Galen Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Bawker vs. Terrence McGee...winner = In that it be a tie Jeff Ream vs. Catherine Burr ^0^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 oooooohh! cant believe you said that! :P Probably makes more sense if you turn it the other way around B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liebot Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 (edited) Not div 1, but Spartans and East Coast Jazz. Ah yes, the Spahtens. Yeah, there was a rivalry there, mostly due to geographic and placement proximity. Check out the results from Div 2 finals in some of those years: 98: Tie for first in Div 2 99: Spartans 2nd, ECJ third 00: ECJ 6th, Spartans 8th 02: Spartans 5th, ECJ 8th 03: Spartans 3rd, ECJ 4th 04: Spartans 1st, ECJ 2nd (.025 split between the two corps) 05: ECJ 1st, Spartans 2nd (finals was only the fourth time all year we beat them... two of the other three were b/c of penalties - including prelims) 06: ECJ 2nd, Spartans 3rd (we beat them twice all year... semis and finals) So yeah... there was some bitterness there. Maybe more so in the old days, when apparently pretty much everyone in the UMass Lowell Marching Band was either in Spartans or ECJ... tensions would run high, or so I'm told. Edited February 28, 2007 by TSRTS13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noneofyourbusiness Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 St. Lucy's vs. Blessed Sac ^0^ Not so nice church boys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yabetterbelieveit Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 I think the Madison/Cavies "rivalry" was more of a one-sided thing. Some guys at Madison don't like the Cavies, and the Cavies probably could care less about the Scouts. Which is exactly the attitude, I will bet, that the Scouts don't like the Cavies ^0^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared_mello Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 There's no real rivalries anymore. Only dumb kids who, on an individual basis, decide to personally act upon their sentiments towards other corps and embarass themselves and their corps by poorly representing them. No corps as a whole simply dislike other corps anymore. Individuals may have reasons to dislike other corps (bitterness about placement, negative interactions with specific people in other corps, bad experiences marching somewhere, personal dislike of another corps style relative to one's own, etc.), but nothing really exists as far as ideologies go within a full corps. Small incidents, like the Boston/Cavies one this year in Denton, are based on situations blown completely out of proportion in an immature manner. Simply put, the fact that drum corps isn't a defensive activity by any means is what keeps corps from truly having a right or reason to dislike another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jared_mello Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 There used to be some bad blood between Colts and Bluecoats in the late 90s early 2000s The two corps got notably close in 2006, having spent a lot of (good) time with each other. They're personally one of my favorite organizations, and truly one of the best-run corps in DCI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatonekid Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 There's no real rivalries anymore. Only dumb kids who, on an individual basis, decide to personally act upon their sentiments towards other corps and embarass themselves and their corps by poorly representing them. No corps as a whole simply dislike other corps anymore. Individuals may have reasons to dislike other corps (bitterness about placement, negative interactions with specific people in other corps, bad experiences marching somewhere, personal dislike of another corps style relative to one's own, etc.), but nothing really exists as far as ideologies go within a full corps. Small incidents, like the Boston/Cavies one this year in Denton, are based on situations blown completely out of proportion in an immature manner. Simply put, the fact that drum corps isn't a defensive activity by any means is what keeps corps from truly having a right or reason to dislike another. your no fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slow Adam Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Silly Jared, with all his fancy spelling and grammar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liebot Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 There's no real rivalries anymore. Only dumb kids who, on an individual basis, decide to personally act upon their sentiments towards other corps and embarass themselves and their corps by poorly representing them. No corps as a whole simply dislike other corps anymore. Individuals may have reasons to dislike other corps (bitterness about placement, negative interactions with specific people in other corps, bad experiences marching somewhere, personal dislike of another corps style relative to one's own, etc.), but nothing really exists as far as ideologies go within a full corps. Small incidents, like the Boston/Cavies one this year in Denton, are based on situations blown completely out of proportion in an immature manner. Simply put, the fact that drum corps isn't a defensive activity by any means is what keeps corps from truly having a right or reason to dislike another. I think your interpretation of the word "rivalry" is a little too strict. I think there are a lot of corps, nowadays, that have one specific corps that they dislike losing to more than any other. It might not have anything to do with a lack of respect for that corps, and they might not ever act on it outwardly, but I can at least say for sure that we at ECJ hated losing to Spartans. This didn't prevent us from being friends with each other (see the picture from Forzato of the integrate drum lines at '05 Finals retreat), but on the competitive field we always hated them beating us. I can't say from experience, but I'm pretty sure other corps feel the same way. By the way, Jared, how are you? Haven't talked to you in awhile... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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