On field Coach - Student or Adult

[aldaeron]

After watching a lot more matches this year than usual I noticed that a lot of teams have an adult coach. I am curious if your team has an adult or student coach and why?

Our team has done it both ways. Typically we have a student coach, but last year the students were having so many "issues" that I was asked to step in and coach. I will note that it is a ton of fun to coach - you get to meet all the drive teams, see all the robots up close and get one of the best seats in the house. With a lot of hard work, the students were much more organized this year and there was no need for me to step in. I was bummed but got over it quickly because I always thought of coaching as a "student job". After seeing so many adult coaches at all the events I thought that maybe I was wrong and we had put our kids at a disadvantage without an adult on the field. I have heard from various students that it is tougher to be a student coach when one of your alliance partners has an adult coach who disagrees with you (particularly when you are telling them not to take an auto ball because the scouting data says they are 0 for 8)

Yes, I realize every team does things differently and there is no "right" answer. I am most interested in why your team does it one way or another.

-matto-