Kent Broussard:
You know, it goes back really to really 1968, 1969 when I first started going to LSU games way back in the day. And the sound of the band — obviously, Tiger Stadium is one of the great football stadiums in America from a college perspective. And I loved all the games and have just numerous memories about football games.
But the sound of the band is what always caught my attention, and had always put in the back of my mind that I wanted to do that somewhere down the line. I always had that plan, even though it really didn’t hatch until really about 30 years ago, when I started contemplating retirement.
And when I started contemplating retirement, I said one of the things I want to do when I retire is just not sit on the sofa and watch Netflix all day or just be sedentary. That’s just not me. So I said to myself, I think I’m going to enroll in LSU and try out for the band. And that was 30 years ago.
So, as you get older, the time starts to go by faster and you start to realize that, hey, retirement is coming. And what I did was, five years ago, in a conversation I had with my family at one of the dinners we had, I told them that my plan was to enroll in LSU and try out for the band.
At the time, I don’t think they thought I was serious. And I was really serious, because I kept talking about it during that dinner. And it came to pass that they realized that I was really serious and really wanted to do this.
