Game TimeThread UL-SU

[zephyr]

_ Thanks, really appreciate the support ass.

We're a totally different band than Southern is. We will absolutely never play like that. We have more respect for ourselves!!! _

I'm sorry my friend, I empathize with you but if you weren't impressed with what the SU band did at halftime, I really don't know what to say. That was one of the best performances I've seen and certainly at a football game. They're loud, they're entertaining and they sound good IMO. That Thriller routine was fantastic, no doubt about it. We respect and appreciate the POA but we could definitely use more energy.

[CajunFreak]

_ If our band played like that we'd get yelled at. Tone was bad, people were splatting notes left and right, their marching fundamentals were horrible, (they weren't all stepping in time), the high stepping wasn't good (your foot is supposed to come all the way up to your knee if your going to do that), musicianship wasn't there.

Ugh. I wasn't impressed.

Thanks for the rousing standing ovation after we were done. It was great to hear your own crowed cheer more for a visiting band then their own. _

CAJUNBANDER... No offense because I know you and the other people in our band work very hard at what you guys do, but there is a reason that 41,000 people cherred very loudly for the SU band and not as much for you guys!

I wish our administration and band dir. would take notes because that is entertainment!

[Cajunbander]

_ We do appreciate our band, don't get us wrong but it's like y'all do the same thing every year. It's football...emotions are high...we want to have a good time and be entertained. No offense but i feel like i've seen the same thing almost every halftime ever since the 70's. I'm musically declined and i want to hear something fast and fun and that i may know the words to. My daughter was on ragin' jazz for 3 years and they had the hardest time dancing to the music that was played.

Southern and Troy...they define halftime "entertainment". We're entertained by them.

One other note...i like where southerns band was located. In that corner, at the angle where they could play down the field. Unless you are directly across from the UL band you can barely hear them. _

Troy's band is the same type of band that we are! They just do it better than us obviously. (I still don't like Troy because they're a rival to us, I respect them a lot more than Southern's band)

Everyone in the band had a horrible experience at the game because of those fans. I'm sorry if I'm venting a little. We were called names, we were cursed at, we had stuff thrown at us, AT OUR OWN STADIUM. We had to call the cops before the first quarter was even over because one of our tuba players got assaulted by one of those a-holes.

The Southern fans behind the tubas were talking smack the entire time. One of them got mad that we were playing in front of him while he was trying to watch the game, so he elbowed a tuba player in the back of the head. When he did that, his head hit his mouthpiece and busted his eye open.

We were constantly disrespected by everyone wearing blue and gold. Then on top of all that, we didn't even feel ANY love from our own school's fans. It only got better when we won and left, and when we got to the after party.

[TuffGuy84]

_ Troy's band is the same type of band that we are! They just do it better than us obviously. (I still don't like Troy because they're a rival to us, I respect them a lot more than Southern's band)

Everyone in the band had a horrible experience at the game because of those fans. I'm sorry if I'm venting a little. We were called names, we were cursed at, we had stuff thrown at us, AT OUR OWN STADIUM. We had to call the cops before the first quarter was even over because one of our tuba players got assaulted by one of those *.

The Southern fans behind the tubas were talking smack the entire time. One of them got mad that we were playing in front of him while he was trying to watch the game, so he elbowed a tuba player in the back of the head. When he did that, his head hit his mouthpiece and busted his eye open.

We were constantly disrespected by everyone wearing blue and gold. Then on top of all that, we didn't even feel ANY love from our own school's fans. It only got better when we won and left, and when we got to the after party. _

I'm sorry that happened, I did really enjoy southern's band, but the thing that gave me a chill, was seeing the interlocking UL formation pre-game with the fight song being played. I THOROUGHLY enjoyed that. BTW, I liked their performance, but did not like them outside of that, I found it kind of classless that they would start playing while yall were playing just to be A-holes.

Cant wait to see and here yall next week!

[Tripple Threat]

_ Troy's band is the same type of band that we are! They just do it better than us obviously. (I still don't like Troy because they're a rival to us, I respect them a lot more than Southern's band)

Everyone in the band had a horrible experience at the game because of those fans. I'm sorry if I'm venting a little. We were called names, we were cursed at, we had stuff thrown at us, AT OUR OWN STADIUM. We had to call the cops before the first quarter was even over because one of our tuba players got assaulted by one of those *.

The Southern fans behind the tubas were talking smack the entire time. One of them got mad that we were playing in front of him while he was trying to watch the game, so he elbowed a tuba player in the back of the head. When he did that, his head hit his mouthpiece and busted his eye open.

We were constantly disrespected by everyone wearing blue and gold. Then on top of all that, we didn't even feel ANY love from our own school's fans. It only got better when we won and left, and when we got to the after party. _

I can understand why you'd be ____ed...and why you don't want to hear any praise for the Southern band. Did your tuba player press charges? What did the police do? If the Southern team was as good as the Southern band, I'm sure the cockiness would have been as bad as LSU can be...

All that being said...they were louder (20 Tubas compared to 12) and the placement of the band in the corner definitely projected the music towards the whole field...The technical numbers just don't pump up the scene like the pop sound with heavy percussion and dance rhythms. Please no more tributes to Journey or any other 60's/70's/80 pop balllads.

I love ya and we need ya; we just need you guys to lead the crowd...I don't think anyone expects the band to put down their instruments and do a dance number, just pump that ______t up!

[Cajunbander]

_ I can understand why you'd be ____ed...and why you don't want to hear any praise for the Southern band. Did your tuba player press charges? What did the police do? If the Southern team was as good as the Southern band, I'm sure the cockiness would have been as bad as LSU can be...

All that being said...they were louder (20 Tubas compared to 12) and the placement of the band in the corner definitely projected the music towards the whole field...The technical numbers just don't pump up the scene like the pop sound with heavy percussion and dance rhythms. Please no more tributes to Journey or any other 60's/70's/80 pop baLads.

I love ya and we need ya; we just need you guys to lead the crowd...I don't think anyone expects the band to put down their instruments and do a dance number, just pump that ______t up! _

They guy ran as soon as he did it. The Sheriff's Deputies took a statement and made a report, but there was nothing they could really do. A couple EMT's came down and took care of him. He's fine, but it's something that should have never happened.

We try and try to get people to switch from woodwind to brass, but people just don't want to. We have to take what we can get. We are going to a couple band competitions throughout the state this year, to try and recruit more people. Yesterday, Southern probably hadn't played until they got to The Swamp and warmed up. We had a 2 and a half hour rehearsal in the morning, plus we had the Ragin' March and Pregame, we were a little bit more fatigued than Southern was. We practice 3 days a week, for about 2 hours, 6 hours of rehearsal. We also have other classes and homework. We do the best that we can do. Those, aside from the fact that we don't have the funding that other schools do, are the reasons why we are like we are. We put just as much effort into it as other schools do.

[Rebel02]

_ They guy ran as soon as he did it. The Sheriff's Deputies took a statement and made a report, but there was nothing they could really do. A couple EMT's came down and took care of him. He's fine, but it's something that should have never happened.

We try and try to get people to switch from woodwind to brass, but people just don't want to. We have to take what we can get. We are going to a couple band competitions throughout the state this year, to try and recruit more people. Yesterday, Southern probably hadn't played until they got to The Swamp and warmed up. We had a 2 and a half hour rehearsal in the morning, plus we had the Ragin' March and Pregame, we were a little bit more fatigued than Southern was. We practice 3 days a week, for about 2 hours, 6 hours of rehearsal. We also have other classes and homework. We do the best that we can do. Those, aside from the fact that we don't have the funding that other schools do, are the reasons why we are like we are. We put just as much effort into it as other schools do. _

Now fatigue is an excuse? Geez....

Thankfully the football team doesn't use fatigue as an excuse (yet).

[Cajunbander]

_ Now fatigue is an excuse? Geez....

Thankfully the football team doesn't use fatigue as an excuse (yet). _

Fine then, I'd like to see you go play a trumpet, balls to the wall loud, for hours. It's interesting how on a UL board, the band gets no respect.

[ULvictory]

_ I'm sorry that happened, I did really enjoy southern's band, but the thing that gave me a chill, was seeing the interlocking UL formation pre-game with the fight song being played. I THOROUGHLY enjoyed that. BTW, I liked their performance, but did not like them outside of that, I found it kind of classless that they would start playing while yall were playing just to be *.

Cant wait to see and here yall next week! _

I SECOND THAT!!!!! I was on the field for the pregame show and seeing the whole sea of red stand and clap to the fight song gave me CHILLS!

I did see the band rehearsing on the field like at 11 in the morning when I was setting up the program stands in the stadium. Does teh band do that before every home game?

[Cajunbander]

_ I SECOND THAT!!!!! I was on the field for the pregame show and seeing the whole sea of red stand and clap to the fight song gave me CHILLS!

I did see the band rehearsing on the field like at 11 in the morning when I was setting up the program stands in the stadium. Does teh band do that before every home game? _

Yes we do. We usually go from 9 till around 12.

I am proud that we started playing the Alma Mater during pregame. I know it probably sounded pretty bad yesterday, but that's because we hadn't had much time to memorize it. Hopefully that'll get better as we go on through the season. I did enjoy pregame, until SU's band had to be classy and play during out set. I understand that they're team was coming on the field, but they could have waited until we were done, as we would have done if the situation was reversed.

[Clutch0364]

_ Fine then, I'd like to see you go play a trumpet, balls to the wall loud, for hours. It's interesting how on a UL board, the band gets no respect. _

You can respect something and still think it needs to be better. I respect UL basketball but guess what it sucks right now. You might be fatigued but that doesn't explain why the performances for the most part is very boring. Its not about having a band that does what Southern does, it is about being great at what you do. Does Troy sound good at their home games? Because I am sure they are practicing just as much as you but they are enjoyable to listen to.

No one on here is blaming the members of the band, it is the director in charge of the band that needs to fix things.

[Cajunbander]

Also, we try to get the crowed going with chants and stuff, but nobody picks up on it. We do things like spell out O-R-G-Y, what's that spell?? TEAMWORK! We also have E-X-L-A-X spells GO! GO! GO! GO! GO!! and C-O-N-D-O-M spells DEFENSE!!!

Aside from those funny ones, we do try and get people going by starting chants like UL! UL! (Like we do in the tunnel if you're ever around for that.) DE-FENSE!! or DE-FENSE CAJUNS DE-FENSE!! Y'know, stuff like that, but nobody other than the band ever joins in.