Bluecontra93

The Bluecoats DM in 95 was Charles Stewart. The most sel-disciplined person I ever met!

You might want to offer to help cook and serve a meal during your stay though.

Did you notice that the pit actually has drill for the final set. It shows that the whole corps is indeed "connected".

Actually, the girl that plays Alice is George's real life daughter. Kind of explains things.

I'm not really certain................but I think the silver plating comes a whole lot easier than you may think. (It costs $1.00 at Wal Mart).

And next year their highest finish and next and next.....

Now I would like to see some of that!

Performing corps Bluecoats 90.85 Carolina Crown 87.45 Boston Crusaders 85.65 Mandarins 75.8 Blue Knights 85.5 Colts 79.8

Bluecoats just got off the field.

Some nick names you just have to earn!

I came through last night.

I should be getting scores from the Bluecoats souvie guy again tonight via text message.

I totally agree with you on the part of the instructional and design staff comment. For the Bluecoats, I believe the steal of the century was aquiring Mike MacIntosh from the Cavaliers. He's what I would like to call the Brett Favre of Drum Corps drum lines. I believe it was John Madden who said (about Favre): "He can beat your guys with his guys and he can take your guys and beat his guys." With Mac, also came some other big names in the business: Brett Kuhn, Scott Koter, Drew Shanefield. If you also add the instructional and design talent that has been developed in their tenure at the Bluecoats in people like Doug Thrower, Mitch Rodgers and Stephanie Furniss. For lack of a better term, "politics" does exist in drum corps. For a judge, I would suppose that critique is somewhat akin to time in the dentist's chair or a trip to the proctologist. I believe it would be tough to tell the design staff of the "big three" that the Bluecoats have a better product to their face. That's why the most respected name with the most political coin you can get works to your advantage. With those names also comes the talent. Percussion and color guard are the two captions that signify this the most. The corps for which they march is not as important as the instructor that they march for. Look at the drumlines at BK in the early nineties. They went there for Ralph Hardimon. Look at the colorguard mass exodus from SCV to PR last year and what happened to the colorguard program at Bluecoats in 99. For the Bluecoats to win a championship, they need to keep the core design and instructional staff in place, add/tweak a few areas, and keep the Texas pipeline open. In the near future, I don't believe that the Bluecoats are going to dominate the activity (Cavs 02) so their best bet is to have the best balanced program to be in the top 3 in every caption to bring new Blood to the champioship level in DCI.

I like the way you think!

I didn't get any Mandarins scores...............sorry.