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Re: mic on coaches?

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Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak View Post
i've heard mentors say, "go ram that robot as hard as you can". i'm pretty sure thats disrespecting another teams robot, by telling your driver to drive into that opposing machine as hard as you can for the sole purpose to stop it from functioning. (NOTE: i chose my words very carefully there, im pretty sure a few coaches have something more severe planned for that opposing robot.). and i don't think the FIRST community is ready to see the true nature of what happens on the field.

as i said before, "what happens on the field, should STAY on the field"
If I was ever told that by a coach, I would SERIOUSLY think twice before doing so. One of the things I love most about being a driver is the massive amount of respect that is shown on the field between drive teams (99% of the time). For those of you who were at GLR and saw our match against 201, their defense played on us was unbelievably well thought-out and impossible to play through. It was clean, penalty-free defense, and I talked to their driver afterward to congratulate him on it (and pray that we weren't against them in elims). Something that is very commonplace when teams cross each other to get their robots off the field is a quick "hey man, awesome match" "yeah you did great" and etc. Of the friends I've made driving, probably just as many of them were made driving against somebody as there were driving with them.

That being said, last year we were subject to a team that was explicitly told by their coach to ram us as hard as they could and push us over the side wall. It happens. Even though their drivers came up and apologized after the fact, it was still a rough move. Things will happen in the heat of the match. I've heard drivers yelling at their coaches (when it's supposed to be the other way around), coaches from other teams yelling degradingly at their partners, you name it. While I think it would be interesting for more people to be exposed to the high-stress environment behind the glass, I don't think the majority of FIRSTers (think of the parents and such) would benefit from it.
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