Members of the marching band community questioned how the university found funds to pay recently fired football Coach Dirk Koetter's $2.85 million after he leaves the university, but not enough money to send the band to Hawai'i.

The band met Monday for the last time this semester and will not travel with the team when it plays the University of Hawai'i on Dec. 24.

ASU officials said the payout they receive to participate in this bowl won't allow them to take the band. When ASU played in the now defunct Aloha Bowl in 1999 and 2000, the band went to Hawai'i because the payout provided funding.

The university will receive nearly $400,000 for the Hawaii Bowl, one of the lowest bowl-game payouts. It would cost about $250,000 to take 250 band members, said Steven Hank, ASU assistant athletic director.

The payment isn't even enough to take just a few band members.

"The university cannot outlay the funding. It is costing us more to send just our football team than the guarantee payment we're receiving from the bowl," Hank said.

ASU said there would be no compromise for the band. It will not send the football team off in a pep rally nor will it record a version of the ASU fight song to be played during touchdowns.