except marching on some of the newer artificial stuff. god knows ive had the chance to compare :wink:
Fieldturf vs sod at Jack Trice
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except marching on some of the newer artificial stuff. god knows ive had the chance to compare :wink:
I thought there were some respiratory issues that were being tied to FT? Something about inhaling the rubber dust.
sure the chunks dont bother you if you are on the ol, because if you are decent you never get them in your face. i could put up with them anywhere else, but once they got on my face i started to get sick of them. the little green "grass" blades are annoying too. i played on field turf like 2 years ago and still have it in my socks.
I have absolutely no sports experience to compare it against (I was a swimmer... no turf there) but I'm a grass man. Traditional... I'm sure it burns less, and makes things interesting in the weather.
I've walked through the practice facility, and all of those clippings get rather annoying too
(and I was literally just walking from one side to the other... not playing on it or anything)
I've walked through the practice facility, and all of those clippings get rather annoying too
(and I was literally just walking from one side to the other... not playing on it or anything)
Definitely grass. As people have raised on this board before, our agricultural programs have the skills to take care of it.
It doesn't matter. As long as ISU has a football team, the field will always be natural grass. Its too big of a resource for the Horticulture department and the turf grass program. In reality the cost of $250,000 would have be incurred 3 years ago normally, but since we are so good, it will be incurred now. It just happens at a bad time where in 1-3 years it will have to be replaced again. It really isn't costing us any more money if you look at it from the stand point of a 5 year life expectancy.
As an Ag. major, I'll puke if ISU ever gets rid of natural grass.
As an Ag. major, I'll puke if ISU ever gets rid of natural grass.
Now, that there is the real issue. My wife goes to watch the band, and she's the one who sleeps with me, so I say grass.
Actually, I love playing football in mud. And I love it when the grass starts thinning out at the end of the year, and you have bare/thin spots. I love the inconsistency of natural grass.
Football is not, and should never be a "digital, homogenous" game. It should be, and should always be a refuge for the analog.
Go Grass!!! Beat Turf!!!
i dont have a preference..
i played on both.. they both have goods and bads..
grass doesnt hurt when u slide on and it is fun to get muddy when it rains
but when it rains.. ur field gets torn up and also more chances of small holes turnin bigger and could cause injury
FT is nice because u dont have to worry as much about weather conditions and holes and is really nice looking almost all the time, but those dang rubber pieces drove me nuts, and really the burns werent to bad.. so i think that depends on the player...
like i said i really dont care on the field.. yes its nice to stick to tradtion of grass but some things need to be improved...
my overal opinion
wait a couple years, and see if there is better FT and also ask the majority of the football team what they prefer
i played on both.. they both have goods and bads..
grass doesnt hurt when u slide on and it is fun to get muddy when it rains
but when it rains.. ur field gets torn up and also more chances of small holes turnin bigger and could cause injury
FT is nice because u dont have to worry as much about weather conditions and holes and is really nice looking almost all the time, but those dang rubber pieces drove me nuts, and really the burns werent to bad.. so i think that depends on the player...
like i said i really dont care on the field.. yes its nice to stick to tradtion of grass but some things need to be improved...
my overal opinion
wait a couple years, and see if there is better FT and also ask the majority of the football team what they prefer
I agree, if the weather doesn't come into play, mud or whatnot, having a field that constantly has good footing with any weather is too lame for my liking.
I have played a handful of games in Bergstrom as well and I preferred playing on any grass fields more. The turf in there isn't bad, but nothing beats the real thing.
And I have the exact opposite opinion. I want football to be a game between 2 teams. Not a game between 2 teams and the environment. I vote for domes and field turf for all football so the competition is solely between the athletes.
I know it's not realistic--but as much as some people love the tradition or nostalgia or whatever of games played in mud or snow (any Green Bay fans?)--it just doesn't seem like the best football in that weather.
Maybe I should watch arena football, huh?
I prefer there to be no grass at all if you know what I mean lol jk.
On a more serious note, I loved playing on natural grass in High School as our field was natural grass and very nice. We kept it fairly long to even out the playing field against the faster teams considering our HS was the smallest 4A school in the state at the time. Then we had to play on Valley's turf field and I wasn't in favor of it at all. You just weren't able to get the same feel for your cuts as you could on natural grass. the only thing I liked about it was that it cleaned up my shoes real nice...i hated all the little rubber pieces in my shoes, and they scraped the **** out of your arms...but that's just minor.
On a more serious note, I loved playing on natural grass in High School as our field was natural grass and very nice. We kept it fairly long to even out the playing field against the faster teams considering our HS was the smallest 4A school in the state at the time. Then we had to play on Valley's turf field and I wasn't in favor of it at all. You just weren't able to get the same feel for your cuts as you could on natural grass. the only thing I liked about it was that it cleaned up my shoes real nice...i hated all the little rubber pieces in my shoes, and they scraped the **** out of your arms...but that's just minor.
Well then if you want to see a game of solely teams players only...go see a game at Carver Hawkeye, because their fans add no home court advantage for the hawkeyes. That'd be a real fun experience...NOT
you think basketball should be played in a neutral court instead of Hilton, so the fans have no influence on the game...just solely the competition between teams only.
Just like Hilton Magic is a home team advantage to us in basketball...the frozen tundra is a home team advantage to green bay as the mile high stadium is home team advantage to Denver.
Regardless of the weather, BOTH teams have to play in the same conditions whether they like it or not. Your an athlete for a reason and you should be able to adjust to anything
It is Field Turf an it is almost as nice as grass. However grass is not nice year round thus Field Turf is a better turf for athletic fields unless you are in the south. Try playing baseball in Iowa before April 14th, the grass is brown if it is not covered in snow
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Considering Iowa State plays the majority of their football schedule between January 1 and April 14 :huh:
I only vaguely remember the "carpet" that was removed on DMac's arival, but I think I'd also be sick if we ever went back to artificial...
I have never seen any surface as nice as the muscatine soccer complex it was so much fun playing there of the state tourney..it is a shame that they moved it to des moines.