What is so sacred about an open week before Bama

if anything, it helps kids rest...mentally and physically...

I don't think stats support that a team does any better after a bye week. Certainly not in recent history with LSU and Bama. Real possibility you lose as much in consistency and momentum as you gain with rest.

I'd like to see our bye pushed to after the Bama game. That's when our players need the most rest mentally and physically. Schedule a powder puff the week before Bama.

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if anything, it helps kids rest...mentally and physically...

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Maybe they actually will do that this year since Miles won't be pounding them with ridiculously long practices.

I'd like to see what a competent coaching staff can do with a bye week before Bama. Miles used to run 80 play scrimmages during bye week and rarely took advantage of scheming.

"Here's the plan guys...we are gonna run all this stuff during the week and then do none of it. We are gonna run headlong into a pile of humanity for 60 minutes."

"Take the field!"

I concur

Miles ran 80+ play scrimmages on this "bye week" in years past.........Things have changed

Scheduling an open date (or a cream-puff) before an outstanding opponent is the optimal approach for all of the major SEC schools.

You probably recall Saban getting the SEC to intervene and prevent too many SEC opponents from having open dates the week before they played Bama? He did that because he thinks it affects the outcome.