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Unread 13-10-2014, 21:11
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Re: Texas Registration 2015

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Originally Posted by lynca View Post
The spike in growth was related to JCPenny and the TWC grants. The decline of team registrations ...
Follow the money, Andy. A lot of teams were almost totally reliant on that funding. There's a reason only 13 of the 50 2009 rookies are still around. Only two of us have WFFA winners, and only 2 or 3 have at least one regional victory. That was a rough year, before I got to Texas, and one that is often recalled as painful by the surviving participants.
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