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Originally Posted by rsisk
I don't have any data on hand to reference, but I can give you my opinion after having been a FSM for 5 years....
Number one reason a team folds is the loss of a primary mentor or teacher leaving no one left to lead the team.
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Yep, this seems to be the most common case I've heard of too. Looking over my notes from last year's PNW registration, we lost 10 teams (Bear in mind that this was after the first year of districts).
Of those 10, one merged with another school, another started a different STEM program in place of FRC, at least two confirmed that they were losing their coach/head mentor, several others stated that districts were difficult for them logistically. If I recall, none of the 10 who dropped for the 2015 season were due strictly to financial difficulties.
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