How do you keep a team from collapsing?

[Kevin Sevcik]

Beaten by Koko Ed, but yeah.

1. Preseason activities. Break into groups with half vets and half rookies, or as best you can and have rookies brainstorm about old challenges. Design arms and drivetrains for fictional challenges. The whole point is to make sure everyone's involved and the vets don't drown out the rookies.

2. It sounds like you're saying a long-time member of your team has left, but will return if you change the team in some fashion to suit him/her. If this is the case, then you have to let the person go. The whole concept of a team negates this idea. You can't change a team to suit one person. If you do that you stop being a team and start being a group of people gravitating about one person.