(09-27-2016 09:16 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 02:50 PM)Atlanta Trojan Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 12:17 AM)chiefsfan Wrote:  I've never actually noticed or cared what the band plays at half.

You still remember the TROY fight song from a few years ago? lol

I caught myself humming it on the way to work today. Your band plays it so darn loud its hard to forget.

well, Hopefully you will hear it a lot at our game later this year.

Our band is awesome.

Also, one of them made me feel really old before the Miami game when I gave him some leftover Boberry biscuits and he said, "Thank you, sir."

I'm now a sir according to college students. Ugh.


Anyway, the Marching Mountaineers are awesome.

(09-28-2016 01:44 AM)Michael in Raleigh Wrote:  Our band is awesome.

Also, one of them made me feel really old before the Miami game when I gave him some leftover Boberry biscuits and he said, "Thank you, sir."

I'm now a sir according to college students. Ugh.


Anyway, the Marching Mountaineers are awesome.

Visited my chapter a few weeks back... and I started to get the sir treatment....

(09-28-2016 06:53 AM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(09-28-2016 01:44 AM)Michael in Raleigh Wrote:  Our band is awesome.

Also, one of them made me feel really old before the Miami game when I gave him some leftover Boberry biscuits and he said, "Thank you, sir."

I'm now a sir according to college students. Ugh.


Anyway, the Marching Mountaineers are awesome.

Visited my chapter a few weeks back... and I started to get the sir treatment....

Having spent a lot of time as a TA, I can attest that there's not much that forces one to grasp the reality of lost youth like the first time a pretty coed calls you "sir."

(09-28-2016 09:31 AM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  

(09-28-2016 06:53 AM)TheEagleWay Wrote:  

(09-28-2016 01:44 AM)Michael in Raleigh Wrote:  Our band is awesome.

Also, one of them made me feel really old before the Miami game when I gave him some leftover Boberry biscuits and he said, "Thank you, sir."

I'm now a sir according to college students. Ugh.


Anyway, the Marching Mountaineers are awesome.

Visited my chapter a few weeks back... and I started to get the sir treatment....

Having spent a lot of time as a TA, I can attest that there's not much that forces one to grasp the reality of lost youth like the first time a pretty coed calls you "sir."

Womp Womp

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(09-28-2016 01:44 AM)Michael in Raleigh Wrote:  Our band is awesome.

Also, one of them made me feel really old before the Miami game when I gave him some leftover Boberry biscuits and he said, "Thank you, sir."

I'm now a sir according to college students. Ugh.


Anyway, the Marching Mountaineers are awesome.

The BOD excells on the field, minus the flag corps, but they desperately need a director who understands how a band works during the game. They play a short part from the fight song to death. One would think after a first down or big play, but they are just as likely to play it after a loss. Absolutely no rhyme or reason to when or what they play anything. I'd like to see us bring in a director who has been at an SEC school.

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(09-27-2016 03:08 PM)SpeedkingATL Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 03:07 PM)USAJag2011 Wrote:  

(09-27-2016 02:56 PM)SpeedkingATL Wrote:  I don't remember Troy's band but I do remember the guy riding around in the little airplane on the field at half time. (Of course since you serve beer in your stadium I might have seen a lot of things).

This guy?

That's the guy! I kept waiting for that thing to take off! Who needs a band when you have a jet!

Love that guy!!!!

(09-29-2016 12:36 PM)GoBigRed26 Wrote:  I play the clarinet

Cute. But GOD...that hair.

Sunbelt Marching Band Rankings
1. TROY
2. Texas State
3. South Alabama
4. Georgia Southern
5. App State
6. Georgia State
7. ULL
8. New Mexico State
9. UTA (yes no football but do have marching band)
10. Coastal Carolina
11. Idaho
12. ULM
13. UALR (Pep Band) no marching band

I put this in another string, but I'll drop it in here as well. My degrees are from GS, but I'm a proud alum of the JSU band. That's led to some interesting looks from the fans at GS vs. JSU games over the years! I live for the Eagles, but at halftime, I'm a retired Marching Southerner. Sure wish they were in the conference. JSU - Troy might be the best band rivalry ever!

2016 Marching Southerners

(10-05-2016 12:13 PM)jim121256 Wrote:  I put this in another string, but I'll drop it in here as well. My degrees are from GS, but I'm a proud alum of the JSU band. That's led to some interesting looks from the fans at GS vs. JSU games over the years! I live for the Eagles, but at halftime, I'm a retired Marching Southerner. Sure wish they were in the conference. JSU - Troy might be the best band rivalry ever!

2016 Marching Southerners

No Question that the Sound of the South and the Marching Southerners are two of the best band program in the State and even some of the Top programs in the nation

(10-05-2016 09:28 AM)Artemis Silver Bow Wrote:  Sunbelt Marching Band Rankings
1. TROY
2. Texas State
3. South Alabama
4. Georgia Southern
5. App State
6. Georgia State
7. ULL
8. New Mexico State
9. UTA (yes no football but do have marching band)
10. Coastal Carolina
11. Idaho
12. ULM
13. UALR (Pep Band) no marching band

Artemis, are you in the marching band at Troy?

(10-05-2016 01:12 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  

(10-05-2016 09:28 AM)Artemis Silver Bow Wrote:  Sunbelt Marching Band Rankings
1. TROY
2. Texas State
3. South Alabama
4. Georgia Southern
5. App State
6. Georgia State
7. ULL
8. New Mexico State
9. UTA (yes no football but do have marching band)
10. Coastal Carolina
11. Idaho
12. ULM
13. UALR (Pep Band) no marching band

Artemis, are you in the marching band at Troy?

I lived in Alabama through high school and college where is played in the TROY band a long long time ago. Have a passion for College Football & Marching Band. There is nothing like football and Band in the South :-)

(10-05-2016 01:19 PM)Artemis Silver Bow Wrote:  

(10-05-2016 01:12 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  

(10-05-2016 09:28 AM)Artemis Silver Bow Wrote:  Sunbelt Marching Band Rankings
1. TROY
2. Texas State
3. South Alabama
4. Georgia Southern
5. App State
6. Georgia State
7. ULL
8. New Mexico State
9. UTA (yes no football but do have marching band)
10. Coastal Carolina
11. Idaho
12. ULM
13. UALR (Pep Band) no marching band

Artemis, are you in the marching band at Troy?

I lived in Alabama through high school and college where is played in the TROY band a long long time ago. Have a passion for College Football & Marching Band. There is nothing like football and Band in the South :-)

I played '05 through '11. Good to have more Troy fans on the board.

(10-05-2016 01:20 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  

(10-05-2016 01:19 PM)Artemis Silver Bow Wrote:  

(10-05-2016 01:12 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  

(10-05-2016 09:28 AM)Artemis Silver Bow Wrote:  Sunbelt Marching Band Rankings
1. TROY
2. Texas State
3. South Alabama
4. Georgia Southern
5. App State
6. Georgia State
7. ULL
8. New Mexico State
9. UTA (yes no football but do have marching band)
10. Coastal Carolina
11. Idaho
12. ULM
13. UALR (Pep Band) no marching band

Artemis, are you in the marching band at Troy?

I lived in Alabama through high school and college where is played in the TROY band a long long time ago. Have a passion for College Football & Marching Band. There is nothing like football and Band in the South :-)

I played '05 through '11. Good to have more Troy fans on the board.

Ha! We won't talk about when I marched at JSU! Hint... Erk Russell was still a defensive coordinator.

(10-14-2016 03:59 PM)jim121256 Wrote:  

(10-05-2016 01:20 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  

(10-05-2016 01:19 PM)Artemis Silver Bow Wrote:  

(10-05-2016 01:12 PM)TroyFootball05 Wrote:  

(10-05-2016 09:28 AM)Artemis Silver Bow Wrote:  Sunbelt Marching Band Rankings
1. TROY
2. Texas State
3. South Alabama
4. Georgia Southern
5. App State
6. Georgia State
7. ULL
8. New Mexico State
9. UTA (yes no football but do have marching band)
10. Coastal Carolina
11. Idaho
12. ULM
13. UALR (Pep Band) no marching band

Artemis, are you in the marching band at Troy?

I lived in Alabama through high school and college where is played in the TROY band a long long time ago. Have a passion for College Football & Marching Band. There is nothing like football and Band in the South :-)

I played '05 through '11. Good to have more Troy fans on the board.

Ha! We won't talk about when I marched at JSU! Hint... Erk Russell was still a defensive coordinator.

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This Thursday in Mobile will be a combined show with Troy and USA at half-time. Patriotic theme....Should be something.....BTW, looking like huge crowd for national TV game.

(10-05-2016 09:28 AM)Artemis Silver Bow Wrote:  Sunbelt Marching Band Rankings
1. TROY
2. Texas State
3. South Alabama
4. Georgia Southern
5. App State
6. Georgia State
7. ULL
8. New Mexico State
9. UTA (yes no football but do have marching band)
10. Coastal Carolina
11. Idaho
12. ULM
13. UALR (Pep Band) no marching band

Hey, we've already gotten the Big 12 invite I see!

Best bands in the belt huh? That is such a tough thing to judge when the arts (especially the m a ruching arts) are subject to such vast interpretations since unlike sports, there is no real quantifiable measure as to gauge their success against each other, other than how the respective fan base is moved by their bands performance (and most of us only see 1 or 2 other bands any given season, thus skewing our perception even more).

As a music educator that teaches band, I can tell you even amongst ourselves we argue over who is better even we have a rubric to adjudicate bands, because even then it is all really subject to interpretion. Ie) I think band A really excuted in this caption, and band B did not. And another judge will say I feel that band B a better than band A in this caption, and use said open rubric to justify their rankings.

That said, Texas is traditionally a strong state when it comes to the marching arts (very anecdotal but factually based on what I is commonly expressed by other music educators across the country when talking about Texas bands) and Texas State hiring of some big names in the music world the past we years and my working with student teachers from tat school in the past 10 years would lead me to say that in that sense Texas State is likely one of the top schools musical out there in the Belt. Using my own ears as a metric, I do like what they have been doing recently as compared to years past, so it without having seen other Belt schools, say they are pretty up there. Now if only Withers could do the same with the FB team.