Unverified Voracity Cheats At Dodgeball
Dodgeball got heated. Denard and Devin talk to Isaiah Hole at the A4 camp:
Battle status. Still no commitment, apparently planning on taking what would be his final official visit to either UConn or Kentucky, door with Michigan may remain open. Jarron Cumberland's visit did not result in a commit($) and there is no public mention of an offer, but Sam Webb says that things went very well and that you shouldn't read much into that.
Meanwhile, Syracuse blog Nunes Magician* has some insider info:
NunesMagician.com was told earlier today that the official visit went "very well," but Jim Boeheim did not receive a commitment. …
As each day goes by, Syracuse fans should feel less optimistic. The staff has been on the 5-star New Jersey native since his freshman year. He has visited the campus multiple times, but is still tentative to pull the trigger.
This is kind of how I feel about Jonathan Jones, the Florida linebacker who seems like he's been on the verge of a commit for months now.
In any case, Duke is not getting involved again, Syracuse doesn't seem like a particularly appealing destination for Battle for whatever reason (a good one: they are down a quarter of their scholarships for as long as Battle will be in college), and UConn is currently in the American. If he does visit Kentucky that blows up the "distance is the main factor" thing.
Maybe the door is still open? If not it sounds like Cumberland will be in the class pretty soon.
*[The name of this is a long story involving a bad quarterback.]
Bonjour pronto. That's French, right? Alpaca-outta-nowhere commit Benjamin St-Juste is Canadian, and if we've learned anything from South Park it's that Canada's a little bit different than the United States. One of the differences is that Canadian high school is apparently as long as you want it to be.
People were talking about St-Juste as 2016 or 2017 commit yesterday; today Tim Sullivan notes that there's a chance he could come in this fall($), as he's around 18—the usual age you enter college. I think there will be room, and the corner depth is going to be iffy after this year so you may as well.
Unnecessary dumping on Java aside. Summer Swarm commit Rashad Weaver sounds like an exceptional student:
An accomplished student throughout his high school career at Cooper City High School outside Fort Lauderdale, Florida, most of Weaver's courses are of the advanced-placement or honors variety. Meaning his grade-point average can soar above the customary 4.0, if he's able to push it that high.
During his sophomore year, he had it up to a 4.6. But as a junior, a simple misdirection had him aggravated.
Weaver enrolled in an AP computer science class as a junior. He knew it'd be a challenge, but figured he'd be able to hang. And then things got started.
"It turned out to be a class that was basically for kids who did Java coding at home for fun," Weaver chuckles. "So, yeah, it was tough."
Mr. Weaver, this is my advice to you: if you ever see "LISP" on a course description, run like hell. This is my advice to all people. Emeril! Run like hell if you ever see this:
(((())))cdr)))(((()()()())))))pants)))))))
Now there will be a computer science hipster in the comments talking about how LISP is really elegant because of closures. I apologize in advance.
Anyway, you probably don't come here so I can dump on obscure programming languages. A little more on Weaver:
he appeared at Michigan's satellite camp stop in south Florida with some hope and not much else. At best, Weaver figured he could catch the attention of a Big Ten school. At worst, he knew he'd leave the event a better football player.
It was a win-win, he figured.
And, as is often the case in the classroom, he was right.
"The main reason I went to the camp was because I saw Michigan coaches would be there. I saw it as an opportunity, figured I'd do my best to put my best foot forward and do everything I could to get noticed," Weaver says. "I figured at least it'd be something where I could get better. I was going to go out there and do my best. If I showed well, then they'd notice me. If not, then maybe it wasn't meant to be.
"But I went knowing I'd get better one way or another. And it all worked out."
At 6'5", 245, Weaver is one of the infinite DE/TE prospects Michigan will bring in as long as Harbaugh's around. We probably won't know where he sticks until he's a junior.
Next year will not be the year. Northwestern's never been to the NCAA tournament. This is their nonconference schedule:
A tourney, road games against VT and DePaul, and then garbage.
They do get two of UNC/KState/Mizzou in their tourney. If that even helps much:
Last year's RPI of Northwestern's 2015-16 OOC slate: Two of 11, 100 & 218. Also: 196, 197, 228, 243, 265, 270, 292, 299, 326, 333, 345,
— Patrick Stevens (@D1scourse) June 24, 2015
Brutal. And this is a team that returns everyone except oft-injured senior JerShon Cobb and little-used Dave Sobolewski; they've got a senior version of Alex Olah and Tre Demps. This is the kind of Northwestern team that could possibly maybe put themselves on the bubble. But if they are, they're going to be crushed by their own schedule.
Etc.: The Puff Daddy thing is the weirdest. Zach Werenski profiled for the draft. A4 camp report. O'Bannon "one of the most significant antitrust cases of this era," says judge. Carr speaks at a Big Brothers, Big Sisters event.Take a picture: this UV has no mention of a weird thing Harbaugh did.
It's because their basketball floor looks like a toddler vomited grape juice on it.
I can barely watch on TV much less play on it every day.
If they fix that, the recruits will come rolling in.
Your intent aside, what a gift-wrapped invitation to start all kinds of flame wars regarding athlete intelligence, football vs. basketball sports culture and -- if the first two aren't toasty enough -- race!
But seriously, it's not weird at all. Northwestern doesn't have a basketball legacy to speak of (Carmody wasn't bad but what else can you say), but PatFitz is a decent football coach. Coaches can shape a school's reputation quite a bit. During the Beilein/Hoke era, Michigan kind of peeled the flesh off a basketball school and wore its face as a mask. If NW had a coach like Gary Few or Shaka Smart (or Beilein for that matter) they'd have a basketball program.
I'm not just talking about right now. Why haven't they ever been good?
There a number of other smallish private schools like them who have been very successful in basketball. Compare them with Duke, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Stanford - there are probably more that I'm forgetting. It seems in general like it's easier for a school with a small alumni base and resources to win big in basketball, probably because it doesn't require that many guys.
Is it just coaching? I don't know.
Northwestern was just as bad at football as basketball but then had a program-changing season in the mid 90s under Gary Barnett and then a program-defining innovater in Randy Walker in the early 2000s. Those two elevated the program dramatically (not unlike what happened at Wisconsin under Alvarez.)
NW basketball hasn't had anything remotely close to a great coach.
The only acceptable fate for Gary Barnett is to be doused with gasoline from head to toe and lit on fire, and I'm glad Northwestern declined just as quickly while he was at the helm. He embodies the necessity of a program to draw a line between winning and ethics. My reason for hating Colorado have nothing to do with the games they played with Michigan; it's 100% because they hired Barnett.
But, he did win games, and got NW to a Rose Bowl, and that's why NW is known to have a football program at all.
I first learned C++ in Visual Studio. Then I went to university and continued C++ coding and compiled in Unix and that's the only way to go. VI editor is my jam.
It's just been continually forking since the 1970's.
I took FORTRAN as an engineering freshman in 1994...
Brian, I was hoping to see your take on some of the shady recruiting stuff Ace posted about yesterday. Are you going to post separately about it? Some of that was pretty alarming, in my view (though I'm sure very common).
"Now there will be a computer science hipster in the comments talking about how LISP is really elegant because of closures."
We prefer the term Brogrammer
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It's Quebec where high school lasts as long as you want it to. In the other provinces (or at least Ontario, the relevant province) it's the same as American high school with an optional Grade 13 year.
Dazed and Confused Matthew McConaughey would have loved high school in Quebec.
also the age of consent is 14. I preface this by saying I'm Canadian and we learned this in law class in high school. This is not information I had need to seek out.
The grade 13 (OAC) option has been gone for over ten years now. Ontario like most provinces have it down to 12 grades.
Well that's what I get for talking about a place I moved from fifteen years ago I guess.
...that no one who has taken EECS 280 in the last 10--12 years has chimed in about C++ functors' ability to mimic many of the cool things that closures can do.
Very disappointed.
In my defense, it was EECS 281 and 14 years ago. The internet sure has a better memory than I do.
I came here to read about football and found myself in a no-mans-land of technical esoterica. Thought maybe Google translate would help me on some of these comments...but nope. Now I just need an Excedrin and a nap. I feel stupid.
Nice ironic name, and also the creator of the Quindenion, née Octonion.
"his scholarship". If he waits much longer UM will sign someone else. If I were coach I would.
Two of my favorite players ever. I will never get over how good Devin should have been.
Sigh.
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