Like maize-n-blue4life explained, the band puts in hours and hours of work to make it great!! These aren't music students who get out of some class to be in the band. These are engineers, nurses, math majors, biology majors, etc, etc. They take 15/16 credits of classes and still make the time to go to 1.5 hours of practice EVERY day (and that's not even counting the 2 full weeks of 9am-10pm band weeks before school even starts) and get up at 6:00 on Saturdays just so they can support their school and make the band the best band out there. They have to memorize music, perfect flag work, and do entries (the high step they do in pregame) every day of every week so that they can be perfect in the game! I dare any of you to RUN up 208 stairs, making sure your hip-to-thigh angle is above 90 degrees each time (the equivalence of doing pregame) every single day. Oh yeah, and about 5 seconds after you finish, you somehow have to find the air to play 6 or so full-length songs. If you can do that without a single complaint, then maybe you deserve to tell the hard-working students of the band that they just are trying hard enough!
The MMB works hard, has great musicality, and performs consistently great shows every single week. How often can we say that about our football team...but somehow people didn't think they would be a better coach than Rich Rod, which is basically what your saying when you bash Prof. Boerma. Just shut up when you don't know what your talking about....the band is a great organization made up of great performers, and NO ONE should be allowed to take away from the hard work and dedication they put in because they want to show school spirit (not because they are revered like football players or paid or anything like that. No, they do it just because they want to support their school). So the next time your going to the big house, maybe you should think about respecting the band a bit more.
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