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Vandy Installing Artificial Turf -Football and Baseball
Posted on 5/30/12 at 8:07 am
Posted on 5/30/12 at 8:07 am
Football is getting Field Turf and baseball is getting a new form of Astro turf which covers the entire field, with the infield colored like dirt and slightly lower than the rest of the field.
Hard to grow good turf here in Nashville with the winters and frozen field in early Spring.
Wonder if more teams will go to this?
Hard to grow good turf here in Nashville with the winters and frozen field in early Spring.
Wonder if more teams will go to this?
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Posted on 5/30/12 at 8:09 am to LagdonCG
I think Texas has that on their baseball field.
We have turf that runs behind home plate and extends down to first and third base.
I like the improvements Vandy is doing to their facilities. I think they are getting a new HD screen as well as a new indoor practice facility.
We have turf that runs behind home plate and extends down to first and third base.
I like the improvements Vandy is doing to their facilities. I think they are getting a new HD screen as well as a new indoor practice facility.
Posted on 5/30/12 at 8:14 am to LagdonCG
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Wonder if more teams will go to this?
Turf covered baseball fields are Busch league IMO.
Posted on 5/30/12 at 8:37 am to LagdonCG
for baseball its really dumb.
Posted on 5/30/12 at 9:52 am to LagdonCG
If you wouldn't smoke it, don't play on it.
Posted on 6/15/12 at 3:20 am to LagdonCG
Have they installed the new football turf yet? If so, are there any pics?
Posted on 6/15/12 at 6:10 am to LagdonCG
Welcome to 1970.
Posted on 6/15/12 at 8:24 am to LagdonCG
Vanderbilt should have "abolished their athletic department" years ago. That notion has always been inaccurate or incomplete at best. All this did was allow Vandy sports to legally start getting some of the gajillion dollars from Vanderbilt's endowment.
Vandy orginally put down 'Tartan Turf', Astro Turf's poor cousin (like Tennessee first put down in 1968) before putting in Astro Turf in 1981.After the plethera of schools in the SEC in the 70's putting in the fake stuff, they were the last ones to remove it after the 1998 season.
Its Good to Be Gold!
Vandy orginally put down 'Tartan Turf', Astro Turf's poor cousin (like Tennessee first put down in 1968) before putting in Astro Turf in 1981.After the plethera of schools in the SEC in the 70's putting in the fake stuff, they were the last ones to remove it after the 1998 season.
Its Good to Be Gold!
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