Your internal body clock is all out of whack. We visited family in Oregon over the holidays and I was ready for bed at 8 pm local time because my body thought it was 11 pm. Think how it feels when you stay up hours past your regular bedtime or get up hours later. Getting up later can make you quite groggy
Occasionally they travel charter, but not regularly. And that OJ thing was the Men when they were in NYC.
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth..."
There may be a slight delay!As long as it's a round trip.
Without sounding harsh, my opinion of people who say you get used to traveling typically have not traveled frequently or if they traveled, it was short distances. I have worked in jobs where I typically spent an average of 100-150 nights a year in a hotel and cant say I ever got used to it. When I got home, I was able to relax, not go to class, study for tests, etc. Just one person's opinion.
You get boxed in. If they wanted the Baylor game they were probably stuck. I see what my high school AD goes through and my sister is a college AD. Scheduling is a bitch.
I don't think Geno has as much control over it as we'd like to think. They only get 7 games in Gampel per season, so there is bound to be a gap between games every year.
1. First two games in Connecticut
Nope, spoken by somebody who traveled for a living. Much of it done when I was in my 50's/60's and some of it done in less comfortable circumstances (try 20 hours in a John Wayne seat in the back of a C-130Spoken from someone who did a lot of traveling during the college athletic career I suppose? NOT! That's what I like about this board, so many well informed because they lived views and have lots of compassion.
Familiar surroundings, normal routines, friends and ability to be by yourself are what makes people successful, athletes included. I have done both college athletic trips and business trips (both when I was young and now that I am older) and YES, they are taxing on the mind more so than the body but taxing on both.
These are not normal routines by any stretch and add in the time zone changes, eegads...
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True. About 1/2 of the games are gonna be Home games. Half of them are going to be at XL. Add in Bridgewater "Home" game. Not that many left for Gampel.
Jet lag is always a factor. May not be as big a factor depending on direction, but it's still a factor. I'm sure they do things to minimize it though.
Well as has been explained in this thread, it's not "a couple days". It's been a lot of travel over a couple of months. You don't have to believe they are kind of worn out if you don't want to. Your choice. However, last night's performance would tend to confirm that.
Must be an individual thing. I traveled quite a bit for a long time - not 150 nights per year, but China 10X in one year while working around projects in Brazil, Europe, Australia, etc. Most years not that extreme, but I traveled a lot to drastically different time zones.
Nan, the Cal game was the second half of a home and home series. Lou injured her ankle in the first half of last year's Cal game, I believe it was in Gampel, and had to sit out for the home game against Maryland and the road games against UCLA, Michigan State, and Nevada.