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Andy Dufresne

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  • Your Drum Corps Experience
    1975 to Present
  • Your Favorite Corps
    North Stars, Suncoast Sound, Crossmen of the the 80's, Bridgemen, 27, Madison, Phantom, Colts, Crown, Bluecoats
  • Your Favorite All Time Corps Performance (Any)
    1999 Madison Scouts
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    1980
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  1. Colt Cadets — 9th Place Open Class Colts — 9th Place World Class Financially stable Fantastic nucleus What a future!!!
  2. Hmmmm. Colts show seems to have more substance than Cavies this year. I’m surprised there is that large of a gap between the two. Cavies drumline undoubtedly superb, but I would suggest in all other captions the Colts top them. Just my two cents worth—which ain’t much in this economy.
  3. Funny. I was at the show yesterday and the first corps to get a rousing Standing O (and before their show was done) were the Colts. Just f’en WOW. The next corps was not until Crossmen, but not until their show was done and it appeared to be a hometown reaction. Cavies got a reaction, but what stuck in my head is that Corps from Iowa blew the stands and fans away like old time drum corps did BITD.
  4. Last time I checked Vicki MacFarlane, the only female World Class Director is at the helm at the Colts. HW is the program coordinator. It appears that their corroboration is finally paying dividends. The Colts have began to pick up their trot to a slow gallop at this juncture. Last Sunday they were 4.95 down from X-men. Tonight just 2. By by the end of the year I think they will make us all “True Believers”! Andy Hope is a good thing!
  5. It has been really quite out of Iowa. Wondering if HW and his tenacious bright staff will finally see its' planning, hard work and determination bring the "Red Team" to fruition in 2018. My gut says it has been 11 years since this corps has graced us with their presence on Saturday night, and feel the chemistry is now in play in 2018. Could the Colts be the proverbial "dark horse" this year? They had their debut last night in Dubuque and have not heard much. I am hoping for the best--I guess I am just a "True Believer" in them.
  6. 1. SCV 2. Crown 3. Boston 4. Blue Devils 5. Bluecoats 6. Cavaliers 7. Cadets 8. Blue Knights 9. Colts 10. Blue Stars 11. Academy 12. Mandarins 13. Crossmen 14. Phantom 15. Madison 15. BDB 16. Genesis 17. Troopers 18 Spirit 19. SCV Cadets 20. Oregon Crusaders
  7. On the eve of potentially significant staff changes I raise this issue. My impression is that the allegiance to corps has changed dramatically, yet subtly to staff over the decades In the 60's and 70's MM's stuck with their hometown corps. By the 80's a handful of MM's began to emigrate towards higher ranking corps--chasing the ring. The 80's into the 90's and 00's we saw the demise of many corps which opened up the doors for a mass exodus of MM's away from their hometowns to other corps still in existence. With the advent of social media, the greater ability to travel; the hotbeds of talent where a hometown drum corps does not or no longer exists, and the limited amount of talent in today's drum corps' hometowns does today MM feel more of an obligation to follow a staff member to another corps then to build the drum corps they started with to become a powerhouse? My impression is that all corps no longer have a hometown base like it was years gone by. How many MM's from BD are from Concord? How many MM's from Bluecoats are from Canton? How many MM's from Boston are from Boston? Troopers from Casper? Colts from Dubuque? With that being said, how much talent was drawn away from the Cadets and Crown when parts of their staff moved to Boston this past season? What if Academy, for sake of argument, happens to take a significant portion of SCV and BK's staff this year, would we see MM's from those corps' make their way to Arizona? Has the mindset of today's MM changed for the better? Is allegiance to one person better than an allegiance to the whole? Hope is a good thing.
  8. And were you not the one who whacked my wife and her lover?
  9. TooMuch: You state: "The tie between Colts and Academy, however, was ludicrous." Please elaborate. Andy. Hope is a good thing
  10. I was thinking the same. Actually I was thinking 2 things. You are overthinking the issue and if you think you are not why don't you hire Johnny Staccato?
  11. 1. Cadets 2. Bluecoats 3. Blue Devils 4. Santa Clara 5. Carolina Crown 6. The Cavaliers 7. Blue Knights 8. Phantom Regiment 9. Blue Stars 10. Crossmen 11. Colts 12. Troopers 13. Boston 14. Madison 15. Spirit 16. The Academy 17. Oregon Crusaders
  12. Trying to get an idea of what corps' maybe doing this year since not all have announced--(copyright issues, and just the general "make em wait" attitude to build the suspense.) So I browsed the websites. I am very intrigued about what the Colts have up their sleeve for this summer. Next weekend is their last audition camp -- get this -- for singers and drama students. Ooooh what does the corps from Iowa have cooking in the midwest this winter? "Wicked"? "The Wiz"? Who knows, but enquiring minds like mine want to know. Andy Hope is a good thing.
  13. Having been out of the activity for some time and reading the recent posts of the staff merry-go-round and the announcement of Jim Mason and Chuck Naffier has piqued my suspicious side. Are the stars aligning; bringing together the former director and a former marching member under his tutelage, to reunite with the Colts for 2015? If my memory serves me correctly, the years Mason directed the Colts and Naffier marched (early 80's) are reminiscent of the Colts in 2014 -- Telling a story that is refreshing, exciting, entertaining and just down right fun. Naffier, not having his time divided between two corps this upcoming year, and adding Mason, with his sage insight and experience, could, and would, compliment a wonderful staff that is taking this small town corps to new levels. Hope. Hope is a good thing. Andy
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