FAHA: Adult Coach on Drive Team

[ShaunT]

Originally Posted by dlavery

To put it simply: An adult coach impacts a team for two minutes. An adult mentor impacts a team for a lifetime.

-dave

But that's not true. There are really 2 situations from here: teams that practice for events and teams that do not. As I was on a team that swore by practice, I can only relate to that situation.

I am not literally talking about how, during practice, you spend more time with a drive coach. There are skills that you learn out on the field that are extraordinarily useful, and some of them can't be gotten any other way out of this organization. The most prominant is definately communication-in 2 minutes, you have to convey a lot of information between the coach and drive team. As a driver, you generally have about 5 seconds before whatever you were going to tell your coach no longer matters. You also have to be able to answer questions nearly instantly, and with a definate answer, not something that could be open to interpretation (no maybes, no probablys, and definately no "I think"s!)

While teams that do not practice will have a lessened effect, there will likely still be some of the lasting lessons learned, just through the course of matches.

Please realize that it should be up to the teams to choose what is best, and not up to FIRST.