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re: Why does Texas play on Astroturf?

Posted on 6/6/26 at 11:08 pm to
Posted by Missouri Waltz
Adrift off the Spanish Main
Member since Feb 2016
1646 posts
Posted on 6/6/26 at 11:08 pm to
quote:

Why does Texas play on Astroturf?

So their cheerleaders won't graze during halftime.
Posted by Rip N Lip
Zambodia
Member since Jul 2019
7674 posts
Posted on 6/6/26 at 11:11 pm to
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Thanks for being concerned with our university.


No concern, just spitting facts, bevo
Posted by Night Vision
Member since Feb 2018
23451 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:20 am to
Drill a well.
Posted by goat
Louisiana
Member since May 2004
4284 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:29 am to
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Is that the leftover carpet from before the Astrodome imploded?


Ha! Mentioned that to someone yest- both tx & kn have fields that look like 70s astrodome. Man- hate seeing that, like I’m watching a damn travel ball game
Posted by Bubbles Up
Member since Jul 2011
3030 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 7:16 am to
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Average of 35” rain per year and frequent drought conditions. But yeah I wish it were real grass. FWIW I just came from watching game 1 and it looks a little better in person than it does on TV. But it’s still turf


Cop out. Y’all could have natural surfaces on your football and baseball fields if you weren’t lazy. You can easily water that with recycled water like the golf courses all over Austin do.

If only there were an Ag school 90 miles east that could teach you how to do these simple things…
Posted by PorkSammich
North FL
Member since Sep 2013
17829 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 7:39 am to
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Why does Texas play on Astroturf?


All those on campus liberal rallies and Pride fest events would destroy the grass.
Posted by coldbeerfan
Orange Beach RTR Alabama
Member since Oct 2015
1708 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 7:50 am to
Texas? What about Troy? Why does a baseball field in Pike County Alabama, known as the “wire grass” region of the state has fake grass just doesn’t make sense. Bermuda is king in South Alabama.
Posted by Houag80
Member since Jul 2019
19977 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:41 am to
It's called laziness....and cost.

Once that shite is installed, you don't have to touch it for 20 years.
This post was edited on 6/7/26 at 8:43 am
Posted by Capn_Bevo
Austin
Member since Jan 2019
1366 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 8:58 am to
Perhaps one day they'll demolish the whole thing and build a new fancy ballpark. Until then, with the shade the overhang creates and the orientation of the field, and the concrete base, and so on and so forth, it'll have to do. We'll survive.
Posted by PacoPicopiedra
1 Ft. Above Sea Level
Member since Apr 2012
1423 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 10:02 am to
Their old stadium, Clark Field, had a cliff in the outfield and it was fair territory.

Posted by GatorOnAnIsland
Florida
Member since Jan 2019
10312 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 10:25 am to
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So their cheerleaders won't graze during halftime



Definitely look like a bunch of heifers


Posted by ETPHONEHOME
Member since Aug 2014
210 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 10:25 am to
B/C they're gay, Oh wait, that's T@M, my bad. :dunno: :dunno:
Posted by GreyReb
Member since Jun 2010
4643 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 10:26 am to
I can’t even watch a game on TV played at Texas. It’s too ugly for my eyes to handle
Posted by GreyReb
Member since Jun 2010
4643 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 10:28 am to
I hate when turf design doesn’t even try to fake it like a real field. Like Texas that only has brown turn around the bases.

I like turf like Georgia’s that actually looks like a real field.
Posted by All Gas No Brakes
Member since Jul 2021
993 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 10:42 am to
I guess this is the troll we get since the team is performing well
Posted by The_Giving_Tree
Member since Apr 2024
366 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 10:47 am to
To watch yall cry about it
Posted by pdfield34
Member since Aug 2022
646 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 11:41 am to
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What about Troy?


What are you talking about? Makes perfect sense, they are poor.
Great decision to spend more on other things like NIL.
Posted by pdfield34
Member since Aug 2022
646 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 11:46 am to
Really just says it all about their culture.

Sure some hardcore athletic supporters want it, but the vast majority of the people at the university are weirdos and libtards who would pitch a fit at such unnecessary expenditures, at best they would just never care.
Posted by tBrand
Member since Oct 2022
4240 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 11:52 am to
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Really just says it all about their culture.

it doesn't say anything about "culture," lmao. i think you just hate Texas, and will use anything to express that hatred. and that's just fine
Posted by SoonerKA1999
T-Town
Member since Aug 2021
1953 posts
Posted on 6/7/26 at 1:06 pm to
Because everything is fake and ghey at UTerus.
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