[FRC Blog] Einstein Report Released

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by Ekcrbe

Each team affected by this has a right to be angry at the person who perpetrated the situation. But if four years later the team comes forward or is exposed, and those teams hold a grudge and still can't forgive the team the individual was connected to, then those teams have a GP issue. I would hope that stigma wouldn't last too long that far down the road.

Do they really have a GP issue? If someone killed another person and then waited 4 years to confess, would it be wrong for the family members to hold a grudge (an extreme case but you get my point)? As Tyler pointed out here, no one but the twelve Einstein teams know what it is like to be cheated out of a fair shot at the gold. If I were them, I'm sure I would still be angry 4 years from now. Heck, I'm not them and I'll probably still be angry. This post gives a very personal view into what these teams had to go through this season. Why should they forgive this individual? I think there would be a problem if these teams were not still angry after some time has passed (say 4 years?). I have no problem with teams holding a grudge after putting in hundreds of hours, dollars, and heartache into their teams, and that is only for this season alone. Multiply by how many years each team member has been involved with their team, and you get the magic number of how angry each and every one of them should be should be.

Originally Posted by stevend1994

Also, has anyone considered the possibility that the team themselves don't even know about it, and that the perpetrator is passing it off as leaving for other reasons?

Thats what I read it as.

For personal reasons, this individual opted to resign.

Granted, "personal" reasons could mean anything from his/her dog dying to his/her overwhelming guilt for this inexcusable act of interference.