Jeff Ream Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Lets summarize the OP "Hey, Lazy, Spoiled, A-holes - I have this great idea. *Unintelligable garbage** So, Go do it now. No really, turn off your computer and do it now. Why aren't you doing it yet?" #winning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zach_8vb Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 OMG YOU GUYS WHAT IF THERE WAS A BCS BOWL SYSTEM FOR DRUM CORPS?!?!?!? The Cavaliers and the Scouts could go head to head in the Paco's Tacos 100% Real Burritos Bowl. The Crossmen and Spirit could be pitted against one another in the Time Magazine ® Bowl for Kids Who Can't Read Good. Imagine the possibilities!! /sarcasm 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Where did you get that? I ask because I'm looking at a copy of the August 10, 1987, Volume 67, Number 6 Sports Illustrated "Scorecard" feature. That's the one people often refer to. (I've got a .pdf of it.) Here's the entire text of the article. One of the biggest sporting events of the summer, the Drum Corps International World Championships, will be held in Madison, Wis, Aug. 10-15. If you don't consider drum corps a major sport, don't tell that to the 10,000 youths who will descend on Madison, the 50,000 fans who will watch them or Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight. Knight is a big booster of the Star of Indiana corps, which was founded and is largely financed by his friend Bill Cook, who made his fortune in medical supplies, became enamored of drum corps when his son joined one, and in 1984 he started the Star of Indiana, which is headquartered in Bloomington and attracts high school and college kids from Kentucky and Ohio as well as Indiana. In its first year of competition, the Star of Indiana finished 10th in the world, and last year came in eighth. "If a basketball team trained as hard as these kids do," says Knight, "it would be unbelievable. I like to take my payers over there to show them what they can accomplish with hard work and teamwork. Besides, once they see them practice 12 hours a day, my players thing I'm a helluva lot easier." Drum corps, each of which numbers as many as 128 youths age 14 to 21, are not marching bands, though the two do have things in common; music, uniforms and football fields. Because of the highly competitive nature of the activity, performances tend to be more innovative, precise and entertaining than those of marching bands. The music slections for the 11 1/2-minute performances run from the Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz to Enchinda's Arf (Of You) by Zappa, and their choreography can rival that of a Broadway show. At Madison a panel of nine will judge each drum corps for its brass performance, it's percussion performance and its visual effect. This year's defending champions are the Blue Devils from Concord, Calif., who scored 98.4 out of a possible 100 last year. The jazz-oriented Blue Devils are a dynasty in their "sport"—they have won six times since 1986. shame on you. using facts to ruin a purely wasteful rant 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrillmanSop06 Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 But srsly. Be quiet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Boo Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 shame on you. using facts to ruin a purely wasteful rant I'm funny that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
En929 Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 This isn't my scoring system or part II(b). For I am still waiting for some more DVD's from the library to get examples to associate with the system. I would like to challenge, maybe request is a better word, that every music major in a Drum Corps go to their music dean and ask them about starting a university drum corps using all the practice facilities, music libaries, professors, bflat instruments, practice rooms,auditoriums,maybe even indoor football field facilities. etc. God...all you preppies have right in your university and you still take DC spots from high schoolers. If your reading this right during your dean's office hours, then turn off your computer RIGHT NOW. Go to your dean and present him or her my idea of forming university drum corps and leaving the non profit DCI corps to the high schoolers in your probably financially strapped pay to play or cut music program district. Seriously, if all you want is the Drum Corps experience then wouldn't you rather walk across campus to a rehearsal for a few hours after classes every other night or so. Then sleep in your own bed. Take a shower in your own room and maybe compete with other NCAA Drum Corps within driving distance. That instead of trying to get to the airport after classes tomorrow. And spending thousands in tuition. In my VCR'd 1989 PBS DCI Broadcast, (viewed by about 8 times the number of ESPN's final broadcast in a nation without Drum Corps) Bobby Knight stated that DC members should get college credit for being in DC. Maybe your university could have an actual scheduled time for a DC class satisfying liberal arts requirement. Maybe there could be a class specifically in computer aided drill design. Think of the possibilities. Be inspired by the lyrics in the most artistic DCI program ever "Open Up Your Mind, Let The Fantasies Unwind. yada yada The Music of The Night." SCV 1988,1989. Go to your deans right now. Like before you do anything else. Don't even stop at the cafeteria for a cup of coffee and get distracted. If you have to go to the bathroom then go ahead if you might have to wait for awhile NCAA Drum Corps could be a reality this summer with hundreds of super sophisticated programs. Then after your dean states it would be a great idea, you can cancel your flight to whatever corps you're heading to this or next Friday. Then maybe the DCI corps can contact the local levy failure school district and fill your spot. RIGHT NOW......... RIGHT NOW....... GO TO YOUR DEANS.... UNLESS OF COURSE YOU'RE READING THIS AT 2 A.M. THEN GO TO BED DREAMING OF A STANFORD CARDINAL DRUM CORPS COMPETING AGAINST THE SCV ETC. AND WAKE UP AND MAKE NCAA DRUM CORPS A REALITY. Scoring system article in about two weeks depending on library order filling time. I think an idea like yours would work well at a public high school/middle school. That's what I did at the school I taught for. We did drum corps as a pull-out program during school for kids who did well in class. And it worked well for everybody. Kids who worked hard in class was able to get out of class early to participate and they definately enjoyed that! Especially at schools that don't have a band, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHall Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 The OP really has these "out there" and unrealistic ideas. I can't believe that he/she uses Cabs in the screen name. This OP has another post and it is laughable as well. "Move on, there is nothing to see here!" "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUARDLING Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 The OP really has these "out there" and unrealistic ideas. I can't believe that he/she uses Cabs in the screen name. This OP has another post and it is laughable as well. "Move on, there is nothing to see here!" "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" Dont think its the same Cabs....not spelled the same either...lol ( Caballaros ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimF-LowBari Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Dont think its the same Cabs....not spelled the same either...lol ( Caballaros ) Believe Cleveland Jr corps not dat group from Nu Joisey.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BD9 Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 If we pulled out the college kids, quality would fall on both ends. For one, less incentive/motivation for the highschool kids to work their butts off to try and get in a corps. Also, many DCI corps are made up of the best of colleges as well. With ASU , I know many of the brass players in the marching band just aren't up to a WC drum corps level. Also, in college, where are you going to find enough talented people with the interest and dedication? You probably aren't. Also...I would much rather drive out/work my butt off to pay for flights to the corps I wanted to march than have to march somewhere where I don't like the staff, the atmosphere, whatever. And to me, sleeping on gym floors and cold showers suck but are part of the experience, my corps experience wouldnt be as satisfying without. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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