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Jake: We'll put the band back together, do a few gigs, we get some bread. Bang! Five thousand bucks.
Elwood: Yeah, well, getting the band back together might not that be that easy, Jake.
Jake: What are you talking about?
Elwood: They split, they all took straight jobs.
Jake: Yeah, so you know where they are. You said you were gonna keep in touch with them.
Elwood: Well... I got a couple of leads, a few phone numbers, but I mean, how many of them visited or even wrote you, huh?
Jake: They're not the kinda guys who write letters. You were outside, I was inside. You were supposed to keep in touch with the band. I kept asking you if we were gonna play again.
Elwood: Well, what was I gonna do? Take away your only hope? Take away the very thing that kept you going in there? I took the liberty of bull****ting you, okay?
Jake: You lied to me.
Elwood: It wasn't a lie, it was just bull****.
Curly Bill, you still don't get it! I don't care about the cameras panning on the has-beens on the side lines, especially when they interview them while the game is going on. But the PRIDE is there for the support of the team, and they do make a difference for the plays on the field. Cheerleaders are lame, you can't hear them anyway, and the stupid dance routines could be done without, but there are plenty of old geezers that enjoy seeing them---as you know sex sells. You obviously do not go to the games, because the fans do affect the game, too. Why do you think away games are so difficult? It is not the travel, etc., but the noise of the other fans yelling on important downs. Many times the crowd has created false starts because the call cannot be heard. I am not talking about half time performances, (UGH) on Texas A&M I go the the ladies room.
It's on this board, too.
http://www.shaggybevo.com/board/show...g-band-turmoil
Those old geezers are more impressive to recruits and current players than the band.
None of the bolded area has to do with the band. Isn't there only about 300 members of the band at a game? 300 out of 81,000 isn't a lot of yelling and screaming here or away. If they weren't there 300 other fans yelling and screaming would be in their place.
I like the band and the opportunities it gives kids to get out on the field and showcase their talents but your overstating their importance to pretty much everything football related.
Music has been used in martial events since forever. Scots bag pipers, Persian drummers, Texas skin flute players, all had their place in getting the troops revved up.
A band is a good thing to have.
But it needs to be a good band.
Not a lame one.
Ours is lame these days. It needs improvement. It needs to be a kick azz band. A band whose music causes our players to want to commit mayhem against the foe .... and makes the foe fans bitch about how unfair our band is. Our band needs to reenvision its role and then go out and live that vision.
And in no circumstances does a legitimate vision include any musical number from Phantom of the Opera. Under NO circumstances.
"I don't know karate, but I know ka-razor!" - James Brown
Switzer last coached in what? 1988 season? 26 years ago. A generation. Not to be cruel, but it's been a while since the band was rocking the house. In my view, because we've become obsessed with 'being classy'. And have ended up with 'boring'.
"I don't know karate, but I know ka-razor!" - James Brown
I'll never forget the chill that went up my spine on a crisp October morning in 1993 at the Cotton Bowl when the Pride ran onto the field and struck up the first notes of "Oklahoma."
I've never paid much attention to the halftime show, but since that day, I have made a point to be in my seat for the pregame fanfare. I think we'd all miss the band more than we think if it were really gone. It's part of what makes college football better than the NFL.
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Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2015.
And I'm cool with the band and all that, the opportunities it gives kids to play, develop some musical ability etc...but like someone up above basically said: Too often the importance of the band (especially the band), cheerleaders, etc....is overstated - YOU ARE NOT AS BIG AS THE GAME ITSELF, AND IN FACT WITHOUT THE GAME ITSELF YOU WOULD HAVE NO ROLE!!!
Behold the pale horse. The man who sat on him was death, and Hell followed with him.
Olevet Posse Pistolero
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2015.
The bottom line for me as an alum is this: I want every group that officially represents The University of Oklahoma to be the very best they can be. That includes all sports - not just football, marching band, drama productions, debate team - whatever. And if they aren't, changes need to be made.
Just my $.02 but a university's band adds to the game day experience and unfortunately would be missed only by it's absence. It's part of the tradition that separates college from pro sports.
http://www.soonersportsmedia.com/aud...B_OEM_ID=31000
The problem is, there's only so much money to go around, and money is generally the deciding factor on who is the best. Tuition went up again at OU, and many students are in a tizzy about that already. I don't think we should raise tuition or taxes in order to solidify the debate team, drama productions, etc. Football has proven to be a good investment time and time again. I don't think the same would be true for the debate team.
I think we have a topic for debate.