Ungracious professionalism at internationals?

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Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin

This was already addressed in another thread, and a response was made by the leader of the team in question:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...4&postcount=26

I closed the other one because of forum rules violations. If this one gets out of hand I will do the same.

I think the reason the poster of this thread started it was because they felt a face should be put on an alliance captain that noticed this, and he hopes it can be freely discussed in the CD community instead of being shut down after a few hours before anyone can chip in their 2 cents on what occurred even if it was in fact nothing, but false allegations.

I think the OP is showing a lot of courage by posting here considering 2 other users, posted anonymously even if one of them was indeed the OP. The people involved here are very big in FIRST and in the CD community, which makes it so hard for someone who isn't, to say something, we have to remember that this is a program for kids, not adults. I wonder, would this situation be different if this was team 4XXX and a student coach? Should it be? I ask that the CD community limit the bashing and really think about the ethics of what might have happened here. Even if it didn't happen, we as a community can learn from it and know how to approach the temptation of a world championship and maintain our gracious professionalism and keep in mind what it is most important.