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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.

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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.