New direction for The Pride of Arizona

With the departure of Jay Rees as director of The Pride of Arizona, there is a great opportunity to improve the game day experience. The person picked as his successor can have an immense impact. The Athletic Department needs to be involved with this selection process. The candidates need to be screened in a similar fashion to picking a coach. The next director needs to know how to support all athletics on campus. They need to have an understanding of fundraising, and a plan for recruitment.They need to have experience with a big time football program. A real marching band plays a new show for each home game as well as pregame and post game traditions.The band should be the focal point of most campus spirit activities, and be ambassadors of the entire university, to favorably promote the excellence of the university to the outside world.