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QuoteAccording to Waters, the band increasingly had to compete with other elements of the Fan Experience, the blaring pop music and sponsor interests he believes are submerging modern college football. "The band is just used as a marketing tool, now, for the university," he says. "They treat it like a mechanical thing where you push 'play,' and out marches the band, it does Script Ohio, and it goes away." At the groups Skull Sessions, massively popular public performances held two hours before home kickoffs, front-row seats formerly held for parents were turned into reserved seating for the guests of IMG, Ohio State's marketing contractor. During timeouts at the actual games, an athletics department representative with a radio connection to the AV booth would cut off the band so songs like Pitbull's "Timber" could play over the loudspeakers. "I felt there is an identity crisis at Ohio State as well as at other universities," Waters says. "The crisis is this: are we going to have a collegiate sports atmosphere or are we a pro sports atmosphere?" http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/news/sex-scandal-and-the-marching-band-inside-the-new-rules-at-ohio-state-20160107#ixzz3wxWZh5be I like that paragraph a lot. One of the cultural things that I can not stand is the jock jams stadium music, that makes every stadium atmosphere the same. College sports should be about regionality and the uniqueness of a school and alumni base. The pumping of crappy stadium music takes that away. Turn off the loud speakers and let the band and the fans control the atmosphere in the stadium
According to Waters, the band increasingly had to compete with other elements of the Fan Experience, the blaring pop music and sponsor interests he believes are submerging modern college football. "The band is just used as a marketing tool, now, for the university," he says. "They treat it like a mechanical thing where you push 'play,' and out marches the band, it does Script Ohio, and it goes away." At the groups Skull Sessions, massively popular public performances held two hours before home kickoffs, front-row seats formerly held for parents were turned into reserved seating for the guests of IMG, Ohio State's marketing contractor. During timeouts at the actual games, an athletics department representative with a radio connection to the AV booth would cut off the band so songs like Pitbull's "Timber" could play over the loudspeakers. "I felt there is an identity crisis at Ohio State as well as at other universities," Waters says. "The crisis is this: are we going to have a collegiate sports atmosphere or are we a pro sports atmosphere?"
Note looks fake.
Quote from: Yard Dog on August 31, 2016, 09:13:09 AMNote looks fake. Not purple ink. Not written diagonally.
Oh no.https://twitter.com/TrimGoEMAW/status/774262922541281281
What manner of creature is on the receiving end of that formation?
