'Jabrill Peppers - Heavy UM Lean' or something to that effect.
EDIT: But this is great news if true! I have a feeling this is shaping up to be yet another extremely solid class.
oh lawdy
Heard from a source that Bubonic Plague is not a serious threat in my neighborhood.
Yay, my headline is as informative as yours. Great news nonetheless.
Informative thread titles are a courtesy and the way things are supposed to be done around here. From Brian's Board FAQs (which you should read if you haven't already):
What should I title my threads? Please make your thread titles as informative as possible: "Justin Feagin" is bad. "Justin Feagin leaving the team?" is good.
Respect the avatar ;-)
I think you should be calling him Daddy.
The point is that whenever somebody posts a bad title, people spend the entire comments section bitching about it rather than discussing the content. It's one bad title on the board, it takes one comment to let OP know they should probably change it.
Either way, it's literally 30 seconds out of your day to click the thread and see what the deal is. I know everyone who reads this blog is super important though so I understand if people can't be bothered to read a one-sentence thread (never mind that they find the time to write a snarky reply, making the comments unreadable). I could see people complaining if the entire board was full of bad titles, but people blow this way out of proportion.
I don't see how it's being "courteous" (that is what this is about, right?) to derail some poor guy's (or gal's) thread just because they made an honest mistake.
Ok, don't use informative thread titles then...but then don't complain when people blast you for not following the guidelines.
April 15th, 2013 at 10:04 AM ^
Anything could have happened with Jabrill Peppers. He could have committed elsewhere. He could have named leaders. This could be a link to an article I've already read. He could have torn his ACL.
You say that it's 30 seconds to click on it, but it's 30 seconds for EVERYONE who clicks on it.
Or it would take 2 seconds for one person (the OP) to add a word or two to the title.
Considering the fact that it's an expectation of the board - and posted as such - your argument doesn't really hold water. The OP did it wrong. It's not for the OP to decide, nor for you; it's up to Brian and the mods, and they think differently. Things like this should be avoided in the future. That's really all that needs to be said.
April 15th, 2013 at 10:11 AM ^
You're missing the point. The thread title is bad and should be changed. We just don't need 35 people making that point every time a thread title sucks. It makes otherwise interesting threads unreadable (which I'm now contributing to in this one). Ideal process when Guy A creates thread with bad title:
- Guy B suggests in a comment that Guy A changes title.
- Guy A changes title.
- Onward.
April 15th, 2013 at 10:32 AM ^
Well, this is just one big downward spiral then...
April 15th, 2013 at 10:25 AM ^
I know the title is bad and should be changed. My point is that it's a minor inconvenience that people make way too big of a deal about. Point the offending OP to the FAQ, politely let them know their title is uninformative, and move on to discussing the content of the post. Being an asshole to somebody just discourages users from posting and makes the community seem petty and dickish. Just my opinion though.
April 15th, 2013 at 12:36 PM ^
Unfortunately, being a petty, dickish asshole seems to be the sole mission in life for numerous posters on this board. I can think of several off the top of my head.
This board has become largely unreadable with the little sister bitchiness about posts.
bitchy
It's like talk radio -- I look in from time-to-time after reading Brian or Ace and regret it. The board has gone way down hill in the last couple years.
Oh, wait, what? I couldn't tell from the thread title you were talking about the football player.
This is outstanding news if true! Also change the title please. Maybe if we get Peppers that will increase our chances of getting Hand too.
April 15th, 2013 at 12:47 PM ^
All we need is a handwritten note saying "You're a baller" to get Peppers to commit.
On it.
Does it count as handwritten if its written via a magic quill?
/dont judge me, HP books are a good read.
Whatever, man. If you're reading Hewlett Packard manuals, you're clearly a huge nerd. Consider yourself judged.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who read HP and thought Hewlett Packard...
am i on the wrong board to be talking about hit points?
Well, let's keep a closer eye on Peppers' bank statements than we did on Treadwell's.
He appears to be driven by different goals than Treadwell.
That was before Treadwell looked at other schools. Peppers is now a heavy lean immediately after visiting LSU and OSU.
April 15th, 2013 at 10:52 AM ^
Is the "J" really necessary? How many guys are we recruiting with last names that start with "P"?
For a kid who wants to win the Heisman as a freshman DB, it only makes sense.
April 15th, 2013 at 11:53 AM ^
He's an arrogant ass hat, but, a usually correct arrogant ass hat. This is his region of the country, so he has a lot of contact people with a lot of the top programs. I understand why people hate the guy, but his track record with this stuff is pretty damn good.