CriTAUcal
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Dude, whatever. Stop riding the BOOM like Seabiscuit.
Budget cuts put pause to Jukebox travel!
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Dude, whatever. Stop riding the BOOM like Seabiscuit.
97JSULEGEND
Well-Known Member
lol
SUtrp96
HBCU SCREAMING CHAMP 99'
Dog on shame....is seabiscuit one of your country treats you like to snack on?
Philly Jag
Active Member
:lmao:
Dr. Phreeze
It is I...Yes it is...
Ummmm....I thought Seabiscuit was a famous horse....:noidea:
You crawfish eatin, hatin on dark skinned black folk need to stop calling Jackson country. Baton Rouge and Jackson are on similiar levels. What is so country about Jackson that makes BR looks like NEW York? Ya'll Kountry if we country
Yep...this is not a Classic game, just a home game that was moved to another venue.
I know back in the day almost all of the games were turnaround trips. There is nothing wrong with coming to the game on game day, eating dinner, doing the game then having a after game meal then getting back on the bus to travel home.
"NOISE TALKA"
Mr. Hatedandloved
if HBCU alums don't start giving back to our universities, Southern won't be the last to experience this. i hope it motivates the alumni constituency to raise funds for their band program to travel. the university should not have to foot all the expenses for trips (especially in these tough budgetary times).
bernard
THEE Realist
Why you say that? It would change the number of mouths to feed, buses to charter and hotel rooms to book.
Philly Jag
Active Member
SUtrp96
HBCU SCREAMING CHAMP 99'
It will not change nothing... They already have a 4 BUS travel policy for the most part... that the same amount of buses needed to travel the size band you just mentioned. If you think SU will travel a band small enough to fit on 2 or 3 buses you done lost your rabbit mind.
Philly Jag
Active Member
I see The Southern Digest is still running strong. That paper has to be one of the best black collegiates in the country when it comes to hard news. The Digest and The Gramblinite have always been legit! :tup:
bernard
THEE Realist
lilrj1919
1919/1911 Connection
I'm sure ASU is probably saying 128 needs to be the traveling band during season. That would save money for hotel cost and food cost and transportation cost also because 128 only needs 3 55 passenger buses. I know Grambling only takes the full band to home games and Classic games because the people over the Classics pay for the band travel and it doesn't come out of the band budget. The only time the full band is taken to all the games is if the numbers are low but like in 2004 we were about 275 and only took 168 to away games even against a 300 plus Cookman in a game in Ohio.
SUtrp96
HBCU SCREAMING CHAMP 99'
I understand what he is saying... SU don't travel 128 total.... 128 on the field yeah... And I am talking before these real BIG SU bands. When were smaller we never traveled 128 "total".. so don't look for that to happen now....
Just like FAMU will never travel what they consider to be "too" small for their standards..... Some bands simply have standards brah....
Since 2006 SU never traveled the "FULL" band... Unless we talking Bayou Classic and by that time the band has been trimmed down a good bit anyways...
lilrj1919
1919/1911 Connection
128 plus danceline as the traveling unit will only help SU's band budget. I'm sure a 128 band and that 128 is not including the danceline: that amount still can get the job done in the stands also. Hell leave the woodwinds at home lol. Same effect will be felt. I've seen clips on here where Doc Greggs took the 40 plus and the band still was on point so 128 can still do damage i'm sure because of all the brass that SU uses. Just because a band doesn't take the full band doesn't mean it's lowering it's standards it's called budgeting and prioritizing Now the comment about FAMU, FAMU thrives off their size and wouldn't be so dynamic with out it. Would still sound good but would lack the WOW factor because of the lack of size. SU has marched 128 on the field on many ocassions and is brass oriented and can get away with it and still thrash the other band with it's make up. Stands and Field. SU is probably the only band in the SWAC that could get away with only taking 128 horns and percussion, numbers not included for danceline to a game. I don't see anyone else doing that and being successful unless they only took brass but mostly other bands arrangements calls for woodwinds presence.
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Tigerpride
THE Logical ONE
FAMUs standard is sitting at home! :lol:
I am sure that FAMUs alums would prefer to have a pep band in the stands than no band at all.
SUtrp96
HBCU SCREAMING CHAMP 99'
Dude.. Doc took 40 in 89' for campus political reasons.. had nothing to do with the budget..
LOL @ these cats who program still haven't figured it out trying to give SU suggestions...
You don't know what work for us... and what we look for ... 128 is enough for the field.... It ain't what we want on the ROAD son!!!
SU used to roll small but never that small... except for the ONE time in 89'....
SU has a rep to uphold and it too many bands waiting to see a SU band on the road "THAT SMALL"... We ain't taking 128 to a bands backyard that has 250+...
SU don't aim to just DEAL with a band .. we aim to CRUSH bands....
Again...128 ain't what we do in the stands.. You from GSU trying to school me on MY band...come on son.
Go talk to my CB E. Scales that was a student director at GRAM... he know SU better than you.. and he will tell you ...."Brah no..... that is not how SU roll"...
Again, SU gone have it together..
Yall up here shotting out suggestions when SU is a the MOST traveled band during football season in all SWAC.... This budget cut at it's worst will still have SU band making more appearances than most of your bands plan in a good year...
SUtrp96
HBCU SCREAMING CHAMP 99'
TP you are doing it again...FAMUs standard is sitting at home! :lol:
I am sure that FAMUs alums would prefer to have a pep band in the stands than no band at all.
~exposing your lack of knowledge~
Go ask a FAMU alum or member if they would ever "consider" taking 180 to Mumford...
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bernard
THEE Realist
Your philosophy has changed since Greggs left. What ever happened to the phrase “quality over quantity”? Maybe you all need to bring Greggs back so you all can travel in 2010?
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SUtrp96
HBCU SCREAMING CHAMP 99'
Your philosophy has changed since Greggs left. What ever happened to the phrase “quality over quantity”? Maybe you all need to bring Greggs back so you all can travel in 2010?
WTH are you talking about?!?! Do you even know WTH you are talking about?
DOC never traveled a band an entire year less than 140.. and that was my junior year...
Quality always comes first... But we also know what it take to get the sound we are looking for...
"ASU"?!?! This is beyond your understanding brah.... if it ain't FAMU, none of yall need to be telling SU what we "should" or "should not" travel...
SU and FAMU are the very few bands that are known for going on the road tearing into bands arses....
I see alot more than TP on here don't know "Band"...lol
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