Unverified Voracity Is Awake, For Now
Me-date. If you're thinking about tearing your ACL, let me give you some advice: skip it and have some ice cream instead. I'm limping around vaguely now and gingerly moving my leg back and forth so that it doesn't get stuck in one position forever*, taking serious painkillers, and falling asleep all the damn time.
That's the main problem. Large parts of the past week that I thought I'd be working have been spent either asleep or doing this:
no srs I'm awake
I thought I was fine when I posted that UV a day after the surgery and then was somewhere between asleep and falling asleep for the next two days straight. Add in two to three hours of gingerly moving the leg around per day and despite things getting better productivity is still low. Bear with me. In my stead Ace and Seth and the Mathlete have been putting in yeoman work.
I'm experimenting with a prescription-painkiller-free day as we speak and it hasn't been too bad. Productivity can only increase from here.
*[That thing your mom said about your face? Yeah, that's apparently true for knees.]
Something something bride before the mall /BOOM SINGIN' MATT MILLEN'D. The Great Dantonio's latest dig:
Up the road in East Lansing, however, Michigan State shrugs off talk about the Wolverines regaining their super power status under Brady Hoke. The Spartans are confident of their own standing and future prospects.
"We're laying in the weeds," Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio says with a half smile. "We've beat Michigan the last four years. So where's the threat?"
This proves Dantonio is either A) the boss of this town and isn't afraid to let people know it or B) has passed the denial phase of his Kubler-Ross acceptance that the new boss is the same as the old boss and is settling into anger, with bargaining to come in a year or two. Hopefully this works out as well as The Hecklinski Incident—good name for a sci-fi novel there—did for him. The days where Michigan and Michigan State have anywhere near the same talent level are in the process of ending. Might take another year or two, but if I was MSU I'd make hay now.
How the sausage is made. ESPN has released three videos detailing their rankings process. Given the Mathlete's post earlier today, the fourth one will be entitled "…and then we all ignore all that and pile everyone from the SEC footprint into the top 50" but I appreciate the transparency. ESPN is planning on releasing a 2014 150 in… August. Yeesh.
ESPN says they have no regional dudes at all and farms out a particular set of position groups to scouts who do rankings for everyone at that spot, which does sound good. The Mathlete's methodology is suggestive but could have a systematic issue: since it relies extensively on all-conference teams and there's always an all-conference team even if you suck, ESPN cramming all those players from one region who go to one conference into the top end of their rankings would make them look worse even if they were right. The recent SEC-SEC-SEC business makes it at least plausible that ESPN is right. Adding another level of detail with NFL draft results would help sanity check that.
Poking around 2013 kids. Basketball is, that is. But apparently not Bo Ziegler, who told Inside The Hall that Michigan had not been much of a factor:
On other schools recruiting him hard:
“Pretty much the same schools that you heard about. Providence, Iowa State, Michigan State. Michigan was coming for a minute but I guess they’ve backed off. I’ll probably get a few more looks once we hit the AAU circuit.”
That is probably not a momentary oversight; Michigan has had a lot of time to think about this stuff. John Beilien, Y NO LIKE ZIEGLERS?
Instead, meet two new prospects:
- NJ combo guard Jaren Sina, a consensus four star who ranks in the bottom half of the top 100 everywhere. Sina committed to Alabama a while back before reconsidering. Beilein went out to watch him and the kid seems extremely interested. Pitt, Villanova, and Alabama are his biggest offers at the moment.
- NJ PF/SF Reggie Cameron. You know a guy is a Beilein recruit when he's listed at 6'7" and starts his lists of strengths off with "my jump shot." Other evaluations list him at 6'5" so it's up for debate as to whether he can be a stretch four to give Michigan that Smotrycz option or if he's pretty much a wing and wing only. Dave Telep called him a "hybrid 4-man"($) who plays small forward on offense and guards bigs on D; his stroke was praised. I hope Michigan's done with 6'5" power forwards, but maybe he grows some. Cameron is usually in the 100-150 range on recruiting sites.
Michigan could take both these guys as long as someone goes to the NBA next year, which is a near-certainty. Sina could provide minutes at the one and two, Cameron the three and maybe the four or two.
Meanwhile in the class of 2013, Rivals revamped its basketball rankings for that year. Irvin slid a little to #63; Walton and Donnal rose a little to #72 and #116. Irvin's down six spots, Walton up 15, Donnal up 8.
Ahem. Just going to leave this here.
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It's in the store. Consume!
Whoah, whoa-oh oh oh oh. We own Penn State. The halycon era:
Via WH.
You know this already but I was asleep so my tab is still open. ND's Aaron Lynch, who you may remember being terrifying last year, is leaving ND. Bwahaha. Unfortunately, Brian Kelly recruited his balls off on the DL in that class so there's plenty of talent left behind. None of them were quite Lynch, who I remember coming in to the ND-MSU game and running around MSU OL like they were not there. Not having to face him the next three years is a lot like seeing Michael Floyd transfer after his freshman year. Which would have been cool.
Also old: this. Mary Sue Coleman said Michigan wouldn't be putting the Fab Five banners up, causing a twitter hissy from Jalen Rose I can't be bothered to go find again. No school is ever going to put up a banner for a game the NCAA made them vacate. That is a banner that says "congratulations: you technically weren't at the Final Four!"
Surely no one can be surprised by this. The only topic more tired than Fab Five banners is the #1 jersey, and no one's—oh hell, we're talking about this again. For the love of cripes, just offer it to LaQuon Treadwell and let's be done with this. The only thing this Braylon scholarship thing has done is made it so no one wears the number.
Etc.: Freshman RB TJ Yeldon goes ham at Alabama spring game (against the second team D). Denardfluff. I'll probably write more about this at a later juncture, but here's a Smart Football post on the future of the NFL being more shotgun high-tempo stuff. I don't mind a pro-style offense if it's actually a pro-style offense and not what a pro-style offense used to be in 1970. More Smart Football: the monster defense of old and its resurgence.
McGary. McGary DROP. MCGARY MAD. MCGARY SMASH. MCGARY SAY THINGS ABOUT HATERZ THAT IGNORE THE USEFUL SOCIETAL EFFECTS THAT RESULT FROM DISAPPROVING THINGS THAT ARE WACK. BUT THAT OKAY IF MCGARY SMASH.
Do those puppies come with a clean conscience?
I had both hind legs done on my (now deceased) dog many years ago, there are different types of procedures available, with differing levels of sucsess.
Morality?
It's my Dog; moraity has nothing to do with it?
How did he tear his ACL? Angry Michigan Blogger Hating God?
First night the pain was pretty intense, then gradually less over the next few days. Was off narcotics by day 4, but I really appreciated that circulating icewater machine. The important thing is the rehab, make sure you work hard to get that leg completely straight. They told me it would take 6 months to fully rehab the knee, and they were exactly correct.
What helped me post-surgery was to take the meds (usually perks) for about 3-5 days when the pain is substantial but stop taking them as soon as you can reasonably tolerate the pain. Those meds destroy your stomach and make it very difficult to have a solid shitting schedule, something I hold very dear.
Then I spent the next 3-4 days smoking marijuana out of a vaporizer about twice a day and catching up on some good reading.
Also, Brian, don't slack or skip out on your rehab sessions. I made that mistake once. It's easy to skip them once you start a bit feel better but do everything your Doctor and therapist says to do exactly. Failing to do this will just result in having to get surgery again.
Huh? Isn't "not noticing the pain" just as good?
April 19th, 2012 at 12:19 AM ^
.....you just don't give a shit.
Honestly, that's the way I felt about vicodin and percocet when I was taking them for my back (and I was taking 2 every 4 hours, my back was f'ed). The only real pain killing drug I have ever experienced was dilaudid, which, wow, that stuff is crazy.
April 19th, 2012 at 10:39 AM ^
You're wrong.
April 18th, 2012 at 10:00 PM ^
You kids and your wimpy drugs and tiny incisions these days.
Back in the early 80's when I had this surgery I was left with a 12-14" scar, a hip to toe cast for 12 weeks, morphine shots every four hours, and a permanent numb spot the size of a baseball.
YNothing about that Alabama game makes me happy. Yeah, Alabama's backup RB accounted for nearly 200 yards against the backup unit to one of the best defenses in the country. Yippee!
Honestly, I think it is silly to schedule SEC teams like Bama, Auburn, Miss St. when you know how much "roster management" they are engaged in. Play them in a bowl game when that happens, but to purposely sign up to play a semi-pro team in Dallas seems sillier the more I look at it (and I was a big fan when it was first announced).
I guess I kind of agree that if M gets its head beaten in by Bama that will look bad and will not have been worth it in retrospect.
But I think the game will at least be competitive, and if the alternative is charging fans $75 to play Baby Seal U or Appy State again (*shudder*), then I'd take this deal instead.
It's for the players. They love games like this. It's their program. I think it will be fun and a good measuring stick win or lose.
April 19th, 2012 at 10:41 AM ^
It may be a positive for the players, but this always felt like a cash grab by Brandon.
Good. Meth Brian sucks. If anyone opines you write better while high they be lying
I hope Lewan dominates on 10/20/12.
Watching that still pisses me off. Email that gif to Dantonio, their AD, and president. I am proud I don't know the later two's names.
This is not the one that bothers me. This is just two linemen taking a swat at each other in the heat of battle. With helmets on.
The one that bothers me is the one where they maliciously attempted to turn our QB into a quadriplegic. That should not have just been a penalty, it should have been an arrest.
April 19th, 2012 at 10:59 AM ^
That's the one that bothered me the most, too. It was intentional and malicious. You could see that he was attempting to hide it by the fact that he was lying on top of Denard's head, but reached down, grabbed the facemask and pulled. I hope he gets double teamed, pancaked, gets frustrated and then starts lashing out in October. I hope its a veteran group of refs for that game.
I agree. I guess it was the whole body of work that day that pisses me off still. He still did punch at Lewans neck which is bullshit.
That pissed me off as well. . . until I saw the whole thing. He punched Lewan because Lewan grabbed his facemask and drove his head into the dirt. I got MOAR pissed off. Hoke should've yanked Lewan. MSU may be OK with being the bad guy, but I don't like a Michigan that tolerates its own thuggery.
All in all, the more I see of that game the less I enjoy it, and not because MSU won. Both sides were dirty as all hell, trying to cripple each other, and that's just bad football. Bad for MSU, bad for Michigan. The refs should've shut that shit down, but both teams own their own dirt.
Is precisely why I don't like user-moderated forums.
Get well soon Brian!
The ESPN article about pot and football is called, "Lying in the Weed". Coincidence?
was a trip back to the future. Something tells me we will look like this in the a few years. Good running back play, plenty of passes to the tight ends, and throwback screens to the running backs. The defense showed good pressure and plenty of picks. Looks like the kind of football Hoke and staff would like to play with the personnel that they have been recruiting.
April 19th, 2012 at 12:18 AM ^
"At Oregon — like Baylor, Oklahoma State, West Virginia, and so on — unless a play is really a disaster they simply run the next play and make corrections in the film room or after practice or before the next one, just as it is with a game. As Sam Snead once said, “practice is putting brains in your muscles,” and the up-tempo no-huddle makes practice all the more efficient at doing just that."
NO IT DOES NOT.
OK, the idea that no-huddle forces defenses to make less substitutions and adjustments is compelling, but now we're getting into BS territory here. If someone makes a mistake you don't correct it? Well then they'll just keep on doing that mistake until the mistake becomes second nature. Congrats; one of your players developed a bad habit because you were too busy to fix it when you had a chance.
Practice isn't doing something and then pointing out what went wrong in the tape room. OK, that happens to an extent, but only because the tape room is where you can do more in-depth instead of real-time analysis. It's when you're looking for more in-depth stuff. But a lot of practice is picking up on mistakes and correcting them BEFORE the muscle memory sets in. Letting guys do their things for two hours just to keep practices moving isn't necessarily efficient if the goal is to improve. Sure, having the whole team stand around isn't efficient either, but I presume that's why they have position coaches. If, say, a CB blows an assignment, you can pull him aside for the secondary coach to chat with him while the DC continues with the rest of the squad.
I smell some journalistic embellishment here.
Out of boredom I sadly dumbed myself down by reading some of the MLive comments on Dantonio's statement. My favorite one from an MSU fan:
Im fully content with my fan base being primarily alumni, we will never be a national favorite because of the fabrications of UofM's football record along with sports casters like Adam Schefter that refuse to let UofM out of the spot light even when they are terrible.
Blaming Adam Schefter, the NFL insider? Seriously?
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