WHO THE F#@$ SAID WE DON'T CARE ABOUT THE GAME?!?!?!?!
I'm constantly getting fussed for not being in my seat when the Cajuns make a god play or something because I'm jumping around and celebrating. I'm also fussed for sticking out when I play the fight song when we score because I'm excited we scored!
Reasons I'm in the band:
1. I have a legitimate excuse to miss work to go to the game.
2. The band paid for half of my tuition this semester, I don't know if I'd be in school w/o the money from it.
3. I did it for 4 years at Acadiana and liked it, why not do it in college?
4. My best friends are in band.
5. I get to go to all the home games (and sometimes a away ones.)
6. To have fun.
7. One of my favorite thing is when we play respect off the field, and are going back to our seats, when all the little kiddos come to the railing and are yelling and excited to see us and to get fives from us.
We're out there practicing 4 days a week (3 days on away game weeks) to entertain people. (Or try our damnedest at least!) It seems the only time we get any love is at Showcase and from the kids.
Somebody said in the last week I guess, that bickering and complaining about the football team doesn't help them, because it'll get back to them. Well, don't you think the same is true about the band? Arguing and being armchair band directors won't change ____! All it does is demoralize the band, and make us not care. Like Sloth said, send an email, tell Brian Taylor what you want, because for as many people that don't like the band on this forum, there's that many people emailing him telling him that we did well. So, since he never gets any dissenting opinions, we're going to keep doing the same thing. Do something for us if you want us to be better. The football team preforms better when we, as fans (you, me, everyone) are out there and cheering them on. The same goes for the band.
It sucks to hear Southern's Band talking ____ to us on our YouTube video. Look at the posts, they're horrible, saying that our trumpet soloist sucks, that he couldn't make it into SU's band, etc. They obviously got a better crowd response, why would those _______s need to do that?? It also didn't feel to good to have SU's fans throwing things at us, cursing us and disrespecting us AT OUR OWN HOUSE.
It sucks even more to be disrespected BY OUR OWN FANS. Call it what you will, but we feel disrespected by y'all.
We're learning new songs for the game Saturday. We're taking time out of our practice to learn them. Also, don't expect much to change for Saturday, we were off Monday, and only have half of our normal rehearsals today and Fri. because we're learning new things.