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I’m on a caption staff of 17 people. 2 weeks before finals, I was on the road with the caption head and 1 other tech. Less people than when I marched and I definitely earned my $25 a day for each day that I taught. Big staff’s but there’s only so much room on the bus and each caption typically limits to a max of 4. The more days you teach, the more you earn. It is much better mentally to teach for a week or two and leave then to teach all summer like most did back in the day, myself included.

So this thread is sliding away from the initial focus of the CEO resigning. All the talk of tour, bands, regions, membership and so on means absolutely nothing until and unless SCV can get their org act together. A discussion of the org as it is currently constructed might lead to ideas for maybe how it should be constructed to support re-entry to World Class, Open Class, whatever. Who might lead SCV ? What’s the BOD composition? How might they raise money? If these elements aren’t fixed and fixed right away, there’s little chance we’ll see anything from SCV in 2024. The clock is ticking.

Yes and Yes! Go for it. Audition now and they will assist you in making improvements for your next audition. You never know until you try. You may want to consider a lower level corps for your first audition.

I keep my Corps t-shirts in a magic drawer which makes them shrink.

I'll approach it from one marching member's perspective from inside the 1993 Star hornline. To me, this show demonstrates many of the limits of what can be accomplished with G-bugles. The highest of highs, the lowest of lows, both in volume and in timbre. While other corps had already branched out into 3-valve instrumentation, we were still playing a full line of 2-valve K-series King bugles that were purchased by Bill Cook in 1984. The line was, with a small number of exceptions, made up of all of the original Kings from that purchase, meticulously maintained by Eric Lund. Jim Prime's arrangement of extremely difficult, sometimes almost inaccessible, source material was some of the best brass writing in the history of the activity. It was integrated with our percussion section and visual design because of professional collaboration at the highest level. We were only able to physically perform this show due to the extreme conditioning program that Jim Mason insisted on, and we only had to use three alternate performers to replace brass members, either injured or otherwise, before the end of the season. I have read lots of opinions of this program over the years, some better informed than others. It was a "revenge" show. It was "too highbrow." It was "not drum corps." I'm here to tell you that it was all of those things, and also so much more. It wasn't just another show and it never will be. Sometimes, I still can't believe that the series of events that led me to Bloomington in January of 1993 actually happened. I wouldn't trade the experience for anything. There will never be anything else like it.

It was back when they had that BTN2GO stream for the little #### sports and games that don't make them money on the network channel. The closed that and contracted with FLO. It was bad enough apparently they went back and built their own platform again for streaming with BTN+. Although the network channel stuff streams over the Fox Sports website platform now. Which is how I'm watching the conf tourney at work.