It gives the coaching staff and the players a little bit of a breather from the rough and rigid season that goes on. Also gives the players the ability who are banged up from injuries an opportunity to get extra treatments and also most importantly catch up on their studies and go to class. We all know that the coaching staff take massive amounts of time away from their families during the season. This way the coaching staff can see their wives and kids at this time without always running back to the office.
The biggest thing that is usually done in weeks like this is extra recruiting tactics. An ability to go to games of highly touted recruits that they have had their eye on for quite some time. The players consistently work on getting better at their skills and weight lift and probably see who they are probably going to face the week after this one.
This week off gives the players some mental rest on the weekend to see their families whether they go home if they are local or see them via zoom or skype if they are from another state. I think the National Football league should also adopt the two bye week strategy at some point because those players get the biggest hits from world class players. In a way the NFL players do get a second bye week when they play on Thursday night instead of Sunday. I am grateful that Rutgers was able to achieve victory last Saturday so that they can be happy during the week and that their season is going to mean something until the very end. I remember the days back when the college players would only have one bye week in the regular season and play the rest out accordingly. Then of course when they made a bowl game that they made they would have another bye week given to prep for their opponent they face in the bowl they qualified for. That was the one thing Schiano did best in the old Big East when he went on that streak of 5 bowl wins in a row because he is such a attention to detail football coach.
I am sure that most of the team and the coaching staff are still going to study the play book this week off. These coaches and players consume football so much that they are always going to digest any advantages that they see to score more and play better defense with. The one difficult thing is that Ohio State who is number 1 in all of college football will probably prep better then ever before with their resources for them as well. That is why Ryan Day is considered to be a premier coach in all of college football and why Ohio St is thought to possibly repeat. Well I hope the Scarlet Knights enjoy and look forward because next week they will face their second tough matchup besides Oregon that they will go up against. They would need some magic to slay the GIANT that Ohio St presents itself as.
