I was more talking about the actual team thing, rather than self sufficiency in general. I guess the reason I never really thought much about it is I am in a church (LDS) where everywhere I go there is a ward full of people willing to help each other already (and regularly being taught to be self sufficient in numerous ways), so I never really needed to form or belong to a "SHTF team" if you will, as we already kinda had one, just not specifically called such.
Plus I focus mainly on preparing myself and my own family first, and still have a ways to go.
I'd love to eventually end up on several acres where I can raise all the food I need (including livestock), except maybe grain but that is cheap enough to stockpile and stores long term easily, and have a woodlot for a source of heat for the winter and for cooking. When I was out in Colorado Springs visiting my family my mom asked me if I was going to be keeping my H3 for long term, I asked her why and her response was "so that you have a good vehicle to get out of town with if needs be..." Momma didn't raise no fool as the saying goes, that is part of the reason I love the H3 so much is its capabilities on and offroad. I of course plan on actually using it regularly for day trips and camping excursions (I'm really interested in the whole overlanding thing, part of my drive to get a good offroading trailer setup), but that is also a good way to practice for more serious situations.
I can see the benefit though of having a specific place you can retreat to that is free and clear in title and deed, even if it's just a friend's place. I'm not knocking the team thing, it just seems like I am hearing more about these actual teams than before. It seems like previously it was mostly individuals/families doing it, rather than coordinating with groups of friends/acquaintances/like minded people. I will say that I think there is an underlying reason to the greater and greater interest in self sufficiency, but I don't know that everyone will agree with my thoughts on this matter. But it is good to see.
It would be nice to get with a group that are more serious about it than the average church member. Our emergency prep committee for our stake is having a class on earthquake prep on Thursday I am planning on attending (Utah is still earthquake country, though not to the regularity that Cali and other places are). I'm hoping it will be worthwhile. I also really need to get our 72 hour kits put back together and in the cars (my thinking is we always have the cars with us, whereas we are not always at home, odds are if you have to bug out you're probably not going to be at home or have time to even grab everything running out the house).