What if FIRST changed back to 2 coaches?

[DanDon]

Originally Posted by Rohan_DHS

I don't know if this has been said yet, but, *what if* there was 1 coach from each team, and one nominated coach from those 3 teams who overlooks those 3 coaches?
Sort of like a president of a company, who looks over his/her vice presidents, who look over their employees. A sort of hiearchy...so that there could be more interaction between the 3 bots, and still, one person could have the final say. "There can only be one Captain to a ship"

While a novel idea, due to the time constraints in making decisions during an FRC match, I'm not sure how well this would work when implemented.

[Rohan_DHS]

That's true, but it would help to have one person in case one of the team's robots breaks down, or something.

Instead of the two other teams having to think about what they do next, this person has already developed a plan, while the other 2 coaches are still executing the previous plan while the head coach comes up with a new plan for a few seconds (as someone previously mentioned, the coach just keeps the pressure off the driver; all the driver does is drive).

It'd be more of a passive role, I guess, until it's really needed.

But, I see your point in the idea too, and completely agree with you. However, depending on how good of a strategist (is that a word??) the head coach is, this plan could work really well

[Scion13]

I think that teams would never be able to agree on one team captain. Also communication between the allied teams is notoriously hard. Besides all you would really be doing is adding another layer of communication, thus slowing the process down.
What do you guys think about making a student coach(s) mandatory?