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Game Thread Ohio State @ Penn State - 09/29/18, 7:30PM (ABC)

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JCOSU86 said:
3 people commenting anonymously on a public medium is now "blasting".

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No. First you get a handful or people to comment anonymously on social media. Then the Yahoos and ESPNs pick it up and run with it. Then you get 100s of people to anonymously share those articles and tell the world how outraged they are. Do you even snowflake, bro?

Buckeye513 said:
Or maybe it's just bad timing and a PR team full of adults should have seen that in five seconds.
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Buckeye513 said:
That putting out a graphic that says "silence" to a public that thinks Urban Meyer and Ohio State covered up domestic violence a month after an investigation is dumb as shit. Don't be an idiot.
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Or maybe the two have absolutely nothing to do with each other and our football media department shouldn't have to filter every message through the narrative of those looking for a reason to be offended and hate OSU.

NorthCoastKid said:
Meh. Whatever. No one will remember or care by tomorrow.
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This
 
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Buckeye513 said:
They're related now and whether or not you think that's dumb is irrelevant. The message is already out there and the Smith family marriage extravaganza is back on the front page of ESPN.

This is another opportunity for people to make Ohio State look insensitive at best and completely tone deaf at worst. Anyone with any degree of tact and savvy could have looked at the graphic and seen it coming.
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Maybe the graphics folks don't feel the need to fucking walk on eggshells...
 
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Buckeye513 said:
That's not the point. It doesn't matter at all what you or I or anyone else here sees in the graphic or thinks about the investigation. Ohio State is in the business of managing public perception. People reacted negatively to it on Twitter and it turned into articles on multiple websites and will now probably be mentioned during the broadcast on Saturday because that's what they do now. Bad for public perception, and no amount of calling people sensitive snowflakes is going to change that.
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Fuck that... you can't please everyone and luckily most are using common sense with this. If you're going to walk on egg shells then don't even do social media.

So if we play Georgia in the playoffs and our Social Media says "beat the bull dogs!"... does that mean we condone animal abuse? As a bull dog owner how dare they!!!!

No, you run everything as you always have and if some folks want to be offended then tough shit.

Sick of todays offended public. Suck a huge fat dick if you're offended by that
 
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Ryan36_1 said:
Or maybe the two have absolutely nothing to do with each other and our football media department shouldn't have to filter every message through the narrative of those looking for a reason to be offended and hate OSU.
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Except that they should, for this reason:
Ryan36_1 said:
No. First you get a handful or people to comment on this on social media. Then the Yahoos and ESPNs pick it up and run with it. Then you get 100s of people to share those articles and tell the world how outraged they are.
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Think it's dumb, call everyone snowflakes, doesn't matter. Anything that gets the investigation back into the news cycle is objectively bad, and this was a very avoidable situation that got the investigation back into the news cycle.
 
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bukIpower said:
Fuck that... you can't please everyone and luckily most are using common sense with this. If you're going to walk on egg shells then don't even do social media.

So if we play Georgia in the playoffs and our Social Media says "beat the bull dogs!"... does that mean we condone animal abuse? As a bull dog owner how dare they!!!!

No, you run everything as you always have and if some folks want to be offended then tough shit.

Sick of todays offended public. Suck a huge fat dick if you're offended by that
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You are way off. OSU could totally say "Beat the Bulldogs". Now if Virginia Tech tried to say that (not in the playoffs obviously, lol) then I would be totally offended that Michael Vick's alma mater could be so crass.
 
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Buckeye513 said:
Except that they should, for this reason:
Think it's dumb, call everyone snowflakes, doesn't matter. Anything that gets the investigation back into the news cycle is objectively bad, and this was a very avoidable situation that got the investigation back into the news cycle.
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Well, fuck it all, then...just shut down the media department, that way we're 100% sure not to offend anyone (except for those who would now say the media shutdown is a way to hide things).
 
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Buckeye513 said:
Except that they should, for this reason:
Think it's dumb, call everyone snowflakes, doesn't matter. Anything that gets the investigation back into the news cycle is objectively bad, and this was a very avoidable situation that got the investigation back into the news cycle.
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Only way to avoid being in the spotlight is to be mediocre. Remember haw evil Saban was for a minute when he yelled at that poor woman reporter? That was really 'objectively bad' for Bama.
 
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Ryan36_1 said:
Only way to avoid being in the spotlight is to be mediocre. Remember haw evil Saban was for a minute when he yelled at that poor woman reporter? That was really 'objectively bad' for Bama.
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Being in the spotlight is exactly why the media department should know how to read a room and realize that the room is currently filled with people outside of the college football fan bubble.
 
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Buckeye513 said:
Being in the spotlight is exactly why the media department should know how to read a room and realize that the room is currently filled with people outside of the college football fan bubble.
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So like Mililani said, let's just shut down the media department. Because anything can be made offensive. I have little doubt that it would only take a handful of black students to take offense to a "White Out" in a city made up of only 4% African Americans to gain the same traction this tweet got.
 
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BayBuck said:
Who fucking cares?
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A society that has become unable to deal with anything that they don't like, apparently.

Instead of having the internal coping mechanisms to deal with whatever they find offensive, people now expect the offensive to be proactively removed from the world by someone else.

Kind of like their mothers did for them their whole lives.
 
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Ryan36_1 said:
So like Mililani said, let's just shut down the media department. Because anything can be made offensive. I have little doubt that it would only take a handful of black students to take offense to a "White Out" in a city made up of only 4% African Americans to gain the same traction this tweet got.
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Have any of the last four weeks graphics turned into a story?
 
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