Weeks after one HBCU band requested to be faraway from the ESPN Crimson Lobster Band of the Yr rankings, one other band’s director expressed the identical place.
Donovan V. Wells, director of Bethune-Cookman’s Marching Wildcats, shared a put up on Fb Tuesday, accusing ESPN of “forcing” establishments into the competition.
“Regardless of my repeated requests to exclude the Marching Wildcats, because the occasion’s inception, my requests have been ignored,” Wells wrote. “As an alternative, it feels as if we’re being compelled into competitors. I can’t, in good conscience and as an educator, settle for this rule of thought for the younger men and women I signify on this band program.”
Jackson State Director of Bands Dr. Roderick Little posted on social media Sept. 22 {that a} choice to take away the Sonic Increase from the rankings “was made with considerate consideration and is rooted in inside priorities.”
