That’s Brutal Band Directing…

Wow… anybody notice the big grudge holding that went on in Houston over the weekend?

At half-time of the football game between Tulsa and Rice, the Marching Owls took the liberty to make a mockery of Hurricanes’ coach Todd Graham. And I say make a mockery of him, because their performance was based on Dante’s “Divine Comedy” — in other words, they were searching for Graham through the nine circles of hell. They finally found him behind a door marked “Welcome to Tulsa”.

Seems to me the Rice Band Director needs to take a chill pill. The guy left your program after one year to go coach at a school he has ties to. Wonder what performance you would have cooked up if Nick Saban was your coach…

If I can find video, I’ll put it up there…

As for a script… I’m not too big on posting things I wouldn’t want my mother to read… But I’ll give you an overview and a tiny little excerpt…

After spending their whole half-time show berating Todd Graham and even saying his mom was in the second circle of hell with the adulterers and then finishing off by calling Graham a childish name, the program concludes… “Ladies and gentlemen, the two-thousand seven Marching Owl Band. Please send all complaints to: your mom at mob dot rice dot E-D-U.”

As for thoughts from the band director, Chuck Throckmorton, ‘He said the band expected Tulsa “to be a bit indignant.”‘

And he did it anyway… wow… congratulations on the late middle school/early high school humor. Too bad you’re a university band director…

Don’t cross them or they’ll compare you to a heathen in one of their performances.