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The purpose of my earlier post(s) to this thread was to point out that there are some people on FIRST teams who like being "where the action is." I am one of those people, and for adults, that means the "coach" position.
Regarding adults vs students, there are both adults and students who would be good, and bad in the coach/strategist/spotter role. Also, there are adults who would be good as drivers, operators, and human players, though I don't advocate that being allowed.
The bottom line is that there are enough adults who like "being out there" that FIRST is ultimately going to lose some engineers if there is to be only one possible position for adults on the playing field. Fortunately, there are a lot of adults who don't want to be coaches, and there are a lot of students who don't want to be drivers. Otherwise we WOULD have a problem.
As far as the NEED for 2 coaches vs 1 , all the teams are in the same boat, so that shouldn't be too much of an issue. The spotting and ball counting won't be as good as it would be with 2 additional people per alliance, if they are well organized, but it will be equal for both alliances.
This will probably be my last post to this thread. It's time to go find out how hard our robot will pull.
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Last edited by Kit Gerhart : 10-01-2002 at 00:03.
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