I'm very bullish on Boston's organization right now.
Maybe not my absolute favorite shows and designers, but I RESPECT them.
I have a corps brother whose oldest child is marching there, so I'm going to root for them hard, BUT I'm also rooting for Bluecoats because he has the youngest child marching there.
That being said, Santa Clara absolutely should have been trying to work this angle in the Bay area. I believe that Blue Devils have done this there at least some, and they've gotten performance opportunities for BDE in the past, and who knows what else.