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re: Will Wade is PISSED, blasts SEC on LSU scheduling: 'This isn't right'
Posted on 2/24/20 at 11:09 pm to dukee7
Posted on 2/24/20 at 11:09 pm to dukee7
So the players have Thursday and Friday to recover and prepare. What exactly is the problem? It's not like they are playing a late Wednesday night game and have to get up the next morning for an 11am game.
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Posted on 2/24/20 at 11:49 pm to 1MileTiger
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So the players have Thursday and Friday to recover and prepare. What exactly is the problem?
The problem is ZERO other SEC teams have been put at the same disadvantage with effects of travel/such a short period of turnaround time between games.
If there were other teams that had to do this, it would be a different story, but that's not the case. It's only LSU. They're basically losing a day of game prep.
I'm not saying these guys can't handle it. But it's unfair when no other teams are having to go through this same type of routine.
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LSU will arrive back in town around 2 a.m. CST on Thursday, won't practice Thursday to rest up and then will prepare Friday before waking up and playing Saturday without a shootaround that morning before facing the Aggies.
"We have to change our whole week, we have to change our whole preparation for A&M"
Posted on 2/25/20 at 7:18 am to 1MileTiger
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So the players have Thursday and Friday to recover and prepare. What exactly is the problem? It's not like they are playing a late Wednesday night game and have to get up the next morning for an 11am game.
It’s not just a question of whether there’s time to recover/game prep. You have to look at it in relative terms.
Texas A&M plays at home vs. Kentucky tonight at 7 PM, then they come to BR to play LSU Saturday morning. Their players get home at 10-11 PM tonight and can go through their normal game prep on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Travel to BR Friday evening, ready to play Saturday morning.
LSU plays at Florida tomorrow night at 8 PM. Our players get home at 2-3 AM Thursday morning. They are then more limited on Thursday due to the late night and shorter recovery time. Normal Friday practice, ready to play Saturday morning.
So A&M has Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to prep while LSU has (limited) Thursday and Friday. You can chalk this up to “that’s how TV scheduling works,” to a point. But Wade’s gripe is that in 9 weeks of SEC basketball (x14 teams), there have only been 3 cases of teams playing a late Wednesday game followed by an early Saturday game (LSU twice, Auburn once) and LSU is the only team that’s had to play a late Wednesday road game followed by an early Saturday game.
Doing the math, the short turnaround makes up 2% of the SEC basketball schedules, but somehow LSU gets 2 out of 3 and both of them start with road games? There’s no reason that should happen.
Posted on 2/25/20 at 7:37 am to 1MileTiger
I don't think some of you have ever been in an airport or traveled for a living.
LSU will not get back to Baton Rouge from the Wednesday night late road game until Thursday morning about 3am-4am. They will be behind on sleep and coming off a road trip. They will have one day to recover and have to get ready to fly again on Friday afternoon, make yourself get some sleep Friday night after being up all night traveling on Wed-Thurs. This does not take into account any early morning classed they may have on Thursday or Friday that may keep them from getting more sleep. Also, practice schedule has to fit in here somewhere. It's a tight schedule and we should not being playing the early game on the road Saturday after playing on the road late Wednesday night. Logistics matter in a fair schedule. Manipulating a schedule to create a logistical disadvantage for one specific team multiple times should get called out. The SEC office is either incompetent or a bunch of brazen cheaters. I tend to think the latter since they never get called out in a way that brings attention to their annual schedule scams.
LSU will not get back to Baton Rouge from the Wednesday night late road game until Thursday morning about 3am-4am. They will be behind on sleep and coming off a road trip. They will have one day to recover and have to get ready to fly again on Friday afternoon, make yourself get some sleep Friday night after being up all night traveling on Wed-Thurs. This does not take into account any early morning classed they may have on Thursday or Friday that may keep them from getting more sleep. Also, practice schedule has to fit in here somewhere. It's a tight schedule and we should not being playing the early game on the road Saturday after playing on the road late Wednesday night. Logistics matter in a fair schedule. Manipulating a schedule to create a logistical disadvantage for one specific team multiple times should get called out. The SEC office is either incompetent or a bunch of brazen cheaters. I tend to think the latter since they never get called out in a way that brings attention to their annual schedule scams.
Posted on 2/25/20 at 11:23 am to 1MileTiger
His problem is only one team has this schedule. If everyone in the sec had this, he wouldn’t complain.
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