On TV in Spokane it looked pretty ragged. Color was bad, bare spots, large swaths of mud, large chunks torn up outside the hashes...
Real or fake - lets put the best surface in we can.
Natural Grass vs Artificial/Field Turf
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On TV in Spokane it looked pretty ragged. Color was bad, bare spots, large swaths of mud, large chunks torn up outside the hashes...
Real or fake - lets put the best surface in we can.
Yeah I don't understand the people saying they thought it looked great, from where I was watching the field looked pretty garbage.
Don't really care if we go artificial turf (I'm not against it though as some are.. the whole 'award winning turf' thing is overrated when so many have switched to artificial,) but if not we are probably overdue for redoing the natural surface.
I’m a natural turf guy, but yeah, I remember saying on zoom shots watching the game “our poor field” because she was looking beat up.
Yeah, I didn’t really mean for that post to come off like it did...just making an observation with no opinion added.
They are aerating and slit seeding the field today. It will have three weeks to recover from the rains
Overseeding with Ryegrass too as it needs less time to germinate than Bluegrass. Give it a little heat and it’ll look great in 3 weeks
Turf sidebar: As a race car guy what's the fastest you have driven on turf? Not dirt, turf!
Not sure of the speed but was riding with an idiot friend of mine in HS and he drove onto a rural grass airport runway and dragged it. Not sure the top speed but it was whatever a big old late '60's V-8 would do in 3000 feet. When he slammed on the brakes towards the end of the runway he lost it some (or knowing him, did it on purpose) and did a few 360's. Stupid teens but seemed like a good idea at the time.
Tagging in our CF flyboy @wxman1 so he can be appalled at the runway abuse.
I don''t know if I ever have driven a car fast on grass. But I often drive my 4 wheeler around my property wide open.
Why are people who are not players, coaches, or grounds crew so passionate about artificial turf?
I really hope we stay with the grass. But clearly some upgrades are needed like the Packers have.
Wonder which one of these guys was the one who told the Hawkeye band to get off his ******* field...
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finally got a chance to watch TCU replay. Based on what I saw those guys have their work cut out for them. There were some pretty rough looking spots where some pretty big divots had peeled up. Soil below the divots looked absolutely saturated. I feel bad for them because there is very little they can do given the hand they have been dealt by Mother Nature. Having said that, I thought the slippery conditions worked against TCU more than ISU. One of these days the prevailing pattern in the Fall will flip back to dry and the field will be fine.
I watched the CBS piece last night on their college football show which I never miss. Interestingly, coach Klieman has his practices on natural grass fields that Snyder seldom used. He says it helps the players recover more quickly. Time after time I've heard that from players and coaches that natural grass is the preferred surface. Last night was a nice promo for ISU, the grass story and a trivia question about the winningest program in October.
