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re: It's official: The Golden Band from Tigerland to Seattle!!
Posted on 7/20/09 at 10:38 am to JPLSU1981
Posted on 7/20/09 at 10:38 am to JPLSU1981
My response...
quote:
RE: No Band for Washington/ One Road SEC Game?þ
From:
Sent: Mon 7/20/09 10:36 AM
To: vincent@lsu.edu; football@lsu.edu; vausbe1@lsu.edu; athletics@lsu.edu; alleva@lsu.edu; mvm@lsu.edu
Cc: moorhous@lsu.edu; wickes@lsu.edu; rking3@lsu.edu; lem042@lsu.edu
Mr. Vincent,
Reasonable enough, although I highly object to this particular budget cut when in November 2008 you just spent over $7 million on LED video boards for many of our venues, including the natatorium and tennis courts. That said, it is what it is and I see both sides of the issue, but now we have to fix the problem. Thus ...
How do we - as fans - go about paying to get a pep band to Seattle and the full band to either Tuscaloosa or Oxford or Starkville? We are certianly willing to create a website accepting donations, and from our calculations it is estimated that it would cost about $50,000 to send a 50-member pep band to Seattle, and certainly much less than that to bus the full band to Alabama, Ole Miss, or Mississippi State and back to Baton Rouge immediately following the game.
If you guys won't budget this in as many fans including myself believe you should have done initially when you scheduled this game in Washington, we as fans will do everything within our power to pay for this. We may or may not be successful, but at least we will give it our best shot.
One thing that I think you guys could do to help is to send out an email to all LSU fans that have bought tickets through LSU for the Washington game. I don't know how you want to word it, but simply let them know about the situation and that we are trying to get donations for a pep band to Washington. I think this is a very logical solution. If we get 10,000 fans giving $5 each, that should just about cover the expenses to send a pep band to Washington. Many fans I have interacted with are willing to donate more than that, up to $100. If we had only 500 people giving $100, that would cover it as well.
Let's say we bring a 50-person pep band:
Flight $500 x 50 = $25,000
15 Hotel Rooms for 2 nights ... $240 (120/nt) x 15 = $3600
Bus transportation for the weekend = $5000
Food ($15/meal for 9 meals for 50) = $6750
Contingency: $5000
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TOTAL: $45,350
Thanks for all your help in this matter. Hopefully we can find a way - working together - to get the pep band to Washington and the full band to one SEC road game in 2009. And although this issue does upset me as an LSU fan, I truly do appreciate you taking the time to respond to my email. I understand your job is not an easy one and that all of you work very hard for LSU.
Thanks
Posted on 7/20/09 at 10:38 am to Golfer
Hell, let's have an alumni band there. I'm going to the game and there are other Tiger Band alums that will be there.
Posted on 7/20/09 at 10:38 am to BraveTiger225
quote:
Sorry, I love the band but with the money crunch this is the right decision.
Posted on 7/20/09 at 10:40 am to JPLSU1981
shite, you're using my calculations...
Posted on 7/20/09 at 10:45 am to Golfer
lol... i thought you'd like that.
Posted on 7/20/09 at 10:48 am to foreverLSU
fully understand the number crunch as well, if the fans wanna foot the bill, then i say, by all means, why not though
Posted on 7/20/09 at 10:51 am to nycajun
quote:
It's just f*cking football. Why not trash the whole thing
Im for this...LSU should move to D2
Posted on 7/20/09 at 10:56 am to danfraz
Why stop at D2?
Now let's all be serious here for a second if the band isn't there, there's still a way to hear the music, BUT you're gonna need a lot of mp3 players/ipods/iphones and some docking speakers ...
Now let's all be serious here for a second if the band isn't there, there's still a way to hear the music, BUT you're gonna need a lot of mp3 players/ipods/iphones and some docking speakers ...
Posted on 7/20/09 at 11:00 am to nycajun
quote:Thats blasphemy.......FAIL
It's just f*cking football
Posted on 7/20/09 at 11:00 am to lsudiva2010
Why did they wait until the tickets, trips, cruises, etc. had all been sold to tell us the band isn't going to be there? There are a lot of alums on the west coast that donate to TAF and don't get to make many games. I've donated thousands dollars to LSU. I will no longer make those donations because I feel like those of us on the West Coast are getting shafted again. BTW, the hotel on LSU's campus is named after one of the west coast alums.
Posted on 7/20/09 at 11:01 am to los angeles tiger
Me and my friend were talking about this, my best guess is that they already knew and have already sold the tickets that the band would have taken up to students and/or TAF people
Posted on 7/20/09 at 11:02 am to los angeles tiger
quote:Maybe you should address this concern with LSU.
Why did they wait until the tickets, trips, cruises, etc. had all been sold to tell us the band isn't going to be there? There are a lot of alums on the west coast that donate to TAF and don't get to make many games. I've donated thousands dollars to LSU. I will no longer make those donations because I feel like those of us on the West Coast are getting shafted again. BTW, the hotel on LSU's campus is named after one of the west coast alums
Posted on 7/20/09 at 11:04 am to los angeles tiger
quote:
Why did they wait until the tickets, trips, cruises, etc. had all been sold to tell us the band isn't going to be there?
My guess is they were trying to keep this under wraps for as long as they possibly could to avoid a backlash. Unfortunately, now, the cat is out of the bag. Even Vincent refers to it as a "high profile" budget cut in his email. They knew there would be a backlash on this issue.
It's all good though, we'll get it figured out. It's still going to be a helluva trip band or no band, but I really want the band there. Certainly I give Alleva a red mark for this issue, though. In all fairness, though, I'm not real sure he understands yet how important the band is to many LSU fans.
This post was edited on 7/20/09 at 11:06 am
Posted on 7/20/09 at 11:05 am to lsudiva2010
Then it is slimey of them. After the Arizona game in 2003, we were told that a pep band would be at all future games because many of us were pissed off about them not being there. I've been lied to by this Athletic Department now. All they are saving is $125 - 150,000 out of a budget of $85 million.
I know another way to save money. Herb Vincent, don't make the trip to Washington. How much does it cost us to pay for his hotel room, meals etc in Washington. What about other staff that aren't really necessary for this trip? We pay for all their costs and they don't really provide us anything at the game like Tiger Band does.
I know another way to save money. Herb Vincent, don't make the trip to Washington. How much does it cost us to pay for his hotel room, meals etc in Washington. What about other staff that aren't really necessary for this trip? We pay for all their costs and they don't really provide us anything at the game like Tiger Band does.
Posted on 7/20/09 at 11:08 am to los angeles tiger
If they would have just let go the 2 Def. Co-ord's last year they would have saved some money. Not like we needed them.
Posted on 7/20/09 at 11:12 am to Cadello
I'd rather the new video boards than sending the band anywhere.
Posted on 7/20/09 at 11:12 am to Cadello
quote:
If they would have just let go the 2 Def. Co-ord's last year they would have saved some money. Not like we needed them.
Posted on 7/20/09 at 11:14 am to nino2469
quote:
I'd rather the new video boards than sending the band anywhere.
Not me. They'll run commercials constantly on those things. I've already seen it in a couple of other stadiums and it's to the point that I now hate them.
Posted on 7/20/09 at 11:14 am to nino2469
quote:
I'd rather the new video boards than sending the band anywhere.
You go to a lot of LSU tennis matches and swim meets?
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