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Post by Momof20613 on Aug 29, 2023 21:25:02 GMT -6
Who runs concessions are your school? Football concessions mainly. Does band run any concessions at your school?
I ask because it seems fairly common for the band to run football concessions. Our band boosters runs all football concessions at our middle school and high school (both fairly big schools, 1600 students and 2500 students, respectively), we also run high school basketball and boys wrestling. It is our main source of income and I’m sure most parents understand how much being a competitive marching band costs and the added costs of concert season and having a competitive winter guard program. It’s integral to our program.
BUT, our athletic department treats us like utter crap. They take 25% of our profit and just treat us like garbage. I’m the band booster president and it is disheartening and beyond frustrating. We are the largest student organization on campus and yet they are hateful. I’m curious if its that way at other places.
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Post by 78haworth on Aug 30, 2023 11:12:39 GMT -6
At Franklin, TN the band boosters have always run the football concessions for the high school. Several years ago, the football boosters complained and wanted to take it from the band boosters. Once we explained how much organization and work not to mention the number of people it takes to actually run the concession stand, they backed down as they realized they would never see their child play a game. The band boosters offered to donate $1,000 to the football boosters and they were happy with that. Not sure if that amount is still correct as that was at least 20 years ago. Franklin has an awesome support from the admin, student body and football boosters and coaches. I realize that is not always the case, we are very fortunate. Maybe someone could talk to the coach(s) and remind them how much support the band is to the whole Friday night experience. Good luck
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Post by dbbandalum on Aug 31, 2023 22:46:22 GMT -6
For Dobyns-Bennett, the concessions at the football games are run by a separate group of volunteers. I know that some of them are part of the football boosters, but the football boosters as an organization aren`t involved with the concessions.
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Post by boahistorybuff on Sept 1, 2023 5:17:00 GMT -6
Well 30+ years ago when I was in the activity, the football concessions was run by the athletic boosters, although I do think our band boosters were able to run concessions for one game per season. Our band boosters ran concessions at the band competition that we sponsored (called the Michigan Invitational back in those days). To raise money, our band boosters would run one of the concession stands at Detroit Pistons games (this was back in the day when the Pistons played at the Palace of Auburn Hills which was much closer to Flushing then where they play now). Because alcohol was served, those concession stands could only be run by parents. Our band director did help out on occasion. I believe this started up to help us raise money for my senior year when we hired Gary Czapinksi as our visual designer and Bill Davern for our music and percussion arranging $$$$$$
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Post by hewhowaits on Sept 1, 2023 6:31:26 GMT -6
William Mason football concessions are run by the Band Boosters. When Allohak and his brother were in the band, ten percent of the profit was donated to the Athletic Boosters.
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Post by paddy on Sept 1, 2023 7:19:28 GMT -6
Various situations depending on the school at the time...
School 1 - Run by band boosters, profit sharing agreement with athletics a they managed the inventory and did some prep before games. School 2 - Run by the FFA and they paid other groups to work School 3 - Run by the athletic department and various school organizations worked different weekends for a share of the profit. Basketball concessions were run by the band. School 4 - Run by the athletic department and various school organizations worked different weekends for a share of the profit.
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Post by jakeymam12 on Sept 3, 2023 13:56:13 GMT -6
My band doesn't run concessions, although they do run a scone booth right next to the concessions stand every home game.
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Post by WoodlandsMom4ever on Sept 3, 2023 18:25:41 GMT -6
Our band doesn’t run concessions at school sports games. We live near an outside amphitheater and run a large concession booth at the amphitheater. Many of the other local high school bands run other booths as well and it’s a great place for the bands to earn some money. They do sell alcohol so it has to be adults that work it- 18 yrs and older- so students are not able to and everyone has to get a tabc license to work in the booth. They are all overseen by the company that runs the concessions at the venue and receive a percentage of their booth sales for each event.
The football game concessions are usually run by other groups at the school- I’m not sure who all- rotc, ffa, bass fishing team, and others I’m sure I am missing some. They are all overseen by a concession company that arranges the stock and oversee’s all events at the ISD stadium. Each group gets a percentage of sales for working it.
We do run concessions on our bands marching competition we host- but again- it’s overseen by the concessions company.
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Post by hewhowaits on Sept 4, 2023 5:09:48 GMT -6
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Post by Allohak on Sept 4, 2023 8:22:06 GMT -6
If hyperbolic, hilarious. If serious...wut.
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Post by dbalash on Sept 4, 2023 8:23:44 GMT -6
Still highly annoyed that this is a state sport in Illinois, with regionals, sectionals and state finals.
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Post by WoodlandsMom4ever on Sept 4, 2023 11:18:10 GMT -6
Yes- Bass Fishing Club: It’s not a UIL sport here- but it is a non-curricular club that’s large.
I’m sure the athletics secretary is in charge of booking who runs the concessions each game- but we have a lot of clubs and teams at the school that could run the concessions.
We have a large school- lots of options for kids to find communities in clubs and sports they are interested in.
Band is the largest organization- but there are lots of other ones that are pretty large as well.
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Post by paddy on Sept 4, 2023 18:50:17 GMT -6
Yes- Bass Fishing Club: It’s not a UIL sport here So they can fish more than 8 hours/week?
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Post by Allohak on Sept 4, 2023 19:05:10 GMT -6
Yes- Bass Fishing Club: It’s not a UIL sport here So they can fish more than 8 hours/week? And they can cast before Aug 1
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Post by WoodlandsMom4ever on Sept 4, 2023 20:12:18 GMT -6
So they can fish more than 8 hours/week? And they can cast before Aug 1 Haha!! Lol. Nope no 8 hour rule- but they can’t practice Mon-Thurs before a tournament and have to have passing grades!
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Post by LeanderMomma on Sept 5, 2023 10:05:27 GMT -6
This is awesome and definitely needs to be an Arkansas high school requirement. 😁
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Post by OldSchoolTrumpet on Sept 5, 2023 10:46:27 GMT -6
When I was a band parent 2011-2017, concessions were the responsibility of the band program. That included all sporting events...football, basketball, vollyball, soccer...all of it. Every parent was expected to sign up to work at at least two events through the year. That was each parent, not each family. So if you were a husband/wife...that's 4 events. If you didn't volunteer, the band manager would eventually assign you whatever events needed staffing. Which meant that people who didn't pick their own times would end up getting the ones no one else wanted. So by the time you were a 2nd year parent you knew to jump on it early and pick a plum gig, whatever that meant to you.
I always went for middle school soccer. It was low traffic, mostly candy and popcorn. Not many hot dogs or nachos. And middle school soccer was in the Spring so it was nice outside in the little shack.
No clue if that's the way they still do it.
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Post by bandirectorman on Sept 17, 2023 22:13:29 GMT -6
When I was a band parent 2011-2017, concessions were the responsibility of the band program. That included all sporting events...football, basketball, vollyball, soccer...all of it. Every parent was expected to sign up to work at at least two events through the year. That was each parent, not each family. So if you were a husband/wife...that's 4 events. If you didn't volunteer, the band manager would eventually assign you whatever events needed staffing. Which meant that people who didn't pick their own times would end up getting the ones no one else wanted. So by the time you were a 2nd year parent you knew to jump on it early and pick a plum gig, whatever that meant to you. I always went for middle school soccer. It was low traffic, mostly candy and popcorn. Not many hot dogs or nachos. And middle school soccer was in the Spring so it was nice outside in the little shack. No clue if that's the way they still do it. We operate on a lottery system so that any parent who participates, especially in our invitational, is allowed to get to know new parents and not 'skate' by -- volunteering for events that are low-traffic just to check off a box. It's intended to invite more of a family atmosphere and build up the camraderie. We appreciate all of the hours that they pour into our on-field product and would never dream of asking more of our band parent organization. The greatest gift that supporters of fine arts can give to their program aren't concession-related volunteer hours.. it's advocacy for the funding necessary to offset the sometimes shameless fundraising endeavors that plague largely overfunded and bloated public institutions. This is not a criticism of other programs or how they have to run to make things work, but it's something that we have largely done away with, outside of one invitational that we hold in fall & spring. For context, our athletic department is always fundraising. The teams don't seem perform any better with successful drives but at least they can more afford the spring trips to California.
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Post by kdivine on Oct 23, 2023 23:57:05 GMT -6
We get every athletic event in the fall/winter except cross country [they use a local horse track infield for the races and the track staff do any concessions there] and track in the spring. Baseball/softball don't really have much concessions space and soccer would just be going through the motions. We also get one BOA affiliate event in October and two or three WGI events in spring. Athletics knows where their bread is buttered and it isn't much of an issue. About 2/3 of a football crowd will leave after the band performs, so it's a pretty easy bet on who puts more tukhusses in the seats.
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