Jeff Ream

i dont see anyone giving him a pass though.

so Landmark taught you that magical things happened when you touched your trumpet? after the hash marks were repainted of course

i dont see any glamorizing anything. i see a lot of brutal honesty pointing out well documented flaws that led to legal action

true. but again dinner and drinks after hours isn't company time unless its designated as an official company function/meeting

i don't remember that being an emphasis at all.

1991 needs more love for the bookends. not so much the 10 minute ballad

i was at the show where Boston beat them for the last time until 2017

on a hot Sunday afternoon at Cedar Cliff HS in July 83, the Cadets changed everything i thought i knew about drum corps. a lot of the crowd were stunned, not fully understanding what they were seeing, but knowing it was good. i saw it as the way things were going to go. a year later, same stadium, WSS. it cemented everything i thought the year before. after the year, getting the VHS of 82, i saw where it all started. and 87 was the icing on the cake. if 89 had had the same ending for at least half the year, man they could have done damage

in fact, before the 18 scandal broke, the women came to the board who appointed an investigator who was not neutral in any way. and when that was whitewashed, boom the Philly Inquirer story came to be

i hope you change your mind. i was very angry and bitter when my corps went down...and man if any of that stuff ever made it to court, ohhh boy. but i realized in time i loved drum corps beyond just my little Westshoremen bubble.

i suggest you read the Glass Door reviews. they lay it out well, as well as the myriad other places it's been documented by those who were there.

well thing there as i understand it is the CEO is guilty, not the company.

funny though the years where BD had the most hatred were the first years in the recent dominance.....09, 10, and 12. yeah 15 and 19 were tight, but the hatred wasn't at the level of those 3 years

the sky is Carolina Blue for a reason

hell people are tired of Dallas and they haven't won #### since 1996!

the only thing i could see myself arguing was it happened at a non corps organized function. yes it was people tied to the corps, but it wasnt at a camp, on tour, an organized gathering or anything like that. there to me the line on the corps liability is a little fuzzy. Sure they should have dismissed the individual immediately, even in the days of 40 years where the best medicine was to look the other way and tell somone to go elsewhere quietly, so maybe the corps could be digned some for not dismissing the perpetrator right away, but it isn't like the Spirit situation where it happened on tour. But given the culture that lasted way too long...again, read the Glass Door reviews on YEA

So the corps wasn’t in the hole in August? I remember seeing in many places about transportation issues and employees being let go long before the inactive announcement was made.

Oh he is on the board. Maybe he’s right. Except for victim shaming

Then why were assets being sold after the season?

Feel free to educate him. If you listen to Gary he’s why they moved to Erie where he killed the Thunderbirds

let's be clear....even before the new guy George was not coming back. he wasn't wanted by many, and in fact the aura in the room lightened instantly after he was gone.

i havent looked lately. i'll check.

i never said criminal. but the board allowed a culture where one person literally controlled everything. never called out on anything. if he said jump they asked how high.

I'd think anything jail or conviction related is not good

if they had that in the bank, things would be a lot different