re: Story on how Scott can save the recruiting class

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I write copy and no, I would never allow anyone to overwrite my headline or ever submit something without it

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Apparently you don't write copy for a journalistic publication, because a lot of the time journalists and sportswriters don't have a choice. Headline writing is a completely different skill than is writing an article. Some people have both, some don't.

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Not only that, but the headline is almost a verbatim reproduction of the concluding line of the article. So yes, the headline was written by Matt.

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No one here said the article was any good. But it isn't verbatim at all. And even if it were a direct quote from the story, it doesn't mean he wrote the headline for the story. As a former government reporter, there were times when the copy desk pulled a line directly from one of my stories (sometimes out of context) and used it as a headline.

So... it's not unlikely that he didn't write the headline.

This is all semantics really. But your attitude was kind of shitty. So I thought I'd spread a little knowledge.

He may not have written the headline, but when he ends with the following, he doesn't really have a leg to stand on when defending himself against that headline:

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Or Scott could pick LSU and save Miles from yet another embarrassment on National Signing Day.

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