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On 4/10/2020 at 12:26 AM, Brian Tuma said:

Bluecoats are also staffing an event space/bingo hall, correct? I wonder how much of their 2.5 million budget is payroll.

$2.5 million budget per year is too high for a drum corps. And 200?  That’s insane no matter how you count it.

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14 hours ago, drumcorpsfever said:

$2.5 million budget per year is too high for a drum corps. And 200?  That’s insane no matter how you count it.

Why? What is your cutoff  for how much per year a drum corps should cost? How many employees are they allow to have?

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5 hours ago, dbc03 said:

Why? What is your cutoff  for how much per year a drum corps should cost? How many employees are they allow to have?

That’s a good question!  The NFL, NBA, and NHL have salary caps.  MLB has a luxury tax.  The NCAA limits the number of coaches per athletic team.  Why???  To prevent more lucrative teams from spending, stockpiling talent and thereby placing teams with smaller payrolls and financial means at a competitive disadvantage.

And that's exactly what we have in Drum Corps today and a large reason why only 30 exist.  The constant addition of more and more props, this technician, that technician, that caption head, bells, gimmicks, etc. etc. make it virtually impossible to compete with the "haves" and it's destroying the activity. I don't know the answer to your question but some type of limit needs to be put in place before it's too late.

Most likely it already is and that was before COVID.  

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48 minutes ago, greg_orangecounty said:

That’s a good question!  The NFL, NBA, and NHL have salary caps.  MLB has a luxury tax.  The NCAA limits the number of coaches per athletic team.  Why???  To prevent more lucrative teams from spending, stockpiling talent and thereby placing teams with smaller payrolls and financial means at a competitive disadvantage.

And that's exactly what we have in Drum Corps today and a large reason why only 30 exist.  The constant addition of more and more props, this technician, that technician, that caption head, bells, gimmicks, etc. etc. make it virtually impossible to compete with the "haves" and it's destroying the activity. I don't know the answer to your question but some type of limit needs to be put in place before it's too late.

Most likely it already is and that was before COVID.  

How are those salary caps and luxury taxes working?  How are those NCAA limits working??  

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35 minutes ago, oldbandguy said:

How are those salary caps and luxury taxes working?  How are those NCAA limits working??  

Well enough that all the aforementioned leagues will be around this time next year.  

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2 hours ago, greg_orangecounty said:

That’s a good question!  The NFL, NBA, and NHL have salary caps.  MLB has a luxury tax.  The NCAA limits the number of coaches per athletic team.  Why???  To prevent more lucrative teams from spending, stockpiling talent and thereby placing teams with smaller payrolls and financial means at a competitive disadvantage.

And that's exactly what we have in Drum Corps today and a large reason why only 30 exist.  The constant addition of more and more props, this technician, that technician, that caption head, bells, gimmicks, etc. etc. make it virtually impossible to compete with the "haves" and it's destroying the activity. I don't know the answer to your question but some type of limit needs to be put in place before it's too late. 

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2 hours ago, greg_orangecounty said:

That’s a good question!  The NFL, NBA, and NHL have salary caps.  MLB has a luxury tax.  The NCAA limits the number of coaches per athletic team.  Why???  To prevent more lucrative teams from spending, stockpiling talent and thereby placing teams with smaller payrolls and financial means at a competitive disadvantage.

And that's exactly what we have in Drum Corps today and a large reason why only 30 exist.  The constant addition of more and more props, this technician, that technician, that caption head, bells, gimmicks, etc. etc. make it virtually impossible to compete with the "haves" and it's destroying the activity. I don't know the answer to your question but some type of limit needs to be put in place before it's too late.

Most likely it already is and that was before COVID.  

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On 4/12/2020 at 11:54 PM, drumcorpsfever said:

$2.5 million budget per year is too high for a drum corps. And 200?  That’s insane no matter how you count it.

Exactly.

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