Kansas State University’s debuted their first game of the season on Saturday against South Dakota. The talk of the town after the game wasn’t the Wildcats’ 34-0 win, though. It was the marching bands halftime show.
Although the Wildcats didn’t play The University of Kansas, the drill written for the band to perform depicted a very large Jayhawk consuming, what some may believe looked like, a penis.
After receiving tweets questioning the band’s formation, band director Frank Tracz tweeted:
He also posted on Facebook to clarify in further detail the drill chart used to set the formation:
As a marching band member myself, I know how hard it is to set drill perfectly and have the formations look like what it is intended to look like. If one person is one step off their set spot, the whole formation has to dress to that person and it makes the formation wrong from what it was originally supposed to be. On the other hand, the director should have thought about these issues and possibilities of the band setting the formation incorrectly beforehand when writing the drill, seeing as the “Starship Enterprise” is going into the mouth of the Jayhawk and not just “in battle” with it.
Regardless, it was a ballsy move on K-States’ part. Pun intended.
