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Originally Posted by topgun
My opinion is that the coach should be a student.
Having said that, I do wish that FIRST would allow mentors to train student coaches on practice day at a regional. It's very hard for a coach to get training (unlike the drivers). I don't understand why we can't have the two drivers, the student coach and a mentor coaching the coach on the field on practice day.
It's one of those questions that don't seem to get answered, kind of like, "Why are we shutting the playing field down at 4:30 p.m. on practice day when the pits are open until 8:00 p.m.? Meanwhile teams are waiting an hour or more to get 10 minutes on the practice field when we have the most beautiful playing field sitting idle.
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I think off-season events are also a great time to do this. We have the Rah Cha Cha Ruckus, and us folks on 1126 usually have 2 drive teams of people who are interested (all students). This is a great opportunity for them to learn. I somehow got to be a coach for this event in 2010, really enjoyed it and ended uo as the competition coach for the 2011 and now 2012 season. It's been an incredible experience for me, and defintiely one a student should be able to have. But that is how our team does it. Other teams do it differently, and it is important to respect that.