Ohio State attempts to explain deleting tweet it defended
Ohio State football’s Twitter account posted a tweet early on Thursday, with the message “Silence the white noise” ahead of Saturday night’s matchup at Penn State, where the Nittany Lion fans plan on doing a white-out.
The tweet showed wide receiver Austin Mack “shushing” and the word “silence” was above him.
You have to be living under a rock to not know just how tone-deaf that tweet was. It has since been deleted.
After the scandal surrounding Urban Meyer and his alleged cover-up of domestic abuse by former wide receivers coach Zach Smith, it is amazing to think no one stopped this tweet from going out, but it happened nonetheless, and had to be deleted after severe backlash.
Initially, the university defended the tweet, saying the message was “directed to our team to play really well to silence an incredible whiteout crowd at Penn State.”
While that is probably true, it still does not excuse the fact that nobody thought the tweet may be received poorly, given the media circus that was the investigation on Urban Meyer. Now that the tweet has been defended and removed, Ohio State University’s official Twitter account released a statement Thursday afternoon.
As we have done in the past and in preparation for Saturday’s game, we issued a message to our fans via the football social media outlets. The message has been interpreted in ways we absolutely did not intend, and we have removed it from our channels.
— Ohio State Buckeyes (@OhioStAthletics) September 27, 2018
“As we have done in the past and in preparation for Saturday’s game, we issued a message to our fans via the football social media outlets” read the tweet, “The message has been interpreted in ways we absolutely did not intend, and we have removed it from our channels.”
Between the committee that investigated Meyer, the university, and Meyer himself, Ohio State has issued more statements than anyone can count. College football fans outside of Columbus will certainly be pulling hard for James Franklin and Penn State on Saturday night.
Actually, there’s plenty of football fans who won’t be pulling for either coach – especially considering James Franklin’s own attempted coverup of the recent Vanderbilt rape case. But that’s easier to sweep under the rug, since he got out of dodge before things got too heated.
Maybe they can re-brand the game to “Complicit Enablers Bowl.”
That’s exactly right!
Leave it to a MORON Gator to make such a statement. How much enabling did Urban Meyer do at Florida for murdering nut case HERNANDEZ?
Nobody’s excusing Meyer’s long history of enabling.
I simply countered the statement in the article that “College football fans outside of Columbus will certainly be pulling hard for James Franklin and Penn State on Saturday night.”
Hence the suggested re-branding.
Thanks LegacyGator. You accurately point out that on the national college football palate. The taste is going to be bad. College football has a lot of quality issues to address. Maybe only minor league pro football can save the college game at this state of slime-itization. Child sexual abuse, rape and gang rape, PEDs, prostitution, team drug fests, group credit card fraud, hijacking of football rosters for reverse discrimination projects, whole conferences being taken over by sport’s networks. In the artful craft of understatement, The wise old man of football, Bill Snyder at Kansas State, summed it up in this word “disturbing”. There is no way I can ever watch Ohio State or Penn State play football again and if I’m truthful with myself, this list is growing pretty fast.
I feel bad for Zach Smiths’ ex, the children, and Urban’s wife. And I wish multiple losses upon the Buckeyes. Urban is an insult to any principled man.
Why do you feel bad for Urban’s wife? As best Urban can remember his wife never mentioned to him Smith’s wife’s texts about her abuse. All the while that Urban’s wife is telling Mrs. Smith that she’s concerned for her and asking how she can help, she’s withholding that information from Urban. Had she not decided to participate in her own cover-up, poor Urban might have been able to take appropriate action much sooner and saved all involved from heartache and embarrassment.
Since the texts from Smith’s wife fall under the general heading of “football”, then Urban would certainly have remembered such a discussion his wife because his medicine only causes him to forget non-football stuff.
If anyone deserves sympathy here it’s Mrs. Smith and Urban, not his horrible wife that allowed Zach to continue his mistreatment of his spouse far too long. Once Urban became aware of his wife’s terrible actions he appropriately threw her under the bus and moved forward with healing the wounds of OSU and the community by winning a few football games against overmatched opponents.
Everyone around here, Byron, Ga, is calling the game the Wife Beaters vs Child Molesters.
Sad for the kids that had nothing to do with it.
Can Ohio State handle 2018 any worse?
Yeah they could commit the cardinal sin of losing football games. Apparently that’s what really matters there now a days. Jim Tressel must be sitting somewhere, shaking uncontrollably.
We all should hope for Ohio state to get beat 45-0 just so everyone who isn’t a buckeye can enjoy his mental breakdown(Meyer) I actually hope Penn State brings it as a fanbase cause i would love to hear some Urban Liar chants. If Ohio state wont deal out justice, the fans can make them live every moment from here on out as a reminder that OSU chose winning over pretty much everything else. Then I hope Penn state gets drilled down the line..cause their coach is just a dirty a-hole too. To make it a early Christmas present maybe just maybe Clemson will lose after Dabo chose his new starting QB. Syracuse winning would put Clemson out of the playoff for sure! Wait that did happen before and didn’t matter..Lawrence is better than Bryant slightly. But Lawrence will be alot better the years to come. Probably as good as Deshaun Watson maybe even better than him. I know that is why Dabo started him. Cause if you breakdown the competition he gave Lawrence every opportunity to win the job over a guy that did do good too. Bryant was quite successful. This is way DIFFERENT than Bamas situation. Jalen struggled mightily and got replaced by a supernatural QB. Lawrence is on his way to being supernatural too. However he and Bryant had very little statistical differences and one guy has been there and waited his turn and hasnt been a off the field problem so I cant see why Dabo is justifying this decision. He wanted to start the young guy so that he can get him developed sooner so he will have three AMAZING years with Trevor instead of two. That being said it would be kinda funny if trevor got hurt. Cause as a coach that is why you should have kept both guys. Make Bryant the starter and have his leadership anand heck he isnt a bad QB. Trevor wouldn’t transfer cause he didn’t start as afreshman. So if Dabo had a brain on this situation he would have had both QBs for the season but he chose to be greedy and start the freshman. Now if Trevor has a season ending injury ummm uh oh Dabo you may actually lose a game on that awful schedule
This is not even a big deal.