No Univ PSA ads during NCAA's?
I don't recall seeing any University PSA's during the NCAA games last week. Have they ever done them? Is CBS able to dictate there will be none because it cuts into their ad revenue?
Re: PSA's, it still is impossible to beat Michigan in Space, although I did like the jazzed up "Hail" a year ago. I also kinda liked USC's famous alumni PSA's. As much as I hate ND, I thought their "fighting Irish" PSA with the doctor fighting disease wasn't bad.
Has James Earl Jones ever narrated a PSA for his alma mater? In a way, I'd like to have several PSA's around a theme that have very short clips of famous alums in that field, with Jones narrating all of them. James Earl Jones and Lucy Liu and Gilda Radner in one, Griese and Harbaugh and Brady in another, Harmon and Howard and Woodson in another, Fadell (iPod), Bloch (H&R Block), Page (Google), and Walgreen (Walgreens) in another, Dierdorf, Guisewaite, and Wallace in another.
Regardless, I don't like the same lame cute, diverse student body PSA's with test tubes and the main diag and a lecture and a lab. Too many schools do this.
Lastly, PSA's will be tainted for me for many years by Brian's pre-mocking of Appalachian State with "Hot, Hot, Hot." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVENWl8uBeg. While I'm not superstitious (re: Liveblogs,) this mocking came back to bite us in the butt.
Quick comment:
The Michigan Difference PSAs are simply awesome. They don't quite touch the All-Michigan NASA crew, but they're close.
Michigan clearly is on another level compared to most universities with their PSAs.
We kinda did this already, at least one of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXZJPMg5UFY
This PSA is niiiiice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d9-pepqleE&feature=channel_page
Slightly better quality, from the "official" UM youtubes.
Yep, other than "space," I think this the best one out there. I rly like the marimba (or whatever it is) "Hail." The antithesis of tacky. Still think UM can go further to capitalize on famous / noteworthy graduates (other than Kevorkian, that is.)
.....a PSA with Ann Coulter, Jack Kevorkian and Ted Kacsinski. Maybe with some vintage footage of Herman Mudgett thrown in.
I think that would be peachy.
Knew someone would come up with that. Sounds like a good SNL skit.
March 24th, 2009 at 11:58 AM ^
Don't forget William Ayers.
And It would seem to me that universities maybe just can't justify the cost of running the PSAs during the tourney.
March 24th, 2009 at 12:00 PM ^
...at least with ESPN and of course BTN, it's part of the deal to show games is that the network is obligated to devote time to school "ads" at no cost.