JKT90
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Reddit dropped another one on GH. And one on Pioneer.
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More stuff dropped on Reddit...non Cadets related thou.
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The letter is posted in the dci sub on Reddit.
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1 hour ago, Bobby L. Collins said:
It didn't (and still doesn't) warrant a response, because you're accusing me of something I wasn't doing.
I'm happy for Colin, and I wish him well. But I also have the sense to know that when Boston's generous benefactor(s) dry up, that's right about the time he'll be ready to "seek new challenges", along with most of the rest of the dream team. And I don't begrudge them for that, not at all. But I'm not about to sit here and wrap it up in a package labelled "money had absolutely nothing to do with this decision". I have WAY more sense than that, and so should you.
I don't know the financials of Boston. I do know someone who is good friends with a couple members of their BoD, and know how they have been restructuring things from how they operate and their business model to generate revenue, and know it has been many years in the making to reach the point they are at now. So, yeah, money had something to do with it, but so does having creative freedom and being a part of building something and having an opportunity to make a contribution to it. And if I know anything, they haven't worked as hard as they have for the past many years to get there, to now start spending wildly and risking undoing what they have worked to achieve. They are being responsible and good stewards.
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5 minutes ago, MikeRapp said:
Should we be even remotely surprised how closely this mirrors the final placements of these corps?
i also find it fascinating how many kids choose to age out at a corps they never marched in previously. Most notably, Blue Devils. Is it any wonder why they finish in the medals every year?
Spirit had 23.
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37 minutes ago, George Dixon said:
Hopkins and a few other directors asked for the delay to allow everyone to focus on the current season the final few weeks and then chats can happen prior to Labor Day. It brings a bit of order.
As far as Boston being the reason corps can't rent LOS - hadn't heard that. However I don't know that "Fairness" and a corps rehearsing IN the competition facility go hand in hand. I feel the same way about that as I do about "System Blue" being a DCI sponsor. That shouldn't be happen either
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should lol
Lone Star Percussion sponsored a few events this year and it had no bearing on where the corps placed...CEO is Executive BOD for a corps.
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1 hour ago, ChristmasInJuly said:
I am pretty sure he is not a troll. I believe he marched Bluecoats and is upset with the fact Cavilers show beat the Bluecoats show. I 100% agree with him. I have never respected Cavilers or Madison Scouts for the simple fact that I think it is crap they do not allow women to march. I do not think they will ever win another championship until they change their mindset on allowing women to march. Women have just as much talent if not more than men.
Also their show was 100% a **** you to women this year. I found totally disgraceful and trashy. It is already bad enough you don't allow woman to march but now you are going to have a show about men.
I know you guys will bash this and tell me I am stupid but my opinion is my opinion.
I'd like to see a female corps. Imagine the talent level they could draw from.
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25 minutes ago, ndkbass said:
The Board of Directors should fire the current administrative staff in its entirety, find new admin, and rebuild accordingly. I would be comfortable with some of the teaching and design staff staying, but I would leave it all in the hands of new admin. That is my sincere wish for 2018. Again, like in the 2017 thread, I recommend reaching out to Brian Howard of the Blue Devils organization. I am sure there are others who would be just as capable and potentially even more interested than Mr. Howard.
This does not mean that the BoD is fine as it is too. Much more younger blood is needed in the general voting membership of the board, and sitting/elected membership also needs to change. It is way too entrenched right now, and thus the corps is spinning its wheels in mud without gaining any traction. Until this changes or the structure of the organization changes, Scouts will not be able to significantly improve their package in anyway in my opinion.
Be careful what you wish for...a history lesson. Spirit made finals for many years in a row in the 80's. Placing top 6 etc...Missed in 89 back in in 90 (sound familar?)...after 90, made wholesale changes across the board, and that began many years of missing finals 91 92 93, 94 went inactive came back in 95 and slowly began rebuilding. Finances in the toilet and a lot of struggles. It's a slippery slope...And I would hate to see Madison go down this road.
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9 minutes ago, George Dixon said:
symbolizes someone "late for church"
And many people are late to church.
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A classy organization and congratulations to all of the BD world.
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One of the first ones...i think the 3rd one.
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The one talking about his mom dying in the parking lot on semis...wow.
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I would conduct a retrospective and involve: Operations, Logistics, Staff, MM's, Souvie folks, Food crew, Medical staff, Social Media folks, Volunteers, anyone involved in making it happen and ask 3 questions.
1) What should we keep doing?
2) What should we start doing?
3) What should we stop doing?
Items or closely related items which receive the highest number of answers are what will be prioritized.
Main goal is member experience - was it positive?
Fiscal responsibility - were we good stewards?
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Personally, when I marched or attended a show, never gave a flip about scores, and marching on Saturday was cool, but it wasn't the justification of a successful journey. What 11 people think vs 20,000 yelling their butt off...honestly, the crowd was cool...but I didn't bust my butt for the crowd and especially the judges. I did it for myself. Regardless had we placed 1st or 40th...I learned, I grew, and I am a better person because of it. I'm not saying participation trophy at all..I'm saying do your best and all else...whatever. Do your absolute best...thrive to kick everyone's butt... always...feel accomplished in what you did if you did all the above...those are the life lessons to be had. My worth is not equivalent to a score. A score won't land me a job or teach me values. An attitude of relentless pursuit of perfection will.
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I nominate this for thread of the year. Outstanding work!
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13 hours ago, George Dixon said:
it's interesting
when I've been at a rehearsal I've never felt such a positive vibe
and then I come here and watch the scores and I get sucked into the negativity
it is quite the disconnect
I wouldn't let anything said on here affect you negatively. What you saw in person and felt is real...and my earlier comments on leadership was based on business and not an indictment on this corps. Hope they finish out strong!
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14 minutes ago, JKT90 said:
All questions are welcomed and discussed. Then we solution from there. All have equal voice...its called servant leadership.
Example? Steve Jobs...we don't hire good people to tell them what to do...we hire good people for them to tell us what to do. We work for them. Another example of servant leadership...The Concord Blue Devils. Command and control leadership is dead...and those who do not adopt are dying...and I'm speaking from a business stand point...last I looked, drum corps is a non profit business...the concepts directly apply. Things have changed...adapt or move aside. That's business, and high functioning organizations. Would you rather tell an employee how to walk around a chair, or would you rather just move the chair from their path and allow them to do the job hired for?...servant leadership. As an employee, would you rather work in an organization that told you how to walk around a chair or one who just removed that obstacle from you and allowed you to do the job you are there to do...
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5 minutes ago, cadet93 said:
1. Why has essentially the entire staff left in the past two years?
2. Why are there so many Cadets alumni teaching the top corps, and pretty much none teaching the Cadets themselves? (yes, Drew and Tom, but I mean visual)
3. Why is the Director also the program coordinator?
4. Why is a former Drum Major, Board Member, large financial supporter of the corps for decades now on the BAC board?
Lets start there LOL
All questions are welcomed and discussed. Then we solution from there. All have equal voice...its called servant leadership.
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As a leader you always IDS the situation...this is identify Discuss Solution...to do this ask 3 questions...what should we stop doing, what should we start doing, and what should we keep doing. All answers are acceptable...the topics with the most responses are the ones addressed...and that process continues. This is not a negative process...it just is what it is. It's Agile leadership.
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17 minutes ago, Chief Guns said:
I was just going off recent history. Clara was introduced in Buffalo. Fellini closer was in at Buffalo etc. Although it would be cool if they didn't unleash it until quarters.
That's my prediction...quarters.
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That window off to the right ain't by mistake...and whatever happens with it will put them over the top. Scott Chandler...
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Has anyone counted the number of performers on the field yet?
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5 hours ago, 87cadet said:
This.
Going backwards, yet again.
Blame falls squarely on one person, yet again.
Sad to say, but I no longer expect to see a championship contending Cadets corps unless and until Hop courageously decides that the Corps is more important than his ego.
But I'm not holding my breath.
It's a tragic story repeated in business, sports, and the non profit world: overstaying your welcome, overestimating your ability, overplaying your cards, and stacking the deck (and Board) with yes-people who fail to see the obvious that any insider or outsider has seen for years.
The current management model is too broken to tweak, fix, or reshuffle. It's been that way for over a decade. Longer really, but changes in DCI and the wider culture (yes, there is a world out there that is not drum corps) has also changed enough to expose the Hop model as not just passé, but parasitic upon past success and gravely imperiling the future.
Cadets are not a middle of the pack corps. They are contenders or they are not Cadets. It's not about the medals. It's about the art, innovation, emotion, and most of all education.
Hop's publicly throwing the MMs under the bus on FB a couple weeks ago was the very last straw for me. That was ugly. Worse, it was pathetic, even unhinged. Not everything must be social media "content". Not everything must be shown and showboated. Let the kids, let the innovation, let the work, let the culture, let the performance, let the Art speak for itself. And I submit that all the Hop "content" on social media over the last ten years has been a sure sign and symptom of increasing discontent, another immature overcompensation for underlying lack of confidence, a clumsy attempt to cover a lack of faith in leadership by offering a pseudo transparency, a pseudo bottom up empowering and involving community, and too often, exasperating and utter ineptitude. Simple psychology: start with excuses, manage expectations, CYA, Doctor the spin, project blame, rinse, repeat.
You can attempt to flush the failures down, and when the process and results are posted ad nauseam on social media, and it looks all white and clean and new, almost like fine China, it's somehow easy to delude yourself into forgiving and hoping against hope for next year, and the next year, and the next year, and thus forgetting that you need to stand on your two feet and back away to see you're still just looking at a toilet.
This is a top down problem. The many thousands of alumni and friends and current team members must step up to fix it.
Now.
It's done broke. We gotta get woke.
I'm not gonna get stoned to be satisfied with the spurious "progress" of sixth or seventh. I'm stone cold sober.
I am dismayed by those who see this year as a step forward. From what?
Remember.....First as tragedy, or many of them, then a Stoned farce.
I don't measure progress from a series of ineptitudes and chronic mismanagement that resulted in the open festering weeping boil of a show design like Stoned. Hell, I even came out almost immediately after the show concept was announced a few years back and said to Cadets leadership and on this forum that "10" was doomed because it missed the entire point of the music, and sadly, I was right. The design and executive team of any of half a dozen or more dci corps would have won with that monster corps of MMs, because they had better design across the board, and they consistently have better design because they have better management and better execs who leave ego at the door when they go to work.
Nothing more important to a team than the leader. Any design or fundraising or morale or recruitment/retention issues are just symptoms of a kind of management that just doesn't work anymore.
Tyrants and egomaniacs like Toscanini are dead, though today we have another similarly famous (though much less talented) leader whose name begins with a "T" that I wish were dead, or never had been spawned. So it goes. The new and usually very successful leadership and organizational culture model is much more egalitarian, empowering, non-hierarchical, nurturing, creative. That is what millennials and GenZ love and have come to expect, and it's why Cadets have been passed by the Coats, Crown, Cavies, SCV, etc. (And you think I'm talking about friggin scores, don't you?)
All those corps have better and more talented and creative and education-focused and empowering teams top to bottom. Or as I should say, better all around. ;)
Hop must retire. (He won't likely be fired with all his BFFs on the board though.)
So much talent out there to find better exec and board leadership, staff, etc. Alumni and supporters would come out of woodwork to help and improve and reform and reload. So many people have been sitting on their hands waiting until this leadership era ends and a new great era begins.
Every year the cadets discussion threads generate more interest than anyone's. So many people care. So deeply. So many people are so frustrated. So many people need to come home and help.
Thank you Hop. I love you, but it's time to transition to another role in another organization.
It's bigger than drum corps. So let's aim higher, unafraid of the perilous skies, welcoming the springtime when kings go out through the Door, which, with our undying and renewed support, soon will reopen and surprise with a new entrance, not of another, but many hundreds, the family reunited and regenerated and once again revolutionary.
That's my rocky point, my simple song, my simple gift, my demons and my better angels, my somewhere, somehow, someday.
Zag!
FHNSAB
Re: management style...agreed. I guess on the other we'll see I guess.
Update from the Philadelphia Inquirer
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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I heard more names are being researched, and in about 3-5 weeks expect another article.