What do you ladies and gentlemen think about squad sizes? I personally think a squad of 8 to 10 ladies works much better for squads, especially the ones with smaller bands. I think the excess number of girls hinders many squads from being as precise or great as they should be. A small number of quality should always supersede a large quantity any day and every day.
Squads that work well with large squads that dance every week:
Golden Delight: (they recruit a large number of talent that have a technical dance background and a vision behind it)
Black Foxes: (even though many feel they need to cut back on numbers, they're very clean on the field and they work in the stands as well. Loving their evolution. Major talent with technical dancers.)
Dancin Divas: (on average they're pretty precise in the stands and on the field with large numbers due to the influx of technically trained dancers)
Golden Girls (UAPB) (many may not care for them, but they always have a large solid squad)
Golden Passionettes: (many consider their style as wild, but they always have their "wildness" in sync with one another)
Medium sized squads:
Dolls (kill it with a smaller or medium squad)
14K
J-settes could fall into any of the categories since they implement cuts weekly.
Squads I feel do better with smaller numbers:
Golden Girls: (ASU)
Stingettes: (I think they focus better with a smaller number, I'm good with 6 to 8 ladies dancing)
Orchesis: (they've been looking much better with the smaller squads)
Motion: (I like the number of ladies they had dancing at the battle of the bands. I think they really work out with smaller numbers. But I'd say no more than 10 for them. Loving the improvement from them this season).
Satin Dolls: (just need to cut it down to 1 single girl, not sure of what's going on in practices or whether it has to do with recruitment but the last semi-solid season they had was 2013)
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I don;t know your whole name so I'm just gone give you one... Christopher Deshawn Robinson!!!!.. YOU go to the corner now for the Ultimate shade you threw at the Satin Dolls... 1 girl really just one girl dancing in the stands and on the field.... I can I just can't lmao
I can't with you Chris!! I am blocking you and Aggie lol
lol, I like the new name, I just may start using it. But my whole legal name is Christopher Brown. But that section on the Satin Dolls is 10000% true lol. They need to have a squad of just one girl and she'd be the captain, co-captain, ace, and tail all at the same time, because they always have a good captain but the squad behind them never backs them up. lol
Nastacia E.De Sousa said:
Stuntboi06 said:
I honestly feel the Satin Dolls best yr was under C-lowe in 12, they lost momentum after that I believe, well as a whole they did at least..
THOUGH I will say they had some nice ass uniforms in they closet once upon a time to!!
Christopher said:
Right Keisha, the sponsor at the time was making all of their uniforms. While I feel C-Lowe had a great squad I feel that the all freshman squad of 2005 was nothing to be played with and then everything after that on the field was questionable until C-Lowe's year. For whatever reason every few years the band director will get rid of all the girls and start with a fresh new squad. He got rid of all the 2004 girls and replaced them with all freshmen which was a blessing, then he turned around and got rid of the entire 2005 squad and replaced them all with freshmen again in 2006. Then in 2010 he got rid of the entire squad except once girl, then in 2014 the new director got rid of all the girls again except the freshmen. They never have any stability. They just need to let the captain and banner girls dance and call it a day. Numerous band directors and numerous squads and numerous sponsors. But I'm routing for them to have one solid field routine or stand routine for this decade.
justDANCE said:
Christopher said:
Biiiiii that shade to the Satin Dolls though. I ain't know you threw shade like that honey. But it was a true read. I agree with you on my Stingettes too. Sorry I really don't miss Tey up front, she was cute on the squad but she gave me nothing up front. Any lady that's selected should do well. And Bridgette needs to have a smaller squad like you said. I need for Dr. O's corn chip smelling Dusty lipped behind to resign and join JSU's former president where ever that women went.
I feel stings should stay small until the rid the drama and have a consistent squad (returning faces).
J-settes work because they implement cuts.
Motion needs to stay smaller until they build their talent pool back up. I say in another 2 years they should be able to increase numbers with no problem. (back in the day larger numbers were no problem for them).
Who do you predict to have large squads next year?
Bandfanatic1984 said: