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SEC Football Playing Surfaces. Only 3 have turf!
Posted on 12/22/23 at 12:25 pm
Posted on 12/22/23 at 12:25 pm
This is really great to see. Only 3 with turf but for OU, since we play tx at Cotton Bowl (grass), we only have 2 potential turf games.
Mizzou needs to get with the program! Vandy I understand since they are at bottom but I hope Mizzou invests in some grass if they want to be big league.
A&M: grass
ARK: grass
AUB: grass
BAMA: grass
FLA: grass
KENT: grass
LSU: grass
MIZZ: astroturf
MSU: grass
OM: grass
OU: grass
S CAR: grass
TENN: grass
TEX: field-turf
UGA: grass
VANDY: Legion 46 turf
Mizzou needs to get with the program! Vandy I understand since they are at bottom but I hope Mizzou invests in some grass if they want to be big league.
A&M: grass
ARK: grass
AUB: grass
BAMA: grass
FLA: grass
KENT: grass
LSU: grass
MIZZ: astroturf
MSU: grass
OM: grass
OU: grass
S CAR: grass
TENN: grass
TEX: field-turf
UGA: grass
VANDY: Legion 46 turf
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Posted on 12/22/23 at 12:26 pm to OU Guy
We have turf now.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 12:27 pm to OU Guy
Missouri is just second rate, been that way since they joined
Posted on 12/22/23 at 12:28 pm to OU Guy
Texas will go to natural grass in 2025.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 12:29 pm to OU Guy
We actually had turf in the 70s and 80s.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 12:30 pm to hoojy
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We have turf now.
But why? Too cheap for grass?
Posted on 12/22/23 at 12:36 pm to OU Guy
Grass doesn’t grow well at Faurot. George Toma, the longtime groundskeeper for the Chiefs, said the problem with Faurot was that there was way too much sand so the roots had nothing to hold onto. That's why especially early in the season you would see clumps of turf come up, which is why astroturf has been used since the mid 80’s.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 12:39 pm to OU Guy
Tennessee has a fantastic field that no one ever complains about
Posted on 12/22/23 at 12:57 pm to UltimaParadox
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STFU. We have invested millions into our facilities and they now rank in the top 25. More big investments coming to the stadium in the near future. I bet players don’t mind the turf on a rainy day.
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Missouri is just second rate, been that way since they joined
STFU. We have invested millions into our facilities and they now rank in the top 25. More big investments coming to the stadium in the near future. I bet players don’t mind the turf on a rainy day.
This post was edited on 12/22/23 at 1:00 pm
Posted on 12/22/23 at 1:06 pm to OU Guy
Posted on 12/22/23 at 1:09 pm to McMillan
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Grass doesn’t grow well at Faurot. George Toma, the longtime groundskeeper for the Chiefs, said the problem with Faurot was that there was way too much sand so the roots had nothing to hold onto. That's why especially early in the season you would see clumps of turf come up, which is why astroturf has been used since the mid 80’s.
This makes no sense? If you take out whats there and bring in correct soil it will grow. Every other team with grass is able to do it all over the country in different qnd extreme conditions.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 1:12 pm to AUstar
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We have turf now.
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But why? Too cheap for grass?
This picture doesn't capture how brown and horrible the field surface was at Commonwealth when it had a natural surface...but you get the drift.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 1:15 pm to McMillan
so dig out all the sand truck in dirt and re do the base layers
Posted on 12/22/23 at 1:23 pm to Jmill88
Yeah, the turf of today is not the "Astroturf" of yesteryear. It has much more cushion and is much easier on the body. Many players prefer it to grass. Not as much slipping and sliding on turf.
I don't mind it all for foootball. For baseball, gotta have grass, but MLB is seeing more teams replacing grass with turf -- Miami, Texas and Arizona in addition to Tampa and Toronto, which have always had turf.
And the SECCG is played on turf every single year in Atlanta. Yet just about everyone on this forum loves that. Why no hate for the turf there? I'd love to see the game rotated, but now that it doesn't have much meaning anyway with the 12-team CFP, I don't care.
I don't mind it all for foootball. For baseball, gotta have grass, but MLB is seeing more teams replacing grass with turf -- Miami, Texas and Arizona in addition to Tampa and Toronto, which have always had turf.
And the SECCG is played on turf every single year in Atlanta. Yet just about everyone on this forum loves that. Why no hate for the turf there? I'd love to see the game rotated, but now that it doesn't have much meaning anyway with the 12-team CFP, I don't care.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 1:42 pm to OU Guy
OU being obsessed with Mizzou wasn’t what I was exactly thinking would happen when they joined the conference, but here we are.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 1:45 pm to OU Guy
Are you going to blame our turf for losing too
Posted on 12/22/23 at 2:14 pm to OU Guy
2024 is the last year of field turf at DKR.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 2:16 pm to OU Guy
Speaking of turf, Texas you need to do something about that baseball field.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 3:29 pm to McMillan
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Grass doesn’t grow well at Faurot. George Toma, the longtime groundskeeper for the Chiefs, said the problem with Faurot was that there was way too much sand so the roots had nothing to hold onto. That's why especially early in the season you would see clumps of turf come up, which is why astroturf has been used since the mid 80’s.
This is ironic, because I remember back in the '70's and early '80's when OU ran the wishbone, anytime we went to Columbia they'd have grown the grass to about shin high to slow it down. It was laughable. That being said, when I was on Owen field in the early '80's it was carpet, with about a 3/4 inch compression, but the crown at the center of the field was so high you could only see the heads of the players standing on the other sidelines and you were running downhill toward the sidelines. I actually got a hairline fracture in a metatarsal in '83 from it when I turned my ankle on a cut.
This post was edited on 12/22/23 at 3:39 pm
Posted on 12/22/23 at 3:32 pm to OU Guy
I think we had problems with grass
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