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As far as director changes...before '08 (state year) Haltom's marching director left and went to .....LD Bell! Haltom was 4th at area that year and 13th at state. Before this year Haltom's percussion director left and went to........LD Bell! Congratulations to the incoming directors who took a hard-working (and prop-less) program and continued the tradition of excellence at Haltom. Keep the Spirit! Haltom was 4th at Honor Band last year, so you know they can play. Less than 200 players. Check the ordinal rankings for music from the area judges...

Just wanted to add my 2 cents.... If you look at the prelims results, each individual judge had the top 10 bands in each of their rankings (with a few exceptions), so I think it's ludicrous to complain about who made finals. If you look at several of the people who have done some analysis and dropped high & low or done some other things, you still end up with Marcus-Bell one-two. After that, it was really wide open for 3rd thru 6th. Personally, I liked Duncanville's show better than all the rest, but I'm only a band parent/nurse, and have no formal training in music. This year I've got a senior and a freshman, and I told them and the rest of our band two things; 1) How did you feel coming off the field? 2) You know that about 120+ 5A marching bands would trade places with you in a minute if you said to them "You can go to state, but you won't make finals"? Our kids (Haltom) have been to state several consecutive times (I think all the way back to 2000, but I'm not sure), and have been in the top 10, but not since 2004. We are lucky to live in an area where we get to see and compete with Marcus, Bell, Hebron and Richland (our sister school in Birdville ISD) all the time. We finished 5th in prelims and 4th in finals in area B, trading places with Hebron (Bell, Marcus, Richland 1=2=3). I'm proud of the way our kids compete. Richland had the smallest band in finals and we march about 25 fewer members. You can tell we don't have the budget of some of the other schools, but we have an awesome parent support group. Lastly, (I've obviously got "geezer ramble-on syndrome"), congratulations to all the bands who made state. Special congrats to the finalists! Marcus deserved the win, and Bell as always handled themselves with class. Go Buffs! (& a7th grader on the way!)

I know it's hard to consider, but no love for Haltom anywhere? Certainly Bell & Marcus deserve the nod, but Haltom has a different show that just about anybody else. If we march it on Tues like we did at Region, we're a top 5 finish. I felt like our finals performance was somewhat less convincing, even tho we ended up 4th in finals. Go Buffs!

I'm sure you know that Haltom is not a program that would cheat. I'm sure you also know that our director for the past 8 years left this summer to be asst director at Bell. I'm very excited for the kids in our band (ESP the seniors) to have been able to advance to state with all the chaos that changing directors can cause. Go Buffs!

those scores total 10 for bell and 11 for marcus. There was no tie to break

No one has really seen our (Haltom) show except forCarrollton TOC (3rd). Talk about flying under the radar. If we perform today like we did at Region on Tues Haltom is a serious top 5 STATE contender. Good luck to all! (poster is a parent-Band Nurse-Senior & Freshman students-with a seventh grader on the way!)