this year is my second year on the team and it is my first year being coach
it has been quite an experience being coach
our driver this year had been the coach since he was a freshmen in our firs year and has done very well in those 3 years, he has also done a great job teaching me what i need to do as coach in my upcoming years
so i guess what i am trying to say is as long as u have someone that knows the game and can take command on the field u can have a good coach no matter if they are a mentor or a student
this year being my first year i was already given the chance to lead an alliance in the tournament at FLR and was able to lead that alliance to a regional championship(which surprised me
so in all this i am trying to say that i think that FIRST should make a rule saying that student coaches should be mandatory or that mentor coaches should be mandatory
this year there was a new rule stating that only drivers, operators, and human players could talk to the refs and judges which disappointed me because of the time i spent studying the rules and preparing for the competitions