No one takes that poster seriously. It’s obvious from his post that he never graduated from UCF or any other university for that matter; and more than likely, he’s never attended one either. He also attempts to put others on the board down at every opportunity but only makes himself look like a total d-bag in the process (just like he made himself look with this response). Anyone who questions the incredible impact university bands contribute to the tradition, pageantry, and atmosphere of a college football program is completely out of touch with the reality of the sport and its meaning. He or she is nothing more than a total embarrassment to himself or herself. Period.
Yessir. I graduate HS in 1996 and performing in marching band in college was really important to me as I was considering which university to attend. My HS band director, a UF Alum, told me if I wanted to be part of a very good college marching band program, go to UCF (not UF or FSU, that had what he termed, “romp and stomp bands”). Luckily for me, not only did UCF have a fantastic marching band program in the Marching Knights, they also had an incredibly good nursing program.
I would suggest he goes to a game, sits in seats close to the band. Totally unrelated to this thread, but I was watching the rocket launch last night with my kids at the lake in my neighborhood and a bunch of my neighbors were there watching also. Was talking with one and they said they went to the Louisville game, we should of won, blah blah blah. But he had seats right next to the band and we were talking about how cool that is, I remember as a student in the student section you were always right next to the band and by god that’s college football man! Unfortunately the stadium club section is a little too far away to feel that, wish they were a little closer.
That’s awesome! And that alludes to my prior point— Anyone who doesn’t realize that is so incredibly out of touch with college football reality that it renders any of his or her opinions laughably irrelevant.
My kid's marching band in highschool was 72 kids which includes the flag corp of about 15 -16 kids. It was a small intimate affair compared to the mega bands of 200-300. Marching Bands and College football are like Bob Seger and Chevy or like chicken wings and rings.
That was about the size of my HS band as well. Now, it’s a lot larger. My high school (Tarpon Springs) has a nationally-recognized and award-winning instrumental music program, thanks to the insanely hard work and dedication of the educator who directs it.
Our HS band was that size also, there were a lot of huge bands in the panhandle in the late 70s.
Stanford’s band is by far the worst in college football. I can’t even begin to explain how inexplicably bad it is. I was embarrassed for Stanford when we went to watch UCF play there when its band “performed.” Of course, we embarrassed ourselves pretty bad by getting our a$$es kicked on the field that game too. We got them back though on their return visit to the Bounce House.
