Crappy Sunday... but watch this and feel a bit better

[Santini35]

 

[tykurez]

I love the new video crew UConn they got ... all the newer videos are fantastic.

 

[uconndennis]

This is great! They need to get this on the air ASAP....it might actually erase the memories of the awesomeness that was..."Uconn...Great Pick"

Everyone get their wallets ready, time to pony up

 

[61cygni]

I don't know why, but Lamb catching the ball and staring at it was awesome.

 

[UChusky916]

This vid would have been so much more badass if we werent in the middle of a 3-game losing streak

 

[Kitaman]

Hang me but I wonder how depaul's or rutgers' video looks like? Sorry it is a nice video, but midway through the season it doesn't resonate like it would at the beginning.

For encouragement I'd look at the 2011 BE video and the FF. Bazz and Alex show so much promise in those.

 

[zls44]

I don't know why, but Lamb catching the ball and staring at it was awesome.

My first thought was "I wish Alex or Shabazz could do that".

Shabazz would shoot it and Alex would drop it.

 

[uconndennis]

Hang me but I wonder how depaul's or rutgers' video looks like? Sorry it is a nice video, but midway through the season it doesn't resonate like it would at the beginning.

For encouragement I'd look at the 2011 BE video and the FF. Bazz and Alex show so much promise in those.

I'm don't think its for encouragement. Seems to me that its a fundraising video, simple as that. After the couple of recent high-profile donations, it seems like the perfect time to kick it into high gear.

 

[champs99and04]

Great video except for the women's basketball part

 

[hungry husky]

 

[Catsailor]

Great video except for the women's basketball part

 

[hungry husky]

I don't know why, but Lamb catching the ball and staring at it was awesome.

I heard they tried 46 takes with AO before giving up.

 

[Prezidint]

"Greatness is not an accident." That's what they came up with?

Given our play this season, excepting a couple of games, they may want to consider changing the slogan to: "Greatness is not an entitlement."

Didn't like the video on several levels.

Don't like mixing the women in with the men. It's not the same sport, despite the ostensible similarities. Winning in the men's game is about 100 times more difficult than winning in the women's game, and I don't like that the two are comingled as if they are equivalent.

Don't like the narrator's voice. 4 octaves below normal speaking voice does not make it intense or profound, it makes it creepy.

Didn't like the selection of bits. Was that Brendan Allen?

Here's another suggestion for the slogan: "Greatness - when you are great, you don't need cheezy advertising to convince people of it."

 

[HuskyNan]

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Don't like mixing the women in with the men. It's not the same sport, despite the ostensible similarities. Winning in the men's game is about 100 times more difficult than winning in the women's game, and I don't like that the two are comingled as if they are equivalent.

Lots of women's fans have money, too. And Geno has been a very effective fund raiser for the practice facility.

 

[Prezidint]

The women are fantastic athletes, and Geno deserves high praise. No doubt.

 

[StoweD210]

Ah, Horsebarn Hill and the Memorial Stadium steps. I never looked forward to running those, but part of me wishes I could still go back to campus and do it.

 

[zls44]

Holy duck, Prezident, its a constraint video with top-notch production values, highlighting the greatest successes of the programs in an effort to ensure their financial viability going forward, STFU.

 

[zls44]

Fundraising, not constraint...stupid auto-correct.

 

[Prezidint]

Holy duck, Prezident, its a constraint video with top-notch production values, highlighting the greatest successes of the programs in an effort to ensure their financial viability going forward, STFU.

What the hell are you trying to say young man? Highlighting the greatest successes? Brendan Allen factors in how? Boatright lifting weights? Some woman player dribbling two balls?

It was one notch above local used car sales TV ad, from my view, but only because they paid for James Earl Jones Jr. to do the voice over.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

It was one notch above local used car sales TV ad, from my view, but only because they paid for James Earl Jones Jr. to do the voice over.

I'm guessing almost everyone disagrees with you. You can complain about the video because of how we have played this season but come on, it's a good looking video.

 

[uconndennis]

"Greatness is not an accident." That's what they came up with?

Given our play this season, excepting a couple of games, they may want to consider changing the slogan to: "Greatness is not an entitlement."

Didn't like the video on several levels.

Don't like mixing the women in with the men. It's not the same sport, despite the ostensible similarities. Winning in the men's game is about 100 times more difficult than winning in the women's game, and I don't like that the two are comingled as if they are equivalent.

Don't like the narrator's voice. 4 octaves below normal speaking voice does not make it intense or profound, it makes it creepy.

Didn't like the selection of bits. Was that Brendan Allen?

Here's another suggestion for the slogan: "Greatness - when you are great, you don't need cheezy advertising to convince people of it."

Wow Dude.....get a hold of yourself.
First off....you know the team is entitled, how? because you don't like how the season has gone? Im sure that as Bazz is missing like 10 jumpers in a row, he's thinking..."its OK, I got a ring last year"

Its a fundraising video for a practice facility, hence all the shots of ...you guessed it...PRACTICE....all the mundane things these kids do to try and be great

OH, and guess what else, the women will be sharing the aforementioned practice facility....and....the women's team has fans, some of whom just happen to have lots of cash, so yes, the should be appealed to in this as well.

and even when you are great, as our program is....they are trying to raise $30 million, a little cool advertising/solicitation like this is just fine.....They arent trying to convince anyone of greatness, they are asking for cash

 

[UCDaveD]

Replace the narrator with Frank Ivy rapping and it's basically ready to air during the Super Bowl.

 

[blackbird]

Great video except for the women's basketball part

Except that's the only Uconn basketball team the term "greatness" currently applies to.

 

[Prezidint]

I'm guessing almost everyone disagrees with you. You can complain about the video because of how we have played this season but come on, it's a good looking video.

I agree it looks good. Looks very professionally done.
So do mentos commercials.

 

[UChusky916]

I agree it looks good. Looks very professionally done.
So do mentos commercials.

Trying too hard to be witty dude, just quit while you're behind.

You think the school planned to release this in the middle of a 3-game skid? No. They need funding for the basketball facility, and it does a great job of advertising it. Could you do better?

Grow up.