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Re: 6:30 am Practices?

2014-08-24T23:30:51-06:00

John Chaney made it to the HOF having practice start at 6am.

Granted, he was a basketball coach and never made it to a Final Four.

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Statistics: Posted by mormonrasta — Sun Aug 24, 2014 11:30 pm

Re: 6:30 am Practices?

2014-08-24T22:26:38-06:00

idk about the early morning stuff, but traveling one day earlier should help out.

Statistics: Posted by mizzoucoug — Sun Aug 24, 2014 10:26 pm

Re: 6:30 am Practices?

2014-08-24T20:58:55-06:00

They are also leaving a day early for the east coast road trip this time. It takes me longer than that to get over jet lag. They indicated that getting used to heat, humidity, jet lag, and rushed travel affected them in the opener last year.

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Statistics: Posted by Cougarbib — Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:58 pm

Re: 6:30 am Practices?

2014-08-24T20:57:07-06:00

When I was a student I worked as a morning custodian at 4am-8am. I then went to class and fell asleep most of the time. My wife skipped her class because she went back home to sleep. Getting up that early is rough.

I hope the team does well but this could be a problem.

Statistics: Posted by scott715 — Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:57 pm

Re: 6:30 am Practices?

2014-08-24T20:36:49-06:00

Elite athletes make a lot of sacrifices of time. College sports takes a lot of extra time. The players will have to decide what is really important to them during the season and if they really want to make the sacrifices to be better. There are lots of elite athletes that workout at 6am, even earlier (ie swimmers, runners, cyclers, triathletes). This only becomes an issue if the players decide it's not important enough to get to bed early 5 nights a week - they can still stay up late two nights a week (maybe one). Most of these guys got up early for years attending early morning seminary and/or missions.

They've been working out early in the military for...decades. Count me in as one who withholds judgment on it. Frankly, I considered this a reaction to the Northwestern union vote--wasn't the QB complaining about not being able to take the classes he wanted to take because of football practice? I think this is Bronco's way of putting his money where his mouth is and demonstrating that education is more of a priority by allowing the team more opportunity to get the classes they need. It should also help academically--at least I did better when I didn't have early morning classes. Hopefully the early practice does not adversely affect the team's execution.

Statistics: Posted by Cougarfan87 — Sun Aug 24, 2014 8:36 pm

Re: 6:30 am Practices?

2014-08-23T11:43:32-06:00

Elite athletes make a lot of sacrifices of time. College sports takes a lot of extra time. The players will have to decide what is really important to them during the season and if they really want to make the sacrifices to be better. There are lots of elite athletes that workout at 6am, even earlier (ie swimmers, runners, cyclers, triathletes). This only becomes an issue if the players decide it's not important enough to get to bed early 5 nights a week - they can still stay up late two nights a week (maybe one). Most of these guys got up early for years attending early morning seminary and/or missions.

Statistics: Posted by BYULV — Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:43 am

Re: 6:30 am Practices?

2014-08-22T20:58:47-06:00

I've heard three reasons for the change--

1) to allow upperclassmen better opportunities to schedule classes in their majors.
2) to reduce jet lag for the players when they get an 8am or earlier wake-up call for our three Eastern Time Zone games (meaning 6am Mountain time) where BYU has admitted jet lag has been a factor in the past.
3) to deter late night parties, hanging-out, and other extracurricular activities which the coaching staff has found to be a hot-bed of HC violations.

I haven't seen any good argument for keeping things the way they were in the past other than "That's how we've always done it!" Until I see more convincing arguments, I'm not about to call this a bad idea. Not saying it's a good idea, just saying it's WAAAY premature to be condemning the practice.

Statistics: Posted by snoscythe — Fri Aug 22, 2014 8:58 pm

Re: 6:30 am Practices?

2014-08-22T18:50:56-06:00

Bronco prides himself on doing research and applying it to his team. Plenty of research out there about the afternoon being the best time to excercise.

If he is expecting a bunch if college kids to go to bed at 9:30 so they can get 8 hours of sleep (see physiological benefits of sleep) he's really out of touch.

Classes is an excuse. If coaches want the evenings to be with family, they shouldn't coach or hold any high-level church callings. That said. Things are pretty flexible for them in the off season and while I have to get up to get into the office they've got some extra hours in the morning.

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Statistics: Posted by Gunk — Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:50 pm

Re: 6:30 am Practices?

2014-08-22T18:19:33-06:00

Ever since the beginning of time college coaches have don't it the old way. Every time I hear the class availability thing I want to call some serious BS on somebody.
Go Fast, Go hard, go early? What did I leave out? Go Long? Or was it Go deep? Don't Go there you sickos.

Statistics: Posted by Cougs_Rule — Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:19 pm

Re: 6:30 am Practices?

2014-08-22T17:23:40-06:00

As a former BYU athlete, count me as one who thinks this will be a problem. College kids don't get enough sleep as it is. I'm afraid as the season wears on, the kids will be more and more sleep deprived and mental errors will accumulate along with fatigue injuries, etc.

Statistics: Posted by runbyu1 — Fri Aug 22, 2014 5:23 pm