re: Weekly Tiger Band Report:

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Weekly Tiger Band Report: After 4 weeks of Broadway, Park & Play, Repetition, and Brevity, The Golden Band From Tigerland rebounded from a string of "F's" with a solid "C". --I'm all on board with the Journey music (if you young uns don't like it, you can get off my lawn). --The Drill (first half of the show, at least), was a little more imaginative and well executed; --Sound was damn strong. --Band did not seem to be mic'd up this week. I like it better that way. OK, guys, you've got three weeks to come up with a killer show for Kentucky and Ole Miss. Kentucky is Alumni Band weekend, so I realize the limitations that places on the show, but y'all can work on two shows. I've seen it. I've done it. YOU. CAN. DO. IT.!!!!!!

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Way too generous of a grade.

First of all, after pregame, TGBFTL 's night began with the seven-year drum major calling for the first down cheer after an interception. This is not the first time this season she has whiffed on playing Chinese Bandits.

Skip to halftime...

Great music. I like Journey. Jumping ahead from 1950s Broadway to 1980s rock was a stroke of genius. As for the drill itself, not so much. In two songs, the band moved a total of FIVE charts and stood still to play while the GGs danced. After standing still the entire time for the second song , they stood still for Calling Baton Rouge. Following that, the band formed LSU, and used the mystique of pregame for a cheap cheer from the crowd before marching straight off the field.

I'm sure there were some constraints because of the mass of cheerleaders that took the field afterwards, but don't kid yourself. The show was unimaginative, combined Journey and Garth Brooks in an odd pairing to say the least, and relied on the last two songs as crutches that the fans will cheer for because the real version of the former is played on the sound system to get the crowd pumped and the latter is pregame.

Absolute D-