This may be a dumb question so please don't flame me. I love the grass surface at Tiger Stadium and consider it a valued tradition. But with the type of team LSU has become under Saban with the speed and aggressiveness we now possess would it be to our advantage to change the playing surface?
many have discussed that and the new surface types are as close to god-made as ever before and are great. I think they should do it but I dont think it will happen anytime soon.
I believe that after this season LSU is supposed to be putting in a completely new natural surface and a "state-of-the-art" drainage system. I hope the new surface allows us to use our speed more to our advantage.
The new surface will still be grass. I'm glad because I would absolutely hate to see turf in Tiger Stadium.
pre-game shows all talked about how the turf was cut extremly tight which made me think or wonder how close cut the field had been in prior years. I just ass-u-me-d that this was done for the speed on the team.
they SUPPOSEDLY fixed the field in early 1990's. however 6 inches of sand was put in instead of 12 inches. drainage wasnt taken out of LSU system and sent to river. if they werent cheap back then we wouldnt need a new field
The field supposedly has a state-of-the-art drainage system under it, already. But Skip just sent another email explaining the steam that came out of the visitors portal during the game. Apparently there was a problem with the LSU main drainage that allowed backed up water to come in contact with hot pipes creating the steam. Perhaps these problems affected the under-the-field drainage system. The water has to have somewhere to go.
Stay with grass, but improve drainage, some teams have grass fields that actually suck water from below , that is what the Tigs need , not ground up tires
I feel the same way. I know the new trend is to get one of those fancy turf (looks like grass) fields, but I like the idea of Tiger Stadium having a real grass field. It adds to the atmosphere of playing college football. Three things I could live without . . . black unis for the Tigers, a dome over Tiger Stadium, and fake grass in Tiger Stadium.
