[Older human interest piece on Jabrill Peppers]
I don't think I've seen this before on here, but given the commitment today and the possible future commtiment by Jabrill Peppers, I thought this was a good article to share. As some of you are aware, Jabrill's father is in jail and wasn't really there for him during his childhood and this article details the impact that had on him. The story is from last October, but it is still a great read. He is the kind of player you can't help rooting for, even if he doesn't end up coming to Michigan. Also, the article states that his father will be out on parole this this June, so the fact that he might make his decision around that time might have something to do with that fact.
http://www.nj.com/hssports/blog/football/index.ssf/2012/10/paramus_catholics_jabrill_peppers.html
Mod edit: Title changed, it's descriptive now so hopefully people can either read the thread/story or move on. JGB.
April 29th, 2013 at 10:54 PM ^
I created a thread about this article in October 2012 (beat you to it by 6 months). http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/top-2014-cb-target-jabrill-peppers-paramus-catholic-nj#comment-1747639
Congratulations?
Let's see, of the people who come to MGoBlog now, maybe 0.1% of them ever saw your thread and read that article. It was, after all, six months ago and long before Peppers seemed like a probable commit. Even of those 0.1% (I have no idea if it's 0.1%), most of them would probably like to re-read it, since they were obsessive enough to read a thread about this kid when he still seemed very unlikely to commit. They probably don't mind this thread. Let's say we're talking about 0.01% of MGoBlog that read this story six months ago and has no interest in re-reading it now. Of them, the vast majority probably really don't care about redundancy spread across six months, so maybe we're talking about 0.0001% of MGoBlog that has already read this story and now has a problem with its existence.
So congratulations.
[And some apologies, since I can be pissy at 1:40am after a long day.]
On this board, 1% refers to Brock Mealer.
April 30th, 2013 at 11:52 AM ^
The point is not redundancy spread across six months. Rather, I was only mentioning that this article was posted on this board at the time of the writing of said article (which seems logical...). Further, the re-poster did not do any search for said article whatsoever; in lieu thereof, he merely disclaimed "SIAP", which is, frankly, lazy. In fact, even utilizing minimum due diligence, i.e., typing in the prospect's name in the site search box, would have resulted in this article appearing on the first page of the search results. Therefore, I return the congratulations to you "Turd" and I can confidently say with 99.98% accuracy that your fake statistics are annoying to 108.75% of MGoBloggers and 926.84% of other visitors to this website.
Except there's no way of knowing unless you click on each and every thread on the first page. Seriously, even searching won't allow you to find it unless you click on each thread. Your title was very generic and provided no information that the article related to a human interest aspect of the recruitment.
And "SIAP Great article about Jabrill Peppers" clearly states that the article was related to a human interest aspect of the recruitment. Yes, sir, you make a valid point!
Not perfect but much better. Seriously dude get over it. The incessant bitching and moaning about thread titles and such around here makes an otherwise great blog/message board unbearable to read at times.
None of my posts were bitching and moaning about thread titles. Just a response to your bitching and moaning post about thread titles. As Coach BA would say, #HALOL, #UCONSCIOUS.
I actually wasn't bitching and moaning about thread titles. I usually read what's the first couple of pages each morning before I start working so it's not like I'm not going to click on it. I was responding against the attacks against OP, that if he had searched for "Jabrill Peppers" that he would have found the thread. Oh really? How? It's not like even if he had searched, he would have known about the thread unless he clicked on every thread that came up on the first page. The only reason I knew to go that post immediately was the 6 month timeline you mentioned.
When I see your thread title, I'm more likely to think (as well as the general readership), "another recruiting story, I already know this guy is interested in U-M, moving on".
When I see "great article" I'm more likely to think that since someone else believes there's something great/interesting about it, there's information I might not know or want to know.
All I was saying was that if we're attacking the OP for not following forum etiquette, the people throwing out criticism at him and trying to hold themselves up as shining examples have equally bad mistakes. Even if he followed your idea, it's not exactly a reasonable suggestion. Whatever, I'm done.
April 29th, 2013 at 11:24 PM ^
lol, OP was better too. this post is not long for this world.
April 30th, 2013 at 12:16 AM ^
Hey guys. What's everyone doin?
It's SIAP and it means "Sorry If Already Posted."
Sally Ingram Ate Peppers
Although, technically, I'm procrastinating.
I missed this too. There has to be more grace for posting links that were up a long time before. I suppose the 2nd OP could have done an exhaustive search, and linked to the previous mgoblog post 6 months ago. But I'm tired sometimes of the "gotcha" mentality. Thanks to the 2nd OP for putting up the link.
If we're going to play this game that thread title sucked and was hardly informative.
Top 2014 CB Target -- Jabrill Peppers (Paramus Catholic, NJ)
How would I know that it's about a human interest story such as this one? I'd think it were just another recruiting story. You can't really expect people to sift through each and every thread do you?
April 30th, 2013 at 10:07 AM ^
I missed this too. There has to be more grace for posting links that were up a long time before. I suppose the 2nd OP could have done an exhaustive search, and linked to the previous mgoblog post 6 months ago. But I'm tired sometimes of the "gotcha" mentality. Thanks to the 2nd OP for putting up the link.
I will be rooting for Peppers regardless of what college he attends, that being said, Go BLUE!!
And thanks to those who got all ass hurt about the reposting and had to go about discussing it. It's this type of brilliant posting that makes MGOBLOG so entertaining. The only thing I do ask of those who go off on these tangents is to post what they are drinking. I always enjoy knowing what people are drinking while they troll MGOBLOG in their pepperoni stained tighty whities.
April 30th, 2013 at 11:02 AM ^
It's actually grease running off of the cheese that causes the majority of the stains.