re: Stanford's Band Sucks

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Stanford's Band Sucks
No uniforms, no marching. They're hipsters without a college degree.

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Yeah, and that's why they're awesome.

They're higher than giraffe pussy..

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I mean, someone jokingly compared Ohio State and Stanford's bands and an Ohio State fan took the contest seriously

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I wanted to see Cold's jimmies get rustled.

Stanford's Band is college football's greatest troll job. I love it when they troll USC.

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master trolls.

A few examples....
-In 1986, the University suspended the band from traveling to the UCLA football game scheduled on November 8, 1986 after incidents in previous games that season. First, on October 11, 1986, an infamous incident of public urination happened following the home football game against the University of Washington. Second, during the halftime show of the home USC game on October 19, 1986, the band spelled out "NO BALLZ". Finally, for the next game they performed an anagram show and spelled out an anagrammed four-letter word ("NCUT"). After the UCLA game suspension was served, the band appeared at the Cal game wearing angel halos in an attempt to apologize and get invited to travel with the football team to a bowl game. The band attended the Gator Bowl that year, amid very close scrutiny

-n 1991, the University of Notre Dame banned the LSJUMB from visiting its campus after a halftime show at Stanford in which drum major Eric Selvik dressed as a nun and conducted the band using a wooden cross as a baton. (During the pregame show and first half of the game, the drum major had been dressed as an Orthodox Jew, where the wooden cross was part of a menorah-like baton.) After the halftime show, a female Notre Dame fan ran onto the field, approached from behind the unsuspecting Selvik, and forcibly ripped the nun habit off of his head. Selvik pursued and regained his habit from the attacker, who in the scuffle for the habit told the drum major he was "going to hell for this."

-In 1997, the Band was again disciplined for shows lampooning Catholicism and the Irish at a game against Notre Dame. The Band put on a show entitled "These Irish, Why Must they Fight?" Besides the mocking supposedly stereotypical Irish-Catholic behavior, there was a Riverdance formation, and a Potato Famine joke, drawing criticism[7] for its "tasteless" portrayal of Catholics. Both the band and the Stanford President Gerhard Casper subsequently apologized for the band's behavior.

-In 2004, the Band drew national attention and Mormon ire for joking about polygamy during a game against Brigham Young University. The Dollies appeared in wedding veils with the Band Manager of the time kneeling and "proposing" to each in turn as the announcer referred to marriage as "the sacred bond that exists between a man and a woman... and a woman... and a woman... and a woman... and a woman."

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The Stanford band is awesome.

pretty sure it's run by students similar to the OWS parliament

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Does Stanford not have a band director and it's just run by students, or is the director a hippie also who doesn't care?

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According to Wikipedia, there is a band director, but it's mostly run by students and a student-chosen "band manager" that changes each year. They aren't a traditional college band at all, and they like it that way.

They have fun making other people upset about what they do.

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out there wearing marijuana leaf t-shirts and shite..

awful, just awful..

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I think they're hilarious! Their entire existence is an effort to be iconoclastic, rebels who mock others and themselves. They don't take themselves seriously, except for the music itself, and so I don't either. They won't win any contests, but they're entertaining - and that's what I think they're going for.

And I can only imagine their "this one time, at band camp" stories!