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Dave Glyde: Blue Devils music coordinator and arranger. "Dave was hired by the International Olympic Committee to coordinate, design and compose opening ceremony music events for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Bejing, China and for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia." Read more at http://bluedevils.org/staff/?programID=1&cID=7621

Not quite the same as most individual rings, but the center snare from BD this year and I have marched together since 05. 05 - 07 Academy and 08 - 10 BD. That gives us 05 "undefeated" (for our 10 or something shows and not going to finals) 06 undefeated and the Div II win in Madison, .025 away from the win in 08 (and .225 away from undefeated), plus the past two undefeated seasons with devs. But who's counting?

I did some minimal research (mainly checking the corps that have scored very high 98's or broken 99 at finals) and it seems like BD may have achieved the highest score ever given out prior to quarter finals. Can anyone confirm this, and maybe state the previous record holder? Also, is this setting devs up for receiving the all time high score record? (maybe even 99+ all weekend?)

Not including the 10 people from the B corps, the 2009 Blue Devils hornline had 49 of 76 people who marched somewhere before BD. The corps previously marched included Crown, Cadets, SCV, Bluecoats, Boston, Blue Stars, Troopers, Colts, Academy, Crossmen, Spirit, Mandarins, Pacific Crest, Jersey Surf, Cascades, Southwind, Esperanza, Mystikal, VK, Fever, and Oregon Crusaders. 17 had never marched drum corps before BD. Of 10 rook-outs, only 1 had never marched before. I also know the pit had people who had marched Phantom, Cavies, and Madison; making BK, Glassmen, and Pioneer the only active World Class corps not represented. Numbers like this are pretty typical of the Blue Devils.