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    State vs Alabama 2007 on WLOV now.

    I watched the 2009 Florida game on TV (since I'd graduated by then) but in 2007 I was in the band and standing right in from of Alabama's kicker who kept glaring at us to move out of his way because he was expecting to kick the extra point. I remember hearing the teams run by sounding like a...
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    National Anthem singer

    It's a shame it was followed by that. Dr. Michael White did a fantastic job playing jazz clarinet with Bryan Batt singing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKLUG2vic5w
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    My interaction with Wake Forest fans...

    As an alumnus of the FMB I care about such things and the disparity was quite remarkable.
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    I'm probably going to be bashed for this but need to mention it...

    Also brass players removed their mouthpieces if they were on the outside of each rank because someone had his stolen once while marching into the stadium and he never got it back. When you put on that band uniform you represent your university and you'd better represent it with class. In the...
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    Endzone for this week....

    They painted it maroon to hide the Mississippi State underneath. Photo courtesy of Bulldog Sports Radio.
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    Endzone for this week....

    I've seen a lot of #HailState tags in Facebook statuses the past few months mainly from students and recent alumni like myself. I don't really use Twitter much but I've seen it there too. As someone who has been out there on Scott Field on Saturday mornings painting dots on the field for the...
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    I've taken the last 30 minutes to read the accusations being leveled at PSU...

    I read the 23 page grand jury report and that article is a summation of what it contains. One thing that really got to me was the last line in the report: "Victim 8's identity is unknown." (that's the boy that the janitor who fought in the Korean War and saw men blown apart saw being assaulted...
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    OT: discrepancy with military channel on Robert E Lee..history buff's opinion appreciated

    OT: discrepancy with military channel on Robert E Lee..history buff's opinion appreciated <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Some other favorite quotes from the book "The Maxims of Robert E. Lee for Young Gentlemen."</p> <p...
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    Question about our academic recruiting

    I took the ACT three times (hadn't taken trig yet the first time so it dragged my math score down) and scored a composite 29, then 30, then 31. With a 31 Auburn didn't offer me a dime, Alabama gave me what MSU offered but it was specifically through their College of Engineering (and I wasn't...
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    Not to be left behind, the Famous Maroon Band is getting bigger

    Most of the directors of the Lions Band are Ole Miss grads. And one year when I was in the band we only had 215 (2003 or 2004?), which is not enough for an SEC band (USC and their vaunted 190 or whatever aren't enough either). At that time Ms. Lance's goal was 275. Now I suspect it's 300-350...
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    Construction on campus, sorry if germans.

    Those are the university apartments on the south side of campus (in between the Shell station on Blackjack and the lower parking lot east of Rice Hall). I had a friend who lived there, they were pretty crummy. Can't say I'm not glad to see they're being torn down.
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    Who Can Play The Best Version of the Fight Song on Google Guitar?

    I marched in the FMB with him. Great guy. I have a music ed degree from MSU and even I don't have the patience to do that!
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    For you weather buffs, one more tornado vid ...

    The Smithville and Hackleburg tornadoes were both EF5s but they were two different tornadoes. The Hackleburg one is the one that also decimated Phil Campbell, which is northeast of Hackleburg. I drove through Hackleburg on Friday on the way to Starkville and back through it up to Athens today...
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    We live out of state...

    I was wearing a white polo with the M-State logo on it in Wisconsin (during the 2008 EAA convention) and some of the people I spoke to asked me about that shirt, which none of them recognized as Miss. State. One lady said, "I thought it looked like Michigan State's logo but the colors weren't...
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    We live out of state...

    MSU's Wind Ensemble toured the British Isles in 2008, and I was still in school at the time so I went on the trip. When we were in our first city, Galway, Ireland, an obviously Irish man came up to me and asked about my shirt (I was wearing a maroon MSU t-shirt). He said that he'd seen a bunch...
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