Tanking Shrinkage....

So, a few months ago, my guild had more tanks than we knew what do to with.  4 Warriors, 1 Pally, 2 DK and 2 Druid tanks.   Now however, we seem to have had a few leave for different reasons and we seem to be short.  We are down to 1 Warrior, 1 DK and 1 Druid with a couple of warriors that are willing to respec.

And so, things in guild have changed yet again.  The old guild leader has taken the reins back over since he is now finished closing his Circuit City store and has less stress and more time again.  And now, some of the officers are considering breaking into two guilds.  One purely for social and one for more hard core raiding.  My question is, what exactly does this buy us?

There would be 2 different GLs, 2 different sets of rules and 2 different banks.  The reasons behind this is so that those who aren't ready to raid or do not want to raid could have a more social guild but those that are more hard core could work on achievements and get ready for Ulduar.  I am okay with this occurring IF there is a process in place for people who weren't ready to raid but wanted to.  

If the people got a trial period.  Say they ran several heroics with a couple of officers and did what we expected of their class.  They could then "try out" at the 10 man raid level.  If they have a couple of successful raids there, they could then move on to the "raider" level of the guild.  To me, all of this could be done within one guild with a ranking system and achieve both goals.

We present ourselves as a casual raiding guild, then to me, that is what we are.  While we definitely want competent people, we don't want to be so hard core that we don't help others become better players.  My cousin is a prime example.  I gave him my old computer, showed him a few things, and I had his class leader speak to him.  He has taken his damage from 1400 to 2700 in a week and is continuing to get better and once he gets more drops it will be even better.  But we never would have known he could do it if we hadn't given him a chance and worked with him.

Right now the decision has been made to just try and work on 10 mans.  So each of our groups gets used to running together so we are ready to attempt 10 man Ulduar when it comes out.  Which brings us back to that tanking shortage and that not everyone fits into the 10 man groups.  However, I am hoping with dual speccing, we might can solve that problem since quite a few folks have a tanking set.  But I guess we shall just have to see how things expand....