The California Golden Bears were spared from having to deal with the Stanford Cardinal band in the 2016 Big Game or Cal’s home basketball games with Stanford. The band was not allowed to travel on the road with the team due to violations of campus alcohol, hazing and sexual harassment.
It made the pain of Cal’s seventh straight loss to Stanford a little bit more bearable.
It doesn’t look Cal will be spared in future contests. The ban has been lifted. Apparently, Stanford is a changed band! They have learned their lessons and will never do anything detrimental to band conduct ever again.