Sunday, September 11, 2011

B-CU sets beat for Monday Night Football

DAYTONA BEACH -- Are you ready for some national exposure? ESPN's rowdy friends from Bethune-Cookman are.

The university's Marching Wildcats drumline, already familiar with the sports network's spotlight, is slated to open the 2011 season of Monday Night Football tomorrow evening with a thumping, swaggering montage that shook the school's band building Saturday.

"Believe me, the kids don't take it lightly," the band's director, Donovan Wells, said outside. "You don't turn down these opportunities."

The ESPN crew spent more than four hours working Saturday morning, and was considering coming back to film more after the band's regular football show Saturday afternoon. The package still has to be edited and mixed in time for Week 1's 7 p.m. matchup between the New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins.





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