My issue with George Hopkins is that he has changed too much. I understand much of the changes he has brought to the activity have been competitively beneficial, but they have also caused the standards of performance to go too high, and as a result has caused many organizations to be rendered uncompetitive. There are certain traditions such as G horns that I feel should have been left alone. My strongest concern with "Hoppy" is the implementation of electronics, narration, and synthesizers. I feel those instruments have destroyed the drum corps sound and driven the equipment costs so high that it has defeated the original purpose of the drum corps activity.