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The JLA can't get torn down fast enough. What a terrible record NMU has against Michigan in that building.
Yes it has. I was told by an usher that the NMU band had reserved the section above the NMU fans but for some reason no showed. I'm pretty sure they were planning on coming.
Michigan and Michigan State's bands are at bowl games, which is why you get Alumni Bands from them at the GLI. So all those students return to campus and then go on a band trip (which is paid for easily by FBS $$$).
Unless something has changed, the Tech band members pay their own way to GLI (other than the tickets) and the university (student directors) transports the band equipment to the Joe and back to Houghton in MTU vans. There were always plenty of Tech band members in the Detroit area home on break during the GLI and some from other states as well that are just willing to make the trip on their own dime to support the team. I went one year as a student (was from WI at the time) but if Tech had been paying my way I certainly would have gone every year. Hard to believe that NMU couldn't do something similar. I'm sure Tech is not unique in the fact that they pull a lot of students from below the bridge and they are sitting around during the holiday break in the vicinity of the JLA.
