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Will Wake Forest ever have a commercial that doesn't suck?

Will Wake Forest ever have a commercial that doesn't suck?

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 16.0%
  • No

    Votes: 21 84.0%

  • Total voters
    25
  • Poll closed .
It’s interesting to figure out the audience for these college commercials during the games. Ours is easy. It’s alumni. They’re trying to convince alums to give more money and to send their kids. Nobody outside of our community would understand much about that commercial. It’s not even clear that “the shot” was to win the ACC Championship. Maybe you get a “is that Tim Duncan, Chris Paul, Arnold Palmer, and Maya Angelou?”
 
Does any college have good commercials?
Can we go back to this?

Besides App State's HOT HOT HOT one, which is the best thing ever created, I cannot think of any truly great commercials for any school. Well besides ESPN's Duke commercials they inadvertently do while sucking up to Coach K every year. But otherwise, the commercials are pretty formulaic - lame quote by student 1, generic shot of campus, ever lamer quote by student 2, another generic shot of campus, cheesy quote by professor, video of athlete who attended 10 years ago, lame quote by student 3, money shot picture of campus, then black screen with school info.
 
With Hatch leaving and Wellman gone, MSD has a chance for better commercials.
 
It’s interesting to figure out the audience for these college commercials during the games. Ours is easy. It’s alumni. They’re trying to convince alums to give more money and to send their kids. Nobody outside of our community would understand much about that commercial. It’s not even clear that “the shot” was to win the ACC Championship. Maybe you get a “is that Tim Duncan, Chris Paul, Arnold Palmer, and Maya Angelou?”

So then the question becomes how does the current commercial make alumni want to donate? It doesn't. It's a shitty commercial. If you've been donating, it just makes you think all the money that gets donated and all the money the school pulls in from tuition, etc, and we can't even produce a decent commercial?

And yes, our commercials are bad even by the already low standards of the genre.
 
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