I used to volunteer on the Turf Crew when I was a student and even after I graduated. There's no way you can develop a good strong root system if you rip it all up every year after that ridiculous show. Takes many years to develop. That's why the grass doesn't stay down and is always coming up so easily. There's no developed root system down in there to keep it in place. Don't know why they just cant cover it all up with heavy tarps for the show. The grass is not going to die from several days of being covered. Ripping the entire field up just doesn't make any sense!
I don't know much about grass except I hate to mow it but the public stadiums where they play several high school games a week as well as kiss football on Saturdays doesn't look as bad as Tiger Stadium did before the first quarter was over. They can't afford new turf every year for those fields. Maybe they have better developed root systems than Tiger Stadium because of that.
I just found out that the contract with Bayou Superfest specifies that they pay for the field to be resodded every year so LSU spends that money for resodding. My source also hints that there is the possiblity of kickbacks from the company that does the resodding to some higher up in the LSU system
i only saw the one obvious bad play by Jefferson. I think the blown coverage tds were on paris and toliver.
He blew at least one. And Beckwith had short coverage that he blew and left a receiver in single coverage with a safety. Too many players out of position.
