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Unread 28-04-2014, 15:46
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Re: On field Coach - Student or Adult

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Originally Posted by Thad House View Post
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.
Great job on the field out there, 4488! I'm sorry to hear that you were not respected by certain teams due solely to that first digit, you guys were a pleasure to watch and clearly had built a robot that exceeded the majority of older teams.

Our team uses an adult coach because of our policy of only having seniors participate in robotics. Personally, I think certain students can and do exceed the abilities of adults in coaching as in any regard. However, to be an effective coach I think a student has to spend a lot of time and energy understanding the game and being able to adapt quickly. It is not something that just any student can handle. Similarly, plenty of mentors make bad coaches if they lack those skills.

Heartily agree that the key thing is not to be a massive jerk.

Last edited by Kyle Stewart : 28-04-2014 at 18:04.
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