Are we really blaming the near loss today on the ******* turf!????
Are we really blaming the near loss today on the ******* turf!????
This. If you have to hire a team of top of the line professionals and this is the best it can be in the worst conditions, it’s time for a change.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.
Not entirely, but it did have a negative effect on ISU’s speed. The RB’s couldn’t cut and neither could Nwangwu on kick returns. Yes, Drake also played on the same field, but ISU has more speed and it completely neutralized it.Are we really blaming the near loss today on the ******* turf!????
Bad weather is the great equalizer, but we should be able to run Drake out of the stadium with not just athleticism, but coaching. Coaches have to adjust to those things and it isn’t like they didn’t know the weather wouldn’t be great. But when Drake comes out and plays the way they did and almost beat us, that is not the fields fault. The field didn’t miss blocks and drop passes.No. But there's no doubt it didn't help. When everyone bogs down in muck it neutralizes the athletic advantage one team has over another.
While I agree that it was unacceptable, I just don’t see us going to field turf when you have an award winning field turf management program at your school.
Once the daytime temps fall below 50 grass goes dormant. So after October grass fields stop growing, and in October it slows greatly so by mid season any damage to the field is almost impossible to repair, and surface problems will continue to get worse as time goes on.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.
Bad weather is the great equalizer, but we should be able to run Drake out of the stadium with not just athleticism, but coaching. Coaches have to adjust to those things and it isn’t like they didn’t know the weather wouldn’t be great. But when Drake comes out and plays the way they did and almost beat us, that is not the fields fault. The field didn’t miss blocks and drop passes.
Do you really think that if they played this game indoors at Bergstrom that it is even close?Are we really blaming the near loss today on the ******* turf!????
Don't play in DecemberLosing games we shouldn’t is our trademark and it almost bit us again today because of the field conditions.
noAre we really blaming the near loss today on the ******* turf!????
Once the daytime temps fall below 50 grass goes dormant. So after October grass fields stop growing, and in October it slows greatly so by mid season any damage to the field is almost impossible to repair, and surface problems will continue to get worse as time goes on.
So if we played yesterday it would have been different? This December thing is dumb, we play games the last week of November all the time.Don't play in December
Every other year you will have a home game as late as the Saturday after thanksgiving. Should they not play this either because the field was bad then too.Don't play in December