Field is in GREAT Condition for Gametime

[BoatShow]

It looks glorious!

 

[J187Money]

By the beard of Zeus!

 

[UCPusky]

...It certainly looks like the old scoreboard, but there's no way the field looks the way it does -- must be the new scoreboard with digital ads???? Or did someone Photoshop the old board?

If that's the new scoreboard, then I'm disappointed with the size of the ads. I'd like to see less scoreboard space allocated to ads and more to game video.

Other than that, the field looks great with the alternating cuts of grass.

EDIT: After I posted I now see the photo of full board being used as video. I imagine between plays they will allocate space to ads. Works for me.

 

[SonsOfNutmeg]

I was hoping they might make the field look something like this for this season... but the field does look nice though.

 

[Srqhusky]

We really do have an awesome stadium. It looks amazing

 

[BugsyCT]

Heck, even the concrete under the bleachers looks better after the power wash. Almost looks like a brand new stadium again. Kudos.

Blue endzones would have looked nice, but they should have just switched the border color around the UCONN and HUSKIES lettering from red to blue. Guess they figured there's enough blue accents with the field logos and around the rest of the stadium.

SonsOfNutmeg's mockup looks great BTW.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

I don't understand that at all. LSU endzones are loaded with purple and gold paint..same thing with Alabama, USC, UCLA, Georgia, Florida. All natural grass and all with bold endzones. I'm not bitching about the improvements..love the way the field looks but would prefer bold colors in the endzone that's all

Water based darker colors like our blue aborbs up to 90% of the light needed for photosynthesis, applied over several weeks would harm the grass. Oranges, yellows, reds... tend to be more reflective.

 

[SubbaBub]

Next mission: Make official game day t-shirts more available.

 

[ktuck911]

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Still have the puppy dog on the monitor? or will that be gone by game time?

 

[sportsart]

Still have the puppy dog on the monitor? or will that be gone by game time?

That was a picture of the old scoreboard.

 

[Skiblets]

Water based darker colors like our blue aborbs up to 90% of the light needed for photosynthesis, applied over several weeks would harm the grass. Oranges, yellows, reds... tend to be more reflective.

Not trying to be a jerk here but I'm not buying it

 

[IMind]

Not trying to be a jerk here but I'm not buying it

Michigan doesn't paint there's... neither does Penn State... might be more climate related more than paint color related.

 

[HuskyAlum012]

That was a picture of the old scoreboard.

I'm going to have to disagree with you. I'm pretty sure that is the new scoreboard, just with the old mascot on it. If you zoom in on the picture, it looks like the ads are from a video board. Also, if you look at the picture below, the background used to be one color, but the picture posted earlier, the background of where the screen would be compared to the background of the scoreboard are two different colors. Why they used the old husky is something I do not have an answer for.

 

[sportsart]

Do you not see the new video board in this thread? The post actually says it's the new video board. I promise you the video board in your post is the old one.

 

[HuskyAlum012]

Do you not see the new video board in this thread? The post actually says it's the new video board. I promise you the video board in your post is the old one.

I'm going to have to agree to disagree here. Just looked at them both side by side and it just looks like the original picture has the old logo with ads on the new scoreboard. Not really sure what your seeing here. Compare all three pictures and tell me which two look most alike.

 

[SonsOfNutmeg]

Yeah, I don't either but UConn has asked almost every year to paint the endzones and Rentschler says no

If I was paying $170,000 per game to host football at the stadium which was built and supported still using tax payer dollars and I'm the state's flagship university I'm doing whatever I want to that field.

 

[Husky25]

Michigan doesn't paint there's... neither does Penn State... might be more climate related more than paint color related.

Michigan's field is artificial turf. They changed from Grass a while ago.

I think white background with blue HUSKIES lettering would look good.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Michigan doesn't paint there's... neither does Penn State... might be more climate related more than paint color related.

Bingo. Cool season grasses like ours can't handle it. Down south they are using different species (and in CA) which are considerably more hardy, and which will be getting more sun throughout the season.

 

[Husky25]

Bingo. Cool season grasses like ours can't handle it. Down south they are using different species (and in CA) which are considerably more hardy, and which will be getting more sun throughout the season.

Seating and surface[edit source | editbeta]
The stadium's original capacity was 72,000, but Fielding Yost made certain to install footings that could allow for expansion up to 200,000 seats. Initially, all seating consisted of wooden bleachers. These were replaced with permanent metal seating in 1949 by Crisler, who was athletic director at the time. From 1927 to 1968, the stadium's field was covered in natural grass. This was replaced with TartanTurf in 1969 to give players better traction. However, this surface was thought to be unforgiving on players' joints, and the stadium returned to natural turf in 1991. This too became problematic, as the field's below-surface location near the water table made it difficult for grass to permanently take root. The field was converted to FieldTurf, an artificial surface designed to give grass-like playing characteristics, in 2003.[28] In 2010, it was upgraded with a brighter and higher quality version of field turf called Duraspine.[29]

 

[UConn Dan]

Yeah, I don't either but UConn has asked almost every year to paint the endzones and Rentschler says no

Probs has something to do with using for other events (eg, soccer)?

 

[Waquoit]

Not trying to be a jerk here but I'm not buying it

Nice off-campus facility.

 

[minidarren]

Nice off-campus facility.

Our screen is bigger...

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Not trying to be a jerk here but I'm not buying it

http://www.ncsu.edu/features/2011/09/turf-war/

You dont do blue on turf , low wavelength

 

[Exit 4]

the other schools probably have a bigger replacement sod budget.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Seating and surface[edit source | editbeta]
The stadium's original capacity was 72,000, but Fielding Yost made certain to install footings that could allow for expansion up to 200,000 seats. Initially, all seating consisted of wooden bleachers. These were replaced with permanent metal seating in 1949 by Crisler, who was athletic director at the time. From 1927 to 1968, the stadium's field was covered in natural grass. This was replaced with TartanTurf in 1969 to give players better traction. However, this surface was thought to be unforgiving on players' joints, and the stadium returned to natural turf in 1991. This too became problematic, as the field's below-surface location near the water table made it difficult for grass to permanently take root. The field was converted to FieldTurf, an artificial surface designed to give grass-like playing characteristics, in 2003.[28] In 2010, it was upgraded with a brighter and higher quality version of field turf called Duraspine.[29]

What is this about? I was commenting with respect to LSU and USC, not Michigan. Michigan, by the way, if it still had grass, would have cool season grasses (fine fescues, ryes and bluegrass) as we do. In the south, those grasses cannot take the heat, and they use zoysia, bermuda and others (which can't tolerate the cold).

LSU (per Wikipedia) uses Celebration Bermuda grass. The Rent has Kentucky Bluegrass. Those grasses will behave very differently, and it's entirely likely that the bluegrass is much more sensitive to the effects of the paint in depriving it of light. Plus, if it gets cool, that Bermuda is going to turn brown fast, unlike Bluegrass, which is greener in spring or fall and browns in the summer and winter.
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/ukturf/Publications/Overseeding%20bermudagrass%20sports%20fields.pdf