[waialua359]

I'm not going to vote, primarily because any one of the choices could work, if the SAME team chooses to do so, year to year, event to event, or even in consecutive matches, make changes.
As far as yelling goes, if you've never coached a match before, you'd be surprised how even after yelling, your drive team still cant here you at point blank range.
Do I love coaching? Yes!
Should I coach? My only criteria is that we put the best, able, and willing person in that role.
In 2003, we were with Paul and Andy as teammates at CMP, and had a female student coach on the field. Why? She understood the game, demonstrated the ability to do it, and was respected/trusted by her drive team. She graduated in 2005.
Since then, I have been the coach again, simply because no one else on our team wants to do it and I love studying the game,strategies, and working with the other teams on game plan.
Our greatest moments this season: Strategizing against team 25 and 968 (2006 CMP finalist team) in beating them in the '08 Hawaii regional semifinals. Strategizing against team 968 and 233 as the defensive 3rd bot at CMP Newton quarterfinals. We lost, but not allowing Pink to hurdle once we got their ball for BOTH matches were an accomplishment in itself, considering in Hawaii, they pretty much scored at will.
Paul, Andy, and others mentioned in this thread are legendary. I'd like to add EJ of 254. Watch him coach as he actually spends more time working with his alliance partners than his own drivers during a match. In addition, I LOVE going against Shaun of team 25. He is another GREAT coach. One of these days, I hope we can be alliance partners (hint hint NJ'09) and stategize together. No offense Dave (team 103), we can be the third bot.