Originally posted by jukeboxmello97
(sigh)....and why is it that games with those two are the ones that I can recall most vividly?? SU/JSU '97 was a beautiful thing...lol. That was the first time the upperclassmen showed me that they were human and they actually started to accept the crabs. And FAMU '99...awww man...that was the ONLY time...I repeat...ONLY time I have ever seen Mr. Knighten get hyped about anything. That was a special night even though the football team got creamed. You're right...those are the only bands Doc will get up for.
As for recruiting...I have mixed feelings about that. Jared is right...we wouldn't even have to recruit if Doc wasn't so zip-happy. I remember '95 Juke telling us all the time how they had around 250 members when they put the upperclassmen and crabs together...that is until Doc let 'er rip...or zip...lol. The band still ended up with 170+. '96 and '97 were the same way. We didn't have 250 to begin with in either of those years, but it was close to 200 in both years. '97 is the last year I remember CHALLENGES....and I don't mean like just one. I remember the day I challenged to get on the field. They had like 10 other challenges that day. That kind of competition is gone because pretty much everyone gets to be on the field at one point or another with 150 members jukebox89 is right as well though...Doc will NEVER put 160 on the field again.
Recruiting would create a "different" kind of band, and I don't think it will be better. Just think how some crabs are NOW. I think they would get that "Drumline" mentality, and that just isn't compatible with anything the Human Jukebox does. People like that are weeded out quickly in our band, and if recruiting brings a lot of people like that, then we are back to square one.
True that.....The bottom line is DOC don't want more than 150...That's too much money for "HIM" to spend...that's what it all boils down to.....The dayum budget....He knows what he is doing....Mello is right recruiting will bring a different vibe to the band.....I know the juke has changed in many way since past years....But the overall atitude of the band is pretty much the same...people are there because it's their DREAM, not because someone convenced them to go...
Since I been at SU, I never heard NO ONE say...."Man he came to my school begging me to come to SU"....OR "I knew I shouldn't have come here" You will never hear that at SU....
That's the number one reason why the respect is SOOO high for you older cats, and now mine and Mello generation, because the people are there because of what we did.....
I'll say again, DOC has awesome players walking around that campus that he but out for the DUMBEST reasons.....
You'll get zipped if you had to go home for the spring because of funds and attend a school just for that semester in your home town.....
You'll get zipped for having to go home to work and make extra money to come back to school...
You'll get get zipped if DOC just decides he don't like you.....
It's several BS reason you can get zipped......
You'll get zipped if on a trip you don't eat the way DOC wants you to eat...(too little or too much)..
You'll get zipped because of your hair
You can get zipped because of facial hair, if DOC don't like it...
You'll get zipped if DOC ever catch you anywhere with an ear ring...
Most of that stuff is really based off if DOC likes you or not....
I was fortunate enough to get my jacket.....
I don't think he needs to recruit...
He!! this past summer he turn alot of people around that ended up marching for TxSU, because he wanted to switch them off of their primary instrument to play another instrument.....And this was before hearing them play!!!!!!
A good bit of them ended up at TxSU this year.... My lil cousin from Houston is one of them....
Why recruit when people come from all over the region to audition for DOC, for him to turn them around....?
Doc knows he don't want a band that big, if he do...He can make a few calls and have a 250 piece band right now!!!! And I'll bet they all show up for 4 to 5.....