Ad Disclosure
The St. Joe’s Band Will Be Filling in for Oklahoma’s Band at the Temple Game
By Kyle Pagan
Published:
BIG (5) news for this weekend. The St. Joe’s band will be filling in for Oklahoma for the Temple game because the Sooner band won’t be making the trip:
First off, how soft is the Sooner band? Pack up the tubas, check the horns, and get your ass to Philadelphia. You’ve got a College Football Playoff contender. Every single game matters. I don’t care that you have to travel to Auburn the next week. Suck it up and get your ass on the plane. College sports is nothing without the band. The good news is one of the best bands in the country and stars of the critically acclaimed Wolf of Wall Street will have to carry the game. Secondly, I want to hate this from St. Joe’s. It feels dirty to do this to another Philly school. For some reason though, I can’t help but respect it. If you’re St. Joe’s this is a brilliantly-calculated move. Sure, I hope the Hawk’s days are numbered, but if Temple beats Oklahoma that means more money for basketball and recruiting the same kids they are. What if Temple beats OU and Adam Fisher can sweeten a recruit’s deal a little more? That matters in college sports now! I kind of respect this out St. Joe’s. Play your heart out. The Big 5 might be back. I still hope someone beans the Hawk with a stale shopping cart pretzel tomorrow.
Ngl, the NCAA might have to open up an investigation into Oklahoma and St. Joe’s relationship. I think OU owns St. Joe’s. First they poach their star point guard, Xzayvier Brown, in the transfer portal and now they’re hiring them to do their band bidding. What’s going on with the deep state at Hawk Hill? Someone at OU is working the President of the school like a puppet, apparently.
The good news if you’re a Temple fan is that this just gives K.C. Keeler and the Owls more ammo. If you don’t think the coaches and players are going to use this as bulletin board material, you’re nuts. Not only were they disrespected by reporters earlier in the week, now the band doesn’t even think it’s worth their time to show up. I don’t care about the budget constraints:
You’re Oklahoma. You’ve got a $200 million football budget. Figure it out. What, are there tariffs on the band? What were you band freaks doing that you blew through the budget three weeks in? According to the band, this is the first time it’s ever happened. Poverty school:
This is nothing but disrespect. When Evan Simon goes off on Saturday I bet the drum major wishes the band would’ve shown up then. OU fans are already freaking out. I love it! Can you say trap game?
Kinkead: This is such horse shit from SJU that you have to respect it. But there’s a line. It’s one thing to go down there and troll, maybe give the band geeks a cool opportunity, but if they play Boomer Sooner or any other OU songs, that’s some little brother stuff. Inferiority complex. And it’s not like Temple is Ohio State to begin with, so if they do indeed dip into the Sooner hymnal, that’s beyond bush league. We’ll find out soon enough.
Play the only fight song that matters:
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com