When Will WWE Learn to Stop Breaking Up Team Rhodes Scholars?

Team Rhodes Scholars is a lot like a high school couple: on again, off again.

One week, Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow are entertaining the heck out of us like the fantastic tag team that they are. The next week, Sandow is wrestling in some random singles action with absolutely no mention of his partnership with Rhodes.

It’s as if the WWE changes its mind on what to do with Team Rhodes Scholars on a nightly basis, unsure of whether it wants to keep them together and push them as a duo, push them separately as singles stars or not do much with them at all. 

Of course, it’s not surprising to see the creative team flip-flop on how it wants to book a couple of Superstars. After all, as Mark Henry might say, that’s what it does.

But still, it’s frustrating. Very frustrating. 

A telltale sign of indecisiveness on the part of the creative team, the fact that Rhodes and Sandow are still even teaming together occasionally is a clear indication of a lack of direction for many of the WWE’s midcard acts.

Remember when Team Rhodes Scholars broke up earlier this year? Well, why are they back together?

Better yet, when will the WWE learn to either keep the duo together for the long run or have them go their separate ways for good?

After all, having Rhodes and Sandow together one week only to split them up the next isn’t doing any good for either man. In fact, it’s doing exactly the opposite.

Mainly, it’s leaving both men in what feels like a never-ending state of flux—with no commitment to them as either a tag team or as singles stars.

There have been signs of pushes for both men here and there. Sandow is currently feuding with Sheamus, which is a step up from just about anything he’s done over the course of his WWE career. 

Meanwhile, Rhodes found himself battling Randy Orton in a really competitive match on Raw just a couple of months ago—a match you would expect to see out of a midcarder who’s climbing up the card.

Still, nothing really substantial has happened for Rhodes recently, just like nothing all that important has happened for Sandow, and these are both direct results of inconsistent booking by creative. 

Putting Rhodes in a 15- or 20-minute match is a great idea on paper. So is having Sandow feud with one of the WWE’s top babyfaces, like Sheamus.

But will either of those things ultimately matter? Not if there’s no follow-up to them, that’s for sure.

In the case of Rhodes, he wound up back with Sandow not long after it looked like he’d venture off on his own as a singles star. Meanwhile, Sandow just accompanied Rhodes to the ring for Rhodes’ match against Sheamus on this week’s Raw.

Although Team Rhodes Scholars is very entertaining, things like this just can’t happen anymore. 

Team Rhodes Scholars isn’t a high school relationship where two people are together one day, nowhere near each other the next and then back together the day after that. 

One way or the other, Team Rhodes Scholars needs to be an adult relationship: Either Rhodes and Sandow are together, or they’re not.

Make up your mind, WWE, or you’re ultimately just hurting both men in the long run.

Drake Oz is a WWE Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter!