Hypothetical Money Question

[Mike Schroeder]

I start thinking about this more and more after i posted this, and its not about the planning or the spending i guess its about where does a team draw the line? what if FIRST told me next year i had to spend $7,000 to get my team registered for one regional. i don't know if anyone realizes it but thats alot of money. I put it in perspective for myself, 7,000 is about 1/3 my yearly salary at The Home Depot..... a couple of years ago there was a post here on CD about FIRST being Elitist is that where FIRST is headed. First off we are going to have a new control system next year what if we had to pay more. I honestly think its a turn off for alot of teams to pay extra for FRC when Dave Lavery said during kick off one year there are eighty something other robotics programs. I've said it a few times in this post but i will close with it again, where does your team draw the line for paying for FRC would it be worth 1,000 more, would it be worth 10,000?