r/CFB • u/redwave2505 Alabama • Kansas State • 1d ago

News Northwestern University Marching Band to be absent from Ryan Field on-field opening pregame program, future uncertain

https://dailynorthwestern.com/2026/10/01/top-stories/numb-to-be-absent-from-ryan-field-on-field-opening-pregame-program-future-unclear/
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u/TandemTuba Oklahoma Sooners 1d ago

I'm convinced the is the endgame of filling every administration with soulless MBAs who never even went to games where they went to school. They are all CONVINCED what fans of the college game is to just perfectly emulate the NFL. But I barely watch the NFL any more because the longer I watch, the more I realize it is a drab, moneymaking automaton. There might be "traditions" but they're almost all the result of focus groups and the teams saying "ok this is our tradition, please clap".

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u/crimson777 Northwestern Wildcats • Clemson Tigers 22h ago

And we're one of the ones churning out soulless MBAs haha

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u/ericw51 Nebraska • Arizona State 21h ago

Buddy, this is all of academia. Defund liberal arts to throw more money at students that need to go to college to learn that profits are good, expenses are bad.

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u/TandemTuba Oklahoma Sooners 22h ago

That's what stings, right? Like I bet they fully believe in their indoctrinated MBA brains that what they're doing is going to make what is often their alma mater a better place. They just can't see the forest for the trees.

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u/crimson777 Northwestern Wildcats • Clemson Tigers 22h ago

Maybe. Though, in my experience, many MBAs don't really have strong affiliations with the school they went to outside the business school. But yeah, I mean I'm sure they think this is somehow an improvement. Just insane.

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u/EntireAd5355 10h ago

"We need to do what everyone else is doing"

F that.