ECU has grown in recent decades, in student body as well as in academic reputation, but it’s still a 2nd tier school with a large number of first-generation college students. Neither they nor their parents will appreciate this at all. The same is true of ECU alumni. They’re creating a big problem for themselves and their future funding, merely for jumping on a social issue bandwagon. If a band member won’t perform the national anthem, they shouldn’t take the field. Sit it out, out of the public eye. That’s what it’s all about anyway.
You must be a Tarheel. :>) ECU is my alma mater. It has become infested with liberal dolts as they have grown. Very disappointed.
“ECU has grown in recent decades, in student body as well as in academic reputation, but it’s still a 2nd tier school”
To be honest, and I say this as someone who has uncles and cousins who are ECU alumni, it is a 4th or 5th tier school.
“If a band member won’t perform the national anthem, they shouldn’t take the field.”
At many universities, members of the marching band are on scholarship, like athletes. If they refuse to perform the scheduled program, they should have their scholarships revoked.
They’ve been told these protests won’t be tolerated anymore. The band was booed. Most other colleges probably would have let the band members continue to kneel.