Texas Bands

[Band Of Champions]

What are some of your predictions on who the top 20 bands in state will be next year?

[euro_euph06]

In no particular order

 

Top Ten-UIL

Haltom

L.D. Bell

Cedar Park

Langham Creek

Churchill

Duncanville

The Woodlands

Ronald Reagan

James Bowie

Brazoswood

 

Top 12-BOA

Churchill

The Woodlands

Brazoswood

James Bowie

Cedar Park

L.D. Bell

Richland

Marcus

***Ronald Reagan

***SFA

Westfield

Haltom

 

***edit--totally forgot about RR and SFA

[Xukaniz]

What he said ^^^^

[mbui]

QUOTE (euro_euph06 @ Nov 27 2005, 09:43 AM)

Top Ten-BOA Churchill The Woodlands Brazoswood James Bowie Cedar Park L.D. Bell Richland Marcus Haltom Westfield

Good list...

 

But, there are two other bands that I would include under the BOA section....Ronald Reagan & Stephen F. Austin.

[Xukaniz]

  euro_euph06 said:

Top Ten-UIL

Haltom

L.D. Bell

Cedar Park

Langham Creek

Churchill

Duncanville

The Woodlands

Ronald Reagan

James Bowie

Brazoswood

Now that I think about it, with such strong performances from Marcus and Martin this year, I bet they may penetrate the top 10 as well, as well as Coppell.

[chickora]

  Xukaniz said:

Now that I think about it, with such strong performances from Marcus and Martin this year, I bet they may penetrate the top 10 as well, as well as Coppell.

If we have the same exact year as we did this year.. It's a possibility we will beat CP, and that's if they don't get any better. We'll see.

[Dynasty]

  chickora said:

If we have the same exact year as we did this year.. It's a possibility we will beat CP, and that's if they don't get any better. We'll see.

(Please refer to my lengthy post in the Westlake thread)

 

Well just remember... CP put on a BOA show last year. I mean, it was well over UIL's 8 minutes and they were playing and marching (similar to Reagan) before the real show started.

 

This is a state year for 5A, so you might expect a more conventional, and thus competitive show.

[chickora]

I was referring that we are getting better. Hoping that we will do pretty close to them. I wasn't saying that they sucked this year or anything. I completely understand that.

Hoping that I guard will be more stable this year because we just got a new guard director, maybe our visual will be better this coming year..and work on cleaning it more.

 

I can't wait to see what Cedar Park has in for us. I director lives in CP, real close to the high school. Plus, his son is a coach for the football team at CP. I am sure we will get feedback from him.

[sax5warrior]

i expect the same bands that were successful this year to repeat again next year, im predicting Coppell would rise to the top again next year.

[Xenon]

  sax5warrior said:

i expect the same bands that were successful this year to repeat again next year, im predicting Coppell would rise to the top again next year.

I suspect that Coppell will make State again, but will be barely out of Finals.

[Fortisimo]

I suspect that Copell can... oh, wait, that's not appropriate... lmao, well, what about Richland as well? They seem to have done pretty well for themselves...

[Xenon]

  Fortisimo said:

well, what about Richland as well? They seem to have done pretty well for themselves...

I see Richland being in the top 5 (at lowest) of State Finals.

[Fortisimo]

Well there ya go. We tied them at Area last year, and we have both improved tons since then, so I guess we'll see how that turns out.

[QuadraticBeats]

Definitely... NOT US!

I expect our drumline to keep getting alot better, but as far as the band... it's probably going to be a sad repetition of our stupidity from last year. Hard drill + moderately difficult music - marching fundamentals - dedicated players + overall lack of leadership=crap. (By lack of leadership I mean that an unfortunate number of people thought being section leader translated to superiority and disciplinarian authority... yelling about people screwing up but not really doing anything to assist their victims in getting better) They said we were going to work on them every day this year. I'd say asides from band camp, our total fundamental practice at rehearsal for the entire marching season, in actuality, totaled 1-2 hours... drumline 3-4. What do they expect to happen with a bunch of people who have weak fundamentals? We tend to do a strange little thing I like to call "charging" while marching- little tiny step-off, very large steps, and then very small steps when we realize we're overshooting. It's pretty bad. We probably would've made 4A Area finals also if it weren't for our band director placing alternates who had to learn the show in 2 weeks to compete in it... and not only did they have to do that, but their marching fundamentals were non-existent. One of them that most of us have a fond dislike of, or "BO" as we call him, apparently kept marking time 3 beats after the hold. If we had a chance to make finals with what we had, it was killed there.

[PunkAsAMonk]

  Xukaniz said:

Now that I think about it, with such strong performances from Marcus and Martin this year,  I bet they may penetrate the top 10 as well, as well as Coppell.

With Marcus taking both music and visual caption at the most fierce Texas competition this year, I don't see why they would barely "penetrate" the UIL block? Also keeping in mind UIL is based solely on music and marching. Gotta give credit where credit is due.

[coolest_kid_ever]

based on what youve seen and heard no just last year but in the many years before, who does everyone think has the strength to make finals @ state?

[Danpod]

Thank you for a show idea.......Laura freakin' rules =)

[Fortisimo]

  PunkAsAMonk said:

With Marcus taking both music and visual caption at the most fierce Texas competition this year, I don't see why they would barely "penetrate" the UIL block? Also keeping in mind UIL is based solely on music and marching. Gotta give credit where credit is due.

That's true, but man did I hate their show.

[Martinbandownsyou06]

yeah marcus's colorguard was quite annoying as they were pecking the field. I'm interested to see what reagan and churchill put out next year

[MartinHorn]

I hear Brazoswood has an amazing sound so I hope I get to see them next year.

[actualgirltrombone]

I really look forward to see what brazoswood is gonna do next year. their sound was AMAZING and i met some of their band members, who were really nice.

[thesnareguy]

cant wait til next yr

[membername]

I see Marcus doing very well at State Marching...I think they will make finals for sure, maybe even a top 5 contender...maybe. Before everyone jumps down my throat, keep in mind how much they have improved year after year since 2001 and in 04 at their first time at state we managed to wink 12th...def. going to make finals. As for BOA, I'd like to see them win one...but I reckon they'll do about the same as we did last year, maybe alittle better.

[Moose]

I would really like to see Leander bring it back next year. I really enjoyed the 05 show, and really expected it to place better than 30th at BOA SA.

 

Another band that has been on the rise lately is Judson. I expect great things from them in 06.

[bluebellbrass07]

Id love to see coppel make finals this year. i thought they shouldve, made it last year. and i loved the show in 05.

hope martin can at least make it to state this year after being so close the past few.

other than that im just really looking forward to the comp.