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Field conditions at Ohio Stadium

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Dryden;935386; said:
First caller this afternoon for JT's call-in show on 1460TheFan seriously asked Coach if he could use his leverage at the University to change the color of the end zones, because the caller thought we should be using gray paint for the names in the end zones rather than white, because that's how it always looks at the Fiesta Bowl, and it's a good look. Funnily enough, JT said that that was the plan, but when his staff met with the grounds crew and university officials, they discovered that the gray paint they had received for the turf turned out to be too dark (like a charcoal color) and not the official gray the University uses, so they voted to just go ahead and use the white paint, since they had plenty of it.
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Hold on there Big Fella, those letters were sewn in, I don't think they were painted. See this post....
 
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coastalbuck;935420; said:
Hold on there Big Fella, those letters were sewn in, I don't think they were painted. See this post....
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Don't shoot the messenger. That's the way JT phrased it.

Maybe he was referring to the way they are manufactured, that the gray they wanted isn't available, so they ordered white?
 
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Dryden;935428; said:
Don't shoot the messenger. That's the way JT phrased it.

Maybe he was referring to the way they are manufactured, that the gray they wanted isn't available, so they ordered white?
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He was referring to the manufacturer. The gray color that they make wasn't our gray so they decided to go with white.
 
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Things have been going too good for us lately, I guess. Our most heated arguments center around how our school colors should be leveraged!

When there's nothing to talk about along the lines of player conduct, or coaching decisions, the only thing left is whether or not our endzones are "scarlet" enough.
 
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I think the field looks good, and I think some people just need something to complain about. It's gonna take time for the pellets to settle. I'm glad the team has a more reliable and consistent surface to play on.
 
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jlb1705;937757; said:
I think the field looks good, and I think some people just need something to complain about. It's gonna take time for the pellets to settle. I'm glad the team has a more reliable and consistent surface to play on.
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I don't look at it as complaining. I look at it as just stating factual observations. You pay for a new field; you should get something that looks likes a new field. If in fact the pellets have to "settle in"; why can't they run some type of vibrator over the field to "effect the process"?
 
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I fail to see how this would help. :confused:


Would the grounds crew have to 'talk dirty' to the Field too while they do this procedure?



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It almost looked like some extra rubber was applied to me too. That is a possibility, although there would have had to be a reason for it. As far as compacting it, only why I know to speed up the process is to wet it heavily and roll it. Care needs to be taken though, you don't want it compacted too much. Static electricity has an effect on this too, If the field develops a static charge, the particles sort of repel each other. Believe it or not, it may just need a quick application of Downy or something to control the static. :biggrin:
 
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