With injuries to Mahomes and Sadler, it just brings home again the value of an open date, and Tech once again being the school that really doesn't have one. For a team shy on depth, this is crucial.
Yeah, I'll have a little cheese with my whine, but Tech has to play 11 consecutive weeks before a quasi-open date before the last game of the year, a Thanksgiving Day game with Texas (who will be having its second open date prior to that game as well).
Throw out the bottom feeders of KU and Iowa State, none of the other teams has a stretch like this. OU plays nine weeks in a row, but no other team plays more than seven.
Going through an 11-week grind without a break is brutal and self-defeating. You need a week when it matters to recharge, heal, and get your legs back under you.
Until the administration (I'm not talking athletic,but highest levels of administration and Board of Regents) get off their high horse about no games that can even touch in the slightest finals week, this is what will happen every season.
Yeah, I'll have a little cheese with my whine, but Tech has to play 11 consecutive weeks before a quasi-open date before the last game of the year, a Thanksgiving Day game with Texas (who will be having its second open date prior to that game as well).
Throw out the bottom feeders of KU and Iowa State, none of the other teams has a stretch like this. OU plays nine weeks in a row, but no other team plays more than seven.
Going through an 11-week grind without a break is brutal and self-defeating. You need a week when it matters to recharge, heal, and get your legs back under you.
Until the administration (I'm not talking athletic,but highest levels of administration and Board of Regents) get off their high horse about no games that can even touch in the slightest finals week, this is what will happen every season.
