http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-769560.html

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"Florida State will not bring its marching band to the game since band members would have to skip two days of classes because of travel considerations for the weeknight event."

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"Florida State is preparing special Florida State shirts for NCCU band members to wear at the game and will pay for the 250-member team's trip. The Marching Sound Machine members will be served a tailgate dinner outside the stadium and will play for the Florida State contingent before the game."

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"We had heard a lot of good things about NCCU's band and were impressed with their performance at the Honda Battle of the Bands," Manheimer said. "Since the chancellor of NCCU, James H. Ammons, and the band director, Jorim Reid, are FSU graduates, we hoped as members of the FSU family they would accept our invitation."

1. how the hell are you going to cheer for the out-of-state team?!
2. our band is going to get blown out.
3. atleast the halftime show will be entertaining for once.
4. we should be glad it's central, and not a&t.

9/15/2006 12:40:47 PM

if fsu's band came, we'd still get blown out.

the marching cheifs are the heat.

9/15/2006 12:42:40 PM

are they bringing the strippers too?

9/15/2006 12:43:04 PM

Is the NCCU band going to play the Tomahawk song every five seconds in the stands like the damn FSU band does?


Even while Torry is returning a punt for a TD??

9/15/2006 12:47:02 PM

maybe NCCU will turn the tables and join our band in spirit rofl

9/15/2006 1:50:03 PM

I think we should start a campaign to get them to cheer for us....We can sway them to our side!

9/15/2006 1:53:07 PM

lol outsourcing the school band

9/15/2006 1:53:57 PM

thats actually pretty freaking cool

id love to see something like this in my lifetime no matter what the circumstance

9/15/2006 1:54:08 PM

if thats one of the things you hope to see in your lifetime, you must have really low aspirations

9/15/2006 2:04:27 PM

outsourcing a band...lol

9/15/2006 2:07:18 PM

fuck that. If Central's band wants to play at C-F, their football team better be playing ours. This is a slap in the face. First off, how in the hell are they "adopting" a small North Carolina team to play songs against us in our own stadium. I think Fowler should grow some balls and say HELL NO.

I mean, this is like us paying Florida Atlantic to play FSU for us or something.

9/15/2006 2:07:45 PM

its cool to see cooperation between schools dick cheese

shit like that dont happen no more, and as a result we get people like you with no perspective

[Edited on September 15, 2006 at 2:11 PM. Reason : o]

9/15/2006 2:11:04 PM

How can Fowler say hell no? The FSU band has a ticket allotment for a band, and if FSU decides to give that allotment to the NCCU band, so be it.

Plus, the NCCU band kicks fucking ass.

9/15/2006 2:11:51 PM

I don't see the problem with it at all.

I'd rather have a local band playing the opposing team's songs than the opposing team's band.

9/15/2006 2:12:39 PM

^more chance of fucking it up

9/15/2006 2:14:16 PM

this doesnt make sense unless FSU = Fayetteville State University

9/15/2006 2:17:16 PM

^^ NCCU band members get beaten and fined if they fuck up. They won't.

9/15/2006 2:20:31 PM

Next year we should One-up FSU and get Florida A & M's band or Florida Atlantic's to play at our game in Tallahassee. Naw, fuck it, lets go all out and get Grambling or Southern University.

9/15/2006 2:21:35 PM

Do you know what I'd pay to hear the Grambling band play our songs?

A whole fucking lot.

9/15/2006 2:24:35 PM

this will be fucking awesome. fsus songs are already amazing (the fight song the war chant and the other little jazzy thing they play as the offensive war chant)

nccu will be able to master all of fsus songs in the ammount of time between now and the game. they will also add some fizz to it and probobly pull their own number at halftime. should be entertaining.

9/15/2006 2:25:02 PM

^^hahahahaha

9/15/2006 2:25:46 PM

^^^thats why i mentioned them.

FSU gets NCCU to play for them at our house. OKay, great job.

We get GRAMBLING to play at their house for us. Blows their band away.

9/15/2006 2:27:58 PM

this might be a reason to go this ass-pounding, i mean game.

9/15/2006 2:28:53 PM

I wonder if anything like this would ever happen at UNC or Wake or ECU.

9/15/2006 2:35:46 PM

given the same circumstances for the opposing team (band members would have to skip two days of classes because of travel considerations), i don't see why not.

I remember some band folks mentioning in a thread last year that we weren't sending our band members for a weeknight away game, but in our case, we just didn't have a band at all.

9/15/2006 2:40:54 PM

This is only happening due to national ESPN coverage (and it being the only thing on a Thursday night) and HOPEFULLY commentators will mention the fact that it's an NC band, not FSU.

9/15/2006 2:58:37 PM

This is not a bad idea. I look forward to their half-time show and there's no WAY they will play the annoying tomahawk song as much as FSU's own band does

9/15/2006 3:23:04 PM

it would be funny if they took off FSU's shirts and represented NCCU. You know they will. In that case, I have to see.

9/15/2006 3:43:29 PM

We need to have a "Sell Out" chant when they play

9/15/2006 4:37:09 PM

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"I think we should start a campaign to get them to cheer for us....We can sway them to our side!"

i kinda doubt the black kids are gonna wanna play for some racists all that much

9/15/2006 5:39:48 PM

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"This is not a bad idea. I look forward to their half-time show and there's no WAY they will play the annoying tomahawk song as much as FSU's own band does"

why not? the band director is a FSU grad . . . and they will play what he tells them to play.

9/15/2006 5:53:44 PM

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"if fsu's band came, we'd still get blown out. the marching cheifs are the heat. "

9/15/2006 5:54:05 PM

Coming from someone who graduated from NCSU in 2003(and was in the marching band for 2 years), and now being in grad school at NCCU.....the Marching Band at NCCU is going to fucking blow NCSU's Band OUT OF THE WATER. I have great memories of road trips, and Saturday home games with the NCSU band....but the show, the music, the quality of musicians....State, as much as I love you guys...you guys are goign to get BLOWN out of the water (musically speaking).


..As for on the field....we better SMACK Bobby Bowden and the Seminoles in the mouth!!

9/15/2006 7:41:45 PM

Yeah, as much shit as half of you talk when I post NCCU football scores...why in the hell would my grad school pep band play for State...ESPECIALLY if they read half of the things on this message boards...some of the backwards ass people state about them!

9/15/2006 7:46:02 PM

The halftime show will be FUCKING SWEET!!! Mark my words!!

9/15/2006 7:50:26 PM

^ok, you suck at life because you care so much about band

...anyways, we should definitely try to get them to join us






[Edited on September 15, 2006 at 7:59 PM. Reason : .]

9/15/2006 7:59:09 PM

it'll just go to show how much disproportion HBCUs put into their bands versus what they put into their academics

9/15/2006 8:16:52 PM

9/15/2006 8:42:48 PM

Yeah Crazywade displays his MASSIVE ignorance...hmm let's see Howard University has one of the top 10 medical schools in the country(they are an HBCU), NCCU's law school and Teaching Program is constantly one of the top in the state according to Business Week and U.S. News and World Report,
Xavier University has the most medical students and dental students get accepted into top notch dental and medical schools across the country..and Xavier is an HBCU..so Crazywade before you rant about random bullshit..how about you check your facts-DUMB ASS!

9/15/2006 9:41:29 PM

hey, STFU, you lil' bitch. My aunt got a full ride to Central's law school because she was a minority there. (white) But thats just the law school where they have Duke law profs working part time.

Don't get your marroon panties in a wad yet.

9/15/2006 9:53:05 PM

FUCK THAT SHIT



SOMEBODY CALL DOC AT A&T



GIVE OUR BAND A REST IF IT'S LIKE THAT


LET THE BLUE & GOLD DO THEIR THANG

9/15/2006 11:51:03 PM

^^^ is there any reason you post continually in a row.. like you did above 3 posts in a row

9/16/2006 9:35:19 AM

Hell yeah....probaly wont be much of a game,

I guess halftime is gametime.

9/16/2006 10:03:31 AM

after sitting through many aggies v. eagles games... there is only one thing I can say... be prepared to be entertained by their band, here's hoping they can play their own show, cuz it'll be awesome!

9/16/2006 10:07:15 AM

9/16/2006 10:43:25 AM

our band is gonna look like duke's at halftime

9/16/2006 2:40:29 PM

You misread. FSU doesn't think we're worth their time after being unable to produce any offense against Akron. Their hiring local marching bands to play the football game for them.

We'll still lose, 3-0.

9/16/2006 3:10:12 PM

bttt

I think this is ridiculous!

10/3/2006 8:39:21 AM

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"Coming from someone who graduated from NCSU in 2003(and was in the marching band for 2 years)"

Must have sucked to still be getting your ass kicked in college

10/3/2006 9:14:10 AM

> All other bands

10/3/2006 12:57:49 PM