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OK, today I had A LOT of free time, so I started to go through and find which school that we're playing this year in football has the Worst marching band uniforms.

In schedule order....
Wisconsin: http://www.badgerband.com/season_pictur ... stern.html
Ball State: http://www.bsu.edu/cfa/music/bands/marchingband.htm
Boise: http://thunder.boisestate.edu/index.html
Temple: http://media.collegepublisher.com/media ... 7ea431.gif
Ohio: http://www.ohiou.edu/marching110/multim ... hotos.html
Buffalo: http://wings.buffalo.edu/sa/ub-thunder/ ... ngBand.jpg
Western Michigan: http://www.wmich.edu/marchingband/2004_ ... index.html
Akron: http://www3.uakron.edu/bands/marching/
Kent: http://dept.kent.edu/band/Athletic.htm
Miami: http://www.units.muohio.edu/mubands/mumb/
Toledo: http://utrockets.collegesports.com/trads/tol-bands.html


If ya ask me, I personally like Boise's the best. Honorary Mention goes to Wisconsin, Miami, and OU which all have pretty good, traditional-looking uniforms as well.

I think Akron's is the worst of the bunch, but Kent's is pretty close.

All of the rest seem to be middle of the road.

Without a doubt, OU has the best website, and you can thank the brothers and sisters of KKY and TBS Alpha Delta chapters for that. Those guys do great work with this kind of stuff. If you haven't seen it, they publish an annual magazine about their band that looks amazing. Anyway, I'm done, Jeff

Best: M(iami)UMB by far
Worst: Akron

SaxyIrishTenor wrote:Best: M(iami)UMB by far
Worst: Akron

Toledo get the worst in everything. I'll give Akron the close 2nd though I will also have to agree on Miami's being the best...

Ok, fine Metz. Toledo is the worst at everything, but in this case, Akron is a close second.

i like boise's uniform the best, and toledo and akron as worst...

I am just glad we do not have to worry about our marching band being named after an individual. I love the support, but it seems a little selfish to have your name right up front. Can you just see the Tom Noe Falcon Marching Band! Do'oh!!

You guys should hear the yipping we get for taking our Jackets off during the games. During the MACC against the Toledo, they even made a comment on the TV about how classy T?*@*?'s band looked and have bad Miami's looked.

I personally like Miami's, but we DEFINITELY need new ones, so BG.

Oh, well I was talking about "Complete" uniforms. I agree, every time I've seen your band you seem to take half of the uniform off in the stands, and in my opinion, it looks like horse $h!+ Anyway, but, on the field, I still like Miami's uniform, far more than their athletic teams.

What kinda marching band are you if you can't handle wearing a heavy sweat-soaked jacket in August for hours on end? That's part of the glory of it, dude!

But as for T*l*d*'s band looking classy.... c'mon. They scurry onto the field. And they use flip folders for pregame.

I go to Miami, I mean, if we wanted to get wet, we'd pay someone to get us water, or something.

I remember T?l?d? used Flip folders, cause their fans were hollaring at us, and harrassing us, so I and three or four others shouted back... "IT's all good. But we'll get more playing time than your offense!" We lost, and I regretted saying it

Hehe, the Scurrying Rockets... I like the sound of that.

Does anyone even like our new uniforms? I was a little disappointed. They're really bland. I mean, they should've taken inspiration from Notre Dame, PSU, and dare I say Michigan? I mean, those ones are fun, "show" style uniforms. They make the band the band.


... and they have tradition(s). Well, we HAD some... But they were snuffed out pretty quickly by the administration. Anyone ever do a quickly? - s**t, I was ASKED just so people wouldnt be embarrassed. Didnt bother me. On top of all that, people need to take some freakin' pride in themselves and just realize that this is what the organization DOES. Sheesh. ... But I s'pose this is a topic for another Thread... To which I'll post.

OT, but look at the stands in the picture of the Akron Marching Band!

Well, maybe that was a post game show or something.......

and by something, I mean a typical home game at the Rubber Bowl.

Mikey...

I am lover of tradition, but I do think your new uniforms are spiffey, for new style "DCI" uniforms.

I think Miami needs to get new uniforms, and I advocate going back to the blue and white uniforms of the 70's.

Be happy YOUR administration didn't try to can the FMB for its traditions. Some of us have some experience in that manner....(Happenned before my time, but it affects me nonetheless.)