Questions on Bye weeks

[pDigital32Dawg]

After reading Mullen's quotes in Marcello's blog I was wondering what people think is the right time to have a bye week in a season.
Is it better to have a bye week early or late in a season? And is it better to have a bye week before a big time opponent or a small opponent? Should they come after a crucial road stretch or should they come after a long home stretch to give the athletes as well as the fan base a rest?

This is the second year in a row we have gotten stomped after a bye week and yes it is Alabama and yes this year's bye week had a lot of things occur that was highly unexpected and tough to deal with but is there a way to plan a good time for a bye week? We looked unprepared again this year and after reading Mullen's quotes I would like to hear what others have to say on the matter.
<br style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Coach Dan Miller's(Thanks ESPN) opinion:</span>

"Having a bye week doesn’t always help you,” Mullen said Sunday. “I think
it can hurt you in a lot of ways and we got to see that last night. Now
we’re back in our game-week routine. Hopefully that helps to keep us
focused and each day goes, our guys will get a little bit stronger with
dealing with the emotions we’ve had to deal with.”

 

[GloryDawg]

As far as football and having a extra week of practice, that was out the window with what was going on.

 

[pDigital32Dawg]

I'm not discarding what happened whatsoever. I am just asking a question looking for opinion. Is it better for us to have a bye week say before Alcorn State instead of Alabama? That way we could come off the bye week a little rusty and still win no problem instead of coming off the bye week with no momentum and getting stomped by Alabama every year?

 

[Johnson85]

I'd rather have the bye week before a big game; you can get out of rhythm in a bye week, but the extra week to prepare and get healthy is worth it.

9 weeks in is late for the bye week, but it gives us a week to get healthy before UAT, UArk, and Ole Miss, so I think it's worth it.I wish we could dohomecomingaround week 6 or so with a SWAC team. This year,we basically used UAB week as a quasi bye week to get players that were banged up a rest, but that's a little risky.