Headline in the State

It’s a big error. I read and thought “yeah, doing a turn on the movie Hope Floats was a really, really bad idea.” Can’t do it.

South Carolina attempting to squeeze money out of a newspaper for an error isn’t surprising. That sounds like Will Muschamp.

Because the media is what it is today, you’ll see national media (like McMurphy) puff their chests out in judgment. I imagine local media will do its usual whisper-whisper that came along when recruiting sites started staffing press conferences with glorified PR agents.

 

Andrew tweeted that the first time he saw the headline was the next morning when he looked at the print edition. I don't believe the writer is responsible for a suggested hed for print, just the online hed.

 

I'm 99.999999999% sure there was no "suggested head" for print. There rarely is.

On the rare occasions in which I see one, I'll slap it on the story before the finisher even gets to it.

 

Didn't realize that about the hub and it makes me wonder why The State would misrepresent that.

 

One point of clarification: There was no "suggested" head. There was simply an "online head" that most of the time needs to be severely shortened (or completely reworked) for print.

 

Thank you. I read the "online hed" as "suggested print hed," which was incorrect. My bad.

 

Hi, y'all. I work at The State and am somewhat in the middle of this. If you'd like followup/more explanation, shoot me a PM.

 

I cannot find the original article, but how does 'hope float/sink' make any sense other than as a reference to the charity related to the brother?

 

The lede referred to the quarterback being the player viewed as giving fans the biggest reason for renewed hope in the program.

The story is still on the website.

 

"Hope Floats" was a Sandra Bullock movie.

Hope Floats - Wikipedia

 

Which few people under the age of 35 would ever have seen or remembered.