Our baseball team may be crumbling, but at least come football season, our band will (again) be better than Oregon's! The Oregon State University Marching Band (OSUMB), as of this week, had 219 members signed up, and the Spring Term is only half over! The current projections for Fall put us between 250 and 270. To put that into perspective, we had 215 last year to have the highest count since the 1980s, and 240 is the cutoff for those who will be allowed to travel to bowl games and recieve a stipend. Over the last few years, we have seen the traditional letter spellout during halftime grow from "B-E-A-V-S" to "B-E-A-V-E-R-S-!"-- and now we can look forward to more condensed letters which are even easier to make out from the stands.
Also in comparison, the U of O Marching Band (OMB) had around 205 last year, and according to one of their trumpet players, is being forced by the Athletics department to scale down to 140 because they are taking too many seats. That rumor has not been confirmed, but I heard it from the player, and a friend of his in the program agreed with him.
Also, for the record, the OSUMB walluped the OMB in last year's Battle of the Bands. Maybe this year we can add UW's band to our win tally as well.
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