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

Nov 15, 2023
10:30:47am

Buckeye Playmaker

Lots of complaints about slipping on the old fake grass, and now lots of complaints about non-contact injuries on the new fake grass (installed 2022)

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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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