Team falling apart-- any advice would be helpful

[hectorcastillo]

If the only real purpose of starting this new team is so that the coach's kid can have a leadership position, then clearly it's being made for the wrong reason. I don't think I've ever even heard of a school having two FRC teams given how expensive it is to run just one team and how much leadership is required to keep them running. I would advise your program to join back into one team and give this kid a co-captain title to make the coach happy even if he doesn't contribute as much as the deserving co-captains do. I know it doesn't seem fair, but you do what you have to do.

I'm not really sure I understand why all of your other coaches went along with this, though. What justifications were given for making this new team? Perhaps you can show that those can be resolved with one team and don't require two.