LSU’s ban on halftime performances by opponents’ marching bands rocked the SEC community last week. The unpopular policy, however, might be reversed in time for the 2016 season.

According to Ross Dellenger of The Advocate, athletics officials will be meeting with the school’s risk management team to try to come up with a policy that will allow for opponents’ marching bands to perform at halftime.

“We’re still looking at this. This is still being assessed,” Deputy Athletics Director Eddie Nunez said this weekend. “This is not a dead decision. This is something we’re actively looking at, going to be meeting with risk management again. We’re going to try to do what we can to make this work. If we can, we will try to make it work. We would love to continue the pageantry.”

The ban, which was officially in place last season, was enacted due to safety concerns. Nunez told Dellenger that 200-plus members of an opposing band, 300-plus members of LSU’s band, the football teams, media members and television equipment is too many people on the field during the later portion of the second quarter. There have also been unspecified incidents with opposing band members.

“Risk (management officials) looked at this because of a couple of situations that have happened in the past — very close situations, things considered something we needed to keep our eye on,” he said. “They asked us to look at this. If you remember, a year and a half ago, we went and added a fence behind our home team bench. It was part of this whole situation, trying to create a buffer.”

The college band community sees LSU’s ban as potentially damaging to a longstanding tradition.

“I’m scared to death about the slippery slope it might lead us on,”Steve Peterson, director of bands at Illinois and past president of the College Band Directors National Association told Dellenger.

“That will change the entire mood of SEC football games. Why would the bands come anymore? And will other SEC schools do the same because they don’t want LSU playing at their stadiums now?”

LSU’s 2016 home schedule includes Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss and Alabama.