They seemed to be confused as to what they wanted to do. In my mind, a team is to work together to grasp a project and then hold it, rather than just trying to have all kinds of other projects that were not focused on any one or major projects. And when you tried to be aggressive about a project you seemed to be chastised for havening a passion to go after one. The fall back quote for every thing was crunch what you want.
I do understand that we all do this for one reason or another and you should be able to crunch what you want, but a team should have goals and to ask for support for that project that you would like to go after should be met with interest of why you would want to go after it. As I have stated before I am doing this for the fun and hobby of it.
The nice other part is that science gets help along the way..