[PayneTrain]

I will express general concern with the task of just providing minimum, one-year funding to a gaggle of teams. I believe Texas did this exact same thing before and things didn't go as well as hoped.

I believe between 2011 and 2012 Virginia had 5 rookies join the FRC program but netted -1 teams. That is frustrating to me and shows that somewhere along the line, the veteran teams (us), the sponsors, and/or the program failed. Success or failure is not defined on the field, but in the number of kids we can try to inspire. When a team becomes sustainable I call it a success, but when they silently die out that I see it as a colossal failure.

I know when I graduate from college I feel called to work on some watch list for team retention, because gaining rookies but losing team count overall was a bad feeling.

Good luck.