Is there a legitimate reason that Ole Miss uses turf on their field than grass?

I want to preface this post by saying I dont believe turf had anything to do with the loss saturday. We got our asses beat. Ole Miss was the better team Saturday and may be the best team period. I have said since week 1 that we were a 2-3 loss team and are a middle of the pack SEC west team. This post is purely about injuries and turf when players are not used to playing on it because the vast majority of college football fields in the country are natural grass.

Are they just too lazy to cut it or what? I can understand turf in domes and in certain climates where its difficult to keep grass looking presentable during the entirety of football season, but freakin Mississippi isnt one of them. You see a lot of turf in the NFL, and while I dont like it, at least there is enough of it in the league that the players are used to it and know how play on it without getting hurt. College players on the other hand not so much. I would bet a lot of money that Drakes injury Saturday wouldnt have been nearly as devastating if the surface had been grass. He still would have rolled his ankle im sure because of the way the defender rolled up on his leg (unintentionally of course) but his cleat would have been able to let go of the ground or at least tear some of the grass with it instead of being held in place by the turf and forcing the leg to get completely fricked. Same with Duvall's injury. The cleat stuck and the leg moved and it resulted in a sprain instead of just a simple rolled ankle that could have been taped and played on after a few minutes rest. I didnt get to closely see any of the rest of the injuries because I was watching from work so I cant speculate on them.

Every time we play on turf I get nervous about injuries, except at the Superdome. They use some kind of different turf Ive never seen anywhere else before and it doesnt seem to cause as many leg injuries as other places. (I may be completely off base on that but I just dont seem to notice as many turf related injuries in the Superdome personally.) But everywhere else, every time I see someone fighting for yardage or getting gang tackled I tense up.

So, back to my original question, is there a reason why Ole Miss has decided that not cutting grass is more important than leg injuries for opposing teams coming in that arent used to artificial turf?


ETA: Article talking about more frequent injuries on turf

"College football players suffer knee injuries about 40 percent more often when playing on an artificial surface compared to when they're playing on grass, according to a new study."