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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.

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TCU is a very plausible school for a rich high school senior to fixate on. So would SMU. That entirely fits a narrative arc in a tv show.

If there's any corruption here, it's the focus on Big 12 schools while excluding SEC schools. [/quote]

In the first season Jon Hamm’s character tells Thornton that his daughters go to TCU. I have no idea why I remember that. [/quote]

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