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Favorite story about the SoCal band. We were at the ND-SoCal by FrMiceli

game about 1995 I think and a very funny guy wearing a Cal Berkeley sweatshirt was sitting behind us. My wife and I were complaining about the SC band playing the same 2 songs over and over. He said “What’s really discouraging is that it’ll never get any better, because if they had brains enough to learn 3 songs they would have gotten into Cal or UCLA, so you’re stuck with this for all time “.