Al Golden made what some would feel is a controversial decision by only having three open practices this spring, and only allowing players to be interviewed before practice and not after.  It has reminded some of how Randy Shannon ran the program, and there are a lot of fans who are clamoring for more access to the team.  Al Golden knows what he is doing he has opened up the program more, but has not totally swung the doors wide open because eventually that leads to problems who is around your players.

On that note a total of six Miami Hurricanes football players are suspended for the season opener against Maryland.  Seantrel Henderson, Keion Payne, Devont’a Davis, Storm Johnson, Dyron Dye, and Kelvin Cain are the six players in question.  The initial report from insidetheu.com stated the the players violated team rules, and there has been no other explanation for the suspensions from coach Golden or anyone in the Hurricanes program.  It sure seems like Golden is running just as tight of a ship as Randy Shannon did, and it’s needed because there are too many distractions in South Florida that can take players minds off of school and football.

It seems for all the talk these had when the coaching change was made about how things are so much better, and how much they respect coach Golden it sure isn’t showing.  Aside from the six players who are going to be suspended for the first game, Hurricanes starting linebacker Ramon Buchanan has been suspended indefinitely by coach Al golden after a run-in with police.  He faces several charges, including felony resisting a police officer with violence, according to court documents.  The incident occurred in Coconut Grove, minutes from campus, according to various reports.  Buchanan, 21, was charged with resisting a police officer with violence and battery on a police officer, firefighter or emergency medical care provider, both of which are felonies.

Buchanan is the first UM football player to be arrested since Robert Marve who eventually transferred to Purdue.  It seems that Al Golden has a problem on his hands, players are acting out and getting in trouble at the start of the Golden era.  It seems all the positive energy that was generated when Shannon was replaced has stalled, and with Hocutt leaving as well it looks like things may be a little unstable in Coral Gables at the moment.  The good news is that this is only spring time and the time when fans should start to pay close attention is in August when the season is about to start.  Golden does need to get some of these players back in line and fast otherwise these distractions are going to prevent this team from winning much of anything next season.

There is a great debate raging right now in Coral Gables, and it is obvious that it would come to this at some point when Jacory Harris was injured.  Stephen Morris has played like a veteran out there in the game and a half of action he now has under his belt.  Of course he made some freshman mistakes, but the overall body of work is very promising.

But even with that being said those performances were against Virginia and Maryland, and the quality of competition has to be taken into account.  Maryland is having a good season, and let’s face it playing Miami was Virginia’s bowl game for the year and they pushed all their chips in the middle and lucked out.  As expected people are making knee jerk suggestions that Stephen Morris should be the starter, and Jacory Harris is done at Miami.

First of all it is easy to see that Harris has not played his best football this season, and there are times where he looked like he has regressed in his development.  But, this player has led the Miami Hurricanes to a lot of wins since he has been the starter, to the point where he was being mentioned in the Heisman trophy conversation.  Although some of the blame should fall on Harris, there is plenty of blame to go around that contributed to losses.  Miami receivers have dropped plenty of passes this year, and there are times where the offensive line has not been stellar.

Many will point to Harris as the number two problem next to Randy Shannon, but the real problem lies in one simple word “approach”.  Mark Whipple’s approach to the game plan on offense has been the cause of many of the other issues that have plagued this team.  It seems like Whipple has given Harris a pass to throw the ball deep almost every play, and calls plays with multiple deep routes which encourage Harris to go for the big play.

Longer and deeper routes lead to lineman having to hold their block longer, which leads to false start and holding penalties as the lineman try to get an edge.  Add in the fact that Miami does nothing with snap count or cadence change when they drop back almost 40 times a game, and you have defenders timing the snap count almost perfectly.

Enter Stephen Morris, and all of a sudden Whipple decides he is not comfortable with a true freshman throwing the ball deep like Harris.  So, Whipple changes his play calling and emphasizes the running game against Maryland to the tune of 49 carries, and he called shallow to intermediate routes sprinkled in with play action passes to keep the defense off balance.

This enable Miami to move the ball against Maryland almost at will, they just kept stalling and settling for field goal attempts.  If Whipple took this same approach with Jacory Harris, and called less deep routes you would see the similar or better results potentially.  Whipple needs to dispense with the idea that Harris is an extension of the coach on the field; Harris takes too many unnecessary risks at inopportune times.

So before the fans go crowning Stephen Morris as the next great savior, they need to realize that if Whipple gets pass happy again we could be headed down the same path.  If Morris wins the job hopefully he will play within himself, and use his feet to scramble when he gets out of trouble rather than making errant throws.  One thing is for sure Morris brings another dimension to the game that Harris does not have, and if Whipple can stay committed to the run this team may be able to salvage this season after all.

The Miami Hurricanes had a fairly convincing victory over the Clemson Tigers on Saturday, but the game was much closer than it needed to be.  The primary reason for this is miscues on the offensive side of the ball, and the penalties that continue to be racked up by the Hurricanes.  Let’s be honest though, the real problem is Jacory Harris and his decision making.  That is the #1 thing that will keep this team from making any noise in the polls this season.

Harris threw two more interceptions in the game against Clemson, which brings his season total to eight.  He can be forgiven for some of the interceptions in the Ohio State game because of mistakes by the wide receivers, but the last four he has thrown were avoidable and were squarely his fault.  Many have defended Harris over the past month hoping he would get better, but after this last game it is apparent that there is an issue.

We don’t want to pile on Harris here, but it seems to the naked eye that he is just throwing passes up for grabs hoping to connect on a bomb.  He hooked up on two to Leonard Hankerson against Clemson which broke the game open early, but the countless times where he dropped back and just threw the ball 30 or 40 yards became a bit too common.  The commentators calling the game tried to explain it by saying that “it’s part of Miami’s offense”, and that Randy Shannon and Mark Whipple expect Harris to throw these passes deep.

This just proves just because you are calling a game does not mean that you always know what you are talking about, there are deep routes on almost every pass play.  These routes are called to stretch out the defense and create windows for the quarterback to complete shorter passes, and occasionally when a deep route comes open you throw it.  Harris behaves like the deep route is the first option on every pass play, other than screen passes.  You could easily see that he would drop back, lock onto a deep target and just throw the ball up hoping for a miracle.  A vast majority of these passes were nowhere near being a completion, batted down, or intercepted.

It is inherently obvious that Harris is making careless decisions, and lacks patience on pass plays.  There were several situations where shorter routes were open, and Harris went for the home run.  All of this contributes to the mistakes on the offense, because Harris throws deep all the time the lineman have to hold blocks for longer periods of time.  This leads to the numerous holding penalties called on the Hurricanes, and the false start penalties because lineman were anticipating blocking for a longer period of time.

Harris does not seem to be a man in control of the offense; he plays like a player who knows that he will not be benched.  That fact is probably true; there are not many scenarios where Harris will not be quarterbacking this team, which may be the source of the problem.  The lack of anyone at the quarterback position to push Harris for the starting position may be a problem, what is the incentive for Harris to get better at making decisions?  He has no fear of being benched, so why not just throw it deep every play?

The Hurricanes appear to be stuck with Harris as he gives the team the best chance to win at this point, but it will be tough sledding in big games unless Harris improves his decision making.  The Clemson game could have been a two or three touchdown blowout, but with the interceptions and impatience shown on offense it kept the Tigers in the game.  The better teams the Hurricanes will face down the line will capitalize on those mistakes, as it is clear that Harris has almost regressed in his development since last season.  He has all the tools to be a great college quarterback, but his decision making is keeping him as a mediocre one.

In the aftermath of the loss to Ohio State the Miami Hurricanes have regrouped and refocused to prepare for their upcoming game against Pitt.  The Hurricanes players though had a lot of regrets about their performance against the Buckeyes, and realize that they let a good opportunity get away from them.  Some of the players even apologized to the fan base, and vowed that things will be different going forward.  The players owed no one an apology, but they wanted to stand up and answer criticism received from the community.

The fall out of this game and the subsequent post game revelations by some Hurricanes players, caused head coach Randy Shannon to impose a Team wide Twitter blackout.  All Hurricanes players appear to have complied with the deactivation or deletion of their personal Twitter accounts, and although not confirmed a controversial Tweet seemed to trigger all of this.  About two and a half hours before the Ohio State game Miami quarterback Jacory Harris tweeted something to the effect of “Middle fingers all around, this is why you play college football”.

Harris tweet was apparently a description of the actions of Buckeyes fans as they pulled up to the stadium before taking on the #2 ranked team in the country.  On top of that Harris later revealed that he had received a direct tweet stating that “fans don’t want a black quarterback at UM” before his Twitter account was shut down.  Of course members of the UM athletic department found the comment deplorable, and shameful that in this day and age people still have a close minded view of things.  Randy Shannon shut down twitter so the Hurricanes can limit the distractions and focus on football.

It remains to be seen if this is going to accomplish that, players have hundreds of distractions and if they were weighed out women would probably beat out tweeting every time.  As for Harris’s pregame tweet, it was on the bus heading to the stadium and not in the locker room or on the field, so why it has become a big deal is a bit perplexing.  If anyone knows Jacory Harris staying loose, laid back, and keeping his teammates loose are generally his normal modes of operation.  It seems Harris has let the negative reaction from fans affect him as several Hurricanes players indicated in a few articles that Harris was not his normal up beat self and indicated to them that “stuff on Twitter” was the reason.

Harris has to realize that under no circumstances is he going to be able to please the entire Miami Hurricanes fan base, and someone will always have something negative to say about him.  He wants to lead this team to a national title more than anyone, but he cannot let the pressure of trying to get the Hurricanes back to the Promised Land get to him.

Head Coach Randy Shannon shocked the team by giving the team what equated to a tongue lashing after the game, where he told them they wasted a great opportunity.  Shannon left no position unscathed by his speech; he told the players that they did not consistently do their assignments or run the proper routes during the game.  It shocked the players because most if any of them had never seen Shannon that emotional or directed and pointed in his criticism.  Harris’s situation is a direct result of Shannon taking a proactive approach to put this team in a better mindset, and it already appears to be working.

Many players say the talk from Shannon got them fired up, and made them realize that they let Randy Shannon down as he tries to make people realize he is the right coach for this program.  The players have said they are more focused on what they have to do going forward, and have put an emphasis on physicality this week in practice.  The team has largely put the Ohio State game and Twitter mess behind them, and all indications point that they are 100% focused on correcting the mistakes and execute better when Thursday rolls around.  If they follow through with everything they are saying, then Pitt is going to be in for a tough night.

The anonymous Tweeter has been outed by several media outlets that follow Miami Hurricanes football, and the account belongs to a man named Douglas Diaz who’s Twitter handle is motown305.  He got into several racially charged discussions with Hurricanes fans on Twitter as a result, it’s good to see that people did not let him slide on his ignorant comments.  Maybe at some point people like this won’t be around to show the apparent ignorance still left in the world.

Miami and Ohio State squared off in Columbus on September 11th, 2010.  The Buckeyes came away with a 36 – 24 victory after a hard found game on both sides.  The game itself was exciting, and had several big plays in addition to moments when the momentum of the game swung almost instantly.  There were many revelations that came out of this game, far too many to list here.  Here are Eight revelations from the game, but feel free to add more in the comments.

1.  Ohio State Is a Good Team Not an Elite One

The Buckeyes defense was stout in the game, but there were plenty of holes to exploit as well.  Cameron Heyward was a beast, and is one of the most dominating players at his position in the country.

On the offensive side of the ball, the Buckeyes benefited from several short fields.  Pryor did have several good passes during the game, but there were many that still were off the mark.  His running ability was bottled up early, and as the game wore on Pryor’s running became more effective.  The most important part is he didn’t turn the ball over, and he played his game rather than trying to prove he could sling it all over the place.

The Buckeyes made very few mistakes, but Miami made the more costly ones.  The Buckeyes proved they are deserving of their top five ranking, but need to clean some things up before a possible BCS bowl berth.  Ohio State only had two drives on the Miami defense over 60 yards, and despite being setup inside the Miami 30 yard line four times to start drives they came away with mostly field goals.  This is what kept Miami in the game, and seems to be over looked by a lot of fans.  Fans should not think that this is a slight at Ohio State, it was a solid win at home over a game Miami team.

2.  Miami Needs to Commit To The Running Game

Beason played his college football at the University of Miami. He began his career at fullback but shifted to linebacker as a red shirt freshman. During his career he collected 187 tackles, three-and-a-half sacks, and one interception. He majored in sports administration.  Beason also garnered the nickname “The Beast” from his playing days at Miami, and his exploits as a part of the “7th Floor Crew” who were best known for taking in the full college experience on the 7th floor of Mahoney Hall at the University of Miami.

He was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the 1st round of the 2007 NFL Draft with the 25th pick. He still plays for the panthers today and has accumulated over 400 tackles during his NFL Career.  In 2008 Beason was selected to his first pro-bowl and was also an NFL All-Pro selection; he recorded 138 tackles and three interception during that season.

Here are a few excerpts taken from (www.beason52.com):

The NCAA banned college coaches from text-messaging recruit back in 2007 because of the potential cost to a student athlete who did not have an unlimited text messaging plan.  This has become a growing problem because the NCAA was asleep at the switch when text messaging became a primary means of communication in this country.  The Miami Hurricanes have self reported several texting infractions in several sports, Football, Track, and possibly baseball.

Personally the fact that a team can be put on probation for text messaging is fairly dumb; these kids should not be communicating with coaches directly in the first place.  This is no different than a player giving his cell phone number to a girl that is pursuing him and she texts him until he is out of messages, he gave her the number so it is his responsibility to tell her to stop.  In most of these cases the parents of the recruit are paying for the phone anyway, so why would the parents not pick up the phone and say “coach Shannon the text messages need to stop we can’t afford them anymore.”

It should stop right there Randy Shannon like any other coach does not want to piss of a potential recruits parents, instead though the NCAA makes a monolithic rule with unrealistic expectations.  What if the recruit initiates contact with the coach via text message is it permissible then?  What if the recruit has an unlimited texting plan, and prefers the text communication over talking on the phone?  When you make a blanket rule it leaves almost no flexibility for those who do want to take advantage of the technology.

I am sure Ohio State and Florida fans are waiting for the opportunity to jump on this topic, especially Florida with their $100k scandal several months ago.  This is a non issue; yes there were a few teams who landed on probation for text messaging, and another team gave up one scholarship and reduced a few campus visits.  In the end it’s all one big smoke screen the NCAA does not have a handle on anything these days, and they know their only weapon is making examples out of big time programs and hope that everyone else falls in line.  That is why there are so many schools self reporting violations now, almost every day you see another school mentioned.  When the NCAA put the screws to USC it put every other school in panic mode.

Miami still has hardly had any players arrested under Randy Shannon, and if Florida, or any other school’s fans want to compare “transgressions” over the last four years then that’s a challenge we can take.  I saw another ignorant comment from a Florida fan on the article,

“Funny. Reading UM fans’ posts on here through the last couple of years one would think that Randy Shannon’s program is the cleanest in all of college football.

Go figure.”:

Is he serious?  “Text messaging” is considered dirty?  I am sorry last time I checked $100k was not being sent over text to prospective or current players.  This is the dumb game schools have to play with the NCAA, this is just another example of the bigger problem in college football.  That is a different article for another day.  Back to the NCAA’s verbiage on this rule, “The NCAA website notes that “evolving technology presents unique challenges in recruiting. . . . Schools cannot text prospective student-athletes at any time, but they can e-mail during permissible contact periods. Schools can do so even from social media platforms such as Facebook. . . . All other electronically transmitted correspondence including, but not limited to, text messaging, Instant Messenger, chat rooms or message boards [e.g. a user's wall] within a social networking Web site or through other services or applications remain impermissible. . . . Tweeting is permissible as long as coaches are not using it to contact individual prospective student-athletes and are abiding by the standard recruiting rules.” (www.miamiherald.com)

That is the one of the vaguest explanations of a rule I have ever read in my life.  They say emailing even through Facebook is okay, but posting on the athletes Facebook wall is not okay?  That makes absolutely no sense at all, if the NCAA had a clue they would realize that many people have smart phones and emails to their Facebook or email accounts show up on their phones.  Theoretically this is texting, and tweeting is okay as long as they do not contact the student athlete.

Okay, so I am Joe coach I setup a Twitter account, and I ask Rob Blue Chip to follow me on Twitter.  He sets up his smart phone to receive Tweets as text messages, and once he follows me I Tweet “boy Rob Blue Chip would look great in a Hurricanes uniform”.  This message was posted to my Twitter account, and since the recruit is following me he gets a TEXT on his phone.

I can sit here and shoot holes in the NCAA’s texting rule all day, but I won’t.  As for the Miami Hurricanes they know that the NCAA and other schools would love to see them get in trouble.  People feel that Miami is making a comeback, and another set of violations could set the program back several years.  That is not going to happen these are mostly considered secondary violations unless they sent thousands of text messages to prospective recruits, which does not seem to be the case.  This only made news because it was Miami, no money exchanged hands and no bounties were paid the Hurricanes will self impose new policies and the NCAA will be pacified enough to leave them alone.  If the Hurricanes do slip up and get caught texting recruits again, then they may not be able to put off the NCAA next time.  The school has imposed tougher internal polices although it has not been disclosed exactly what those are.

On Wednesday Randy Shannon signed a new four year deal to re-up as the Head Coach of the Miami Hurricanes Football Team.  Many people speculated and debated on whether Shannon deserved an extension or not because although the team has improved every year under his watch, there are still some questions.  This is a good move for the football program, but I believe it was made for bigger reasons than just the X’s and O’s.

The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the most of the speculation in many circles believe that Shannon settled for less than the ACC minimum of $1.75 million per year.  The most likely reason Shannon chose to take less may be seen in his quote shortly after he signed the contract, “There’s no other place I’d rather be than coaching Hurricanes football” (www.sun-sentinel.com).

Randy Shannon truly does mean that when he says it and the fact that he has so much support from former players probably had a lot to do with it as well.  At some point the details of the new contact will be release and the speculation can end, maybe it is incentive laden, but at the minimum there better be some bonuses built into the contract which is standard for coach’s contracts at big schools.

Now the interesting part of all this is the sudden “Randy Shannon is the greatest thing that could happen to Miami Football, and we are happy to have him” mentality that is being displayed by Hocutt and Shalala.  But over the past few months they were going to nickel and dime him into taking less money than the coach at Duke?

I think they have fragile confidence and support for Shannon that could change a moment’s notice should the Hurricanes falter at some point.  The offered a contract extension because they HAD to, the effect on recruiting was obvious, and that factor alone could derail the rebuilding process.  I am sure they have a favorable buyout, so they can jump ship if things do not go well.

While I do not believe Shalala and Hocutt are 100% behind his efforts on the football field, they could not be happier with what he has accomplished off the field.  When Shannon took the job Shalala wanted to get rid of the “Thug U” image, and wanted excellence in football like Miami was used too, but with the added excellence in the classroom and off field behavior.

Shannon has accomplished that with flying colors, the University of Miami football team received a Public Recognition Award for the 2009 – 2010 season by boasting one of the highest Academic Progress Rates (APR) in the country.  There were only 25 other football teams in the country to receive this award, Duke, Princeton, Rice, Yale, Villanova, and Brown University just to name a few.

For all of you detractors out there let me hammer this point home for you, this is what the current administration wants more than National Championships.  If you notice the University of Florida, University of Alabama, and Ohio State are not on that list, I am not saying those institutions are not committed to academics, but each one of them has pushed their resources towards having powerhouse football programs.

“Miami’s team also has been recognized for a strong performance in the NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR), which combines graduation and retention numbers. Under Shannon, the team has been in the top 10% of major college programs. “Randy has done it all,” said Shalala.” (www.mkrob.com)

Hocutt also made a statement, “We are very proud of the positive steps our football program has taken under the leadership of Coach Shannon,” Miami athletics director Kirby Hocutt said in a news release. “With a commitment to excellence in the classroom, in the community, and in competition, we are well on our way, once again, to the top of the college football world.”  (www.sun-sentinel.com)

If you notice Hocutt said classroom and community before he mentioned competition, I believe that is the order of their focus for this program.  Unlike some of the Miami coaches in the past Randy has chosen not to fight with the administration and do thing 100% his way.  Instead, he has complied with the administrations wishes and in the process passed on several high profile recruits because of potential character issues.

All of this does not mean Miami cannot return and maintain the former glory it once had, but it will be a bit more difficult when those good players who have character problems are signing to play with rival schools.  Randy Shannon said he will be more than willing to discuss the details of the new contract on Thursday, so maybe we will have a bit more information come to light very shortly.

I just whipped his team, shouldn't I make more money than him?

There is an 800 pound Ibis in the room no matter what subject comes up regarding Miami Hurricanes Football.  That would be the contract extension of head coach Randy Shannon, who right now is the 11^th highest paid coach in the ACC.  Not to mention that he is not really the 11^th highest paid he is tied with the guy in 12^th place Frank Spaziani of Boston College.

In one of my other articles I talked about how “cheap” Miami can be when it comes to paying their coaches, and the fact that Coker was making near $3 million a year when he left shows they are willing to pull out the cash when needed.  I can understand starting Randy off at the lower end of the scale he is a first time head coach, but a decision needs to be made.

Any time coaches sign a new contract goals are set forth, and either he has met the goals you want or not.  At that point you need to make a decision and either fire the man, or give him an extension based off of his current body of work.  I know that Kirby Hocutt was not the person that hired Shannon, but he has had time to lay out what his vision is for where the football program should be and go from this point.

The cruxes of the matter currently are a discussion over the new base salary per year, and buy out amount if he gets fired before the end of the contract.  It seems that the administration is offering Shannon about $1.4 million in base salary and Shannon wants about $2 million a year which is a little bit over the ACC average of $1.75 million per year.  Here is the table of coach’s pay in the ACC:

1. Paul Johnson, Georgia Tech. – $2.3 million ($3.33 million possible with bonuses)

2. Jim Grobe, Wake Forest – $2.17 million ($2.5 million)

3. Butch Davis, North Carolina – $2.15 million ($2.26 million)

4. Ralph Friedgen, Maryland – $2.03 million ($2.56 million)

5. Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech – $2 million ($2.42 million)

6. Jimbo Fisher, Florida State – $1.8 million ($2.6 million)

7. Dabo Swinney, Clemson – $1.75 million ($2.63 million)

8. Mike London, Virginia – $1.7 million ($2.27 million)

9. Tom O’Brien, North Carolina State – $1.52 million ($2.63 million)

10. David Cutliffe, Duke – $1.5 milliion ($1.5 million)

11. Randy Shannon – $900,000 ($900,000)*

12. Frank Spaziani – $900,000 ($900,000)

(Data provided by http://www.sun-sentinel.com)

What the administration at the University of Miami are saying to the fans publicly is Randy Shannon is our guy, and he is going to be our coach for a long time!  Well the administration’s actions are saying we want to pay this guy the least amount we can, but put gigantic expectations on him to win and make sure the buyout is small enough so we can easily get rid of him.

$1.4 million is a slap in the face; they are saying that Randy has not done enough to be paid the median salary in the ACC?  I have heard all these Shannon detractors talk about top flight coaches getting it done; well they get paid the salary and are given the resources to get it done.

In Shannon’s case he has not even cracked $1 million dollars per year yet, but Mike London who has not coached a game for UVA is almost at $2 million per.  The new contract they are offering is still less than Jimbo Fisher, Mike London, Dabo Swinney, Tom O’Brien, and David Cutliffe all coaches that have been hired after Shannon.

That is why it will be difficult for Miami to land a big time coach that all the naysayers are clamoring for; they do not want to pay for it.  They pinch pennies where they can, and even though the football program has brought so much into the school they continue to choke it off whenever they get the opportunity.

This is hurting the team on the recruiting trail, and if you notice this year’s recruiting class was the lowest ranked in the Shannon era.  Much of that had to do with the fact that every living room Shannon went into he had to field the questions, are you going to be there when my son graduates?  How do you answer that question confidently without looking like a liar if things change later, uncertainty breeds mediocrity.

I won’t play the racial angle here, but it would be easy for someone to make that case.  The bottom line is the administration at Miami needs to pay Randy Shannon or give him his walking papers, this waffling in the middle looks like the program has no direction and that is as good as blood in the water to the competition.

I will leave you with this tidbit, when Miami played South Florida this past season Jim Leavitt was being paid about $1.3 million dollars per year.  While Randy Shannon at a “better” program, in a tougher conference, and a better record than Leavitt’s team was making a paltry $900,000.  Miami beat USF soundly 31 – 10, and not only that Shannon has out recruited Leavitt every year as well, but still makes less money?

Lastly, if you are going to comment talking about how bad the economy is, and he should be happy to get $1.4 million you just have no understanding of a free market economy.  This is not an economics article, so I won’t get into it here.  If Saban and Meyer can get over $4 million why can’t Shannon get his $2 million?