Berkeley is known for war protests and counterculture activity.
A&M is known for the Corps of Cadets, and recently lost its president to the Pentagon, where Robert Gates is the new Secretary of Defense.A&M has a military-style band made up of Cadets. Cal has a traditional-style band, in contrast to hated archrival Stanford's non-traditional oddball band.
It should be interesting in San Diego.
It should be interesting to see or hear what the skinheads do to the other band. A&M is known for stealing things or doing other things to the opposing bands. I wish we had an insider to tell us.
ReplyDeleteRemember when the cadets pulled their swords on the SMU people when they tried to run onto Kyle Field? I think it was SMU, it might have been TCU or Tech or someone.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember that, but it does not surprise me at all. Half of them are probably from the juco right there anyway. ;)
ReplyDeleteI just remember talking to different band people (mostly TCU, but one friend from the Rice band too) and A&M were the worst. One report was that they stole the drum major's baton.
Now, I have problems with both UT and A&M, but at least UT doesn't have a bunch of skin heads threatening poor band geeks (they just have the whackiness of Matthew McConaughey - which should be enough to scare anyone).
I've heard that the Corps has people marching with their band that don't even play instruments. I don't know if that's true, or not.
ReplyDeleteCompared to Texas, I like A&M. UT is evil. A&M is not. There are schools I like better, but I don't hate the Ags. If my kids are going to go to a state school, I'd like for them to go to A&M. But stealing batons from drum majors is not cool.
The Corps is cool to watch, but I wouldn't want to be part of it.