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Can't we hook up a home-and-home? I'd be glad to see us whoop up on them up in Durham too! ;D

It might be the $$ issue again, but what does it take to trade up a I-AA for one of the BCS conference whipping boys, like Ole Miss, Washington, or Duke? Or is there already a line?

How sweet it is, both that Duke lost and that probably screwed alot of my competitors brackets while doing nothing to my own. Duck Fuke, Geaux Tigers!

One that's a bit overdone, but would nonetheless be ours (since it's school-specific) would be to take the first 2 1/2 measures of our fight song and modulate it a few times, throwing a "GO BULLS!" in between reps. I know it's been done with LSU's Tiger Rag theme, Georgia's Glory Glory, Wisconsin's On Wisconsin, and probably countless others Also, some sort of simple percussion fight cadence with verbals in it.

south of Greensboro as in there's something in Greensboro? I ask because I'm at UNCG now.

M.Ed., College Student Affairs, 2005. (BA Psychology, Music minor, 2003 from UMBC)

Hosting is more an honor for our marketing team and those who assisted in putting together the proposal. It says nothing, good or bad, about our team itself. That said, if we reap financial benefits as a host (I don't know if we do or not, but I'd suspect as much) that can then go back into our programs, it's certainly a positive.

That's what I'm talking about! No limp-wrist, curved-fingers horns here. come strong or don't come at all!

Seems to me we're talking about the things we can more readily and easily change.

I usually just call them the horns.. Bull horns, "U" Horns... or perhaps the Bull Hand...

Thanks for pointing that out, because I only got the game late in the game and that call certainly left a bad taste in my mouth.

they've corrected it now here, they switched after the half... thank you!

Anyone else stuck with a different game because of "regional action"? UConn-Coppin State is on here, the only reason for such that I can discern is that I'm pretty strongly in MEAC country. AHH!! > > >

Wouldn't you be inspired to run a marathon if it meant getting away from the pop? ;-) Thanks for the updates, I appreciate it!

I'm surprised that many more are making more than Coach K. But then, as has been mentioned, this is salary, not income.

Just a question--was my convuluted answer actually intelligible to anyone but me? :-/

I'd like to thank USF Football for that same privilege ;-)

Why is it dead? because there are games to watch!

College-UMBC (my other alma mater and the ONLY school I put above my Bulls), Maryland, UNCG (where I work now) NFL-Eagles NBA-Sixers MLB-Red Sox NHL (to the small degree that I care)-Flyers I was born in Boston and grew up in Wilmington, DE, which explains most of my picks.

Ghetto, but effective. Similarly, I'd love to see us do Trick Daddy's Shut Up, particularly for bad ref calls.

I think we're definitely looking in the right direction with additional crowd participation. A few things I'd like to see, in addition to what's been said: -It would be great if the drumline could do a "stampede" effect. I'm thinking like a triplet followed by an accented stroke (if you can, think of the four legs of a bull hitting the ground unevenly) that starts slow and speeds up into a stampede, and hopefully gets the crowd involved as well. -As other schools do, it would be great if there were a portion or reprise of our fight song where we dropped out to just low brass and percussion and the rest of the band sings the fight song. Hopefully it would catch on and people would actually learn the lyrics, and I think it could build into a frenzy throughout the verse with people shouting "HERE AND NOW AND WE WILL WIN THE VICTORY!" If you're familiar with the Cavaliers of DCI, think of their last time through their "We are the corps the Cavaliers" song. -I think it would be great to take a break in another song in the catalog and add a "Go Bulls" in the middle that people can expect and join in on. Similarly, I think people need to be ready for the "Go Bulls" at the end of Wooly Bully -As was mentioned with the Imperial March, I think it would be great if there were something ominous when our defense took the field. Alot of the good ones have been taken (Imperial March, O Fortuna, Night on Bald Mountain, Mars, Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah) but I think we could work with a theme taken from Malagueña. I wish I could sing/play the part I'm talking about, so I'll try online. Humor me--think about the break in Malagueña that leads out into the percussion accents at the following: ONE (and two and three and) FOUR (and one and two and three) AND FOUR (and)/ (one and) TWO (and) THREE AND (four and one) AND (two) AND THREE! OK, it doesn't look the best, but count through it, and if you speak drummer, you know what part I'm talking about. Consider that, with its accompanying horn parts, followed by laying with all your might on the following downbeat in the low brass especially with a bass drum/low tom/snares off roll. Lyrics could even be added, something to the effect of (on the above accents) GO!... BULLS!... GO BULLS!/ ...U-S F!... LET'S-GO BULLS! Perhaps i'm optimistic that an entire student section, much less the entire stadium, could hit all those on beat, but imagine the effect of it! that is, if it was even legible/comprehensible. Sometimes, the internet isn't as great as it seems. :-P

I think Griff's talking about Can't Turn you Loose--if so, you can make a great slow-fast transition from Also Sprach Zarathustra (theme from 2001-A space odyssey) to Can't Turn You Loose And I forgot--Sportscenter theme!

Carlos Santana-Everybody's Everything Big noise from Winnetka (don't know who it's by, but there are myriad arrangements of it) Kool and the Gang-Jungle Boogie Ides of March-Vehicle (somewhat overdone, but a great stands tune nonetheless) Metallica/Ennio Morricone-The Ecstacy of Gold Trick daddy-Shut up (low brass only--for bad ref calls) I may be back.. .but I'll also second USFCollin's request for a simple spirit song for crowd involvement.

I agree with you with the weather up top, but keep in mind the grass is always greener on the other side. If you think you can hit the beach as it's starting ot get "cold" at home, I think alot of people are going ot hop on that.

I'll definitely buy that one. Hopefully we pick up a win elsewhere on Tobacco Road this coming year!