New UT commercials

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Meh. But I'm probably saying that b/c I'm so accustomed to the greatness of WC's voice. Hers seems meager in comparison; doesn't encompass the grandeur that is Texas, imo.
 
I really like the ads, but I have to agree that her voice just doesn't measure up. Maybe they should have got the guy that does the Whataburger voice overs......
 
She may be a world rnowned opera singer, but apparently others agree with me that in the commercials, her speaking voice isn't world class....
Of course, I'm half deaf too......
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Well no one can replace Walter so it is probably a good idea to have someone completely different.
She is female, actually did graduate from UT and is black.
All in all probably a good choice
 
The guy who used to do the football games in Spanish has one of the greatest radio voices I ever heard.

I have heard Conrad's voice singing and it is superb but a talkover for a tv spot is different than singing great opera.

The guy who does the Whataburger commercials sounds like Cronkite.
 
my job is making television advertisements. i'm sorry but these are not good. i was a big fan of the ones before, and i agree we needed an update. but my goodness... basically a heavily effected photo of campus with the lights of buildings randomly turning on with a horrible narrator? i agree that more is less but come on!!!

could be worse... like Appalachian st. bad, but its not far off. i'm sorry i am so negative about this, but for a school like Texas these should be so so so much better.
 
There is some UT lore that Paul Cret (IIRC), the architect for the Tower was a Rice grad and designed the clock face part so that at the right angle it looks like an owl's face.

I guess if you stand on one foot, close one eye, jump up and down, while drunk. I don't know about that one.

But I think we should check out the advertising team for these recent TV spots.

I'm betting that there's one of those damned Wofford Terrier grads on the team.

Scruffy little mongrels.
 
The only "Barbara" who had a voice worthy of UT was Barbara Jordan! Now, there was a voice to match Walters.
 
Budget doesnt matter. The old commercials were great. These suck.

Maybe we should just show the jumbotron video in place of these ads.

- Mike
 
if youre going to attempt to replace Walter Cronkite, you will need Ron Franklin or

ad by committee of Megan Fox, Eva Longoria, Halle berry, Charlize Theron, Amanda Peet and Kate Winslet all flashing hook'em and their trademark smiles. sure it wouldnt cost anything.
 
Paul Philippe Cret (October 24, 1876 – September 8, 1945) was a French-American architect and industrial designer. For more than thirty years, he headed the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.

Born in Lyon, France, Cret was educated at that city's École des Beaux-Arts, then in Paris, where he studied at the Atelier of Jean-Louis Pascal. He came to the United States in 1903 to teach at the University of Pennsylvania. [1] Although settled in America, he happened to be in France at the outbreak of World War I. He enlisted and remained in the French army for the duration, for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre and made an officer in the Legion of Honor.

Cret's practice in America began in 1907. His first major commission, designed with Albert Kelsey, was the Pan-American Union Building (now Organization of American States) in Washington DC (1908-10), [2] a breakthrough that led to many war memorials, civic buildings, court houses, and other solid, official structures.

His work through the 1920s was firmly in the Beaux-Arts tradition, but with the radically simplified classical form of the Folger Shakespeare Library (1929-32), he flexibly adopted and applied monumental classical traditions to modernist innovations. (Bertram Goodhue also falls in that category.) Some of Cret's work is remarkably streamlined and forward-thinking. In the late 1920s the architect was brought in as design consultant on Fellheimer and Wagner's magnificent Cincinnati Union Terminal (1929-33), the high-water mark of Art Deco style in the United States. He became an American citizen in 1927.

In 1931 the regents of The University of Texas at Austin commissioned Cret to design a master-plan for the campus, and build the Beaux-Art Main Building (1934-37), the university's signature tower. Cret would go on to collaborate on about twenty buildings on the campus.

Cret's contributions to the railroad industry also included the design of the side fluting on the Burlington's Pioneer Zephyr (debuted in 1934) and the Santa Fe's Super Chief (1936) passenger cars.[3]

Cret won the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1938. [4] Ill health forced his resignation from teaching in 1937, and after years of inactivity he died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of heart disease.

He didn't freaking go to Rice
 
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