Speculation: Fuller possibly to M?

Submitted by LebronJames on

Take this with a grain of salt and place whatever value you wish. This can probably be chalked up as a complete troll however with the "silent commitment" thread looming over our heads, this might be of some interest.

I was playing Counter Strike, when someone notices my Steam Block M avatar, and asks if I go to the school to which I reply yes. Then he asks if I know his friend Jabrill Peppers, to which I say no, but I know of him. He then tells me his other friend is about to commit to Michigan.

I ask him who his other friend is. He responds, "Jordan Fuller." I proceed to ask him how he knows him, and he said he played football with him. I ponder this new rumor I was just told, and then after a minute I tell him I know a little about Fuller, but that I also heard he's rumored to favor OSU. He responds, "Yea but I think he's down to Michigan or ND."

Not much, but it's a little nugget. He said he was from Jersey, and didnt really say anything about football after that or anything else on the matter. 

Not sure how feasible this would even be. Is Fuller's high school even in close proximity to PC where this alleged friend would know both Peppers and Fuller? I also would like to think he's not trolling as I would imagine he would like to continue the troll and press me further into conversation about it.

Thoughts?

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rob f

January 30th, 2016 at 2:33 AM ^

College Writing 101 class.  I thought I did well; the prof, however, thought otherwise.  

You seem to think both that the semicolon is worthless and that there is no Michigan Football equivalent; on the basis of your dismissal of that particular punctuation mark, did Brian Cole recently become a semicolon? 

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January 30th, 2016 at 6:45 AM ^

The semi-colon useless? That might be the dumbest thing I've read on this blog today. (And in a thread discussing a tip gleaned from a stranger on Counterstrike, no less!) the semi-colon serves a useful purpose, though it is often misused (if my students are any indication). I'm not a writer, but I think some serious writers consider the em-dash to be a bit of a crutch. (People use it when they can't figure out how to move from one sentence to another.) But the real plague on writing is overuse of parentheses.

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January 30th, 2016 at 11:28 AM ^

SRKass: The first and third are complete sentences, so the final punctuation (period, exclamation point, question mark) is before the "close parenthesis." The middle one is part of the complete sentence, so the punctuation mark comes after the close parenthesis. I screwed up by not capitalizing the first letter of that sentence after the second parenthetical so it is a little hard to tell. Hope that's clear!

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Picktown GoBlue

January 30th, 2016 at 11:47 AM ^

was a complete sentence.  To quote my old buddies Strunk and White:

Parentheses. A sentence containing an expression in parenthesis is punctuated, outside of the marks of parenthesis, exactly as if the expression in parenthesis were absent. The expression within is punctuated as if it stood by itself, except that the final stop is omitted unless it is a question mark or an exclamation point.

I went to his house yesterday (my third attempt to see him), but he had left town.

He declares (and why should we doubt his good faith?) that he is now certain of
success.

(When a wholly detached expression or sentence is parenthesized, the final stop comes before the last mark of parenthesis.)

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MLaw06

January 30th, 2016 at 8:55 AM ^

No, PC is not that close to NVRHS. About 30 min away. I actually know a lot of people at PC, including a number of football players, through my church. Actually, funny story, Gary Nova's cousin goes to PC and I spoke to him about his thoughts about who's coming to Michigan. Won't say it here, but he thought highly of Michigan.

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Dano1984

January 30th, 2016 at 11:31 AM ^

Truly pathetic. But hey I know about at least 10 of the guys who saw this post text their buddies saying Fuller to UM looks good. :)

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