My cousin was studying landscape management at the time and

Nov 15, 2023
11:53:07am

CougaRR4L All-American

he got to work on this project. I have no insight but he loved doing it and said they were doing things at the time that hardly anyone in college football was. Doesn't mean its not outdated by now.

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Field Facts

tkh9

11/14/23 10:22pm

Funny thing is, after all those glowing articles about the new turf...

BlueBlood

11/14/23 10:32pm

Agreed. It was a mess until year 2.

tkh9

11/14/23 10:33pm

Seemed like sod didn’t have time to root. Like they did it in Aug

CorndogStickshift

11/15/23 11:04am

They need to do what the broncos did with their field. I know it cost a bunch

A Drew Aitch

11/14/23 11:15pm

What did the Broncos do?

BlueBlood

11/14/23 11:28pm

They have a whole process. But one thing is that they run pipes under the turf

A Drew Aitch

11/14/23 11:32pm

I'm pretty sure that our turf is heated. Or my memory is slipping in my old age.

CougarScrub

11/15/23 6:39am

Nope. We tarp the field every night when it starts to freeze.

buhlcougar

11/15/23 6:45am

The baseball field is heated.

tkh9

11/15/23 8:20am

Painted their fake turf blue.

Les IsMore

11/15/23 2:29pm

Time to remove it again

Big-Q

11/15/23 7:24am

But more injuries. Players overwhelming prefer real grass

runnincoug

11/15/23 7:25am

Seems like Saturday the players preferred it slipping all over the field.

Big-Q

11/15/23 8:39am

how new are these new turfs? Research completed in 2020 indicated more injuries

runnincoug

11/15/23 8:56am

it depends on who is paying for the study. Here's what the NFL says per Titans

Best Guess

11/15/23 3:33pm

Funny--seems almost everyone except the administration want grass at Ohio State

Buckeye

11/15/23 10:30am

Absolutely not.

Senora Featherbottom

11/15/23 1:54pm

My cousin was studying landscape management at the time and

CougaRR4L

11/15/23 11:53am

They haven’t replace it since then? The first year on this grass was a disaster!

Shawarma

11/15/23 4:28pm

How does the grass even recover from use late in the season?

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