[RaMoore]

nuggetsyl and others,

From my discussions with 1817, it's not that they are trying to start these teams. 1817, as the only successfully established FIRST team for the area, is being asked to help support these new teams that HQ/regional leadership wants to start.

Since the University is one of the major sponsors of 1817 the people are one in the same with the people doing the work to prepare for adding a new regional.

I concur that organic growth is generally best, but sometimes you need a kick in the pants to get things rolling. At the very least the best case would be to only have as many of these seed rookies as you have veteran teams to support them, but like I said 1817 is pretty much all there is in Lubbock and even up to a 200+ mile radius. It's very big and pretty empty out there (no offense to the lubbockites out there).

1817 has students from all the schools in the Lubbock area, so it will be interesting to see what happens to their student base as more teams are added into the local schools.