The Band

[Flag Guy]

Fun is wrong.

Seriously. Apparently the whole point of going to Hilton is to focus on watching the game. Someone needs to tell JP his priority for renovating Hilton should be to put leather recliners in place of all those hard plastic seats. It'd make for a more comfortable game watching experience, while also absorbing the ambient sound (as well as the sound of those obnoxious instrument carrying comedians)

In addition each seat should have a flip up 20" flat screen TV so people in the balcony can better focus their attention on the game.

For those at the end of the game that haven't left at the 8:00/4:00 media time out, maybe in place of the fight song a polite golf clap can be given, if it isn't too much trouble and too distracting.



You reading this Athletic Department? The People have spoken!!! make it happen!

[/extreme sarcasm]

[InCytful]

My last year in pep band was when the Mayor was a freshman. Chants were stupid, yes. Didn't like 'em and still don't. Who knows when they came up with those? They were old back then...

If you can hear the band chants, you aren't being loud enough. I can remember Hilton rocking so loud I couldn't hear myself play Fights. I went to rock concerts where my ears didn't ring that much afterward. That place should be loud!

[ISUCubswin]

Now that the sober people are getting on, I'm going to side with them. And maybe the drunk people will side with the sobers after they sleep it off.

Sure, at times the band is annoying. "Block that kick" was hilarious my freshman year, it's stupid now as a junior.

But they, not the cheerleaders, are what gets the student section loud. The "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" ing is typically led by the band. "Cyclone" "Power" is typically started by the band.

But the student section is never loud so I don't know where I'm going with this. I'm gonna start a thread on it.








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[Heilsqauvador]

Somebody always has to be upset about something...

[cy4prez7]

I'm not going to say much other than the fact that this thread just pisses me off. I like you don't like the cheers either but they are going to happen. Fight songs are not controlled by the band it comes from above as well as the placement of cowbell. The fact is, there are 3500 student season basketball tickets and less than 50 people in the band. If you can hear the band chanting over the student section, that's not the band's fault. We love the game, we're not trying to draw attention to us, it's just tradition and that's how it's going to be. Simple solution, BE LOUDER! Go Cyclones!

[ajk4st8]

I'm not going to say much other than the fact that this thread just pisses me off. I like you don't like the cheers either but they are going to happen. Fight songs are not controlled by the band it comes from above as well as the placement of cowbell. The fact is, there are 3500 student season basketball tickets and less than 50 people in the band. If you can hear the band chanting over the student section, that's not the band's fault. We love the game, we're not trying to draw attention to us, it's just tradition and that's how it's going to be. Simple solution, BE LOUDER! Go Cyclones!

LOL....> Where is your sarcasm pirate?

[Rabbuk]

Band sucks. There's a reason the nonband side fills first.

[83Clone]

More Cowbell doesn't work with one drum set

[wxman1]

If you think they are trying to draw attentionto them then you are pretty childish.

[Luth4Cy]

I thought that chanting "block that kick" was funny. Other than that I don't like the bands antics. And members of the student section, what was with the extremely unnecessary picture of Cyclone Alley before the game?

[carvers4math]

I love The Band. Their self titled album was greats. Whispering Pines = amazing song.

Really influential band in rock 'n roll history.

[cy4prez7]

More Cowbell doesn't work with one drum set

I agree and hate it. But they want us to do it.

[BryceC]

They could play the fight song as much as ou plays boomer sooner for all I care. However the chants are terrible with very few exceptions. I would like to find somebody who actually likes them, and then try to discover their humor.

[Rabbuk]

I thought that chanting "block that kick" was funny. Other than that I don't like the bands antics. And members of the student section, what was with the extremely unnecessary picture of Cyclone Alley before the game?

Freshman?

[WhatchaGonnaDo]

Allow me to reiterate. The band is a vital part of the atmosphere. The music related things are fine. Just cut the chants.