[PayneTrain]

As a coach, I felt like we went to certain events that gave us mediocre match schedules and supplemented it with a mediocre experience because that is how the chronological and geographical cookie crumbled. This year, we went to events because we knew we had these options to find out what we liked, and we enjoyed most all of them very much regardless of our final performance. We got to watch our team develop into a machine as they played 70 regulation matches.

I will admit that despite us working with a stingy resource pool, we have tried to develop processes and a work ethic that propels our team forward and upward while holding ourselves to very high standards in the growth and development we want to chart. Sometimes the perception I have is that some people focus too much on the wrong things when faced with certain challenges and in doing so, almost willingly set themselves up to fail. This is an experience a team can have within a season and it is an experience I believe is applicable to larger scenarios in FRC.