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Originally Posted by EricH
There is another one. I'm going to go way back into my memory banks for this one, and hope I'm remembering the anecdote right (it's on CD... somewhere--that's where I remember this from).
Back about a decade ago, during team forums after the season, someone (don't remember who) was at one in some location (don't remember where). And somebody in the room was really vocal about how all of FRC should be split in just about the manner you're describing (and remember, we're dealing with about half the teams we have today at this point in time). That's when a newbie team mentor--might have been a rookie team--who'd been rather quiet spoke up and said something about how beating (or was it playing with) Wildstang (FRC111) had been the highlight of their year, and they would lose that inspiration if the split happened. The rather vocal somebody promptly kept quiet.
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Yep, there's also the financial downside too. Teams on the bigger stage would be able to get sponsorships much more easily because of the wider audience and the bigger impact of the team.
The same problems exist in the IIHF system. I didn't even know some of the lower tier countries had a team.
Would this help? I think so. But, there are just as many cons (if not more) as there are pros.