Who were they?
Ding ding ding - this is the critical question no one is asking, and one everybody knows Green Helmets Landon can't answer.
If it's Byron and Chad and Randy and 50 other guys renting a hotel ballroom and hiring a DJ, its one thing - if its just like seven random dudes who played for Marshall and who happen to live in the Charlotte area getting together in the parking lot, its something totally different. Based on the lack of details and specifics in the Op-Ed (because that's what all of Landon's "articles" are), I'm guessing its the latter.
And that's me being generous, supposing it happened at all. Landon's stuff is always more about what can't be disproven than what he actually has some sort of evidence of.