Assignment 2 Draft
Clay Romero
Professor Cori Spillane
Eng 160 Rough Draft
2 October 2024
SUNY New Paltz Proposal
SUNY New Paltz has many wonderful things. More specifically, it has a wonderful community of students and staff who adore the college. However, the one thing that it does not have is a football team, and a marching band. It is something that the University should invest in creating. Football and marching band are two things that they could create at the same time. Both activities exercise you, and both activities are something that the majority of people love watching. These two subjects can make game attendance better, help the football team, and help you with exercise.
Watching both a football game and a marching band perform is an amazing sight to see. Marching bands have been proven to make more students attend games. It is a motivator not only for sports fans, but for music fans as well. It is a way to get people with different interests into one place for a community. An article states that “Marching bands are an integral part of the college football game-day experience by increasing both the quantity and quality of entertainment” (Natke). This is true “The impact of these influences on game-day attendance is (End quote) Something that many people do not know is that the marching band can affect the football team. “quote.”Marching bands are important because it helps with the home-team performance. Having a good marching band can boost team morale and raise the mood if they are low. Along with that, marching bands have a way of making you want to root for that team more. It shows that the school put in enough care and effort to create a marching band, rehearse until it is perfect, and perform it on the field for both teams to witness. It shows the whole audience that the school does not only care for sports, but for the arts as well. This is something that many students notice, and schools should know. We are aware when the schools favor sports over the arts.
Football and marching band go hand in hand, but it is possible to have one without the other. I believe that if football is added into SUNY New Paltz, that a marching band has to be formed; but if a marching band is formed, a football team is not needed. When there are football games, it is tradition to have a marching band play during the intermission, and usually they are happy to do so. However, without a football team, a marching band can still exist. It does not need a football team because on its own, it is a sport. You can compete in a marching band for awards. Along with this, marching bands also benefits you by “quote”
Works Cited
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Alcorn, Chauncey. “Port Clinton Students Will Play with OSU Band Prior to Football Game.” McClatchy – Tribune Business News, Tribune Content Agency LLC, 2008.
Cumberledge, Jason P. “The Benefits of College Marching Bands for Students and Universities: A Review of the Literature.” Update : Applications of Research in Music Education, vol. 36, no. 1, 2017, pp. 44–50, https://doi.org/10.1177/8755123316682819.