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  1. 21 hours ago, BlueStainGlass said:
    21 hours ago, Reed said:

    I asked my son about it.  His reply was "Dub. She's awesome."

     

    I assume that's a positive response.

    I have some friends that are in the infinity organization and the are preaching it as great. Look forward to seeing what they can do. 

    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...:

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  2. 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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  3. 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

  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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. 

  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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 place 

     

    Then Finals 17 they got 6th or 5th (cant remember in my head right now)

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