Jabrill Peppers Visits
Jabrill Peppers is not going to visit Stanford. Planning return visit to Penn State the weekend of May 18th. Per Rivals (from interview with Pepper's coach)
No Stanford visit for Jabrill Peppers? Looking that way, though one to PSU is in the works. U-M is still the strong frontrunner.
well, looks like stuffed peppers for dinner tonight to celebrate and because they are delicious in general
Chiles rellenos?
I love mexican food in general, but I do not enjoy chile rellenos. No mi gusta.
You haven't had mine. Stuffed with goat cheese and a combination of mushrooms, red onions and various veggies in a wine/balsamic reduction with rice. The pepper is coated with my secret breading and deep fried to golden brown perfection.
I'm hungry.
Ah que rico.
Donde esta la carne hombre?! No me gustan los hongos, pero si se oye bueno!
No necesitas carne, hombre. Pero, si quieres, podes usar un poco bistec o pollo en mole. Se oye bueno y se sabe mejor.
puedo sacarle a punta a mi lapiz?
Debes preguntar a tu esposa
I see something about pencils, dogs and prenant wives. When did we turn from a discussion of stuffed peppers to a kinky porno?
ALSO! My Spanish is excellent if you're from Venus.
Puedo ir al baño? That's the only phrase i recall from Spanish 1.
Other than an aside comparing the works of Obligado with Neruda, a few puckish puns about playing guitar, and a comparison of native Columbian dance with tango.
I also made a double entendre about sharpening a pencil.
Baxter, you know I don't speak spanish. In English please.
Sprinkle in just a smidge of chorizo and you sir, can cook for me anytime.
Bring more than a smidge of tequilla, and I'll cook you a meal.
Just stuffed myself eating dinner with the wife, but I'd still eat some of those.
the commitment of Deshawn HAND when it comes
Not without latex gloves.
Sounds to me like this may have been a discussion with parents/coach:
"Do you really want to go as far away as Stanford?"
"I don't think so. It's too far."
"Alright, lets cross them off then. But I think you should visit one other school in the region to make sure you're making the right decision."
/baseless speculation
Really like this mentality, but he visited PSU in February. He wouldn't visit them again if there was zero interest there.
from what i remember, he visited psu for a little longer than jalen tabor was at michigan. very, very quick. seemed to like it, but i'm not too worried about it overtaking michigan. especially since i think he has a better relationship with all the coaches, brady hoke can be the father figure he says he wants out of a coach (at least as much as BOB can), and mattison is much more attractive than psu's DC. i've heard this psu visit will be overnight, so he can get the full experience. most people seem to think it's a check to make sure visit, so he can commit to michigan shortly afterwards
Would like it more if he just cancels all other visits and commits to UM. Because, obviously.
#jptta
Peppers with a side of Eggs-ellent.
/rubs hands together
/rubs HANDs together*
Can't believe PSU is getting such a big talent to visit with all their sanctions.
Still go to like our chances here though - cancelling the Stanford visit is huge. They were thought to be the only other serious contender.
I won't feel threatened by Penn State for any recruit who didn't grow up a PSU fan for a while.
Penn State has absolutely nothing to offer Peppers that would hold any weight. This kid thinks he's going to win the Heisman as a freshman, so I doubt he's worried about PT. And you can't win the Heisman for a team getting curb stomped every week.
Except the whole "we literally have to play you everywhere considering we have no depth anywhere because of sholarship reductions" thing.
Yeah, the fact that it's PSU makes me a bit nervous because of O'Brien's obvious recruiting abilities.
Then again, they're not Biel eligible for a couple years after he would arrive, so I think that plays in our favor significantly.
probably because I don't post a lot of images and had to f#ck around with it.
I like my pic a little better though!
...but I'm at work and mindful of what I'm looking at.
What is obvious about O'Brien's recruiting abilities?
O'Brien can coach, obviously, but even that was probably aided by a strong group of upperclassmen. I'm not sure why people think he can recruit better than average.
Agreed. PSU got a lot better as the season went on last year, so from a coaching standpoint, he seems to be pretty good.
We have absolutely no reason to think he's a good recruiter though. He didn't recruit Breneman or Hackenberg, so it's hard to give him the credit for them, and all of the guys he recruited were average Big Ten recruits. This year, he has a couple barely 4 star types and 5 guys that most schools did not want.
Now, this isn't enough info so say he's a poor recruiter by any means, but to say his recruiting skills are obvious is a major stretch. Unless he meant obviously unproven.
Who gets credit for recruiting Hackenberg and Breneman?
You kinda have to give that credit to the guy they committed to, so Peterno or whatever assistant really recruited them. And probably no credit for Brenneman since it sounded like he was going to go to Penn State no matter who the coach was.
I can't see him being interested if they're not Biel eligible:
Holy shit, so much airbrush. It's like she doesn't even have a face.
Because that's the part we really care about.
Were raisins recently made illegal??? Because it appears as though she is smuggling some! Ba-Dum-CHA!
O'Brien's recruiting prowess will dissipate once Penn State falls off a cliff in the wins category, which has a pretty good chance to start on August 31st against Syracuse.
Remember what happened to USC last year and Michigan for about 3 seasons? Penn State's basically down to 65 scholarship players already and lost a lot of veteran leadership on defense. They're in big trouble this season.
Maybe I'm missing something, but what prowess?
I was replying to someone else. He did well to keep the last class together, but I think he'll struggle as sanctions set in.
Eh, he did OK. I mean, he held onto Hackenberg and Breneman, which were the two 5 star headliners, both at the two positions O'Brian is known for developing. And both were big PSU fans in the first place. Other than that, they lost a lot of talent. That OL that went to Pitt, DT Webb, Ross Douglass...those were all 4 or 5 star types that left after the sanctions. Look at this class so far: they've got some decent talent. Some low 4 star players. But the recruiting isn't up to UM or OSU. It's more like Nebraska.
Let me put it this way. If we lose Peppers to a school that will have the most crippling scholarship reductions since the Pony Excess for the better part of the decade, one that can't go to a bowl or play in the champ game for half his time at the school, has a coach whose only head coaching accomplishment is NOT going .500 (admittidly, a decent accomplishment), and who has already interviewed for an NFL position after one season? All the while we have Greg Freakin' Mattison recruiting him and coaching him? Well, if we lose him to PSU, then that will be an epic fail on the staff's part.
freddymercuryhayes, are you dburk002 on wolverinenation? i just read a post in their peppers visit thread that is almost word for word what you wrote
I think if O'Brien can hold the ship steady and maintain an average of 7-8 win seasons over the next three years, his recruiting prowess should be in good shape when the sanctions are lifted. His offensive recruiting, at any rate, should be pretty good considering his pedigree.
But this is all assuming they'll get incredibly lucky with little to zero major injuries over the next three years, which in all likelihood just won't happen. Ergo, some 4-6 win seasons may be on the horizon. Things that, if I had to guess, Jabrill doesn't want to be a part of.
No way he averages 7-8 win seasons over the next three. They'll be bad. They might be in that range this year, but not 2014 and beyond. He'll be lucky to be over .500 again before 2017 or so.
Assuming Hoke and Meyer keep dominating Big Ten recruiting like they have, that is almost 2 automatic losses for PSU since they'll have to play UM and OSU every year. 7-8 wins a year means they're going 7-3 or 8-3 in the rest of the games.
Exactly. And with 9 conference games starting soon, they will have a real hard time getting there, because most years they'll have to play one or more of Wisco, Nebraska, NW, and Iowa. I even think MSU will be a near auto-loss most years going forward.