The natural grass is better suited for us because it can be maintained just fine in our climate. the reason it got so messed up this year was because we had 5 straight home games and colder than average weather.
A football field should be beat up late in the season. It has always been this way. Who needs a pristine grass surface in the off season. It has 9 months to recover. I don't mind a muddy field at all. It's part of football, like playing in the rain.
Like I said, I like natural grass but LSU has had problems with the field for year's now and when the head coach comments how bad it is and something needs to be done about it and no one seems to have a good answer. Put in a synthetic grass surface. Just embarrassing to me that nearly every school in the state has a better playing surface than LSU. Something wrong with that, imo.
Could we use this guy's playing surface? I know it's not specific to football but it seems like we might have been following at least the second part of his theory toward the end of the year. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmxcmpR1GQA
Read this article in today's Advertiser discussing the playing surface at Tiger Stadium. http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20081211/SPORTS/812110331/1006
Sure...hope...not! Football is meant to be played on grass. But Tiger Stadium doesn't seem to hold up as well as some other sothern stadiums whose playing field is grass, for some reason.
Well, Nicholls' field is nice. Thanks to the Mannings, but real grass is where it's at. I know it's different, but have you ever tried playing baseball on that awful infield turf they used to have? Ugh!
