Support RG on summer concerts at Folsom

[onealcd]

Agreed. Mile High was completely re sodded this Spring. There has since been one huge country concert there (Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line) and another one is coming up on August 8th (Kenny Chesney and Jason Aldean). Not an excuse at all.

Mile High hasn't been in very good shape the last couple of years though. The end of last year was a dirt lot.

 

[The Alabaster Yak]

Mile High hasn't been in very good shape the last couple of years though. The end of last year was a dirt lot.

My point is that they completely re sodded the field and still allowed two major concerts to be played there.

 

[onealcd]

My point is that they completely re sodded the field and still allowed two major concerts to be played there.

Yeah but you know the turf guys had no say in that. They don't approve of any concerts on their sacred ground haha. I think Folsom should be converted to turf and keep the practice fields that they use most of the time grass to limit injuries. This would save the AD money on upkeep and would allow for more events to increase revenue as well.

 

[The Alabaster Yak]

Yeah but you know the turf guys had no say in that. They don't approve of any concerts on their sacred ground haha. I think Folsom should be converted to turf and keep the practice fields that they use most of the time grass to limit injuries. This would save the AD money on upkeep and would allow for more events to increase revenue as well.

Turf is nice for ****ty weather, but when it's nice and sunny out, that turf makes the playing field ridiculously hot. Even when it's 70 degrees outside, the sun warms the turf so quickly and it gets to the point where it's uncomfortable being on it.

 

[onealcd]

Turf is nice for ****ty weather, but when it's nice and sunny out, that turf makes the playing field ridiculously hot. Even when it's 70 degrees outside, the sun warms the turf so quickly and it gets to the point where it's uncomfortable being on it.

Oh come on it's not that bad. Yeah it gets about 5 degress warmer than normal but it isn't unbearable.

 

[Quattro]

Oh come on it's not that bad. Yeah it gets about 5 degress warmer than normal but it isn't unbearable.

Check that...

In the shade it's 86 degrees. But out in the center of the soccer field where kids are playing soccer, the sun is directly overhead. Holding his thermometer waist-high, he gets a reading of 160.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93364750

Synthetic turf fields absorb heat, resulting in surface temperatures that are much higher than the temperatures of the surrounding air. In June 2002 at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah, the average surface temperature on a synthetic turf field was reported to be 117°F while the average surface temperatures on natural turf and asphalt were 78°F and 110°F, respectively. A maximum surface temperature of 200°F on the BYU synthetic turf field was reported. A turfgrass specialist at the University of Missouri reported measuring an air temperature of 138°F at "head-level" height on the university's synthetic turf field on a sunny 98°F day. The surface temperature of the field was reported to be 178°F. A study conducted at Penn State University measured surface temperatures on experimental plots of nine different types of infilled turf. Temperature measurements were made on three occasions. The average air temperatures reported were 79°, 78°, and 85°F. The corresponding average surface temperatures reported for the synthetic turf plots are 120°, 130° and 146°F.

https://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/outdoors/synthetic_turf/crumb-rubber_infilled/fact_sheet.htm

Field turf can be absolutely miserable to play on.

 

[The Alabaster Yak]

Oh come on it's not that bad. Yeah it gets about 5 degress warmer than normal but it isn't unbearable.

Ha, no way. From my experience, that turf gets extremely hot.

Edit: Thanks, for the research. Last season for our JV games, I remember having to coach at two separate schools that have it installed, and by half time (12:30ish) you couldn't really stand in one place on the turf for more than a minute or so before your feet started burning up.

 

[onealcd]

I practiced on turf all of high school and it never felt like 117, it wasn't even that bad. During the middle of summer it gets hot but you usually don't practice during the worst times (usually in the morning). During the fall it is perfectly fine. A bunch of other teams get away with it in much warmer climates.