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Originally Posted by nitneylion452
His point was that in high school athletics, there are schools that have top facilities, and those that don't. But just because a team has a better weight room and better coaches, doesn't mean they are guaranteed to win a championship. It's more about motivation and desire. We often hear the phrase "Who wants it more?" This applies well to sports and FRC. In FRC, you need to want to do well. That's not to say that having better facilities and more resources doesn't help, but where do you think the teams with those facilities and resources came from? They also probably started with limited facilities and limited resources. Everyone starts somewhere, it's about building up from where you are to where you want to be.
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Actually that isn't what I'm saying at all.
I'm saying that schools already have programs that cost* them at least as much (if not much much more) that provide similar benefits to a select group. These schools have decided that this is worth their time and money to be competitive at the highest levels for those students. However, they complain when our program asks for the resources to compete at the highest levels for our students. If the schools don't want to compete at those levels they don't have to put up the resources. There is VEX or FTC or BEST for those schools. I fail to understand why schools expect the varsity program for engineering to be any cheaper to run than a varsity football team.
What I'm saying is, we all accept that, with our program, you get out of it what you put in. Why should money not work that way? If you want a top tier team you need to ensure that you have the proper resources and one of them is money. Another is committed students. Saying that a low resource team that spend $5000 a year and builds out of a garage with 3 students and a parent making sure they don't cut off each other's hands should be on the same level with the 254 type teams is just plain dumb. In many of those teams cases they put in significant effort to get where they were at.
TL;DR - Wanna run with the big dogs ya gotta take the time to train.
*Yes, I am well aware that SOME schools make money off their athletic programs but I highly doubt that every school does.