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Could someone please tell me what you guys get for playing in the marching band, hockey pep, and basketball pep bands?

Credits? Grade and Credit? or?


Thank you.

We get two credit hours for marching band, up from one hour a few years ago. Like any class, we must earn a grade. Yes, people have failed, usually for things like attendance. We get no money.

For A-band, which plays at the basketball and hockey games, we get one credit hour and our earned grade. In addition, due to a recent benefactor who requested his or her money be used for this purpose, we get a small stipend in the form of a "scholarship" applied to our bursar accounts at the end of the season. It is generally between $100 and $150, depending on the number of players and whether or not you played all your required games, or found a sub, etc. it is my understanding that once these funds run out, A-band will go back to being an unpayed class.

Why are you wondering?

I think BGSUFMB is the only band in the MAC which is a class and that the students "pay to play", basically.

Actually, marching band is a class at Toledo, Ball State, Buffalo, Kent, and Western Mich too. (Maybe others-- I'm not sure.)

They might still get paid, though; I don't know.

FliccGirl wrote:Actually, marching band is a class at Toledo, Ball State, Buffalo, Kent, and Western Mich too. (Maybe others-- I'm not sure.)

They might still get paid, though; I don't know.

I know Toledo gets paid by mileage for every game a band member must get themself to. For example, take the Motor City Bowl a few years back. The kids were home on break; it was not mandatory, and if you drove in from your hometown, you got something like $.37 a mile, according to a friend who did it.

SaxyIrishTenor wrote:I know Toledo gets paid by mileage for every game a band member must get themself to. For example, take the Motor City Bowl a few years back. The kids were home on break; it was not mandatory, and if you drove in from your hometown, you got something like $.37 a mile, according to a friend who did it.

Their bowl game wasn't mandatory for the band?!? How did they march if a lot of people weren't there?!


Edited after it occurred to me, they don't really march anyway, so I guess it wouldn't make that much difference.

FliccGirl wrote:

SaxyIrishTenor wrote:I know Toledo gets paid by mileage for every game a band member must get themself to. For example, take the Motor City Bowl a few years back. The kids were home on break; it was not mandatory, and if you drove in from your hometown, you got something like $.37 a mile, according to a friend who did it.

Their bowl game wasn't mandatory for the band?!? How did they march if a lot of people weren't there?!


Edited after it occurred to me, they don't really march anyway, so I guess it wouldn't make that much difference.

Hehe... That what i asked him, and he very openly said it looked like sh!t. He's a no nonsense kind of guy...

Oh. I was kinda kidding-- I figured they'd pull a '03 Northwestern and just not do a halftime show, or a '03 Miami and just do a park-and-blow.

Actually marching with only like 3/4 of a band? That would suck.

Dayons_Den wrote:Could someone please tell me what you guys get for playing in the marching band, hockey pep, and basketball pep bands?

When you look at the amount of work, blood, sweat, and tears that go into Marching and Athletic bands, and then compare it with any form of compensation that the university gives (in the form of grades, credit, money into bursar), most normal people would agree it is almost laughable. IMO, the pay off, the part that makes it worth while in no way comes from the university. Personally, I found that far greater compensation came from the friends made, and the experiences had. I know I'm not alone in saying that I would have marched if the FMB was a club and not a class. Of course, I'm proably preaching to the choir (or band as it were), but oh well. Just being in the band was compensation enough for me. I'm not sure I'll be saying that in 10-15 years when I'm talking with my doctor about joint replacments, but I'll say it now.

goofyeuph wrote:Of course, I'm proably preaching to the choir (or band as it were), but oh well.

Buh-dum cshhh!

You're right, of course, about FMB. But I betcha the stipend has had quite a bit to do with the seemingly redoubled new interest in A-band. My freshman year, it didn't seem like anyone was enthusiastic about A-band, but now people are. They were lured in by the stipend, and then realized how much fun it could be if people actually care.

Back in the early 90s our 'compensation' was a grade and a free apple at the football games and a free pop at athletic band!

Ohiogal wrote:Back in the early 90s our 'compensation' was a grade and a free apple at the football games and a free pop at athletic band!

We don't get the free pop anymore!

Ohiogal wrote:Back in the early 90s our 'compensation' was a grade and a free apple at the football games and a free pop at athletic band!

I missed that apple this past fall...

FliccGirl wrote: But I betcha the stipend has had quite a bit to do with the seemingly redoubled new interest in A-band. My freshman year, it didn't seem like anyone was enthusiastic about A-band, but now people are. They were lured in by the stipend, and then realized how much fun it could be if people actually care.

i would agree with that. this is my fourth year in a-band and i can see a difference. I can remember when they started paying us for it, a whole new group of people came out. But pay or no pay, I love band!

Ohiogal wrote:Back in the early 90s our 'compensation' was a grade and a free apple at the football games and a free pop at athletic band!

I forgot about the pop. Sometime when we pulled double headers, we would get hotdog too!

Those were the days. Play both women's and men's bball games, get some dinner (usually out of the wheel of death in the basement of the MMAC) and then get over to the ice arena for the hockey game.

Good times, good times.