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I've always been under the impression that the full band only travels to 2-3 regular season away games a year and those games are usually a bus trip.

Are you suggesting that Clemson has more money now than in the past and therefore should allocate more money towards band travel expenses? I'm not familiar with Clemson's budgeting process, but your hot take seems a bit presumptuous. I would strongly doubt that anyone said "let's allocate those extra 200 seats to IPTAY donors instead of the band. The actual tickets to the game would be trivial versus flying that many people and their equipment to Houston for 2 days. I would also suggest that the decision to send the pep band versus the full band was made 3-4 years ago.

It's unfair to characterize a practice that has been in place for 50+ years as a shameful practice designed to favor the rich versus the poor band members. But, welcome to the internet, I guess.

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Guys, I tried to tell you, but no one listened.

Sep 10, 2018, 8:23 AM

When we started getting this “DJ” playing crap music during the game, I warned you all. I said “it’s a matter of time before they look at the cost of one dork with headphones and a mixer vs the cost of the entire band program.”

Well, the chickens are coming home to roost. The board thinks that Lil Wayne at volume level 12 is just as good, if not better than the entire Tiger Band playing Chicago songs with the Washington Post. They discount the contributions of the band. They’re looking at making decisions purely off the balance sheet. Pretty soon you’ll be pumping your fist and doing the cadence count to the woohoo remix.

Remember in the early 90’s on our NCAA basketball tourney away games, when we would pay a local small university band to play our fight songs instead of sending our own band? That’s the next stop.....paying independent mercenary bands to play our beloved songs at every away game.

We can still stop this.....call your congressman. Write the trustees. Go take random instruments and play them on Clements’ front lawn. Our time is now.