DiamondM wrote:I think in the last 2 home games, the Mustang Band has improved, and from personal experience, Don Hopkins is receptive to constructive criticism directed to him personally ("the band director sucks" is NOT constructive criticism).
As for your comment about the Lone Ranger song, once upon a time, we played the William Tell Overture regularly with a "Go Stangs" after the initial fanfare in the middle of the song and people actually stood up and yelled and clapped along.
Playing William Tell was particularly interesting when Arkansas came to town and packed Moody (or Barnhill South as they called it) because it is a MAJOR spirit song for them and everyone does stand up and cheer "Go Hogs" and make lots of noise throughout the song. We stopped playing it as often for the very reason that it was a conference mate's song (of course this doesn't stop many SEC schools from playing the same little ditty as every other SEC school, or every other Texas school from playing March Grandioso even though most people associate it with the Longhorns).
In any case, not all of the fault for "the crowd sat on its arse through an important time out" can be attributed to the band. Much as another thread pointed out, the people actually have to participate some of the time. The band regularly the plays Pony Battle, Peruna, Go Chant, 5-4-3-2, and the majority of the crowd stares at the band and cheerleaders like it just had a labotomy rather than join in and sing, chant, clap along. The band, like the team, often feeds off the energy of the crowd too, and if some people would just respond by doing something -- anything -- to indicate that they are not, in fact, deaf and mute, then the band often responds with more energy too.
abezontar wrote: I find that my inability to hear actually makes it easier to get up and do my own thing. Granted many people find themselves embarrassed to be next to me but that's their problem not mine.
Can I request that at the next game "your own thing" doesn't involve that little jump-around-hiney-shake dance?
abezontar wrote: I find that my inability to hear actually makes it easier to get up and do my own thing. Granted many people find themselves embarrassed to be next to me but that's their problem not mine.
Can I request that at the next game "your own thing" doesn't involve that little jump-around-hiney-shake dance?
abezontar wrote: I find that my inability to hear actually makes it easier to get up and do my own thing. Granted many people find themselves embarrassed to be next to me but that's their problem not mine.
Can I request that at the next game "your own thing" doesn't involve that little jump-around-hiney-shake dance?
I enjoy the jump-around-hiney-shake dance. It makes me laugh. AND we were 100% from the free-throw line when he did his little dance.
abezontar wrote: I find that my inability to hear actually makes it easier to get up and do my own thing. Granted many people find themselves embarrassed to be next to me but that's their problem not mine.
Can I request that at the next game "your own thing" doesn't involve that little jump-around-hiney-shake dance?
I enjoy the jump-around-hiney-shake dance. It makes me laugh. AND we were 100% from the free-throw line when he did his little dance.
Exactly, its here to stay until we miss a free throw. Anyway, how can you be upset over a sexually suggestive display when you had a whole in your pants right at crotch level?!
DiamondM wrote:...if some people would just respond by doing something -- anything -- to indicate that they are not, in fact, deaf and mute, then the band often responds with more energy too.
Or at least to show that they sure play a mean pinball.
abezontar wrote: I find that my inability to hear actually makes it easier to get up and do my own thing. Granted many people find themselves embarrassed to be next to me but that's their problem not mine.
Can I request that at the next game "your own thing" doesn't involve that little jump-around-hiney-shake dance?
