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You mentioned that XYZ has stricter rules about who they can extend bids to and so they don't get as high of a number at the end....my question is does your school use release figures? If not, is XYZ still using them? This would make it more difficult for XYZ to reach quota if they are working under different rules. I know at my school we had a problem for a few years of one organization having very small numbers during formal recruitment but doing extremely well with COB. The problem was that our school did not use release figures, but the national representatives from that organization would come down during formal recruitment and require them to use release figures....which was a disadvantage to them.
As far as COBing goes, my organization hasn't done it for a while... But I believe that my school allows it to start immediately following bid day and the end date would depend entirely upon your organizations own bylaws. There was one group that took it literally and CONTINOUSLY extended bids, they would just have more than one new member class a semester since the new member period had to last a certain amount of time. I've also seen bids extended continously and have new members held over until the next new member class came in.
It might not be a bad idea to suggest that XYZ contact another XYZ chapter near them to practice formal recruitment....practice conversations, dealing with different types of girls (ones who don't speak much they just give yes and no answers, ones that talk about nothing but boys and drinking, ones that can't stop talking about ABC, etc) because the problem might be that they don't know how to deal with some of these situations. If there isn't another XYZ chapter nearby, they could ask alum to come in and help or maybe even ask ABC if they would be willing to help.
As for changing their minds on a previously decided issue, I have to agree with what was said earlier about having to bring up a new motion to amend the standing rule.
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