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View Poll Results: Is your on field coach
A student 198 44.70%
An adult 190 42.89%
It varies from year to year 55 12.42%
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Re: On field Coach - Student or Adult

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Though I think any team with an adult coach has a couple of advantages, I think it's absolutely the wrong thing to do.

When I see my drive coach go-up against an adult in a disagreement, she always 'loses' even when she's right. Its just not fair. Against the spirit of this organization. My opinion.
I think you've been with bad coaches, and even horrible mentors. An adult coach is a "mentor" and someone who should be advising. The people you are talking about are not mentors either and therefore are not qualified to be in that position.

Once a mentor, always a mentor. It doesn't matter if it's my team, the team a mile away or a team from Israel. It's my obligation and duty to mentor any and all students. Unless, I personally think that our alliance would have NOTHING to gain, I would have never even disagreed. Heck...I've succumbed to some strategies by other teams, that were bogus.


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I just looked up 'mentor'--"an experienced and trusted advisor" An advisor just helps with his advice.
An adult coach is a mentor of the team. I barely strategize with alliance partners, only if a student of mine answers incorrectly (ex (this never happend) says we can shoot with just a kitbot). I am there to observe, guide and advise. It's hard, but I even tried to withhold my comments during matches unless I really needed to step in because our driver and coach were arguing a minute into the match.
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