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<blockquote data-quote="Planks" data-source="post: 3051009" data-attributes="member: 55819"><p>The TCU band is always going to be limited due to the size of the band. Schools like Texas get to have actual tryouts for their band, so they get a band as large as they want, with the best players, and with the instrumentation (Brass) they want. TCU is stuck with a small band composed of whoever happens to shows up.</p><p></p><p>The size of TCU’s band is negatively affected by a number of factors:</p><p></p><p>1. Enrollment. TCU has an enrollment smaller than most all other P5 school</p><p></p><p>2. Greek Life. TCU has a extremely high participation in Greek life (40-50%). Which is good as it allows more students to participate in Greek life, but there is virtually no membership overlap between Greek life and Band, which means there is now that there is now 50% less of the student body that would potentially choose to join the band</p><p></p><p>3. Private high schools. TCU has a high percentage of students who went to private high schools that didn’t have marching bands. So those students are less likely to join marching band in college.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Planks, post: 3051009, member: 55819"] The TCU band is always going to be limited due to the size of the band. Schools like Texas get to have actual tryouts for their band, so they get a band as large as they want, with the best players, and with the instrumentation (Brass) they want. TCU is stuck with a small band composed of whoever happens to shows up. The size of TCU’s band is negatively affected by a number of factors: 1. Enrollment. TCU has an enrollment smaller than most all other P5 school 2. Greek Life. TCU has a extremely high participation in Greek life (40-50%). Which is good as it allows more students to participate in Greek life, but there is virtually no membership overlap between Greek life and Band, which means there is now that there is now 50% less of the student body that would potentially choose to join the band 3. Private high schools. TCU has a high percentage of students who went to private high schools that didn’t have marching bands. So those students are less likely to join marching band in college. [/QUOTE]
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