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do the rules of college and nfl apply to high school football. Be quiet then you team has the ball so they can hear the snap count and audible but be loud when the other team has the ball to disrupt their offense?
I have never seen it happen in HS football.
I think it just depends on how savvy the fans are. Alot of people at the H.S. games to not follow football to a great degree. NFL fans are often season ticket holders and really eat sleep and breathe their team.
Its more common sense than anything. I hated when our band would play when we had the ball. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wall.gif[/img]
My first start was at Northwood and they had a dang good band at the time and it was a pain trying to call a play in the huddle and your cadence.
it all comes back to my comment about if the fans need the crowd to be loud what is up with the players? I can only remember one time when I played ball when I heard the crowd, not because they were not there but because I was focused on playing,
I rarely heard the crowd as well, but when your the person trying to communicate, sometimes its difficult with the added noise.
DB's 20,000 member band plays the entire time their opponents have the ball. I remember them stopping the game at William Campbell in '94 because our band was playing when they had the ball.
i say play as loud as you can when your opponent has the ball,,,, and play 'softly, very softly' when your team has the ball,,, everyone talking about fan support,, and not 'cheering' enough,,, Your teams BAND can be a BIG "PLUS",, anything to distract your opponent...
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i say play as loud as you can when your opponent has the ball,,,, and play 'softly, very softly' when your team has the ball,,, everyone talking about fan support,, and not 'cheering' enough,,, Your teams BAND can be a BIG "PLUS",, anything to distract your opponent...
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Some bands can. I was at Twin Springs one year and they was lucky to have 4 band members!
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you don't have a marching band with 4 members!!!!!!!!!
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you don't have a marching band with 4 members!!!!!!!!!
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T.S. did. I know there wasnt over 6 of them. I would not have believed it if I didnt see it.
I rememeber Ervinton having 5 in a band a few years back. They sounded better than most large bands, PV ect.
When I was in high school band, we made a rule of never playing when our side had the ball. We watched it very carefully, and we'd pay attention to when a new play was about to begin.
And when I was in fifth grade I recall Haysi had a marching band of 12. We called them the dirty dozen. They competed at all the same competitions we were in.
I have also seen bands so small (fewer than a dozen), in Kentucky, that they didn't have a drum major - they needed everyone for playing power.
At the Wise/Pound game near the end of the game I thought it was funny that our own band was playing the Final Countdown song, I always thought that would be a song to play when you are winning the game. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wall.gif[/img] [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
ahh they just have limited resources and limited songs bands that size can play well.
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who is director at Pound now elpn?
I've met the guy but have forgotten his name. He's a young fella, from upstate New York.
i remember seeing pounds band with only 5 or 6 people in it....haha and they really stood out because they all had tye dye shirts on...
The Pound Band is nothing like it was back when I was in it. We had around 60 kids. Pound has went through rough days since then. I hate to see that our band has got so small after once being really big and on the competitive side. I think there needs to be some kind of different face someone that will help build it back up.
They have their different face. It will take time.
The main issue right now: who wants to join when the band isn't already stellar? So many kids these days are lazy - they want instant success and they dont want to be a part of something where they have to work hard.
Mr. G knew what he was doing when he packed up and left in 1992. He graduated an enormous amount of the band talent, with no replacement talent coming up. He taught no one how to read music. That was his style and you can check his records.. he did this at school after school for his entire career.
Sad but true.
i dont think many bands are as big as what they used to be.....nothing against people that are in bad(i was also in band once),but it doesnt seem like kids are into that kinda thing as much any more...... and like he said ^, not many people want to put that much effort into it....
Well for one thing, alot of the kids at Pound are made fun of if they even play in the band. These so called "popular kids" think it not popular to participate in the band in any way. That is what is sad. Also when we were in the band all different groups of kids played or participated in some way. Didn't matter who was popular and who wasn't. So my opinion those in the band are labeled with not so nice of a name now. But other things could be a factor too, just hate to see that a band once big in size has fell to maybe just a handful.
I agree with you. Too much negative stereotyping. It's completely unnecessary.
My niece plays viola. Her little friends, who play softball, tease her and tell her she's in the "DORKestra"
Their parents permit it. It's affecting her.
When I was at Lee it was an honor just to be in the band. There weren't too many people that would actually make fun of us for actually being in the band. And a lot of people just came to see the band, then left after halftime(wished they would've stayed for the entire game though, for the team).
Well sad but many children only react how they are raised and see nothing wrong in ridiculing another student. Cause in every town their are some parents who think they are better and too good to even talk to some. Therefore they think their child is better too and these parents talk and put down other parents and students. Therefore there are too many students seperating themselves from interacting with other students because they think they are better in some way. The rich kids can't hang out with the poor kids, stuff like that. Now that is not the case all the time, but it does happen and I hate it about as much as I hate the parents that teach this stuff.
Haha I remember playing for Burton and thinking [censored] the band as more people in it then our football team lol. I dont know how it is today, but Burton has always had a good band with alot of members.
well thats one thing i can say about Appy....thats not the case....Appalachia is more like a family...everyone talks to everyone....(there are a few exceptions of course) but the majority of the kids dont put down another for reasons such as being in the band....
I've heard that b/f about Galliher,, but he knew how to build a program and get kids interested...
Doesn't Lee's band play in the Gator Bowl?
Yeah, they played in last season's Gator Bowl, they got to play at an NFL game (Jacksonville-Tennessee game) that year too. We(Lee) also played in the Gator Bowl back in '02.