Let kids be individuals. My boys play plenty of "team" sports. When do they get to learn individualism and counting on one's self.
Guess they don't teach that anymore...if you can't get it done yourself look for everyone else to bail you out.
Heck this sounds like the good old USA. The banks are saying we can't do it ourselves, so please bail us out and make everyone else pay. Well this is a comparison, maybe not a good one but it is one.
We wear our team singlet when we are with the team, but when we go without the team my son wears what he wants. And sometimes it is the team singlet.
I like the idea of wearing the team singlet until the finals and then wearing whatever you want. I don't think we will do that if he was to get there, but I do like the idea.