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    1974 Madison Scouts
  • Your Favorite Drum Corps Season
    1978

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  1. Sorry Dude, 11 min of angry does nothing. no real highs or lows. The costume up close is really cool. However, from the stands looks all brown with a little yellow. pretty much camouflage. I love the Scouts, but this show is just OK at best. How do they carry that costume for next year? Another 11 min of angry? or scrap and go new direction?
  2. Good call on the Crusaders, I was going to reply. Great show!
  3. I my opinion that is way off. I believe that the Alumni whole heartedly support the Corp. but do not support this show musically and or esp visually. After a bit I got excited about the costumes. I thought this might be a wild and crazy show, which to wear that type of costume it would have to be. But the show to me really just lays there. really no WTF moments.
  4. Madison Not making finals is a MAJOR FAILURE! And the marching members, my Brothers expect to make finals, because they have historically been there and had exciting, entertaining shows. Pioneer not making finals is the norm. those kids do not expect to either. This pc BS that everyone is a winner and should all get a nice brown participation award is out of touch. This is Still a competition! the higher you place, the better players you get the next year to build with, the more $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ you get. Yes, all in the same league, Then not in the same tier as BD, SCV and the others. Semantics. Their are 3 or more ties in the top 12. Say it how you will, right now Madison is not even near the middle tier of the top 12. They are inching further and further away. Changes need to be made. I have been around Drum Corps for a long time. This my opinion, don't judge me, I know entertaining, this is NOT entertaining to me.
  5. Never said garbage, just not entertaining and not a show to build on for the next years run. I at first did not like the costumes, then decided, ok, lets go with this, get on board and see where this goes and actually talked myself into liking them. The show just does not have that many big spots. Its all kind of monotone esp about half way through to the end. Not an entertaining show like the rest of the top 12. Madison is really not that relevant any more. Even though in the past they did not win, people would still say "yes, But Madison was on fire, They were entertaining as heck"! Now after the top 6 starts, Madison is out of the conversation. And for all the people that still cling to the scores don't matter to us are fooling themselves. You can say scores don't matter when you blow the crowd away and you are the most entertaining and you are in the fight. But, when you don't make finals and aren't the crowds favorite entertainer, the scores matter a whole heck of a lot. I think that the jump from the traditional to where they are now, although courageous, did not pay off, could have done 12 or 13 by staying the course. Now identity is lost/changed and in limbo. Face it, the show scores what it deserves. Bottom of the pile. Just not what Madison is about in my opinion. This saddens me because I take pride in being from Madison. I sat back last year and did not say 1 word to anyone. This is not good, definitely the wrong direction in the last few years for sure.
  6. Not as bad as last year.! Admin group should be re evaluated. Is making finals an actual goal?
  7. I hope you are correct, i honestly do !
  8. Scouts program director as well as the admi staff should embarrased for giving those hard working kids a turd to work with. And everyone knows you cant polish a turd.
  9. Give him a call, he will gladly talk about it
  10. Living life. Working on the Scouts Alumni for Madi Gras, TOTALLY DONE! Not ever, not with its current direction. Even the senior corps have fallen lockstep with the junior direction, so nope
  11. Yeah, put together a top 13 show, dropped the identity of the corps and put a Volkswagen in the Indy 500! The whole idea that the corps is in the right hands is a dream right now. Sorry , that's how I feel.
  12. After last years waaaayyyyy over hyped show. How could the current administration let this happen again? Is the same program coordinator in control> A corps with no money, goes out and spends that much money on costumes that get lost in the field. Well yes, it is a sort of camouflage. Spent so much much $$ on dark un-understandable music and a monotone show. WOW. The administration needs to be changed as well as the yes man mentality of the bod. Now 12 points off the lead, hell they are 4 points from the 11th place corps. You cant keep blaming this on Sal Salas. This administration has not paid down that debt and that hole is deeper than ever. For being a savy "business man" this corps is in the wrong hands. It all goes to the top. If Chris and Dan had no hand in the shows direction, they #### well should have. Because this is a mess right now. I guess SS was not so bad even though it was DCI that got together and let that happen. S Stewart average placement 6 SSalas average placement 9 C Komnick average placement 11 I would say wrong direction
  13. Because of 79 years of tradition! this is competition! Why would you ask such a dumb question? Madison fans ALLWAYS expect to be in the fight for a title. Overall history wise, Madison is a contender and a crowd favorite. As you say HISTORICALLY, 2 titles and many years when they could have or should have won. Know the history of drum corps. It started before 2010. These last years not so much. Some changes need to happen, but a uniform change and dark music I don't think is the answer.
  14. Mid July, already 10 points behind. Fighting for a spot in finals. Is that Madison's roll now? #### they have settled for a #### sandwich. Is this the same program director as last years believe the hype show?
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