tesmusic Posted September 14, 2014 Share Posted September 14, 2014 Just curious and It may be a long story but why has it been so difficult for PR to retain staff? Let's just say it dates back to before their first championship, and there are multiple reasons. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
general_tsos_chicken2 Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 (edited) Inept administration? I don't think that is hard to figure out with any business. Problems can almost always be traced to the top. Edited September 15, 2014 by general_tsos_chicken2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappybara Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Don't open that box, Pandora. That gave me a laugh hahaha. But, I am just as curious as Nachfolger is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumbargleeful Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 (edited) Just curious and It may be a long story but why has it been so difficult for PR to retain staff? One of the oldest tenured staff members (Dan Farrell) has a very close friendship with one of the young men that marched a long time with the corps and became a caption head (Josh Scott). Tenured staff member puts a lot of stock in the young man and his decision making and personal/professional friendships with others in the activity. The staff is slowly becoming all of that young man's friends, no matter what point they are in in their professional careers. Basically, one Texas BOA band director is ruining the organization, enabled by someone who wants him to succeed because he is an alumnus of the corps. The old man is blind to the fact that this allegiance is slowly killing the corps competitively and it means that people not well suited for roles are coming on board in droves, because they are his "friends". To compound the issue, the young caption head himself has bigger fish to fry with how the group marches. They march with locked legs, through the hips. Have horrible inconsistency from performer to performer, foot phasing, and a visual vocabulary that is laughable in the activity. Edited September 15, 2014 by lumbargleeful 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
84BDsop Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 If only people would listen, learn, and apply. Though I've not always enjoyed their products, they know how to create and maintain excellence. Props to Gibbs for running the organization well and to Chandler for being the model for what a program coordinator should be. (Even if it's all a big conspiracy. Lol!) And actually, it goes all the way back to Jerry Seawright...Gibbs grew up in the system and understands how it works. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumbargleeful Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 (edited) Jeremy Hunt will be writing 2009esque Phantom Regiment drill - he's been around the block long enough to avoid that. Because nothing says visual excellence like Spirit in the last 10 years. Edited September 15, 2014 by lumbargleeful 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TubaJon Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 To compound the issue, the young caption head himself has bigger fish to fry with how the group marches. They march with locked legs, through the hips. Have horrible inconsistency from performer to performer, foot phasing, and a visual vocabulary that is laughable in the activity. I hope they weren't suppose to be locking legs, because I remember commenting at one point how I was happy they got away from that... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdaddy Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Because nothing says visual excellence like Spirit in the last 10 years. I hear you. But "being excellent" and "not being a disaster" are two different things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamarag Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Because nothing says visual excellence like Spirit in the last 10 years. Well, did you expect him to write a championship-level program for a borderline finalist corps? What a complete disaster that would have been, and an irresponsible one at that. What he did write for Spirit allowed them to be successful. many people around here fail to consider that a really good designer designs for what he was, not what he wishes (or someone else wishes) he had. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zachariaswmb Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 I hope they weren't suppose to be locking legs, because I remember commenting at one point how I was happy they got away from that... For what it's worth, the only time locking of legs/knees came up when I was there was when they were telling us very specifically, and under no uncertain terms, to never, ever do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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