WEll… this would be cool… Just imagine… FIRST drafts… and uhh… Fantasy FIRST
With the 1st pick of the FIRST 2005 Draft… Team 710 selects George as a Proffesional Mentor ( Graduating class of 2005… craziness )
Ohh well… Too bad its george and I tend not to believe anything he posts lol
Dan
I must confess that I don’t like what the move implies for FIRST and its teams. the “battle-bots” image will now be more strongly projected than ever. nice thought of using the AP article.
blue orion: that joke, mr. O takes doug outside and then comes back in 2 secs later with this huge smile on his face. a pretty good meeting.
Actually I like the idea of Fantasy FIRST. Pick three robots a week from whatever regionals and the highest score wins the whole week.
Sounds like fun.
sounds like something to set up for next year it would defanitly be fun.
Yes!! That would be so cool!! Someone needs to start that next year.
to paraphrase Nietzsche:
FIRST is dead.
though it will still be the name of an organization, the spirit of the organization itself will die soon. Though we will retain it, it will no longer exist as we know it ever again.
Though it was destined to happen, I am still dismayed by this for the simple reason that because FIRST is now a part of a business enterprise, corruption WILL be a part of the game in years to come… maybe not next year, or the year after that… but it will happen. prices will go up, competition will fade or become controlled.
I’m quite put off by dean selling FIRST. Had he really thought this through a utilitarian standpoint, he would have come to the easy conclusion that FIRST had to stay the way it was.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one
the same applies for wants and dependencies as well…
I can only hope that FIRST is ignored by the business machine and left untampered with. unless that happens, you may start seeing prostitution of the FIRST ideals and name/logo in places you would never want to see it.
I hope Dean knew what he was doing…
Hmmm…I think that someone only read the first page. But thanks for the optimism thought!!
Good one, you almost got me there george, then my dad looked over my shoulder and saw what i was reading, and cracked up…
/wonders how many people will reply to that last post with misdirected passion… 
No need to move MIT. Purdue University is just up the road…
Good one almost had me on that one I was about to flip out then i remembered what day it was??? :]
Oh yeah, for those of you who thought I believed the story, sorry for the confusion ;-). Consider it my little effort to make it more believeable.
And please stop sending me PMs asking for those autographs, I am not really handing them out. 
Oh, just kidding with the whole thing.
And I DO know what April 1st is.
I’m interested in creating something like that. I think that would be a great interactivitiy while you’re bored waiting for competition.
Does this mean I can’t use my “hemi”?
Ken Loyd
Team 64
Off topic but, what is a hemi? Dodge recently started lots of ad’s with them assuming everyone knows what they are.
Matt
I too have no clue what a HEMI is… 
Next time an April fool’s joke is played, it might help if you get all the facts straight… and make it more believable. For instance, there were many flaws with this idea of an ‘NFL Owner Buying FIRST off of Dean.’ FIRST is a non-profit organization founded by Dean, it’s its own organization… not a company. Therefore, FIRST is not owned by anybody… it is only managed. If a organization isn’t owned, how could it be bought?
But true, when I did first read the post yesterday morning… my jaw dropped and I was seriously confused.
But isn’t the absurdity of the situation all part of the fun? ;-]
smirks thats part of what makes April Fools Day fun. Especially considering that you can always catch somebody. chuckles evilly
Warning: Business student mode!
What I would assume is that the “owner of FIRST” would be whomever owns all of the physical capital. Basically, this is the building, the FIRST trademark, the employee’s salaries, all of the physical aspects. So, “Buying FIRST” would entail buying all of that, at whatever price Dean felt to be accurate.
There is a difference between the owner of FIRST and the manager of FIRST, Erin is right. Dean may one day pass FIRST off to another manager, but still own the capital.