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CADETS ... are good. FREAKIN' GOOD! A brass book that inherently (because of Jay Bocook's writing) checks all the boxes and the members sound more mature by the week. A lot more like a top 6 corps. That drum line is FIRE!!!! Drill that challenges the individuals listening environments for sure! I am tired of people playing in infinity arcs and following the leader for hours. So much harder to be ever changing your relationships to others physically and the demands in puts on you for listening... THEN... THEN!!!... add in all the simultaneous responsibilities the members have while marching AND playing?! Seriously.... no hype here... The Cadets look more like a Top 6 corps then they do a 7-12 corps. The members need to start to show up with some swag and be (as Donnie Vandoren would say) ... UNDENIABLE! Now clean, water when needed (because not many do as much as you), and get your ending ready to reveal in ATL or Allentown!!!

Nah.... They have a good design team and plenty of people helping in the shadows with great experience. The pieces are coming together just fine. Add a person or two here and there, as another person or two move on? That is all they really need. A visionary person doesn't fall out of the trees! They need to build the brand, have good shows (product), stay financially viable / don't spend what you don't have, and find other sources of income to grow the org. There are plenty of really really good Cadets teaching and on design teams on a lot of Top 6 groups that are keeping an eye on their "home team" and wishing them well. What the future will bring? I dunno, but if the Cadets build it slow and steady and within their budget.... They will be vying to chase the top 6 (or create a new top 7) here in a short period of time.

CrownBEAT 1 Carolina Crown 81.850 2 Boston Crusaders 80.850 3 The Cadets 76.900 4 Crossmen 73.200 5 Music City 68.350

Cadets were really really good tonight. They need to clean. They need an ending. They need the judges to start to reward them. They certainly check more brass boxes than a good portion of the top 6. Their listening environmental challenges are off the hook. Their simultaneous responsibilities are greater than two corps in front of them and every corps behind them. The drill is very good. The guard is much improved. The battery is slammin. The narration tells the story perfectly.

might be fireworks... it is South Carolina! = )

I think it is a good mix of what BD does and gets credit for and what the Cadets have always done... RUN AND GUN! The ending needs a good tweak, but heck, its The Cadets. They have something up their sleeves I am sure.

CADETS were REALLY GOOD! They look more like 6th or 7th place.... and a lot less like 8-10. THAT BRASS ENSEMBLE ..... should be getting MUCH MORE credit! They check more boxes (and do it as well) as some of the corps in the top 6! Good for them!

Crossmen have gotten a lot better since their first show. Guard should never move props in transition though. It never looks good.

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Are there any predictions in this thread? LOL

>>>>>>>>>> running and hiding from Terri >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Coming out of the ballad hit in the corner, I wonder if anybody gets the "East of my past and West of my future" with the guard person representing the East/Past?

Exactly! You can't be good on the field, if you don't tour right. Ron knows how to do that.

The drill tech in me came out when I heard they were switching to black that year. I thought, "it will make them look small and accentuate intervals more" and it did. Those maroon and gold uniforms are the perfect tick hiders.

I'll keep saying it. Doc Stratton and his staff are creating a top 5 brass line at The Cadets. Will it be this year? Who knows, but if their retain and don't lose as many members to corps above them (compared to any other year) and attract more mature talent, they will be on their way. I know for a fact that there is a 15 year old "legacy" euph who's dad marched in the 80's that is already a complete stud. Imagine when he matures? 8 Year vet? The Cadets are growing. They need to reestablish the brand. Stay close to their traditional roots, but be innovative, get the talent to get to the top 6, stay true to their brand for one more year after that... then they can innovate! Rebuilding the brand is super important right now. Bluecoats and Crown are the perfect examples of this.

The uniforms are sponsored.

The "look Beatniks!" and "New York City" along with "My East...and West..." among other lines are great! You need the other narration to make those iconic lines work. I am not a fan of the total narration shows (BD said they learned their lesson after Yowza Yowza Yowza!") but it seems to work with this Cadet show.... for now.

2018 they were 7th and closer to 6th then to 8th if I remember, but still on an island.

Any reason why the DCP and DCI ranking features are not working? Anybody? Bueller? Bueller?

Power of 10 was a very good show. To be honest, so was the Christmas show. I know more than a few "drill guys" that when we saw the double blind backfield reshapes during the mello solo "Do you hear what I hear?" We turned to each other and said that was by far the hardest transition of the summer. But all of you are right... The brand has not been right for some time. Hopefully, this show, design team, and educators can start to lay the new foundation with this show. I marched Cadets 81-84, so I would like to think the bricks those corps laid down set the tone for some time after us and then the other years that did well, projected the brand further down the road. And yes, when I marched in the 80's, I thought the guys that marched the early 70's were ancient. The 60's? They were already ghosts to me... LOL but they were all around those years and some of them still are. But some of those earlier shows? On the bus we talked about a lot of historic corps from Garfield and many other corps... and we didn't have YouTube, DCP, or the internet to find them. LOL

The Cadets need to reestablish the "brand." The year off for covid and a few years of bad design choices post Sacktig, Gino, and McNutt have taken a great brand and diminished it. It will take a year or two to rebuild that brand, so that a single show (product) or two don't affect the brand again, along with poor financial choices out of desperation. The Cadets need to take the Bluecoats approach. Be "who they are" attract new members and retain the ones they have (don't lose them to Boston, Crown, Bluecoats) and build the beast... put all of your investment there.... Then, get into the Top 6 and then "be yourself" one more season before you start to explore and attempt to innovate. Sure and steady wins the race. Ask the Blue Devils, Crown, Bluecoats, and SCV... even Cavies. (3 of these corps have bingo, but two still do it the old fashioned way and raise money however they can, but every corps needs a side hustle these days). Boston is the exception to this rule, but they did that with a huge cash infusion and complete organizational overhaul, which is not impossible to do, but the Cadets do not have that type of financial donor firepower cultivated the past few years. When I marched the Top 6 was the Country Club and nobody wanted to be booted for another corps to get in. Members just don't want to make Finals ... or win... but they also want to march in a Top 6 Corps. That might mean at local shows that the corps you are in goes on last a lot before regional season starts... and that has some prestige. I have faith in these educators at The Cadets that they can get the most out of these members.... and budget. March straight and true to victory.... FHNSAB!

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SCORES https://dci.org/scores/final-scores/2022-east-coast-classic

The Cadets are very good this year. The hornline is back and far better than a few years ago. TY Matt Stratton / Jay Bocook and the brass team.