Hope the new baseball coach...

[DAWG61]

rips up the fake turf and we get dirt and grass again. Who cares if some maintenance dudes have to put down chalk lines and pat down dirt every couple of days. It looks a million times better. Can't have the best stadium in the country with fake turf in the batters box.

 

[512taylor]

I agree. I never liked how that looks.

 

[Bob Sacamano.sixpack]

I agree, but, unfortunately, if either McDonnell or Tadlock is the next coach, his current preference might not change this situation.

Both Louisville and Texas Tech play on full artificial turf fields.

 

[Faustdog]

The turf is a Cohen thing. It isn’t going anywhere.

 

[Xenomorph]

The dirt turf is hideous.

 

[HumpDawgy]

I vote to get rid of the flubber.

 

[ababyatemydingo]

The turf is a Cohen thing. It isn’t going anywhere.

if a new coach comes in and wants it gone, it will be gone. If I'm the new coach, and Cohen is micromanaging baseball, and told me the turf stays, I'd have serious reservations as to whether I made a good decision about taking the job.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Regardless of looks, it's got to be hell on a catcher.

 

[RocketDawg]

Absolutely.

 

[dawgstudent]

That's a Cohen thing I think.

 

[squirldawg]

Went to Auburn this weekend and Butch has kept the tradition going with fake turf in the batters box and down the sidelines. Went to Alex Box a couple of weeks ago and LSU has fake turf in both foul territories, but not in batters box.

 

[o_Native Son]

It looks terrible. Embarrassing.

 

[InTheIttaBenaHotSun]

I'm a turf guy and was on campus for a game two years ago. I struck up a conversation with someone in maintanance between innings and the word I got was that if it was up to Cohen the whole field would be Field Turf.

Guy I spoke with said Cohen really liked Vandy's field cause it was so consistent from a fielding stand point.

I understand having the Field Turf in front of the dugouts because of wear but not in the batters box, down the lines or in the warning tracks. I don't like it but I understand it.

 

[HumpDawgy]

Cohen needs to understand that we are M State (or whatever) and we know how to grow grass and dirt. Oxford Plantation has to use the fake flubber stuff.

 

[WilCoDawg]

How was it basking in the glow of the best sec coach?***