Now i give props to BCC for coming back on us (which shouldnt have happened) but there should be no debate now on who is the better band. Anyone who saw that halftime show knows now that BCC aint messin wit the Marching 100 of FAMU!!!! holla
Okay, I'm really gettin tired of hearin all this Bullsh!t from all these FAMU folks. All I wanna say is please stop hating. Ya'll are talkin all this sh!t about Cookman because ya'll are insecure about ya'lls continously FALLING program. EVERYONE knows that the "GREAT MARCHING 100" that was the best and couldn't nobody fucc wit died out in the mid to late 90's. Stop tryin to live off of ya'll tradition and do something that will TRY to make ya'll the best band in the land again. As of now, ya'll are not. Ya'll have a lot of issues in your program that ya'll need to take care of before you can start downing a program that everyone knows IS CLEARLY BETTER THAN YOURS. Until ya'll can get some dicipline and refrain from FIGHTING EACH OTHER in the stands at your HOMECOMING game in front of alumni and attempting to **** people to bring them into your as of now SORRY @SS BAND (need I remind of 1.8 Mil) you are not in the position to talk about no other band other than your own. Sit back, evaluate your own band, get alot of sh!t str8 then you can talk. Until then
ALL FAMU RATTLERS NEED TO SHUT THE FUKC UP ABOUT THIER FALLING BAND PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, I'm really gettin tired of hearin all this Bullsh!t from all these FAMU folks. All I wanna say is please stop hating. Ya'll are talkin all this sh!t about Cookman because ya'll are insecure about ya'lls continously FALLING program. EVERYONE knows that the "GREAT MARCHING 100" that was the best and couldn't nobody fucc wit died out in the mid to late 90's. Stop tryin to live off of ya'll tradition and do something that will TRY to make ya'll the best band in the land again. As of now, ya'll are not. Ya'll have a lot of issues in your program that ya'll need to take care of before you can start downing a program that everyone knows IS CLEARLY BETTER THAN YOURS. Until ya'll can get some dicipline and refrain from FIGHTING EACH OTHER in the stands at your HOMECOMING game in front of alumni and attempting to **** people to bring them into your as of now SORRY @SS BAND (need I remind of 1.8 Mil) you are not in the position to talk about no other band other than your own. Sit back, evaluate your own band, get alot of sh!t str8 then you can talk. Until then
ALL FAMU RATTLERS NEED TO SHUT THE FUKC UP ABOUT THIER FALLING BAND PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You muthasucka, let me tell you something, our band program can fall straight to hell if it wanted to and guess what............................
Cookman would still be below us. You come on here stating all of our business like no other band programs have issues. That's a part of life. You're gonna have problems just like any family. You talk about insecurity? I'll tell you what insecurity is. Insecurity is pulling out cheap gimicks (i.e. fireworks, fake Kelly Price, motorcycles, gush pyramids, Cadillac trucks, etc.) because you're not confident in your "band". LIVING OFF OF TRADITION? **** we thrive on that. We don't compete with these sorry **** bands today. We compete with past years of the Marching 100. That's our competition. Damn right, I'm arrogant. There is no other way to put this, The 100 is "SIMPLY: THE BEST" and until you can actually prove that you can hang with us (not by one or two years of having a bigger band than us, not by getting more crowd participation, but through acheivements and accolades, invitations and awards) then you will still be 100 steps behind us. Just to help you out here's a list:
MAJOR PERFORMANCES
1. Olympics -Los Angeles, Ca. -Summer Games 1984
2. Official USA Representative chosen by the French Government in the Bastille Day Parade, in celebration of the Bicentennial of the French Revolution -Paris, France -1989
3. Half Time Performance of the Magic Johnson All Star Basketball Charity Game in the Great Western Forum -Los Angeles, Ca -1990
4. Performances in Nassau, Bahamas -December 1963 and -December 1990
5. President Bill Clinton Inaugural Parade -Washington, DC. -January 1993 Opening Ceremony for the Florida Marlins
HONORS
1. Featured in Paramount News Film entitled, 'Half-Time USA' released in August 1968, and, 'Look UP America' national Coca-Cola television commercial, 1975 Screen Gems, Columbia Pictures.
2. Florida A&M University Marching Band 30 second National Television Commercial for Welch Grape Soda, 1980
3. The Florida A&M University Marching Band which was presented in a documentary on the March 29, 1981 "60 Minutes" CBS national television shoe with Henry Reasoner as correspondent.
4. FAMU Marching Band featured in a three minute opening segment of 15th Anniversary of Walt Disney World national Television Special ABC-TV, 1986
5. FAMU Marching Band presented in 14 minute segment on 20/20, 60 Minutes, P.M. Magazines and has appeared in three commercials.
6. Thirty two performances on NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, Cable television and All Sports Network including the Super Bowl and in stadiums throughout the country to over five billion people.
INNOVATIONS
1. First band to establish and series of salutes to outstanding personalities, band directors and music educators in America.
2. First band to appear in a joint concert with one of the four major United States Armed Service Bands. February 24, 1979, Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. joint concert with the United States Army Band.
3. First marching band to perform a complete commercial for national television on all networks: ABC, CBS, and NBC -30 seconds - Welch Grape Soda - Viewing and listening audience of up to TWO BILLION PEOPLE.
4. First marching band to be featured in DOCUMENTARY on "60 MINUTES" National CBS television with Harry Reasoner on March 29, 1981.
5. First band to perform televised post -game show.
6. Double time marching step of 240 steps per minute or four steps per second and triple time marching step of 360 steps per minute or six steps per second.
7. Death-slow cadence of 20 steps per minute or one step every three seconds.
8. Seven and a half yard spacing between letters, numbers and horizontal lines of formations.
9. Correlation of instatement arc and knee lift 30 - 45 - 60 & 90.
10. Specific degree of arc in instrument movement 30 - 45 -60 & 90.
11. Extensive animated movement of picture formations. Example of all sports show of basketball player, ball and goal.
12. New percussion ensemble sound with 20 piece percussion section consisting of eight snare drums, four tenor drums, four scotch bass drums and four pair of symbols. Present size of percussion section is 28.
13. Dynamic contract range and level of percussion section from pp to fff with the ability to be felt rather than heard.
14. Memorization of all music played in stands, parades, pre-game, and half-time shows.
15. System of staggered breathing by odd and even files.
16. For mat of 45" spacing (three steps in per perpendicular line and 67 1/2" spacing, two steps in horizontal lines).
17. Use of silent count by drum majors for movement of band.
18. Division of band into two equal band units for parading through Narrow streets. Each band alternates in playing a different match and the percussion section from each band picks up and plays cadence after preceding band plays its march, etc.
19. Use of [recession , exaggerated and correlated movements of hands, legs, and instruments.
20. Printing of pre-game and half-time show routine and band staff in football game program.
21. Division - split of band into two to five designs in dance routines and multidrills.
22. Use of multidrill, a technique of combining precision drill, patterns in motion and circle drill into one coordinated and correlated drill routine.
23. Complete section of twelve fiberglass sousaphones.
24. Rhapsodic fanfare made up of excerpts of music groom the half-time show music.
25. Use of multiple tune in dance routines, concert rendition and multidrill.
26. Structure of pre-game show and half-time band pageants based upon relevance in terms of theme, music, maneuvers, formations, multidrill, concert and dance routine.
27. Use of facing movements on the halt thus eliminating the need for signals by the drum major.
28. Us of simultaneous execution of multiple dance sequences.
29. Introduced intricate instrument flash movements by the sousaphone section, trumpet section, trombone section, french hone-contralto section and percussion section.
30. End of multidrll in formation symbolic and based on the theme of the pageant show.
31. First story board including legend for Marching Band for Television.
AND THAT'S JUST SCRATCHING THE SURFACE!
GET YO WEIGHT UP!
You muthasucka, let me tell you something, our band program can fall straight to hell if it wanted to and guess what............................
Cookman would still be below us.
First off I DON'T go to Cookman. Second, that comment is the reason that ya'll ain't the best nomore. Ya'll feel as though since ya'll are FAMU no one can touch ya'll. Ever. All those accomplishments are all fine and dandy but the majority of them were accomplished BEFORE YOU EVEN GOT THERE. What accomplishments has FAMU done since you have been there? :roll: EXACTLY....You shouldn't even speak of things that you know nothing about or have not experienced. Again I ask, what has the hundred of today done besides whoop a lotta @ss and fight? Now compare them to other schools accomplishments. Kinda similar huh? I understand that ya'll are brainwashed to believe that ya'll are just unstoppable but do you actually think that ya'll have never been did in by another band? If so, what are u smokin on. I know 4 a fact that TSU din laid it in ya'll PLENTY of times and since you catch feelings about Cookman so much I ain't even gonna tell you how many times they did ya'll in but you probably don't wanna hear that. It probably hurts to hear the truth. I understand. You are just another product of the cocky, arrogant, untouchable FAMU. I know its hard for ya'll to digest the fact that this little @ss school in Daytona has a band that has been whoopin ya'll @ss lately, has grown to the same size, and is clearly BETTER. Cookman ain't been whoopin that @ss long, but it's been long enough to prove that ya'll ain't the Best no more. Truthfully, Cookmans band ain't been around that long but I gurantee you that the same time that it took the OLD 100 that WAS the undesputed best had to make all those accomplishments that Cookman can do the same if not better and has done the same in the little time they have been around.
Anywayz, I'm tired of talkin to a brick wall cause all ya'll FAMU people the same. Ya'll KNOW that no one is on the level of the 100 today. But just because you in the same band as the one that was great don't mean that the one you in is AS great.
Moral of the story is while ya'll thinkin ya'll can't be touched, MORE and MORE bands are surpassing you and getting better every year. So keep thinkin what you think. "Oh yeah, I'm in the great marching 100. I go to FAMU. We are the best, we are this we are that we did this we did that no one will be as good as us. EVER". As long as ya'll be thinkin that all us SORRY @ss bands as FAMU folks probably call them, will be and already have SURPASSED YOU.
So what I'm really tryin to say is
THANKS for being a stepping stool
Ya'll are what makes us look even better that what we already are. You can argue me all u want but I've said what I had to say. Sorry to bust your bubble SPORT, but keep ya head up.
Great start, but I've seen that already and it speaks of NO accomplishments. It's a freakin documentary. It basiclly told what it's like at a regular day at practice and what the hundred was (somewhat) all about. Excellent for a short documentary but once again I ask...........
What has the hundred of today Accomplished? Nice try son but try again :lol:
quick question: Are you in the band at your school? since you claim to know so much about Black College Bands.
better yet did you go to the Honda Battle of the Bands last year, where they were given a trophy for best overall band there.(and the do have pictures of it being presented to Dr. White)
Dang yall I dont think that Dr. White and Mr. Wells would appreciate da down grading of their bands like diz sure BCC is da ENEMY but it should be some good healthy competion, not down grading of one program to up another. I do understand, cuz I have been in the band fo 7 years, and I feel da heat all da time. :arrow: :arrow: :arrow:
I gotta be real with you. This goes FAR BEYOND BAND. This FAMU/BCC rivalry has been going on forever so none of this is new. I am a witness to how BCC ridicules FAMU. A while back I was on a visit to BCC's campus and I sat in on a class. I was shocked at how the professor spoke of FAMU. He made remarks such as "This isn't FAMU, we don't behave like that", "If you're gonna ask questions like that then you might as well go to FAMU", "Take your hat off in here where do you think you are, FAMU?" I mean it was downright degrading. Now as far as band goes, if you ask any member of the Pride they will tell you that **** Wells always speaks negatively of the 100. Dr. White never does that. In actuality, whenever he speaks of the Pride it's always of a positive manner. On a positive note, all of that seemed to be squash for a small moment at the Honda Battle of the Bands. Prarie View had been trying us all weekend. They took it to another level at the World Congress Center during breakfast (taunting us, throwing food, etc.). It was clear that we could have handled that situation by ourselves but, SHOCKINGLY, BCC had our backs and they were ready to hit if anything went down.
I gotta be real with you. This goes FAR BEYOND BAND. This FAMU/BCC rivalry has been going on forever so none of this is new. I am a witness to how BCC ridicules FAMU. A while back I was on a visit to BCC's campus and I sat in on a class. I was shocked at how the professor spoke of FAMU. He made remarks such as "This isn't FAMU, we don't behave like that", "If you're gonna ask questions like that then you might as well go to FAMU", "Take your hat off in here where do you think you are, FAMU?" I mean it was downright degrading. Now as far as band goes, if you ask any member of the Pride they will tell you that **** Wells always speaks negatively of the 100. Dr. White never does that. In actuality, whenever he speaks of the Pride it's always of a positive manner. On a positive note, all of that seemed to be squash for a small moment at the Honda Battle of the Bands. Prarie View had been trying us all weekend. They took it to another level at the World Congress Center during breakfast (taunting us, throwing food, etc.). It was clear that we could have handled that situation by ourselves but, SHOCKINGLY, BCC had our backs and they were ready to hit if anything went down.
yea I heard about that. Speaking as a Texan growing up watching PV, they have fell off big time if they trying folks because from what i hear. Texas Southern got in they **** Labor Day Classic
Ya'll are what makes us look even better that what we already are. You can argue me all u want but I've said what I had to say. Sorry to bust your bubble SPORT, but keep ya head up.
