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Barb Caffrey is currently a copy-editing intern at Bleacher Report. She holds two degrees and is a writer, musician and composer. She is the author of ELFY, a humorous urban fantasy-romance forthcoming from Twilight Times Books in 2013. She has written for the Daily Nebraskan and the UW-Parkside Ranger News as an opinion columnist and arts and entertainment reporter, and has had additional opinion articles published in the Racine Journal-Times and Racine Labor Paper. She is a lifelong sports fan of the Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Bucks and Green Bay Packers; she also follows college football and calls both the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the Wisconsin Badgers her joint favorites (as the Master's degree is from Nebraska, she'd never hear the end of it, else). Find her at http://elfyverse.wordpress.com, where she blogs about all and sundry whenever she feels the need.
Michael Lingberg posted 145 days ago
Hi Barb, thanks for the edits. I dont agree with brandon jennings deserving the nod, as he needs to shoot a better percentage and lead his team to a better record. and don't you actually have to graduate from a university to be called an alumnus? Drummond spent just one year there.
John Rozum posted 162 days ago
Barb, thank you for the well-detailed explanation of your edits. As for your question regarding, "Rodgers cannot get off the field" implies that if he were to get off the field-since the piece focuses primarily around 3rd Down situations, then Green Bay would be punting more. In others, one could say, "the defense cannot get off the field on third down" which is bad for the defense, as that means they are not stopping the offense on 3rd down. In Rodgers' case, it means that "not getting off the field" results in the Packers converting 3rd downs and consistently moving the chains.
Carlos Torres posted 163 days ago
Bob, no harm done with the Roberto confusion! ;) I appreciate your comments and feedback. I always use it to improve my writing.
Carlos Torres posted 164 days ago
Bob, thanks for the edit and especially for the very helpful feedback on the Sham Stakes piece.
Michael Pizzutillo posted 164 days ago
Excellent feedback and advice. Thank you Barb! The editors are everything
Brett Mixon posted 166 days ago
I should definitely write with more of a national audience frame of mind. Thank you for reminding me of that. I just got back from Milwaukee visiting. Stay warm, up there!
Brett Mixon posted 166 days ago
Thanks for the edit and feedback, Barb. The 7.01 ypp was found at cfbstats.com because the NCAA stats I found had not accounted for UGA's bowl win over Nebraska.
Auburn fans are very familiar with Malzahn's offense and his book. That's why I didn't include anything about it.
Thanks, again.
Roberto Alvarez-Galloso posted 166 days ago
Thanks for teh edits and advice.
Jon Reid posted 171 days ago
Thanks for the edits Barb! I appreciate it!
Nick Nafpliotis posted 185 days ago
Thanks for the edits--I'll see if I can track down the play-by-play guy's names.
Barb does not have any awards.
You're welcome.
As for having to graduate before being an alumnus, the answer is "no." For example, Bo Jackson was often called an "Auburn alum" before he went back to finish his degree after he'd retired from professional sports. (Granted, Jackson did spend four years at the school.) I've seen other two- and three-year players called "alums" (or to be technical, "alumni" considering there's more than one).
Now, would all schools prefer that you actually graduate before being considered an alumna/alumnus? Certainly.
But as a product of three undergraduate schools (I can call myself a product, mind you ;-)), I know I still get "begging letters" from the first two schools. The only ones I actually _read_ are from my third university (where my degree is actually _from_) and from Nebraska (where I took my Master's). And each school calls me an alumna for whatever reason, when to my mind only two count...at any rate, such was my reasoning.
If you like "product" better, go ahead and reinstate it with my blessing.
As for Jennings, I agree with you that his shooting percentage needs work. In some ways I think he was a better player before the Bucks traded Andrew Bogut for Monta Ellis last year. (When Bogut was healthy, Jennings had a good role model to look to as Bogut is about as unselfish as it gets as a center. His problem is in staying healthy. Bogut was much like how Brook Lopez has performed this year with regards to assists and being helpful to his team, and was one of the main reasons the 2010 Bucks were so very good. (Him getting injured just really hurt the Bucks overall. Amar'e Stoudamire had a really hard foul on Bogut; Bogut landed wrong, separated his shoulder and was out the rest of the year. Since that time he has not been able to return to form, either.)
But as a Bucks fan, Jennings is by far the best player on the team. I see his possible selection as much more deserving, say, than Kevin Garnett's "Lifetime Achievement Award" in the "frontcourt" category.
145 days ago
I hit "send" too fast there—argh! I meant to say *and* I'm sure you know how rare this is. (Montana and Young for the 49ers are the only other QB combo remotely like this one, providing Rodgers can play a few more years and keep playing at a high level.)
162 days ago
You're welcome again, John. Always glad to read and edit your pieces.
The main reason I asked about that one sentence was to make sure you'd said what you meant there. It sounds like you did, so that's good.
I agree that if Rodgers can convert on third downs, he's going to be tough to stop. That is his main strength as a QB, which you quite accurately pointed out. He doesn't have the charisma of Brett Favre, nor does he have the improvisational ability (very few do), but Rodgers is a disciplined and well-coached player who'll pick you apart if given half a chance.
We Packers fans have been fortunate to have had two such QBs back to back, as I'm sure you know how rare a phenomenon this is.
162 days ago
Carlos, sorry 'bout calling you the wrong name at first. I don't know why I did that, and I'm not able to delete the comment either (though I did try)—that one of my main characters in my book is named Roberto and is a good guy might've been why, but one would hope no matter how sick I am that I'm not about to confuse you with a fictional character. ;-)
163 days ago
Let's try again. ;-) Carlos, I enjoyed reading and editing your piece. :-) And I'll be interested in seeing how things shake out in the coming weeks and months.
163 days ago
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