Gilmer Band went to UIL marching contest this morning and came off the field with a first division! Congratulations! You did again!

they lost at area

How nice of you to point that out.

So did 15 other bands

im pretty sure they got next 2 last

Yea im pretty sure spring hill didnt make it either buddy.....next to last or 4th place it really doesn't matter.

it does, but anyways gilmer and sh are rivals, well we try to be in football anyways, but we r district rivals in everything else, we like beating each other, you wouldnt understand because im pretty sure you're from atlanta

If you don't like Gilmer and can't say congrats to them, start your own thread. No sense coming on here and making a petty comment.

Really, it's okay. If memory serves correctly, the football team kicked your team's butt the night before. I guess you count your victories wherever you find them.

Wait

Gilmer and Spring Hill were rivals... ?
Since when? All this time, I thought it was always Gladewater (or Pittsburgh in Band competitions)...

And you would be wrong in your assumption: according to the following attachment, Gilmer got 8th out of a total of 18 placements in the prelims, a mere <b>one</b> place away from progression.

Just about the same difference between spring hill making it to State in San Antonio. I fail to see how that's, by any form of mathematics or physics, close to or the same as "2nd to last"... ?

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Gilmer has improved SO MUCH over the last couple of years. I graduated in '06 and got to experience the glory days with Ed Fenton, Tony Melton, Darin Caffey and Martin Gaspar, along with several phenomenal, multiple state-qualifying woodwind players. What I saw today at NAMMB was the best I've ever seen the Mighty Buckeye Band, even better than when I was a part of the show. I look forward to seeing their continued success and hope those kids hold onto the level of passion I saw from them today. I never thought I would see so many of those band members absolutely love what they do, and nothing makes me happier.

Actually we got 8th.