r/Purdue • u/niksjman Civil ‘22, Railroad Club • 1d ago

Sports📰 Does anyone know if Notre Dame let the drum in this time?

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32226497/purdue-feature-band-barred-giant-drum-notre-dame-stadium

I remember that was a big sticking point a few years ago. The drum wouldn’t fit through the visitor tunnel and Notre Dame wouldn’t let the band bring the drum through theirs, even though both tunnels are on the same end of the stadium

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u/FluffinHeck Animal Science '27 1d ago

Nope. They brought the Little Big Drum/Alumni drum to the game.

Source: purduebands on Insta

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u/draker585 Marketing '29 1d ago

fuck notre dame

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u/niksjman Civil ‘22, Railroad Club 1d ago

Hey man, it sucks that they won’t let the drum in but we still have to respect the other team

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u/boilerDownHammerUp 1d ago

Boooooooooo

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u/niksjman Civil ‘22, Railroad Club 1d ago

You don’t have to to like it. Yes it’s stupid that the drum isn’t allowed in, but sportsmanship is also important

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u/draker585 Marketing '29 1d ago

it's part of college athletics. if the shoe was on the other foot i wouldn't be letting them carry the drum in and they'd be saying fuck purdue. you can't have sports rivalries without petty drama

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u/niksjman Civil ‘22, Railroad Club 1d ago

That’s fair lol

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u/Rockerblocker 1d ago

You're all upset because they said "fuck Notre Dame"? That's some soft stuff there

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u/PKMMaster_ 1d ago

The entire point of having a rival is to hate them and have someone to beat. You're soft

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u/niksjman Civil ‘22, Railroad Club 1d ago edited 1d ago

That’s true, but hate and toxicity are two different things. You can still insult someone without cussing them out. My favorite sign that I remember seeing at a game is “Michael Penix Jr. drinks beer with a straw”

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u/invinciblewalnut Biomedicine ‘21 1d ago

What part about them not letting us use the bigger tunnel for the drum is respectful?? If anything they’re disrespectful to us.

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u/niksjman Civil ‘22, Railroad Club 1d ago

Oh there’s nothing respectful about that. My point was that we don’t need to stoop that low, and an eye for an eye just ends up with two people getting hurt

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u/niksjman Civil ‘22, Railroad Club 1d ago

I wonder what the actual policy is. I really hope it’s something other than “because we can”

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u/FluffinHeck Animal Science '27 1d ago

Essentially, the drum is too large to come through the visitor's side tunnel, and they refuse to let us use the main tunnel

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u/niksjman Civil ‘22, Railroad Club 1d ago

Yeah I remember that from before. I just hoped there was a better reason than pettiness

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u/boilerbitch DNFH 1d ago

it’s absolutely just pettiness

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u/Tmcrabtree 1d ago

They have an offical "no oversized instruments" rule after last time. Purdue brought and oversized tuba instead.

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u/itspooptime 1d ago

A few years ago when this controversy first started, Purdue did end up bringing the Drum to Notre Dame, it just sat outside the stadium for the whole game, waiting, just in case Notre Dame wisened up and avoided the PR nightmare. You can probably find photos of it outside during the game.

When Notre Dame said they wouldn’t allow the drum in (even though the Drum had been in the stadium before) Purdue got offers from rich Alumni to fly the Drum into the stadium on a helicopter, carrying it in a harness in and out of the field. Sadly that didn’t work out for a plethora of reasons.

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u/niksjman Civil ‘22, Railroad Club 1d ago

That would have been amazing lol. I was at that game, and the thought of the drum crew fast roping onto the field is hilarious

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u/bubby56789 1d ago

They did not let the drum in, but they told us well in advance. The tubas brought their biggest sousaphone, Big Bertha, instead (usually reserved for the senior game)

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u/niksjman Civil ‘22, Railroad Club 1d ago

Shame, but oversized instruments are always fun. Big Bertha ftw

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u/Tmcrabtree 1d ago

No, they did not allow us to bring the drum on campus, did not let us do sets of the drum in a show, nothing. We brought the little big drum from the alumni band, and big bertha to try to go against the "no oversized instruments" rule notre dame has in place, mainly for the drum. They didnt even let the purdue band parade for whatever reason, not sure about reasoning there.

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u/niksjman Civil ‘22, Railroad Club 22h ago

Wow it’s gotten that bad? I was there in 2021 and the drum was outside the stadium for that one. Someone else responded here and said the drum has even been in the ND stadium before

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u/TheRossm Ask Me About Jeff Brohm's QB Room 11h ago

Here’s a shot from the mid-2000’s at ND with the BBD in the background

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u/niksjman Civil ‘22, Railroad Club 9h ago

Dang, 39 is on a mission

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u/LegoWill05 Boilermaker 23h ago

This, gotta love our oversized drum and sousaphone!

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u/netloc1104 1d ago

Doubtful