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Re: Coaching or Scouting
Posted by Lora Knepper.

Student on team #69, HYPER (Helping Youth Pursue Engineering & Robotics), from Quincy Public Schools and The Gillette Company.

Posted on 7/10/2000 5:48 AM MST


In Reply to: Coaching or Scouting posted by Joshua Berthiaume on 7/9/2000 9:52 PM MST:



If you have some good scouts out there gathering information, you can still coach and not scout. Going out there without info of some kind is not advisable. I drive, and I always feel more comfortable when I have personally looked at the machines I'm competiting against and talked to the teams.

If you are a bad scout, there's nothing that stops you from coaching. To be a coach requires someone who can keep track of the field situation and make decisions on the fly, for even the best strategy goes awry. As long as someone who is a good scout is feeding data to the coaches and drivers, and the coach (and drivers) have the mindset to be able to function well on the field, scouting is not neccesarily a requirement of the job.
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