[Josh Fox]

I drove the chassis for Team RUSH's 2007-2009 robots, and I controlled the kicker and hanger for 2010 when we had a freshman driving the chassis.

I definitely think there's something to be said for having someone with a lot of experience behind the controls, or at least having one member with competition experience so that the other operator/driver can learn from them.

Above all else though, practice makes perfect. Even if you just throw together a chassis and have your operator visualize what they would do in any give position (I remember a pretty cool story from team 51 regarding practice through visualization from last year), it will be enormously beneficial.