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I think a major part of this is who makes it on the team. I know my team coaches (who do the cuts, ect themselves) were trying to get alot of freshmen and alot of girls. unfortunately, that led to us having alot of flirty freshmen girls who wanted to wear short skirts and make all the guys drool rather than maybe break a nail working on a robot or maybe put their hair out of place by doing anything. yes, i'm a bit bitter, as we've lost a good deal of our team because of this problem with the freshmen. We don't tend to take new people in the middle of the year, so we're shorthanded... again. it also means that alot of people who would have been very good members and stuck with it, were cut.
personally, i think alot of it is out of the students hands. it's in the hands of whoever decides who makes the team. I know alot of people grow up big time in this program, and you have to give people a chance, but there is a burn-out factor, and a maturity factor that have to be considered going in. if people don't have the maturity to handle long hours working with people they may not like and focusing on a task, they aren't likely to stay.
what do people think of maybe taking a second draft during the year? obviously before build time (you go on our team's bad list if you quit during building), but after the fall events. does any team do this?
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