Bill Pup60 and Dawg06, can you guys make another thread for your payout discussion? this one is for the band fundraising.
Bill Pup60 and Dawg06, can you guys make another thread for your payout discussion? this one is for the band fundraising.
Correct. Here is a pdf of the bowl payouts for this season released this month from the official Football Bowl Association website: http://footballbowlassociation.com/m...108fbanews.pdf
If the money is raised, certainly they'll all go. But do you suppose $150,000 will be raised in two weeks?
Well, at least 2 or 3 more get to go from people on BB&B. Who knows, someone may decide to fund them all.
Honestly I"m not surprised with any of this. I was in band during my days at Tech and this kind of stuff was normal. Not everyone got to go to everything. When we played at LSU they only took so many people (I happened to be one of them). Typically percussion and brass instruments (trumpets, trombones, tubas, etc.) are first in line to go as they produce more sound than the woodwinds (clarinets, saxaphone, flutes, etc.). The band was then, and now even more so now with the dwindle of state funds, underfunded and does not have alot of finanicial suport from it's alumni. Also Tech is not bringing all of the football players to the bowl either. Roughly 25 players are staying home so I would not expect them to bring all of the band before they brought all the football team. I feel bad for those that will miss out but thats just the way life works out sometimes.
I do not want to come across as mean, but I am disappointed that our Tech leadership did not make it the priority to get the entire band to the game. For that matter, they should get any spirit group avail to the game. This is one time a case could be made to the alumni to donate that we could actually see the result and know for a fact it is going to a good cause. The Tech fans are ready for the big time. I think maybe the school is not yet. There should be an organized fund rasing effort and I should have already been asked for a donation. I did donate but I had to figure out how. I worry if Tech cannot step up to do this right, how can we possibly expect conferernce alignment to be handled appropriately. This expereince has set my expectations back quite a bit.