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Bye Week

I don't think it has had a negative impact at all. The Griz are about to get a bye week over Thanksgiving week. They have adjusted practices all year knowing that there was not a bye in the regular season.

Injuries occur whether there is a bye week or not.
 
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We are about the most beat up at this time of year in memory--down 3-4 DB's such as Loud and Gentry--and others right now like Micah Harper are among the walking wounded, and a lot that of that is due to no bye week. While I agree that Bobby and his staff have rested our starters and played a lot of our 2 and 3's, our opponents also get a vote in the games we play them. Going into last Saturday, I foolishly thought we would beat Eastern by 30-40 points, totally forgetting that since Eastern has no in-state rival in FCS and while the University of Idaho is indeed closer to Cheney than Missoula, Idaho also has been back in The Big Sky less than 10 years and we recruit the Spokane and Eastern Washington area heavily not only in football but in our other team sports as well, often going head-to-head with Eastern for these students athletes.

We are Eastern's MSU, we are their rival, and since their program has fallen on hard times under Coach Best and the Eagles are not in the playoff picture, we are their Super Bowl, and as we all saw, Saturday was no day off and neither was our trip to Pocatello--we are going to continue to get Big Sky team's best shot. So while Bobby and staff have done an admirable job trying to mitigate this brutal 12 consecutive game regular-season schedule by playing a lot of our kids, there is no substitute for a bye. While a first-round bye over Thanksgiving weekend will be great in the playoffs and badly, badly needed, it will only come after playing a brutal 12 consecutive regular-season games with no bye !!!
 
If we had played Sacred Heart on week 1, or maybe we worked out to play Villanova that date, do you not think there would have been injuries? How bad the injuries would have been is a question no one can answer. It is football, so there are going to be pains and bumps to overcome. I don't believe the timing of the open week is that big of a thing. You can't say the team is any better or worse off physically by playing 10 straight games. It would not bring Loud, Johnson or anyone else who is hurt back any sooner.

I am more bothered by the term 'bye week,' during the regular season. That's what we are trying to earn, so we don't have to play in round one of the playoffs. Teams that lose in round two that had a bye week will blame defeat on the week they didn't play and the opponent did. Hopefully, we don't see that thread on here down the road, but if it happens, some genius no doubt will place blame as such.
 
billingsgriz said:
We are about the most beat up at this time of year in memory--down 3-4 DB's such as Loud and Gentry--and others right now like Micah Harper are among the walking wounded, and a lot that of that is due to no bye week. While I agree that Bobby and his staff have rested our starters and played a lot of our 2 and 3's, our opponents also get a vote in the games we play them. Going into last Saturday, I foolishly thought we would beat Eastern by 30-40 points, totally forgetting that since Eastern has no in-state rival in FCS and while the University of Idaho is indeed closer to Cheney than Missoula, Idaho also has been back in The Big Sky less than 10 years and we recruit the Spokane and Eastern Washington area heavily not only in football but in our other team sports as well, often going head-to-head with Eastern for these students athletes.

We are Eastern's MSU, we are their rival, and since their program has fallen on hard times under Coach Best and the Eagles are not in the playoff picture, we are their Super Bowl, and as we all saw, Saturday was no day off and neither was our trip to Pocatello--we are going to continue to get Big Sky team's best shot. So while Bobby and staff have done an admirable job trying to mitigate this brutal 12 consecutive game regular-season schedule by playing a lot of our kids, there is no substitute for a bye. While a first-round bye over Thanksgiving weekend will be great in the playoffs and badly, badly needed, it will only come after playing a brutal 12 consecutive regular-season games with no bye !!!
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No, injuries happen every year. With the exception of the DBs I feel like the team is pretty healthy for November. And if I recall, wasn’t Gentry hurt during practice?
 
Didn’t Kent and Bobby have a chance to address this? I remember there being some reporting that Bobby said he didn’t care about when the bye was.
 
brewskis said:
Didn’t Kent and Bobby have a chance to address this? I remember there being some reporting that Bobby said he didn’t care about when the bye was.
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Yes. Haslem phrased it (I think on the GFP) as a choice between a bye week or another home game. I took that to imply we would have had to travel in week 0 if we wanted a bye, and he said that he put the question to Hauck and Hauck chose an extra home game.
 
We will be really beat up--we already are-- having to wait until Thanksgiving for a bye after the regular season is already over. Our kids are not machines--their bodies do break down from the pounding they take. Even if one of our student athletes does not suffer a season-ending injury, a bye week will allow our kids to heal up and rest up so they are more effective both on the field and in the classroom. Now in addition to Gentry and Loud, I think Brady Beaner went out of Saturday's game and didn't return, and Micah Harper stayed in the game but didn't look close to 100 %. I think we also had at least 2 more DB's out because Riley and Greg said on the radio they were not suited up for Saturday's game because they were hurt.

I hope going forward that we will always have a bye just like the NFL--the NFL players while being mainly older, bigger, faster and stronger than our kids still have a regular-season bye week--they need to rest and recover as well because football is a brutal game !!! ( I will always remember as an 11-12 year old kid in the last century playing DT in Little Guy football because I was a fat little turd when I tackled this RB from the other team, and I accidentally broke his leg. His dad carried him off the field with his right leg dangling oddly as it was snowing, and when I returned to the sidelines, my bloodthirsty coach was patting me on the back, congratulating me because not only did I break this kid's leg, I had his blood on the front of my old-school cage face mask, and my coach walked me up and down the sidelines to show my fellow players and their parents this poor kid's blood on my helmet.)

While injuries are going to happen with or without a bye, I think fewer will occur with a bye because our kids will have a chance to rest and recover after playing roughly half the season--5 to 7 games-- as opposed to playing 12 straight like us. . If byes didn't help a team and its players, the NFL wouldn't have them. !!!
 
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