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Cost Containment

Posted by Chris, Coach on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW Automotive Electronics.

Posted on 4/5/99 11:57 AM MST



At the end of a post later in this board, I made mention of cost capping. I think that it may be lost in the shuffle so I'm making a post about this issue on its own.

I've tried doing a lot of recruiting to get teams into FIRST, but what I hear time and time again is that the cost is too high. Some teams had to drop out for this reason. I know FIRST tries to make the competition a show so it catches people's attention. Creating a show atmosphere does raise the costs of the competition, though.

This is a subject that is being talked about all over the place. Anyone in the auto industry knows about cost containment. This has been a huge issue in sports. The NBA lockout was because the owners needed cost containment or they couldn't afford to run teams anymore, the NFL instituted a salary cap, baseball has the luxury tax, the NCAA has limited scholarships, and racing has limited practice sessions (as I stated before).

There are issues about reducing costs. If you reduce costs does this limit the educational value? Is lowering the educational value per student a good tradeoff for spreading the experience to more students? (i.e. what is better: more intensity for fewer students or less intensity for more students?) Afterall, lower costs will bring in more teams and help struggling teams stay alive.

I would like to know what everyone's feeling is on cost containment. Should there be none? Should there be some? If so, how?

I'm sure everyone is aware of my proposal (limiting regionals) and is sick of hearing about it. Does anyone else have any ideas?


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