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Have listened to it plenty of times. It usually doesn't reach the threshold of mature (the clip of the guy misspelling a euphemism for breasts isn't really funny, it's just obnoxious). It's much more sports talk radio than "Fresh Air" (which, I recognize, is not what DCAF is aiming to be).

I wish there was an intelligent, mature, informed podcast that discussed the art form and the business of drum corps, one where the folks who actually know what's what would be willing to go on and discuss the activity and provide insight and clarity to listeners. Something very different from DCAF, in other words.

Guessing he's pretty happy with the gig in Rosemont these days.

All of this feels accurate, though I'm not sure who would be counsel for them in court, since being behind on legal bills last fall was the first shoe that caused them to go on hiatus for this season.

I wouldn't consider 40 years "a short memory." There are no doubt several other individuals who could be encouraged to file claims against the "Not Cadets", since the new organization would be attempting to use the reputation of the old corps to their advantage, which outside eyes could rightly see as an attempt to pretend like they're not selling the same product. Not sure who would be willing to put any money or effort into a risky venture when there are much safer ways to give back to the activity. Support Jersey Surf or any of the other smaller east coast corps, and help build them up. Cadets are a movie whose end credits have already rolled.

What would be the point? Anyone attempting to say that their organization shares any DNA (or tries to claim they share that DNA) will have a massive target on their backs from the day they announce. Nothing called "Cadets", nothing referencing the Garfield/BergenCounty/YEA/CAE Cadets, no uniform designed to mimic the Cadets traditional uniform, no efforts of any kind to draw a connection between the "new" corps and The Cadets would be considered safe, and you'd likely find no individuals who know anything who'd be willing to serve as Board members for a corps that is "The Cadets But Not The Cadets." Consummatum est. May their memory be a blessing.

There's no chance anyone would be silly enough to touch anything Cadets related for the foreseeable future. The brand is dead. Their members have hopefully all found new homes for this season. What was the most likely conclusion 6 years ago when the GH stories started breaking has come to pass, despite the best efforts of the CAE org. Life goes on.

Great, now I have that sh__tty Frankie Valli song celebrating statutory rape in my head.

Find where I said "nobody knew" in what I wrote. Good luck. What I said, for the hard of reading, is that DCI was not given any tools by its founders to screen and manage employees of the participating corps. They, as an organization, were not unique in that fact. I wrote that because it's accurate and provable. I try not to state things as facts that are not so. == BTW, re: the Catholic Church, you might want to consider that the priests involved in those scandals were actual employees of (wait for it) the Church. Nobody working at any of the competing corps were directly hired by or managed by the DCI offices. See the difference?

Muchachos and Crossmen both were busted of rules violations regarding age of members, something that was clearly spelled out in DCI's charter. Might as well say "Regiment got a .1 penalty in 1978, but DCI looked the other way on sexual predators." One thing has nothing to do with the other. DCI was not given the right or the responsibility by its founders to mandate background checks of corps staff in the 1970s/80s/90s. You can say "that was stupid" and you'd be right, but the fact is, no one else in American society in that period was background checking either, for anything besides criminal pasts.

That's the equivalent of "I'm leaving to spend more time with my family." My recollection is that DCI's membership committee or exec leadership specifically told them to sit the year out and fix things.

DCI already has policies in place for member corps, and has acted to suspend an organization once allegations of abuse were presented to them (SOA in 2022). What, specifically would you consider "a demonstration of public leadership" that would be more meaningful than the programs already in place that comply with SafeSport guides for promoting member safety? The complaint that brought this forward was from 1982, not 2022. Unless you're angry for DCI not retroactively doing something 40 years ago about a situation that they had no idea even existed, not sure what you're looking for. And yes, since they are still named as a party in the complaint - the last one still alive - it would be suicidally stupid for them to say anything. Let it get to court (if it's not dismissed before then), and let the process play out. If you have specific concerns about specific corps who are courting specific dangers, there are multiple resources at your fingertips to report your concerns. If you want copies of each corps' member safety policies and member handbooks, you can always pick up the phone and call their offices to request copies or download them directly online.

I suspect they had them already from the 2021 season. Like Cavaliers 2016-22, the concept was to have a 'classic' uni for use at retreat.

It wasn't at YEA. The Board was dysfunctional (non-functional, more accurately), and despite plenty of warning signs that there were issues with their CEO, they made no effort to exercise their responsibilities as Board members. At a time when every other corps in the early teens was implementing member-safety protocols, YEA ignored that movement, and the amount of financial chicanery going on in their back offices was legendary in the activity. If there's an upside, it's that almost every other corps has seen how bad it can be when one megalomaniac is allowed to become the face of the organization, and have modified their approaches to being more proactively responsible about business operations and more transparent with their stakeholders.

Cadets' membership was revoked earlier this year. That was the statement. What more could anyone at the DCI level add to what was all but a foregone conclusion 6 months ago.

The run of 83/84/85 & 87 was a once in a lifetime series of shows.

Nah. Her counsel is likely working on contingency. I was hearing that CAE had offered a settlement some time ago but was rejected: the strong likelihood now is that no one will get bupkus except the lawyers defending CAE and DCI.

This is a Chapter 7 filing, which is final liquidation of all assets. Chapter 11 is a reorganization tool, but 7 is turn off the lights and don't bother locking the front door.

Hence adding DCI. Hard to keep a suit alive when there's no viable entity to sue.

He didn't do it alone. There was a nominal Board of Directors at YEA all those years he was dissembling -with individuals and with their finances - and those BOD members never stepped in to investigate what was going on or create a culture of transparency. The YEA Board members thru the time of Hopkins' ouster were complicit in weakening the org to the point where they needed to close YEA down and start over, and, from a protection standpoint, the new org might as well have been a newborn lamb in a field full of hyenas..

Chapter 7 doesn't make that much sound, so yeah, waves, and that's it. Can't fault their current BOD for fighting the good fight against bad odds.

Shows didn't start having titles until the late 80s.

While I don't disagree that revenues are not keeping up with expenses as much as they need to for sustainability, the examples of those two specific corps don't underscore your point. Vanguard got into trouble not because they ran out of money, but because they had absolutely no internal financial controls or experienced managers running the operation. The stories they were self-reporting of how they overspent in 2022 were just plain weird. Financially they could have put a corps out in 2023 and not broken a sweat. Cadets are fighting a lawsuit which was sucking up all of their available funding. Spirit is also battling a suit, but doesn't appear to be having problems recruiting and putting a corps on the field. Surprisingly, the majority of WC corps are in acceptable financial condition, if you look thru financials.

Performance fees in WC are the same regardless of scoring these days. That was changed several years ago. If the TOC shows are still going, those offer a price bump for the competing corps that night (residual of the G7 situation).

My understanding is that judge allowed it to go forward but without specifically saying that CAE is necessarily liable for anything that happened at the predecessor organizations that had The Cadets as a product.