Unverified Voracity Looks At Manning
Roy Manning return? With Jerry Montgomery gone to Oklahoma, Michigan needs to fill a spot on their coaching staff. No, it will not be Mike Hart or Ty Wheatley. It'll be a defensive guy. But there is another dude floating out there who is a young former Michigan player: Roy Manning.
Manning was a little-regarded recruit who came seemingly out of nowhere to start as a senior and did well enough to get drafted and have a few years in the NFL. Like Montgomery, he's become a hot name hopping to and fro. He was hired at Cincinnati in February, got a standing ovation for doing so, and had just landed at NIU after Jones took the Tennessee job. Fluff bits:
He's got a Ron English basso going on.
Home ice and the future. Michigan finishes its regular season this weekend with a home and home against Ferris State needing a sweep and some help to secure a first-round home series in the playoffs. If they don't acquire the requisite points, Michigan's last home game in front of the students will have been the February 1st matchup with Michigan State. Which… wow. Just another way in which this season has been bizarre and disappointing.
It's senior day for the, uh, seniors, and it looks like a pretty manageable class to replace:
- Lee Moffie: Michigan's #4 or #5 defenseman in the unlikely event everyone is healthy.
- AJ Treais: Tied for second in scoring with 11-12-23; had excellent start to the year and tailed off as guys like Sinelli and Copp moved onto his wing because they did that skating hard stuff. Copp has actually produced decently, but not having a reliable offensive option on the other wing has hampered production from him.
- Kevin Lynch: I have no idea what line he's on; ideally would have become a Rust-like shutdown center. Instead is anonymous middle-of-lineup guy with 6-13-19.
- Lindsay Sparks: diminutive winger will go down as Craig Murray 2010 for me, a player on the third line who I liked more than is rational and spent four years expecting a breakout from that never came. 4-4-8 in 16 games this year.
- Jeff Rohrkemper: fourth line jack of all trades.
The key, of course, is what happens with Michigan's offseason defections. There are a ton of guys who are departure threats, starting with the dream D pairing of Merrill and Trouba and extending to Nieves, Guptill, Bennett, and Di Giuseppe. While none of those extended guys seems NHL-ready, Guptill was left at home for a series this year and is a third-rounder. He seems like a candidate for the Chris Brown "really?" departure.
A goalie will be scoured for, of course.
Welcome to the team. Here is pack of raving dingoes. Enjoy. From ESPN's exit interview series comes this nugget from Mike Kwiatkowski($):
My lowest moment of my career was probably be my first year, [Rich Rodriguez'] last season, when I was playing scout team left guard. I had thought about if this decision was right for me. I wasn’t playing my position and going against Mike Martin all the time.
Despite being a freshman walk-on tight end, he did not die. I'm using Mike Kwiatkowski as a bomb shelter in the event we teleport back to 1980 and there is a nuclear war on.
No more flyovers? Step A in any debate about cutting spending is to go right to the stuff that people notice no matter how small. Like flyovers:
Federal budget cuts would end flyovers at sports events
Of course, they have to fly the planes at some point—can't have a war with a bunch of crop dusters flying F-16s unless you can start cloning Randy Quaid—so the net additional cost of having some of those flights buzz stadiums is, um…
“It’s no additional cost to the government for support of any public events. Typically, if you see a unit fly over a football game, that is 90 seconds out of a several hour training sortie that they’re flying.”
Zero? Here is someone's attempt to explain why this is a thing:
"We just have a reduced number of those training hours, and so everything is being dedicated to just preparing for that overseas deployment and for flying that's actually happening overseas," Varhegyi said.
Not very good. Later they mention that Army/Navy/Air Force sports could get hit despite 95% of Navy's funding coming from sources other than the government. Filed under scare tactic—dollars to donuts the flyovers continue.
Something that is not true at all. Drew Henson talks about his brief baseball career in a non-bylined article that prevents me from hammering whatever intern wrote this:
But he always had his sights set on baseball — simply, he said it was more fun — and even signed with the Yankees after they made him a third-round pick in 1998. They agreed to let him finish his college football career, and he played summer ball in the Yankees system while still at U-M.
John Navarre would not be a divisive figure if this was true. Oh, and Michigan probably would have been awesome in 2001. Also that article is based on another article, which it links right at the end of the piece in a non-underlined URL link. Bad intern.
Etc.: Derrick Walton is a Mr. Basketball finalist, puts up 31 on Taylor Truman for senior day. WTKA afternoon show is kaput. Recruits' 40s are lies. Does the recruiting deregulation need to be salvaged? If so, suggestions to do so.
...I need more Cousin Eddie movies
This is a joke,btw
This is the only place on the internet that I know of where your last sentence is necessary.
You may be getting the Lynch's confused, Kevin is a wing Travis is a center.
For the last few games, Lynch has been on the first line as a right wing with Di Giuseppe and Nieves. Copp has taken the 2nd line center spot and bumped Treais down to the 3rd.
With 14 points and the teams best option on the PK, Andrew Copp has exceeded all expectations for someone who was headed to the USHL.
As for attrition, I expect our defensemen more likely to jump to the NHL, and our incoming forwards to be on CHL watch this offseason.
"Hello, boys! I'm back!!"
...but I've alwasy felt that flyovers & other overt displays of the military at games were unnecessary. Patriotism is fine and all but it feels a bit at odds with the sporting ideal of peaceful competition to be flashing military hardware.
I would agree if Michigan ever played the Iranian national team. Seems ok when both teams are American, though.
years ago, flyovers had to be requested. It isn't like the Air Guard, USAF, or USNAVY think to themselves, "wouldn't it be cool to overfly Michigan Stadium just before kickoff"? Nope, that would be the University of Michigan Athletic Department through the University, that is requesting and coordinating the flyover. So if you have a burr under your saddle, you might want to take it up with the University, not the Military.
The sequester amount is supposed to equal $88B or so annualized. But fear not, as Fed issuances just added another $80B to the national debt YESTERDAY.
If you think this is political, take a deep breath, and then count to 16.87 trillion.
Okay, I just got to 16.87 trillion and I still think this is political. What should I do now?
Bonus points for having started while men were still apes.
Now just count the primes.
Hey look an airplane!!!
I was, and I will never forget that sight...
Here's the clue:" Hey look an airplane!!!"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't fighter jets awesome? I was under the impression they were awesome. And I like seeing awesome things I don't get to see very often, especially in action (well, in motion at least). Very rarely during a flyover do you see anyone not watch, and almost all of those people seem to think it's pretty cool.
I'm all for keeping awesome things, flyovers included.
Though I believe they are over done. More than once a year, not including the occasional skydiver, and IMO, flyovers lose their luster.
Side note, as a young lad in the early '60s, I thought it was way cool when interceptors would go sonic over A2. My mother, on the other hand, wasn't so enthused and did cartwheels when the FAA, or whomever, put a stop to it.
Balanced budgets are awesome too.
As evidence of Brian's love for Lindsay Sparks...from the start of last season:
mgoblog Lindsay Sparks is going to lead hockey in scoring this year and make everyone wonder how he got scratched most of the last two years. 10/4/11 9:10 PM |
Since then, he's probably been scratched more times than he's scored.
In theory Lindsay Sparks was the ultimate weapon and the coaches tried really hard to get him on the ice. The thought of having that speed on the PK, the powerplay and 5 on 5 was too much for the coaches to let go of.
The average CCHA defensemen could easily backskate with him and his game was one dimensional, since his defense was horrible there's no point in having him out there.
We will always have the "What might have been" everytime we think of Sparks. We will also always have that tweet to remind Brian.
"Cincinnati players give former Roy Manning standing ovation after introduction."
Is Roy Manning an alias? Is he an imposter?
Perhaps the headline writers don't have an edit button.
Well, it is his blog so he can post what he wants moreso than the MGoCommunity, but I'd also argue that Brian's statement had little to do with politics and more to do with the fact that it was is a story about college sporting events. He is just saying that when the USA Today (one of the most read papers in the country) has a story about no flyovers at sporting events and in that same article points out coherent reasons why it shouldn't happen, one should perhaps question the merits of the original claim.
First, it does sound like scare tactics. But more importantly, the thread you mentioned got REALLY combative. If someone had just said stuff about scare tactics, no one would care.
Also, what his Roy Manning's job exactly? All I see is that it says he's some sort of assistant. Is he a DL assistant like Montgomery was?
The Prez said he isn't a dictator, so we have that going for us.
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