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Having been a coach in both a student role, and a mentor role, there are advantages and disadvantages to both. It's easy for a mentor coach to walk all over a student on their own team, or a different team. There are a few overbearing mentor coaches here in MAR, and I've had to deal with a few of them as a coach (sorry, don't mean to insult you guys in any way).

One thing I've noticed is that a good mentor coach can also protect his/her drivers against other, possibly overbearing coaches. This is not an idea situation, and really should never happen, but often is the case.

Guys, this is a friendly competition. Not little league. When winning matches trumps everything, we start going away from what FIRST stands for.