re: Jon Sokoloff's revenge on Kiffin! "Did you sign your extension?" IN PERSON

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I can assure you with metaphysical certitude that Sokoloff had a source that told him what he reported, and was credible enough to where he went with it

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I don't doubt this. At the presser Lane sure seemed interested in who Jon's sources were. I wonder if Jon will tell him privately?

Either way, I wonder if Jon's report ended up killing the deal between AU and Kiffin. If Kiffin thinks someone at AU leaked this, he would probably be pretty pissed.

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I have worked as an editor as well as a writer. I can’t speak for anyone else, but if one of my people quoted an anonymous source, I had to know who it was before we used it. And it’s something that I rarely if ever permitted, only when absolutely necessary. But you’d be stunned at the kind of people who like to talk to us if not as a primary source but on background. Keeping one’s mouth shut isn’t human nature.

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Did you edit tweets?

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Fully agree with you. And I think it’s gotten worse with journalists going on Twitter and much like Kiffin did acting like 16-year-old girls. I despise Twitter, which I once heard described as 3 million infants shaking their rattles.

This post was edited on 11/25 at 10:58 am

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This answers my question (I didn't see it before posting).

I stand by my original comment.
Jon should out his source if the information is fake news. Or quit.
Twitter is the vessel that should correct bad journalism.

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I don’t know. I’ve said I figured the source was either Cohen, or someone very close to him, and that Kiffin got pissed because he lost control of the situation

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If Cohen himself is leaking this stuff before the Egg Bowl, Lane should immediately back out of any potential agreement in place. That is not someone you want to work for or with.

Don’t disagree with you one iota but the other factor here is AU is looking to make a big splash and proclaim their relevance with this hire

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If Cohen himself is leaking this stuff before the Egg Bowl,

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It wasn't. That was leaked from the Ole Miss side.


Fact. Ole Miss reporters were suggesting it long before that guy made his tweet.


Remember when Kiffin was asked, and his reply was something about a leak in their roof?

People were like, WTH is talking about. The leak was from Ole Miss trying to make Lane SIGN the extension and he still hasn't.


Why?

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It wasn't. That was leaked from the Ole Miss side. Fact. Ole Miss reporters were suggesting it long before that guy made his tweet. Remember when Kiffin was asked, and his reply was something about a leak in their roof? People were like, WTH is talking about. The leak was from Ole Miss trying to make Lane SIGN the extension and he still hasn't. Why?

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I mean, maybe. Maybe not. Nobody really knows right now. If they did then this wouldn’t be the source of endless conjecture.

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I can assure you with metaphysical certitude that Sokoloff had a source that told him what he reported, and was credible enough to where he went with it

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I think someone with Ole Miss AD or booster knew pretty sure it was going down and used Sokolff as their bitch to blow it up and it worked.

Also, I can believe his kids could have played a factor like it was talked about.

Cohen didn't leak shite.

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sounds like the Sokoloff guy, whose name I never heard till this, is a huge dickhead

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FIFY

OK let me come at it this way … and I’ll say up front I don’t know Sokoloff from Adam’s house cat, have no clue about his background and skills and track record.

He burns this source, nobody will ever talk to him again.

But what if he comes across some information that YOU would like to know, but he can’t verify or confirm it because he’s now reviled as the guy who burns his sources?

And don’t play the “we can just wait until the official announcement” card because that denies human nature too, and if people were willing to just wait for the official announcement on things places like this wouldn’t exist LOL.

You actually could be 100% right. The fact is none of us, including me, know jack caca, with or without metaphysical certitude, about what’s going on here. We’re just anonymous voices babbling our .02 which probably ain’t worth .02 on a message board and, hopefully, having some fun with it.