Is the average band member on some sort of band scholarship?

If so what would the reaction be, if your jr. college, I mean university (sorry sorry just can't help myself) just cut the band out of the stadium and revoked all schollys for a few years?

Then sold those seats at normal market value and just played those little songs through the PA?

If I had the power, I think that is the strategy I would employ. Maybe keep the band director on payroll depending on what his or her behavior has been in some other capacity. The stadium revenue should cover at least part of that salary. Then start over with the help of some old band members in a few years. Making sure to keep the former band members in the loop that this is a temporary situation. It would suck for the few members of the band that want to play but they are not getting to do that now anyway.

Flush the system and start over. Kind of like what you need to do with the football team.

Some of them are music majors, most are probably not. Not sure how many are on music scholarships.

Music performance majors are almost never in marching band.

Music education almost always are - and a portion of their scholarship is often predicated on being in marching band - perhaps $500-$1000.

It's been great for a lot of laughs on Sirius 84 College sports talk.

I would not think any of them are on scholarship for the band. Definitely not a full ride.
There are not any recruiting wars for band geeks

91_Aggie said:

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I would not think any of them are on scholarship for the band. Definitely not a full ride.
There are not any recruiting wars for band geeks

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Not true. They use small scholarships as carrots to get good players to be in marching band. I know as Aggies, we are indifferent about the musical abilities of those in our marching band, but other schools think differently.

wbt5845 said:

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Music performance majors are almost never in marching band.

Music education almost always are - and a portion of their scholarship is often predicated on being in marching band - perhaps $500-$1000.

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If you are a stud musician, you don't want to spend Saturdays in the sun playing I've Been Working on the Railroad and Texas Taps. Most music performance majors could care less about football. Music educations majors know that they are going to have to direct marching band, so they are in the band.

The are lots of folks in the band like Rex Tillerson. He was a Civil Engineering major and it was a fun way to spend Saturdays and that's was n the era when UT Football mattered. Now there a a ton of students who could care less about Longhorn football, especially since they play a bunch of corn belt schools. .