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Georgia Magazine dons the Redcoats for the cover of its newest issue:

Bawcum has been a part of the Redcoat Band for more than 30 years, first as a saxophonist and then as drum major, graduate assistant, and associate director before being named director in 2020. He’s heard lots of iterations of the Redcoat Chant.

“The way the band performs the Chant changes every year, but the basics are still the same,” he says. “That’s on purpose, and it’s OK. It’s like the old saying, ‘You can put your stamp on it.’” 

What Bawcum means is that traditions change. Each class of Redcoats makes its own. And many of those traditions became University of Georgia traditions. Then the process repeats itself. 

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Image: Redcoats in the front row at the National Championship game.