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We have a construction dome that rolls up like a tarp it's 100x60. It lets sun light through. We work in it so I'm sure grass would thrive plus it actually has a greenhouse effect and stays warmer inside. Fans inflate it. Cheap and simple.
 
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WriterVol said:
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.
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This is really sad to here. Our endzones have looked like garbage the past 5 years.
 
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unioncityvol said:
We have a construction dome that rolls up like a tarp it's 100x60. It lets sun light through. We work in it so I'm sure grass would thrive plus it actually has a greenhouse effect and stays warmer inside. Fans inflate it. Cheap and simple.
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We should be in business then...goodness knows, there's enough hot air in VN.
 
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unioncityvol said:
We have a construction dome that rolls up like a tarp it's 100x60. It lets sun light through. We work in it so I'm sure grass would thrive plus it actually has a greenhouse effect and stays warmer inside. Fans inflate it. Cheap and simple.
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Someone get this info to the powers that be. Problem solved.
 
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Vols scoring rankings by quarter:

1st: 11th, 10.4 points/game average
2nd: 53rd, 8.5 points/game average
3rd: 27th, 8.6 points/game average
4th: 108th, 4.2 points/game average
 
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Speaking of stats...

I only caught the tail end of the conversation on 104.5 this morning. But it sounded like Wycheck was saying Barnett has to prove himself more instead of just padding his stats against the weak competition we play against the second half of our season.

Funnily enough, I didn't hear him say anything about either the Oklahoma game that Barnett was everywhere in, nor did he mention how Barnett gets held soooo much.
 
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I'd be OK with a nice field turf surface. I think they would be able to have brighter checkerboards and Power T that way, too.

I wonder, though, if those surfaces as rough on knee injuries as the astro turf used to be?
 
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Chuckie said:
I'd be OK with a nice field turf surface. I think they would be able to have brighter checkerboards and Power T that way, too.

I wonder, though, if those surfaces as rough on knee injuries as the astro turf used to be?
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Negative. The strides they have made in artificial turfs are amazing.
 
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Aesius said:
Vols scoring rankings by quarter:

1st: 11th, 10.4 points/game average
2nd: 53rd, 8.5 points/game average
3rd: 27th, 8.6 points/game average
4th: 108th, 4.2 points/game average
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Butch- depth is a process that only extremely young, resilient teams can build brick by brick.
 
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So if Ms St beats Bama and Florida loses to FSU or LSU

There's a chance NO SEC team reaches the playoffs. Best case scenario for us IMO.
 
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volatil said:
Butch- depth is a process that only extremely young, resilient teams can build brick by brick.
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--Nor do we take our foot off the gas. We just like to keep things close, so as to provide as many teaching opportunities as we, as coaches, can provide.

And analytics.
 
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volatil said:
So if Ms St beats Bama and Florida loses to FSU or LSU

There's a chance NO SEC team reaches the playoffs. Best case scenario for us IMO.
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LSU would still have a chance if they won out, because with only 1 SEC loss, they would play in the SECCG. If they beat FL, they are a 1 loss SEC champ...would be a lock to make it.
 
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Yikes. 680 the fan going off on CBJ down here in Atlanta. Trashed our season, said we had no good wins and suggesting CBJ wasn't building anything that would last. Said UGA was a 7-5 team and that's the best CBJ has done.

Guess they are anxious about all the recruits we're about to snag out of here because UGA is a mess.
 
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