WE REGRET THE MISTAKE. THE BIG HONKING MISTAKE
Gainesville Sun, you are error.Bloggers are irresponsible. Factless. Rife with innuendo and bleeding half-truths. Unbound by any ethic or rule, those rapscallions! Why, if I had half a mind I’d….
In a Thursday recruiting story, The Sun inaccurately reported that All-America wide receiver Julio Jones was sent home early from his University of Florida visit by the coaches and that Jones, who is from Foley, Ala., was recruiting for Oklahoma while he was in Gainesville.
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Sources confirmed Thursday that Jones, in fact, stayed for his entire visit and had not done any recruiting for another school. The Sun regrets the errors.
Good fucking night–error doesn’t cover what a story accusing a player of recruiting for a rival school during the heated peak of handshake season is. Just trying to put together a comparable headline boggles the imagination:
On Wednesday, the Sun reported that Julio Jones stabbed Florida defensive coordinator Greg Mattison with a car key for misusing the “who/whom” combination in a sentence. Jones also did not kidnap four recruits and force them to sign letters of commitment to “The University of Satan” while threatening them with a grub hoe, nor did he commit unnatural acts of non-coercive simulated sodomy with a mailbox on 13th Street early Saturday morning. We regret the error.”
Thanks for coming Juilo. The Gainesville Sun hopes you enjoy your time in Tuscaloosa or Norman.









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ramblin' says:
oops…. with friends like the G-ville Sun, who needs enemies?
January 28th, 2008 at 9:47 am
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sb says:
And to add to #1…is the G-ville Sun friend or enema?
January 28th, 2008 at 9:56 am
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Biggus Rickus says:
Journalists: Breaking news that is 100% accurate 53% of the time.
You bloggers with your non-credentialed reporting could only hope for such a percentage.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:02 am
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Olive says:
Link, por favor?
January 28th, 2008 at 10:24 am
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fresh says:
Jesus Christ, and now even you are getting into the act, misspelling his name in the last paragraph. How much more of this bullshit does he have to take before he says, “fuck it”, and actually does sign with the University of Satan?
January 28th, 2008 at 10:33 am
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Olive says:
http://www.gatorsportsforum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=210939&sid=c926ee28781be3301869aec938d43c0c
January 28th, 2008 at 10:35 am
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Stockman says:
Now bloggers, not unlike K-Fed look responsible.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:41 am
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Aerobab says:
#5, please clarify…which University of Satan campus would he transfer to? Los Angeles? Atlanta? Or would he keep it real at the local Foley campus?
January 28th, 2008 at 10:48 am
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Kenny says:
Just another tactic by Urban Meyer. Who else would have spoon fed this story to this idiot reporter? The reporter stated that it was from a source that was there during the recruiting. That only could have been a coach. It was also obvious that the reporter did not have to much faith in the validity, as he made sure to put it as a footnote in the story, yet he still took his marching orders and ran the story anyways. As soon as the story was proven false, by actual reporting he used the excuse that it was only a footnote. Urban knows that he is not going to go to UF, so he sends out someone to assasinate Julio’s character. It makes Julio look bad and makes Oklahoma look bad.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:56 am
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Eric says:
Jenni Carlson writes for the Sun now?
January 28th, 2008 at 10:56 am
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kleph says:
having lived through the hell of writing a correction or two in my time as a newspaper journalist i’m unable to feel any degree of schaedenfreud in regards to this incident.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:05 am
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Chips O'Toole says:
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf landed in Gainesville shortly after losing his post as Iraqi Information minister. The Sun should have known better.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:15 am
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Rival says:
Mike Gundy is loading up the SUV and heading towards Gainesvillle. I hear he has a bone to pick…
January 28th, 2008 at 11:17 am
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Oops Pow Surprise says:
10, 13: You said he was downgradin’ the Gators. THAT AIN’T TRUE!
January 28th, 2008 at 11:26 am
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gerry dorsey says:
please come to t’town julio!!!!
January 28th, 2008 at 11:42 am
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beast in bama says:
Makes me want to puke…
January 28th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
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Out of Conference says:
If we’re dabbling into the child slave trade (recruiting), could you at least do a pictorial on Russian car-washing coeds?
January 28th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
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Irwin Fletcher says:
@9
I would think your comment was a spot-on ironic look at how Urban, who is the Evil Recruiter Incarnate, just HAS to be involved.
However, I bet you believe your every word.
January 28th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
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Raleigh Urbain says:
“Thanks for coming Juilo. The Gainesville Sun hopes you enjoy your time in Tuscaloosa or Norman.”
Is that “Juilo” intentional mistake related irony?
Is there any way the Athens Clarke County Police Department and the Gainesville Sun could combine into a super being aimed at fucking their respective hometown team?
January 28th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
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Mr. Wrong says:
Take your meds, Kenny.
January 28th, 2008 at 4:06 pm