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Homecoming 2007
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The lesson of Homecoming 2007? There is no such thing as "they have all the momentum" in our house. 
And quite a gameday, too—from The Pride appearing live on national television at 9:00 AM for ESPN College Gameday to rehearsal with the Alumni Band, the Homecoming Parade, and a four-quarter great Sooner homecoming game, that day just didn't stop. Congrats to all members of The Pride (especially since they were back in uniform barely 12 hours later for the Oklahoma Centennial Parade on Sunday afternoon) and of the Alumni Band for a memorable Homecoming 2007. Fight for OKU is a great spirit song, and that West Side Story show is sounding awesome as well.
We've removed all of the schedule stuff from the home page to keep things a little clearer, but you can get to all of it anytime through the Homecoming 2007 link that you probably bookmarked. We'll post any minutes of the business meeting or other documents as they're made available.
Homecoming 2007 was the middle game of the seven played at Owen Field this season, and this Saturday's game against Iowa State marks 2/3rds of the 12-game season. Our 6-1 Sooners travel to Ames for the last of the three games against Big 12 North conference opponents (OU has already played Colorado and Missouri), against the 1-6 Cyclones. (Iowa State beat Iowa on September 15 by a score of 15-13, but has lost every other game, including this past weekend to Texas 56-3.) The Pride will send a pep band to the north end of the conference to help cheer on the Sooners, who are ranked #5 in the first BCS rankings of the season, released earlier today.
Kickoff has been set for 11:30 AM CDT on Fox Sports Network regional channels, so check your local listings for the station on your cable or satellite system. After that, the Sooners get a bye week and can rest up for Texas A&M's visit to Norman on November 3. There's still a lot of football and marching left this season!
Posted by Webmaster on 10/14/07; 10:46:41 PM
from the Gameday, Homecoming 2007 dept.
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We are delighted to have everyone joining us this weekend. It should be an exciting experience for all of us! Below are some logistical issues that will aid all of us in having as smooth and enjoyable a day as possible. Thanks in advance for helping us make the 2007 Homecoming a success!
Saturday Rehearsal Information
Location: PLEASE NOTE THIS CHANGE!
Everest Indoor Practice Facility
If you've never been there before, click here for a satellite view and an opportunity to get directions from Google Maps. (Note that directions are to ETC, not to available parking—see this post for basic gameday information.)
The Pride will rehearse from 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM, immediately following the performance for ESPN College Gameday Please note that no food, drinks, gum, or tobacco products are permitted inside the facility. Portable restrooms are located immediately west of the facility for our use.
Time:
Instrument and Equipment Management
The Alumni Truck will be parked west of Everest and will be open by 10:00 AM for instrument pick-up. After rehearsal, all alumni instruments will be loaded and locked inside the Alumni Truck. The truck will then be parked inside the football practice facility at the stadium to facilitate Alumni Band access prior to pregame and during the second quarter.
Game Information
Stadium Entry
Field Access
Playing during the game
The Alumni Band will be able to play extended tunes during the breaks between the 1st and 2nd quarters, and between the 3rd and 4th quarters.
There will be other, more brief opportunities during the game as well.
Pregame Logistics
Immediately following the teams exiting the field, we (OUBAA) will take our positions and prepare to start.
Brian Britt will be marching with the OUBAA this year and will communicate with the drum majors to ensure a smooth and timely start.
Halftime Logistics
The Missouri band (Marching Mizzou) will perform first.
During the Marching Mizzou performance, we will prepare both The Pride and Alumni Bands to enter the field.
Following the Missouri band, the order of performance is:
Field entrance Fight for OKU Combined Pride and Alumni Scatter to Pride halftime set (Alumni exit to sidelines) Pride performance—two selections from West Side Story
Maria Mambo Boomer Sooner and exit
Instrument Return
Anyone who is not sitting with the Alumni Band and would like to return their instrument following halftime should meet Russell Pettit at the truck upon exiting the field. All others should meet Russell following the conclusion of the football game.
See you Saturday!
Boomer Sooner!
Posted by Brian Britt on 10/11/07; 10:36:46 AM
from the Gameday, Homecoming 2007, Pride of Oklahoma dept.
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Here's the schedule for Homecoming 2007. It's also been added to the Events calendar, so if you want to print it, you can have better views of it there. In brief:
Friday, October 12
6:30 PM—Registration and playing rehearsal (Band room, Catlett Music Center)
9:00 PM—Rehearsal ends; reception for all alumni hosted by current ΚΚΨ/ΤΒ&Sigma members, followed by a joint ΚΚΨ/ΤΒ&Sigma alumni ritual, then ΤΒ&Sigma alumae-only ritual
Saturday, October 13
10:15 AM—Assemble at Everest Training Center for pre-game rehearsal with The Pride
Update: Please note that ESPN College Gameday will be broadcasting live from the general area of GF/OMS at about this time, so allow extra time to get to rehearsal on time!
12:15 PM—Registration for those who didn't attend Friday night rehearsal (Beaird Lounge, Oklahoma Memorial Union)
12:45 PM—OUBAA Business Meeting (Beaird Lounge, Oklahoma Memorial Union)
2:30 PM—Homecoming Parade (if you want to watch)
3:15 PM (or thereabouts)—Lunch served for those who purchased lunch tickets (Van Vleet [South] Oval)
4:30 PM—Meet in north end zone of Owen Field to prepare for pre-game march
5:30 PM—Kickoff!
Again, keep up with the Events calendar for the best, most accurate, printable, up-to-date schedule info! And start warming up—rehearsal is FRIDAY!
Posted by Webmaster on 10/8/07; 5:16:08 PM
from the Gameday, Homecoming 2007 dept.
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From the E-mail:
My name is Jess Ballard and I'm the secretary for the Delta Chapter of Tau Beta Sigma. We are planning several cool events for the alumni this weekend and I was hoping that you could help me pass that information along. Could you post this on your website?
Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma will be hosting a reception for all band alumni immediately following Friday, October 12's rehearsal. Afterwards there will be a special joint ritual for all Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma alumni. Following the joint ritual there will be a brief special ritual for Tau Beta Sigma alums only. We look forward to seeing you then!
I still don't have the complete schedule for this weekend's OUBAA activities (The Pride's schedule is now updated and complete), but assuming rehearsal ends at 9:00 PM, I've added these to the Events calendar.
Posted by Webmaster on 10/8/07; 4:20:29 PM
from the Homecoming 2007, Pride of Oklahoma dept.
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 Now that's more like it! The river they're crying in Austin may be named "Denial:" click on the thumbnail image to the right for a section of a screen capture from the Austin American-Statesman early Sunday morning and their headline about the game. Click here to download the entire article as a PDF file, for those of you with your own "Dewey Defeats Truman" collections.
(Hint: the final score was OU 28, Texas 21. The Statesman has since fixed the headline on the article, which may be found here, but the first version was priceless. Small problems with reality down there, folks?)
The Pride of Oklahoma entertained the crowd with a 50th anniversary tribute to West Side Story, which opened at Broadway's famed Winter Garden Theatre on September 26, 1957. Bands are alloted less time at halftime than in 1985 when The Pride first wowed with Rod Harkins' version of the show, so this year's edition was closer to the 1997 version: Maria, Mambo (a newer arrangement that I think is rythmically even trickier than the 1985 version!), and Tonight.
And now it gets even harder. Coming up this week for our 4-1 (1-1) Sooners: The surprising, 5-0 (1-0) Missouri Tigers, who spanked Nebraska last night 41-6. This is also Homecoming 2007, as we hope you know, and we promise you that we will post the schedule items just as soon as people start retuning my constant cranky E-mails about it. Subscribe to the Events calendar in iCal or Windows Vista for automatic updates and you'll know when we do!
It's a full week for The Pride, too: in addition to homecoming and activities with alumni, the full band travels north on Sunday, October 14, to participate in the Oklahoma Centennial Parade, following a 1.5-mile route through downtown Oklahoma City. The parade also features the Cowboy Marching Band and several state high school bands, and will be telecast statewide on OETA.
Quite the schedule post-Texas, even as The Pride prepares for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in November in New York City, so we'll do our best to make sure everything goes smoothly. Keep checking the Web site or subscribe to the RSS feeds for updates as we have them!
Posted by Webmaster on 10/7/07; 12:18:42 PM
from the Gameday, Homecoming 2007, Pride of Oklahoma dept.
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We finally know kickoff time for the Homecoming 2007 game against Missouri: 5:30 PM CDT, televised regionally on Fox Sports Network. Now we can work on a Homecoming Weekend schedule and get it out to you ASAP!
Also, because both OU and Texas lost their games on September 29, ABC-TV has dropped the OU-Texas game to regional coverage: 27% of the country will see Iowa at Penn State instead, and 18% in the southeast get North Carolina State at Florida State. Everyone west of the Mississippi River (with exceptions in the eastern Dakotas, eastern Nebraska, and parts of northwestern Nebraska) will get the OU-Texas game in high-definition. See this map for the precise details.
We've updated the Events calendar with tentative times for some of the normal Gameday events: morning rehearsal, pre-game concert, pre-game performance, and so on. All of these are based on the normal gameday routine, but since it's Homecoming, the Homecoming Parade and other activities may throw any of those off. We'll update them as we have more concrete information, and we'll add in the OUBAA events (the business meeting, luncheon, and so on) as those are set. The calendar updates immediately when we enter new info, and if you've subscribed to it in iCal or Windows Vista, you'll get updates on your next refresh. Events for The Pride are prefixed "Pride:", while those just for alumni are prefixed "Alumni:", just to keep the two tracks clear.
Posted by Webmaster on 10/1/07; 2:17:34 PM
from the Gameday, Homecoming 2007 dept.
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If you're playing at Homecoming 2007 and want to practice, here's a reminder about where to find three of the rah-rahs:
You are not logged in right now, so you'll need either to log in, or join the site by registering to see this information, but it's quick and free, so join us now!
Posted by Webmaster on 9/28/07; 3:34:25 PM
from the Homecoming 2007, OU Music dept.
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Bookmark this page - and watch for e-mails concerning Homecoming 2007 - Plans are underway.
The date is tentatively set for October 13th against Missouri.
We plan to have our playing rehearsal in Catlett on Friday night, the 12th. We are reserving the 2nd Floor of the Student Union again for Saturday's events. Our online calendar now has these events, marked "tentative" until official OU confirmation.
The uniform for game day is black/dark pants/slacks/jeans, black/dark shoes, and our white uniform polo/golf shirt.
Let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.
BOOMER SOONER!
Posted by Rita Heath on 7/15/07; 1:08:18 PM
from the Homecoming 2007 dept.
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