Appalachian State University Marching Mountaineers

• Band Dismissal - At the end of every single rehearsal, game, etc. a sousaphone player plays an ascending lick and the band members respond with a loud "Oh!" A euphonium places a descending lick and the band yells "Woah!". (Defunct)
• The Big A - During the Pregame show, the band forms a block 'A' on the field during a swing section of the show.
• Post Game Concert - After every game that the band attends, they will play 4 songs from the stands: Celebration (if App won the game), You Can Call Me All, The House of the Rising Sun, and The Tennessee Waltz.
• Pre-Game Concert - Before every home game, the band will perform a concert outside of the School of Music on Walker lawn. This used to be the bands Warm-up, but has turned into a concert including the Pre-Game Show, selections from Halftime, and usually ends with the Tennessee Waltz.
• Sousa Prayer - After the Pre-Game concert, the Sousaphone players and alumni will gather near the entrance to the school of music, form a circle, and sway back and forth while an upperclassman or alumni hypes up the section.

On Saturday September 18, 2016 the Mountaineers football team hosted a Power 5 conference member for the first time with the University of Miami. In front of a record high crowd, it also marked the first time they hosted a top 25 opponent and the main ESPN network would broadcast an Appalachian State home game.[4] Local media outlets dubbed it "the biggest event ever to take place in Boone."[5]

Several hours after the game, Sophie Randleman alleged on a public social media post that members of the Marching Mountaineers color guard were "assaulted...groped, sworn at, taunted, and touched in ways that were definitely not asked for" when Miami's football team ran on to take the field for their pregame prayer.[6] No incidents were reported to police onsite.[7] Prior to kickoff, the Mountaineers Color Guard had positioned themselves into the visiting team's sideline in the direct path of where Miami's players and its staff were instructed to go.[8][9] Randleman widely publicized her post and accused Miami of other incidents without specifying where or when they occurred.[10] After learning of the allegations, Miami's athletic department opened a formal investigation.

In an interview with the Palm Beach Post two days later, Randleman failed to provide any witnesses to corroborate detail towards the allegations when provided a link to a video[11] where no members of the Marching Mountaineers could be seen falling to the turf.[12] She nor any other members of the Marching Mountaineers could provide descriptions, jersey numbers, or last names of any of the alleged Miami players. Three days after the incident, Randleman told CBS that they had not yet met with police,[13] despite video showing several police officers and emergency medical staff visible near the color guard during the pregame that would have been witnesses.[14] Boone police told local news High County Times that there were no issues surrounding the game.[5] Six videos of Miami's entrance shot by fans, ESPN, and press media showed no indication of Randleman's allegations.

Following Randleman's CBS interview, Miami's Athletic Director announced that they had found zero evidence[15] and were concluding their investigation after "a school review of multiple videos and social media posts and interviews with possible witnesses revealed no evidence of wrongdoing by (Miami) players."[8][16] Appalachian State subsequently closed their investigation as well after it was unable to find any credible evidence backing up Randleman's claims.[17][18][19][20] Appalachian State's Associate Athletics Director Zeke Beam noted that "the University of Miami went above and beyond to review the incident."[21][22][23]