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Crossmen new admin leadership
Chris Lyman
Corps Director
Rico Gomez
Corps Manager
Marshall Hallam
Operations Manager
https://www.crossmen.org/drum-corps-administration
It looks like Nick Putnam out as corps director and The Executive Director(maybe Ben is out, can't confirm)
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13 minutes ago, jjeffeory said:
avaliers are going to have some kind of announcement tonight around 8PM central.
19:48.... get it... lol
They will be celebrating 75 years- 1
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15 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said:1 hour ago, DrummerParent said:
Out of curiosity, where did you find this info? I knew about one but not all.
Travis posted on Facebook yesterday. he did great things
Travis and Paul both posted on facebook, I believe Paul posted right after finals
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https://www.scvanguard.org/santa-clara-vanguard-announces-new-corps-director/
SANTA CLARA VANGUARD ANNOUNCES NEW CORPS DIRECTOR
Out: RCA (was only corps director for one year and shes now working for the parent company VAMPA)In: Gio Bastante
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22 minutes ago, DrummerParent said:
Out of curiosity, where did you find this info? I knew about one but not all.
both posted on facebook
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Alright as announcements actually start… Let’s recap, also I’m not posting what I think, I’m posting what I know and have seen publicly. If you want sources, facebook is the best one for open public announcements.
Those who will not be returning for 2023
Academy
• Program Coordinator/Artistic Director
• Percussion Arranger
• Percussion Caption Head
• Percussion Staff
Blue Knights
• Program Coordinator
• Guard Designer
• Visual Designer
• Visual Caption Head
Carolina Crown• Percussion Designer/Percussion Caption Head
• Percussion Battery Manager
Cavaliers
• Brass Caption Manager
• Brass Co-Caption Manager
• Brass Pedagogy Coordinator
• Brass Arranger/Brass Supervisor
• Lead Choreographer and Instructor
• Color Guard Caption Manager
• Color Guard Designer
• Drill Designer
• Movement Choreographer
• Music & Program Design Consultant
• Program & Artistic Director
• Visual and Color Guard Designer
• The entire brass and guard staff
Crossmen
• Corps Director
• Assistant Corps Director
• Tour Director
• Brass Caption Manager
• Assistant Brass Caption Manager
• The brass staff
• Visual Caption Manager
Madison Scouts
• Visual Caption Head
Pacific Crest
• Artistic Director and Front Ensemble & Electronics Arranger/Composer
• Battery Caption Head
• Program Coordinator & Director of Percussion
• Guard Caption Manager
Phantom Regiment
• Corps Director
• Assistant Corps Director
• Tour Director
• Admin Team
• Visual Caption Head
• Guard Caption Head
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1 hour ago, Sutasaurus said:
I was indeed referring to lifeisaround’s sources. No defensiveness taken or noted KVG_DC. Just curious about the poster’s sources.
Sources
https://www.facebook.com/stchavez/posts/pfbid02y2NUF7NBFwMdsT3qTjnhW9UQwEqCbCKhteHFo1135JDiaYbunCMp9uW521YQ63ol
Stephanie Chavez announcing her departure and her staff followed right behind. Will not post everyones fb status. She was the designer and Caption Head.https://www.facebook.com/jacob.taylor.370/posts/pfbid02CzTX42RKPGhqwTMCzHc8ZYSvEX4nHd1Dohvvs8cb2wRQSLHeMk1MvHuT33opMeQCl
Jacob Taylor, Visual Caption Head announcing his departure, most of his visual staff also posted that they will not be returning
• Corps Director
• Operations Manager
• Tour Director
These jobs are all posted on their website... I don't need to go further into that
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13 hours ago, Sutasaurus said:
Point #1 agreed. Folks need to be a bit more transparent about their reasons for their statements.
Point #2
Not major news here. They posted an opening for a corps director earlier in the season. Now they need to hire an office coordinator. Hardly a total replacement of staff as the initial post suggested.
lol “hardly a total replacement”Phantom Regiment staff not returning for 2023
• Corps Director
• Operations Manager
• Tour Director
• Guard Designer
• Guard caption head
• The entire guard staff
• Visual Caption head
• The entire visual staff
but yes hardly a replacement
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1 hour ago, cixelsyd said:
The link I clicked on says they are looking for an operations manager. And there is nothing on the website about their CEO leaving.
CEO not corps leadership
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1 hour ago, Lance said:
The link just talks about hiring an operations manager. Where is the info on other staff?
https://regiment.org/now-hiring-operations-manager/
https://regiment.org/now-hiring-drum-corps-director/
With these two postings, you can see the admin of the corps is completely changing, which isn't a negative thing, it just is
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41 minutes ago, rcawth said:
Office staff. Not corps leadership
They’re looking for a corps director and a tour director…. As the entire admin corps team will not be returning in 2023
THATS corps leadership…
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Looks like phantom regiment is replacing the entire corps leadership staff.
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9 hours ago, njthundrrd said:
I think you guys really don't take into account the money it takes to be a Top 5 and even Top 3 drum corps. It is not only about the show design and the staff. It is the tour and how well your tour and feed the kids, time sleeping on the floor, the money for food, travel, staff, props and everything else. Design and staff are a very important part of that equation, yes, but the current top 5 are what they are because of the money that they have compared to 6-10 and 11-15 etc (speaking very generally).
- And corps like Cavies have done a lot on very little money compared to the Top 5.
- And there are a few lower placing and even out of finals corps that have money (bingo especially) that don't place higher because they are not making the right design team, staff, tour financial decisions.
Just my "two cents" based on helping run a few decent corps. = )
I believe I am taking that all into account, theres a maybe 4-5corps that have other streams of revenue outside of the marching activity. Some is bingo, some is board buy in, some heavy marketing outreach partnerships. Regardless maybe 4 to 5 corps that actually have money. If we want to discuss money and how its 2022 and BD is the only corps running a revenue higher than 3mil (25+mil rev each year) actually has a strategic plan to continue to expand as an organization to serve its mission, I believe is the bigger problem regardless of on the field placement. YOU CANT SERVE YOUR MISSION IF YOU DONT HAVE CAPITAL COMING IN. A business plan is not band = loves = donations, so we can do summer band. When people actually build out what they want to serve, how they want to serve and the possibility of it, is very doable. Do some stats research and you’ll see how many opportunities there are to actually be successful!
We still have nonprofits with that doesn't see their board as a strategic partnership and more they see it as a 501(c)(3) requirement. DCI as an entity being the number one culprit leader on not having a strategic board. Also, discussing money, yet most of these corps don't have a full time grant writer/full time development team/full time outreach money person. Here they all are discussing how they don't have enough money, and from the outside looking in, it looks like they do 0% on actually trying to get money in the door outside of band method way.Cadets is a great example, here they are with a brand new 501(c)(3) to make sure they start on a clean slate, and yet they didn't hire anyone that can actually bring the money in.
The money excuse is exhausting to hear, we are an activity that has been around 50+ years and yet refuse to truly evolve the business side of the nonprofit... rantdone...
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12 hours ago, GREENBLUE said:
So do you know for a fact that all 11 staff “resigned”??? Just asking.
Yes — they all resigned publicly on facebook….. or else I wouldn’t have shared it…
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2 hours ago, GREENBLUE said:4 hours ago, lifeisaround said:
I just don't know if the leadership at cavaliers know how to take a step forward from the CEO and/or Corps director
Not the issue… but okay. This isn’t a Madison Scouts type situation.
You don't think the fact that 11 members have resigned right after finals and both the CEO and Corps Director aren't really "Drum Corps Educators" in the current system is a problem.... Interesting that corps director no longer play into the effect of hiring the Ed Staff to keep them in the top 5
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I just don't know if the leadership at cavaliers know how to take a step forward from the CEO and/or Corps director
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Well.... There you have it folks, Michael Martin and Freddy Martin have both resigned from the Cavaliers which also means Kevin LeBoeuf is next and that makes 8/10 designers resigning, and if Kevin posts publicly that would just make 9 staff members publicly resigning.
What a turnaround the leadership of this drum corps will have to do to maintain perfomers, recruit them into the buy in process as the biggest section of the drum corps leadership has now left.
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Carolina Crown will have a new corps director I hear
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I heard there will be a change in the office leadership at crown for the following summer, not sure exactly the change yet…
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2 hours ago, njthundrrd said:
From very good and reliable sources... This is NOT true.
I wonder why she was at DCI with them. In their booth wearing their merch
regardless wishing spirit the best as they return
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1 hour ago, scheherazadesghost said:
Aaaaaaall of the visual team? What about design? Asking for a friend.......
Stephen Estudillo will stay as drill designer/visual coordinator.
Bob Smith will also be back.
Stephen and Bob will be in charge of hiring the next Visual&Guard caption head !
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15 minutes ago, regimentlvr said:
Idk where you see that anyone other than Jacob is out
On their personal Facebooks….?
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21 minutes ago, craiga said:
I think this is an interesting question. The bulk of the hornline in Boston this year were from Texas, particularly from three universities there, as well as some national championship high school bands. In New England, the average high school marching band has around 50 total members, and there is literally only one serious college marching band around here....UMASS. At the end of the day, you have to go where the members are. I think you're going to continue to see a large amount of Texas kids in BAC for the foreseeable future. As a life long New Englander, I have no problem with this. The Texas kids are great! They are incredibly talented players, are not fazed by Texas heat on tour, and are amazingly polite. As a group, they are incredible...even though they insist on putting hot sauce on their eggs at breakfast!
I don't think it matters at all.... bac is doing very well and recruiting hasn't been an issue since fall of 2016....
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23 minutes ago, DFA1970 said:
I always wonder if a teaching staff like BD or Coats all went to a corp say like Pacific Crest.. if there would be a significant difference right away. Of course talent from the members counts but how much would a seasoned staff make a difference right away.
Money aside.... do you mean what happened to BAC?
Prelims 2016 they were 13th
Semis 16 -- 12th place
Finals 16 -- 12th placeThen Finals 17 they got 6th or 5th (cant remember in my head right now)
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Staff Merry-go-round
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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You know what I noticed looking around vanguards website was....:
They have had a revolving door of corps directors:
I wish them all well! Here are some stats:
Fall of 2008 - Winter of 2016 Jeff Fiedler
Winter of 2016 - Fall of 2016 Charles Frost (Charles moved up to be ED and hired a new Corps Director)
Fall of 2016 - Fall of 2018 Shaun Gallant (who moved on to be the CEO at BDPA)
Fall 2018 - Fall of 2019 David Yunis
Fall of 2019 - Summer of 2021 Ivan De La Cruz
Fall of 2021 - Fall of 2022 RCA
Fall of 2022 - Present Gio
in 8 seasons theyve had 7 corps directors...: