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Originally Posted by Kimmeh
Prior to the match we all discussed game plans and felt confident about how the match would go. Murphy's Law being what it is, things didn't go according to plan. Once on the field, the coach of the HRT let his emotions get out of control and was yelling at not just his students but both mine and the other team's students because things weren't going according to plan.
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It's important to try and separate yelling at someone because they are angry, and yelling so that someone hears you. I've been both a student drive team member, and a field coach. As a student, it was very beneficial to have constant stream of clear and concise instructions in game. It's critical for the field coach to be heard. 2 minutes is a very short amount of time, and at the highest levels, you cannot afford to lose a single match because of miscommunication. It gets hectic in the drivers box so sometimes voices get raised. This is rarely due to anger, but caused more by adrenalin and the need to be heard. Sometimes pregame plans need to be changed in the heat of the moment... it happens. And the teams who can adapt on the fly can often go a long way.
I'm not sure which field coach you are referring too, but I'm sure they didn't mean to be offensive with their comments.
One of my funniest memories in FIRST is standing behind the driver’s station while 67, 48, and 148 played a match together and JVN, Adam Freeman, and Travis Hoffman are all screaming back and forth at each other. In any other situation, you would have thought it was a seriously heated argument, but actually listening to them, it was just common in game communication spoken very loudly. Were they angry at each other? Nope, but they were darn sure that they were going to be heard by one another.