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Originally Posted by Siri
This is huge.
So to each to their own, for sure. But if say, 365, 341, 25 or 2729 (I'll force myself to stay local, but there are many more) are considering tossing their adult coach out of the box, I would just like to say: while the position can certainly go to a student at team prerogative, you are touching the lives of several more students every time you take the field.......
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It may interest people to know that we have only had an adult booth coach for the last 5 years. From 2000 thru. 2008 we had a student coach. But even though our student coaches won 2 regionals and a Championship Division, we would still occasionally send in an adult to analyze what was happening and make drive team adjustments.
In terms of pure on-field numbers, if you compare the last 5 years to the first 9 years, the results speak for themselves. Our adult coach has been able to get the most out of the drive team and mentor them in a way that students could not.
That being said, every team must do what matches the personality of their organization. Our results have proven that BOTH approaches can and will work given the appropriate effort.