Troy Dannon trying his best to make the Sugar bowl feel like a home game for Texas

Bread

https://twitter.com/SarcasmaDawg/status/1732538622736523499?t=BGVWIOtMRqY8jLayre70zw&s=19

UW too cheap to get enough hotel rooms for the band. They must be really expensive right?

PostGameOrangeSlices

Yeah this is lame. Ge the band there

PurpleBaze

PostGameOrangeSlices said:

Yeah this is lame. Ge the band there

Except for the mellophone section...

RaceBannon

@MelloDawg are you going to cancel your 500 grand donation?

MelloDawg

Never an issue when I was in school, they sent the whole band to the Sun Bowl of all places.

I imagine they’ll find a way to make it happen. Texas’s band is enormous, however, so it would look quite embarrassing if we sent a bunch of scrubs in soft pants.

PurpleBaze

I got the coveted downvote from Mello without participating in the Tug.

Postal91

What size do we typically send? Is it the same group that went to the Champ game? Are we fighting to get 150 there instead of 120? Would be interesting to know the numbers and who is being left out of the travel.

“But Stephanie has played the tuba the best on the scout team, and though she’s redshirting this year she deserves the trip”….. or are we just be stingy?

Please add more context and I’m sure the tree will appropriately shake if necessary.

Bread

Postal91 said:

What size do we typically send? Is it the same group that went to the Champ game? Are we fighting to get 150 there instead of 120? Would be interesting to know the numbers and who is being left out of the travel.

“But Stephanie has played the tuba the best on the scout team, and though she’s redshirting this year she deserves the trip”….. or are we just be stingy?

Please add more context and I’m sure the tree will appropriately shake if necessary.

Including cheer/dance/mascots It's around 300 people. 60 got left out.
Entire band has gone to every bowl game since 2011. Entire Band has gone to every New Years 6 Bowl since Jim Owens started coaching.

This is a pretty unprecedented move by the new AD.

GrundleStiltzkin

I remember a coach from late 80s perhaps bitching about travel roster limits. "But they're sending all the bandsmen!" I don't remember who or when it was, but the line continues to chortle me. /csb

MelloDawg

Also, FYI to Jamaal, if that is his real name, they can work around all those limitations if they cared enough to do it (see: be willing to accept the price gouging of flying commercial and pay it.)

It was never a problem for Rose/Holiday/Sun. To be fair, we flew charter in those years but still….

DerekJohnson

I will agree that the band should ideally be there. But I will add that Mrs Housewives of Montlake left for LA with a big deficit in her wake. So to just flippantly say that UW has "plenty of $" may not be all that accurate.

Still, maybe put a call out to donators to help send the whole band.

gmo

DerekJohnson said:

I will agree that the band should ideally be there. But I will add that Mrs Housewives of Montlake left for LA with a big deficit in her wake. So to just flippantly say that UW has "plenty of $" may not be all that accurate.

Still, maybe put a call out to donators to help send the whole band.

Hard to help fundraise when you're shopping for leopard print from bougie boutiques that look like TJ Maxx clearance specials.

If someone can't sell this program to boosters and find new ones right now they need a new line of work...

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

Our band was embarrassing compared to what Auburn brought with them in Atlanta in 2018.

SkipBoyd

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

Our band was embarrassing compared to what Auburn brought with them in Atlanta in 2018.

Is is any wonder? Here's a clip from the audition registration:

MelloDawg

Have you seen the Logo W at the ends of seasons and how there are chunks of people out of line in diagonals? No one misses the cut for this band.

At Ohio St, people go years before they’re allowed to march.

Postal91

SkipBoyd said:

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

Our band was embarrassing compared to what Auburn brought with them in Atlanta in 2018.

Is is any wonder? Here's a clip from the audition registration:

Are you saying that they just need to identify as non-binary so they actually don't count against the numbers for the trip and everyone can go?

Bread

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

Our band was embarrassing compared to what Auburn brought with them in Atlanta in 2018.

Not surprising, was basically a home game for auburn and they start school before that game. that was probably less then 100 people. First game of the season a month before schools starts isn't going to be the same as a bowl game even if they payed up for the whole band. If UW cared about football they would move to a semester system so students would be there for the first three games.

chuck

Bread said:

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

Our band was embarrassing compared to what Auburn brought with them in Atlanta in 2018.

Not surprising, was basically a home game for auburn and they start school before that game. that was probably less then 100 people. First game of the season a month before schools starts isn't going to be the same as a bowl game even if they payed up for the whole band. If UW cared about football they would move to a semester system so students would be there for the first three games.

Screw that. Semesters suck. You lose half of the summer. Those of us who relied on forest service and dnr jobs, mostly firefighting, to make the money we learned on for most of the school year would've been hosed.

Bread

Maybe we shoild hire Navy's AD. He gets it.

https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1733339544744063182?s=20

DerekJohnson

SkipBoyd said:

CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

Our band was embarrassing compared to what Auburn brought with them in Atlanta in 2018.

Is is any wonder? Here's a clip from the audition registration:

200 years from now, people will look back at this time period and think we were more insane than the Salem Witch Trials period.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

Bread said:

Maybe we shoild hire Navy's AD. He gets it.

https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1733339544744063182?s=20

No trigger warning?