction on the news Tuesday night.
"I think it's very scary" said Spengler. "I've lived here for over 30 years, and I've never heard of anything like this before."
Prior to the abduction, Spengler allowed her daughter to make the short walk to and from school on her own but, on Wednesday, Spengler was in her car waiting to pick her up.
"She won't be walking home for the rest of the year," Spengler said.
As of Wednesday night, police were still looking for a suspect in the case.
The suspect was described by police as a white male with a thin build with white hair longer in the back than on the top. He was driving a white or gray four-door sedan with white or silver wheels or hubcaps.
"We're concerned this may have been sort of a dry run for somebody that was considering an abduction or a kidnapping," said Rockland Police Chief John Llewellyn to WCVB.
The suspect allegedly got the child into his vehicle by telling him that he was a friend of the child's father. After driving around Rockland and Abington for about 25 minutes, the man told the boy to get out of the car in the area of Lake Street in Abington.
The boy walked to the Abington Police Station after he was dropped off.
"This person could be from anywhere. It's possible this person came from a distance," said Abington Police Chief David Majenski. "In this whole region we would use caution. It should be a little bit of a wake-up call."
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Four SUNY Cortland faculty and administrators received the prestigious State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence during the 2012 Undergraduate Commencement on May 12 in the Park Center.
The honorees were:
• Jeffrey J. Walkuski, associate professor of physical education — Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service;
• Melony Warwick, secretary II in the Division of Institutional Advancement — Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Classified Service;
• Julian H. Wright, director of recreational sports — Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service; and
• Tiantian Zheng, professor of sociology/anthropology — Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.
The Chancellor's Awards are conferred to provide system-wide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement and to encourage the pursuit of excellence at all 64 SUNY campuses. Each campus president submits nominations, which are reviewed by the SUNY Committee on Awards.
This year's SUNY Cortland award winners are profiled below:
Jeffrey J. Walkuski
|Jeffrey J. Walkuski
Walkuski becomes the ninth SUNY Cortland recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service. It recognizes his extensive College service and leadership, as well as his specific efforts to help both individual students and his community as well as his profession, which he represented at an international level.
Walkuski joined the College as an assistant professor in 1999 and was promoted to associate professor in 2006.
He has delivered presentations on teacher preparation and on childhood motor learning and fitness in Singapore, Bangkok and Shanghai. On the international level, he was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Association Internationale des Ecoles Superieures d'Education Physique (AIESEP) World Congress, an organization which he chaired in 1997.
He has spoken at more than 69 regional, state and national conferences. In addition, Walkuski has served as a grant reviewer for the United States Department of Education on the "Head Start Body Smart" Play Space Grant Program for the National Center for Physical Development and Outdoor Play. He also was a 2012 proposal reviewer for the American Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) national convention, in his role as a member of the Higher Education Committee.
Walkuski is the author of 21 published articles in the areas of teacher preparation and methodology; implementation of technology and systematic observation in teaching and learning; curriculum development; and motor learning in children. These writings have appeared in prestigious publications including Journal of Sport Sciences; Journal of Human Movement Studies; Teaching and Learning; and Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. In addition, he has been a frequent presenter at the international, national, state and regional levels.
"Being involved in the education of students is not only about the intellectual side, but also the affective side," Walkuski stated. "This perhaps can and will have the most lasting impact on one's life and profession."
He has served as the advisor to the men's ice hockey and rugby clubs and the Alliance for Physical Education Majors.
His work in the Dryden community, on the outskirts of Cortland, has focused on youth sports and youths at risk. He has served as a volunteer head coach for community youth soccer, basketball and swimming, the latter with the Dryden Aquatic Racing Team (DART).
Walkuski has served the Faculty Senate for 11 years in many leadership roles, including as chair and in other executive roles and on key committees.
Walkuski holds a Bachelor of Arts in Physical Education from California State University, Sacramento; a Master of Science in Motor Learning and Control from Kansas State University; and a Ph.D. in motor development and physical education teacher education with secondary emphasis in research methodology and statistics, developmental psychology, from Ohio State University.
Melony Warwick
|Melony Warwick
Warwick, a SUNY Cortland employee for the past 25 years, becomes the fourth SUNY Cortland recipient of the classified service honor, created by SUNY in 2009 and presented in recognition of outstanding job performance, flexibility, creativity and exemplary customer service.
"Ms. Warwick is well known for her superior organizational skills and excellent work ethic," said College President Erik J. Bitterbaum. "A perfectionist, she has a definite eye for detail that most certainly ensures the success of the events she has supervised. Ms. Warwick readily volunteers for new initiatives, and she has repeatedly demonstrated great flexibility in assisting with the training of new staff in the division throughout the years."
Warwick has served three different vice presidents during her years at the College. She has been instrumental in organizing board meetings and materials and providing support to the Cortland College Foundation Board of Directors. Warwick is a key organizer of donor and College events, including alumni gatherings, emeriti faculty gatherings, donor dedication ceremonies, Alumni Reunion Weekend, the annual Partners in Leadership celebration, the annual College-Community Appreciation Award Dinner and numerous donor sports events hosted by the president. She has hosted VIP donors at the New York Jets summer training camp on the SUNY Cortland campus. She has coordinated the committees for the Rozanne Brooks Dedicated Teacher Award and the Marilou Wright Scholarship.
"Most noteworthy this year was the highly successful capital campaign kick-off celebration and dinner, hosted by an alumnus at his magnificent farm outside of Cortland," noted Raymond D. Franco '72, M '75, vice president for institutional advancement. "Scores of donors were invited, a wonderful program was organized, group transportation was arranged and food was selected and catered — all under the watchful eye of Ms. Melony Warwick.
"In every aspect of her position as a classified service staff member of the campus, Ms. Warwick is a professional," Franco said. "In many ways, her caring and ownership provides a solid foundation for the College's and the Foundation's outreach efforts."
She has served on College search committees, including several at the vice president and executive director level. Warwick has been a member of the Auxiliary Services Corporation personnel and operations advisory committees, the local Civil Service Employees Association's picnic committee and the Service Award Luncheon Committee. She also has volunteered for many years with the State Employees Federated Appeal and was the College Bowling League secretary for many years.
In 2003, Warwick was honored with SUNY Cortland's President's Award for Excellence in Classified Service.
A native of Willet, N.Y., Warwick graduated from Cincinnatus High School and worked at the Cortland County Probation Department before joining SUNY Cortland in 1985 as a temporary typist.
She joined the College's Memorial Library in 1988 as a keyboard specialist. In 1992, Warwick joined the College Relations and Development Office as a secretary I. She was promoted to the rank of secretary II in 2002.
Julian H. Wright
|Julian Wright
Wright, who joined SUNY Cortland in 1991, is the 24th staff member to receive the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Professional Service.
The honor recognizes his consistently superior professional service within and beyond his position description. During his 21 years in the campus community, he has developed a premier, state-of-the-art recreational sports program that includes intramural sports, sport clubs, open recreation and fitness facilities/programming.
"Julian established a dedicated fee for the Recreational Sports program, assumed management of and re-vamped the Sport Club program, developed two outstanding fitness facilities, created a department logo, and developed a non-credit instructional program," President Bitterbaum said. "In so doing, he has made a positive and enduring impact on students, faculty, staff and alumni who have benefited from his tireless efforts."
"Julian has worked exceptionally hard to build the most comprehensive student recreation program in the SUNY system," wrote one colleague in a letter supporting the nomination. "Our intramural, sport club and open recreation offerings are second to none in SUNY."
"He has built the Recreational Sports Program from the ground up, improving the number and variety of offerings as well as the quality of activities," wrote another nominator, Louise Mahar, assistant director for recreational sports for fitness.
Today, the program is extremely well rounded. It includes 37 sport clubs, more than 60 intramural and special events, fitness facilities that are open many hours per week, personal training, group exercise, and ample hours of opportunity for open recreation, Mahar wrote. Last year, the intramural sport program had close to 40,000 participations, the sport club program consisted of 38 clubs with more than 900 participants and the Tomik Fitness Facility had 150,000 recorded visits.
"Our students have consistently rated the Recreational Sports Program number one in student satisfaction in the SUNY Student Opinion Survey since 1994," Mahar wrote.
In addition to serving the student body, Wright advocated successfully for the free use of the campus fitness facilities for College faculty and staff.
Wright earned his associate of arts degree from Northeast Mississippi Community College, Booneville, Mississippi; Bachelor of Science in Health, Physical Education and Recreation from Mississippi State University in Starkville; and Master of Science in Health, Physical Education and Recreation, also from Mississippi State University. A Certified Recreational Sports Specialist, he graduated from the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association National School of Recreational Sports Management in 1997.
Tiantian Zheng
|Tiantian Zheng
Zheng becomes the 11th SUNY Cortland faculty member to receive the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, which recognizes her for the reach, scope, impact, and the sheer volume of her academic body of work on health, related women's issues, sexuality, social inequality and human rights. In less than a decade, Zheng has become a major scholar in her field.
Zheng joined SUNY Cortland in 2003 as an assistant professor, was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2007 and to professor in 2010.
Her ethnographic work examines the nexus of state power, entrepreneurial masculinity and the influx of rural migrant women in a post-socialist setting. These research areas have narrowed specifically on the interaction of gender politics, nationalism and state power as they pertain to birth control, disease control — especially HIV/AIDS and STDs — and control over women's bodies as these have played out in post-socialist China.
Zheng is the author of four scholarly books, two of which have won book awards. Her most important piece of work to date is her 2009 text, Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China (University of Minnesota Press). That volume won the 2010 Sara Whaley Book Award from the National Women's Studies Association and has been widely reviewed, praised, and discussed.
Her written scholarship also encompasses the editorial coordination of a journal issue, 18 articles published in refereed journals, 18 book chapters, 16 book reviews and 62 academic papers.
Zheng has delivered more than 30 presentations on her research in the U.S. and abroad.
She earned a bachelor's degree from Bo Hai University in China, a master of arts from Dalian University in China, and master of philosophy and doctor of philosophy degrees from Yale University.


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"Manatees and Mermaids/The Last Chocolate"
Manatees and Mermaids - Sally and Nick are pretending to swim, but why not go for a real swim asks the Cat! Off to the Glippydrippy Gulf to meet Matilda the Manatee and her son Marlin. Matilda and Marlon teach their guests how to swim slowly and gracefully. Until they hear the sound of a boat motor! Those can be dangerous for manatees, but luckily the Cat, Nick and Sally help their new friends to stay safe. D
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