A 66-year-old former accountant wasn’t afraid to march to his own beat.

Retiree Kent Broussard enrolled in Louisiana State University and became a freshman this year to fulfill his childhood dream of playing in the school’s iconic marching band.

Broussard, a Baton Rouge resident, said he kick-started the idea as he was winding down his career in the corporate world. 4

“I had a conversation with my wife and my family about five years ago [and] I said, ‘What I want to do when I retire is, I want to enroll in LSU and I want to try out for the Tiger band,” according to the university.

The lifelong Louisianian, who plays the sousaphone, did not get any special treatment as he inched toward his vision of marching with the prestigious 325-member band, dubbed “The Golden Band from Tigerl

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