[Jon Jack]

Cory is right, they actually lost 4 mentors in 3 years - each with between 8-15 years of experience. It'd be hard for any team to lose that much experience and continue playing at the level 968 played at. Those mentors are now on 254, 696, 1538, 3476. Both 696 and 3476 are becoming top teams in California (as can be seen by their appearance in the finals together at Inland Empire).

That being said, they still build good robots. In fact, we couldn't have asked for a better 2nd pick than 968 at Inland Empire. They were able to score 2-3 in the 3pt goal in auto, able to play defense (they kept 2485 clear to full court in all 6 elimination matches), they could provide emergency scoring and could hang for 10 points. There wasn't a single robot that could do all of that left by the time we picked with the 16th pick.