[EricH]

Originally Posted by Mr V

The other big difference between FTC and FRC is time commitment. A FTC team can do well meeting under 10 hours per week while FRC teams typically put in way more hours per week in build season. [...]
So yeah they may have funding available for FRC teams at HS level in MI but do they have the people willing to make the time commitment at every school?

On the other hand, an FTC team's build and competition season stretches over nearly a full school year, if I'm not mistaken. An FRC team's offseason is the first half of the school year, while FRC's competition season only lasts for the second half...

I'd be willing to bet that if you stacked up FTC and FRC total time commitments, they'd be pretty close, as far as building and competing go. (Other items, no contest it'll be FRC eating the time.)