That's true, tradition is great, but the band needs (A) much larger membership and (B) to update the music.
Someone wrote here that they got new uniforms a few years ago - why? Don't they claim to have a zillion different uniform combinations .... hence the name the Best Dressed Band in the Land? Seems to me the money spent on new uniforms could have been better spent on some scholarships for the band so that we have enough bandmembers to fill Ford Stadium with the sound of a great band. The current band is great - they work hard and sound terrific. But at the current numbers, they sound very thin. We look and sound small next to visiting bands, more often than not.
The Glen Miller tunes are good, but not exactly the kind of music that gets the crowd riled up. Something from the last 20 years or so is becoming more and more necessary. Mix it up (withOUT abandoning traditional favorites.)