PV-54 Pound-7

[SWVA-Football]

I guess it's just not a rule that's highly enforced. The band doesn't get much attention when they're not out on the field either, though (especially smaller ones), so I'd say it'd be a little easy to overlook it.

[R13]

You were right, they did play throughout the SP/Coeburn game I remember them doing it.

[beamer_ball]

I didn't think it was a rule at all in high school? Many bands do indeed do it though.

[imported_elp6n]

I think the general "rule of thumb" is the band isn't to play when their team is on offense, and play between plays if possible. That's what I recall from high school.

[imported_trumpet1988]

Yeah, at PV we rarely played when the team was on offense. At the Gate City games, when the ball and Gate City had it was in front of us [the band] and it was fourth down, field goal, close to converting, close to scoring, (you get the point) the director would have us just play a bunch of random stuff really loud. They never told us to quit doing it. Worked really well at the 2004 game when PV beat them for the first time since 01. It worked at the rematch too and both games my senior year in the fall of 05.

When Powell Valley was kicking off, it was tradition for the tubas to start playing Jaws once the ball was placed on the tee, then the rest of the band would come in and improvise some things based on Jaws. Once the ball was in the air we would all play a concert F pitch and do a gliss down from the pitch. They still do that.