🏀 #13 Yale's (they beat #4 Auburn) band didn't travel. Idaho's band filled in.

[underpants]

Yale's band couldn't travel with their team to March Madness; so the Idaho Vandals stepped in

"We got a call from our athletics department around Sunday saying, 'Hey, Yale's band couldn't make it. Would the University of Idaho Vandal band like to step in?'" Spencer Martin, band director, said. "And it just worked out to where we could come up and play."

"The Sound of Idaho" got to work, quickly learning the Yale Fight Song before the Bulldogs' first-round game against Auburn on Friday.

"We got the music this morning," Andre Moore, a trombonist, said. "We learned it, and I think we sound pretty good."

They loaded up on the bus and hit the road to gear up for one of the biggest venues in college sports.

https://www.kxly.com/news/yales-band-couldnt-travel-with-their-team-to-march-madness-so-the-idaho-vandals-stepped/article_14899f56-e8a2-11ee-a6f5-0794da455c1d.html

[MotownPgh]

1. H2P

I think this is fairly common. I remember the Pitt band playing for Weber State in 2016? I think they got paid though. Like 50-$100 per kid. They stayed after pitt lost to play.

[underpants]

3. I had never heard of this.

[MotownPgh]

5. FB

I'm not on Facebook but I remember weber state sending a video thank you while playing Pitt's fight song.

[3catwoman3]

2. Why would Yale not send their spirit band to March Madness?

Surely they must be able to afford it.

[underpants]

4. Don't know.

Maybe the band didn’t want to go. They may only play at home games.

BTW - Ivy League schools don’t give athletic scholarships. If the player qualifies for regular financial aid fine.