OT - Turf for the Yale bowl?

[Padutch5]

Both the Yale Bowl and Rentschler Field should go to hybrid natural turf system. Both fields are below grade and close to the water table. It is part of the reason the fields look and play terribly as early as October each year. It only makes sense to use modern technology to maintain the historic look and supplement the durability and feel on the playing surface. The days of the miniature golf putting green over a cement slab are long over. I would think Walter Camp would agree.

Seriously? I take it the natural grass guys haven't been to the Rent this year. Even in the deluge a couple of weeks ago, the turf held up great. Let's see what the latest studies showing a link between turf and cancer show before we jump on that old bandwagen.

 

[Husky25]

Seriously? I take it the natural grass guys haven't been to the Rent this year. Even in the deluge a couple of weeks ago, the turf held up great. Let's see what the latest studies showing a link between turf and cancer show before we jump on that old bandwagen.

 

[zls44]

Total Nonsense. Yes, the same core crowd travels around pretending us soccer is taking off. The only football that matters in the US is the one with the pigskin. Culturally, the game does not fit. Too slow, too boring, not enough violence. That said bringing in more events is a good thing for local business. Just don't delude yourself that soccer is supplanting football anytime soon..at least not until the U.S. is fully pussified by the socialist elite seeking to transform us.

The stupid, it burns.

 

[huskymedic]

Malafronte's Sunday Gravy:

http://www.nhregister.com/sports/20...-camp-would-be-ok-with-yale-bowl-restorations

>>As reported by our Chris Hunn earlier this week, it’s refreshing to hear Yale is considering another round of Yale Bowl restorations to concrete and bleachers in the seating area, sizeable swaths of which might as well be condemned.

We also confirmed with a source that the school plans to push hard for installation of field turf and lights to make the venue viable for high school championships and other events throughout the course of a calendar year.

There will surely be some blowback. Turf and lights on hallowed college football ground seems blasphemous and unbefitting, kind of like replacing the Wrigley Field ivy with NBA-style LED ribbon board displays. And then there are the neighborhood residents, many of whom would ban Yale from playing football games there if they could, that are bound to oppose increased traffic and disruption.

Fact is, the game has evolved. Grass is difficult to maintain and inhibits speed. Walter Camp would understand it’s time to roll with the changes.<<

 

[junglehusky]

Hey Chip!

 

[junglehusky]

The last thing UConn football needs is turf.

Well it's the second to last thing. The last thing would be a dome where they couldn't beat Southern teams on weather.

But then they could sell naming rights to an air conditioner company, and then not have air conditioning.