[wesbass23]

While there is nothing wrong with having a student as coach, I personally feel that an adult/mentor coach is better. This of course is completely biased as I am the drive coach for my team.

I think it is good to have a little consistency year to year instead of changing drive coaches every year or so. It helps you form positive relationships with other teams that also have adult coaches. I love going into prematch strategy meetings knowing that I can trust the coaches I will be working with. Plus having an adult on the drive team makes it much easier to vouch for your team's robot and driver capabilities.

Some of the most consistently good teams have adult drive coaches, a number of which I have yet to have the pleasure of working with.
Just of few of the best that I have gotten to work with personally are Glenn from 359, Dan from 469, Scott from 1625, and Kevin from 1675. I am quite positive that teams like 71, 111, 254, 1114, 1718 and more have adult coaches as well with numerous years of experience between them.

Again, nothing wrong with a student coach. I would just rather have a veteran adult one.