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November 28, 2007
Got a Beef With Your Opponent? Call the Rice Marching Band
Rice might be one of the worst football teams on the field, but their band has to be in the top ten. The marching band is known for putting together half time shows which poke fun at their opponents.
Case in point, this halftime show when Rice played against Texas, making fun of the legal troubles of some of the players, and the lax punishment by Mack Brown. (Side note: I had a feeling at the beginning of the season that all these distractions from the legal issues would harm Texas. I just didn't see at the end of the season how they could lose to A&M. At the beginning of the season, you bet. But after Franchione all but destroyed that team, no way.)
Apparently their show when they faced Tulsa ruffled a few feathers. See, the Tulsa coach, Todd Graham, was the head coach at Rice for a single season. That would be just before he bolted without warning to Tulsa, leaving fans and Rice in the lurch.
Well, the Rice band put together a fun little show lambasting the coach through the circles of hell, calling it Todd Graham's Inferno.
Tulsa didn't take too kindly to the humor, nor the coach being called a "d-----bag" prior to the final part of the piece.
A formal complaint has been filed with the Conference USA office. Don't you wish other conferences had so little to worry about that this is what they filed complaints over? Maybe Tulsa should worry more about how they are going to beat Central Florida for the Conference USA title, than a band for a team that barely won anything this season.
Posted by bmiraski at November 28, 2007 2:20 PM
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