Penn State partners with FieldTurf

I’m J. Prescot Nittington the Third

But losing the grass field at Beaver Stadium would be a real shame.

I think that the reason that Tennessee and Penn State still play on natural grass is because of the turfgrass programs. My guess is that the research is geared towards creating some type of Cylon playing surface, one that looks and feels real, but isn’t. And wears a super hot red cocktail dress.

I’d suspect if their turf alchamey is successful, that they would use it.

Think Heinz Field on Monday Night a few years ago.

some kind of field turf that is barely fake would be pretty appropriate

99.99% of all football coaches, baseball managers, soccer managers, and athletic directors treat their turf people this way.

I AM STEPHEN A. SMITH. I WOULD LIKE IT VERY, VERY MUCH IF YOU WOULD SEND THIS COMMENT TO MY FANTASTIC BLACKBERRY.

THANK YOU.

at a country club in Harrisburg, I do know that changing the heights that rapidly will murder a grass. Grass is a fragile and needy mistress.

Cannonball! Cannonball comin’ through, Cannonball!

how do you pronounce your last name

because the way I’m doing it, it makes me sound like I’m saying “you’ra a**hole” and I have a sneaking suspicion that’s probably not correct

Wear and tear is also increased with the coming of the Big Ten season, as some of the conference’s teams, like Ohio State and Michigan are significantly heavier than some non-conference foes such as Akron.

from the original supplier to be ready, and so they had to go to a different supplier. Was the Lancaster guy the original supplier or the replacement?

Beaver Stadium: A decision case in football field management

Regardless of the care taken to control soil water, aera-tion, and fertility—and protect the turf from paint-inducedphytotoxicity—the turf gradually deteriorated. Annual blue-grass (Poa annua L.) and creeping bentgrass (Agrostisstolonifera L.), whose presence is often indicative of poordrainage and excessive soil compaction (Turgeon, 1999),eventually invaded. As a consequence, the field had to beresodded several times since the time it was originally estab-lished to obtain acceptable turf quality. The last resoddingwas in the summer of 1993.

The 1993 Season: Following the intersquad game in May 1993, all sod wascut from the field with a sod cutter and removed. The soilwas deeply tilled with a chisel plow to open the compactedsoil, then disked, harrowed, and graded to break up severe-ly compacted clods. Sod that had been ordered early in theyear was scheduled to arrive in early June; however, due toa severe drought lasting through the spring, the sod was notsuitable for harvesting. Finally, after several false starts,replacement sod was obtained from another producer.Crews were ready to do the installation when the sod arrived1 July. By the time the first load arrived, it was 0830 h (8:30a.m.) and the temperature within the stadium had alreadyexceeded 24°C; by midday, it was 41°C. It took a day and ahalf to complete the job. Large, tractor-mounted rolls ofwashed sod measuring 1.2 m across and 9.2 m long wereunrolled and placed onto the carefully prepared plantingbed. By midafternoon of the second day, all of the sod wasin place and the entire field hand watered. Initially theresults of the sodding operation appeared favorable. Rootingwas proceeding as expected and the new turf was holding upwell, despite the above-average temperatures and droughtyconditions persisting through midsummer. On Friday, 13August, just 8 d before the first scheduled game, however, itwas obvious to nearly everyone that there was a problem.Even under light traffic, sections of sod were easily dis-lodged. What roots had developed earlier in the summerwere now gone; the culprit was later identified by PennState’s Disease Diagnostic Lab as Magnoporthe poae, thecausal organism of summer patch disease (Vargas, 1994, p.76–79).