Kinnick north end zone renovation
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Did they forget to add drains to the thing. They have had drainage problems before you would thing they were smart enough to have extra tile and drains. What a train wreck their grounds crew is.
It's drained but the turf bubbled up. That can't be good for it:
It was a two inch storm. http://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KIOW.html
If your field is going to flood and your fake turf swells up from every two inch event, then you did it wrong.
That doesn't look real. Not saying it isn't .... but damn.It's drained but the turf bubbled up. That can't be good for it:
We're so lucky we have the field we do
In forest city after about 10 inches of rain. It took a bit to get it repaired, and wasn't an overnight fix.
If you compare the first photo and the one you quoted, they are taken at different sides of the field and you can kind of see similarities between the two. I'm not sure how long the storm lasted, but there appears to be a 4 hour difference between the two photos (from when they were posted) - that seems like a long time for the field to be "bubbled" like that.
You're right. In the first photo, even where the water isn't sitting, you can see the bubbled up turf. WOW
I'm not really arguing anything here. My point is is you guys just put nearly a hundred million dollars in a renovation project. Personally I think the end zone looks pretty sweet but you couldn't put in some simple stormwater management infrastructure?
pretty sure Iowa City sucks enough to dry things up.
It's this field turf stuff. It has a base under it, then they lay down the turf. Next they spray it down with these little rubber bb's. Every so often you have to take a sidewalk sweeper to it to fluff up the bb's and then replace the areas it is light. You would fill up with the rubber bb's if you vac'd it up much.
Didn't realize how ugly that endzone is. It doesn't really even have a bowl look to it just a straight line basically.
Is that the same stuff we have in the Bergstrom facility? Saw that up close for the first time, early this summer. That surface feels really weird to walk on.
For the ones who are familiar with it, how does it compare to the turf in Jack Trice as a playing surface?