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Change our bye date?

Posted on 11/8/15 at 3:49 pm
Posted by DontCare
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2012
2516 posts
Posted on 11/8/15 at 3:49 pm
Note: this is not a rationalization about why we lost. Rather, I'm wondering if we should change our scheduling strategy.

The past few years, the team hasn't played well in games following a bye or the off weeks leading up to the bowl game. Do you think LSU should re-evaluate taking our bye before the Bama game? It just seems that the team is flat when we haven't played the week prior.
Posted by Voorhies7
Rounding 3rd
Member since Oct 2012
5591 posts
Posted on 11/8/15 at 3:51 pm to
I thought the same thing. Make it business as usual.
Posted by Topwater Trout
Red Stick
Member since Oct 2010
67589 posts
Posted on 11/8/15 at 3:53 pm to
Save it for ole miss or arky...at least we can beat them sometimes
Posted by colors_of_kings
Tiger Country
Member since Aug 2014
1506 posts
Posted on 11/8/15 at 3:54 pm to
No, fact is we've taken our bye before bama game for years and used to beat them, until bama started taking their bye on the same week
Posted by dandan
Member since Nov 2007
4340 posts
Posted on 11/8/15 at 3:56 pm to
Miles doesn't do anything with the extra week but at least he players can rest up. It's clear the players will have to simply outlay Bama because the coaches won't put them in position to win.
This post was edited on 11/8/15 at 3:57 pm
Posted by PortCityTiger82
Shreveport, LA
Member since Nov 2010
6564 posts
Posted on 11/8/15 at 3:58 pm to
Would've been nice to take it before Western Kentucky this year IMO. Take a break then have a warmup game before Bama. Oh well, that's not the major problem anyways. It's the lack of a competent gameplan that dooms us and that'll never change regardless of when we take our break.
Posted by JawjaTigah
Bizarro World
Member since Sep 2003
22493 posts
Posted on 11/8/15 at 4:03 pm to
I'd like to move the Bama game to an earlier slot one year, before they get their kinks ironed out. By the time we play they are a machine and we are sometimes dazzled by our own rankings and press clippings (and theirs). They need some heavyweight competition earlier. We need an earlier shot at them. If they are really that great, they won't miss a beat. But I bet they would never agree to a change.
Posted by TNTiger1984
Cuba
Member since Jan 2015
157 posts
Posted on 11/8/15 at 4:08 pm to
I think the way Bama plays all those teams coming off there bye week has made them much stronger mentally and physically. When there team finally gets a rest during there bye week they are ready (unlike LSU).

Our bye week scheduling sucks!!!
Posted by LSUJuicer
Member since Jan 2013
3347 posts
Posted on 11/8/15 at 4:11 pm to
Keep the bye but change up November. Bama, Arkansas, Ole Miss and A&M is a one loss month most years. Keep Mississippi in sept. Ole miss, Alabama and Texas A&M is tough in one month. Move Ole Miss if you can. Bama not only takes a bye before us they schedule a small school before Auburn.
Posted by FightinTigersDammit
Louisiana North
Member since Mar 2006
34540 posts
Posted on 11/8/15 at 4:16 pm to
Since they aren't using the bye week to fine-tune the offense, does it really matter?
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