Practice changes

[Bleed Red]

With morning practices, and the install for an opponent done by Noon on Wednesday, it doesn't give injured players much chance to get out and practice before the next game.

If Frost wants to do AM practices, I'd push everything back a day, and do the typical Friday walk-through on Sat am.

That way, players have an additional day to recover, and they can maybe catch that last install day.

That is a tough task with 11 AM kickoffs. Are you suggesting it be done at 1 or 2 AM?

 

[The_CornTorch]

You've shown nothing to support your contention yet...and no, the guidelines aren't evidence of anything. Much like the 8 glasses of water wives tale, 8 hours of sleep is a myth supported by a lot of folks who've not bother to prove it.

First off: I never said "8 hours." You did. I said that 99.9% of adults need somewhere between 7-9, depending on the individual.

All of the following lead to the same general conclusion. More sleep is better. 7 hours per night is the recommended minimum. Over 9 hours is probably detrimental to your health.

Here's one general study:

Clinical Relevance of Sleep Duration: Results from a Cross-Sectional Analysis Using NHANES | Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

The official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

jcsm.aasm.org

The link between sleep, cognition and aging:

Sleep, cognition, and normal aging: integrating a half century of multidisciplinary research - PubMed

Sleep is implicated in cognitive functioning in young adults. With increasing age, there are substantial changes to sleep quantity and quality, including changes to slow-wave sleep, spindle density, and sleep continuity/fragmentation. A provocative question for the field of cognitive aging is...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Insufficient sleep and the correlation with type 2 diabetes:

Insomnia with objective short sleep duration is associated with type 2 diabetes: A population-based study - PubMed

Insomnia with short sleep duration is associated with increased odds of diabetes. Objective sleep duration may predict cardiometabolic morbidity of chronic insomnia, the medical impact of which has been underestimated.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Insufficient sleep reduces the efficacy of influenza vaccination:

The annual impact of seasonal influenza in the US: measuring disease burden and costs - PubMed

These results highlight the enormous annual burden of influenza in the US. While hospitalization costs are important contributors, lost productivity from missed work days and lost lives comprise the bulk of the economic burden of influenza.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Assocation between insufficient sleep and 1-year weight gain:

Association of short sleep duration with weight gain and obesity at 1-year follow-up: a large-scale prospective study - PubMed

Short sleep duration was associated with weight gain and the development of obesity over 1 year in men, but not in women.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

I've got more if you're interested.

 

[Voice Of Reason]

Schedules are custom-made for these athletes. Many times, their major is determined by the athletics department.

We knew a young lady who went to Texas A&M on a full volleyball scholarship and when she got there, they told her that her major would be poultry science, gave to her her books, and that was the end of that.

Texas A&M sounds like a chicken sh-- school to me.