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re: New policy bans opposing bands from performing in TS
Posted on 6/10/16 at 11:36 pm to sicboy
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.
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Posted on 6/10/16 at 11:41 pm to TigerCard
Tiger Card gets "it" !
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 6/11/16 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.
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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 7:02 am to TigerCard
Alleva was just going to make up a false rape accusation against the opposing Band to get his way but then realized that didn't work out for him last time.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 11:17 am to TigerCard
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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.
TigerCard gets it.
What makes CFB the best sport on the planet is tradition and identity. Marching bands and fight songs are a huge part of tradition. I may not like the other team or their traditions, but removing tradition from CFB is a bad move in the wrong direction.
Our Admin has become so (laughably) small.
BTW, if we're going to trot out some lame "safety" excuse, who really needs to be on the field? Players, coaches, trainers, and a handful of others. So before we remove bands, get all the other dead wood off the field and keep the bands.
This post was edited on 6/11/16 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 6/13/16 at 10:47 pm to TigerCard
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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.
Beautiful post. Thank you for your service the message board.
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