For Silver Eagle

[DeepGreen]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Ez1LcRbg0

Edited September 17, 2016 by DeepGreen

[SilverEagle]

Just what are those Bands doing? I've never seen anything like that at Apogee.

You know, it looks like those bands' total focus is to promote spirit and energize those people in the stands.........Imagine that?

Edited September 18, 2016 by SilverEagle

[PlummMeanGreen]

It's a culture thang', Bill! ??

Edited September 18, 2016 by PlummMeanGreen

[SilverEagle]

7 hours ago, PlummMeanGreen said:

It's a culture thang', Bill! ??

Why, yes it is Jim! Their Bands have a football-game-day-get-the-fans-into-the-game-and-keep-the-energy-going culture.........the Band that shows up at Apogee doesn't. 

[PlummMeanGreen]

8 hours ago, SilverEagle said:

Why, yes it is Jim! Their Bands have a football-game-day-get-the-fans-into-the-game-and-keep-the-energy-going culture.........the Band that shows up at Apogee doesn't. 

Bill, the thing that strikes me about the largest College of Music in America (Indiana U) Band Day is that most of their HS band participants have IU graduates as their HS band directors & they seem to want to participate out of respect & loyalty for their alma mater & its present Indiana U Marching Band staff.  

Yada, Yada, Yada!?

North Texas could probably more than fill our entire Apogee Stadium with HS bands located here in our area who have North Texas Exes as their band directors;  yet we know, Bill, that you & I will probably not live long enough to see such a cultural change at our alma mater.  

Things seem to always be set in stone up there for whatever the reason.  Some of those things have kept our favorite school from moving up like most all our former Missouri Valley conference-mates have so visibly done.   

?Band Day? What Good Is It?

It's All Good--It's All Green--It's in the Black (and there's no red ink):  (1) For MG football players they see a Wing Zone filled to capacity with enthusiastic & loud fan support  (2) Apogee concessions run out of drinks & food by the beginning of the 4'th quarter,  (3) Apogee's sports gear store has record sales and.......... (4)  Last & Hardly Least:  UNT Undergrad Admissions staff has 4K-6K impressionable HS students on campus many who will decide they want to enroll at North Texas largely because of a simple....Band......Day.......promotion.  

NOTE:  Cerebus posted that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board needs UNT's enrollment to be at 45,000 students---RIGHT NOW!   UNT is about 7,000 short of that number looking at our Fall, 2016, official enrollment figures.

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A Little More History: University of Michigan Band Day On YouTube  

Then U of Michigan Athletic Director Don Canham was the "Father of the Modern Era of Game Day HS Band Days" promotion among many Big Time schools in the NCAA.   (I'd wager Michigan's President of that era was a willing & enthusiastic supporter of AD Don Canham's HSBD promotion, too).

AD Don Canham's widow said of her late husband: 

"He (Canham) used events like Band Day—when high school bands from around the region would all pack the stadium and play at halftime—and promotions targeting women and families to increase attendance at the Big House."

THIS:  “He never promoted the game itself because you can always lose,” she said. “He never promoted a winning football team. It was always the pageantry."

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http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2014/10/widow_of_former_michigan_ad_do.html

 

 

Edited September 19, 2016 by PlummMeanGreen