I'm from Rochester and lived there 25 years and went to college there and have been a life-long Cuse fan. I've now lived in WV for 15 years and have become a big WVU fan, as well. Unless they are playing each other, of course.
I reel against PC'ism at every turn. However, the air banjo skit is offensive. Imagine being a WVU fan who made the trip and brought the kids. It was a reminder that it doesn't matter how smart you are, where you now live, what degree you have, how professional a job you have, how much money you make or how nice a person you are. People from NY and a lot of other places will still make fun of you as a stereotypical country bumpkin who comes from a place where people are said to have sex with their sisters or cousins, to be uneducated, toothless and poor. Deliverance ruined a great song in Dueling Banjos. The trouble is, the dueling banjos skit wasn't intended to celebrate banjo music or a simpler life or any of the great things I've found out about in WV. It was specifically meant to evoke all those negative stereotypes. And the little kid that started dancing along with the banjo music got laughed at by a bunch of upstate New Yorkers that felt superior and laughed at that kid because the kid didn't realize the joke was on him. Its as classless as any demeaning joke intends to be.
Let's say SU was playing Maryland last year and the SU band did a skit referring to a coach in Maryland's colors as "Coach Fat Ass" or SU was playing Va Tech and the SU band did a skit referring to a coach in Va Tech colors as "Coach Burn Victim." No, those skits are not racist either, but they would be just as classless and offensive. The difference between racism and those other examples is that the law tells us racism is prohibited, whereas only our morality is there to tell us each example is classless and offensive.
There was a similar event during the WVU - UVA 2002 Continental Tire Bowl in Charlotte, NC. At half-time, UVA's marching band put on a skit they called the Hillbilly Dating Game or something like that. They had Bachelorette No. 1 from UVA in a classy dress who was a bio major who would be going to medical school after graduation and Bachelorette No. 2 from WVU come out in overalls and pig tails and dancing to banjo music. No jokes of sex with sisters were made, thankfully. Ultimately, the picture painted was of a UVA girl with professional aspirations who was classy versus a WVU girl who was a country bumpkin. Can't escape the stereotype. Lots of kids and adults from WVU understood that it was a cheap shot directed at them based on a stereotype. Lots of parents hoped they wouldn't have to explain that their kids would often throughout life be faced with dealing with stereotypes by people from other places who would never view them as having equal abilities or potential.
Not everyone is like that and for that I am appreciative.
