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tobyfinn1 · 4 years ago

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Automobility – Celebrating 20 Years in Business

Automobility has officially been in operation since 2001, and is celebrating 20 years in business this month! To celebrate this very special achievement we asked Founder and Director, Jeff Watters to spill the beans (or tea – if you’re aged under 25!) about how it all started, what the past two decades have been like, and what’s in store for Automobility in the future…

Q: What was your original motivation for starting Automobility? A: I had been working as an Automotive Engineering consultant for about 10 years and wanted to do something more meaningful and less reliant on Government policy. It was the late 90’s and I was consulting to a company that was just starting to get into wheelchair access vehicles. That’s when I developed the patented independent rear suspension which became the cornerstone for all Automobility’s conversions – even to this day.

The company failed, owing money to lots of people – including me – but I liked the concept of what they were trying to do and the meaningful outcomes the business would generate, so I bought the smouldering ruins from the administrator and secured the Intellectual Property rights. That’s how Automobility was born!

Q: What were those early years like, when did you realise it was a success? A: The early days were very tough, as we tried to finish vehicles that had been left in limbo by the failed company, and went out looking for more work. I invested about $20K of my own cash into the business and we leased our first factory in Croydon, bought some second-hand workshop equipment and hired two fabricators and a Manager. I continued with my consulting work in the early days, as the business was barely covering its costs but by late 2004, we had grown to a level of stability and I began working fulltime on Automobility.

There’s an old saying business; ‘how many years does it take to be an overnight success?!’ I don’t think there’s a specific number, but when we outgrew our original 500 sqm factory and moved to a 1,500 sqm factory in Bayswater, I realised we had become successful. It was about this time that we started proper corporate planning and goal setting, and it was these activities that helped Automobility grow substantially and produce the exceptional products we manufacture today!

Q: What��s been the hardest part of running Automobility? A: Running a small business is harder than it looks and the bigger you get, the harder it gets as you now control the livelihoods of your employees and their families, as well as your own. It can entail long hours, thankless tasks, dealing with bureaucratic processes – all while up against rising prices and increasing consumer demand for better products at lower prices.

Q: What the most rewarding part of running Automobility? A: That is simple; we change people’s lives!

From humble beginnings, the first Automobility factory in Croydon was where Jeff and a small team of just three began to rebuild the failing business!

Q: How many WAV’s has Automobility converted in the past 20 years? A: I used to pride myself in knowing who each of our clients were – after all, they’re part of the Automobility family. Once we started manufacturing in excess of 100 vehicles per year, keeping up with every client’s name and circumstances became near impossible – it’s good thing we now have Mobility Consultants in each State to help deliver our personalised service and support. Without undertaking a detailed analysis, I’d make an educated guess and suggest it’s approaching 2,000 conversions – plus or minus a few.

Q: What role has Automobility played in the WAV industry over the years? A: When I first started Automobility, most of the products were variants of WAV’s from the USA and UK, or you just stuck a lift in the back of a van and called it a WAV.

Our products revolutionised the industry. The patented independent rear suspension we developed and offered in our early Kia Carnival’s were considered world leading, and while we know that ‘imitation is the most-sincere form of flattery’ I’m always surprised when I see competitors using variants of our design, without the full knowledge of our IP and why we do it the way we do.

It’s because of our innovative products and commitment to our clients that we have become as well renowned as we are. It’s these products and services that sets us ahead and apart from our competitors. This is the legacy that I will leave behind to not only this company but the industry too.

Q: What would you like to see change in the WAV industry? A: I’m a strong advocate for the end-user. We ensure our vehicles are fit for purpose, safe and compliant, but not all companies have the same commitment or quality controls. I regularly champion the industry and State Registrations bodies to call out dodgy manufacturers, and ensure that all WAV vehicles are compliant and safe – I want to see the industry put people first, not profits.

Q: Looking to the future – what’s next for Automobility? A: I often joke about our world domination plans, especially when I see one of our vehicles out in the community but also just get great satisfaction in knowing that vehicle has changed someone’s life. As a company, Automobility is diversifying somewhat to offer general mobility equipment and installations, like boot hoists, hand controls and mobility aids. We are also moving towards more commercial conversions to complement our private client vehicles.

The onset of COVID has slowed things down and overseas may as well be another planet right now. Our goals are to consolidate Automobility to ensure it stays one of the largest and most successful mobility companies in Australia. I’m also working to set up the company structure so it continues long after I have retired, so I can rest on the laurels of my legacy and decades of hard work, knowing we will continue changing lives through the best quality products and support.

Q: Finally, how is Automobility celebrating this milestone? A: ‘Enabling Life’s Journey’ is our motto and helping people get their independence, freedom and adventure back is what we really stand for. So instead of spending money on a big fancy marketing campaign to promote our 20 years, we decided to run a promotion on our Facebook page giving away four mid-week city getaway packages valued at more than $450 each, including WAV car hire with Hertz, hotel accommodation, dinner and movie vouchers. We wouldn’t be here without the trust and support of our clients, so we want to make this celebration about them, not just us!

Looking for a wheelchair access vehicle (WAV) for you and your family – or for your organisation or business? Call the Automobility team today on 1300 660 773 for an obligation free consultation and demonstration session, in person or on online.

#automobiity

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homestuckhiveswap · 7 years ago

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END OF YEAR 5 - Since the Hiveswap kickstarter was funded: A hopefully final development chronicle

via /r/homestuck

Some of you might be too young to remember the heady days of mid-2012. A time where Homestuck still updated pretty much every day. The fandom had rode strong and true through the EOA5 hiatus and crashed through to the unexplored pastures of Act 6 with nary a whinny of hesitation. And after the coolness that was [S] Caliborn: Enter, Hussie returned from a hiatus with a troll ancestor walkaround to open A6I3... and an extra project: the 'Homestuck Adventure Game', and its corresponding Kickstarter.

The plan is this. I'll finish Homestuck some time in 2013 . . . When Homestuck is done, that's when our full attention will be on actual development. The game will be scheduled for release in 2014.

-Homestuck Adventure Game Kickstarter campaign (Sep. 4 2012)

As we now know, the Kickstarter was a big hit, and reached its funding goal 32 hours after its launch, on September 5, 2012, at roughly 10:30 pm. Five years ago, to this day. The campaign went on to end with $2.5 mil on October 4, however no one expected to see much more on the game until Homestuck ended. Eventually, Hussie paused for two months before A6A6 started (on 4/13/13) to work on the game, and intended to finish Homestuck in the upcoming months after the pause.

This is Homestuck's final push . . . To alleviate some of the suspense and wild speculation, I will give you a very loose estimate of my schedule, from now until the end of HS. Please observe these facts, as organized by this really awesome "html table" I have designed for this purpose.

-MSPA news update (Apr. 13 2013)

Then a bunch of A6A6 happened. The dreaded, terrible, Gigapause began. Hussie planned to continue making Homestuck, but handling the final section of the story in one big chunk, instead of regularly updating. And also work on the game. He didn't even give a time estimate on the Gigapause's length, probably to avoid tying himself to any expectations.

I also have to allocate some time to work on the Kickstarter game . . . I'll probably have a more substantive update on that before the end of the year. There hasn't been much to report yet since it's mostly been in a high level planning and writing phase. And firming up tons of legal minutiae.

-MSPA news update (Oct. 17 2013)

It took until New Year's Eve for us to get our first news on the game itself. It wasn't much to see, but one fact that is important to us is that it seems that Hussie had already agreed to create the game with The Odd Gentlemen, as he said that he didn't want to announce the developers of the game at that time. It took another six months of Gigapause to get another update on the game, which was when the partnership with The Odd Gentlemen was formally announced. The game seemed already to clearly be on schedule for late 2014 at the very earliest.

Note there was no target month given, because I really didn't know what the timeframe was down to that level of specificity . . . When the Kickstarter ended, that is not really when development began in earnest. That's when we began getting a lot of boring legal stuff in order, which took a while. Probably around six months I'd say . . . So if we are behind schedule (which may not even be technically true), I guess it could be by that amount of time. But I'm anticipating a major surge in development in the latter half of 2014.

-Kickstarter backer update (Jun. 20 2014)

The Gigapause finally ended a year after it began. And soon after it ended, Hussie outlined an entirely new plan for the Homestuck Adventure Game, now finally revealed to be titled Hiveswap. There's a lot that was said in that update (available here). But to condense it to one point: Hussie decided to pull development of the game in-house and over the last 'couple months' set up a What Pumpkin game studio for that purpose. Remember that it had been only four months since The Odd Gentlemen were revealed as the developers, which means that the decision to take back developing duties happened very promptly after the developer was announced!

The original plan had us testing the game by this point. Looks like testing within first half of next year is more likely. One major change to the plan I've settled on is to release the game episodically, to shorten the gap between now and when something is ready to be released.

-Kickstarter non-backer update (Oct. 30, 2014)

It took until after A6A6I4 had concluded for our next update, which was promising: Hiveswap had a website (since redesigned) and actual screenshots. Hussie stressed how development had amped up, especially considering that "Back in October of last year we hadn't even bought, like... computers.", and was overall very optimistic about the development progress, both in terms of speed and quality.

This point and click adventure has 3D graphics, puzzle solving gameplay, and an original story spanning four content packed Acts that will release throughout 2015.

-What Pumpkin Studios press release (Feb. 17 2015)

The future seemed bright. There was an asset reel, a playable demo at conventions, and a trailer ("Have you noticed that we're posting more updates lately? That's because things are really moving on the game right now, and there's a lot of exciting progress to report."). A second press release mentioned a mid-2015 release date (the press release was later still available - with the date edited out!). However, time came and went... and nothing happened. Just as A6A6I5 was ramping down with the Omegapause about to begin, we received more news on the progress of the game. It said that the WP Studios operation at NYC was expanding, and necessitated a bump in the development of the game.

So we'll be taking the little adjustment period this month to revise the schedule and come up with a new date to reflect the amount of polishing and testing we think the game could still use. We'll announce a new release date once we're sure the estimate will be final.

-Kickstarter non-backer update (Jul. 20 2015)

We kept waiting for EOA6 and A7, waiting for Hiveswap, and then suddenly finding ourselves in utter radio silence again. But something extremely worrying started to happen: in late October, a large amount of WP Studios NYC employees were laid off at the same time - surely a sign that the game was being abandoned. With no official word on the matter, people started trying to glean the truth by following said former employee's social media presences. The hysteria rose to such a point that on this very subreddit, someone took it upon themselves to dig up everything they could on these employees in a dangerously insensitive way. (And then Makin fucking stickied it without even fully reading the post. He says "I'm sorry".) The resulting backlash ended with Hussie saying that news on the game was coming before 2015 ended just to calm everyone down. And news did come:

We've been taking the last several months to pause production on Hiveswap and revise the overall approach to the game, as well as the visual direction, to make things a little more cost-efficient, and more rapidly producible over the full span of the series.

-Kickstarter non-backer update (Dec. 25 2015)

Hiveswap had transitioned to 2D, and in the process WP Studios NYC had been shut down (the expansion earlier that year seemingly for naught) and development was moved to a decentralized operation with less physical presence. Even though the previous update claimed to have a release date coming soon, no hint of any such thing was made now. Fans were relatively pacified after months of thinking that the project had been cancelled, and turned their attention to the upcoming end of Homestuck. It was generally assumed that Hussie was working on getting Homestuck done by 4/13, and that after that he would be free to turn his full attentions on the game. Our last crumb of official news came six months after the last, in the newspost for the release of Volume 10.

Since 4/13 I have been preoccupied with a wide variety of projects. Some are related to Homestuck, some are not . . . I have kept busy, and do not feel there is much to report yet. But there probably will be over the next couple of months.

-MSPA news update (Jun. 12 2016)

Four months came and went in deadly silence. Hiveswap was still under active development, but from the outside, nothing appeared to be happening. All official forms of communication were silent. The official website hadn't been updated in a year and a half, and still contained screenshots of the 3D version of the game. It seemed like the project had died (yet another) silent death behind the curtains. But suddenly, unexpectedly, one little update showed up on the game's website:

Hiveswap: Act 1 will be released January 2017.

-Hiveswap.com news update (Oct. 1 2016)

(quickly deleted, then undeleted on Oct. 6 2016)

A launch date??!? A new trailer! The 2D style makes it pretty now! THE GAME IS COMING OUT! After such a long time with a seemingly dead project, things were suddenly moving at breakneck speeds. Hiveswap was submitted to Steam Greenlight (in December) and overwhelming support got it approved almost instantly! Plus, we got the Homestuck credits flash and the snapchat stuff that's happening! Could this be a revival? Wait... isn't January almost done already, how come we haven't heard anything el-

Status of Hiveswap: the game is just about done. It could still use some more testing to be absolutely certain we are not releasing a buggy piece of shit! To that end it will be worth waiting another several weeks or so.

-MSPA news update (Jan. 26 2017)

Oh. Well, alright. It did seem a little odd though, since we never got an exact release date, and the game is getting delayed for 'bug-fixing'. But that means it's essentially finished anyways, so we just have to hang on a little longer. Say, 4/13 is coming up - and three months' time should be enough to quash any pesky problems. Of course, we'd gone back to not hearing anything about Hiveswap, but it seemed like a reasonable expectation given the timeline of things...

So, the game is nearly done . . . Some things take longer to implement or polish than we anticipate, but our intent is not to mislead you. I promise. We want to keep you in the loop as much as we can . . . The next time you hear a release date from us, it’ll be because the game is about to launch. In the meantime, we thank you, one last time, for your continued patience and understanding.

-What Pumpkin tumblr post (Apr. 13 2017)

Well, we'd gotten another trailer. And an apology. And by the time those two started to wear off, we got what we should have had all along: semi-regular communication from WP in the form of a series of developer interviews, art, and track releases. It was, at least, something to look forward to while waiting. But the lack of real MSPA content of any kind combined with the passing months meant dissatisfaction continued to mount. It was supposed to be just bug fixing, after all! Until finally:

We’re excited to let you guys know that HIVESWAP: ACT 1 has a release date, and it is September 14th!

-What Pumpkin tumblr post (Aug. 29 2017)

Here we are, everyone. Act 1 might actually be released. It's been a long and hard wait as the years went by, but the light at the end of the tunnel draws near. I hope you're all as happy and excited as I am about it! And I fervently, desperately hope not to have to repost this next year. But at the same time, there's one vital, inscrutable, heart-tightening question that we will have to find an answer for soon...

When's Act 2 coming out?

#hiveswap #homestuck #article

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iamkellyadams · 5 years ago

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Attention Women Over 25: Still Struggling To Lose Belly Fat – Flavor Pairing Really Works?

Hi, I’m Carly and this is my story which I’m proud to share and probably can inspire you to take action and finally achieve the dream body you always dreamt for.

On this very page you’re going to discover a hidden fat loss trick i.e. ‘falvor-pairing‘ which when implemented along with a simple 2-minute ritual will trigger an awe-inspiring female transformation.

I discovered this transformation Cheat-Code that over 93% of people still have no idea exists after my life threatening experience which triggered a flood of what scientists call the weight-loss doubling molecule that lay dormant inside even the most stubborn female metabolism!

Which is why my friends, my family and even my doctor were shocked- when this sequence of events not only ended my battle with hypertension, pre-diabetes, endometriosis, and even depression…

…. and compelled my body to initiate a 22-hour-a-day fat burning sequence that grew stronger with each passing day!

Before you read on…

I highly recommend you to watch the video below, sit back relax to hear and see this incredible story… How at almost 40 years old, I eliminated 100 pounds of confidence-stealing, energy-sucking and potentially life-ending body fat. And finally got to live my ‘happily ever after’ reversing all signs of hypertension, diabetes and depression.

All while managing to lose 12 dress sizes and 23 inches of my waist … Shrinking from a whopping 42 inches all the way around – down to only 26″ inches! Watch this video below and I promise to reveal my full transformation along with the secret “Flavor Pairing Ritual” aka “Carb-Pairing Ritual” I used to melt away over 80 pounds faster than I ever thought possible-without pills or depriving myself on the latest fad keto, calorie counting, satisfaction stripped diet…

Those women who decide to watch this video till the end will:

See, hear, and experience an almost unbelievable transformation story

Reveal a life-changing, time-tested technique that a tiny country half way across the world uses daily

Discover a truly unexpected method hiding right under our noses that 93% of people have no idea exists…

I’m sure you can see how worthwhile it will be today to sit back, relax, watch and listen.

The truth of the matter is, I am not a great writer, I am ok but that’s not enough when you’re on a mission to spread this unique & easy fat loss trick to as many women as possible on the internet.

So for me to try explain this story and this method to you through this article is a great opportunity but I found an even better way… I was able to put this video together. And I’m pretty proud of it.

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My Promise To You

I guess my promise to you today, woman to woman, is that I wouldn’t have put in the 100’s of hours it took to create this if I didn’t think it would be of great benefit.

I can’t make some sort of “guarantee”, because we can’t “get time back”. But hey, if a relatively small time investment today could teach you even just one thing that you can take forward to get more healthy, wouldn’t it be worthwhile?

So, if you’re tossing up whether to go and grab your headphones right now and settle in, then I say “GIVE IT A SHOT!”

You’ve got nothing to lose!

Power of Hormones

This is no secret hormones plays a major role in our lives, but what you might not have realised we women are worst effected.

As our body transcend from one phase of life to another our hormones completely goes topsy turvy leaving us on the mercy of these life altering hormones. Hormonal imbalances occur when there is too much or too little of a hormone in the bloodstream.

Because of their essential role in the body, even small hormonal imbalances can cause side effects throughout the body.

3 Fat Hoarding “Evil-Step-Mother-Hormones”

Today I’m going to focus on your I.C.E hormones (i.e. Insulin, Cortisol, and Estrogen) also known to be 3 fat-hoarding, “Evil-Step-Mother-Hormones” who inevitably “lose their way” in our mid-20’s.

I will show you can make rogue hormones once again be become the “fat-burning queens” and starts running like clockwork.

Let me explain…

These 3 hormones play crucial role in a women’s health, metabolism and weight loss.

They do numerous jobs around the body, but let me give you a quick run down…

➢ INSULIN: Transports energy to the cells that need it and quite often to the cells that DON’T need it when there is excess sugar floating around in your body.

➢ CORTISOL: released into the body at times of stress. During exercise cortisol can help increase fat burning, but having chronic high levels of cortisol is a recipe for snail pace fat loss and stubborn levels of belly fat.

➢ ESTROGEN: gives the female body it’s womanly characteristics, but if the ratio of estradiol + estrone are out of whack, then losing fat from the hips, butt and thighs is going to be an uphill struggle.

And this is where I hit a jackpot, and learnt to fix the I.C.E. hormones. I went on to lose 84 lbs, drop 12 dress-sizes, burned 23 inches of fat off my waist and hips, and finally got my life back using a simple 2-step ritual a.k.a ‘The Cinderella Solution‘ that got my hormones to play together nicely.

I cannot describe what’s it’s like to actually FEEL something start to work from the moment you start all the way until you lose your last pound…

The Transformation Cheat Code

It was exciting and shocking, when I stumbled upon this easiest ever female fat loss technique!

I just could not believe myself, and even those 500 odd women first to try this new technique. They all replicated my results, some even had better results than me…

It was unbelievable how science could have missed such an important discovery hidden in plain sight which has the power to transform lives for thousands if not millions of women around the world.

You would be surprised to know how easy is this ‘flavor-pairing’ technique is and how these principles kept women of this small country thinnest and healthiest as compared to anywhere else.

Whether you want to believe or not it was a God’s plan, “luck” or divine-intervention…

… Having my 209-pounds, disease-saturated and confidence-starved body hit the floor that morning WAS my fate.

And to be honest,

I’m glad it happened

Because it allowed me,

A once clinically obese and exhausted pre-diabtic mother with hypertension on the verge of losing everything…

to stumble upon this “weight-loss doubling” ritual… that triggers a relentless fat-torching “domino-effect”

Buried deep inside even the most shattered metabolism.

➢ All it takes, is a diet-free solution that re-wires and re-awakens your Scientifically-proven 22-hour-a-day weight loss magnification systems.

And even THOUGH those powerful systems went dormant for you the moment puberty ended, undeniable recent top-level university investigations now verify THERE IS a fat-burning “sleeping-giant” inside you and by end time we are done today…

Together you and I will have given it a giant-sized kick in the butt that screams,

‘GET BACK TO WORK’

But before all this happened…

I mean, like even before I started gaining all that weight in my mid 20’s…

… that every woman falls victim to the shadowy Metabolic-Villain that forces the 3 hormones that kept you fit, youthful, healthy and happy when you were younger,

To literally funnel floating fat-cells into every single area exposed by your bathing suit.

…all while introducing you to a lifetime struggle with body-image, while locking in your weight-management hormones to ‘storage-mode’.

And even though none of this is our fault because nobody, not even our doctor warns us about this when we’re younger… Unless of course you are one of the lucky 8% blessed with near-perfect-genetics…

As women we are ALL VICTIMS of this fat-hoarding 30-year sentence…

The one that dismembers your metabolism form the end of puberty all the way through menopause.

However if it wasn’t for that fateful day not-so-long ago…

I could have never discovered these kindergarten-simple “Flavor-Pairing” rituals from a tiny island 6000 miles across the ocean…

But bodies and lives of over 16787 other women just like you, in the last year alone.

Because the truth is,

You are literally only one unusual step in an unexpected direction away from knocking over the big fat-loss domino that’s standing you and the body you’ve been dreaming of.

Just like Susan did at 53 years old…who used a of all things, A ‘carb-pairing’ ritual to channel a Fat-Flushing current…

Forcing 48 pounds of fat from her body while allowing her to recover the youthful glow lost in her 20’s…

Or even ladies with once-silent metabolism, like Kelly who lost 52 pounds.

Using the salty-sweet flavor-pair that revs up fat-burning by over 200%…

THE BEST PART IS,

Sadly, you’ve never heard of their secret because it’s so closely guarded by their top gatekeepers.

It wasn’t until a few highly respected doctors and government officials broke their code of silence that I was able to unleash that flood of age-reversing enzymes,

Allowing me to reclaim my body, my energy, my husband

And as you can see here….My Youth!

Luckily these battles with weight and body image inspired me to open my own special-place devoted to those looking to reclaim the health, happiness and confidence that had abandoned them so long ago.

Pretty soon after opening my first weight loss center a ‘buzz’ began to circle around the city…

➢ It’s Your Turn Now, Get The Blueprint Here

The Discovery

While we were looking for the perfect weight loss solution everywhere, it was already in practice for 100’s of years. Probably being couple of centuries old, a simple ‘flavor-pairing’ ritual which made this small island country the slimmest, longest living and most disease-resistant country…

However if it wasn’t for that fateful day not-so-long ago….(my near death experience). I could have never discovered these kindergarten-simple ‘Flavor-Pairing’ rituals from a tiny island 6000 miles across the ocean…

…. that not only had the power to transform my body –

But bodies and lives of over 16,787 other women just like you, in the last year alone.

Because the truth is,

You are literally only one unusual step in an unexpected direction away form knocking over the one big fat-loss domino that’s standing between you and the body you’ve been dreaming of… (This is your chance to join the revolution – click here for all the steps and instructions)

The Moment Everything Changed

That alone got my attention but what really took my breath away were the statistics that backed up these claims from world’s most respected health authority:

Japanese women live to an astonishing average of 87-years-old,

A record number that has continued to climb since the 1960’s.

That’s over 10 years longer than we get to live here…10 YEARS!

Can you imagine getting an extra decade on this planet with your loved ones?

But the Japanese were also named the most “Disease-Resistant” & “Happiest” country as well. These women had uncommonly low rates of dementia, depression, heart attacks and strokes.

So not only were they living longer,

But for the last half-century, their quality of life was dominating ours as well.

As I’d later find out,

The Japanese had made one simple “alteration” to their eating habits 62 years ago.

And it was this subtle,

Yet profound adjustment that super-charged their immune systems

With the unique hormonal-synergy needed to produce “Warrior-Antibodies”

That actually fought tooth-and-nail against disease and obesity.

It turns out that Shoku-Iku (which translates to Nutrition Architecture)Is a set of guidelines, broken down into extremely simple food and flavor-pairing rituals.

The primary goal of each pairing was to create“hormonal and metabolic balance to promote health, well-being, strength and happiness from within”.As I mentioned before, here we do the exact opposite.

The scientists explained that in North America we literally try to “attack” obesity, disease and depression from the outside With what they called “Shotgun-Approaches” like the diets, exercise routines and pills we’re all used to.

Back In 1966, as the fast-food craze hit America…

…The Japanese Government instead passed laws To make their “wellness from within” Flavor-Pairing Rituals and Shoku-Iku, the country’s mandatory Nutritional Platform.

So while we quickly became the fattest, sickest and unhealthiest country on the planet, The Japanese just kept losing weight while living longer, happier more fulfilling lives,

All because of a simple, yet metabolically explosive set of Flavor-Pairing rituals they adopted over 50 years ago.

And that’s what really gave me peace of mind that flavor-pairing was the key to unlocking the female fat-loss code…

… This wasn’t some pill being concocted in a lab or “get-skinny-by-yesterday” diet dreamed up by some TV doctor … Without any long term testing to see if it actually worked or more importantly, if it was safe.

This was 50 years of proof combined with 2 billion people living leaner, healthier longer lives.

And did I mention that Japanese women consume more carbohydrates than any other country as well?!?!

In fact,

They eat almost double the carbs we eat here!

From there we began to examine other nations that topped the list for “Healthiest Countries” like Spain, Switzerland and Australia.

The team and I dug deep to uncover their secrets for living these ultra-healthy, lean and long-lasting lives

Focusing specifically on weight loss and how they actually maintain such lean and slender figures.

Pretty soon a shocking pattern began to emerge…

The women who lost weight the fastest and those who were able to maintain such desirable life-long figures

Free from the stress of and guaranteed failure of dieting,

All practiced simple rituals that paired the right foods and flavors throughout their day.

The cutting-edge research proved

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We were shocked because even though these simple, zero-cost rituals had been undeniably proven,We had never seen the indisputable evidence until now…

It turns out there’s a despicable reason for hiding the key to unlocking the female fat-loss code…

It’s the same reason you haven’t heard about it from those TV doctors, social media weight-loss gurus, fat-loss infomercials or even your own doctor…The truth is simple…Our government can’t tax easy fat-doubling rituals and pharmaceutical

And supplement companies can’t make money off a simple flavor pairing trick that signals around-the-clock weight loss!

Because these strategies cost only pennies-a-day and are so extremely simple…

…The weight-loss industry wants to keep them locked away and buried. And if you lose the weight extremely fast, like you will this time, they can’t hook you with another fad-approach…

…that kills your dreams and empties you and your families pockets yet again.

And I’ll tell you right now,Once you hit your own weight loss goal, That 20, 30, 40 or even 100 pounds,It Just feels like an “added bonus” compared to knowing that you’ve just bought yourself extra time on this planet with your friends and family.

However, how you feel about that lady you see staring back you in the mirror each morning can be pretty powerful,

So I should give you a glimpse of what you too can expect when the weight just starts falling off… Starting tonight!

I’ve got good news for you if you are a woman who refuses to give up and finally start living your own Cinderella Story inside

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Joe’s Weather Blog: Happy St Patrick’s Day + our next rain chance (SUN-3/17)

To say the weather on St Patrick’s Day can be all over the place would but putting it very mildly. The cold high was 24° back in 1892…2 years later we hit 84° for our warmest St Patrick’s Day. We had a stretch of warm ones in 2009, 2011 and 2012 with upper 70s to around 80°. The coldest low was back in 1906 with temperatures down to 10°. In 2014 we had a low of 18° and in 1960 we had…18″ of snow on the ground. In 1958 we had over 1″ of snow on today’s date. So this time of the year is usually a battle between spring and winter.

Forecast:

Today: Partly cloudy skies and not as mild as yesterday with highs 50-55°

Tonight: Variable clouds with perhaps a sprinkle? Lows in the upper 20s

Monday: About like today…50-55°

Tuesday: Showers possible…with highs 50-55°

Discussion

See yesterday’s blog about the latest river information upstream of KC towards NW MO…including updates on river stage forecasts.

I’m getting ready to head out for the St Patrick’s Day parade and I’m reminded of the scene when the cars we are passengers in are making the surn southwards on Broadway to a throng of revelers. In some years the trees (especially the Pear trees) have blossomed out and look fabulous as they can do during the spring season…this year though nary a bud to be found I don’t think.

I was doing some research yesterday and trying to find a way to point out how “grinding” this winter has been, especially related tot eh colder weather. A lot of you are over the cold…which I totally get…but this winter has been a bit strange from that standpoint.

We started the middle of October with our earliest accumulating snow in KC (.2″). Then we had the blizzard on Thanksgiving weekend..a bunch of small snow events…a few bigger ones and essentially no prolonged mildness to speak of except what happened in early December. Our “faux” thaw I guess. Anyway what we’ve been missing this winter is interludes of milder days. So I wanted to investigate that a bit more and see if that adds any clarity.

My colleagues at the NWS in KC sent out a tweet the other day…

The high temp at Kansas City Int'l Airport has remained below 65° for 133 days now, which ties a record set in 1912. Based on this afternoon's forecast high of 62, we should break that record today, but it will be close.

— NWS Kansas City (@NWSKansasCity) March 13, 2019

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This caught my eye…and let’s tack on another 4 days to that by the way…and for that matter add on another few more to that too because we won’t be sniffing 65° for awhile I fear.

So here is what I did…looked back to the period from November 1st through 3/16…and wanted to see how many days of 60°+ we’ve had…65°+ …70°+ and 75°+ …and then compare that to the last few years of the same time period.

Temperature 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 60° Or higher 9 22 37 49 25 65° Or Higher 0 11 27 23 14 70° Or Higher 0 4 16 14 8 75° Or Higher 0 1 4 3 3

I think that table is pretty interesting…as a matter of fact this year…the 9 days of 60° or higher is the fewest since 1993 I believe. Hmmmm what happened back in 1993? Oh yeah…flooding.

Then again…look what happens after the season’s 1st 70° day…on average.

Updated map showing the average snowfall AFTER recording the first 70°F day of the year using all available stations (n=3,094; 1981-2018). @wxjay pic.twitter.com/Lijg2sWTJ2

— Brian Brettschneider (@Climatologist49) March 15, 2019

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You know for as chilly as it’s been…March isn’t exactly turning into a gangbuster snowy month (so far) in KC…we’ve had 2.8″ which IF it stopped there would be tied for the 51st snowiest March in KC.

Our next system is due in on Tuesday but it won’t rain all day long…as a matter of fact we may try to warm-up a bit as a surface low comes close to the I-70 corridor region.

It’s a weak system overall…and the better moisture may be more towards northern MO…not helping the saturated conditions up there but not having a big effect on the flood situation…and you can see the drop off towards the south. It’s also possible that depending on when exactly we start getting some light precip going early Tuesday…there still could be a few ice pellets/flakes mixed in briefly.

How warm we get on Tuesday is a bit of a tough forecast. We average the mid 50s now…and IF we can get dry weather for awhile on Tuesdya and IF we can get some sort of SE/S wind move into the KC Metro…we could warm-up more than I think (50-55°).

IF it rains all day long…we’ll be much cooler…but there has been a trend for milder weather with the more concentrated rain coming towards the later part of the day.

Beyond that nothing really remarkable overall…at least from a temperature standpoint and use the data below cautiously because we are definitely at the time of the year where these values change a lot.

On that note I will mention to be aware of changing temperature forecasts for the next few weeks especially as we start to transition the seasons. The battle between the warm and cold air masses gets more intense now…winter tries to hang on while the daylight gets longer and the sun angle gets even stronger. This time of the year can be rather perilous for forecasting high temperatures as well even 24 hours out. Not that those forecasts are bad…but there is a tendency I think to underestimate potential warmth by a few degrees.

Back to the slow start to spring…and granted it doesn’t “officially” start for another few more days…but the vegetation doesn’t go by calendars…

Notice the blues encroaching farther and farther north in the last few days of the animation above…this signals a delay in the typical spring “green-up” that is expanding northbound. Areas towards the deep south are having an early spring green-up though…

There have been years in the past that I’ve written about our early spring green-ups coming up into KC…as recently as a couple of years ago. Last year was another slow green-up for us with the crummy March and April weather we endured.

Speaking of which…the 1st 16 days this month are the 19th coldest start to March in KC weather history. Remember how crummy last March was…well on average through the 1st 16 days it was 10° warmer!!!

I did a double take when I saw that this morning. We had a lot of 40s though on the back half of March last year…hopefully we can do better this year.

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Joe

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yahoo-puck-daddy-blog · 7 years ago

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What We Learned: Here's what Maple Leafs shouldn't do in Game 3

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Okay so you’re Mike Babcock and Games 1 and 2 didn’t quiiiiiite go your way.

You lost two games by a combined score of 12-4 and frankly neither of them felt even that close. On Saturday, it was 7-3 and might as well have been 100-1 for all the life the Bruins looked ready to give your team.

So now you have two days to figure out what you can do here. The problem of course is that there might not be all that much you actually can do. It’s fair to say that the Marchand-Bergeron-Pastrnak line has fried everyone they’ve faced. Each went at least plus-17 in 5-on-5 shot attempts over these first two games and at least one of them has been in on 10 of Boston’s 12 goals in the series, including all seven on Saturday.

You do not need to be any sort of hockey genius to understand what’s gone sideways here. The opponent’s big line is running riot on a level you basically never see anyone do in any playoff (let alone against the team that finished seventh in the regular season), your best shutdown center got himself suspended for a series of dumb and dangerous hits in Game 1, and the right side of your defense probably couldn’t cut it in the AHL.

You might also have some theories on hand about how conservatively this team, rife with talent, has played all year (very). Or maybe the defensemen that are getting the most run-out against that other team’s top line (Jake Gardiner and Ron Hainsey). Or perhaps who leads your team in PK time (Ron Hainsey and Roman Polak). Or possibly your roster decisions overall (any one of the good young players could be in the lineup instead of the bad old ones).

There is going to be the temptation to change some stuff, and many of the ideas being advanced by the television media, even mid-game on Saturday night, were insane. “Dress Matt Martin in Game 3” was discussed at various points by numerous television personalities, with the idea being that you’re gonna have to send some sort of message and establish a more physical game at home, where you have last change. This is obviously a patently foolish idea advanced by people who remember when King Clancy was freshly retired.

Mike Babcock has some decisions to make ahead of Game 3. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Here’s what I would change about the on-ice approach following a two-game run in which you scored just 25 percent of the 16 combined goals: Very little. The Leafs gave up four goals on their first six shots on Saturday. It happens.

What’s that thing they always say when your goalie gets crushed so bad his head pops like an overinflated beach ball (which by the way is exactly what happened to Freddie Andersen in Game 2)? You just have to put it behind you. Goalie has a bad game and you say his big thing has to be to forget it. If a goalie has a bad night, it wasn’t because he bumped his head and forgot how to be a goalie. It could be because the other team got more scoring chances than usual, or because of funny bounces.

On some level the Leafs’ problems are more endemic than a few bad bounces or whatever, but the reason they tell goalies to forget bad performances is because goalies tend to know pretty well how to stop pucks and well, the Leafs know how to have success on the ice this season, even against good teams. Put another way, if they could get by okay with Auston Matthews missing a bunch of games, the problems now are not strictly related to not having Kadri.

One finds it difficult to imagine that simply juggling the lines and pairings — the latter of which Babcock did mid-game on Saturday — is going to be the move that unlocks this series for Toronto, either. It’s something Nashville has done to great effect this season, putting a boat anchor like Alexei Emelin on P.K. Subban’s pairing and a competent-third-pair guy like Matt Irwin with Roman Josi. The Leafs’ defense frankly isn’t all that deep, and if you gotta try putting Roman Polak with someone who can cover for his total inability to skate, then that’s something worth trying. But if it doesn’t work, well, I mean it’s Roman Polak and people have been saying all year you gotta bench his ass in favor of Connor Carrick or someone like that.

This is the big problem with the Leafs, and with Babcock in particular, is that there are just guys he capital-T trusts which he capital-S shouldn’t. But maybe maybe maybe the fact that Hainsey has been out there for six goals in a little more than 38 minutes, and both Polak and Nikita Zaitsev are at four against each, should tell you something. (And yeah, Morgan Rielly’s been out for five against, but at least he’s “only” a minus-2, because the team also scored three of its four goals when he was on the ice. And plus, I mean, you gotta play somebody.)

Or here’s an idea: Maybe even if you are sticking with the same six defenders (and you shouldn’t!), you make it so that your top pairing plays like 25 minutes a night instead of 20, because when you keep the time differences pretty evenly divided, that means Roman Polak is still playing 19 minutes a night, and that’s, uhh, suboptimal.

I guess the larger idea here is that you might not be able to do much to slow down that top line, right? So instead of trying to slow them down with Polak or Matt Martin or whatever other almost-literal sandbags you can dress, you try to match their speed.

That way, if they’re gonna beat you (which they almost certainly will regardless of what you do), at least you can try to go punch for punch instead of just hoping their arms get tired from punching you really hard in the face repeatedly for 120 more minutes of this series.

Just something to think about. Not trying to tell anyone how to do their jobs.

What We Learned: Playoff edition

Anaheim Ducks: Honestly the takeaway from these first two games, in which the Ducks lost both games and in doing so gave up their home-ice advantage, is that they played real Randy Carlyle-type hockey. Which is obviously to say that y’know, a fast team like the Sharks always seemed likely to beat them. I don’t know how the Ducks, as currently constituted both on the ice and behind the bench, fix that problem. But if anyone can do it … it’s probably not Randy Carlyle.

Boston Bruins: Even as a person who lives in Boston and follows the Bruins pretty closely as a result, we haven’t really heard a lot about what Boston’s done right in this series, and rather more like everything Toronto’s done wrong. Understandable, I guess, because what they’ve done right is “Have David Pastrnak go all the way off” and “Not screw up when the top line is off the ice.”

Colorado Avalanche: I guess the nice thing you can say about this series is the Avs are making it a lot more interesting than anyone probably had any right to expect but that they’re still looking pretty likely to lose in five games, max. One can’t help but think the officiating, especially in Game 2, helped with that because the refs got more screen time than some fourth-line guys in this one. But okay, we’re all getting where we were going anyway, I guess.

Columbus Blue Jackets: Here’s a potentially revolutionary idea: Don’t give the Capitals four power plays in the third period of a one-goal playoff game. And okay, sure, one of them was puck over the glass, and one of them was a goaltender interference call on a net drive where the defender shoved the forward from behind. You can’t coach the former out of a player and you shouldn’t coach the latter out of them. But still, the Caps had long since gone into “push for a goal mode” so it’s like ah, hmm let’s try to avoid that going forward. But then again they won in overtime again, so hey, as long as you can get your goalie to stop 50-something shots every night you’re in great shape.

Los Angeles Kings: B-R-U-T-A-L late meltdown to put this team up against the wall heading into Game 4. They played well but stop me if you’ve heard this before: The Kings are having trouble scoring. I know Marc-Andre Fleury is having a great year but you gotta make him work a little harder than the Kings have to this point. It’s a sad state of affairs that these guys are making Deryk Engelland look like Nik Hjalmarsson but here we are: Three goals in almost 11 periods of hockey. Good lord.

Minnesota Wild: Okay so that was a nice rebound for a team that looked not only dead in the water but also like really bloated after having been exposed to the elements for a good long while. And hey, as long as the Jets keep taking 25 dumb penalties a game, it’s possible (but not probable) that they can score enough for the rest of the series to make this interesting. I’m not holding my breath or anything, but it would be nice for Bruce Boudreau to get everyone off his back for like five minutes.

Nashville Predators: I don’t have a link for this, but Ryan Hartman scored an empty-net goal to put the Preds up 5-3 with like a minute left and the color guy, who I forget who it was now, goes, “That’s not him trying to be selfish and pad his stats,” because god forbid anyone do anything that could even potentially be construed as individualistic in this sport. Imagine feeling you need to explain that. Get a grip. No over 40 should be allowed to say anything about hockey. I don’t care anymore.

New Jersey Devils: This is almost literally a one-man team at this point. The extent to which the Devils are getting run out of the building in this series when Taylor Hall is off the ice has been considerable. When he’s on they’re minus-3.6 in attempts per 60 at 5-on-5. When he’s off? Minus-9.4. The Devils are almost three times worse when Hall’s getting a breather. That’s amazing.

Philadelphia Flyers: Easy to blame Brian Elliott for this one — and you shouldn’t not-blame him here to be honest — but if you put the Penguins on seven power plays in a game, my theory is that they’re going to score approximately five goals against you. Just something to think about.

Pittsburgh Penguins: That Brian Dumoulin goal was the truth, man. That was Sid Crosby torching a legit MVP candidate and very casually throwing a backhand diagonal no-look cross-ice pass to really twist the knife and make a maybe-there’s-some-life-there to haha-of-course-there-isn’t in a real hurry. Four points for Crosby in this one, and it’s truly wild that this isn’t close to the best performance of the weekend.

San Jose Sharks: This is some kinda take. The Sharks might get complacent and lose to the Ducks? I mean, I guess that’s something, but if that’s what you thought after watching these two games, I dunno bud. Are we really saying that this is, historically, why the Sharks have been perceived as “chokers?” Complacency? Alright, sure.

Tampa Bay Lightning: The idea that fans should reject “process” because of the end result in Game 2 is a weird one but there’s a better way to say that than “Don’t worry about it.” Yeah the Lightning started to let the Devils back in a bit in Game 2, but also they were up 5-1 fairly early in the game and score effects are a real thing. And the Devils chipped away at that lead to the point that it was only 5-3 in the end. Oh no!!!!

Toronto Maple Leafs: Auston Matthews’ take on this series so far is a pretty good one: “[Stuff] happens in hockey.” One imagines he did not say “stuff.” Babcock echoed a similar sentiment in his postgame presser and that gives me some hope they won’t put Matt Martin out there across from Marchand in hopes of drawing a penalty from Marchand doing some dumbass Marchand thing. But with Babcock I guess you never know. That guy can galaxy-brain with the best of ’em.

Vegas Golden Knights: James Neal is having some kind of series. Three shots, including the go-ahead goal, in Game 3, to go with eight hits. And in Game 2? Two hits and 11 — ELEVEN — shots. This is a guy who is engaged, gang. Not that I’d want to keep getting by on third-period flurries, but if you’re holding the opponent off the board at the other end of the ice, well, that probably gets you to the divisional final.

Washington Capitals: Safe to say the Caps’ goaltending controversy isn’t anywhere near over because boy oh boy did Philip Grubauer look bad in both Games 1 and 2. He’s conceded 8 on 49 so far in this series and folks, for me, that just isn’t gonna be good enough to win you games. Which I guess is the big risk when your starter craps the bed for the regular season.

Winnipeg Jets: If I’m Paul Maurice, Ben Chiarot doesn’t get a lot of ice time down the stretch here. He took a couple bad penalties that led to goals, and was on the ice for a few more. Of course, if Tyler Myers can’t go for Game 4, Maurice probably doesn’t have a choice, but anyone who watched five Jets games this year could have told you Chiarot is bad and was likely to be a liability if given any kind of opportunity to do so.

Play of the Weekend

This John Gibson save was rrrrrreal good.

Gold Star Award

This Pastrnak kid might have a future in the sport. He tied a cap-era record with six points in Game 2. Six! And also he’s only 21 so he probably still has like three, four, five more years of improving.

Minus of the Weekend

That “you gotta dress Matt Martin for Game 3” take is the dumbest thing I ever heard about this sport. So of course a number of people with six-figure salaries are out here saying it. Any dumbass fan off the street could come up with these takes for the cost of a couple beers. I truly don’t understand.

Perfect HFBoards Trade Proposal of the Week

User “illpucks” came up with a whopper.

To Edm: Matthews, Marner To Tor: McDavid

Signoff

Yes.

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Ryan Lambert is a Puck Daddy columnist. His email is here and his Twitter is here.

(All stats via Corsica unless otherwise noted.)

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junker-town · 7 years ago

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Sorting the 9 (or so) teams that still have shots at the 2017 college football national title

No matter how the early top four looks, here are the nine remaining lanes to the Playoff.

1. There are basically nine (clusters of) national title contenders

As ridiculous as I think the weekly College Football Playoff rankings are in their ability to infuriate fans while providing no true insight into the future, I have to admit: I’m somewhat intrigued about 2017’s initial rankings unveil on Tuesday night. The main reason: I have no true idea what to expect.

We probably know who the top two will be. Georgia’s unbeaten record and road win over Notre Dame will probably give the Dawgs the No. 1 spot, and Alabama’s unbeaten record and general Bama-ness (read: cruel, somewhat selective dominance) should be enough to wrap up No. 2.

The No. 3 spot is perhaps most likely to go to Notre Dame, though there’s a case for plenty of others. And among those others, it’s almost impossible to figure out who will get No. 4. Clemson, I guess?

The pure uncertainty in this particularly uncertain season is interesting. But let’s not get confused: it still doesn’t tell us what’s on the horizon. For that, let’s take a quick look into the S&P+ crystal ball.

This week’s Football Study Hall stat profiles have been updated, and now that the CFP is officially a topic, the S&P+ win probabilities for each team become particularly noteworthy. No matter what kind of matchups the committee spit out tonight, realize that we’ve still got a month’s worth of nonsense to go.

Unbeaten P5 teams’ chances of winning out

Alabama 36%

Georgia 34%

Wisconsin 34%

Miami 17%

That there are only four unbeaten power conference teams remaining is noteworthy. Including mid-majors, we’re at only five overall, which means we’re a week ahead of schedule.

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If we are to remain a week ahead of schedule, either Alabama must lose to LSU (15 percent chance, per S&P+), Georgia to South Carolina (11 percent), Miami to Virginia Tech (44 percent), Wisconsin to Indiana (25 percent), or UCF to SMU (31 percent). Our odds of all five teams winning: only 22 percent. We’re in pretty good shape to trim the list in Week 10.

Since 12-0 Alabama and 12-0 Georgia would play each other in the SEC title game, we’re guaranteed only three unbeaten P5 teams at most. More likely, we’re looking at about one.

One-loss P5 teams’ chances of winning out

Ohio State 52%

Clemson 42%

Penn State 39%

Washington 34%

Oklahoma State 32%

TCU 25%

Notre Dame 18%

Virginia Tech 17%

Oklahoma 13%

The nine one-loss P5 teams all enter November thinking they have excellent “win out, and you’re in” shots.

There are clusters here, though. Clemson and Virginia Tech will play an elimination rematch in the ACC title game, if they both win out. Oklahoma still has to play both OSU and TCU (and perhaps OSU or TCU again, due to the ridiculous existence of a title game in a round-robin league).

As good as Notre Dame has looked, the Irish still have a lot of work to do. Of their four remaining games, three are against current S&P+ top 25 teams (No. 24 Wake Forest, at No. 14 Miami, at No. 19 Stanford), and a fourth is against Navy, whom the Irish have only beaten in six of the last 10 meetings.

Most of these teams control their own destinies. But to reach the Big Ten title game, Penn State would need Ohio State to lose twice, perhaps at Iowa (18 percent) and at Michigan (22 percent). Ohio State made the Playoff last year without a B1G title, but circumstances are different this time, in both ways. Penn State doesn’t have as strong an out-of-division schedule as Ohio State had last year, but the barrier for Playoff entry might be lower this year, too.

Of course, there’s another pool of potential one-loss teams.

Unbeaten P5 teams’ chances of finishing with one loss

(Odds of finishing with either zero or one loss in parentheses)

Georgia 46% (80%)

Alabama 45% (81%)

Wisconsin 42% (76%)

Miami 41% (58%)

Georgia, Alabama, and Wisconsin are likely to reach December with one loss at most. UGA and Bama would play each other, and odds are good that Wisconsin will face Ohio State in the Big Ten title game.

By the way, there’s one more contender worth mentioning.

The unbeaten G5 team’s chances of winning out

UCF 42%

The only way the committee is going to put a Group of 5 team in the CFP is if it almost literally has no other choice. It’s unfair, but it is what it is.

If UCF (which is up to No. 5 in S&P+, by the way) gets by SMU on Saturday, the Knights’ odds of reaching the AAC title game unbeaten rise to 61 percent. And if the decision is between an undefeated UCF and, say, a two-loss power conference team, Scott Frost’s Knights might have a chance.

This, then, is your pool of title contenders, no matter who ranks among the early top four

Alabama

Georgia

Ohio State or Wisconsin

Clemson, Virginia Tech, or Miami

Penn State

Washington

Oklahoma State, TCU, or Oklahoma

Notre Dame

UCF

This is going to be fun.

Fortune favors the Phoenix

Per Twitter, this was too incredible for me to not pass along.

After winning just 9 games in their last 4 years, with only 7 coming against FCS competition, Elon has incredibly started the season 7-1 and has vaulted into the FCS Top 10. The Phoenix has 7 wins over FCS opponents this year alone, including 4 against teams ranked in the FCS Top 25 when Elon beat them.

But what’s even more amazing is how Elon has done so under first-year head coach Curt Cignetti. After losing their season-opener at FBS Toledo by 34 points, the Phoenix has won 7 games in a row, and all by a single possession. Elon has won by 3, 2, 3, 6, 8, 1 and 5 points on the season, with scores in the 30s (36-33, 35-34) and a shutout (6-0).

The sheer unlikeliness of this accomplishment makes it noteworthy in and of itself. It's even more incredible that the Phoenix are doing this in the damn Colonial, maybe the strongest FCS conference.

Their victims have included four teams that were ranked at the time: No. 16 (at the time) Charleston Southern, No. 6 Richmond, No. 19 Albany, and No. 13 Villanova. And they still have No. 21 New Hampshire and No. 1 James Madison to go. The magic will almost certainly run out, but this is a run to celebrate.

Big Play Watch

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Arizona’s Khalil Tate

There are still 10 FBS offenses that haven’t generated more than four gains of 40-plus yards. You know, despite the fact that we are now entering November. That’s so crazy to me that I feel the need to shame them by naming them: Miami (Ohio), Middle Tennessee, Oregon State, Purdue, San Jose State, South Carolina, UTEP, Vanderbilt, Western Kentucky, and Wyoming.

There are some decent offenses in that bunch, but ... four huge gains is a really low bar.

It’s also the size of Arizona’s lead in the 40-plus category. The Wildcats now have 24 such gains, and no one else — not even Oklahoma State (20), Oklahoma (17), or Missouri (17) — can come particularly close.

Rich Rodriguez’s Wildcats are on an absolutely stupid run of offense. During their four-game winning streak — which has taken them to 6-2 overall and has kept them within a half-game of the Pac-12 South lead in advance of this week's trip to division leader USC — they have averaged 49 points per game and a staggering 9.4 yards per play.

The primary reason: quarterback Khalil Tate, who returned from injury against Colorado and has laid waste to every Pac-12 defense he’s seen since.

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Remember all those good stories we were reading about Washington State's competent defense earlier this year? Yeah, Tate torched the Cougars for 146 rushing yards (including an 82-yarder) and completed 10 of 17 passes for 275 yards and two more scores.

After trailing 23-14 at halftime, Wazzu surged ahead of the host in the third quarter, taking a 27-23 lead seven minutes in.

Arizona then proceeded to go on a 28-3 run. Tate had a 49-yard score. Mighty mite J.J. Taylor, a 5'6 freshman, ripped off a 79-yarder. And with 11 minutes left, Colin Schooler's 66-yard interception return (even their pick sixes are long) all but sealed the deal.

A month ago, we assumed Rodriguez was a couple of losses from getting fired. Now he’s got a sophomore who could end up in New York for the Heisman ceremony.

Gunner of the Year Watch

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Yes, I’m using this Deonta Moore picture again. It is wonderful.

Out of pure curiosity, I’ve been tracking special teams tackles this year. Maybe we’ll give a pretend award out to whoever has the most of them at the end. Winner of the award gets it named after him.

Your fake award watch list through nine weeks:

South Alabama’s golden-mouthed, shades-wearing Deonta Moore continues to lead the nation in special teams tackles with 11. He’s taken part in three kick returns (average return when he’s involved: eight yards) and 10 kick returns (18.8). The 5’10, 210-pounder also has 59 rushing yards and 18 receiving yards for a Jaguars team whose bowl hopes took a big hit with Saturday’s loss to Georgia State.

WMU’s Alex Grace moved back into the No. 2 spot in the ST tackles list with 9.5. He’s taken part in five punt returns (7.4 average) and six kick returns (17.8). As a backup linebacker, the junior also has a tackle for loss, a run stuff, and two forced fumbles.

Kansas’ Kyron Johnson is rising quickly. The freshman linebacker from Arlington (Tex.) is up to third in ST tackles with nine. He’s taken part in stopping four punt returns (11.0 average) and seven kick returns (28.1). His role has mostly been as a mess cleaner instead of a play-maker. I guess that makes sense, considering the team he plays for.

Maryland sophomore running back Jake Funk is on the rise as well. Not only is he tied for fourth with 8.5 ST tackles, he’s making them count: he’s taken part in stopping three punt returns (4.7 average) and six kick returns (18.5). He’s also got four rushing touchdowns and a touchdown reception. If Funk is involved, something good is happening.

This week’s new riser: UCLA’s Mo Osling III. The three-star freshman from Lancaster (Cal.) is up to eight ST tackles, and while he’s mainly a fire extinguisher on kick returns (he’s taken part in stopping six KRs that have averaged 24.7 yards), he’s made two stops on punt returns. The average of those two returns: zero yards.

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wiersema1 · 7 years ago

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Those that know me best know that college football is truly my favorite sport. You know what gets me pumped for college football season? I absolutely L-O-V-E ESPN’s countdown of their Top 25 Games of last season. They do this every year in July and August as they prep for the upcoming season on the gridiron. When they started their countdown, I happened to catch the 23rd best game of 2016, #23 Florida St. at #10 Miami from Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, FL.

By the way, have you seen the revamped Hard Rock Stadium? Hard Rock Stadium might confuse you, but this is the place that used to be known under the following seven names: Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphin Stadium, Land Shark Stadium, and Sun Life Stadium. For the first time, it is finally a great looking park. They added a partial roof which must help against that scorching Florida sun. Anyway, it looks like a place I’d enjoy checking out a game.

Someday. But for now, I’m driving my son to closer stadiums. This Autumn…..Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana where we’ll see the beloved Huskers of Nebraska at Purdue on October 28.

I know……..not too exciting but it’s all part of seeing each and every B1G stadium. So far I’ve been to games at Iowa, Michigan, Northwestern, Wisconsin, and of course Nebraska and Illinois. I’ve also been to Minnesota and Indiana on non-game days. So that leaves us with Ohio St., Penn St., Maryland, Michigan St., Rutgers, and of course, Purdue.

So here is the list of ESPN’s Top 25 games of 2016:

#25 – Florida St. 45 vs Ole Miss 34 – An offensive explosion. The QB’s in this one, Deondre Francois for FSU and Chad Kelly for Ole Miss inspired both teams to dream of the National Championship. Unfortunately for Ole Miss, Kelly was injured in his 9th game. They went 4-5 in his 9 starts but the offense wasn’t the problem for the Rebels. Their defense allowed 34.0 ppg! As for Francois, he played like a freshman at times, but a wonderfully talented freshman. Going into ’17, Francois is a Heisman contender and FSU is a National Championship contender, starting the season ranked #3.

#24 – Toledo 53 at BYU 55 – Brigham Young’s RB Jamaal Williams ran for 286 yards and 5 TD in this crazy 55-53 victory. This brought back shades of the ‘Wild Wild WAC’ days of yesteryear.

#23 – Pittsburgh 36 at North Carolina 37 – Both Pitt and UNC played in plenty of tight games in ’16. This one was no different.

#22 – Alabama 10 at LSU 0 – I don’t remember watching this one last year (or this year). Maybe I’m just all “Bama’d” out. Does this ten to nothing shutout surprise you? This was a typical SEC slobberknocker, I’m guessing.

#21 – N.C. State 17 at Clemson 24 (OT) – How many tight games did Clemson win in 2016? They won seven games by 7 points or less. They lost one. Spoiler alert! They finished as National Champions with a 14-1 record. That makes tight victories like this all the more important. When the Wolfpack took them to Overtime last October, it improved a shaky Clemson team to 7-0 with 4 tight wins. Most people were wondering what in the world was going on with them. I’ll tell you what was going on. They were forging bonds during tough, hard-fought wins that ultimately propelled them to legends.

#20 Central Michigan 30 at Oklahoma St. 27 – Games like this are what makes college football a special game. Remember this one? CMU threw a Hail Mary after Okie St. was penalized for throwing the ball out-of-bounds on a 4th down as time ran out. The refs wrongly gave CMU one un-timed down because of the Cowboys intentional grounding. So what do you think was gonna happen? Central Michigan caught the Hail Mary, the WR ran it all the way into the end zone after catching it in play and making an incredible run. CMU won! As for Oklahoma State?…….Talk about getting hosed!!!! They finished 11-2……I mean 10-3 doh! The NCAA referees acknowledged their mistake after the game but to no avail. You can’t open up Pandora’s box afterwards.

PS: A similar play happened here in Illinois in the IHSA high school state playoffs between Fenwick and Plainfield North. I know! What is wrong with these referees! If you don’t know for sure, get out the rulebook and consult with IHSA officials or Athletic Directors or somebody before you end up forcing a judge to sit through a courtroom case brought about by a lawsuit. In this case, Fenwick got hosed, losing 18-17 in OT! I can’t believe this really happened twice within a couple of months! Who got screwed more? I vote for Fenwick. They lost a playoff game whereas Oklahoma St. only lost a non-conference game that luckily, ultimately, didn’t derail their championship hopes. As for Fenwick, I’ll be cheering for them this Autumn.

#19 LSU 13 at Auburn 18 – Oh my God! Reliving these fantastic games is wonderful. Remember this one? In what turned out to be Coach Les “The Hat” Miles’ last game as LSU head coach, the Tigers (which one?) thought they threw a game-ending 15 yard TD pass. But wait! The officials reviewed it and determined that the snap on the last play was too late. The game clock had indeed just barely run out before the Tigers’ (which one?) center snapped the ball prior to the miraculous game winner. So who won? The Tigers……naturally. (ICYMI, Auburn’s ‘War Eagle’ won……naturally rather than the LSU “Geaux” Tigers. People wonder why our youth are so confused. I’m confused both reading AND writing this column. Whatever man, “This is the SEC!” I could probably delve into a whole sub-article here about academics in the B1G (Big Ten) vs the SEC but I’ll spare you.) Thanks Dutch!

#18 Ohio St. 30 at Wisconsin 23 (OT) – This was a solid B1G game. This column is getting too long so I’ll refrain from commenting on this one. Oh wait. I have a question for you: Is “Jump Around” a tradition? I mean, this tradition started based on a lousy 90s rap/crap/hip-hop song from 1992? Is that a tradition? Maybe the B1G is dumber, and closer to the SEC, than I thought. I know what you’re thinking……all my Wisky friends are enraged and throwing a fit right now, and possibly “unfollowing” the Dutch Lion concurrently.

#17 Florida St. 20 at Miami 19 – This one brought back memories of earlier games in this once national series but 2016’s edition was not a truly fantastic matchup. It’s good clean hate but it lacks the buildup of what it once was…..one of the greatest meaningful rivalries that the entire nation watched with eyes wide open. Did someone say “wide”, as in “Wide Right!”?

#16 Michigan 13 at Iowa 14 – Great game! Michigan had a perfect 9-0 record, ranked #2 going into Iowa City. Iowa was #1 (you’re dreaming again, of 1985!) In 2016 Iowa was unranked but primed for an upset of Jim Harbaugh. Is Iowa Jim Harbaugh’s kryptonite? Nonetheless, outside of the Hawkeyes current struggles, it was “Shades of 1985!” Seriously, it was eerie. Here’s a column I wrote last Autumn, detailing one of my all-time favorite college games that made me love the sport forever:

“How weird is it that Iowa beat Michigan 14-13 in almost the same way with almost the same score as when they beat Michigan 12-10 in 1985????

My favorite upset of the day was definitely Iowa over Michigan because it brought back so many memories of the epic 1985 #1 vs #2 matchup in Iowa City. It was October 19, 1985. I remember that day well for being 31 years ago. It’s like “Back to the Future”. I was a 10-year-old raking leaves on a cloudy, overcast, rainy October day in the Midwest.

The weather in Iowa City, IA was pretty much the same as Lake Zurich, IL on that day. You had CBS, you had Brent Musburger, you had Chuck Long quarterbacking one team while Jim Harbaugh QB’d the other. Boy, Chuck Long had an arm, huh! You could hear the pads popping the way they did in that era, especially when you had a wet field. For some reason, the pads “popped” differently back then.

You had Ronnie Harmon and Larry Station. I mean seriously, how GOOD was Ronnie Harmon! You had Jamie Morris. You had Bo Schembechler vs Hayden Fry! You had NO instant replay and Iowa’s #87 Scott Helverson got HOSED in the back of the end zone.

You had Rob Houghtlin, making 4 of 5 FG’s including the game winner for Iowa to win 12-10. He was allowed to use the tee. Do you guys remember that placekickers were allowed to use tees? I know, right?

You had that weird moment in time in which the QB could “complain” to the refs about crowd noise and the ref would actually STOP the game and tell the crowd to be quiet so that the QB could communicate with his teammates. I KNOW, RIGHT! Can you believe this actually was a rule for a brief moment in time?!? (I need to look into that further. Did the NFL impose that rule? For how many years? How subjective was it?) Harbaugh was complaining to the refs for parts of that game that made it drag. It was SUPER DUMB! What were the refs supposed to do? Do they penalize Iowa for….the fans being too loud? I want an ESPN 30 for 30 short about this strange story.

Nonetheless, don’t let that ruin your experience. It ended up being such a great day for the Big Ten, for College Football on CBS, for Ara Parseghian (God bless his soul as he just recently passed away) as the “color” man next to Brent. It was great for our Nation’s Heartland. Remember the struggles of the farming community in the mid-80s? Iowa’s farmers actually had an “ANF” logo on the Iowa helmets…..”America Needs Farmers”. I know, right!

Add it all up and it almost makes you want to become an Iowa fan……well, it wasn’t THAT cool 😉 I’m just kidding. It was really, really cool and near the top of my list of cool 80s college football memories.”

(For some reason, footage of this great game is hard to find. Stephen Barnett has most of the old great games posted as FULL games on Youtube.) Thank you Stephen. You’re a video God.)

1985 looks about the same as….

Iowa 14 Michigan 13 in 2016.

#15 North Carolina 37 at Florida St. 35 – I don’t think I watched this one live, unlike most of the games on this list. Now that the Bears drafted Mitch Trubisky, I have extra interest. Check it out and scout #10 in powder blue!

#14 Arkansas 41 at TCU 38 (2OT)

#13 Army 21 vs Navy 17 – This rivalry is so special. Lately, Navy wins almost every year. Not last year. Army broke a long, 14 game losing streak, winning 21-17. I watch it just to see the passion of the cadets and the midshipmen. Who cares who wins? Well, Army and Navy vets do. My buddy Bush is an Army guy. “Go Army, Beat Navy!” My buddy Thomas Sullivan Magnum, P.I. is a Navy guy. “Go Navy, Beat Army!”

#12 Tennessee 38 at Texas A&M 45 (2OT) – Another nutty game. Go watch it. You’ll see.

#11 Orange Bowl: Florida St. 33 vs Michigan 32 – I remember Michigan DE Taco Charlton ripping guys heads off. FSU won on Francois’s game-winning TD pass with 36 seconds left.

#10 Clemson 37 at Florida St. 34 – Fantastic game! The Tigers and Seminoles have such a long-lasting rivalry and it continues to play out better than ever the last few years. Both are National Title contenders as of late and they always seem to play tight ballgames. This is one of the newest great rivalries that isn’t getting enough hype. The winner of this game has won the ACC Atlantic Division Championship how many years in a row? The answer is 8. Every year since 2009. Each team has won 4 times. It’s probably gonna happen again in 2017, this time in Death Valley, South Carolina on November 11. Look for this year’s version to make next year’s Top 25……again.

#9 Alabama 48 at Ole Miss 43 – The Ole Miss Rebels seem to be the only team that can hang with the Crimson Tide the last few years. Last year, Ole Miss had a huge 24-3 lead, but then what happened? Oh, you know!

#8 Ohio St. 21 at Penn St. 24 – I was all geared up for this one. Good game in the 3rd quarter. Then all of a sudden the Chicago Cubs won the NL for the first time since 1945. All the local stations including ABC-7 (the only station showing OSU at PSU) decided they had to show the bozos celebrating in the streets. Ok. I’ll watch that for a minute or two. But ruin the entire, amazing 4th quarter comeback by PSU in Happy Valley? Call me furious! What a shame. Thanks for ruining an electric game atmosphere by showing people looting and pouring beers all over their idiot friends because their lovable losers finally won a league for the first time in 72 years. PSU! More like P-U. You stink!

#7 Notre Dame 47 at Texas 50 (2OT) – Good opening weekend capper on Labor Day weekend. Who is better, Malik Zaire or DeShone Kizer? Hmmmmm. Kizer threw for 5 TD. Zaire……he stunk more than Cubs fans. Who stunk more than Zaire? Head Coach Brian Kelly! If he had just declared Kizer the starter prior to the game, they may have avoided not only this loss but 7 others throughout that disastrous 2016 season. Coaches have off years too. Kelly admits he did a poor job in ’16. Another bad year soon and as the Hawk says, “He Gone!”

#6 Tennessee 34 at Georgia 31 – I’ve seen the end a billion times, but I’m still dying to watch the entire game that led up to that crazy ending. I have it saved on the DVR. Both teams’ fans were dumbstruck in the last minute. Spoiler alert…..not one but two Hail Mary’s!!!

#5 Louisville 36 at Clemson 42 – This game had one of the greatest buildups I’ve ever seen on television! Did you watch this? It was an ABC Saturday Night classic. Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit were there and ABC showed the traditional Clemson run down the hill and touching Howard’s Rock. What made this one unique was ABC had cameras outside in the street showing the bus that drove the players and Coach Dabo Swinney to the entrance gates above Howard’s Rock. Incredible intensity! (start watching at about 10 minutes in until at least the end of Louisville’s 1st series at about 21 minutes in) I felt like I was there. Honestly, the crowd and atmosphere brewed up one of the top experiences I’ve ever seen on TV. I had it saved preciously on my AT&T U-Verse DVR until those AT&T bozos screwed up and lost all my recordings earlier this Summer. Thanks AT&T! Rather, thank god for Youtube. I NEED to attend a Clemson night game someday to experience this in person. Nonetheless, this game at #5 on the countdown, will live in my memory, hopefully forever.

#4 Pittsburgh 43 at Clemson 42 – How many times was Clemson on this Top 25 list? The answer is five, with four in the top 10! That’s insane and hard to believe. That’s what makes them all the more important, knowing that they won the Championship. When DeShaun Watson threw a late interception on a bad pass into the end zone, I recall thinking, “DeShaun will just not be a good pro QB”. Then as the NFL Draft approached, I desperately wanted the Chicago Bears to take Watson 3rd overall. As it turned out, I’m really happy the Bears selected North Carolina’s Mitch Trubisky. Meanwhile, Houston drafted Watson and the whole time since, I keep thinking about that Pitt interception.

#3 Michigan 27 at Ohio St. 30 (2OT) – Wow! This was a really great game. Double Overtime!! Incredibly tough defense throughout most of the game as regulation ended with a 17-17 tie. Ohio St. won 30-27 with some controversial measurements, penalty calls, LACK of penalty calls. Everyone was talking about Coach Jim Harbaugh’s ranting on the sidelines. Well, he’s a Bo Schembechler guy and after some of these referees calls, Jimmy is http://widgets.boxxspring.com/MjA1NSw0MDUzNzM1OA” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>bitter…..bitter!

I don’t blame Harbaugh. I would’ve been stretched to my limits if I was a Michigan man too. We’re already beginning to see shades of the “Ten Year War”! Depending on the length of the Harbaugh/Meyer Era, we have just embarked on what will likely go down as the “Ten Year War: Part 2”. So far, Urban Meyer leads 2-0. When will Harbaugh “put one on the board”? I’m betting on ’17. The game is in Ann Arbor on November 25.

#2 Rose Bowl: Penn St. 49 vs USC 52 – This could’ve been the best game of the year. Every time I watch and re-watch I’m just amazed by this nutty game. Ultimately, Trace McSorley was a little too aggressive, throwing 3 interceptions and showing his sophomore inexperience as PSU’s first time starting quarterback as they were outscored 17-0 in the 4th quarter. Meanwhile, over on the other sideline USC sophomore QB Sam Darnold was proving why he’s a top option for next year’s NFL Draft. He threw for 453 yards and 5 TD in one of the all-time greatest Rose Bowls.

#1 National Championship: Clemson 35 vs Alabama 31 – ‘Bama hardly ever loses. But when they do, it’s so much fun to enjoy! Hunter Renfrow’s game-winner with 1 second left was the stuff dreams are made of. Congratulations to Watson, Renfrow, Dabo Swinney, and all of the Clemson Tigers fans who have waited since 1981 to experience that National Championship feeling all over again.

So there you have it. Another amazing season. What does 2017 have for us? It all starts this week. Pumped much?

A Summer Tradition: ESPN’s Top 25 College Football Games from last season! Those that know me best know that college football is truly my favorite sport. You know what gets me pumped for college football season?

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golfnomad · 8 years ago

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Course Review(s): Verrado Golf Club

I’ve mentioned my recent move out to Rancho Mirage, which sits in the middle of the Coachella Valley’s golf mecca. Well, another nice perk of living here is that another place loaded with great golf just got closer, too! Expect to see a lot more reviews of Arizona courses this year, as there is so much out there I need to play and it’s all within a little closer reach for me now.

When it comes to the far western side of the Valley of the Sun, it’s only about a 3-hour drive to reach the city of Buckeye. And it just so happens that a new course opened up there this year for a brief sneak preview. The situation was too ideal to ignore.

Verrado Golf Club has always known to be one of the best options in the western part of the valley, which really doesn’t have a ton of courses to begin with. The Verrado community is certainly a nice one. The original course used to be named “Raven Golf Club at Verrado.” I think that confused some people because there is also Raven Golf Club Phoenix in the valley. At some point in recent years, they ultimately dropped the Raven name and went with just Verrado Golf Club.

Then, they opened up a new course in a new development within the Verrado community called Victory. Now, you have The Victory Course at Verrado Golf Club and the original course was renamed again to The Founders Course at Verrado Golf Club.

You got all that?

Anyway, they have been offering preview rounds on The Victory Course early this year (reportedly open through April or maybe even mid-May) in advance of the official grand opening which is slated for this fall or early winter. I decided that was a good enough excuse to come out and play 36 holes at both Verrado courses yesterday.

The Victory Course

I got started on The Victory Course with a 6:30 tee time. I paid the full promo rate they have right now, which is $89 (plus tax). The one nice perk of this price is that it did come with a bounce back voucher that will enable me to come back in December and play either course for only $25. That’s not too shabby when you consider that will be in prime season and more of the construction around The Victory Course (including the large new clubhouse/restaurant on the hill overlooking the course) will be completed. For now, there’s just a temporary trailer used as the pro shop.

I was paired with three other players, all of whom were Verrado residents/members who provided plenty of insight about both courses. One of them left after nine holes and we finished the whole round in about 3.5 hours.

The Victory Course at Verrado was designed by former PGA Tour pro, Tom Lehman. I have only a little experience with his designs, including Arroyo Trabuco in Orange County and I guess he also was part of the renovated design at The Farms in Rancho Santa Fe. Both are courses I like a lot. Victory is the first course I’ve played where only his name was listed as architect.

As it is now, Victory has a bit of a raw feel. Remember, this is just a soft preview opening and there is still a lot of work to do over the summer. I think that actually adds some charm in certain areas, while it detracts in other ways.

The front nine plays out in open desert and it seems like it will be awhile (or hopefully never) before parts of it are developed with houses. The first few holes are pretty simple and then it starts to get more interesting as you go along, culminating in a nice stretch of holes along the base of a rugged hillside and the 9th hole, which stands out as one of the best and most demanding of the par-4s here. It plays along the edge of a small desert canyon and has a great overall look.

The back nine has a totally different vibe as you play through some areas where a lot of homes were already built and other areas where construction is currently going on. Certainly the construction areas are where the “incompleteness” clearly detracts from the enjoyment of a round (not to mention all the construction noise). I hate to say it, but these parts of the course will be nicer once the homes are complete and the surrounding land is filled in.

Easily the standout hole on the back nine is the finishing par-5 18th. It offers the only significantly elevated tee box and the only water hazard on the course, as well. It is a nice tee view and a cool look back from the green as the hole works it’s way uphill between the chiseled-out rock walls. It’s a little reminiscent of Oak Quarry or maybe a poor man’s Wolf Creek on this particular hole.

The guys I played with told me that much of the back nine was built earlier as they were previewing and selling homes/plots to new residents. This means some parts of the course are more mature than others.

I was pleasantly surprised with the conditions on Victory as it nears its preview closure. Everything was pretty lush and green here. As you might expect, the ground underneath the turf is still pretty firm and it will take more time to mature. The tee boxes were rock hard and it was difficult to get tees into the ground. Plastic tees would bend as you tried to push them in. Wooden tees were an automatic sacrifice to the golf gods. Once they went into the ground, they were not coming back out in one piece!

The fairways provided ample roll out, but they were great to hit from. The rough different from front to back. The front nine had overseeded rye, which was lush with good coverage. It was cut very low, though, and provided no punishment at all. The back nine had semi-dormant bermuda. It was completely shaved down and obviously didn’t look as nice visually.

I wasn’t in any bunkers, but they all looked decent. There is some cool bunkering throughout the course. Big boulders are used a lot aesthetically here and some bunkers are actually lined with them. Not always practical, but more interesting looking.

The greens were a mixed bag due to the immaturity of the turf and the fact they were all built at different times. All had good turf and were well-maintained. However, the firmness ranged from really firm to rock hard. Approaches and chips were very tough to hold if you landed on the greens. On the flipside, putts ran fairly slow and some ran slower than others. Speeds were inconsistent throughout, with the newer greens (primarily front nine) being slowest and the older greens (primarily back nine) moving a little quicker.

I’m not knocking the greens at all. We all know they take awhile (sometimes a year or two) to really mature, so I think they will be great eventually.

The fairways are generally very wide on The Victory Course and the greens are very large. I wouldn’t say that the greens have a lot of undulation, but there are tricky spots on almost all the greens. There are shelves, dips and false edges that you cannot always see from the fairway. They are greens that reward course knowledge. The more you play it, the more you will know the different pin positions and the best places to position your approaches. Firing right at the pin (especially while greens are so firm) is rarely a good plan. In many ways, Victory has some links design characteristics.

Overall, I felt Victory was a course designed for members. It is forgiving from tee to green in a lot of respects, but also has just enough bite on and around the greens to reward strategic play and give members who know the course well a bit of a home course advantage. The course also features a handful of short par-4s, which give longer hitters some good risk/reward opportunities.

One cool thing here is the variety of tee box and combo options. The longest set of tees (black) stretches out to 7,258 yards to add more challenge. Then, there is a set of tees or combo tees right around 300 total yards apart (actually nine sets to choose from all the way down to 4,646 yards). It may be a tad excessive, but the course is set up well for any skill level and the 300-ish yard gaps is so perfect. I hate when there are really huge gaps between tees.

Okay, I think I’ve said enough about the course design for now. The question is, how much did I actually like it? There really is a lot to like about The Victory Course at Verrado. It’s a nice setting, though the natural desert areas here maybe aren’t as pretty as you’ll find in other parts of the Phoenix/Scottsdale area. The design is pleasant and it has several memorable moments, but I never felt truly “wowed” at any point.

Overall, I’d say Victory is a victory for the western side of the valley and having two good courses will certainly help Verrado raise its stock in the minds of local and visiting golfers. I still won’t say it’s a top-shelf course in a region that is pretty stacked with great courses. However, it is good mid-range option and well worth checking out now or later when it is more complete. I am curious to see how the course and the community mature over the next few years. It will certainly evolve into a different golf experience over time.

Some pictures from The Victory Course at Verrado Golf Club (4/20/17):

Wow, that review was long. There’s just so much to cover with a brand new course. After my round at Victory, I headed straight over to The Founders Course (different clubhouses about 5 minutes apart) to complete the Verrado circuit...

The Founders Course

I’ve always heard pretty good things about the original Verrado/Raven course, so I was eager to finally check it out. Check in for my 10:42 tee time was a little confusing because they paired me with a group of seven. It was an awkward start, but I ended up having a ton of fun with the three players in my group. We actually teed off closer to 10:30 and they started us on the back nine for whatever reason. It was very busy out there and we waited on every shot, finishing in about 4.5 hours. The price was $58 (plus tax, damn you Arizona!).

The Founders Course is definitely a more modern residential Arizona kind of course, and therefore had a familiar feel. There are homes (pretty nice homes I might add) along many holes, but none really come into play. Then there are some holes that are pretty isolated with a beautiful desert surrounding. Founders definitely offers much more changes in elevation than Victory, and you get some great views of the sprawling valley to the north and east.

Founders was also designed by Tom Lehman, in conjunction with another well-known course architect, John Fought. The Lehman and Verrado names are the most notable similarities between Founders and Victory, though. They are two pretty different courses, if you ask me, and that is appealing.

The holes that stick out as signature designs on Founders are the two finishers, 17 and 18. The 17th is a nice par-3 over water while the 18th is a demanding, long par-4 with water in play on the approach and a nice aesthetic presentation. You play right toward the clubhouse and there is a neat rock bridge just right of the green.

My favorite hole might have been the par-3 14th. The tee box is situated on one of the most elevated points on the course and it’s just a nice downhill hole with a great view. If there’s one area where Founders completely blows away Victory, it is the par-3s. Victory’s par-3s are all flat and fairly underwhelming while Founders has a nice set of holes that use the dramatic desert surroundings to their advantage.

Depending on your priorities, you could say Founders is in better or worse shape than Victory right now. When it comes to aesthetics, I give the edge to Victory. It has a much more lush and green presentation than Founders, which is starting to dry/brown out a little as they gear up for the summer transition. However, Founders has better playability because the turf is obviously much more mature.

The tee boxes were good and the fairways were great to hit from with fluffy lies. The rough was similar to the back nine at Victory, with the semi-dormant bermuda. It was cut down low here, too (not quite as low), so it wasn’t much of a factor. I was in one bunker on Founders and it was good. The greens on Founders are also pretty firm, but noticeably more receptive on well-struck approach shots and chips. The greens did show signs of a recent aeration. However, they are just about fully healed and putts were not affected at all.

It’s weird because I enjoyed a lot about both courses at Verrado. On paper, all the right elements were there, yet I honestly wasn’t totally blown away by either. I wanted to like them more than I did. That said, I did like that both courses offered something different and I would still recommend either course to anyone for the right price, especially if looking for something good on the far western side of the valley where options are limited.

Some pictures from The Founders Course at Verrado Golf Club (4/20/17):