re: More about Roy King's dismissal - It was ALWAYS about the money

Yes they do. Freshmen year, bunch of band guys on a free ride in Kirby.

I get it, you want to attract top quality students regardless of what degree they are going for.

But them, golden girls, tiger girls, etc. getting stipends is ridiculous.

Yeah they are part of all the pageantry and what not, but that's not what's selling TV deals and tickets.

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They give scholarships for band???

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For what it's worth, musicians are, after national merit scholars and athletes, the most highly recruited group of high school students. A good tuba player (for example) will often be offered a pretty hefty scholarship, even if he/she is not a music major, simply because a school's musical organizations need talented musicians. And a good musician who plans to major in music will be fought over by several different schools.