> That happened at UND last year. As I recall, the band eventually > left as a "protest" for one game. Later on they alternated with the PA > music (i.e. one break for the band, one for the PA). That seemed to work ok. I went to a couple of UCSB basketball games last year (I dislike the sport, but it is the big one here, and a friend of mine was in the pep band). The band alternated breaks with the dance team, who used--you guessed it--piped-in music. What struck me as really inane was that they kept alternating right to the end of the game. There were crucial time-outs when the crowd was full of energy and tension, and for half of these, the dancers came out and did their set routine, which let the energy dissipate. If they had to each take half of the breaks, they should have given more to the dancers in the first half and let the band use the ones late in the game to keep the crowd fired up. Of course, I think *professional* sports teams should drop piped-in music and get bands themselves. :-) John Whelan Cornell '91 <[log in to unmask]> http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/people/john_whelan/personal.html HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.