Will artificial turf be brought back to Neyland.

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coug said:
Yep

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Crumb rubber infill, often times mixed with sand but the sand usually sinks to the bottom.

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I could offer up the obvious for Missouri's field problem. Ditch the giant rock zen garden and continue the stadium seating all the way around. They're going to need the extra seating since they're now part of the SEC.

Also agree on grass vs turf with regard to look. This might be a nice field but it still looks fake to me.
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The M's a long time school tradition. The freshmen paint the rocks white at the season's start. The seniors each take a rock from the M at the end of the season to keep. They've been doing it since students created it in 1927, so it's a pretty major tradition there.
 
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UTProf said:
Absolutely. The irony of celebrating Mizzou's artificial field is that I asked Mizzou fans about their renovations of Faurot Field and if they were ever gonna switch to grass. They said, the turf is new and the only reason they have it is that grass won't hold up all year - they have bedrock issues and the design of their stadium creates a sort of wind tunnel effect that causes problems among other factors that all effect their ability to keep grass - it won't hold up all season for them. They were all pretty bummed about the fact that they're stuck with artificial turf (at least until someone figures out a way for Faurot to better take grass).


Also, I disagree vehemently that endzones looked better with artificial turf. A hand painted field is far superior to an a permanent artificial job - people pay a premium for goods and art that are handcrafted because aesthetically speaking perfection, which any machine or computer can produce, is boring, lifeless, and lacks the charm of something produced by hand. We are renown for those hand painted endzones to the point where sports outlets have articles on the process of how they're created for each game and sports junkies from all over read it much like sports outlets cover how NDs golden domes are painted by hand prior to each game.
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Sorry to join late, but bingo.
 
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utvolz98 said:
You paying for it Thunder?
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several high schools in my area have it so ... but Neyland with grass like 8 years ago was beautiful - did the groundskeepers retire and did they hire some redneck crew that mows apartment buildings to care for it ?
 
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I've heard that Butch wants the turf pretty and green year round... which makes it difficult to have it in the best possible condition for the 7 Saturdays every year that there are football games happening on it.

Late in the year if gets over seeded with rye grass... which gets slick as ice with any dew, mist, rain, humidity, etc.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
I've heard that Butch wants the turf pretty and green year round... which makes it difficult to have it in the best possible condition for the 7 Saturdays every year that there are football games happening on it.

Late in the year if gets over seeded with rye grass... which gets slick as ice with any dew, mist, rain, humidity, etc.
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And of course the band stomping around on it for practice and games
 
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This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. ......

you can play four qtrs of football on it and after, get higher than the bageabuss.:)
 
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People claimed UK's field was slick last week and it is field turf. Sometimes its going to be slippery no matter what. I'd stick with the real grass.
 
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Grayvol said:
New studies now showing that turf is causing cancer in athletes. I'm ok with players slipping every now and then.
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Of course there is a study showing that if you play on turf it could cause cancer. I also have a study that shows if you live you will in fact die.
 
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508mikey said:
And of course the band stomping around on it for practice and games
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You do realize that the band only gets 1 rehearsal in Neyland in August, right? And during that rehearsal they do not do a full run through of Pregame or halftime? That means the first time these freshmen go through that 6:30 70 year tradition is in front of the 100k screaming fans. Don't act like they are the problem.
 
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CMcEver said:
Yeah, I work for FieldTurf. We have some pretty nice products that NFL uses. The restitution and friction of fields are much improved, it isn't like playing on carpet covered concrete anymore. Because of the improved restitution, head injuries and impact-related injuries are much improved. The biggest problem now is maybe a user-related issue, as the fields play faster and allow for harder cuts, it's only natural the players use this to their advantage, but this can lead to ligament and ankle injuries. They do make cleats that help this, though. I think, as of now, all studies show no increased amount of injuries on artificial fields vs natural, only different kinds of injuries.
Also, I doubt, if Tennessee moves to artificial, they get turf from Fieldturf, probably Astroturf, mainly because Tennessee is(or was, not sure anymore, haven't heard anything since they built the practice facility and installed Astroturf), pretty much a Tencate(fiber manufacturer for turf) test-bed. We used to use Tencate until we discontinued business with them because of fiber durability and fail-rate, and bought our own extrusion company.
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Sound like its resilient.
 
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bamacheats said:
New stuff is pretty nice. Nothing like the old astroturf that ruined Chuck Webb.
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Chuck Webb was ruined by an extreme horse collar tackle. The old turf sucked but in Webb's case the horse collar did the damage. (from 2014?) Whatever..............

* btw, our field tonight was embarrassing it didn't rain that much. Since we always want to fire someone maybe we should start with Darren Seybold. Director of sports surfacing at UT. The field has sucked all year wet or dry.
 
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whobethis16 said:
You do realize that the band only gets 1 rehearsal in Neyland in August, right? And during that rehearsal they do not do a full run through of Pregame or halftime? That means the first time these freshmen go through that 6:30 70 year tradition is in front of the 100k screaming fans. Don't act like they are the problem.
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IDK but once some announcers said they have band competitions there, so i just assumed that it was true. But they were on the wet field today right, with field turf its not a problem ever.
 
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508mikey said:
IDK but once some announcers said they have band competitions there, so i just assumed that it was true. But they were on the wet field today right, with field turf its not a problem ever.
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I don't remember Neyland ever hosting a competition, though I think it should. If the AD doesn't let their own band have more than 20 minutes on that field, I don't think they'd let 20 high school bands perform an 8 minute show on it.
 
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