Football Preview

So I managed to catch a glimpse of the 2006 GS Football schedule while lurking in the band director’s office today.  Some of you may have heard that we’re moving to a different conference next year.  I heard that too, and discounted it as a rumor, but evidently it’s not.  The 2006 GS Football program will be part of the Greater Alleghenies Conference, here’s our schedule as it stands:

Sept. 1 – Hempfield
September 8 – Mount Pleasant
September 15 – @ Knoch
September 22 – Indiana
September 29 – @ Highlands
October 6 – @ Derry
October 13 – Pine Richland
October 20 – @ Hampton
October 27  – Franklin Regional

Unfortunately for us, this is actually a really hard conference.  2005 PIAA “AAA” Champions were Franklin Regional (who we are now playing as an actual conference match this year, instead of non-conference) and the conference also has several other teams who have gone pretty far in the playoffs in the past.

And from what I hear from my friends who play football, the team might be a bit better this year than last, but they still probably won’t be anywhere near as good as they have been in years past.

The one up-side however, is that this conference, while having some of the best AAA teams in the WPIAL, also has some of the best bands.  Pine-Richland is FAMOUS for their all-girl dancing tuba line.

Unfortunately, there is another downside. We will be playing Highlands, which is a school from Natrona Heights (Armstrong County) and they are absolutely the only other school anywhere around that has Brown & Gold for their colors.  Oh well..

I’m working on writing my marching band survival guide, it will be up on my website soon.  It will never really be done, but I hope it’s something that we can show to freshmen and stuff, and be like “yah, this is how to do it.”

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