Though A Soothing Bluegrass Tune, Caamp’s “Ohio” Could Have Trouble Connecting With Ohio Stadium

Though A Soothing Bluegrass Tune, Caamp’s “Ohio” Could Have Trouble Connecting With Ohio Stadium

I rarely get to speak to you all in the first person. Anything I write that isn’t an opinion piece such as this, you won’t see the word “I” in the story unless I’m quoting someone else saying it. It normally isn’t about me. But this time, Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork and Eleven Warriors’ wonderful deputy editor Dan Hope made it about me.

“The band Caamp, does everyone know,” Bjork asked the media at his press conference on Tuesday. “Who’s our music buff here in the media?”

Hope – along with a few other members of the Ohio State media contingent – pointed to me.

“Who knows Caamp,” Bjork said, seeing them point, then looked at me and gestured, expecting me to know who they were.

I’d only heard of Caamp that morning when I got word of Ohio State’s new Tradition Evolved gameday atmosphere initiative, which Bjork was announcing. But I nodded ‘yes’ to avoid an awkward moment.

“They have a song called, ‘Ohio,’” Bjork said. “And so we will take that song, we will put it to a cool video that really speaks to the state of Ohio pride and we’ll play that in the first half. It will really rally, I think, our fans around our great state of Ohio. So the song ‘Ohio,’ hopefully, will be synonymous now with Ohio Stadium.”