How do you coach your Drive Team/How to be an Effective Drive Team Coach?

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Originally Posted by dash121

I have an off question for this main topic. Our student field coach was put in a very hard situation during one of our competitions. What would have been the correct and best way to respond and react? It was a 3 robot full allience, all three teams had a driver, a shooter, and a field coach. Our field coach was a student while the other two field coaches were adults. Our field coach reached out to the other two (adult) coaches before the match and made a strategy. But, once the match started the (adult) coaches saw ways to make their own team look better (by ball hogging ect.) and took those ways instead of following to the plan. As the student field coach how would you react to an adult field coach not listening to you during a match. Obviously yelling at him wouldn't be a correct response but to sit there and let your alliance loose because of another adult intervening too much? Most of the topics that have surfaced have been about students doing this but to talk to person similar to your age versus someone alot older to you is different am I right? What would you do?

A good coach will be adaptable to the game. It's always good to have a strategy going into a match but things change: robots break, opponents defense changes, partner's change tactics. A coach must take that into account and direct his or her team the best they can to make their alliance as effective as possible. That may mean playing defense the whole time (a good defensive robot with good position could stall an alliance fairly well with one game piece this year), inbounding, or setting screens to open lanes for your partners.

A strategy is only as good as the scenario it's designed for, when that scenario changes, so must the strategy.