One of my hobbies is Drum Corps.
Yesterday one of my friends told me I should check out OSU's marching band's show from last Sat. against Nebraska.
Its a salute to vieo games.It  was a bit "cheesy",but  still pretty good. 

I guess their new band director is trying to loosen things up.

I couldn't get a link to work,but if you google "Ohio State Marching Band Video game" its all over the place.

Entertaining but appears to have been plagiarized...Should this really surprise anyone though?  

O$U...2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3iaxt7a16g

Cal...2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QNI3W8UB-s

They FINALLY get someone on staff with some creativity, even if it might've been copied.

I think both bands do an outstanding job of entertaining their constituencies.  110 plays to the student stands with music of their generation; O$U to the masses of old, young, rich, richer, tatoo parlors, and auto envelope distributors.

The Nebraska Show at halftime really let the student marchers shine vs halftime with the Flintstones when Ohio played at the Shoe last.

I saw that Cal show on Youtube years ago...needless to say it's almost a carbon copy as far as music goes, and I preferred the Cal version

Back in the day, ABC would actually show at least a portion of the halftime show.  That was before someone decided it was better to give us the same old highlights from other games and the same old talking heads, spouting the same inane views about the top teams that are discussed ad nauseam through the week and especially on game day.  Maybe it's because highlights were scarce back then because not every game in the country was televised.  Anyway, I digress.  Back then, it became obvious that bands didn't deviate much from standard routines.  SEC bands always marched in concentric circles and did some kind of kaleidoscope pattern.  Others rarely marched and played at the same time.  They would march to a spot, then stand and play; march to the next spot, stand and play.  I still cringe thinking about the WMU band playing "Whistle While You Work" between formations in the late '70s.  That's what makes the 110, Grambling and a few others so entertaining.  They give you something different every time.

I think much of that is due to the number of 110 alumni who are band directors at various Ohio high schools.

The best high school band I've watched is Washington Court House.  Easily.  My guess is that their director is an OU alum, because they do the same student oriented shows as we do, their band plays great, and even their announcer introduces them EXACTLY like ours introduces the 110 (which is kind of annoying, but hey whatever floats the boats in Fayette County)

Even the A&M band's YouTube success reflects well on the 110, according to The Dispatch

Yes...their director, Matt Stanley, marched at Ohio in early 90's.  He's done real well with that band.  My sister's family goes to WCH and she remembers when they hired Matt about 15 years ago.  At the time, their band was very bad and it was very unpopular to be in their band.  Her in-laws scoffed at the idea of their kids being in the band.  She told her in-laws to expect great things.  Now, it seems to be pretty cool band to be in.

There have been some good high school bands that mimic the 110 since at least the '80s and have fed their students into the 110.  Graham High School, Dover High School and Conneaut High School come to mind. I'm sure the list is growing with the recent success on youtube and I imagine there are non-110 directors trying to incorporate the concept with mixed results.  Word is out with the youtube videos and football team success, as the 110 had nearly 300 tryout this year and had to make about 50 alternates/cuts.

It is fun to see some of the success of 110 alumni.  At least three that I marched with are now Division I marching band directors at Southern Illinois, Temple and Duke.  It was funny last year when the LFMAO dance went viral and some Temple fan posting on the MAC boards "I don't see what the big deal is, Temple's band has done dancing the last couple of years."   I'm then providing him a little background information on his band director and the 110.