CCorps

When a top corps does esoteric, non-mainstream stuff, people complain about becoming too artsy-fartsy. When a top corps does traditional, done-to-death stuff, people complain about pandering and a lack of creativity. When a lower tier corps does esoteric, non-mainstream stuff, people applaud them for risk-taking. When a lower tier corps does traditional, done-to-death stuff, people applaud them entertaining the audience. I see a trend...

Are you having a discussion with yourself? This is odd...

The Colts, under Jason Buckingham, will continue to grow in brass until they're back in Finals.

That horn carriage though...

When you have a stronger baseline of ability, it allows you to teach at a higher/different level. So yes, it is about the talent level. It's also about the experience level; the DCI tour experience is a learned skill as much as playing/marching/spinning/etc. In fact, it's more important than those skills. A lower-placing corps teaches that experience if they're running a full tour. Even if they're not, that member who then leaps to a higher placing corps is in a position to be taught more. This is just basic Education 101 and, frankly, common sense. Are the top-tier corps taught better? Of course. But it's as much because they are ABLE to as it is because they are better at it. C'mon, now. You're smarter than that post.

Is he really still posting like this will make a difference? Go take this to Cadets. At least they'll laugh behind closed doors.

And we are both smart enough to read between the lines; he didn't mention it just because.

...because he works for Bluecoats? As for the rest; overthinking. This will help someone who already knows and wants to March but likely can't. It's not for attracting the entire HBCU community. How do you make them feel comfortable? The same way everyone else does it: "Reset." Jeeze.

Re-read. He cites DCI '80 directly.

Or, they could do them. This is silly.

Here, it's perception vs. reality. In reality, the OP is right. Troopers are playing newer music than many corps who lack the same criticism. Perception, however, always rules the day. I just think it's funny that when Troopers bring back their roots, it's dated. When Madison does it, it's amazing. I think that's more about DCP representation than reality.

If you a midfielder and you go to another team, yes the play is different and the style is different but you're doing the same job. Do you really believe that even the most highly talented soloist could go to, say, Pioneer, during Finals Week and be effective at all? You're being highly unrealistic and working within a metaphor that doesn't fit. Again, DCI is a club sport.

What are the transfer policies for club soccer? Club football? DCI isn't like a collegiate sport or professional league. DCI is a club sport. You pay into the club so you control where you go. The best clubs attract the best talent. The end.

Unlike other activities, not every group has the same mission. Pioneer doesn't want to win DCI. If the Blue Devils place second, they "lose" DCI. Championship caliber programs in ANY activity take winning seriously and there are things you learn in the context of attempting to win that you don't learn in a program where improvement is the goal. Not better things. Not worse things. DIFFERENT things.

Some choose not to make the choices required to move up, namely, in choosing talent for each year's corps. The reasons I saw people being cut at top-level groups (i.e. weight, build, etc.) were not factors at the corps I wound up with. Some corps don't want to win DCI; perhaps doing so compromises their mission from the organzition's perspective.

They are pretty bando looking...

First corps to move to them was the Colts.

You is thinking about it too?

It isn't hard to figure out. He wants there to be widely recognizable and accessible figures throughout DCI who, through media and other outlets, are made even more relatable by painting them as real human beings, the likes of which anyone could aspire to be. The result would be more attraction to DCI, more member growth, and a sense that everyone who joins DCI is, in fact, a unique and desirable individual. The result, logically, is that everyone is awesome so no one stands out thus pushing the bar even higher for one to attain "superstar" status. Don't nuke it there, geniuspants.

I was at finals for the Crown 2010 fall. Fortunately, DCI gave its alumni great seats so far away from the field and near nobody that it was almost impossible to tell what actually happened.

And yet you still found a way?

Stu, stop.

Let's discuss whether our view of DCI is positive or negative? And yes, you have to pick one!

Could you maybe not revive 8 year old threads?

Guessing a poster from 2006 is long gone...