In some news of the weird, according to a report from Mara Stein of the Colgate Maroon-News, the Colgate men’s basketball team used a pep band during its NCAA Tournament appearance in Columbus.
The problem is that it wasn’t it’s own pep band, but an impostor that normally wears scarlet and gray and marches to the formation of Script Ohio. That’s right, 29 members of the Ohio State athletic band were asked to sit in for Colgate.
And while using other bands isn’t an unusual occurrence for smaller schools, apparently the current real, live Colgate pep band wasn’t informed of the arrangement. No, instead they saw their alter egos from some other dimension playing the school’s fight song and Alma-mater on the television screen.
It has caused a bit of an uproar at the school because it was Colgate’s first appearance in the Big Dance in twenty-three years and the current band members weren’t even consulted about making the trip to Columbus.
Good thing for the Colgate brass that Columbus, Ohio happens to have a band for hire. And a good one at that. Some might even say The Best Damn Band In The Land.
