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Originally Posted by team-4480
Stay in Basketball:
- Make father happy(his father enjoys watching basketball during the winter)
- His girlfriend is the student manager of the team
- He feels like he might disappoint the team if he leaves
- He enjoys it
Commit fully to Robotics:
- He is a Senior so this would be his last year as a student
- The basketball team isn't going anywhere(last year the record was 5-15)
- He could be an awesome driver if he stayed and practiced
- There is always the chance to go to St.Louis
- He loves building robots
I should mention that he already is helping as much as he can, but by leaving basketball, he would be able to help out much more.
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My advice; do not try to convince your friend. Encourage him to pursue HIS passion and support that decision. It sounds like he knows the attributes of each. Although difficult to remove pleasing others from the decision, I would hope the decision would be about his passion and not others' impressed wishes or impressions.
Unless your friend has committed to play basketball, he is not letting anyone down.
Has his father or girl friend ever been to an FRC event? In my experience FIRST sells itself. Especially FRC.
Although doing something to check off a box on a college application goes against my nature, I believe that most colleges look at participation as participation. Basketball robotics either is participation.