A Sea Of Red

This season, while we're looking for every possible advantage we can get, our schedule has given us a pretty decent advantage at least once a week for the rest of the season.

Every game that we play on a Saturday, from here until the end of the season, will be against a team that played VMI in the game before us. All of those games except for one will be played two days after the team has played VMI.

With VMI's up tempo pace, it's always interesting to see how teams recover from that in just two days. Hopefully they'll be able to wear some teams down and we'll be the beneficiary of it.

Interesting observation. I'm certainly glad we have a number of days to recover from our running yesterday.

If they hired me as the Conditioning Coach, the guys could play games like that 3 times a week and not have a problem. I'm just saying...

01LUGrad wrote:If they hired me as the Conditioning Coach, the guys could play games like that 3 times a week and not have a problem. I'm just saying...

I think we'd have problems in the post, tho. Antwan would weigh like 145.

Another interesting angle is that it seems like we have been thrown off a bit in the last few years after we play VMI. It's such a different game that it seems like it takes us a few minutes to get back to playing normal basketball the next game. This, in addition to the being worn-done process could do some damage to some of these teams.

With the switch to Thursday/Saturday this year, and with this being on a Saturday, we have two more days of recovery/practice after the VMI game than we have in the past few years. We actually have an entire week between games when we play VMI at home.

ToTheLeft wrote:

01LUGrad wrote:If they hired me as the Conditioning Coach, the guys could play games like that 3 times a week and not have a problem. I'm just saying...

I think we'd have problems in the post, tho. Antwan would weigh like 145.

Yeah, but I bet I could get him down to a 4:30 mile.

This has actually worked against us so far this year. Teams have gotten their confidence up against VMI because they're not good this year and have come in and shot better against us. What we thought would be a positive has turned into a negative.