[MaxMax161]

This was my first year as coach and I found that the biggest thing that I had to focus on was not as much the game strategy and knowing what to do but communicating with the drivers and alliance partners.

The fact of the matter is that one coach can't see everything at the same time, and neither can the drivers. I found that if I told them to do something and they though it was the wrong call they could yell to me why and I could then tell them to either go with what they are doing because they saw something I didn't or to change tactics because I saw something else (eg: "grab red tube", "blue tube right here", [I see that an alliance partner has grabbed a blue tube] "red tube, red tube"). I also found that this happened a lot less if I yelled our reasons after the instructions (eg: "grab circle left logo not done"), it made them more sure of my calls.

While I think as I get more practice and become a better coach this won't be as helpful because I'll see more of the field; but as a rookie coach this was very helpful to me both to coach the match and to learn how to coach better.