You may find that work, school, or other obligations keep you from focusing on Twitter the way you should. Thankfully for you, I'm able to tune out those distractions and provide you with a weekly rundown of the best tweets from around campus.
Tomorrow is Ohio State's annual spring game and it remains one of my favorite days of the year. It doesn't count for anything and you won't remember the score for longer week, but that's okay. It's a day to celebrate Buckeye football with no pressure, no anxiety, little cost, and abnormally beautiful weather. Plus, it's a the perfect time to bring children. When I was seven years old, I attended my first one with my older sisters who were students at the time, and I'll never forget it. To put it simply, I was in awe.
I went early and met the entire team in the french field house, then I walked around campus and gave some hearty "O-H"s to which total strangers replied "I-O." I watched the band perform The Incomparable, I sang the "The Buckeye Battle Cry" at the top of my lungs, and I saw my Buckeye heroes take the field in person for the very first time. At seven years old, I knew this was exactly where I was going to be 11 years down the road – and I was right.
Throwback to my first time seeing the Buckeyes in the Shoe spring game 2002. See you tomorrow, Ohio Stadium. pic.twitter.com/IADpoVp2Ty
— Kevin Harrish (@Kevinish) April 15, 2016
So tomorrow, take your kids. Take your siblings, take your little cousins, your nieces and your nephews. Walk them around campus, teach them the fight songs, and maybe even buy them an overpriced string of nuts to wear around their neck. Don't underestimate how much it will mean to them even 10 years later.
Pardon the nostalgia. As promised here are the lighthearted tweets you came for.
Can't wait to see #BuckeyeNation at the Shoe on Saturday!!! #100,000 #PackTheShoe #slobs
— Patrick Elflein (@elflein65) April 14, 2016
I'm going to make this neck roll look good Saturday
— Antonio Williams (@A_B_Williams03) April 12, 2016
@CampusParc play to much
— Dontre Wilson (@treydayy_) April 11, 2016
Let it be known, I am a perfect 1 for 1 fighting CampusParc tickets, which is akin to going toe to toe with the devil and prevailing.
Today is a miss the bus on accident but act like it's on purpose because it's so nice out kind of day
— Joey Lane (@JoeySmoke11) April 15, 2016
Having Dunkin Donuts next door to my house is great
— Jamarco Jones (@jjones_74) April 14, 2016
cc. Mickey Marotti
Just ordered a red, white and blue Yeti. Couldn't feel more American right now.
— Billy Price (@b_price54) April 13, 2016
Ohio State football makes high school football look like little league I swear!
— Dre'Mont Jones (@TheOfficial_80) April 12, 2016
To be honest, I would certainly hope so. Cause it kind of literally is.
Hate the fact that if somebody bumps me no matter where I am I still yell And-1
— Matthew Burrll Jr!! (@majiiinbuu) April 12, 2016
When you left your phone at baes house but you in the middle of a track meet pic.twitter.com/6so7E9NxbN
— Michael Jordan (@Madj1998) April 13, 2016
Last man standing... pic.twitter.com/ZTQdoMHBux
— JaQuan Lyle (@JMamba13) April 11, 2016
Joey Lane felt the shade.
So it's like that... https://t.co/Tngs5jW3EE
— Joey Lane (@JoeySmoke11) April 11, 2016
And then there was 1 (and a half)... pic.twitter.com/klVztMz1d0
— Joey Lane (@JoeySmoke11) April 11, 2016
@TWC Thank you for guaranteeing our rate will never change and now saying it will raise 25-30 dollars in June. I really appreciate it.
— Brady Taylor (@beTaylor79) April 12, 2016
Here's the thing: all cable companies are bad. All of them. It's just a fact of life and something you have to deal with, like mosquitos or the common cold.
I have a problem with not texting back
— Mike Weber (@mikeweberjr) April 14, 2016
— Liam McCullough (@LiamMcCullough2) April 15, 2016
I hope Kobe shoots 40 times tonight lol #MambaDay
— JaQuan Lyle (@JMamba13) April 13, 2016
He shot 50. I've been shooting at the RPAC by myself and not put up 50 shots. At the very least, you have to admire the endurance.
That walk to the Schott ain't no joke tho
— Trevor Thompson (@TrevBallinTrey2) April 9, 2016
#tbt to the Spring Game last year. Let's get to 100K this year! #GoBucks pic.twitter.com/ET8jNpcqU0
— Mark Pantoni (@markpantoni) April 14, 2016
It's amazing to me that Ohio State is likely going to sell close to 100,000 tickets to a fake football game that's being televised. Other schools can't get a quarter of that number to go for free. You're a crazy bunch, Buckeye fans, and I'll see you there.
ODen Joins Managers
This is shaping up to be a banner year for the Ohio State men's basketball managers. After winning an intramural title a few weeks ago, they got perhaps the school's biggest recruiting win of the season (with all due respect to Urban Meyer and Kevin McGuff), landing former Buckeye center Greg Oden.
The #scoops just keep coming, folks: MULTIPLE SAUCES tell me Greg Oden will join OSU bball team as a "manager" while he finishes his degree.
— Mark Titus (@clubtrillion) April 12, 2016
and we thought our locker room was crowded last year.... https://t.co/n9xNM3K3I7
— OSU BBall Managers (@OSUManagers) April 12, 2016
He's essentially just going to practice w/ the team and dunk all over OSU bigs. But still - he's technically joining the manager fraternity.
— Mark Titus (@clubtrillion) April 12, 2016
@TrevBallinTrey2 pic.twitter.com/3nrgzbRiY9
— Mark Titus (@clubtrillion) April 12, 2016
Oden wasted no time getting to work.
How do we welcome new managers??? We make them rebound for the walk on. pic.twitter.com/XKszBTfz4b
— OSU BBall Managers (@OSUManagers) April 14, 2016
This is the 8th time I've been rebounded for since I got here https://t.co/nZRjInFbvo
— Joey Lane (@JoeySmoke11) April 14, 2016
It's unclear whether or not Oden will play on the managers' powerhouse intramural squad next year, but I'd bet people would be willing to pay good money to watch him dunk on kids (me, possibly) in an intramural game.
This Week's Winner of Twitter
Family behind me in Costco:
— Liam McCullough (@LiamMcCullough2) April 10, 2016
Kid- "daddy does that guy play for the Buckeyes?"
Dad- "haha no jack he probably just bought an OSU sweatshirt"
#LongsnappersArePlayersToo