Moving to Grass Practice Fields

[djw004]

Do we make anything of this? Moving to natural grass on practice fields - eventually see Memorial as a grass field?

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Fewer concussions on grass

 

[huskerj12]

Bring on the grass

 

[Snockered69]

Fewer concussions on grass

My thoughts as well. More for player health was the reasoning. Also development? Can’t cut as quick on grass and you really have to concentrate on proper footwork so maybe some developmental reasoning as well.

 

[MtnHusker]

Do we make anything of this? Moving to natural grass on practice fields - eventually see Memorial as a grass field?

I love it. Hated playing on turf. Granted it has improved since I played but some of those shitty stadiums like KU & Mizzou were basically like a thin layer of green carpet over concrete. My knees & legs were sore for days after playing at Mizzou's or KU's stadium. Just sucked the life out of my legs. I always said if I was a Free Agent in Major League Baseball that I would only consider teams that played their home games on grass fields because of how much the astroturf sucked. Maybe it is better now but I still prefer grass. Plus nothing better than a muddy grass stained jersey after a game on grass.

 

[Irv]

Wouldn't it make sense to have your actual field go grass then?

 

[Steveweiser316]

Fewer concussions on grass

I think there’s fewer injuries on grass too. May have heard it in regard to the NFL and players wondering why the owners wouldn’t pony up the dough for grass fields in every stadium.

 

[Stenge85]

Significantly less knee injuries on grass

 

[Carm]

Wouldn't it make sense to have your actual field go grass then?

Yes

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

I love it. Hated playing on turf. Granted it has improved since I played but some of those shitty stadiums like KU & Mizzou were basically like a thin layer of green carpet over concrete. My knees & legs were sore for days after playing at Mizzou's or KU's stadium. Just sucked the life out of my legs. I always said if I was a Free Agent in Major League Baseball that I would only consider teams that played their home games on grass fields because of how much the astroturf sucked. Maybe it is better now but I still prefer grass. Plus nothing better than a muddy grass stained jersey after a game on grass.

I detest fake fields in baseball, but still kinda like them in football. I know they still have issues (even though they've come a long way from the early days), but there's something about the aesthetics that just hits home & makes it feel like big time college football.

Maybe not logical, but so clean & cool.

 

[Huskerforlife]

Soccer is played only on natural grass and never on turf. It only makes sense to do that in college football.

 

[lee_carvallo_12]

Go back to the 1/8th inch AstroTurf over concrete we dominated on in the 80's and 90's. Huge crown in the middle of the field, too.

 

[Mavsker]

Soccer is played only on natural grass and never on turf. It only makes sense to do that in college football.

UNO soccer plays on turf

 

[Huskerforlife]

UNO soccer plays on turf

I stand corrected. Ok, most soccer is played on natural grass, especially European and South American soccer.

 

[MtnHusker]

I think there’s fewer injuries on grass too. May have heard it in regard to the NFL and players wondering why the owners wouldn’t pony up the dough for grass fields in every stadium.

Maintenance costs are so much higher on grass. But I think worth it. When the new Arizona Cardinals Stadium was built they showed how their grass field was on basically a slab that was on train tracks. So they took the grass out into the sun when they weren't playing on it. Crazy, and couldn't have been cheap.

 

[HuskerDocCo]

make memorial grass then you stupid sonofabitchs !! love grass, ridin my John deere mowin the lawn every Monday mornin w/ my coffee in the summers ahhhhh the memories FARRTT

 

[HuskerDocCo]

I stand corrected. Ok, most soccer is played on natural grass, especially European and South American soccer.

gotta remember UNO is a buncha dumbshits Herb

 

[Cookiemonster]

Most pro soccer teams switched to turf only to prevent leg injuries. When the euro league teams comes to the USA to play exhibitions they make them put in grass fields.

Nfl and college teams need to go grass imo.

 

[CornHub]

Maintenance costs are so much higher on grass. But I think worth it. When the new Arizona Cardinals Stadium was built they showed how their grass field was on basically a slab that was on train tracks. So they took the grass out into the sun when they weren't playing on it. Crazy, and couldn't have been cheap.

That's not the best example as they have been having field issues and it was absolute garbage for the Superbowl. It felt like the field conditions dominated the conversation.

 

[herbsinator]

gotta remember UNO is a buncha dumbshits Herb

You’d rather copy a bunch of commie euros doc?