I am an officer in the Tullahoma High School Band and I'm very sorry you feel that way about our organization. We have many dedicated young adults that practice their insturments every day after our daily rehersals and still manage to be at the very top of our class. We attempt to support the football team as much as possible, and we realize that many on the football team support us. We were devestated when the football game was postponed last night. Our halftime show was not performed due to the curcumstances, but we still wanted to arrange a pep band to support our team; however, many people in our band have jobs and can not ask off last minute. There were approxamitely 17 hours between the actually postponement of the game and the continuation. 10pm is considered too late to call employers to ask off; therefore from 8am this morning, the earliest a student could have possibly asked off, was less than 5 hours from the continuation of the game. Also, students from the band had to tend to their insturments and uniforms from the rain last night. The mopping; plumes, the feathers on our helmets; and wind insturmens were attended to last night. The pit insturments and purcussion were dried as thouroughly as possible; however, students still had to come in with blow driers this morning to finish the drying process on the expensive insturments. There were also guard flags to be dried, seat covers to be dried, as well as insturment covers. The young adults in our program assist the band parents in doing many of the things our organization requires, but the care of insturments, uniforms, and our band room takes time and effort. We support the football team as much as possible and many of our musicians still came to the game to watch, but the organization of over 150 people takes more than 5 hours.