UNLV is terrible, drawing a conclusion in 1 game is dumb. Clearly ISU should play on grass as 2 out of our 3 losses last year were on turf(OSU and B12 Championship). This blaming the playing surface is some higher tier coping from our fanbase.
Replacing the turf at Trice
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UNLV is terrible, drawing a conclusion in 1 game is dumb. Clearly ISU should play on grass as 2 out of our 3 losses last year were on turf(OSU and B12 Championship). This blaming the playing surface is some higher tier coping from our fanbase.
Packers and Kansas City Chiefs have high dollar grow lights they have to bring in. I know the Chiefs share them with Sporting Kansas City, so I imagine they're not cheap. I know Sporting Kansas City also has a tube system that runs warm water underneath the field to keep the grass growing. I don't see Pollard shelling out that kind of money.
I read this and I'm still not 100% sure what kind of black magic this is
www.packers.com
SIS Turfgrass
www.sispitches.com
New turf ready to welcome Packers into 2018 season
Five-month reconstruction of Lambeau Field’s playing surface completed
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SIS Turfgrass
Hybrid Grass
SIS Grass Hybrid offers the best hybrid playing surfaces in the world today. Installed at major football stadiums and leading sporting universities, some of the biggest sports names trust our technology.
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SKC actually has an electric heating system, not the tubes like in green bay.
Sporting KC installing electric field heating system, first of its kind | Sporting Kansas City
Sporting KC installing electric field heating system
www.sportingkc.com
Edit: This article describes it better. https://www.kansascity.com/sports/mls/sporting-kc/article226806009.html
This caught my attention on Twitter tonight and not just because it was a John Deere that wasn't pulling a Russian armored vehicle off the field. 
This caught my attention on Twitter tonight and not just because it was a John Deere that wasn't pulling a Russian armored vehicle off the field.
I enjoy the post…but any photos of the Jack make me :heart:.
From a few days ago but sort interesting regarding the logos and such.
I can't imagine accumulation of paint in the soil is good for optimum growth. Just another reason for occasionally ripping it all out and starting over.
I’m also making a wild guess it gets the same base soil as they used on the hillsides. This stuff looks kinda worn out as it is.
The hillsides will have your average black dirt. Their is no reason to have a special base for that.
The hillsides had a created base, not simple black dirt. Can’t remember the term someone used. Augmented?
Given that the field really needs to stay healthy through November seems like a good argument to me to give it as fertile a base as possible. More so than the hillsides did, anyway.
I thought ISU had a Case IH sponsorship, lots of JD equipment in the RED Zone.
Somewhere there is a thread about it. I want to say they've been growing the turf for 3 yrs or so. to get ready for the change over.
Here's the deal the Hillsides are nothing special and dont need to be. An Athletic field is far more complex. I know for a fact nothing special is on the hillsides.
I mean, if John Deere is good enough to save Ukraine from Russian invaders, it's more than good enough to change the playing surface at JTS.
So the group doing the change over has a new hybrid stitching machine. Wonder if we will go with that. Looks like they just got it. Good timing too, got some practice on muni fields and then do the Jack.
