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I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that it doesn't take a big change in team personnel for a once-dominant team to become less dominant. As FRC ages, the top tier of teams is becoming bigger and better. I'm not saying that 71 is building the same caliber of robot that they were in the early 2000s (they could be building better or worse), but you can be sure that today's FRC teams would have given 71 a run for their money during their Championship years had they existed as they do today.

It's easy to look at this lack of dominance as the withering of once-great teams, but in many cases, I don't think it's that at all. One must consider the immense yet steady improvement of FRC as a whole, which I see as great in a better way than won-3-championships-in-4-years great. I'm sorry if I'm interrupting a thread intended for nostalgia, but I hope you find this interjection insightful.