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Clemson's band is probably big enough that they were able to split it or get some of the football band to fill in.

Definitely. Sorry I didn't imply that strong enough.

I get the decision. The women should beat 5-win UVA and play again tomorrow and hopefully the pep band will be available. It just sucks that the pep band isn't large enough to do both.

PhDeac said:

The Clemson pep band is wearing WF shirts and playing Wake's fight song and sheet music in Greensboro for the women's tournament game right now because the Wake pep band is in Winston for men's basketball senior night at 9:00.

Clemson men's senior night is tonight.

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wow, back in the day there was a WF men's pep band (based on seniority) and a WF women's pep band of mostly freshmen who were attempting to earn enough points, and therefore the right, to be in the men's pep band and travel to the ACC/NCAA tournament

thatguy2016 said:

wow, back in the day there was a WF men's pep band (based on seniority) and a WF women's pep band of mostly freshmen who were attempting to earn enough points, and therefore the right, to be in the men's pep band and travel to the ACC/NCAA tournament

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Yep. Very competitive to make the pep band back then.

Trumpet player all 4 years in the mid 80's- when Gentleman Carl was at the helm.

Good times!

That’s really embarrassing.

It was embarrassing to go to the ACCT all 4 years and to travel to the Elite 8 with the team?!

Hmmmm......

morrison2951 said:

It was embarrassing to go to the ACCT all 4 years and to travel to the Elite 8 with the team?!

Hmmmm......

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What? I’m saying it’s embarrassing that we have another conference school’s band playing for us at the freaking ACCT.

Oh.....


I wouldn't trade traveling with the team to ACCT's, NIT Final 4 @ MSG or the NCAAT Elite 8 for anything.

They were good back then. Some of my best memories at MSD.

Edit: Forgot to mention that the pep band traveled with the cheerleaders! So, there was that also.

We should hire Liquid Pleasure to be our pep band.

Just like the landscape of college basketball has changed dramatically in the past 10 years, so has the recruiting field for band members, especially at a school like Wake Forest, where students don’t come to be in band. With very little tangible incentives to offer, attracting dedicated band members is a challenge. The band department no longer receives any recruiting info from the admissions office (not their decision), so they are now dependent on prospects contacting the band leaders, rather than the directors contacting the prospects. Imagine how good our sports teams would be if the coaches had to wait for players to contact them about playing for Wake Forest.

Then, add to that challenge the fact that the band plays less and less at the basketball games. Recently I kept a stopwatch on how much time the band played at a mens game, and how much recorded music was played. Started the clock at 30:00 prior to tip, because that is when the band used to start playing…kept up with it through the under 4 timeout in the second half.

Final count: ~37 minutes of recorded music. This represents the amount of time where the band COULD HAVE BEEN playing, but the game management folks chose to play recorded music instead. Band playing time: ~13 minutes. This was actually an improvement upon the previous game, when they only got 8:30 of playing time.

To summarize: many band students think that playing at a basketball is a waste of their time. They have to be there for 2.5 hours, to play for 13 minutes. If you want a bigger band at games, you need to give them more opportunity to play. It’s not fun to be a band member if you don’t get to play much.

Bring back the band at bball games!

No official DR stance on this thread. Need to know how our small on campus arena should plan for music.

banddeac said:

Just like the landscape of college basketball has changed dramatically in the past 10 years, so has the recruiting field for band members, especially at a school like Wake Forest, where students don’t come to be in band. With very little tangible incentives to offer, attracting dedicated band members is a challenge. The band department no longer receives any recruiting info from the admissions office (not their decision), so they are now dependent on prospects contacting the band leaders, rather than the directors contacting the prospects. Imagine how good our sports teams would be if the coaches had to wait for players to contact them about playing for Wake Forest.

Then, add to that challenge the fact that the band plays less and less at the basketball games. Recently I kept a stopwatch on how much time the band played at a mens game, and how much recorded music was played. Started the clock at 30:00 prior to tip, because that is when the band used to start playing…kept up with it through the under 4 timeout in the second half.

Final count: ~37 minutes of recorded music. This represents the amount of time where the band COULD HAVE BEEN playing, but the game management folks chose to play recorded music instead. Band playing time: ~13 minutes. This was actually an improvement upon the previous game, when they only got 8:30 of playing time.

To summarize: many band students think that playing at a basketball is a waste of their time. They have to be there for 2.5 hours, to play for 13 minutes. If you want a bigger band at games, you need to give them more opportunity to play. It’s not fun to be a band member if you don’t get to play much.

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In the 90's football was the waste of time part, but you had to do football marching band in order to be eligible for basketball pep band. MB was a 1 credit class, but pep was just volunteer, so there was no academic incentive either. We were really good at basketball though, so it was worth it.