KirkEisenbeis Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 IMHO, UND just posted an awful and degrading UND commercial. It's like an 1980s comedy movie. Ugh. If I had a high school daughter, this would turn me away from UND. Commercial: http://youtu.be/Ys_E3X_2w-8 This is the story about shooting it on und.edu, which is how I came across the commercial this morning. http://und.edu/featu...commercial2.cfm Quote
Cratter Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 Hot chicks. I like it. And like they say it worked. This isn't their first commercial but its the one people are talking about. Quote
Snake Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 Backslash? Damn...beat me to it. That's one of my pet peeves! Quote
jimdahl Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 Hmmm.... and now marked private. You scared them out of it, Kirk. All that's left is the flickr album of the shoot: flickr album of the shoot (gone in... 3... 2...) Quote
MoreSiouxForYou Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 Did Kleinsasser not graduate? They alway refer to him as former student. Or has that just stood out in this campaign to me? Quote
UND92,96 Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 Did Kleinsasser not graduate? They alway refer to him as former student. Or has that just stood out in this campaign to me? I don't think he did. In any event, he's not listed in the alumni directory which came out in 2005. I wonder if perhaps he withdrew after the fall semester of 1998 to train full-time for the NFL combine? Quote
The Sicatoka Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 To be considered an alumnus you only have had to have matriculated, not graduated. Quote
The Sicatoka Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 Was the ad cheesy? Yes. Was it horrific and degrading to {insert sub-category from Cabal of Victimhood here}? Uh, no, other than maybe to Vikings. (They threw something at him!) I communicated with a guy who has a daughter attending UND. His first reaction after watching the ad was not, "Holy cow! I've got to get her out of there! She's being educated by a Viking professor! The Vikings mascot might be hitting on her! The Vikings are having a terrible season! What if she marries the Vikings mascot? How could I ever live that down?" Quote
LakoTanolonger Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 embarassing in a long line of embarassments Quote
KirkEisenbeis Posted December 1, 2011 Author Posted December 1, 2011 Reflecting on an airplane today, I should have left the "if I had a daughter" part off because it only distracts from the topic at hand. Nonetheless, my hypothetical this morning questioned whether UND is portraying that they take women's education seriously. For those that can only see the photo shoot now: The badly acted and conceived ad had Ragnar (the human mascot) teaching the "class" about the new Vikings + UND scholarship while Viktor (the cartoon mascot) is interrupting "class" by hitting on the coy cheerleader next to him, and all of the cheerleaders' lines were ditzy. They should've brought in Sean Penn to play surfer Jeff Spicoli, too. Quote
Teeder11 Posted December 1, 2011 Posted December 1, 2011 I think it's intentionally campy and non P.C. which is something I always applaud. Now if they didn't mean it to be those things, then, I think the marketing dept. needs to beef up its budget and hire new idea people. Quote
jimdahl Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 They should've brought in Sean Penn to play surfer Jeff Spicoli, too. You're only making it sound more appealing, and now thanks to you I'll never see it Quote
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