As a Penn Stater, I hate Michigan for a couple of reasons.
a. The additional 2 seconds Lloyd Carr asked for (AND GOT!).
b. The fact that their commercial kicks ass. PSU’s is a lame montage of dorky looking kids doing dorky things to dorky music.

PSUrob—send us the link to the commercial, if you can find it. You’re the second person who’s said how bad it is.

Not to nitpick Orson, but that was the Apollo 15 Command/Service Module, not the LM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_Module

Space, bitches. Space.

Great.

Please, please, please do all the SEC schools. This would be great pre-bowl, post-bowl fodder.

Duly noted, Rob. We’re obviously not Michigan grads.

I forgot to mention this before, I recall the UVA/Miami matchup bringing the lame in wheelbarrows. First off, the U can’t do any promotion whatsoever without involving Gloria Estefan in some way. She’s like their Thomas Jefferson. Also, ours is centered around Sean Patrick Thomas talking about how poor people can go to UVA all of a sudden while he gives his best “where the white women at?” smile.

Great, three Michigan grads in space, 3,867,952 more to go.

Auburn had a similar ad in the 80s. It featured a shot of Ronald Reagan in the command center wishing grads Ken Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield “Godspeed and War Eagle,” as they cleared the tower for a test mission aboard the space shuttle. The previous 25 seconds was the usual garbage, so by then most everyone tuned out and failed to recognize that Auburn grads experience operating heavy machinery extends beyond cotton gins and Squishy dispensers.

PSURob, the brain bending dorkosity of the commercial made me want to build a time machine, write an actual application essay and submit it to a school that doesn’t have people on the payroll with a job description of: Make school look like dipshitspaz central.

PS. Senor Swindle, the link is in your in-box.

Awesome, bitches. Awesome.

This is the second place I come after MGOBLOG. Thanks, Orson.

Georgia Tech has had TEN MOTHERFUCKING ASTRONAUTS and UM beats us to the punch with this add. Why we don’t advertise our tremendous technical programs better in our adds pisses me off to no end – instead we stick with the “Minority girl with a microscope”.

And yes, that UM add is the heat.

Ian, we’ve never actually sprayed tea on a keyboard until we read your Estefan quote. Huzzah, sir.

If anyone is willing to set up a 501©(3) foundation for the purposing of sending more Michigan alumni into space, my checkbook is wide open.

My roommate and I had a different take on the Wolverines in space, Michigan grads want to get as far as humanly possible from Ann Arbor, they’ll even go to space.

It was easier to send three UM grads to space than it was for Bo to win a Rose Bowl.

Here’s the link to the Penn State video “It’s Your Time”

http://x01.ur.psu.edu/video/ist.html

Holy shit that’s bad.

Script for PSU add:

Camera pan of Happy Valley at night with 25,000 students whiting out the stadium. Slowly, rising to a crescendo the “WE ARE …. PENN STATE” chant echos back and forth. Fade to shot of the nitanny lion statue with “WE ARE PENN STATE” in huge font on the screen. Cut.

That would be 12×10^72 times better than that crappy one they have now (and would make me want to go to PSU).

From the ad, it appears that Penn State is trying to hawk feminine deodorant spray.

Unrelatedly, I note for the sake of completeness that Michigan graduated a total of eight astronauts.

“Script for PSU add:”

There’s a conspicuous lack of Magnum P.I. theme music. Other than that, good suggestion.

Yes, I’m sure that the service academies, GaTech, Purdue and some other engineering heavy institutions of higher learning all can boast more astronaut grads than Michigan but f**king space, man! Great ad.

And I watched the PSU ad — it looked like a promo for “Saved By the Bell – The College Years,” although the JoePa Peach ice cream looked delicious.

incidentally, according to wikipedia, the 2-man crew of gemini 4 were also Michigan grads. That’s TWO all-Michigan outer fucking space crews. Go Blue.

Nathan, THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE has you beat since they have had 11 ASTRONAUTS as students. Tennessee acknowledges it on t-shirts and has mentioned it in their commericials before. But, the commericals were still the lame dorky ones that were just talking about all the academic achievements of the school.

So, Tennessee is a step up from GA Tech, but Michigan is still beating everyone at this.

Damn it, I want to go to space now.

Futzing around the Buckeye page looking for their Promo, I stumbled upon their webcam site. Note the address for sending mail. Consider yourself schoooled, yo.

Er? What’s special about Knowlton Hall?

Incidentally, that is the f’ing ugliest building on campus. The building could be used as a level in Doom or Quake or something. It makes me picture some third-world dictator’s private garrison.

And it’s the architecture building. Geh.

“Departments: Schoool of Architecture” ?

Goood work, man.

I have seen this add so many times and never stopped to revel in its genious. Now I will…right after I get back…from OuterMotherFuckinSpaceYO!

As an aside, Michigan may not have the most astronauts, but it was a Michigan Professor, Dr. Harm Buning that NASA flew down to Houston to train the astronauts in orbital dynamics as most (all?) of them were pilots and not astronautical engineers.

Ah, wasn’t looking there. Incidentally, if you’re looking for reasons to taunt Buckeyes, there’s a better one involving that building. Note that it’s butt-ugly from the outside? That’s because the guy who gave money for the building gave it on the condition that the building be marble-faced.

They, uh, didn’t read that information. They were well into construction of the building when someone realized “oh, crap, this building has to be marble-faced or we don’t get money” and so, emergency session, and the building has marble shingles.

And don’t even get me started on the screwups involving the Physics building.

The University of Michigan commercial is the best by any college ..with the possible exception of the most recent Michigan spot showing devoted UM professors/doctors and staff treating , researching, and diasgnosing recovering men, women, and children who are/were diseased, amputees, or otherwise once ill …but now all recovered. Very heart warming ..this “Leaders & Best” spot hits the mark in tugging on one’s heart strings by expertly touching on the human element. Another totally awesome UM presentation.

I’m surprised no one’s mentioned it yet, but according to Wikipedia, one of the crew’s (Scott) only ties to U of M is an HONORARY doctorate, given to him AFTER the mission.

But hey, you got to do what you can to get a snappy ad premise like that.

the worst commercial is the ND one showing a vampirish “nefertutu” looking Notre Dame president wearing black and walking goulishly along a polluted ND campus pond lisping around babbling, actually. I’ve been told the scarey looking guy is no longer President so now they have this equally sappy one where a young woman goes to church every day…to pray for the end of the war inb Iraq? Perhaps a cure for cystic fibrosis or cancer? How about an end to famine and strife in Africa, or something really worthwhile like ND’s first bowl victory since Woodrow Wlson was president(it seems). ..But no..Hark! She goes to her mail box and gets an acceptance to the Bob Jonesian non-diverse football factory located in the slums of crack ridden, crime infested, cold, dank, cultureless South Bend! She obviously having masochistic tendancies- and thanks a “higher educated” One for making a 60 year mistake …or maybe for at least moving her “ops” for selling drug from her hometown of Pastterson, NJ to ND …the commercial is never quite clear on this point(g).

Good show!

You missed the mark on this one.

Lord knows that the most hillarious Mediocre 11 commercials are those that talk about Sportsmanship.

I’m sure you’ve seen them… you know, the ones that show fans throwing waterbottles on the field (showering recruits), burning couches and cars, spitting on each other in parking lots, fights in the stands, planting flags, and “drive-by” handshakes amongst coaches.

Not to worry, you guys are doing fine. You’ll get it right!

Come to Michigan and study kinesiology. That’s right. Kine-fuckin-siology, bitches.

Perhaps the end tag line should be: “All U of M Crew… Well, once we gave David Scott an honorary degree it was.”

Look, if an underfunded, urban school-UAB- started in 1969 can send a man into space three times, a Dr. Larry DeLucas-he’s got like five degrees from UAB-Michigan ought to be able to send those folks to Mars and Uranus. Come on Wolverines, you can do better than that.

“Perhaps the end tag line should be: “All U of M Crew… Well, once we gave David Scott an honorary degree it was.” "

Good pickup…really hope that the individuals responsible for duping the CFB watching public in this case are taken to task and exposed as the frauds they are. I want a congressional investigation.

I also hope PSU takes a page out of the UM playbook and starts awarding honorary degrees to all kinds of people with kickass jobs. “Did you know that every member of the rolling stones holds a degree from penn state? Did you know that Mick Jagger has impregnated four supermodels?…think about it.” Of course if they just 86 the current super gay commercial I’ll be happy.

Michigan gets by on a technicality: David Scott attended Michigan for 1 year before going to West Point. (Note that the commercial never says that they all held degrees from Michigan, just that it’s an “all U of M crew.”)

Scott considered himself a Michigan alum, in the sense of “somebody who attended the school,” and the crew left a little Michigan flag (about the size of a 3-by-5 index card) on the surface of the moon.

The pathetic jealous ND envy of the University of Michigan continues…The fact is ALL three of those astronauts did attend the University of Michigan while 2 of them received their prestigious degrees there. Thus, the Notre Lame lie that one of them has ties to UM “only” because he got an honoary degree there is a Notre Lie. As for UM and kensiology well..heh-heh , one need only look at
A) Nd’s pathetic hurding of its Frosh football jocks into “physical Therapy” and "Marketing’ to see what a cream puff pass that is to bogusly high ND “grad rates” …
B) One of the NCAA major sanctions ND was hit with for CHEATING just a few years ago not only included jocks there receiving payola but also-GET THIS- that dishonest ND students were helping ND’s DUMB jockoids by DOING the ND’s jocks term papers for them!!! It’s true and all in the NCAA’s final report! From Rockne to the present some things like cheating never change at the ND sports “football factory”. Yup…non-diverse racist institution nD..or as others call it (as seen on popular T-Shirts) “Notre Dame, the Bob Jones of the Midwest.”

At PSU, we will give you pistachio ice cream, and then turn it into rum butter and then strawberry all within a split second.

We are… 31 Flavors, bitches!

I love when the big 10ers and domers start eye-gouging and slapping eachother.

I ,too, loved the UM Space alums’ commercial; very impressive. I also agree that throughout the years the University of Michigan’s creative “P/R” department always puts out the best presentations as some one already referenced , above.
As for the dopey Notre Dame commercials, the goulish looking man in black walking on the ND campus was in fact their President (Malloy) who got fired or quit recently. To answer the question about ND’s latest one, I think the woman is actuallly praying to be accepted to go to ND though one must wonder "why’ she’d be praying for that given all those cruddy ND losing seasons, rapes, steroid scandals, and institutional racism that goes on there.

All those astronauts can’t erase the grim specter of former president Gerald Ford. My favorite commercial is the Georgetown one where John Thompson gives Ted Kennedy Calhoun a brutal wedgie/swirlie combo and then rides into the sunset.

Great University of Michigan commercial, awesome fight song, and yes, better academics than ANY of the Ivy league schools no matter what the skewered stats of Us Lose & World report says. Is there any school-including Yale or Oxford- that gets mentioned more often for student/faculty/alumni achievements than Michigan? I think not. Whatever it is they do up thee in Ann Arbor, they ought to bottle it, because it’s priceless. Their undergrad student/faculty joing research classes for credit is ranked #1 in the nation and across the board both undergrad and grad UM has the most Top 10 rated academic depts. Couple this with the fact that it’s the winningest team in college football history all divisions (plus 11 FOOTBALL National championships and a record 42 Big 10 football titles), and has the most NCAA national championships in Hockey(9) AND -remarkably is the ONLY school to have a national championship in the 4major sports of football, hockey, basebnall, and basketball…and one can see "why’ the jealous Damester “ilk” come out of their rat infested UM envy woodworks. In the London Times and asian poll of the world’s greatest Universities UM is in the Top 10-50 ALWAYS whereas lil hapless parochial school Nd is never even in the top 150!!!!!!! In other words, outside of Indiana or the Midwest Mickey Mouse EASY Notre Dame is “non existent”…when mOST people think ND …outside of Indiana- they think about the Cathedral in France.

Anna Marie, rebutting the point no one made: “ND rulz, Michigan droolz!”

The UM astronaut commercial is splendid. I find most Um students and alums more than abit arrogant but I’d say the same things about those from Harvard or Stanford. When you an elite, others envy you. Michigan is second to nobody. After reading the above post responses it is clear:
A. Wikipedia ’s listings on famous UM alums seems non-ending. Any school that can boast alums who have been US Presidents (like honest Gerald Ford), CEOS ( the founder of Google is Larry Page, a UM alum) numerous Nobel Prizewinners, Supreme Court Justices, Clarence Darrow (think: The Babe Ruth of all lawyers), Arthur Miller, James Earl Jones, Branch Rickey, architect Charles Moore, and on and on and on is well impressive!

B. I liked it that UM won the US Supreme Court battle to uphold diversity and race as a factor in Admissions. Doubtful that even Harvard or Berkeley could have pulled it off, but UM took the lead and WON the day!

C. It says alot that UM a “public” university (I did not know that) like UVA or Cambridge or Oxford can have a PRIVATE endowment so impressive that it exceeds at least that of half of the Ivy League schools!

I like that UM can be so great academically and also in sports and that it always seems to win and get bowl bids while even the best amonmg all the other schools has suffered losing seasons. Um is also generally acknowledged to be the most honest school in nCAA football history. Integrity does matter. UM wins in everything…and does it the RIGHT way.

Too bad Orson but your not well(es)! Get it1 It’s Nd drools and UM RULES. Lok here is all anyone needs to know about “why” Nd hates UM

A. UM: 8 nobel prize winning alums vs…ND :7 Heisman winning alums (4 of whom were UNdeserving)

B. UM:A REAL ALUM as US President (Ford) ..vs..Notre Lame , only a ficticious Prersident (Jeb Bartlett whose being dumped from west Wing).

C. UM: 3 Supreme Court Justices alums..vs..ND: 3 drunken or racist ex-jockoids doing cable TV reporting ( eg.: The rwcist paul HornDUNG).

D. UM : champion of diversity…vs.ND: practices institutional racism & non diversity ( fired black coach before contract was up AND -get this has but one (1) black professor FULL time in a student body of over 11, 000 students!

E. Leads ND head-to-head ALL TIME in all 4 major mens’ sports of football (18-14-1), basketball (14-7) , baseball, and hockey.

F. UM academics ranked INTERNATIONASLLY among the best..vs..ND= unknown internationally.

G. UM = no losing football seasons since LBJ was president…vs..ND= 4 non-winning seasons in the last 7 years. Ouch, but true!

H. UM= the intellectual film CLASSIC: THE BIG CHILL vs…ND= the box office LOSER ; “Rudy”(sucks eggs).

 At UM they refer to all the above as : “The Michigan Difference”. Quoting the above :
               " UM Excellence..bitches…UM Excellence"!

Just as a PSA:

We could probably stop spamming Orson’s UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA sports site with lauditory comments about Michigan and/or the neverending UM/ND catfight…

How in the world does one blog write all this good stuff? You’ve sold your soul, haven’t you?

Space, bitches. Space.

Wow.

It should be noted that in addition to leaving the U of M flag on the fucking moon, Scott, Worden & Irwin signed a Chater for the University of Michigan Alumni Club of the Moon and left it on the fucking moon. It’s obvious that Scott considered himself an alumni of the University of Michigan, which he is, since he attended.

I was going to snark about going 7-4, fourth quarter defense, Carr, Hermann, etc., etc… but an Alumni Club on the fucking MOON! Complete pwnage.

I’m not sure that stuck in outer-motherfucking-space with two U of M fans you wouldn’t go along with whatever the hell they wanted. Ummm guys…hey where are you going? (fruitlessly chasing moon buggy by making comedically large strides across the moon’s surface).

Do you think an all OSU crew would file insurance claims upon re-entry for all the “stuff” that was “stolen” by “moon men”? (I picture Tressel using excessive air quotes, can anyone confirm?).

As an ‘85 U of M grad, I think the ad is great. What I don’t get is the “subtext” comments on the website. F*** this, F*** that — sounds like someone with an education from MSU.

Pat

Coin

I think I read in the paper that the commercial was produced gratuitously for the University, possibly by an advertisement firm with ties to Michigan.

Complete promo ad pwnage. U Of M just freaking rules.

Ummm, except to that whole Rose Bowl thing.

Umm, and the 4th Quarter ahem ‘defense’.

But promo ad-wise, the Wolverines are just treating us like prison ho’s.

Surprise, surprise, UM has the best ad while Ohio State has the worst (seriously). It’s some Middle Eastern girl babbling for 30 seconds that her OSU education is going to improve her country.

Yeah but that spaceship was designed, built, and controlled by NASA in Houston, Texas where UT grads are everywhere. So in other words We’re Texas.. you’re Coco.

Man, have you guys seen the Michigan Difference commercial for the Michigan Medicine. Man that commercial is the shit. The classical rendition of the Victors along with showing how our school actually makes a difference in the world gives me goosebumps. I would love it if anyone knew a link to this commercial. Thanks. GO BLUE!

I have seen the “Michigan Difference” commercial claiming that the crew of Apollo 15 was an “all U of M crew”, however I have found no information indicating that Col. David R. Scott, one of the three crew members, attended the University of Michigan. The other two crew members, Maj. Alfred Worden and Col. James Irwin, did attend the University of Michigan. Does anyone have any information indicating that Col. David R. Scott did attend Michigan? I have found information indicating that he attended the US Military Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Let me know. Oh, by the way… GO HAWKS!

Michigan was once considered the Harvard of the Midwest..is it still regarded with such accolades, or has Northwestern topped ’em?

actually, it’s Harvard that’s known as the “Michigan of the East”

Not So Fast my friends!!!

Being a graduate of the Aerospace Department at the University of Michigan (BS and MS) and being a Rocket Scientist as a profession. The damn dumbass who did the CGI has got the command module circling the earth in the wrong direction!

So while the commercial is cool and all, we who are in the know of all things MF’ing Space cringe when we see this commercial.

GO BLUE!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1392443089343326280&q=michigan+difference

the michigan difference medicine commercial.. better than the space one in my opinion

I have just one small comment!!

WHAT IS A WOLVERINE? A RETARDED GROUND HOG!!

GO BUCKS!!!
GO BUCKS!!!

Elect Lloyd Carr for president!!!

Buckeye fan here, but that ad is the heat.

Awesome

Hey isn’t that the University of Texas Austin bell tower in Texas’ infomercials?

Students, drawn by the sirenic voice of Walter Conkrite, are encouraged to visit the central portion of campus, where they will subsequently be massacred by a crazed ex-USMC sniper.
Hook ’em horns