Ryan Field's turf
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I remember going on the field at the end of the artificial turf era. I remember thinking how nasty it was up close. The turf looks really horrible looking at it on tv. It is an embarrassment. I guess the turf got torn up by the opposition in the first 2 home games.
Yes I know Fitz. It was my failed attempt at stealthy sarcasm regarding our team's effort in the first *2* home games, that the opposing teams "tore it up" in those 2 losing home games.
The condition of the artificial surface at the end of its life was really brutal. Lots of tears in the carpet and just a surface so hard it must have caused the players a lot of pain landing on it.
The current condition of the field is unacceptable. I'd like to hear a response from our AD how it was allowed to get in such horrible shape.
I'm just glad you guys are not happy with it, and are not making excuses. The field pictures look like a bad high school field. With all your money how is this even allowed to happen?
How can we have an incompetent offensive coordinator, a terrible wide receivers coach, and an offensive line coach who has managed to hang on to a job he is not qualified to hold for more than 5 years while former players, boosters and us 200 fans constantly call for change? HOW CAN EVERYTHING SUCK AND OUR HEAD COACH GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO PRAISE HIS STAFF AFTER BEATING A PIECE OF SH*T DUKE TEAM?
There are a variety of questions we can not answer around here, and the lack of attention to the field is the least of our concerns.
O, but our jerseys look nice, and the lunch boxes we make for players after they have 1 good season (which now have a direct correlation with that player getting injured)
Has anyone provided you with an explanation, Lou? Seems awfully odd since apparently we were a top-10 grass field last year...
https://www.lawnstarter.com/blog/landscaping/best-natural-turf-college-football-stadiums/
Thanks. Someone tweeted that this condition is particularly bad in the midwest this year and may be the cause. Have no idea if there is any merit to this claim tho. Of course, Nebby fans are tweeting nonsense about it that the should cancel the game, etc.etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythium_in_turfgrass
Never understood the excuse that the field is the reason for the win/loss. Presumably both teams are playing on the same field. So the field is subpar? NU players have to deal with it every bit as much as UNL players. Such a stupid issue.
This summer was pretty good, actually -- lawns in the Chicago area look better than they have in a while. Last year and the year before had dry, hot summers that ravaged lawns, but this year was pretty temperate. I don't know what NU's excuse is.
Your post cracked me up, and that's why I gave it a thumbs up. Nice effort on a Friday night.
Problem is that it looked like that in week one. Why? And now three weeks later, shouldn't someone have had their *** chewed to the point where it would be addressed by now?
I suspect it is a strategic move. When NU shows up in Army-type camouflage uniforms tomorrow they will be hard to see against the mottled turf, and that may be the kind of advantage the offense needs.
Many of the lawns around where I live about a mile or so from the stadium have been invaded by some type of fungus. It all started to happen about the time the football season kicked off.
There is a fungus among us. Probably why the OL cannot block.
I walked the field a week before the first game and it was in very good shape. Have no idea what happened since. Looks almost like it is diseased.
That's exactly what it is. Likely something called Summer Patch from the looks of it.
My hunch is that whoever the new guy in charge is overwatered the turf given the amount of really heavy downpours we had in August - and with heat, basically created a Petrie dish under the surface and didn't apply the proper treatmentd in time. We should be irrigating less and making sure the nitrogen levels are high enough. By hunch is we did neither. Summer Patch is controllable if you're paying attention. We clearly were not.
Now that you mention it, I think you're right. You rang a bell. I remember hearing in the beginning of the season that the field had some kind of a fungus.
I've had it the last 3 summers in NC. All you need to do is spray some sort of fungicide on it and it goes away nicely. Hot wet weather is ideal for it. And once you get it, you pretty much need to treat every year.
It started with those torrential rains we had in August, particularly that really bad one about a month ago, which they said dumped 5 inches in this area but really dumped about 15 inches of rain in some sort of micro-downpour around here. My wife's calf-high gardening boots were full to the top after that rain!!!
Then came serious heat and humidity after that... A classic recipe for Summer Patch. Particularly with bluegrass (we have a rye/bluegrass mix).
Most homeowners are clueless about these things so I'm not surprised to see it with homeowners. But professional turf people should know better. If NU didn't turn off the sprinklers, and they failed to get the right fungicide down early, that'd do it...
Then came serious heat and humidity after that... A classic recipe for Summer Patch. Particularly with bluegrass (we have a rye/bluegrass mix).
Most homeowners are clueless about these things so I'm not surprised to see it with homeowners. But professional turf people should know better. If NU didn't turn off the sprinklers, and they failed to get the right fungicide down early, that'd do it...
I have had two different types of fungi attack my lawn several times in the past two years,One more in dry weather and one in wet weather. I have had to re-sod several hunks of the lawn both this year and last year, as one type of fungus strikes quickly and kills to the roots . It is definitely a different type of disease because of the climate and type of grass, but the point is that if you suspect a disease is attacking your lawn and you must treated immediately. It will only get worse. I am a believer in using a granular fungicide instead of liquid because it is like time release and does not quickly leech into the ground or get washed away by heavy rain .
Obviously I am in a different climate and have a different type of grass, this horrible crap known as Saint Augustine which feels like industrial grade carpet, but one of the diseases that has attacked my lawn the last two years follows the same pattern, heavy rain in August or September followed by unusual hot and humid weather seems to make the disease a lot worse. I did not have a clue what it was when I was first attacked by either disease. I have now learned to zap it thoroughly with fungicide at the first sign of a problem.
Man, I sure hope NU wins. Otherwise we have a full week to discuss grass fungi.
Saint Augustine is awesome from keeping barefoot people off your lawn! It hurts to walk on.
You can get carpet burn rolling around on my front lawn. That does not mean that you are invited to roll on my lawn and test it out. Usually at least once a year I visit my sister in Louisville, and everywhere you look there are lawns with beautiful Bluegrass. However, I get to walk around in January in shorts and T-shirts, so I will tolerate Saint Augustine
I was at a Waubonsie Valley football game recently and the grass field was just beautiful. Granted Aurora/Naperville is far from Evanston but unlikely to be a material factor in the dramatic discrepancy in field condition.