Campbell and the field
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Well we play the last week in November all the time, not that big of a difference. My prefference is to keep the grass but this is more about what it sounds like CMC wants.
I'm probably committing blasphemy here but I've often wondered how much time, effort, energy, and money we put into this field that gets used seven or eight times per year (counting the spring game), and whether it's truly worth it. Granted, our turf team probably works other fields too. And I don't want to overreact based on one game.
But I was taken aback during the Kansas State game at how bad it looked. My own lawn, which gets relatively minimal treatment by comparison, is greener today than that turf was a week ago.
I don't follow every press conference but I hadn't realized Campbell had spoken out about it. So I'll be curious to see what happens.
But I was taken aback during the Kansas State game at how bad it looked. My own lawn, which gets relatively minimal treatment by comparison, is greener today than that turf was a week ago.
I don't follow every press conference but I hadn't realized Campbell had spoken out about it. So I'll be curious to see what happens.
I wish he was more concerned with his play calling on said field. The Drake OC's gameplan was 1000x better.
Really don't know what to think. It was a really rough year for turf in Iowa in the fall. Cold, wet conditions, plus this was actually the 8th game that players were on the field for a game. Maybe if they start completely over it could be good, but the turf would be good no matter what with the new fake stuff.
So when they rehab it do they just put a new grass surface in or do they replace all the drainage and irrigation, and possibly update all the systems and possibly add heat and other tech? I know it was state of the art when it was put in, in the 90's but not so much now, do they redo all that? Just curious, not sure how often they rehab the natural surface.
If the coach was a woman, I'm sure they would have done it MULTIPLE times!
I heard the same rumor the other day about the artificial turf, I think there was another thread on it, but based on my family members who work at ISU an artificial surface is getting discussed.
Yeah thats kind of my issue too, I love the natural grass but, It is Iowa, and we have crappy weather. Its been a bad year but we have bad years. We will have struggles with late games and poor weather always. Field turf is always good for the most part. No matter what the weather is, cold, wet, freezing, hot. Its all the same to turf. But all destroy grass. But again our award winning management staff and field is hard to overlook.
I don't think it should be a sacred cow. The last two games, it's been bad. That has to change in future one way or the other.
This. Pretty obvious this was a run first, second, and third option game. Drake stacked the box and we played like they had Turpin and Tyrek Hill on AstroTurf. Pretty poor or non-existent adjustment.
I can’t say for sure but I don’t see why there wouldn’t be some work on drainage and resloping the field, etc. It’s been 8 years since it was last torn up so I assume there would need to be some subsurface work.
I would rather have a happy coach and winning team than a ribbon for how good our field is..
"Award winning" or not, if Campbell wants an artificial turf field we'll be switching to artificial turf. (Also, given how many programs have switched to artificial turf, how competitive is this award really?)
Even the best turf management can't fight nature and what happens to grass in northern climates in november. Not sure if artificial turf is the answer, but clearly if we're going to be playing meaningful football in november going forward we're going to have to have an acceptable surface to play it on. This year we didnt have that.
Even the best turf management can't fight nature and what happens to grass in northern climates in november. Not sure if artificial turf is the answer, but clearly if we're going to be playing meaningful football in november going forward we're going to have to have an acceptable surface to play it on. This year we didnt have that.
I never forgot, that is part of the issue, we are award winning but still struggle to maintain the field later in the season and it sounds like CMC doesnt care for the natural grass. So I wondered what happens, Also what a rehab of the natural surface entails, or if we completely redo the entire system to a current system
I remember a poor ISU fb team hanging with Iowa @ Kinnick---the last year Iowa had it's do-over with a grass field 5-6 seasons ago.. The field had 6 inches of water that didn't drain--a debacle. Iowa went to TURF the next year.
If our field is the best our world-class agronomy/turf mgmt dept can do, then replace it with turf.
The average daytime high in central Iowa in November is 48. This year blew chunks weatherwise but it is not the norm. You usually don't associate Thanksgiving in Iowa with frozen ground and ice.
