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pstrongHeismans past./strong College Football Live is going state-by-state and, I don't know, talking to people or something. It's the privilege of the internet that I don't have to watch College Football Live and find out about their latest programming initiative. Charles Woodson and Desmond Howard were the featured people when it came to Michigan. Here is their talking:/p
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pReports from people who watched this say it seemed designed to blow a blood vessel in Mark Dantonio's head, BTW./p
pstrongI do not know how alarmed you should be, but it appears the amount of alarm should, sadly, be nonzero./strong Incoming mega-recruit Justin Turner did not walk at his graduation because of what appears to be an inability to pass some statewide Ohio standardized test. Here's a a href="http://massillonproud.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13095"really dumb thread/a on a Massillon message board about it. It's uncertain whether this would prevent him from enrolling at Michigan, as from other reports he's comfortably qualified, and it's also uncertain how an apparently-qualified person could not pass a test on which the questions were probably like so:/p
blockquotepwater : wet :: water :/p
pA. wet br /B. pantaloons br /C. noodly appendage br /D. I hate Michigan/p
/blockquote
pUnless, that is, he picked A when the right answer was D. Apparently there are further opportunities to take this thing and get it done, if it's an actual barrier to his entry. FWIW, Varsity Blue says a href="http://www.umvarsityblue.com/2009/06/personnel-items/"Sam Webb says/a* this is a minor thing unlikely to be an issue:/p
blockquotepWebb was not particularly pessimistic about Turner?s ability to still get into school, as he?s a pretty good student who?s already met the NCAA Clearinghouse?s requirements for eligibility, except the no high school diploma thing. There are a href="http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEDetail.aspx?page=3amp;TopicRelationID=216amp;ContentID=23705amp;Content=65513"alternative methods to diploma eligbility/a, and given Turner?s academic reputation, most don?t foresee him having difficulty there./p
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pIt's out there, but I wouldn't get too exercised about it. I'm more concerned about Fitzgerald Toussaint's status. /p
p*(There's been significant backlash against GBMW on this, and while I agree they could use some serious writing lessons, I don't see how reporting something obvious like quot;Justin Turner didn't walk at graduationquot; is a big deal. Both premium sites had moderators address the issue before GBMW did and, while they like to hide behind the idea that what's behind the paywall is super secret just-between-us stuff, any information there is instantly transmitted to free message boards across the internet and thereby into the fan consciousness. Also: kid didn't walk at graduation; this is not a secret.)/p
pstrongBuryin'./strong If there's one lead guaranteed to be buried it's quot;here's this important rule change,quot; which is inevitably preceded by 300 words about some director of officials who's very sorry about everything but has to ask you to go to hell. And it is so after the Big Ten meetings a href="http://myespn.go.com/blogs/bigten/0-3-487/Big-Ten-s-Carollo-aims-to-improve-communication.html"produced a couple notable changes/a:/p
blockquotepA new rule states that once [rugby] punters are outside the pocket, the defense will not be penalized for running into them or roughing them. The rugby-style punters previously had the advantage of waiting until the last minute to choose whether to punt, run or pass and still draw penalties on the defense. quot;The defensive team never knew what to do because they didn't want to rough them,quot; Carollo said. /p
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pThis seems fraught with logistical issues. How is this mystical ability of a punter different from that of a quarterback? Can a punter now roll out, pull up to pass, chuck the ball, and get leveled way late?/p
blockquotepOffensive linemen also will be allowed to move up to three yards down the field without being penalized. /p
/blockquote
pI'm somewhat confused here; this sentence follows the previous paragraph immediately and either means 1) a slight change to punting rules or 2) a significant relaxing of prohibitions against linemen downfield. I'm betting it's 1./p
pstrongRose Bowlin'./strong The Rose Bowl is obligated to take a scrub team in the event that 1) A Big Ten or Pac-10 team is yanked into the NC game and 2) a scrub team ends up automatically qualified by finishing in the top 12. That's a somewhat unlikely confluence of events there, and even if it happens it a href="http://myespn.go.com/blogs/bigten/0-3-490/Rose-Bowl-selection-change-could-hurt-Big-Ten.html"will only happen once/a: /p
blockquotepquot;It's only going to happen once if it happens at all,quot; Hancock said./p
/blockquote
pAnd that's just a totally redundant blockquote but that's life. Totally redundant blockquotes. /p
pAnyway: this places the change even more squarely into the realm of don't-sue-us CYA. The likely effect, if there even is one, is to replace the second-place Pac-10 team with a Utah or a Boise or whatever, which would be a wash in hypothetical opponent strength. /p
pstrongI don't get it, either./strong Earlier this year I a href="http://mgoblog.com/content/unverified-voracity-eyes-jugular"touched on the ongoing Kiffin fiasco/a, and resolved that this could so either way, with the two ways being quot;John L Smithquot; and quot;Steve Spurrier.quot; A couple months, a couple more inane secondary violations/diarrhea of the mouth incidents, and I've been pushed over the edge: I just think Kiffin is an idiot. I wasn't going to say anything until emGet The Picture /emeloquently a href="http://blutarsky.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/kiffin-watch-i-just-dont-get-it/"summarized the nagging problem/a I had with the recent spate of MSM articles which had quot;no, srsly, Lane Kiffin knows what he's doingquot; as their idiotically contrarian thesis: /p
blockquotepIf this is such a great approach to resurrecting a national powerhouse, how come the first guy to think of it is a 33-year old whose prior stop as a head coach was a miserable failure?/p
/blockquote
pI just don't buy Kiffin's latest posture. Claiming quot;no, seriously guys, I emmeant/em to do itquot; is the last refuge of a guy caught with his hand in the idiot jar. True cleverness?see OBC?is apparent. Even if this supposed gambit works in the short run, in the long run Tennessee is going to be seriously hampered by their head coach's lack of intelligence. When the biggest accomplishment you can point to is locking down your hot wife, you have issues./p
pstrongOregon State's going to be pissed./strong So the SEC put an a href="http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/24945/another_rule_named_after_an_sec_coach"end to this ridiculous oversigning business/a after Houston Nutt pushed it past its logical extreme, adopting the same policy the Big Ten has by limiting LOIs to 28. They're going to attempt to make this a national policy, and the a href="http://michigan.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=951947"initial returns are good/a: /p
blockquotepOne Big 12 assistant who asked to remain anonymous said he hopes this will push the NCAA to make it a rule throughout Division I football. ? quot;Generally when the SEC makes a push for changes in recruiting, things happen on the NCAA level. So there are a lot of us who believe that this will eventually become something everybody will have to follow, and I think that's a good thing.quot; /p
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pSeconded./p
pstrongEtc.:/strong emDaily/em continues murdering Detroit papers, this time landing an a href="http://thegame.blogs.michigandaily.com/2009/05/30/interview-with-former-michigan-wide-receiver-toney-clemons/"extensive interview with Toney Clemons/a. a href="http://www.trojanfootballanalysis.com/wp/wordpress/?p=714"Oregon's rushing attack/a?which you may remember cowering from?in coachy detail. NCAA 10? a href="http://www.collegegameballs.com/2009/06/02/ncaa-football-10-is-looking-incredible/"worth buying/a? Michigan had quot;a href="http://mvictors.com/?p=3850"no chance/aquot; in '97 according to Corso. Patrick Lucas-Perry is rapidly a href="http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/hotbedhoops/2009/06/patrick_lucasperry_rick_dent_glenn_cosey_and_more.html"developing into a major target/a./p
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pReports from people who watched this say it seemed designed to blow a blood vessel in Mark Dantonio's head, BTW./p
pstrongI do not know how alarmed you should be, but it appears the amount of alarm should, sadly, be nonzero./strong Incoming mega-recruit Justin Turner did not walk at his graduation because of what appears to be an inability to pass some statewide Ohio standardized test. Here's a a href="http://massillonproud.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13095"really dumb thread/a on a Massillon message board about it. It's uncertain whether this would prevent him from enrolling at Michigan, as from other reports he's comfortably qualified, and it's also uncertain how an apparently-qualified person could not pass a test on which the questions were probably like so:/p
blockquotepwater : wet :: water :/p
pA. wet br /B. pantaloons br /C. noodly appendage br /D. I hate Michigan/p
/blockquote
pUnless, that is, he picked A when the right answer was D. Apparently there are further opportunities to take this thing and get it done, if it's an actual barrier to his entry. FWIW, Varsity Blue says a href="http://www.umvarsityblue.com/2009/06/personnel-items/"Sam Webb says/a* this is a minor thing unlikely to be an issue:/p
blockquotepWebb was not particularly pessimistic about Turner?s ability to still get into school, as he?s a pretty good student who?s already met the NCAA Clearinghouse?s requirements for eligibility, except the no high school diploma thing. There are a href="http://www.ode.state.oh.us/GD/Templates/Pages/ODE/ODEDetail.aspx?page=3amp;TopicRelationID=216amp;ContentID=23705amp;Content=65513"alternative methods to diploma eligbility/a, and given Turner?s academic reputation, most don?t foresee him having difficulty there./p
/blockquote
pIt's out there, but I wouldn't get too exercised about it. I'm more concerned about Fitzgerald Toussaint's status. /p
p*(There's been significant backlash against GBMW on this, and while I agree they could use some serious writing lessons, I don't see how reporting something obvious like quot;Justin Turner didn't walk at graduationquot; is a big deal. Both premium sites had moderators address the issue before GBMW did and, while they like to hide behind the idea that what's behind the paywall is super secret just-between-us stuff, any information there is instantly transmitted to free message boards across the internet and thereby into the fan consciousness. Also: kid didn't walk at graduation; this is not a secret.)/p
pstrongBuryin'./strong If there's one lead guaranteed to be buried it's quot;here's this important rule change,quot; which is inevitably preceded by 300 words about some director of officials who's very sorry about everything but has to ask you to go to hell. And it is so after the Big Ten meetings a href="http://myespn.go.com/blogs/bigten/0-3-487/Big-Ten-s-Carollo-aims-to-improve-communication.html"produced a couple notable changes/a:/p
blockquotepA new rule states that once [rugby] punters are outside the pocket, the defense will not be penalized for running into them or roughing them. The rugby-style punters previously had the advantage of waiting until the last minute to choose whether to punt, run or pass and still draw penalties on the defense. quot;The defensive team never knew what to do because they didn't want to rough them,quot; Carollo said. /p
/blockquote
pThis seems fraught with logistical issues. How is this mystical ability of a punter different from that of a quarterback? Can a punter now roll out, pull up to pass, chuck the ball, and get leveled way late?/p
blockquotepOffensive linemen also will be allowed to move up to three yards down the field without being penalized. /p
/blockquote
pI'm somewhat confused here; this sentence follows the previous paragraph immediately and either means 1) a slight change to punting rules or 2) a significant relaxing of prohibitions against linemen downfield. I'm betting it's 1./p
pstrongRose Bowlin'./strong The Rose Bowl is obligated to take a scrub team in the event that 1) A Big Ten or Pac-10 team is yanked into the NC game and 2) a scrub team ends up automatically qualified by finishing in the top 12. That's a somewhat unlikely confluence of events there, and even if it happens it a href="http://myespn.go.com/blogs/bigten/0-3-490/Rose-Bowl-selection-change-could-hurt-Big-Ten.html"will only happen once/a: /p
blockquotepquot;It's only going to happen once if it happens at all,quot; Hancock said./p
/blockquote
pAnd that's just a totally redundant blockquote but that's life. Totally redundant blockquotes. /p
pAnyway: this places the change even more squarely into the realm of don't-sue-us CYA. The likely effect, if there even is one, is to replace the second-place Pac-10 team with a Utah or a Boise or whatever, which would be a wash in hypothetical opponent strength. /p
pstrongI don't get it, either./strong Earlier this year I a href="http://mgoblog.com/content/unverified-voracity-eyes-jugular"touched on the ongoing Kiffin fiasco/a, and resolved that this could so either way, with the two ways being quot;John L Smithquot; and quot;Steve Spurrier.quot; A couple months, a couple more inane secondary violations/diarrhea of the mouth incidents, and I've been pushed over the edge: I just think Kiffin is an idiot. I wasn't going to say anything until emGet The Picture /emeloquently a href="http://blutarsky.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/kiffin-watch-i-just-dont-get-it/"summarized the nagging problem/a I had with the recent spate of MSM articles which had quot;no, srsly, Lane Kiffin knows what he's doingquot; as their idiotically contrarian thesis: /p
blockquotepIf this is such a great approach to resurrecting a national powerhouse, how come the first guy to think of it is a 33-year old whose prior stop as a head coach was a miserable failure?/p
/blockquote
pI just don't buy Kiffin's latest posture. Claiming quot;no, seriously guys, I emmeant/em to do itquot; is the last refuge of a guy caught with his hand in the idiot jar. True cleverness?see OBC?is apparent. Even if this supposed gambit works in the short run, in the long run Tennessee is going to be seriously hampered by their head coach's lack of intelligence. When the biggest accomplishment you can point to is locking down your hot wife, you have issues./p
pstrongOregon State's going to be pissed./strong So the SEC put an a href="http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the_sporting_blog/entry/view/24945/another_rule_named_after_an_sec_coach"end to this ridiculous oversigning business/a after Houston Nutt pushed it past its logical extreme, adopting the same policy the Big Ten has by limiting LOIs to 28. They're going to attempt to make this a national policy, and the a href="http://michigan.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=951947"initial returns are good/a: /p
blockquotepOne Big 12 assistant who asked to remain anonymous said he hopes this will push the NCAA to make it a rule throughout Division I football. ? quot;Generally when the SEC makes a push for changes in recruiting, things happen on the NCAA level. So there are a lot of us who believe that this will eventually become something everybody will have to follow, and I think that's a good thing.quot; /p
/blockquote
pSeconded./p
pstrongEtc.:/strong emDaily/em continues murdering Detroit papers, this time landing an a href="http://thegame.blogs.michigandaily.com/2009/05/30/interview-with-former-michigan-wide-receiver-toney-clemons/"extensive interview with Toney Clemons/a. a href="http://www.trojanfootballanalysis.com/wp/wordpress/?p=714"Oregon's rushing attack/a?which you may remember cowering from?in coachy detail. NCAA 10? a href="http://www.collegegameballs.com/2009/06/02/ncaa-football-10-is-looking-incredible/"worth buying/a? Michigan had quot;a href="http://mvictors.com/?p=3850"no chance/aquot; in '97 according to Corso. Patrick Lucas-Perry is rapidly a href="http://blog.mlive.com/flintjournal/hotbedhoops/2009/06/patrick_lucasperry_rick_dent_glenn_cosey_and_more.html"developing into a major target/a./p
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