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Re: A Coach for the Alliance - The Supercoach

As long as our drive team was not having issues last year, I would hover behind the other driver stations to make sure our entire alliance was working together well. If someone suddenly deviated from a strategy that we had discussed, I would "encourage" them to get back to the zone they were defending or back away from the pyramid as our opponents started climbing.

The coach of our alliance captain at Champs, Mr. T, was really good at this, watching what was happening on the field and letting the other two teams know what needed to get done. It was a great experience working with our alliance partners this way.

I agree with the earlier post that this is what many top teams already do. I have learned so much from other drive coaches during these times when we have been lucky enough to be partnered with a team like the Killer Bees and Jim Zondag.

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