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Milksteak did the quarterbacks earlier, and now he's on to comparing running backs, taking their extant stats and seeing who projects into the same realm. I'm interested in what he comes up with for the receivers since I'm doing a similar study right now using Bill Connelly's receiver stats.
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| Rudock vs Cook common opponents. Click takes you to the article. |
But that's getting ahead of ourselves. This one's on Green et al.:
Green's 5.7 Yds/Carry looks very similar to freshman Chris Perry's 5.4 average. Freshman Tyrone Wheatley's 6.4 Yds/Carry represents the top of the comparisons, and he was much more of a TD vulture than Green has been. Carlos Brown's sophomore campaign looks somewhat similar as well. Let's see how these running backs fared in their next year.
Chris Perry had the same surprising size/acceleration combo and couldn't find a hole unless he was escorted to it, but he also had some ridiculous balance. His magnificent senior season now overshadows the period when B.J. Askew was clearly a better option. Up until this point in Green's career, however, Perry was behind A-Train. The stat comparisons only tell you so much, for example De'Veon Smith is not Jamie Morris. Ed Davis maybe.
Going back to the QBs, Dawkins posted a board thing comparing Rudock to Connor Cook thus far. When Ace inevitably drafts Jake Rudock he'll appreciate this the thing at right. What it doesn't show is that MSU was extremely conservative with Cook until progressively taking him off apron strings at the end 2013. Then again, Rudock worked for Greg Davis so…
Also how do two quarterbacks in the same conference only have three common opponents? Oh right.
Castorimorpha Control
Alum96 has been previewing Michigan's opponents, and the rodentia are up. Other than that one team that got one of the most successful NFL coaches to come back to college, Oregon State pulled off the coup of the offseason when they stole Wisconsin's head coach. It would turn out to be de gras, as the beloved AD who engineered that, Bob De Carolis, retired into the Michigan Athletic Department he was long a part of (he was the softball coach who hired Hutchins).
All of that is only of small relevance to 2015 OSU (NTOSU), which returns only two defensive starters from a unit that wasn't very good. In case you're wondering, no, Wisconsin's excellent DC is still at Wisconsin.
Alum96's previews continue with Minnesota, which is still Minnesota except minus an excellent center, an excellent running back, some excellent members of the front seven, and an excellent Maxxx. Don't miss the SB Nation Study Hall article he links.
BOOKS I DEMAND YOU READ THIS SUMMER
1. Hail to the Victors 2015 by MGoBlog
Okay okay.
1. Brandon's Lasting Lessons (alternate title: Endzone: The Something Something Dave Brandon Gets Trashed By Everyone He Ever Met Novel) (alternate-alternate title: Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football), by John U. Bacon.
2. Armada by Ernest Cline (author of Ready Player One)
3. Hail to the Victors 2015 by MGoBlog
4. Stagg vs. Yost: The Birth of Cutthroat Football, by John Kryk
5. Forty Years in the Big House, by Jon Falk. eeeeeeee!
6. The Art of Smart Football, by Chris Brown. This is a collection of articles about the recent evolution of football chalk, not pictures from his blog. "Five Stories About the Spread Offense" is brilliant and depressing.
By the way I finally met both Kryk and Dr. Sap in person. They are what I would have been if I was born 20 years earlier. And in Canada. And if I was cool.
MICHIGAN VERSION OF THE FACEBOOK $15 THINGY
Seriously? Brady, Wheatley, AC, Woodson, Harbaugh, and you can keep the extra dollar.
BOOK CRAIG ROSS WOULD PREFER YOU NOT READ
1. The Search for the Unified Field Theory (Football Version), by Craig Ross
ETC. Vincent Smith updates what's going on with #EATING, particularly the Flint project we've been helping him raise the dough for. A reader claiming to know Dennis Norfleet says the thing we heard is official and the destination is Tuskegee; I have no other sources for this so take it FWIW. For some people it's not the difficulty level of saying "Hi, I'm a tight end," but the principle of the matter. Michigan has agreed to match other teams' offers to let David Reese think he's going to play linebacker.
Your Moment of Zen:
Wasn't anyone there to tell them the "Border Battle" is Wisconsin-Minnesota?
"That's ridiculous." –Larry/Gary "Money" Mohoney Gergich
Regarding the "only 3 common opponents" comment, both teams also played Purdue in 2014, but Rudock was injured and sat out that whole game.
Yep. That's why I said "two quarterbacks." I've really been trying to not complicate stuff.
Why are there 2 pictures of Jerry Kill but he's not mentioned in the article?
...gotta disagree with you about "Armada" by Ernest Cline. I too read Ready Player One by the same author and while I enjoyed it as another nerd who came of age during the 1980's the book itself was a pandering pastiche that literally invokes deus ex machina to resolve the central conflict. In short, it's just bad writing that skates by on nostalic appeal.
Like I said, I mostly enjoyed Ready Player but I say that witl full awareness that 90% of the reasons why I mostly enjoyed it were the reasons it just wasn't a good book. I can't imagine I'll enjoy more of the same the second time around.
Ernest is friends with my brother too. I see your criticisms of Ready Player one, but I was actually sick of all the references after the midway point but then I thought the story took off, and I was impressed that he managed to actually bring the "your dream comes true" theme to a satisfying conclusion. I think the deux ex machina was self-aware; the whole point is it's a game and meant to function as one. I'm 50% through Armada and I think Cline was so disappointed by people not understanding this that he's making it too obvious (or perhaps the entire point) in this book.
And that is a fair point. I can't imagine he wasn't aware of the deus ex machina but it certainly didn't work for me - it felt unearned. Almost like (to cite a metaphor very near and not so dear to my heart) when you're struggling to learn how to take down raid boss in World of Warcraft and then they implement a patch that reduces the raid difficulty by 20% and we down the boss post-haste. Yeah, I'm glad we downed the boss but to me the 11th hour intervention cheapens the journey.
I do appreciate that RP1 is a loving homage and that does show through. And Cline wasn't wrong about the south part of OSU's campus being a trashy dystopian wasteland.
And was slightly disappointed in Armada. I know my expectations were probably excessively high, but it felt insubstantial, especially in terms of characters.
I'll still buy whatever he writes next. Sophomore slump is a real thing.
I enjoyed Ready Player One and recommended it to other people who also enjoyed it. But Armada is really, really bad. I have honestly read fanfiction on the internet that is better written and more interesting. I've read Japanese Light Novels translated by amateurs into broken English that are better. It was so bad that it retroactively makes me think less of Ready Player One, much like The Phantom Menace made me like Star Wars less.
I can't disagree with this recommendation strongly enough.
...but then I didn't care for RP1 either...
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And Bo shouldn't be over Yost unless we're taking racial prejudice into account. Leach beat OSU 4 times but every other QB on that list is a better passer. This is pretty much opinion. But yeah, Hart over Harmon and Wheatley as a 2...?
Grammatical sense.
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And Tyrone Wheatley is somehow less than Jamie Morris? Feels like lazy FREEP on the prowl again.
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2. Armada by Ernest Cline (author of Ready Player One)
Haven't read it, don't trust the author. Just finished Ready, Player One last week. It had only 1 redeeming factor, quality respect to the references. Even there, he was pushing so hard to get them in, that he didn't truly give any of the references ENOUGH respect. It's fine to mention all these great games, etc. but give them some guts!
Further, I hate Wade. He's a jerk. You've heard the saying, "if you're having dinner with someone, and they're nice to you but not nice to the waiter, they're not a nice person"? It's true, and look at how he acts when he (twice) does phone support. Say what you will about phone support callers, his attitude shows that he doesn't respect them as people, much less worthy of his time.
I'm not a cuddly person, and I have no problem telling an idiot they are an idiot, but Kline writes so much over-the-top crap in to make us think that Wade's such an open-minded, good, wholesome, respect-all-people, vomit-inducing sweetheart that his writing that particular character flaw in (as well as the white-hat/black-hat 1 dimensional writing) makes R, P1 at best an inferior novel, and unless Armada is somehow orders of magnitude better writing, then it's not worth the trouble.
How do you leave Biakabutuka out of the RB list? Replace A-Train with him, at least.
Henne, Wheatley, Howard, Woodson, Harbaugh
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my classmate's mother-in-law makes $78 /hour on the internet . She has been unemployed for seven months but last month her check was $16983 just working on the internet for a few hours. see here now.....
With $78 your classmate's mother-in-law can select all 5 in each category of that Freep "Pick your team" exercise, and still have $3 to spend on you! Or better yet, she can put that $3 in your gas tank and send you out to find a real job...
Easy.
$5 - Bo
$2 - Henne
$2 - Wheatley
$2 - Terrell
$4 - Woodley
You had one mgopoint, but I just negged that one away.
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I probably got the idea from Ernest Cline.
Are you serious because this would be awesome.
You'd need to ensure a 0% false positive rate, but I think outside the OT threads that wouldn't be nearly as difficult as most forums because the scope is so narrow.
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