(09-12-2021 06:38 AM)franklyconfused Wrote: It also looks like Bloomgren completely lost the locker room. I believe only the captains stayed on the field for the school song. The entire rest of the team immediately started for the field house as soon as the ref finished explaining that there would be no try for the last-second interception TD...
The post-game is as scripted as the rest of the game, but UH didn't play along, as I'm interpreting it.
The MOB is supposed to get to play the "Fight Song" immediately after the game, and then follows with "Rice's Honor".
The team is usually lined up in front of the students as we play.
This time, the two teams visited each other on the field, and while they did the 50-or-so students that hung around for the end of the game salute dwindled to about a dozen.
In the meantime, the UH band played their fight song and alma mater, out of turn.
The MOB is a relatively polite band, when it comes to playing over our guests. We didn't.
When the Cougar band finally finished, we played "Rice's Honor" to five players, a dozen students, and the cheerleaders.
Can we penalize the Cougars band for playing out of order?
Maybe send them a stern letter.
Aside from the students bailing, this looked to me like a communications problem.
The team may have been told how things should go, but things weren't going that way.
The team captains (if that, as you say, is who they were) were already positioned the farthest from the ramp back to Patterson, in front of the student section.
This didn't allow said captains to encourage their teammates to hang around.
I'm glad the captains did.
I'm glad the dozen students did.
There is still a glimmer of school spirit at Rice.
That the majority of students in attendance departed early is a reflection of their school spirit, or lack of it.
That is a sad thing.