NORMAN — Less than two weeks from the 2013 season opener on Owen Field, Oklahoma football fans have one less problem to worry about.

“I think Bob Stoops is probably pretty happy that the quarterback controversy has taken second place,” OU Director of Bands William Wakefield said Tuesday afternoon, about an hour before acquiescing to some of the increasingly angry demands from Sooner fans and alumni outraged over changes to the marching band’s pregame routine.

After experimenting with different ideas, first-year Pride of Oklahoma Director Justin Stolarik decided to stick — at least in part — with tradition, placing the ongoing quarterback battle between junior Blake Bell and redshirt freshman Trevor Knight right back in the center of attention.

Stolarik, who replaced former Pride director Brian Britt this summer, had ruffled some feathers among fans and former Pride of Oklahoma members by planning significant changes, particularly to the Fanfare at the beginning of the pregame routine.