Southern colleges putting stealth ads into popular TV shows, framing their campuses as fun and aspirational

[Anonymous]

"Landman" starring Billy Bob Thorton is the biggest drama on TV. A top sports reporter is suggesting a storyline involving Thorton's ex-wife and daughter on the show -- a stereotypical very attractive rich high school senior -- and her applying to schools like Texas Christian University and Texas Tech was paid advertising (product placement). While Northern and East Coast colleges obsess over U.S. News rankings, Southern colleges are framing their colleges on TV shows as places wealthy pretty kids want to go to. Pretty fascinating.

[Anonymous]

I have a friend whose kid got sucked in by social media and went to a big fun-sounding Southern college. Hated it. Transferred out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend whose kid got sucked in by social media and went to a big fun-sounding Southern college. Hated it. Transferred out

Interesting. Off the top of my head, we know a handful kids who at Florida, UGA, Clemson, Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, SMU, Miami, LSU and Rice who seem to love it. My theory is a large part of their happiness is simply due to the sunny weather during the school year.

[Anonymous]

Because so many teenagers watch TV dramas? With Billy Bob Thornton?

[Anonymous]

Since season 1 "Landman" has also had random lines name-checking Southern universities and underscoring how much petroleum engineers make coming out of said colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because so many teenagers watch TV dramas? With Billy Bob Thornton?

Rich Gen X parents and rich boomers with teen grandkids...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Landman" starring Billy Bob Thorton is the biggest drama on TV. A top sports reporter is suggesting a storyline involving Thorton's ex-wife and daughter on the show -- a stereotypical very attractive rich high school senior -- and her applying to schools like Texas Christian University and Texas Tech was paid advertising (product placement). While Northern and East Coast colleges obsess over U.S. News rankings, Southern colleges are framing their colleges on TV shows as places wealthy pretty kids want to go to. Pretty fascinating.

Nothing wrong with having colleges for wealthy pretty kids. There is a college for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because so many teenagers watch TV dramas? With Billy Bob Thornton?

Rich Gen X parents and rich boomers with teen grandkids...

Kids are choosing schools based on what their washed up parents and grandparents saw on TV? (A Paramount+ original series, lol.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Landman" starring Billy Bob Thorton is the biggest drama on TV. A top sports reporter is suggesting a storyline involving Thorton's ex-wife and daughter on the show -- a stereotypical very attractive rich high school senior -- and her applying to schools like Texas Christian University and Texas Tech was paid advertising (product placement). While Northern and East Coast colleges obsess over U.S. News rankings, Southern colleges are framing their colleges on TV shows as places wealthy pretty kids want to go to. Pretty fascinating.

Wait, what? According to who?

[Anonymous]

Maybe so but that's missing the point of those schools complementing the corresponding plot line with the rich investor sending his kids to TCU and the lower income but scrappy sharp technically-inclined innovator kids attending Texas Tech and how they both need one another in that particular industry to flourish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend whose kid got sucked in by social media and went to a big fun-sounding Southern college. Hated it. Transferred out

Interesting. Off the top of my head, we know a handful kids who at Florida, UGA, Clemson, Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, SMU, Miami, LSU and Rice who seem to love it. My theory is a large part of their happiness is simply due to the sunny weather during the school year.

Or the lack of protests all over campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because so many teenagers watch TV dramas? With Billy Bob Thornton?

+1

[Anonymous]

It’s not alleged. It’s confirmed. This is the same actress:

[Anonymous]

What a dumb thread.

[Anonymous]

That's because those schools are fun, the kids have good values, and the students aren't angry and resentful like the east coast privates!