6:30 am Practices?

What do you guys think of this idea?



Personally, with our heavy schedule of night games, I'd rather see practices at 6:30 pm than 6:30 am, but maybe it doesn't really matter.

stuckinbig10country wrote:
What do you guys think of this idea?



Personally, with our heavy schedule of night games, I'd rather see practices at 6:30 pm than 6:30 am, but maybe it doesn't really matter.

Does this mean Bronco is practicing more than in previous seasons? If it's more practicing, I'm all for it.

The reason given was that players often needed classes that conflicted with practice time.



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Gunk wrote:

What do you guys think of this idea?



Personally, with our heavy schedule of night games, I'd rather see practices at 6:30 pm than 6:30 am, but maybe it doesn't really matter.

Does this mean Bronco is practicing more than in previous seasons? If it's more practicing, I'm all for it.

Personally, I think the "practice more" crowd doesn't really understand the limitations placed on football coaches. The only time it can become relevant is during bowl prep. Utilizing less practices seems to have more to do with the fact our bowl game is usually one of the first games of bowl season and practice time is going on at the same time as finals.

That simply is not true. Bronco reduces practices to reduce injury risk given depth issues. He does it in Spring, Fall, and Bowl season. Then someone gets injured at a water park at a team activity. Coaches also enjoy the most family friendly schedule in the country.



They do make very efficient use of time at practice and push conditioning very hard.







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I'm skeptical. I'm not opposed to trying new things, but my prediction is that this will be one year and done. It means players have to show up at 530 to prep, tape-up, and warm up. Players brains are foggy, etc, etc.

But maybe Bronco knows something we don't. If he's doing this for coaches time w family as a primary motivation, I don't like it. Isn't BYU already a sufficiently "peculiar generation" ?

Sometimes running into the wind for the sake of Running into the wind is just spinning wheels.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

BYULV wrote:
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.

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.

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

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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