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Football jet lag - Papa John - 09-17-2021

Two weeks ago the team traveled to Dallas--central time zone--on Friday for a Noon central/9 am Pacific kickoff.

This week the team traveled to Nashville--also central time zone--on Thursday for a 7 pm central/5 pm Pacific kickoff.

So was the extra day at the game site a lesson learned from the Dallas debacle? Some other reason?

RE: Football jet lag - 82lsju - 09-17-2021

(09-17-2021, 11:09 AM)Papa John Wrote:  Two weeks ago the team traveled to Dallas--central time zone--on Friday for a Noon central/9 am Pacific kickoff.

This week the team traveled to Nashville--also central time zone--on Thursday for a 7 pm central/5 pm Pacific kickoff.

So was the extra day at the game site a lesson learned from the Dallas debacle? Some other reason?

well the flight time from San Jose to Nashville is 4 hours and 23 min, to Dallas 3 hours and 4 min, which I'm sure must somehow be the driving factor to move up a day...   
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RE: Football jet lag - winflop - 09-17-2021

The Friday trip was a change from past trips to Central or Eastern TZs as far back as I can remember. So it looks like their going back to the old plan, which I think is smarter.

RE: Football jet lag - 76lsjumb - 09-17-2021

I'm kind of surprised that no one has already mentioned [ or, at least, I haven't seen it mentioned] that Shaw actually addressed this question at some length at the Season Ticket Members pre-season dinner a few weeks ago.  In short, as I recall, he basically said that they had tried a few different approaches in the past -- including flying back East earlier to become "acclimated" -- and they all proved to be problematic in some way or another for early games.  One thing he mentioned is that the players tend to sleep on the plane.  Also, I think he said that their experience had been that players actually seemed ore tired the second morning at the game location than the first. As a result, he said this time [for the KSU game] they were going to try to "acclimate" to a certain extent at home by shifting schedules some at Stanford, but not worry about playing the next day after arrival.  

As or an afternoon/evening game back East [or central], time zone difference really shouldn't be an issue.

RE: Football jet lag - CardinalSagehen - 09-17-2021

If I'm not mistaken, it was also mentioned this week that the coaches are going to do some recruiting out of TN.  Shaw is watching a game on Friday night in TN and others heading to nearby states like GA and returning early on Saturday.