Please oh Please play it more then 2 times. dont make us start chanting and embaress you guys ;):toast:
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I shouldnt have to ask the director to play the schools fight song…
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No one wants to say it so I will. Big run, opponent calls time out, the crowd is excited and the band plays the fight song. Simple.
We must be the only college in the country where this doesn’t occur.
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[QUOTE=HP49er;214768]No one wants to say it so I will. Big run, opponent calls time out, the crowd is excited and the bands plays the fight song. Simple.
We must be the only college in the country where this doesn’t occur.
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I thought that’s when you’re supposed to play You Can Call Me Al?
I thought that's when you're supposed to play You Can Call Me Al?
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Yeah, that’s bothered me for quite a while now. Its simple really, I don’t understand the loss of the concept.
and put the lyrics up on the big screen
[QUOTE=Gill2003;214774]and put the lyrics up on the big screen[/QUOTE]
Great idea.
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Fight song should be played every other time out. And when there is time left during the time outs where it isn’t played…play it until the game starts again!
Why is it so hard? I’d rather hear the fight song than half the stuff you guys play anyway.
i love the fight song…here is my only complaint. We go on a run…the opposing coach calls a TO, the fans are hyped…silence…silence…then the fight song plays! i mean sometimes I just fell like the band takes forever to get started.
I know there are some band members on the board and I am opening myself to thrashing BUT its true. What happened last night when the band played and they started like 3-4 times? were they not in sync? and was is just me or were they not as loud ethier?
We did have a pretty big mistake starting off one song, but mistakes happen (if you listen to our bass player closely, you’ll know what I mean), we don’t do it that often.
As far as the fight song, I agree.
naw i think our bass player is pretty solid. its that stupid baritone player that goes by the name of dax that needs to be taken to the woodshed
Folks, this has been an issue for 20 YEARS!! You’d think it would have been resolved by now. But then, “now” we have every promo known to man during TOs to get in, for the cash it puts into the program.
fans to band. we do not go to halton arena to hear a pep band concert. you guys sound great but play the damn fight song. that’s why we have it. there is a reason other schools often play the fight song. and always play it when we go on a run. i know it may be a hard concept to swallow but it does help us continue momentum.
ps. you guys sound better than most other pep bands. we like you. just play the fight song when you should.
This, folks, is not as simple as you think it is.
First of all: Lots of times, we get word from the cheerleaders that goes like this… “hey…we’re doing such-and-such routine, we need you to play such-and-such song”
Second of all: we take our marching orders, often reluctantly, from the powers that be up in the A.D. If they say “you guys don’t play this timeout…” or, at the last second, as we’re ready to play (often cueing up the fight song) during a momentum situation, they run up and stop us and say “no no no…we gotta play such-and-such advertisement on the all-important RBC-Centuravision monitor”… our hands wind up pretty tied.
Honestly, it’s not always our call. You’d actually do much better to take your complaints to someone like Dan DeVos in this situation. There’s not a whole hell of a lot we can do most of the time. Don’t believe me? Come sit with us for a game. Between the cheerleaders, the A.D. staff, and the guy up in the PA booth, it’s a little more complicated than 'Hey…just play the fight song."
…there, you’ve been enlightened.
This, folks, is not as simple as you think it is.First of all: Lots of times, we get word from the cheerleaders that goes like this… “hey…we’re doing such-and-such routine, we need you to play such-and-such song”
Second of all: we take our marching orders, often reluctantly, from the powers that be up in the A.D. If they say “you guys don’t play this timeout…” or, at the last second, as we’re ready to play (often cueing up the fight song) during a momentum situation, they run up and stop us and say “no no no…we gotta play such-and-such advertisement on the all-important RBC-Centuravision monitor”… our hands wind up pretty tied.
Honestly, it’s not always our call. You’d actually do much better to take your complaints to someone like Dan DeVos in this situation. There’s not a whole hell of a lot we can do most of the time. Don’t believe me? Come sit with us for a game. Between the cheerleaders, the A.D. staff, and the guy up in the PA booth, it’s a little more complicated than 'Hey…just play the fight song."
…there, you’ve been enlightened.
So, that’s why we didn’t hear the fight song at all the entire second half until right about the 3:40 mark?