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Maybe it's a State of Indiana thing? Not to be outdone by terrible ND and Purdue videos, the Indiana Athletic Department has released it's own RAWK MUSIC video highlighting a half empty stadium and a bunch of white kids rapping.
BEHOLD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LbpmwEqdY
Laughable... At least the women are decent.
I have not seen a single one of these that was not awful, yet athletic departments keep churning them out.
Why?
Sometimes, bad publicity is still publicity. If you are desperate and, quite frankly, oblivious enough then it doesn't really matter why you are getting YouTube hits. Plus it gets your students involved to promote school pride, which I'm sure is always nice despite however horrible the end products turns out.
Guarantee that DB has been secretly pushing for a Michigan one for a few weeks now...
ADs are run by and staffed with old white people from the midwest.
Their kids like One Direction and they think that Maclemore is the next 2Pac.
Clearest example of the vital need for affirmative action.
What's next with these athletic departments, trolling with skywriting? Oh wait. Damn-it.
The guy that was holding the "D" and the fence apparently is not a huge fan of the stats page on the Indiana University football site, and maybe rightly so.
...a different kind of defense
Sun's out, guns out!
These videos are stunning given they are obviously not the work of one, lone wolf ignoramus.
Individuals can get a pass for their occasional ignorance. When William Hung proudly sings “She Bangs” like a lobotomized calf, you might forgive, assuming he’s the naïve product of an insulated household with equally ignorant, supportive parents.
Or when the bald guy at work takes that final 3 inch tuft of viable hair on the back of his bald dome and grows it ten inches for the mighty comb over, you might also toss him a pass as acting in ignorant solitude, with no one in his life honest enough to mention to him that the comb over is the self-clowning equivalent of wearing a soiled diaper on his head.
Ignorance, forgivable given the mental vacuum within which it dwells.
But this? The ND vid and its progeny are obviously the work of several parties. Baffling. With not one among them taking pause to consider they might be spawning the most embarrassing media product to ever emanate from said university.
This stuff is so bad, that if I ever saw one for the University of Michigan, I’d have to assume it was just MSU fans clowning us. If any of you see any camera crews near Ann Arbor shooting UM students flopping around like Eminem with Parkinson's Disease, please maim and/or hospitalize the camera crew and steal the tapes for the good Richard Nixon, Baby Jesus and the almighty DB.
the forgotten love child of Hunter S. Thompson and P.J. O'Rourke.
/real props, not snark
-ly awesome!
Sorry, I couldn't keep the straight face. In all seriousness, it's only a matter of time before dave tasks the athletic department to produce one of these. It's only a matter of time.
Maybe if they put this much effort into their football team as they did to make this video they might be relevant.
I'll give Indiana that their song is vastly better than Purdue's. Indiana also appears to have one black guy...which is one more than Purdue appeared to have
Purdue also appears to have a big drum
The worst part about this garbage is that I live in Indiana and am friends with a lot of IU fans who are already posting this on FB. They are loving this crap. I am in misery.
"Still better than Miley Cyrus"
Couldn't find one shot with a full stadium.
Ouch.
I kept having flashbacks to Rebecca Black singing "Friday"
Be careful about making fun of Indiana football. They could probably best us right now.
It's not as bad as the Purdue one. The reason the school had this one made is because the same people did a basketball song called "This is Indiana" which is much much better and has been used during basketball games the last couple years. The whole idea of a IU football song is dumb and I'm an IU student who actually goes to the football games.
Bad, bad bad. But I dunno, it just makes me feel dirty when a basically all-white group of people puts a single black guy out there to do a rap song, when, like, probably 0.01% of the adult Indiana fan base actually listens to rap. It's like, "hey we're cool, we got a black rapper on our side, see we're with it." Ugh.
Frankly, if they want to promote anything at IU, just... have a montage of the IU coeds, that'll sell your school plenty enough.
Is this what Pat Stansik does with his time these days?
No
Was this written by Rebecca Black?
