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Originally Posted by Molten
From my experience:
If you give a mentor a job, you are taking it from a student. If we have a teacher weld, it is taking it from a student who can weld. The only time we have a mentor working, is if there are safety reasons(the school complains) or if the only student that can do that job is busy with a different job. I agree with some of you when you say that the Adult Coach is working 'with' the drive team. However he is only working with the 3 kids left on the field. What about the kid that could be the Coach? He got replaced. He is working with three of the kids, but he is working for one of the kids.
A little story:
Have any of you played sports when you were little? I did, I used to play soccer. There was always the parent on the sidelines yelling at the kids and telling them what to do. We didn't enjoy this guy yelling at us. In fact, I don't care if he was right. Maybe I did miss something that would have helped my team to win. The only thing is, that my team was not there just to win. We was there to have fun. Any time you put an adult on the field, you are just taking a chance of taking the fun away. I have seen many adult coaches yelling on the field, I have yet to see a student coach yelling on the field. I am not asking you to have a student on the field necesarily, just try to make sure that whoever you choose to put out there is not taking away from the fun.
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I have seen many students and adults yelling on the field. If you do not agree with "angry adult" coaches, I think everyone here would agree with your point, but I don't see how a student yelling is more beneficial.
But, I think these types of coaches are few and far between. Most of the mentor coaches I have come in contact with have been very respectable people, offering insight and inspiration not only to their kids, but the kids on all of the teams they work with as well.
If you don't believe me, just ask my drivers what they think of guys like Tim Baird. I have heard nothing but good things from them all year about working with him in Hartford.
I've seen them [drivers] adapt their play style based on what some of the mentor coaches have told them, and seem them 'keep it cool' when mentors were involved in the competition.