Coaches/Mentors on the Drive Team

[wevets]

At the Cascade Regional, I was told that at least one drive team, maybe two, had adult coaches/mentors on them in the analyst position. Is this legal?

Legal or not, I think it's bad for a few reasons:

1. It imparts to the students that they don't have the ability to be analysts.
2. It deprives some student of a position on the drive team.
3. If, in fact, coaches/mentors have better judgement than students, it gives an unfair advantage to a team that has an adult on the drive team when other teams don't.
4. It just seems contrary to the FIRST principal that this is a competition of students, by students and for students.

And it begs the question, if an alliance won with a coach/mentor on thier drive team, wouldn't their win have a asterisk in the record books?