![]() ![]() In the spirit of Watergate and the legendary reporting tandem of Woodward & Bernstein, we have elected to retain this individual’s anonymity and refer to the person responsible for Capt. This person prefers to remain anonymous because “it might ruin the fun behind the account if people knew who it was.” ![]() ![]() Utilizing a complex maze of backdoor channels, Utah State magazine eventually made contact with the individual responsible for the popular Twitter handle via telephone. In a humble tweet posted on March 31, 2020, the good captain wrote: Much like Craig Smith himself, deflected the opportunity to take personal credit for the victory. I, personally, can’t wait to hear his victory speech! Of the victory, wrote:Ĭongratulations to the undisputed champion of Utah State Aggie Twitter, the one and only ! He proved that he is not to be trifled with, by obliterating every account we placed in his way. The tourney, which was put together by last March after the COVID-19 pandemic denied the USU basketball team an opportunity to play in “The Big Dance,” resulted in being selected by 74.6% of the 418 votes submitted in the championship round. Indeed, the account, which was started in November 2018 by an anonymous Utah State fan, prevailed in an NCAA Tournament-like contest that pitted the 68 most popular Aggie Twitter accounts against one another. Smith are currently some of the most beloved in all of Aggie-inspired social media. Even better, the gravelly delivery of Sam Elliott.īut even when limited to internal vocalization, the whimsical tweets shared by Capt. Smith’s brief correspondence to his mother would then be read by an actor with an even more distinctive voice, perhaps Tom Hanks. Properly set up by McCullough distinctive voice, Capt. Smith sat down to write a brief summation to his beloved mother about his battalion’s latest engagement. After wiping his forehead free of sweat and grime, Capt. Despite his fatigue, Smith took the time for a contemplative moment and carefully removed a small notebook and his pen-and-ink set from his muddy saddlebags. Once the lines were secure, Smith and his exhausted men lay down for the night as the sulfury stench of gunpowder still lingered in the cold air. But inspired by the bravery of their leader, Smith’s company prevailed in one of the most anticipated clashes in the Western Theater. Smith and his troops found themselves locked in a desperate battle with one of the enemy’s most decorated and feared divisions. Midway through the Aggies’ latest campaign, Capt. Ideally, every time one clicked on a fresh tweet from the latest dispatch written as if Utah State’s head basketball coach was also a Union officer, would be set up by a brief audio narration provided by renowned historian David McCullough, the familiar voice of Ken Burn’s acclaimed documentary, The Civil War. ![]()
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