Should TECH go back to artificial turf?

JJacket said:
I don't know how anyone played football on that surface. It was like blacktop.
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Not only no, but HELL NO!

The schtuff has come a long way from Tenneessee's TartanTurf brillo pad & our 3m AstroTurf, but it was like playing on asphalt, both in temperature & grip. The padding may be better today, but you still see guys getting rug burns.

I don't give a rat's pat0ot what the OP thinks, he obviously has never had to play on the crap. It went away for a long, long time for a reason. If you play outdoors in the south, the game should be played on natural grass.
 
DeepSnap said:
Not only no, but HELL NO!

The schtuff has come a long way from Tenneessee's TartanTurf brillo pad & our 3m AstroTurf, but it was like playing on asphalt, both in temperature & grip. The padding may be better today, but you still see guys getting rug burns.

I don't give a rat's pat0ot what the OP thinks, he obviously has never had to play on the crap. It went away for a long, long time for a reason. If you play outdoors in the south, the game should be played on natural grass.
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And, remember playing at Tulane to start the season several years back? CPJ said he had never before had players complain during a game that their feet were burning.
 
In the 1990 NC State game at Grant Field, players’ shoes were melting (the glue holding the soles on the cleats).

I wonder if Tulane ever got the melted newspaper wrappers off their brand new bleachers...

JRjr
 
Anyone remember when Carson & company decided to go to artificial turf, they debated whether to get it in a goldish color so as to resemble died out grass in the winter? Purpose being so it might not absorb so much heat during summer and early fall.

Kind of glad that idea didn't come to fruition.
 
texstinger said:
Anyone remember when Carson & company decided to go to artificial turf, they debated whether to get it in a goldish color so as to resemble died out grass in the winter? Purpose being so it might not absorb so much heat during summer and early fall.

Kind of glad that idea didn't come to fruition.
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Why not go with white turf and then paint the stripes and markings green? Just to give people watching at home the initial scare that their TV is broke.
 
vapspwi said:
In the 1990 NC State game at Grant Field, players’ shoes were melting (the glue holding the soles on the cleats).

I wonder if Tulane ever got the melted newspaper wrappers off their brand new bleachers...

JRjr
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That wasn't a new problem, either.

Not Adidas, not SpotBilt, not Puma, not Riddell could solve the disintegrating (or melting) shoe problem from 1968 to 1990.

Nike was just coming on the scene, but they wouldn't have done it either.
 
DeepSnap said:
That wasn't a new problem, either.

Not Adidas, not SpotBilt, not Puma, not Riddell could solve the disintegrating (or melting) shoe problem from 1968 to 1990.

Nike was just coming on the scene, but they wouldn't have done it either.
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Wouldn't the simple solution be to not use hot glue?
 
Hah, grass is preferable but the new field turf stuff isn’t bad. Whatever GT chooses as long as it’s for the right reasons is fine with me. The old stuff was bad.
 
KrazieJacket said:
Hah, grass is preferable but the new field turf stuff isn’t bad. Whatever GT chooses as long as it’s for the right reasons is fine with me. The old stuff was bad.
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Modern field turf is pretty cool. Not the Astro Turf of Pepper Rogers's day. Lot of small rubber pellets in a matrix with fake grass to simulate a flexible surface under foot. Under-drained like grass, no crown to the field.
Great for heavily used fields and it is FIFA approved. Ironically, you still have to water them to keep the rubber from getting hard. The surface also gets hot, unlike grass. Used a lot in NCAA baseball.
"Artificial turf was first used in international competition at the FIFA U-17 World Championship Finland 2003. Ten matches including the Final were played on a “FIFA Recommended” artificial surface. Widespread approval from the teams and positive findings in terms of injuries proved that artificial turf is the best alternative to grass. The latest generation of artificial turf, especially designated for football, replicates most of the qualities of grass, and is fully acceptable at all levels of the game."
https://www.fifa.com/about-fifa/new...ial-turf-now-covered-laws-the-game-90911.html
So much for that.

Always keep historic BDS a grass field.

Always.
 
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So... what I said. I haven’t taken the time to look into which requires more money. Cost and maintenance. I’m more old school and like the game played on grass but if it is cheaper to maintain the field or brings some positives to recruiting either way I am good with it. Is why I said whatever GT chooses for the right reasons.
 
JJacket said:
And, remember playing at Tulane to start the season several years back? CPJ said he had never before had players complain during a game that their feet were burning.
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I believe it, that was the hottest game I've ever been to.
 
KrazieJacket said:
So... what I said. I haven’t taken the time to look into which requires more money. Cost and maintenance. I’m more old school and like the game played on grass but if it is cheaper to maintain the field or brings some positives to recruiting either way I am good with it. Is why I said whatever GT chooses for the right reasons.
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GT currently isn't choosing anything. We already have a real field.

And lose the stupid soccer avatar already
 
JJacket said:
I don't know how anyone played football on that surface. It was like blacktop.
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Temperatures on that material are crazy hot. In the summer months, it isn’t unusual to have shoes melt if you aren’t wearing the right type.

The “turf” is held down by ground up black rubber. That rubber absorbs heat like crazy.
 
If we had trouble with our field maybe. But we have one of the best natural turf fields there is.
 
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