Well if it were up to me, we'd can the band in favor of a full time DJ (I know that's a minority opinion, but I'm just not a fan of marching band music).
The issue is we’d just hire a DJ on the cheap instead of a good DJ.
Still the same crappy music with the Shipping Off to Boston song fitting right in down South.
If Duke Dumont was playing after the game we’d have a ton more fans going and staying. Of course we’d have to pay him a nice chunk but still.
This (and maybe timeouts…). No need between every play.
Origins of marching bands is militaristic, of course, whereby troops were manage via audible signals whether en route to or on the field of battle. We're talking BC roots (Before Christ; not Boston College). 😉
The RU band will be in next year's Macy's Thanksgiving parade. By invitation. Missouri BTW, was in yesterday's parade.
I've never understood why that deck isn't used during games. Could pick 50 students every game to win entry into that area, including free food and beverages...and have the DJ located there.
I really hope you don't mean the volume. After a decades long slug fest with Game Day Clown School operations, we finally got it turned down somewhat. Now they just stuck other sh*t(train horn) in there to annoy the living fvck out of people.
Ever since Nuts organized a hate campaign against Tim Smith as band director it’s been downhill for the RU marching band ever since.
Wait, that actually happened? Geez… lame. So what if folks didn’t agree with his choices, that’s his livelihood. It’s not like its an elected position and his policy directly affected RU faithful’s ability to provide or live. What am I missing here?
Very incorrect post. Sure many people wouldn't care much if they were to get rid of the band, and people don't go to the game to see the band, but there would definitely be a lot of people that would miss the band being there. It's part of the college game atmosphere. Not sure what your high school analogy has to do with this, I don't remember ever seeing anyone making fun of a band member in college.
I was going to say the same thing.
I disagree when I was at Rutgers the band was not an attraction or an afterthought. Major attraction how? It’s only a major attraction to the band members and the families of the band members. No one cares about the band and in high school no one cares about the band except if you are in the band. From my experience going back to adolescence people in the marching band were in it to be in something because without marching band there would be no activity for that individual.
OK, I double dog dare Nuts to come clean here and explain his efforts to turn RU fans against Tim Smith as RU Band director. He even promoted boycotting of the band halftime show and the firing of Tim Smith along with the yanking of his pension from RU.
