Froginbedford
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Is this 1994? A quick Google search will help one see University of North Texas's enrollment is nearly 41000.
Shhh...you'll upset the Techies....They always think they are third behind the you-know-who schools
Is this 1994? A quick Google search will help one see University of North Texas's enrollment is nearly 41000.
Just adding spats alone would be something. Practically all those great B10 bands wear spats... maybe we could fake a few people out that we were good, by wearing spats... lol !You are not the first person to complain about the band. I have sent off a couple of complaints about this throughout the years with no results being seen.
I've heard the band is under a different budget other than the athletic department which is where it should be. Tight purse strings is why we will never see any band changes. Yes. Sad and pathetic for years to come I'm afraid.
I’ve held off for years but today took the cake.
I don’t like our band. I like their spirit and enthusiasm but not their sound or size or uniforms or performances.
There is no place for an “orchestral” band in college football. The brass section needs to be 50% larger, at least. Keep the flute section if you want. But actually hearing the flute section is ridiculous.
The uniforms are awful. Burn them. Go with a western style uniform.
Our marching isn’t great. Wear white shoes and march well enough to earn the right to wear white shoes.
The straw that broke this camel’s back was the performance today. Blase. Pedestrian. Apathetic. And NOT PATRIOTIC.
What is the matter here? It’s the 20th anniversary of 9/11, our flags are at half mast, there is no other band there. The band could’ve done an extended performance, a moving patriotic tribute to our country, but no, they played some garbage routine to the student section and walked off.
Our band is embarrassing. We need to start over. New leadership, philosophy, uniforms, and sense of purpose.
TCU Band - The Worst Band in the Land.
Not taking a shot at anyone in band, or people a part of it, but people typically aren't there to watch the band (obviously). There is zero draw from the TCU band, they sound absolutely awful, and are too small to really have any effect on the crowd without being pumped through the speakers (which sounds even worse when you hear it slightly in the distance, and blasted at you again a second later.
My bro in law attended the game Saturday with his 2 daughters as a "pre go to college station" try out for them going to a college game. They were excited for the band as they love music. they were planning to leave after halftime. He stayed for the first song and texted that this is the worst thing he's heard from a band.
He ain't lyin
ok, I can put up with criticism of our band. But to say SMU’s band is better is ridiculous. You totally negated anything you said before as valid. The SMU band is the worst.
How dare you criticize the Pride of TCU
If you can’t appreciate Deep in the Heart of Texas jazzy style or God Bless Texas then you have no clue what a good college band performance is. The only complaint I have is that we need more hand bells…..we are a church school after all.
As a former band member from '92-'96 (and a member of Kappa Kappa Psi), this makes me sad to hear. Some of my greatest memories in college are road trips, performing in stadiums all over the state (and beyond), and making music with some of the best friends I've ever had. We rehearsed 10-12 hours a week, gave up entire Saturdays (sometimes entire weekends on the longer road trips), and worked our asses off to bring a sense of pride in my school. I want to jump to their defense, but not having been to a game in almost a decade doesn't give me a leg to stand on.
But to hear that they get PAID now? That just flat-out pisses me off.
TCU Band - The Worst Band in the Land.
Not taking a shot at anyone in band, or people a part of it, but people typically aren't there to watch the band (obviously). There is zero draw from the TCU band, they sound absolutely awful, and are too small to really have any effect on the crowd without being pumped through the speakers (which sounds even worse when you hear it slightly in the distance, and blasted at you again a second later.
My bro in law attended the game Saturday with his 2 daughters as a "pre go to college station" try out for them going to a college game. They were excited for the band as they love music. they were planning to leave after halftime. He stayed for the first song and texted that this is the worst thing he's heard from a band.
He ain't lyin
I think you may have mis-marimba'd how many xylophones were present...I noticed they only brought out seven xylophones for the show yesterday, I'd swear they used to use eight. There's your problem.
Texas schools by enrollment:Shhh...you'll upset the Techies....They always think they are third behind the you-know-who schools
Texas schools by enrollment:
Texas A&M 64k
UT Austin 51k
Houston 46k
UTA 43k
University of North Texas 39k
Texas State 38k
Tech 38k
Tech is 7th apparently
Username checks out.I was in the band.
I was in the band.
If you're disappointed in how the band sounds now, and how they've played the same tunes for 20 years, wait til you find out how long-tenured the directors are, and how high their salaries are.
The directors when I was there were very talented and competent men, but seemingly had no interest at all in making the band fun to listen to. That tradition has continued.
On a somewhat lighter note, I suspect the band being so small is not only a result of low overall TCU enrollment. Tuition has increased by about 400% since my freshman year. I suspect, but can't prove, that band is not really a rich kid activity. As someone else mentioned, scholarships are a tiny fraction of the overall stratospheric tuition bill. Those $5000 scholarships were also offered to the best musicians in 1998! That was a significant portion of tuition at that time, and pulled in a lot of middle-class prospective music majors, myself included.
$5000 now is only 5 payments on an Audi Q7. Nothing to ruin every fall weekend for.
I was in the band.
Those $5000 scholarships were also offered to the best musicians in 1998! That was a significant portion of tuition at that time, and pulled in a lot of middle-class prospective music majors, myself included.
$5000 now is only 5 payments on an Audi Q7. Nothing to ruin every fall weekend for.
I was in the band.
If you're disappointed in how the band sounds now, and how they've played the same tunes for 20 years, wait til you find out how long-tenured the directors are, and how high their salaries are.
The directors when I was there were very talented and competent men, but seemingly had no interest at all in making the band fun to listen to. That tradition has continued.
On a somewhat lighter note, I suspect the band being so small is not only a result of low overall TCU enrollment. Tuition has increased by about 400% since my freshman year. I suspect, but can't prove, that band is not really a rich kid activity. As someone else mentioned, scholarships are a tiny fraction of the overall stratospheric tuition bill. Those $5000 scholarships were also offered to the best musicians in 1998! That was a significant portion of tuition at that time, and pulled in a lot of middle-class prospective music majors, myself included.
$5000 now is only 5 payments on an Audi Q7. Nothing to ruin every fall weekend for.
You & my brother marched together 2 years. Were you around when someone backed their car over his saxophone?Wow, they pay the band members? I was in band 1971-75 and it was a .5 hr class, so Dad had to pay $25 a semester.
We had a sharp uniform. Purple blazer with a white ascot, white trousers and shoes. Wheel cap (à la Ralph Kramden). Very hip.
Our precision halftime shows were great - Prof Jacobsen made sure of that.
And we had an amazing graduate assistant whose arrangements and cadences were awesome. As you know, our football team was terrible during those years and we were often the most entertaining thing in the stadium. We could get the folks on their feet and boogying! I can still tap out the drum parts to "Hush", "Tommy", "Joy to the World", "Spinning Wheel", "Get It On", and several cadences.
I didn't have to be in band, I wanted to be.
You & my brother marched together 2 years. Were you around when someone backed their car over his saxophone?