[PayneTrain]

Tacking on to what Sisk said, you can look at interactions between a drive coach and the drivers of the team as a window into how the team operates and uncover how and why the team acts at their competitive level. Coaches that are stuck into the spot to micromanage the drivers or exist to diagnose issues on the robot probably served in a role like that throughout the build of the robot. Some teams have a drive coach that talks more to other coaches than their drivers, as I have explained earlier, the best drivers have some weird telepathy type thing going on and they communicate through their magic unseen channels, leaving us coaches to digest what is happening on the field with our robot, the other robots on both alliances, and the clock/timed events.

I like the bit where instead of presenting pros/cons for each side and leaving it at that, he encouraged the teams to look at how they have been doing things and compare it to the other option. All teams from the underdogs to the average should be evaluating the effectiveness of each decision made and considering the possible benefits and drawbacks of a change to their SOP. I would say the powerhouses should as wel, but I'm sure they already do this anyway, and that's why they achieved so much over the years.