Are we really blaming the near loss today on the ******* turf!????
Campbell and the field
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The field, and our lack of preparation for the elements, and our lack of enthusiasm for the opponent---nearly created the most embarrassing loss in ISU history..
go to TURF
go to TURF
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.
If the Drake coach was complaining post game about the turf then OK. Buying into The Process, we're not use to hearing CMC use excuses.
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.
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.
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.
The college has lots of other turf to learn on. Football field will go whatever direction Campbell wants it to.
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.
Agree 100%. And yet for whatever lack of effort/execution the Cyclones brought today, don't you feel better about Butler's ability to get separation, or Montgomery's ability to run around (or get traction to run through) defenders if the field isn't such a swamp?
Do you really think that if they played this game indoors at Bergstrom that it is even close?
Don't play in December
Exactly it got cold early this year and then we had what 3-4 games after the first freeze. Stop getting home games in late November and certainly don't think you should play in December on that field. Plus, you throw in a complete waste of a crowd with only like 5,000 there today.
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.
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.
