loki_the_bubba
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Semi OT: Marching Bands
Allen High School just marched by in the Rose Parade with 760 members. Wow.
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
(01-01-2016 11:29 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote: Allen High School just marched by in the Rose Parade with 760 members. Wow.
It cost one point two million U.S. dollars to send them there.
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
(01-01-2016 12:24 PM)S.A. Owl Wrote: (01-01-2016 11:29 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote: Allen High School just marched by in the Rose Parade with 760 members. Wow.
It cost one point two million U.S. dollars to send them there.
That's a heck of a lot of chocolate bars...with money from fracking down it probably took quite an effort to come up with that kind of money.
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
Watching the Rose Parade on tube, saw the Stanford band scatter its way down Colorado Boulevard, a big hit with the crowd and the commentators. 300 members. This year's total Stanford undergrad enrollment: 6,999. Compare that to the MOB this year. Actual undergrad marching strength apparently varied from a high of about 55 to a low of a couple of dozen at the Charlotte game. Total Rice undergrad enrollment this year: 3,900.
Not a knock at the MOB or Chuck T. To the contrary. Chuck and the kids (including a few done-graduated kids, one particularly many of us know) have worked their rear ends off to keep the tradition alive. Rather, a plea to the Powers that Be -- including without limitation the Athletic Department and the music school -- to better support MOB endeavors. Windows on the University should reflect favorably, positively on the University. Anything worth doing is worth doing right. Cliches and truisms, but applicable nonetheless.
I can't believe our students are just so much more sophisticated than their cohorts in Palo Alto to shrug off MOB participation as silliness while 300 Stanford kids do not. A demographic comparison of the two student bodies doesn't explain the participation differential. Nor does a comparison of the work load.
What is to be done?
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Re: RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
(01-01-2016 12:34 PM)Tiki Owl Wrote: (01-01-2016 12:24 PM)S.A. Owl Wrote: (01-01-2016 11:29 AM)loki_the_bubba Wrote: Allen High School just marched by in the Rose Parade with 760 members. Wow.
It cost one point two million U.S. dollars to send them there.
That's a heck of a lot of chocolate bars...with money from fracking down it probably took quite an effort to come up with that kind of money.
Yep. Car washes, mattress sales (!!!) and corporate sponsorships.
http://keranews.org/post/getting-allens-...12-million
[URL ]http://www.marketplace.org/2015/12/30/economy/it-cost-band-12-million-play-rose-parade[/URL]
It was an 18-month-long effort just to get nominated.
(This post was last modified: 01-01-2016 04:31 PM by Almadenmike.)
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
(01-01-2016 02:00 PM)Ricefootballnet Wrote: Watching the Rose Parade on tube, saw the Stanford band scatter its way down Colorado Boulevard, a big hit with the crowd and the commentators. 300 members. This year's total Stanford undergrad enrollment: 6,999. Compare that to the MOB this year. Actual undergrad marching strength apparently varied from a high of about 55 to a low of a couple of dozen at the Charlotte game. Total Rice undergrad enrollment this year: 3,900.
Not a knock at the MOB or Chuck T. To the contrary. Chuck and the kids (including a few done-graduated kids, one particularly many of us know) have worked their rear ends off to keep the tradition alive. Rather, a plea to the Powers that Be -- including without limitation the Athletic Department and the music school -- to better support MOB endeavors. Windows on the University should reflect favorably, positively on the University. Anything worth doing is worth doing right. Cliches and truisms, but applicable nonetheless.
I can't believe our students are just so much more sophisticated than their cohorts in Palo Alto to shrug off MOB participation as silliness while 300 Stanford kids do not. A demographic comparison of the two student bodies doesn't explain the participation differential. Nor does a comparison of the work load.
What is to be done?
Very well said, and extremely important. +100
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
I love their band. Teams from the big ten are so obsessed with their traditional (high school
Type) bands, they can't see anything else. When we went to the game two years ago against MSU, they booed Stanford as well.
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
Michigan State's uni's look like the old street sweeper duds.
Hey if Farmer's Only can make fun of city girls then no reason the Stanford band can't make fun of Farmer's Only. Orange County Owl, who was in the middle of the Iowa section, said it was getting ugly with the Hawkeye fans.
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
If Iowa had showed up in the first half, the halftime show wouldn't have been nearly as irritating for the Hawkeye faithful.
Reminds me of a game in the fall of 1973.
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01-01-2016 11:28 PM |
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
(01-01-2016 11:28 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote: If Iowa had showed up in the first half, the halftime show wouldn't have been nearly as irritating for the Hawkeye faithful.
Reminds me of a game in the fall of 1973.
That is exactly what I texted OCO when he sent me the message about the crowd.
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
Regarding the performance, The amount of vitriol from people on the espn comments are shocking. I think when I read those comments, it became clearer to me today on why McCaffrey did not win the Heisman....part of it is regional bias Against people that live on the West Coast. It is Especially aggravating to hear that bias when people, like my wife, who is a Stanford grad, meets none of the biases that people are quoting.
I love Rice football, and will be rooting for us when we go to PA next year for the Stanford game. But I hope that Stanford continues to make the traditional football powerhouses uncomfortable by showing that you can win with real academic standards.
Lastly, I am proud that Rice and Stanford have non-traditional marching bands who continue to exercise their right to free speech and not emulate the same boring crap that we see from the other 98 percent of marching bands.
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
I firmly believe that if McCaffrey lived anywhere east of Dallas he would have won the Heisman. He's the best player in CFB and I'm not sure that it's even close.
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
(01-01-2016 04:26 PM)Barney Wrote: (01-01-2016 02:00 PM)Ricefootballnet Wrote: Watching the Rose Parade on tube, saw the Stanford band scatter its way down Colorado Boulevard, a big hit with the crowd and the commentators. 300 members. This year's total Stanford undergrad enrollment: 6,999. Compare that to the MOB this year. Actual undergrad marching strength apparently varied from a high of about 55 to a low of a couple of dozen at the Charlotte game. Total Rice undergrad enrollment this year: 3,900.
Not a knock at the MOB or Chuck T. To the contrary. Chuck and the kids (including a few done-graduated kids, one particularly many of us know) have worked their rear ends off to keep the tradition alive. Rather, a plea to the Powers that Be -- including without limitation the Athletic Department and the music school -- to better support MOB endeavors. Windows on the University should reflect favorably, positively on the University. Anything worth doing is worth doing right. Cliches and truisms, but applicable nonetheless.
I can't believe our students are just so much more sophisticated than their cohorts in Palo Alto to shrug off MOB participation as silliness while 300 Stanford kids do not. A demographic comparison of the two student bodies doesn't explain the participation differential. Nor does a comparison of the work load.
What is to be done?
Very well said, and extremely important. +100
Amazing how a good(in this case , great, product on the field can attract student interest, even at a place like Stanford.
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
(01-01-2016 02:00 PM)Ricefootballnet Wrote: Watching the Rose Parade on tube, saw the Stanford band scatter its way down Colorado Boulevard, a big hit with the crowd and the commentators. 300 members. This year's total Stanford undergrad enrollment: 6,999. Compare that to the MOB this year. Actual undergrad marching strength apparently varied from a high of about 55 to a low of a couple of dozen at the Charlotte game. Total Rice undergrad enrollment this year: 3,900.
Not a knock at the MOB or Chuck T. To the contrary. Chuck and the kids (including a few done-graduated kids, one particularly many of us know) have worked their rear ends off to keep the tradition alive. Rather, a plea to the Powers that Be -- including without limitation the Athletic Department and the music school -- to better support MOB endeavors. Windows on the University should reflect favorably, positively on the University. Anything worth doing is worth doing right. Cliches and truisms, but applicable nonetheless.
I can't believe our students are just so much more sophisticated than their cohorts in Palo Alto to shrug off MOB participation as silliness while 300 Stanford kids do not. A demographic comparison of the two student bodies doesn't explain the participation differential. Nor does a comparison of the work load.
What is to be done?
Well, we could use our own band hall....
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
(01-02-2016 02:37 AM)seniorowl Wrote: Lastly, I am proud that Rice and Stanford have non-traditional marching bands who continue to exercise their right to free speech and not emulate the same boring crap that we see from the other 98 percent of marching bands.
I like their approach to, but to be clear, their performances do not exactly raise constitutional test cases.
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RE: Semi OT: Marching Bands
(01-01-2016 02:00 PM)Ricefootballnet Wrote: Watching the Rose Parade on tube, saw the Stanford band scatter its way down Colorado Boulevard, a big hit with the crowd and the commentators. 300 members...
Who said 300?
Look at the pictures of their formations and count the bodies (156 by my count, not including the Tree, the Dollies, the cow, or the person walking with the cow) on the field (not even close to 300) and compare that count to what I understand to be the LSJUMB's self-imposed size limit of 144 (approx).
The last I heard, they actually have try-outs, to limit their membership.
But that "last" was over 15 years ago…
I applaud their show - it was clever, rather than gratuitously raunchy.
There was a time when I would have enjoyed the challenge of going toe-to-toe with them at half-time...
(This post was last modified: 01-03-2016 05:46 PM by Grungy.)
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