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Southern Methodist University is known nationwide for two traits: its football “death penalty” and expensive tuition.
Notoriety will forever follow the Mustangs for having their gridiron program suspended by the NCAA for recruiting violations 10 years ago. Now DDB Needham Dallas is working to take some tinsel off SMU’s otherwise glitzy image.
In a new print campaign concentrated around the Dallas campus, DDB pokes fun at the rich image SMU invokes from its tony University Park area.
The first ad has a picture of a basketball goal with a chandelier for a net.


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