2. Austin Burgett
Quick Facts: Burgett is a 6’9″ senior forward from Avon, Indiana, and serves as a captain alongside Jackson, Auguste, and Steve Vasturia. He doesn’t play much, but from all knowledge is a great locker room guy and hilarious personality, which every team needs to stay loose in tense times.
Austin Burgett is a Twitter star, plain and simple.
Whether it’s his budding bromance with walk-on Matt Gregory…
No comment.#NDmbbPhotoDay pic.twitter.com/TRQWa3hXil
— Notre Dame Men's Basketball (@NDmbb) September 13, 2015
His propensity for excellent mutton chops…
His sneaky athleticism…
Slide in the DM's 👀 pic.twitter.com/u0XvwuXsq2
— Aj Burgett (@Austin_Burgett) December 27, 2015
His fantastic ability to find uncanny doppelgangers for professional athletes…
Another great pick by the pacers pic.twitter.com/t3IreLxLWh
— Aj Burgett (@Austin_Burgett) June 26, 2015
And let us not forget when he tickled our collective fancy and stumped our minds with some Twitter brain-busters:
You can't keep this until you have given it. What am I? #riddler
— Aj Burgett (@Austin_Burgett) December 17, 2015
The poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die. What am I? #riddleme
— Aj Burgett (@Austin_Burgett) December 18, 2015
Every night I’m told what to do, and each morning I do what i’m told. But I still don’t escape your scold. What am I? #riddleme
— Aj Burgett (@Austin_Burgett) December 19, 2015
I can only live where there is light, but I die if the light shines on me. What am I? #riddleme
— Aj Burgett (@Austin_Burgett) December 20, 2015
Burgett just understands how to entertain on the Twitter platform. And, as a huge Spongebob fan, don’t get me started on how happy some references like these make me:
All these athletes getting caught/in trouble at IU, but the Krabby Patty formula is still safe.
— Aj Burgett (@Austin_Burgett) November 4, 2014
Take into account the number of his tweets that have been used for other players’ pTbs, and his work in those videos alongside Gregory, and it’s clear why Burgett scores so high in these rankings. Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen may have been number one, but Burgett was right behind him at number two.
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