maf03
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Post by maf03 on Nov 30, 2023 20:55:12 GMT -6
This is a relief. Go Rock Go Guard Go Rock Guard.
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Post by LeanderMomma on Nov 30, 2023 20:56:01 GMT -6
THEY DID IT Y’ALL! The meeting tonight was HUGE. They are going to have a dance team and they will KEEP THE GUARD! Oh I’m so very happy right now. This is the best possible news! Hoping this sticks!! Shows you how much power our voices have Indeed!
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Post by paddy on Nov 30, 2023 21:00:51 GMT -6
This is deplorable. Good teachers and good admins leave education over this type of BS. If it were my program, I would no longer be able to trust that the leadership in place had the program's best interests in mind. You can disagree, and that's fine. I understand what you are saying and I don’t disagree that they have injured their standing with parents in the program. However, the willingness to go scorched earth and use questionable methods to get someone fired over that is beyond the pale.
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Post by hewhowaits on Dec 1, 2023 6:39:58 GMT -6
I'm going to disagree here. Drastic times call for significant and exhaustive measures. The decision that was made was in poor judgment and the program's population deserves better leadership (or, at the very least, clarity about such developing situations being explored before they are suddenly announced as happening). The way to show that the opposing voice is strong and serious is absolutely to exhibit willingness to take the steps artsfan laid out. This is deplorable. Good teachers and good admins leave education over this type of BS. GOOD teachers do what's in the best interest of the STUDENTS. That is NOT what was going on in this situation. If they don't like being called out to higher authority for their actions, let 'em leave. When a teacher's (band director's) actions are detrimental to students, the correct course of action is nearly always to escalate. If history shows that the principal won't be strong enough, go to the superintendent. If history shows that the superintendent is a rubber stamp for the school administrators, go straight to the school board.
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Post by hewhowaits on Dec 1, 2023 6:49:09 GMT -6
Remind them that school funding comes from your property taxes. Got any levies coming up? Remind them that you can be a vocal group come this time. This 100%. And the ability of those board members to get reelected can be affected. In the late aughts, a community member took issue with some things about a certain SW Ohio band not being in traditional uniforms at early season football games and having the audacity to leave after halftime to travel to a BOA Regional. He sent a letter to the editor of a local weekly rag complaining about it. The response was swift (as swift as a weekly paper can be) and significant from the marching band community (current and past), with more letters to the editor in response to his rant than any subject EVER (including political). This individual made an appointment with the district superintendent and asked him to "make them stop." The superintendent's reply? "You've pissed off the wrong group of people. Even if I wanted to, there's nothing I can do to help you. The band parents are the only group in town that could get me fired if they so desired."
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Post by paddy on Dec 1, 2023 8:31:43 GMT -6
This is deplorable. Good teachers and good admins leave education over this type of BS. GOOD teachers do what's in the best interest of the STUDENTS. That is NOT what was going on in this situation. If they don't like being called out to higher authority for their actions, let 'em leave. When a teacher's (band director's) actions are detrimental to students, the correct course of action is nearly always to escalate. If history shows that the principal won't be strong enough, go to the superintendent. If history shows that the superintendent is a rubber stamp for the school administrators, go straight to the school board. Good teachers and good admins observe what happens around them and leave. I never opined on what this teacher did.
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Post by LeanderMomma on Dec 1, 2023 9:41:05 GMT -6
We’re getting off track. Let’s celebrate the success of the guard community in general and the Dragon Guard specifically on a HUGE win last night. I bet the support we will see for RR guards this winter is going to be off the charts! I can’t wait to be sitting in the gym at Glenn HS in Leander when WGI Austin happens the first weekend in March. I bet the welcoming roar when those kids take the floor will be deafening! And I’ll be leading the pack!
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Post by artsfan on Dec 1, 2023 10:01:33 GMT -6
Congrats on the Round Rock guard program being saved. And for those of you who didn't like my advice...that's fine, I'm just telling you what actually gets results in a public school. Disagree all you want, but I live this stuff every day and have for many many years.
You want to go through the chain of command, okay...you'll get your guard program back in about 3 years. Most admin don't even know they have a guard.
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Post by principalagent on Dec 1, 2023 10:07:22 GMT -6
Lassiter parents also went up and down and around their director and principal and undermined her. And now, instead of having what would have been a serviceable and functional program—maybe even one that would still be the best in their county considering where Harrison and Kennesaw Mountain are—they have a complete nonfactor of a program. Short term results aren’t long term solutions.
I think the kids, alumni, and parents at Round Rock organized well and advocated for themselves, and got a solution that they should be proud of.
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Post by artsfan on Dec 1, 2023 10:09:30 GMT -6
This is deplorable. Good teachers and good admins leave education over this type of BS. Good teachers don't cancel guard programs, especially successful ones.
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Post by Subito Fortissimo on Dec 1, 2023 10:43:32 GMT -6
Why is this thread dredging up my nightmares of being a retail worker?
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Post by boahistorybuff on Dec 1, 2023 20:18:56 GMT -6
If you look at my early posts on the vintage video thread I kind of went into the origins of the color guard in drum and bugle corps. Yes flags actually had a purpose on the battle field.
In the post World War II era, drum Corp really took off. Flags, rifles and in some instances Sabres were used in the field show (yes the birth of the color guard).
On the high school side of things, marching bands were for parades and the half time performance at the football games. Those bands did not have color guards. What many of them did have to add visual interest were majorette, dance squads, pom pom units, baton twirlers, etc (essentially an auxiliary line).
In the late 1960s into the 1980s, marching bands started to develop a competitive corps style program. They brought the color guard concept from drum corps into their program. However, many high school marching bands did not entirely get rid of the auxiliary units as they were still tasked with entertaining at the football games. So many (not all) of those competitive corps style programs of the 1970s and early 1980s had both a military styled flag and rifle line and an artistically dressed auxiliary line (who had a lot of the dance moves). During the course of the 1980s, all of those units got incorporated into the modern color guard.
During the 1980s, Texas was one state whose marching bands held onto the more traditional elements of marching band, not just the auxiliary/dance teams but also the visual designs and type of music played. While those Texas bands of the 1980s had great sound and were very entertaining, they did not have the visual routines to compete at the BOA level (at least most did not). Westfield and later Spring and several of the Klein ISD programs took Texas bands into the modern competitive era. There were however still a few Texas bands that preferred to hold onto tradition and keep a dance team instead of a color guard, Stephen F Austin for example.
When I saw the recent changes to the UIL scoring sheets, I thought to myself, hmmm this looks like how a traditional (half time style) show would likely be judged. Now I hear there is this push to do away with color guard and go with a dance team. Are there people influencing these bands in Texas and UIL in general that are intentionally trying to turn Texas bands back to the era when they were more appealing to a football audience rather than an audience that wants to see a corps style band competition? The evidence is starting to say yes.
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Post by LeanderMomma on Dec 2, 2023 8:41:17 GMT -6
When I saw the recent changes to the UIL scoring sheets, I thought to myself, hmmm this looks like how a traditional (half time style) show would likely be judged. Now I hear there is this push to do away with color guard and go with a dance team. Are there people influencing these bands in Texas and UIL in general that are intentionally trying to turn Texas bands back to the era when they were more appealing to a football audience rather than an audience that wants to see a corps style band competition? The evidence is starting to say yes. I’m not sure there is any actual push to get rid of guards in general in Texas but I guess only the future will tell.
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Post by philodemus on Dec 2, 2023 9:08:06 GMT -6
Are there people influencing these bands in Texas and UIL in general that are intentionally trying to turn Texas bands back to the era when they were more appealing to a football audience rather than an audience that wants to see a corps style band competition? The evidence is starting to say yes. This is admittedly a tangent spinning off from your point, but one I wonder about often... Are we 100% sure that more traditional style marching shows are more entertaining to the casual audience member than more modern show designs? I suppose it depends on what you mean by traditional and what you mean by modern. I would be willing to accept that a casual, nacho-munching football game attendee would prefer recognizable music over unfamiliar music, and that they might prefer a more readily accessible theme to a more esoteric one. That makes intuitive sense. Sometimes, however, [and not from you, more broadly] I think old school marching band people believe that nacho-munching football fans want to see military style uniforms and groups standing at crisp attention... and that seems much more questionable to me. We might like those things because we are aficionados of the activity and its history, but does the Mom who came to the game because her son is a lineman prefer that? Sousa marches and military tattoos are not widely shared enthusiasms. Here is my alternate theory of the case. I think what would be most entertaining to nacho munchers is a modern visual presentation with recognizable music they enjoy. Or, if not music they already know, then music which is in and of itself exciting and broadly entertaining. I would argue, for instance, that any football crowd in the country could enjoy what Tarpon did in 2022 or 2023, or essentially any Bluecoats show from the last 5 years. Or, to state my case in a slightly different formulation: if football crowds don't care for boring, modern shows, the problem is the boring, not the modern. [Also, as a slight tangent from my original tangent but one which returns to the main thrust of this thread... Color guard is definitely not the problem. I have seen many football crowds cheer for a rifle toss while politely golf clapping for the dance team.]
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Post by boahistorybuff on Dec 2, 2023 9:45:03 GMT -6
Are there people influencing these bands in Texas and UIL in general that are intentionally trying to turn Texas bands back to the era when they were more appealing to a football audience rather than an audience that wants to see a corps style band competition? The evidence is starting to say yes. This is admittedly a tangent spinning off from your point, but one I wonder about often... Are we 100% sure that more traditional style marching shows are more entertaining to the casual audience member than more modern show designs? I suppose it depends on what you mean by traditional and what you mean by modern. I would be willing to accept that a casual, nacho-munching football game attendee would prefer recognizable music over unfamiliar music, and that they might prefer a more readily accessible theme to a more esoteric one. That makes intuitive sense. Sometimes, however, [and not from you, more broadly] I think old school marching band people believe that nacho-munching football fans want to see military style uniforms and groups standing at crisp attention... and that seems much more questionable to me. We might like those things because we are aficionados of the activity and its history, but does the Mom who came to the game because her son is a lineman prefer that? Sousa marches and military tattoos are not widely shared enthusiasms. Here is my alternate theory of the case. I think what would be most entertaining to nacho munchers is a modern visual presentation with recognizable music they enjoy. Or, if not music they already know, then music which is in and of itself exciting and broadly entertaining. I would argue, for instance, that any football crowd in the country could enjoy what Tarpon did in 2022 or 2023, or essentially any Bluecoats show from the last 5 years. Or, to state my case in a slightly different formulation: if football crowds don't care for boring, modern shows, the problem is the boring, not the modern. [Also, as a slight tangent from my original tangent but one which returns to the main thrust of this thread... Color guard is definitely not the problem. I have seen many football crowds cheer for a rifle toss while politely golf clapping for the dance team.] Your points are well taken. Let me clarify. By a traditional marching band I am referring to a marching band that is primarily geared toward crowd entertainment at a football game, also known as half time style. In this day and age I guess that means a little more familiar music, a little more upbeat and loud, an auxiliary unit that is more focused on flashy dance moves, etc. I am not suggesting 'old school' corps style from back when guards wore military attire. I suggested that on another thread as a point of sarcasm. Let us take a look at 2019 for instance. Would a football audience prefer a show like CTJ or Vandy (both were awesome shows by the way)? I would say that the vast majority at a football game would prefer CTJ. At a major marching band competition, us band aficionados would likely pick both for two very different reasons. For me personally, I loved both of those shows and liked seeing the different approach to a show from a competitive perspective. In fact, I have a hard time deciding which one I liked the most. If there are people in a position to make a change that feel that the marching band shows should be geared more toward the 2019 CTJ style as opposed to the 2019 Vandy style (or let's go even further back and say the 2007 LD Bell style) to make things a little more appealing to the football half time crowd, then they would certainly try to steer the programs in that direction. I think that is a shame for a competitive high school marching band program. If a high school marching band program wants to develop a show that is more like 2019 or 2021 Vandy or 2022 or 2023 Carmel, they should have that right and should not have a judging system that scores them less for doing so. There are a lot of us in the marching arts world that enjoy that type of show, maybe not as many that just want to have a little entertainment at a football game. My other point is that while yes a Tarpon Springs show would go over really well at a football game, the vast majority of bands are not at the level to pull that off. Let's face it, Tarpon is and has been one of the best bands in country for a long time for a reason. As for the color guard aspect, sure there are going to be folks at a football game that like to see the rifle tosses and all that good stuff with guard work. Keep in mind, many traditional style marching bands back in the day used a baton twirler for that very reason. I suspect, however, that there are some that don't want to see all the flags and stuff and just want to see a guard dance around the field. Now I do admit that a lot of this is speculation on my part. You have to admit though, after the achievements that Texas bands made in the 2010s (especially the latter half of the decade) it seems odd that in the last few years there are changes that have been implemented, including this idea of replacing a color guard unit with a dance unit. It really suggests that there are some pushing to have programs that are more appealing to the football crowd and can keep the audience fired up through the half time.
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Post by ilikeguard on Dec 2, 2023 15:02:37 GMT -6
When I saw the recent changes to the UIL scoring sheets, I thought to myself, hmmm this looks like how a traditional (half time style) show would likely be judged. Now I hear there is this push to do away with color guard and go with a dance team. Are there people influencing these bands in Texas and UIL in general that are intentionally trying to turn Texas bands back to the era when they were more appealing to a football audience rather than an audience that wants to see a corps style band competition? The evidence is starting to say yes. I’m not sure there is any actual push to get rid of guards in general in Texas but I guess only the future will tell. I don’t see BOA ever budging on it, so in this scenario Texas bands will either have to choose to only be good at one or the other, or we’ll see less and less BOA in the state overall (which, arguably, is already happening).
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Post by boahistorybuff on Dec 2, 2023 18:05:08 GMT -6
Yes it certainly seems that UIL has decided to steer programs away from BOA, and in my opinion, steer them away from what all other high school bands in the country are doing.
I agree that I dont think Texas wants to do away with guards. It just seems to me that this proposal with Round Rock has some hint of 'we need to make these programs more enjoyable for the football crowd' mentality.
If the UIL system governs all areas of extra curricular activities, is there a board of directors that has representatives from all aspects of the programs including the football program? I dont want to imply anything, but I can just see someone advocating for the football program saying "we need these bands to keep the crowds fired up during half time, like the college bands do". If that that person(s) has enough pull, then boom the whole UIL judging system is changed to force the marching bands into performing louder, more up tempo, less vocals, less time for the music to build to those high points, etc etc etc.
I dont want to keep beating a dead horse, so this will be my last comment post on the whole UIL thing, which I think is going really change Texas bands in the coming years.
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Post by LeanderMomma on Dec 3, 2023 7:46:59 GMT -6
I’m just not at all convinced that there is any sort of effort in Texas to change the current marching band/guard trend other than the fact UIL focuses far more strongly on music than they do just about any other aspect of a show. Also, I don’t think the RR director was doing anything with his short sighted (and short lived) effort to change the auxiliary unit there from guard to dance other than an making an effort to be more like the current best marching band in the state of Texas. I know that having state every year will indeed change the focus of some of the bands in Texas, but I don’t think color guard is going anywhere. I am sad however, that UIL has made this change to having state every year so that bands can no longer swap their focus every other year to favor BOA or UIL, and I do think it’s going to negatively affect how Texas bands do overall at BOA competitions outside the state.
Interesting subject for sure!
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Post by stix on Dec 3, 2023 9:09:58 GMT -6
Please jump in if anything I'm stating below needs to be corrected. I am going off of what I have heard talking to people over the years. This is just a hypothesis and by no means meant to take anything away from the amazing hard work these kids put into the activity.
From my perspective Color Guard is a complex and physically demanding sport that takes years to master and Texas does not do enough to support the early (pre-high school) development of the activity.
Could the lack of middle school feeder guard programs into high school be one of the catalyst driving these decisions? I have heard that recruiting for guard can be a real challenge in Texas due to the absence of middle school guard programs. While most middle schools have dance programs/classes, they do not have guard programs/classes. Consequently, kids usually start guard in high school. This is unfortunate, as it would be like having band students start playing their instruments in high school instead of having their middle school years to develop the foundation. Not having that foundation may put Texas Guards at a disadvantage.
I could see band directors attempting to address this issue by either incorporating a dance team or expanding their guard team to include a dance team where a larger pool of talent with an early foundation in their craft already exists.
Texas may need to work on creating more early opportunities for guard, in order to address the trend it seems like we are beginning to see.
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Post by maf03 on Dec 3, 2023 9:18:39 GMT -6
Please jump in if anything I'm stating below needs to be corrected. I am going off of what I have heard talking to people over the years. This is just a hypothesis and by no means meant to take anything away from the amazing hard work these kids put into the activity. From my perspective Color Guard is a complex and physically demanding sport that takes years to master and Texas does not do enough to support the early (pre-high school) development of the activity. Could the lack of middle school feeder guard programs into high school be one of the catalyst driving these decisions? I have heard that recruiting for guard can be a real challenge in Texas due to the absence of middle school guard programs. While most middle schools have dance programs/classes, they do not have guard programs/classes. Consequently, kids usually start guard in high school. This is unfortunate, as it would be like having band students start playing their instruments in high school instead of having their middle school years to develop the foundation. Not having that foundation may put Texas Guards at a disadvantage. I could see band directors attempting to address this issue by either incorporating a dance team or expanding their guard team to include a dance team where a larger pool of talent with an early foundation in their craft already exists. Texas may need to work on creating more early opportunities for guard, in order to address the trend it seems like we are beginning to see. Whitney, Round Rock's color guard director was hired about 3 years ago. She is the first color guard director at RR that I am aware of that has developed a middle school program. They have a cadet winter guard program that are all middle schoolers. There were some 8th graders in Round Rock's show this year that made the trip with them up to GN.
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Post by hostrauser on Dec 3, 2023 11:14:24 GMT -6
This is admittedly a tangent spinning off from your point, but one I wonder about often... Are we 100% sure that more traditional style marching shows are more entertaining to the casual audience member than more modern show designs? ... I think what would be most entertaining to nacho munchers is a modern visual presentation with recognizable music they enjoy. Or, if not music they already know, then music which is in and of itself exciting and broadly entertaining. I would argue, for instance, that any football crowd in the country could enjoy what Tarpon did in 2022 or 2023, or essentially any Bluecoats show from the last 5 years. Or, to state my case in a slightly different formulation: if football crowds don't care for boring, modern shows, the problem is the boring, not the modern. Your points are well taken. Let me clarify. By a traditional marching band I am referring to a marching band that is primarily geared toward crowd entertainment at a football game, also known as half time style. In this day and age I guess that means a little more familiar music, a little more upbeat and loud, an auxiliary unit that is more focused on flashy dance moves, etc. 95% of the high school marching bands in Wisconsin are "half-time style" and they are all terrible. "Nacho-munchers" will watch that stuff for free while waiting for the third quarter, absolutely no one outside of devoted parents would pay to watch it.
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Post by boahistorybuff on Dec 3, 2023 11:14:54 GMT -6
Please jump in if anything I'm stating below needs to be corrected. I am going off of what I have heard talking to people over the years. This is just a hypothesis and by no means meant to take anything away from the amazing hard work these kids put into the activity. From my perspective Color Guard is a complex and physically demanding sport that takes years to master and Texas does not do enough to support the early (pre-high school) development of the activity. Could the lack of middle school feeder guard programs into high school be one of the catalyst driving these decisions? I have heard that recruiting for guard can be a real challenge in Texas due to the absence of middle school guard programs. While most middle schools have dance programs/classes, they do not have guard programs/classes. Consequently, kids usually start guard in high school. This is unfortunate, as it would be like having band students start playing their instruments in high school instead of having their middle school years to develop the foundation. Not having that foundation may put Texas Guards at a disadvantage. I could see band directors attempting to address this issue by either incorporating a dance team or expanding their guard team to include a dance team where a larger pool of talent with an early foundation in their craft already exists. Texas may need to work on creating more early opportunities for guard, in order to address the trend it seems like we are beginning to see. Whitney, Round Rock's color guard director was hired about 3 years ago. She is the first color guard director at RR that I am aware of that has developed a middle school program. They have a cadet winter guard program that are all middle schoolers. There were some 8th graders in Round Rock's show this year that made the trip with them up to GN. So at this stage in the marching arts, why haven't more Texas bands started guard in middle school? There are schools in Michigan that do that. I guarantee they have less financial resources then these huge wealthy suburban Texas schools.
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Post by philodemus on Dec 3, 2023 12:27:24 GMT -6
While I completely agree that starting the guard kids younger is key to building a great program, I don't think Texas is unique in waiting to start until high school as the norm.
I would hazard a guess that most guard programs in the country don't start till high school, but the ones you've heard of--because they're great--start earlier.
As to the relative entertainment value of guards vs. dance programs...
I don't know, guys, maybe I live in a particularly enlightened part of the world, [not something Kentuckians get to say often] but I've watched tons of football Moms jump up and scream for a unison rifle catch. I think color guard just is much, much more entertaining than dance team. For enthusiasts like us, for randos off the street, for everyone. I'm not making a normative argument, I'm making a descriptive one. Nacho munchers like color guard.
At least good color guard.
If entertainment value is the issue, I think every high school program's design team should include one 12-year old with ADHD who has a hard veto on every show concept. That would fix the problem more than any UIL changes to the judging sheets.
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Post by LeanderMomma on Dec 3, 2023 19:00:00 GMT -6
There actually are quite a few middle school guards in Texas. It’s definitely a growing trend.
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Post by horntrumpetdad on Dec 3, 2023 20:09:28 GMT -6
There actually are quite a few middle school guards in Texas. It’s definitely a growing trend. Right, I don't see any general trend in Texas to abandon color guards. If anything it's the opposite, with more and more middle schools developing feeder guard programs for their high schools.
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Post by rickyrosay on Dec 4, 2023 9:00:02 GMT -6
This just makes me feel like it demonstrates How big this country is 1. and 2. How small the world is that we are all enthralled with. The country part is how in the midwest, Colorguard starts incredibly early. There are grade school guard clinics and Jr. High competitive guards. That seems to be more the norm than not. Because of that, it can feel insane to one of these Midwesterners that another state doesn't have a similar type of set up but the reality is.. It's a big country lol I have no idea what's happening on the East Coast, or in Florida, or in South Carolina. BUT, because we have this umbrella national circuit, we are all connected more so than we would be without BOA so it feels like we are in Texas every other weekend, like we're in Indiana all the time, etc. I'm not sure if any of this monday morning meandering is making any sense. But it is interesting for sure. What I am interested in is how the BOA judging community will evolve from this? When we crown a National Champion. Should they be the best band that has the best collection of parts? The best Colorguard, the best percussion, the best playing winds, the best moving winds? Because I'm pretty sure that would just be Avon all the time. Will there be any room for variance? My favorite time of year has been watching UIL, into San Antonio, into Nationals. I'm still picking my jaw up off the floor from Dickinson high school and I'm pretty sure they weren't even close to 6A State Finals (no disrespect Dickinson folks. I'm on your side!). I don't want to lose any of that because of the changes in sheets. But, I guess time will tell. Thank you for joining my TedTalk. Stay tuned next time for the discussion, "Lucas Oil.. will it kill you to have better coffee?"
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Post by hewhowaits on Dec 4, 2023 10:44:58 GMT -6
The country part is how in the midwest, Colorguard starts incredibly early. There are grade school guard clinics and Jr. High competitive guards. There are competitive elementary school guards in Southwest Ohio. Bellbrook, Franklin, Lebanon, Miamisburg, and Northmont all have elementary guards competing in MEPA this winter. It's no accident that the two districts in the area with Scholastic World guards start early.
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Post by marimba11 on Dec 4, 2023 12:48:32 GMT -6
Yeah, this was so bad. It made it 10 times worse that Mobley said he wanted the dance team for basically a "competitive edge". Who won visual in 2019 finals... oh yeah Avon. Maybe it's easier to clean, but if RR wants to be better adding a dance team and getting rid of guard is not the answer. If anything, do it like Reagan did and just add a dance team in addition to the guard.
I'm shocked he would actually write an email saying that... crazy stuff. What is wrong with RR current level of competitiveness? They made GN finals... enough said!
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Post by boahistorybuff on Dec 4, 2023 19:57:17 GMT -6
I’m just not at all convinced that there is any sort of effort in Texas to change the current marching band/guard trend other than the fact UIL focuses far more strongly on music than they do just about any other aspect of a show. Also, I don’t think the RR director was doing anything with his short sighted (and short lived) effort to change the auxiliary unit there from guard to dance other than an making an effort to be more like the current best marching band in the state of Texas. I know that having state every year will indeed change the focus of some of the bands in Texas, but I don’t think color guard is going anywhere. I am sad however, that UIL has made this change to having state every year so that bands can no longer swap their focus every other year to favor BOA or UIL, and I do think it’s going to negatively affect how Texas bands do overall at BOA competitions outside the state. Interesting subject for sure! I just want to see Texas bands keep performing they way the have in the past. That 2019 Leander show had effect. It was not just that they played so incredibly well and had some killer soloists, but they made a connection to the audience and it was awesome. You felt the music, especially their rendition of Benedictus. Wow. I just don't want to see these amazing Texas bands lose that, it would be a shame.
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Post by tarheel36 on Dec 4, 2023 20:17:04 GMT -6
In my opinion, the single easiest thing you can do to increase the depth and effectiveness of your visual communication is to invest capital in the guard program. I don’t know why so many groups miss the ball on this.
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