Monday, March 28, 2011
Informative Project-- The Decline of the URI Sailing Team
For this project, I will be highlighting the Decline of the URI Sailing Team. I was on the team for about a year and a half and experienced a lot of change. The skinny of the story is that the coach lost interest and moved on. In doing so, he managed to participate less with the team and eventually quit before the start of this (spring) season. As a past team member and with the voice of experience from current and past team members, I plan to bring to public the status of the team. In a way, I feel betrayed by the team due to the coach and his disinterest after years of success.
In discussing this topic, I wonder if any of you have any experience with a sports team that has declined in overall quality (either personally or heard of)? If so, what happened to lead up to this change? If not, could you imagine how stressful it would be to have an activity you thoroughly enjoy literally blow-up in front of your face? Also, have you ever been on a sports team that you thought needed change because of its lackluster approach to success?
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I guess I'm more curious about the backstory than I am about the issue. I suppose I'm still not usre what the issue is. Do you want to raise funds to hire a new sailing coach? Do yo want to advertise your team's skills to genreate interest. Maybe I'm defining issue differently than you are. In any case, I'd like ot know what you hope to accomplish by bringing to public light the misfortune of the sailing team, that is, what is your purpose for this public action?
ReplyDeleteDo you know what caused the coach to lose interest in your team? Maybe if you could get to the bottom of that issue, you might be able to try and prevent events of this nature in the future. I too am also curious as to what exactly you are expecting to gain from writing a story about the sailing coach quitting the team.
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