SID - Move the band

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Re: SID - Move the band

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Mustangs35SMU wrote:
ender3 wrote:Also: once and for all, is there a rule against playing when the other team's offense is on the field? In the huddle? At the line?



Wonder if that was one of the fca games coach morris went to
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And to be clear, the band and student section were moved at the request of the students. Not sure why the students wanted to move, but they apparently did.
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CalallenStang wrote:And to be clear, the band and student section were moved at the request of the students. Not sure why the students wanted to move, but they apparently did.

These kids really do get anything they want these days... :)
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CalallenStang wrote:And to be clear, the band and student section were moved at the request of the students. Not sure why the students wanted to move, but they apparently did.

Wonder if it was to be closer to the new student party tent.
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Mustangs35SMU wrote:
ender3 wrote:Also: once and for all, is there a rule against playing when the other team's offense is on the field? In the huddle? At the line?



I was at this game....biggest pile of bull_ _ _ _ call I've EVER seen.
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soccermom wrote:I was at this game....biggest pile of bull_ _ _ _ call I've EVER seen.

Me too. Still bitter.
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Why don't we just mic the band up?!?
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Maybe I was distracted with the action on the field, but I seldom could hear the band on TV. When I did hear them it was very faint and you had to listen closely realize it was the Mustang Band. I attributed part of the problem to ESPN cutting back the band and crowd noise for broadcast purposes.
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soccermom wrote:Why don't we just mic the band up?!?

This. Just mic the band.
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I would almost always sit next to the band to sing and dance and cheer! I sit indoors now. :(
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Doesn't help that it is the size of a middle school music class
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Need to bring Allens 500 piece band down & have them play peruna all night
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RGV Pony wrote:Need to bring Allens 500 piece band down & have them play peruna all night


I think they're edging closer to 800 these days.

Anywho, ya'll are going to be really frustrated Saturday when the Green Brigade drowns out most anything other than them.
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Think about it. It's physics, geometry. The opponent's band is at the top right of the horseshoe and the players on the field, the SMU sideline, and the SMU season ticket holders on the west side get a pretty direct hit of sound from the wrong band. The SMU band is placed in the exact same spot Baylor put them at McLane last year, with slightly less than half their sound hitting any human being directly. Much of it is projected down Mockingbird towards the Dallas Country Club. An old lady sitting on her porch on Mockingbird drinking iced tea on Friday night heard more Mustang Band than we did in 206.

Big mistake. Move the band.
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It would help greatly to place the director 45 degrees to the face of the band, so all horns are directed toward midfield

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