New turf in the Dome

[06panther10]

Re: New turf in the Dome

I don't see why it wouldn't be installed in time. They have most of the summer to come up with the rest of the money. And I'm sure they already have some of that in place anwyway. I don't think that the actual installation would take that much time.

[Cat80]

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This is perfect!

We just need to hope that the AD feels that the dimensions of the dome are too small to even think about playing soccer in there and to not paint soccer lines on the field. Every turf field in the Gateway has soccer lines and it makes me want to

I think the short-sightedness of the 1970's works in your(our) favor. The sidelines of a soccer field would be close to the overhang of the seats. There is barely enough room for safety for the football players, much less for soccer players. You should be safe from additional lines on the field.

[JD720]

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I don't see why it wouldn't be installed in time. They have most of the summer to come up with the rest of the money. And I'm sure they already have some of that in place anwyway. I don't think that the actual installation would take that much time.

Even if the install doesn't take very long, you have to consider the schedule of the companies that do these installs. Even if the install only takes a week, but there is a two month lead time before they can start, we need to get our stuff sorted out soon.

[Newsbreaker]

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Even if the install doesn't take very long, you have to consider the schedule of the companies that do these installs. Even if the install only takes a week, but there is a two month lead time before they can start, we need to get our stuff sorted out soon.

Not to mention that these are custom jobs. There aren't warehouses of field turf sitting out there waiting to be installed in our specific building.

[jegbomb52]

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Actually, most football fields are the same size. You would be surprised how fast one could be put up. I am not positive on this but I believe that in 05' the UTC Mocs played on grass, in December we played on field turf.

[Newsbreaker]

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Actually, most football fields are the same size. You would be surprised how fast one could be put up. I am not positive on this but I believe that in 05' the UTC Mocs played on grass, in December we played on field turf.

I think the special concern, and being no expert on these turf systems I cannot proffer a guess as to the importance of this concern, is securing the field to the dome structure. It's currently done via those grates under each sideline overhang. I can't believe this is a typical configuration, especially with our very narrow sidelines, so turf would have to be specially constructed to comply.

Then again, it's possible that the first few games are played on the old surface, later season games on the new.

[TH1974]

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Actually, most football fields are the same size. You would be surprised how fast one could be put up.

I agree. The only thing that would hold this up is not having all the $$$. They're not going to have to specially make anything.

[JayJ79]

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Don't forget, this won't be the standard Fieldturf (or whatever) that stays in place the whole time. It is still going to have to be a removable system.

[Trapped in California]

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I think the short-sightedness of the 1970's works in your(our) favor. The sidelines of a soccer field would be close to the overhang of the seats. There is barely enough room for safety for the football players, much less for soccer players. You should be safe from additional lines on the field.

Finally, a real soccer injury.

[Trapped in California]

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BTW - how come they haven't padded the overhangs near the sidelines yet? Or are they waiting for Kenny Shed Jr to play?

[FOTY]

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BTW - how come they haven't padded the overhangs near the sidelines yet? Or are they waiting for Kenny Shed Jr to play?

Or for that matter, anything on the North endzone. I like how it looks with the addition to the North wall, but I just have a concern when something will happen (and how much will it cost the university). How quickly we forget Kenny Shed.....

[ubuntuCAT]

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what am I missing?

[Trapped in California]

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I blame it on my spell checker.

[TravelingPanther]

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BTW - how come they haven't padded the overhangs near the sidelines yet? Or are they waiting for Kenny Shed Jr to play?

The overhangs aren't an issue. It was the south endzone, wasn't it?

[Trapped in California]

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They put the padding up in the south endzone. However, it is a matter of time before someone get decapitated by that overhang.

I think I saw Pat Grace duck under that overhang last year when run out of bounds - he did not avoid it by much.