Saw that Alabama was a "fly in" game for the Band. Arkansas at Jerry's World bus trip. Will there be any other bus trip road game for the band this year such as Miss St.?
quote:^^ I came here to post something similar. When our ultimate goal as students was graduating, attrition rates due to grades was unacceptable, and we were asked to play at a couple dozen basketball games and a number of volleyball games a year, it was understandably time to make a change rather than send token representation from the FTAB that wouldn't look and sound good, and was probably made up of blackbelts who should be focusing on pulling up their grades that suffered during football season.
I was in the FTAB when we made the transition from Basketball Band to Hullabaloo. We were all pretty happy to see it go. More and more teams were wanting us to play (Women's BBall and VBall), it was hard to get a big enough group out, it was a big hit to studies, and the FTAB style just didn't really fit into a Basket Ball game.
I do agree introducing a non-FTAB pep band into Football is a problem, the history of Virginia Tech's Highty-Tighties is a great example. But making up conspiracies about it isn't a helpful solution.
And Gen. Ramirez, I'm not trying to tell you your business, but don't feed the trolls.
quote:I may be wrong, but I've never heard anything about it being a seat issue, it's if we can't march we don't go.
My fish Class was the last one to travel to every home and away game in Fall '88 under COL Haney and Jackie Sherrill. It used to bother me that the Aggie Band wasn't attending as many away games as I did because I thought it was a money issue that could be solved.
But, now that we're in the SEC, it's become a seating issue (like we saw with LSU last year) which we can't solve unless we want to move to some little conference where we play nobody schools in empty stadiums for 4-5 road games a year.
So, if we're going to be in the same conference with Alabama, Auburn, LSU, etc, this is how it's going to be. Otherwise we would have to join some conference out west where we could play schools like UNLV, Nevada, Utah, Boise State, etc.
quote:Seating, Marching... whatever. The point is, that our ability to execute is out of our hands and we're at the mercy of other schools who can draw a large crowd from a rabid alumni base.
I may be wrong, but I've never heard anything about it being a seat issue, it's if we can't march we don't go.