I saw this ad, and it took me on a little bit of an adventure.

At the end of the adventure, I realize that we merely to get 1 of our Cal Band Greats to script a song that plays and becomes super well know. SO well known, in fact, that everyone will be clamoring for it decades later.
And THIS is how we will land the recruits, right?





YesJohn Tesh is the composer of the iconic NBA on NBC theme song, "Roundball Rock." He wrote it in 1990, and it became one of the most recognizable sports themes in television history.

Tesh came up with the melody while in a hotel room in France covering the Tour de France.

Without access to instruments, he called his answering machine back home and sang the tune so he wouldn't forget it.

NBC selected it from six submissions, and it debuted during the 1990 NBA season opener between the Lakers and Spurs.

It was played over 12,000 times during NBC's coverage from 1990 to 2002.

Then NBC lost it's telecast rights and would only play the song during olympics.
But now they have the NBA back on NBC.

NBC has officially brought "Roundball Rock" back for its renewed NBA coverage starting in fall 2025, with John Tesh involved in the rollout. Thus the commercial.

I had to look up other Hoops theme songs:

See how excited you are now?

Just think - if that was a CAL song.....

Let's start We Are The Champions Of The World

The Cal Band played Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" at football games and I thought that might stick, but they don't play it every game. The tune is catchy and current so appeals to all. They need to get Mic Men involved in leading the "Take me out" refrain. It could be modified to "Let's go Bears", "Kiss my @$$" or other colorful phrases. The mind boggles at the possibilities! But they have to commit to doing it every game and it could take a couple of years to catch on.

Maybe if they gave students free tickets and turned the Haas into some place where singing and cheer were plentiful.

HearstMining said:

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The Cal Band played Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" at football games and I thought that might stick, but they don't play it every game. The tune is catchy and current so appeals to all. They need to get Mic Men involved in leading the "Take me out" refrain. It could be modified to "Let's go Bears", "Kiss my @$$" or other colorful phrases. The mind boggles at the possibilities! But they have to commit to doing it every game and it could take a couple of years to catch on.

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Cal Band's rendition of Take Me Out is at the 7:32 point in this video.