[SSMike]

Speaking as someone who got their first taste of coaching this year, I believe that the coach needs to do many more things than simply coach the rest of the drive team. The coach (as should the entire drive team) needs to the manual inside and out, because let's face it, if you don't pay attention to the rules, you're not going to have a good chance of winning.

Also, the coach needs to be instrumental in creating/modifying a strategy for their team, but also incorporate this strategy with their alliance members' strategies. Sometimes this includes making a split-second decision in the middle of a match, to account for an unforseen problem Personally, I liked to get together with our alliance partners before a match to strategize on how we could best use each of the 3 teams' abilities to win the match. IMHO, a team with a good strategy and a poor robot will beat a team with a good robot but poor strategy almost every time.