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re: New policy bans opposing bands from performing in TS
Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:37 pm to Clark W Griswold
Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:37 pm to Clark W Griswold
I'm crazy for enjoying the ND band playing the most historical fight songs in history? I love LSU but that was cool as shite.
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Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:40 pm to Lucky_Dog
Enjoy your halftime commercials on the big screens instead, like a good captive consumer, err, fan.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:44 pm to sicboy
This is fricking great retarded.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:51 pm to sicboy
good.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 9:58 pm to sicboy
Up vote!
Posted on 6/10/16 at 10:01 pm to Clark W Griswold
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Anyone go to Notre Dame back in the 90s when they made our band sit on the field in the corner?
Both bands are on the field in the corners. The ND band is located in the NE corner close to the student body. The opposing team band is in the SE corner near most of the visiting fans. Both the ND band and the LSU band were on the field the entire game.
This brings me to the "safety" issue that the LSU administration is using to justify this policy. There is a lot less room on the Notre Dame sidelines and corners than in Tiger Stadium (the stands are very close to the field at ND). For most games, the opposing teams bring their entire band to the game. So for most home games, there are 2 full bands in the corners of the field for the entire game.
Yes, sometimes the band and football players "meet each other" like when Golden Tate caught a TD pass and "celebrated" with the Michigan State band: Golden Tate greets Michigan State band
Posted on 6/10/16 at 10:05 pm to Clashmore Mike
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Yes, sometimes the band and football players "meet each other" like when Golden Tate caught a TD pass and "celebrated" with the Michigan State band: Golden Tate greets Michigan State band
You posted the wrong video
Posted on 6/10/16 at 10:11 pm to The Boat
I agree Boat that's a much better video! I hadn't seen that one!
Posted on 6/10/16 at 10:39 pm to Clashmore Mike
Thank goodness I don't have to see them khaki wearing somebitches with shiny boots marching in Tiger Stadium! 
Posted on 6/10/16 at 10:40 pm to sicboy
Marching bands should stay home and not waste the resources it takes for them to travel.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 10:50 pm to JumpingTheShark
Don't really give a shite either way....halftime is for food, drink, bathroom, and talkin' shite about first half.
This post was edited on 6/10/16 at 10:52 pm
Posted on 6/10/16 at 10:52 pm to sicboy
I always liked A&M's band, and Bama's retro baton twirlers.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 11:33 pm to sicboy
And just how are the bowl games going to handle this problem that LSU can't figure out? Marching in pre bowl game parades can be pretty hazardous too not to mention Mardi Gras parades.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 11:36 pm to sicboy
The "safety" issue is totally bogus. This really started last year. Auburn was going to bring their full band (as they have for at least the last several years) and about two weeks before the game Alleva informed them that they couldn't perform for some lame reason. (I think it was that there were allegedly some presentations to be made at halftime, and there wasn't time for Auburn's band.) The folks at Auburn raised hell, and only after that did Alleva send a letter saying it was a "safety" issue and got the Auburn president (or AD...I can't remember which one) to agree to it. So, he was just looking for an excuse to keep a visiting band from coming and just cast around till he found one that sounded halfway legit. Total BS....
For those who say they don't care, just remember that the next time some other game day tradition that makes college football such a special and unique experience gets taken away. Get ready for more piped-in music, more commercials bombarding you every second while the band has to sit on their hands. This is all coming from the bozos in the marketing department, who think that the sterile, generic atmosphere one finds at NFL games is the gold standard.
For those who say they don't care, just remember that the next time some other game day tradition that makes college football such a special and unique experience gets taken away. Get ready for more piped-in music, more commercials bombarding you every second while the band has to sit on their hands. This is all coming from the bozos in the marketing department, who think that the sterile, generic atmosphere one finds at NFL games is the gold standard.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 11:41 pm to TigerCard
Tiger Card gets "it" !
Posted on 6/10/16 at 11:43 pm to Y.A. Tittle
I could care less about their band but it's college football. The pomp and pageantry is all a part of it.
This is really silly and makes us look like asses. Most won't care but it's been apart of football for a long time and it's what makes it fun
This is really silly and makes us look like asses. Most won't care but it's been apart of football for a long time and it's what makes it fun
Posted on 6/10/16 at 11:47 pm to TigerCard
Yeah I remember auburn being really pissed last year because we basically told them they couldn't March at the last minute after they already had planned on bringing the whole band. It was a pretty shitty thing to do. That's when all this started. From what I remember, McNeese had been scheduled to march before the game got canceled.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 11:48 pm to sicboy
Extremely poor sportsmanship. LSU needs to clean house, starting at the very top
Posted on 6/11/16 at 12:13 am to TigerCard
From John U. Bacon's book Fourth and Long. It's a great read if you are a fan of college football.
LINK
LINK
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They will tell you it's the cost of doing business -- but what's the business, exactly? When 60 Minutes interviewed [former Domino's Pizza CEO-turned-Michigan athletic director] Dave Brandon that fall, he said the "business model is broken." What he failed to grasp was that it is not supposed to be a business in the first place. After all, what business doesn't have to pay shareholders, partners, owners, taxes, or the star attractions, the players and the band? This mind-set seems particularly true of the contemporary CEOs- as-athletic directors, for whom no amount is enough. "As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans," Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, almost two hundred-years ago, "one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?" More recently, Homer Simpson told his boss, Monty Burns, "You're the richest man I know." "Yes," Burns replied. "But you know, I'd trade it all for just a little more." And that's the problem. Like Asian carp invading your freshwater paradise, once the money-grubbers take over, their appetites are insatiable, and they are impossible to remove.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 1:42 am to sicboy
The AD is clueless. Notre Dame, Ohio State, Texas A&M, Southern Cal now can't bring their bands to LSU yet they schedule crap like 3 Doors Down.
This post was edited on 6/11/16 at 1:48 am
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