Points could be accrued throughout the semester by playing at optional service events, serving on a committee or attending women’s basketball games. Members of the band said they were selected to travel based on a point system, playing ability and overall availability. “It’s so difficult to look at your peers that you’re friends with and be like, ‘you know, you’re doing something wrong,’ or ‘this the reason why you can’t travel,’” MacNair said. Two of these board members, Chairman John MacNair and Secretary Alyson Wasko, helped organize and traveled for the championship tournament. The student board was also in charge of organizing music, meeting with NCAA officials and even booking hotels. Brennan, then a senior trumpet player, was one of the 30 members chosen by the band’s executive board to make the trip to the 2003 NCAA Tournament. In the 2002-2003 season, the organization had 177 members and was run by students. The Sour Sitrus Society, Syracuse’s pep band, plays at the men’s and women’s basketball games.
So for the Albany games and the New Orleans games, I had these dirty socks in my pocket.”
“At that point, I said no, I’m just holding on to the socks,” said Brennan, a member of the Sour Sitrus Pep Band.
After watching the Orange squeeze by with a one-point win, Brennan decided it must’ve been because of the socks. N 2003, John Brennan carried a pair of dirty socks with him as Syracuse battled Auburn to earn a spot in the Elite Eight.
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