Started By
Message
Are off weeks overrated?
Posted on 7/21/13 at 11:03 am
Posted on 7/21/13 at 11:03 am
Common sense tells you that one or two off weeks during the season should be a good thing to get players healthy, add some new plays etc.ut, but it also KILLS momentum.
Last year due to a hurricane A&M ended up with zero off weeks and was the only team to play 12 weeks in a row with no down time. This worried me more than moving to the SEC and once again I was wrong. They got on a roll and I think an off week would have hurt them looking back.
Do teams really do better with two weeks to sit around watching film over and over instead of sticking to their routine?
Last year due to a hurricane A&M ended up with zero off weeks and was the only team to play 12 weeks in a row with no down time. This worried me more than moving to the SEC and once again I was wrong. They got on a roll and I think an off week would have hurt them looking back.
Do teams really do better with two weeks to sit around watching film over and over instead of sticking to their routine?
12
Posted on 7/21/13 at 11:04 am to aggiegreen
Sometimes they're good, sometimes they're not.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 11:04 am to aggiegreen
Having two weeks to prepare does matter. It allows players to get healthy and coaches to gameplan more.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 11:06 am to aggiegreen
They help. A lot 90% of the time in the SEC.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 11:07 am to aggiegreen
It depends on when they occur. UGA and UF fans would tell you that 9 times out of 10, having an off week prior to the Cocktail party has been a big difference maker (the game occurs midway through the season, so the off week helps to regourp and heal up). UGA gets an off week this year after South Carolina and before Florida and I would venture to say that both are going to be needed at their respective points.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 11:08 am to aggiegreen
Off weeks are best for the teams that need more rest after playing HUNH teams.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 11:09 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
It depends on where it falls in the schedule, I'd say most of the time good.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 11:34 am to aggiegreen
If they're well placed in a schedule they can be huge for a team that isn't very deep and is a little beat up late in the schedule.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 11:44 am to aggiegreen
Another Aggie started this exact same thread 3 days ago. Let's not do this again. 
Posted on 7/21/13 at 1:48 pm to aggiegreen
SIAP did not see it and haves meaning to post this question for a while.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 2:33 pm to aggiegreen
Stat hounds may answer one way, but if you are one of the big uglies on the line getting your fingers broken every week, charlie horses up and down your legs, missing a tooth, and unable to take a shite without a laxative because of your rigid S&C routine, you will take a week off whenever you can get it.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 2:35 pm to aggiegreen
Bye weeks are good later in the season but early on its better to have cupcakes like UT-Chattanooga, Western Carolina, Mississippi State, Georgia State, etc.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 3:33 pm to aggiegreen
They can frick a team up if they're on a roll.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 4:00 pm to plazadweller
I think they are a big deal if you are playing a big game after the bye because you can keep your focus, however, if you are playing a trap type game after the bye I think it can work against you.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 6:59 pm to Garfield
Saban, Miles and Sumlin all seem to agree bye-weeks before their biggest divisional games are a good thing. And if you can't get bye-week, scheduling a rent-a-win or two works just as well.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 7:02 pm to aggiegreen
quote:
They got on a roll
They lost to every good team they played except for an exhausted Alabama team that LSU turned to mush.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 7:03 pm to Sheetbend
quote:
Saban, Miles and Sumlin all seem to agree bye-weeks before their biggest divisional games are a good thing.
Saban is terrible coming off of bye weeks.
Page 1 of 1
Popular
Back to top
Follow SECRant for SEC Football News