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Originally Posted by nahstobor
I will not dispute the positives that a high schooler can learn from coaching, but there are also many negatives from the experience. If something goes wrong on the field, who's fault is it? The Coach. If your teams human player commits a penalty, who gets chewed out by other drive coaches? The Coach.
If your team lost a match by two points, and one of the mentors on your team comes up to you and says "you should have done this" even though the mentor didn't think of what you should have done until 5 minutes after the match, displaying classic signs of "monday morning quarterback" who gets blamed? The Coach.
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GREAT point.
A looooooong time ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the robot controller was an abacus with a monkey at the helm, I was the drive coach for team 308. Back then, I used to always give the same speech to the drivers before the competition season began. Something like, "if anything goes wrong in the match, or if anyone doesn't like how the match was played, send them to me. I'll take all the blame and all of the heat for what went wrong. blah blah." I always believed in taking the heat off of the drive team - it seemed to help them relax.
With all of that in mind, do what makes your team work best.