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From: aaron altman <A.Altman@cranfield.ac.uk>
Subject: You had to know this was coming.....
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But, in a country where so many of the major Universities have yet to field  
teams consistently from one year to the next, I find it peculiar to limit the 
amount of experience allowed  players that might start a team at those 
same Universities.

Obviously, Alex and myself are prime examples of that.  Anyways, we 
always cover each other at tournaments!!!

The fact is I know that the  first year I was here, my team would not have 
DARED play in a student tournament without me, and to take them to the 
Majority of Open tournaments would have exposed them to so much 
carnage, they wouldn't have come back.  Every person has a certain degree 
of pride.

If you say beginner's tournaments are the answer, well, you need to have 
that experienced player to make things go, don't you?  If you allow them to 
play in those tournaments, and then disallow them at Students, teams quite 
easily fall to pieces simply trying to get past that first marked/forced throw to 
start off the point.  Sure, they need to learn how to throw it, but 21- 0 isn't 
much of a lesson.

I set up the club here.  I run the club.  I distribute the responsibility to my 
team, but I can tell you,  if asked whether I would continue if I couldn't 
compete with my University team, I am unsure of the answer, given the 
amount of time and energy I sink into training/coaching them and dealing 
with the administrative issues.  Is this really what we want to happen?

The same is the case with the club in Milton Keynes.  The Kows were 
started largely by a student whose experience exceeded that of the currently 
proposed limitation.

What are we trying to do here?

It's sort of funny, because the same rule went into effect my first year of 
student eligibility in the US.  The University of Texas team had been to 
EVERY Collegiate outdoor UPA nationals since the beginning of their 
participation in the competition (8 years).  They had so many ringers who 
had been playing for over 12 years it was silly.

In that application, the rule really did make sense.  This time, I just don't see 
it.

Aaron
Cranfield University Alien Nation