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Former FMB member and lifelong musician here. As cool and entertaining as it would be, a DCI-style show would not be possible for the FMB, nor most other college bands, to do. Size isn't even the main issue. Those are age 16 to 21 young men and women in that video who, after a rigorous audition process that only the best of the best pass, spend four months doing almost nothing other than rehearsing or performing that one show. It takes the best musicians, who must be in excellent physical condition, an entire summer of grueling practice to march like that and sound that good while doing it. I don't mean to sound negative and it's not a knock on the FMB in the slightest (which, contrary to what most of the uninformed critics on this and other boards think and say, does a very respectable overall job for us), it's just two different worlds of marching band.
Our best shot at putting on the most appealing and entertaining show, as Flab mentioned, follow the mold of Ohio State's band. The only problem is that our band program is still a little way off from having the resources necessary to pull that kind of thing off. Our band staff does an excellent job given the limited resources they have to work with at this time.
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