There have been many examples of great Student Coaches and great Mentor Coaches. There have also been many examples of terrible Student Coaches and terrible Mentor Coaches. It seems that the only reasonable thing to do is to choose "the best person on the team for the job, regardless of whether it's a student or adult mentor".
It is interesting that fairly large numbers of people responded to the current and past polls (362 and 423) and the results are very close to 50%-50%. Assuming that they all based their choices on their experiences, the individual stories of particularly great or terrible Student or Mentor Coaches can not be the basis for compelling arguments for one or the other. For each story supporting one choice, one can find another story that supports the opposite choice.
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Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird
I mean if this boils down to what is best for the students then just ask them what they want.
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Sometimes, what they WANT is not what the NEED.