Best quote from the Boneyard (UCONN Board):

[smupony94]

Someone posted this for UCONN fans who think they belong in the Big 10

[SMUPhil]

lol, speaking of the barber shop get up... just out of curiosity did the band always have the stripes? or did it come from seersucker suits and they have lost the seersucker over the years?

It just stems from adding a little of the New Orleans jazz flavor into the uniforms. The dixieland revival of the 50's saw this kind of become a standard look for a lot of jazz bands, so the Mustang Band added it to 'jazz' things up on the visual side. Keep in mind it was the late 50's, early 60's, and practically every marching band in the world wore some version of a standard military uniform. The Mustang Band wanted to do something different so they went with the blazers, ties, and straw hats. The Princeton band also has a similar look, but they went off the deep end with the rest of the Ivy League and do the whole Rice/Scatter/Joke band:

[Digetydog]

If they hate you, they know you.

Miles better than getting: "Oh, Southern Methodist? Is that, like, a really religious school or something? And where is it?

The waiter in my company's box on Saturday thought SMU was in Missouri.

[gostangs]

Well, that is probably why he is a waiter in a box instead of a tenant in a box.

[smupony94]

If they hate you, they know you.

Miles better than getting: "Oh, Southern Methodist? Is that, like, a really religious school or something? And where is it?

The waiter in my company's box on Saturday thought SMU was in Missouri.

So does the cashier at Burger King in Waco

[malonish]

Bring your popcorn, it's really salty over there.

[PonyKai]

If they hate you, they know you.

Miles better than getting: "Oh, Southern Methodist? Is that, like, a really religious school or something? And where is it?

The waiter in my company's box on Saturday thought SMU was in Missouri.

The waiter must have seen our shortened name: So. Meth.

[Mustangs35SMU]

Bring your popcorn, it's really salty over there.

Been that way all year long.

[masterbeater]

The candy stripe jackets date back to at least 1958 when Irving Dreibrodt took over as the Mustang Band director with 8 upperclassmen and 40 freshmen (the "fighting forty"). Coach needed to reinvent the band which was in the dumpster. The snazzy uniforms, jazzy arrangements and heavy duty school spirit helped give the band relevance against the much larger conference rival bands. Proud to have been a part of this group!

[gostangs]

thread de rail into a band debate in 4…3…2…1….

[smupony94]

[RGV Pony]

this is f'n hilarious.

I must retool to show my inlaws

[skurtn]

Here's a couple quotes from that same thread:

blackbird said: ↑
I'm gonna have to root for SMU in the tourney. We get another team pretty far and they'll have to give us some respect.

Same here, that's two years in a row they got screwed. Its certainly suspicious about our conference treatment.

Kitaman, Yesterday at 6:47 PM #6

I wish I could disagree but I can't. Unreal that they don't get in. And SMU deserves better than 6 seed IMO.

UConnTrumbull, Yesterday at 6:43 PM #3
Buffett10 likes this.

[UCincinnati]

SMU was ranked 18/19 in the polls and seeded #21, that was definitely a fair position. ZERO wins over at-large teams (0-5 record) means you got a favorable seed to your paper resume.

[Puckhead48E]

love this. LOVE this.

Also, watched the "I hate Laettner" 30 for 30 last night. They spent some time on why the UNCs, Wakes, NCSUs hate Duke. I want to be hated like that.

Exactly...and that is a deceptively good doc. My son watched it and was asking questions non-stop.