Re: Unofficial WEG team

["Jerry" <hikryrdg@evansville.net>]

Joe, ole buddy, just because its fair does not mean it will be weak.  And
even if your logic held up, wouldn't we all be stronger as a whole if we
knew it was done in a more equitable manner?  Jerry


On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Joe Long wrote...
>On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:41:14 EDT, LSimoni197@aol.com wrote:
>
>>Carlos,
>
>>I like your point of view, and you support it with excellent logic.  A
>>democratic manner of selection, which would be fair to all contenders is what
>>AERC needs to look for.
>
>Actually, that is an important point.  What is the AERC's goal in
>fielding an International team?  Providing a fair and equal
>opportunity for those members who wish to go?  Or sending the team
>with the best chance to win?
>
>International is a whole different game that will always remain a
>somewhat exclusive club, due to the limits on team sizes.  Only by
>establishing our priorities can we adopt a selection process that best
>fits that priority.
>
>>From the beginning, the AERC's priority was to send the riders who
>gave us the best chance to win the Team Gold.  I believe the current
>selection process is the one that best achieves that -- it's not
>perfect, any subjective process is prone to politics and the biases of
>the selectors.  But I am pursuaded that it is still better than a
>qualifying-race process at producing the most competitive team, as
>qualifying race systems do not take consistency, reliability, balance
>or teamwork into account.  Nor do they take into account last-minute
>changes in a horse or rider's readiness.
>
>If the members want the AERC to change to a system that gives everyone
>who wants to be on the team a "fair" chance to be there, even if that
>produces a weaker team (less likely to win the Gold), then they should
>make that known to their Directors and a qualifying race system could
>be adopted.  But unless such a priority change is made, I support
>keeping our current system pretty much as it is.
>
>-- 
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