[FRC Blog] - Rookie Registration and On-Field Coaches

[EricH]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

They don't give a response count for the number of responses in each age group. I'm wondering if the 16+ group is just sampling error. There aren't that many teams that have been doing this for 16 years.

The 10-15 group was trending towards supporting adult coaches, and has an awful lot of teams (I want to say 1200s somewhere would be the highest number included, though.)


16 years... that would be back in 1997 or so. Back in the days of 2 coaches on the field!

Now, I don't know much of anything about that timeframe in terms of coaches, but it seems to my hazy recall of descriptions that if a team used 2 coaches, one had to be a student. This would have given teams around at that time a really good chance to figure out whether a mentor or a student was better, and go with that when the number of coaches was cut to 1.