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Unread 28-04-2014, 03:40
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Re: On field Coach - Student or Adult

We use a student drive coach, because we like the experience it gives to the students.

Most mentor drive coaches are great. They have the experience to know how to win, and most of the time I have no problems with mentor drive coaches. However, there are the few that can be very stubborn. The coaches on those teams look at our high number, and start treating us like we are a lesser team.

At worlds both this year and last year, we had robots that could perform and score, but there were teams that would look at our number and tell us because of that we were going to be relegated to doing defense or inbound because they do not believe we can do much, and telling us things like "If we lose, we are going to blame it on you." And that just is not how a team should act, and when they start, we usually have to send a mentor in to help calm the situation.

If a team wants to use a mentor or a student drive coach, its up to the team, but to all the mentor drive coaches, please be nice to the students ones, because they are trying as hard as they can, and putting them down just makes it worse.
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