DeerPark12's take on the field:
Wikipedia is incorrect, it was resodded for the first time in 2012, and has been every year since. Bobby Campbell didn't believe in resodding and his fields never came apart.
I do hate to defend the current guy, and will not spend much time doing it, but there are a few things that are out of his control. First, many of the fertilizers that were used on fields in the 1990s are no longer legal thanks to EPA regulation changes over the last 10 years or so. Same goes for the bright field paints that were used back then, the endzones will never look quite like they used to.
Bermuda fields like ours have always used rye grass to over seed in the fall. It not only makes the field green, it also helps protect the dormant Bermuda. Bobby Campbell did it when he was here, and he was the best there is ever been at maintaining a field. It is true, however, that rye grass is slippery at times. That doesn't stop many high schools, colleges, and professional teams from using it in the fall.
Now, all that said, our current groundskeeper has a background in growing baseball fields that do not take on much wear and tear, and golf courses in warm weather climates. He is quite capable of growing a field that looks good, but it is not very functional for football with the methods he uses to maintain it. If you ever get in the stadium early, you can notice how good it looks before pregame warm-ups. By the time the team runs through the T, though, it is significantly chewed up.
There are several people on staff that worked under Campbell that do not necessarily agree with the way he chooses to maintain our field, but he does not listen to their opinion.
It is true that the construction of the east side skyboxes and the video board each reduced the amount of sun the field gets. However, Campbell was able to keep it in pristine condition, even after those two projects were completed.
