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Originally Posted by safiq10
Now if for say we had a adult coach on our alliance or perhaps on our team who really knew what he was doing and knew our competition very well ( Like ohh I don't know Allen Gregory [Thanks for the awesome elim matches in Dallas!]) we wouldn't have a problem with them being our coach.
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Thanks Safiq, this is actually the first year I have ever been an adult drive coach. I was coach or human player a lot in high school and for a long time thought that was the best system.
After looking at our team's development on the field and other very successful teams I started coming around to the idea of getting back on the field. Like other people in this thread have mentioned it's impossible for a student to have as much experience as a mentor who has been doing this for a long time. It also helps a lot when speaking with other teams and students. That time in queue is spent talking with other teams and helping them with their robot, students can do this as well but sometimes it's better received from an adult. Having an adult is also useful since if you play in the same region for a while you get to have relationships with the volunteers on the field and it's much harder to do that in just 4 years as a student. It also helps when things go a little wrong, I think I fixed a field gate at every regional I attended this year. It's not something a student couldn't do but I've been around long enough to know when it's time to run to get the vice grips off the cart.