With a record-breaking 600 members for the 2026-27 season, Bowling Green State University is proud to share that the #BGSU Falcon Marching Band is officially America’s largest college marching band.
Under the leadership of Director of Marching and Athletic Bands Jon Waters, the band has earned invitations to prestigious events nationally and internationally, including the iconic St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin, Ireland, and the upcoming 2027 Rose Parade in Pasadena, California. More than 80% of the band’s members remain non-music majors, reflecting strong enthusiasm for the Falcon Marching Band across the University and the value students place on extracurricular involvement as part of their college experience.
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Please note: “Cheers to the South”, which is about how people who aren’t from the south will never get “us”, is sung by a man who grew up in Pittsburgh and maintains yinzer status, went to school in West Virginia and now lives in Indianapolis.
“I know he's a good player, but he's hurting our culture.”
USMNT legend Landon Donovan coached San Diego Loyal, where he created a conflict on purpose and then cut one of his best players to improve team culture.
He was speaking on How Leaders Lead podcast 🗣️
“When I was coaching here in San Diego, things were going a little too well with our team,” Donovan said.
“We were playing well, things were going well, but you could see complacency starting to creep into the group.
“But when you're doing well, you can't just all of a sudden just blow them up and rip them apart in a locker room when you win 3-0, right?
“So someone I really admire as a leader was Nate Miller, who was our assistant coach at the time and became the head coach and has gone on to great things.
“And he would always say the same thing like, we need to create some sort of conflict. Like, we need to find some conflict. We need something now to get these guys' attention.
“And we got a great gift. One of our best players was playing out of position, and he wasn't happy about it. But the team was doing well and we were winning.
“And so I would say to him, ‘Hey, I know you're frustrated by this, but we're winning and we're doing well.’
“So we had a training session, and we watched it back after, and the team this player was on allowed a goal, and he just walked back and wasn't defending, right?
“And so I was like, perfect. We have a moment where we can go after one of our best players in front of the team and say, this is unacceptable.
“So we're showing the video, and I call him out in the video, and I say, ‘Hey, I don't care if you're playing goalie or right back or striker or whatever. If you defend like this, we're never going to get where we want to get to. So you can be mad about you not playing your best position or whatever, but it doesn't matter where you play if you defend like this.’
“And it got a little intense, but he gave us a great gift because he reacted very negatively in front of the group and came after me a little bit.
“But I was prepared for it. So I was able then to go back at him. And after the meeting, he walked up, and this was the best part, and he said, ‘Hey, I don't think this is the right place for me. I want to get traded.’
And I said, ‘Okay, well, we'll try to trade you, but if that can't happen, we're willing also to just cut you, and you can go find a new team too.
“And he's like, ‘Fine, I'm done.’
“So I went to my owner. In the second division in American soccer, they're not making huge money, but it might have been like a $50,000 deal to cut his contract.
“And I said to my owner, ‘Are we willing to eat this money? It will help the group immensely because he's been a negative impact for a little while here. I know he's a good player, but he's hurting our culture.’
“And the owner said, ‘Do it. If you need to do it, do it.’ So I went back to him and I said, ‘Okay, we're done. We're going to cut your contract, and you can go on your way.’ And he said, fine.
“He came back the next morning, and he said, ‘I thought about it, and I really think I made a mistake. I really want to be here.’ And I said, ‘Look, I'm sorry, but it's not going to happen. We already made the decision.’
“And that decision and what it did for the group was massive because if you're willing to cut one of your best players because they're not doing what they should be doing, the rest of the group pays attention, right?
“It was the best gift we could have gotten.”
cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:
connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.
every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.
Instead of traditional math courses like geometry and algebra, all math courses should be about investing, interest, and real-life financial situations.
Instead of teaching calculus, teach kids how to calculate how much they'd make on a stock over X years at a 9 percent annual return, including compound interest and dividends.
The day US soccer players stop needing to have an average household income of 300k a year to have youth development is the day we start competing for a cup
if usa invested more into football they would be one of the best teams in the world, yes, but their best players would not be the people who otherwise would have grown up to be wide receivers or dominant athletes in the major us sports and idk why that's so hard to understand