TSU wants FAMU band in Tigers' homecoming

TALLAHASSEE, Florida  -- Tennessee State University has put three offers on the table in an attempt to have FAMU's Marching 100 band perform at the Tigers' homecoming game against FAMU on Sept. 27 in Nashville.

Terms of the proposals were outlined in a letter TSU president Glenda Baskin Glover sent to the Tallahassee Democrat. Baskin Glover sent the letter in response to a story in the Tallahassee Democrat in which FAMU president Elmira Mangum said she has been negotiating unsuccessfully for several weeks to get an agreement to "share the cost" of the band's trip.

The letter was sent to Mangum on Tuesday, according to Kelli Sharpe, who handles public relations for TSU.

Transporting the band will cost $60,000, according to the TSU letter.

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