Choir Boy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2024 3:02 pm
Boom. Setting the foundation for next year. Conrats. Great win. Congrats Clay and Team
AP You whiffed on your pre game pick. Bad. Never underestimate the heart of a Paladin
We should recruit the ETSU band. They are good.
I would not be surprised that ETSU would have a good band and a good music department.
Furman has a good band and a good music department.
Please keep in mind that ETSU has a total of about 13,500 students compared to Furman having about 2,600 students. So ETSU has roughly 11,000 more students than Furman has for having a band. Furman band has traditionally maintained very high quality.
If you want to compare Furman's band to the band of any particular school with 2,600 students, that would be a more fair comparison.
Of course, we as a 2,600-student school have athletics competition mostly against schools that are significantly larger also. That brings up the question of how we can compete in athletics with larger schools. My guess is that the percentage of team members that we provide scholarships for and the percentage of team members that larger schools provide scholarships for are reasonably equivalent.
I would expect that some Furman band members are on a music scholarship that is not specifically for playing in the band but instead for because of being a highly-talented music major; but that a majority of Furman band members are "walk-ons", i.e., without a scholarship and providing for all or most of their expenses related to band participation. I would think the same would be true at ETSU but it is a different situation due to the simple fact that they have so many more students who would be potentially and actually interested in being in band, 13,500 students compared to 2,600 students.
In any case, we would have a much larger band at Furman if we had more students in the overall student body and/or if we had significantly more music majors.
