Original sentence: After the pep band's halftime performance at the Continental Tire Bowl against West Virginia University in 2002, the athletic department again decided to start a faculty-run marching band, citing lack of interest and questionable content in the student-run Pep Band's shows.In further recruitment effeorts, he went on to offer positions in the band to musicians at Virginia Piedmont Community College in the spirit of involving the entire community in the athletic events of the university.Pep Band members largely declined, saying they valued their self-governance too highly.The Pep Band's Tire Bowl Show, which had been apporved by the athletic department and bowl executuives, offended West Virginia fans and prompted an apology from University of Virginia President John Casteen.This moved was criticized by opponents, who thought the UVa band should consist of UVa students, as a desperate attempt for find members.William Pease, former director of Western Michigan University's marching band program, was hired to direct this new band, and one of his first moves as band director was to invite members of the Pep Band to join the Cavalier Marching Band
Edited sentence: Alumni pressure mounted after the bowl banned the scramble band from all future bowls, and University of Virginia President John T.Casteen was forced to offer an apology to West Virginia University and West Virginians "generally".He went on to offer positions in the band to talented musicians at Virginia Piedmont Community College in the spirit of involving the entire community in the athletic events of the university.One university booster, Carl Smith, offered to singlehandedly pay for the creation of a new marching band if it could be instituted by 2004.The university took him up on this offer, and he included an even larger donation to improve the music and arts programs at the university, whose reputations had been lagging behind other departments.This came to a head when the pep band's halftime performance at the Continental Tire Bowl against West Virginia University in 2002 had been perceived to have embarassed the university.Though many still enjoyed them, other students and fans had steadily grown tired of the performances of the Virginia Pep Band, which played at Virginia football and basketball games between 1974 and 2003.William Pease was hired as director out of a very successful marching band program at Western Michigan University, and one of his first moves as band director was to invite members of the Pep Band to join the Cavalier Marching Band