Question for those of you who been through August Camp

When going through camp did you you have the time and energy to go Reds to work out at 9:30 / 10:00 AM on a Wednesday morning the first full week of camp?

I never been in a college camp but I know in high school there was no way, we were dead tired and wasn’t doing any extra work outs that week other than the organized practices.

I asked because I saw a few players yesterday morning and was a little surprised.

If they're working out...does it matter...do you really want a Junction Boys style camp? Besides, there is a world of physical differences between college athletes in 2023 and 1980s high school boys...

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Originally Posted by John Cocktolstoy

When going through camp did you you have the time and energy to go Reds to work out at 9:30 / 10:00 AM on a Wednesday morning the first full week of camp?

I never been in a college camp but I know in high school there was no way, we were dead tired and wasn’t doing any extra work outs that week other than the organized practices.

I asked because I saw a few players yesterday morning and was a little surprised.

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Here we go again.

I don’t see any at 5:00AM. But I do see an equipment manager from the 80s taking a nap at a table when I walk in almost every morning. Lol

I remember the early Hud era camps as I pass down CD BVD on my regular routes 3 or 4 times a day for about 20 years now. There were no cars in the parking lots during camps. The buses would be there in the morning. Leave for a few hours mid day for lunch / rest etc.. Then back in the after noon as a group. Very business like very professional. Every where they went they moved as a group. Every thing appeared to run like a well oiled machine. Unfortunately a few years later he lost that.

This camp appears to happen late in the evenings as there haven’t been cars in the complex until late after noons when I pass except for a few, which would look like about the amount for equipment staff and training staff from my best guess. Looks more like in season practice hours than camp hours of past years for what its worth. Times have definitely changed.

A. I thought the athletic center has state of the art everything, why reds?
B. Who pays for their membership?
C. No position rooms at red's

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Originally Posted by fanof71

If they're working out...does it matter...do you really want a Junction Boys style camp? Besides, there is a world of physical differences between college athletes in 2023 and 1980s high school boys...

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“When we hired coach Napier the product was broken and it needed to be fixed. Now the product isn’t broken and we just need someone who knows the process and can keep it running as is” (Bryan Maggard at the introductory press conference) But it appears our TE assistant who had never been a coordinator knew better than Billy and his top 2 mentors Nick and Dabo because he changed the whole process from day one. If Billy would have been consider to be junction boy style camp which he was not, you could say mike is running a camp for powder puff football players. Every story I hear coming from people who participated in both talk about how much softer mikes camp is than Billy’s was.

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Originally Posted by John Cocktolstoy

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“When we hired coach Napier the product was broken and it needed to be fixed. Now the product isn’t broken and we just need someone who knows the process and can keep it running as is” (Bryan Maggard at the introductory press conference) But it appears our TE assistant who had never been a coordinator knew better than Billy and his top 2 mentors Nick and Dabo because he changed the whole process from day one. If Billy would have been consider to be junction boy style camp which he was not, you could say mike is running a camp for powder puff football players. Every story I hear coming from people who participated in both talk about how much softer mikes camp is than Billy’s was.

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Isn't Connor Neighbors in charge of the camp in terms of strength and conditioning? He did explicitly say in an interview a week ago they have been focusing on endurance more than maxing out.

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Originally Posted by RedTails

Isn't Connor Neighbors in charge of the camp in terms of strength and conditioning? He did explicitly say in an interview a week ago they have been focusing on endurance more than maxing out.

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That's the same thing I focus on. Don't need or want to max out anymore.

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Originally Posted by John Cocktolstoy

When going through camp did you you have the time and energy to go Reds to work out at 9:30 / 10:00 AM on a Wednesday morning the first full week of camp?

I never been in a college camp but I know in high school there was no way, we were dead tired and wasn’t doing any extra work outs that week other than the organized practices.

I asked because I saw a few players yesterday morning and was a little surprised.

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We had 2 a days in August camp in the early 2000's . There would be zero time to do anything else with all of the meetings in between.

Of course the ncaa now limits the amount of on field to 1 practice per day now so who knows

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Originally Posted by facelessjonmoon

We had 2 a days in August camp in the early 2000's . There would be zero time to do anything else with all of the meetings in between.

Of course the ncaa now limits the amount of on field to 1 practice per day now so who knows

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Yep. I never played but I passed there often on my regular routes to the grocery, workout… in those days Bustle, Hud and Napier… I though they lived there as cars were there morning, noon, and evening. With exception for the few years Hud had them all travel to and from campus together by bus.

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Originally Posted by JMV JustMyView

That's the same thing I focus on. Don't need or want to max out anymore.

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You should come work out with the fat old men on the up stairs at 5 AM if you don’t max out. Just machines for this fella.

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Originally Posted by KajunKrazy

You should come work out with the fat old men on the up stairs at 5 AM if you don’t max out. Just machines for this fella.

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I am more of a free weight and dumbbell kind of lifter.

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Originally Posted by JMV JustMyView

I am more of a free weight and dumbbell kind of lifter.

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O you a downstairs guy.

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Originally Posted by KajunKrazy

O you a downstairs guy.

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Yeah just not a cold or hot tube guy, that is for Vin-sent.

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Originally Posted by JMV JustMyView

That's the same thing I focus on. Don't need or want to max out anymore.

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Is that why there is more time between big announcement upcoming post and the actual big announcement now

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Originally Posted by John Cocktolstoy

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“When we hired coach Napier the product was broken and it needed to be fixed. Now the product isn’t broken and we just need someone who knows the process and can keep it running as is” (Bryan Maggard at the introductory press conference) But it appears our TE assistant who had never been a coordinator knew better than Billy and his top 2 mentors Nick and Dabo because he changed the whole process from day one. If Billy would have been consider to be junction boy style camp which he was not, you could say mike is running a camp for powder puff football players. Every story I hear coming from people who participated in both talk about how much softer mikes camp is than Billy’s was.

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Yep. It has gotten very soft from what my birdie tells me.

Well, I was in camp Bunkie 78-79. The tuba players had it rough AF. I was a saxophone player (phenomenal, btw) we certainly endured the dust and the heat, but our instruments were light compared to the brass. The flute players had it so easy. In fact there were evenings after supper that they enjoyed practicing so much, some of us would walk back into the wooded area behind camp with them. We were there for encouragement. Ill tell you what, not one of those young ladies stopped practicing until we all agreed that they had given there all. I have fond memories of camp.

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Originally Posted by ZZeebart21

Well, I was in camp Bunkie 78-79. The tuba players had it rough AF. I was a saxophone player (phenomenal, btw) we certainly endured the dust and the heat, but our instruments were light compared to the brass. The flute players had it so easy. In fact there were evenings after supper that they enjoyed practicing so much, some of us would walk back into the wooded area behind camp with them. We were there for encouragement. Ill tell you what, not one of those young ladies stopped practicing until we all agreed that they had given there all. I have fond memories of camp.

Z

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It’s all about the tubas shawty

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Originally Posted by ZZeebart21

Well, I was in camp Bunkie 78-79. The tuba players had it rough AF. I was a saxophone player (phenomenal, btw) we certainly endured the dust and the heat, but our instruments were light compared to the brass. The flute players had it so easy. In fact there were evenings after supper that they enjoyed practicing so much, some of us would walk back into the wooded area behind camp with them. We were there for encouragement. Ill tell you what, not one of those young ladies stopped practicing until we all agreed that they had given there all. I have fond memories of camp.

Z

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This one time, at band camp...

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Originally Posted by Big Poppa

Yep. It has gotten very soft from what my birdie tells me.

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I talked to my bird and he says your bird is a fake . . .

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Originally Posted by ZZeebart21

Well, I was in camp Bunkie 78-79. The tuba players had it rough AF. I was a saxophone player (phenomenal, btw) we certainly endured the dust and the heat, but our instruments were light compared to the brass. The flute players had it so easy. In fact there were evenings after supper that they enjoyed practicing so much, some of us would walk back into the wooded area behind camp with them. We were there for encouragement. Ill tell you what, not one of those young ladies stopped practicing until we all agreed that they had given there all. I have fond memories of camp.

Z

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I never been to band camp but attended many camps at the Bunkie facility . . . we always enjoyed the flute players at those camps also . . .

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Originally Posted by Big Poppa

Yep. It has gotten very soft from what my birdie tells me.

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Who is your birdie?

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Originally Posted by ZZeebart21

Well, I was in camp Bunkie 78-79. The tuba players had it rough AF. I was a saxophone player (phenomenal, btw) we certainly endured the dust and the heat, but our instruments were light compared to the brass. The flute players had it so easy. In fact there were evenings after supper that they enjoyed practicing so much, some of us would walk back into the wooded area behind camp with them. We were there for encouragement. Ill tell you what, not one of those young ladies stopped practicing until we all agreed that they had given there all. I have fond memories of camp.

Z

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Bunkie band camp! We weathered a hurricane there 1 year and lost power for 2 of the days. Marched in the slop afterward.
Can u imagine if something like that happened today? It would be national news and parents would have a class action lawsuit.
I don’t think a single parent picked their kid up. The 80’s was a simpler time

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Originally Posted by JMV JustMyView

Who is your birdie?

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A friend of mine who’s son is on the team that prepped in Lafayette parish. That is a specific as I’ll get.

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Originally Posted by HOUCajun

Bunkie band camp! We weathered a hurricane there 1 year and lost power for 2 of the days. Marched in the slop afterward.
Can u imagine if something like that happened today? It would be national news and parents would have a class action lawsuit.
I don’t think a single parent picked their kid up. The 80’s was a simpler time

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Believe me when I tell people that we’re getting softer all the time. That’s probably a good thing too. There’s no way I’d have let my kids do what was common in my high school years.