TCU Band!

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They did this in the early years at TDECU, as well.

This tension between trying to fill every spare second with 120 decibels of something over the speaker system and leaving space for the college bands to entertain is an issue at lots of places.

I tend to think that college game production should lean more into letting the bands make some noise, since this is a big part of what differentiates these games from professional games. They’re a HUGE part of the gameday atmosphere at Fertitta Center, but the production density at football games doesn’t seem to leave much room for them to do anything beyond pregame and halftime.

And for anyone who thinks the SOH’s halftime music and shows are boring because of money, well, that just isn’t the case. Funding may limit how many flags, etc. are on the field, but it has nothing to do with what they’re playing or whether they’re actually marching. I think it’s more limited by complacency than anything else.

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Their band played O Fortuna a number of times. Disappointed our band never has.

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Reminds me of church.
The churches that are growing play contemporary music. The dying ones play old hymns to a few grey haired folks.

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Taylor Swift’s Mom is a UH alum. Same deal.

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Not necessarily.

@coachv posted recently about the recent boom in Eastern Orthodoxy in America.

The acapella music and chants there are anything but contemporary.

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Here is the TCU Band from the endzone, they are not going to win any competitions with these lines. Some of y’all this like to complain.

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Could we get new uniforms for the band. Something like this would be awesome.

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Did you HEAR them? Did you SEE their halftime show for the Home Side? You either have to be blind or deaf to not know they were better than our band. Hands Down! They performed an actual Halftime Show! Music! Great Show Design! They actually moved around rather stand still and play. Great visual with a nice Color Guard. And the audience responded because it was entertaining and very well done! And, nobody’s lines are perfect from that angle.

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At the Tech game it was obvious whoever controlled the sound system kicked it up several notches before the game when the Tech band was performing (to drown them out). So tacky. At least for Tech their band makes one road game per year. Last year it was TCU. This year was UH. It makes sense visiting Texas teams send their bands to Houston where a lot of their alumni live. To me it makes the game day environment more enjoyable.

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I just watched the TCU band performance. Coincidentally they played the same tune as the Texas Tech band. Tech takes this one in my opinion.

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Schools have these $100 million dollar budgets only to give their bands $2 and a random trip to any town Texas lol :laughing:

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Of course I agree with you. Better than TCU, but TCU has really improved the last few years! Tech has a long tradition of being great! And Big! They’ve had great directors through the years!!

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Okay I am going to comment as as SOH member 1986-1989 and child SOH member 2014-2018.
SOH was in large part funded outside of the university. Before being part of the BIG 12. Not sure if things changed after. I do know some Big12 band/spirit programs are funded through the athletic budgets, which helps $$ greatly.

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