Looks like the decision had been made!!!!!!!!!

FMBfan07 · Post by **FMBfan07** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:51 pm

Falcon30 wrote:
jpfalcon09 wrote:I'm all for the field turf. Playing high school football on grass was fun, but the first time we got to play at the Glass Bowl it was a 10-fold improvement in terms of the playing surface. I understand that people like the grass because it maintains a throwback style of play, but the reality is that 90% of the schools in the NCAA has switched to turf. It's economical, requires minimal maintenance and will open the Doyt to possible high school playoff games and other events. Whatever will help bring the school more money is a good thing.
BG should immediately look into hosting events like DCI, BOA and OMEA marching band competitions. I know the glass bowel hosts a DCI event, but there is room for a lot more. The FMB should host a showcase.

I am sure that is in the cards soon.

i totally agree with you there. i'd love to see some kind of band show come here. would be great for the band program and our school

CapitalFalcon · Post by **CapitalFalcon** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:59 pm

Bleeding Orange wrote:How in the hell did this conversation devolve into debating the merits of field turf on golf courses? Sometimes I worry about people around here. This is one of those times.

Now that's gold...gold I tell ya!

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:27 pm

CapitalFalcon wrote:
Bleeding Orange wrote:How in the hell did this conversation devolve into debating the merits of field turf on golf courses? Sometimes I worry about people around here. This is one of those times.
Now that's gold...gold I tell ya!

http://www.tourturf.com/

I'm not saying....I'm just saying.

jeebus · Post by **jeebus** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:43 pm

zzzziiinnngg

bgsufalcon24 · Post by **bgsufalcon24** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:58 pm

SaxyIrishTenor wrote:
jeebus wrote:

my personal hopes for the new field. hey ya never know!
Thats what I was hoping for from day 1.

BEST FIELD EVER!!! I will be so happy if we have this field, because the midfield logo and the endzones are perfect.

jeebus · Post by **jeebus** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:22 pm

thanks, thats the field i always wanted too... the only things i wish i would have done differently was use the smaller MAC logos on the 30s. i always liked the idea of the orange and brown player areas too...really remind em they're on our turf feel free to send the mock up to the AD

svillefalcon · Post by **svillefalcon** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:01 pm

bgsufalcon24 wrote:
SaxyIrishTenor wrote:
jeebus wrote:

my personal hopes for the new field. hey ya never know!
Thats what I was hoping for from day 1.
BEST FIELD EVER!!! I will be so happy if we have this field, because the midfield logo and the endzones are perfect.

That field is pretty nice. the endzones are perfect. If we do switch to that logo for the mid field we have to change the helmet logo and i don't think that logo would look good on the helmet at all. But if we are getting new jerseys then maybe the helmet design will be changed too. I like that we are doing these changes. Everything was just so boring. I hope we get jerseys that are embroidered because those paint on ones look so cheap and are worse than my high school football jerseys.

I also think that seating should be put in the south endzone. that would make the Doyt VERY loud when full because whole stdium would be enclosed and the noise couldnt escape through the endzones. I like what CMU has at there stadium with about 20 rows of seats on the opposite end of their lame athletic center that connect with the stands on each side of the field. That would be ideal.

jeebus · Post by **jeebus** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:09 pm

i agree with the south endzone idea... when you see pictures of the south endzone with a chainlink fence and a few people standing around it just kinda looks like a highschool field. i also made a crappy little idea for south endzone alum bleachers/stage area but nobody seemed to care haha guess it wasnt that good but something should be there...something cheaper but not the old metal bleachers.

as for the logo on the helmet, i bet it would work if the orange on the falcon was the same orange as the helmet..it would just look like a black sleaker falcon on the helmet...hmmmm maybe i can flex my photoshop skills again...anything to put off my tcom reading

Bleeding Orange · Post by **Bleeding Orange** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:34 am

BGDrew wrote:
CapitalFalcon wrote:
Bleeding Orange wrote:How in the hell did this conversation devolve into debating the merits of field turf on golf courses? Sometimes I worry about people around here. This is one of those times.
Now that's gold...gold I tell ya!
http://www.tourturf.com/

I'm not saying....I'm just saying.

That is the most insane G*d damned thing I have ever heard of in my entire friggin' life, and is proof that Arnold Palmer has completely lost his mind to outright, rampant senility. On a playing surface as dynamic as a golf surface...field turf? Are you kidding me?

And I DARE you (hammb, I'm looking squarely at you...) to compare a football playing surface to a golf playing surface. Golf is a finesses sport, the skill required to excell at it is predicated upon the ability to adapt to different turf conditions. With all due respect to the sport of football and the participants therin, comparatively, a bunch of 200-350 lbs. idiots running around in a finite area has no corrolation, definitively speaking, to the game of golf.

I can not even believe that I had to go into that much detail. Did anyone know that they make fake ice, too? Fake G*d damned ice?!?! Why don't we debate the merits of fake ice for figure skating vs. hockey, eh?

Bleeding Orange · Post by **Bleeding Orange** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:40 am

Oh, and I fogot to add this to my tyraid - were I to go to a golf course, practice on a fake-assed playing surface, and then actually play on a natural playing surface, I would probably kill the groundskeeper with my barehands. The whole friggin' point of a practice green surface is to give a player a rough approximation of what he or she may encounter out on the course (this is especially important if one is playing for money/beer/bootay).

Holy crap has this whole conversation offended my sensibilities. I hope we get field turf next year and, on top of that, I hope that somewhere on the field will be embroidered the words: "hammb and BGDrew are whiney little bitches."

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:18 am

Bleeding Orange wrote:Oh, and I fogot to add this to my tyraid

Have you ever thought of buying a dictionary for your soapbox, BO?

Just a thought.

I'm hanging onto the fence for the natural grass crew, and think that a whole golf course made out of synthetic stuff is a bit much, I'd really like it if someone would buy my a fake putting green/chipping area for my birthday. It's next month, work quick.

BGAlum2006 · Post by **BGAlum2006** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:05 am

RangerRocket wrote:Toledo will like this change.....

we could still install sprinkler systems and water it...

but seriously, whatever will prevent the embarrassment of the miami game, i'm all for.

our field, if you can even call it that, was a joke. if we can't afford to keep up our field over a season, we should convert it to field turf. i'm all for natural grass, but if we cannot keep the field in playable condition, what is the point of hanging on to it?

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:21 am

Bleeding Orange wrote:"hammb and BGDrew are whiney little bitches."

It's actually spelled whiny, just saying.

I'm a golfer, and honestly I can't hit balls in the off-season because I hate fake turf that much. I was just being a dick, actually.

I'm all for the fake stuff for our stadium if for no other reason then the cost of tearing up our field and re-seeding would be exponentially higher in the long wrong than just throwing down a rug. My only hope is that they get it down now so that the team can get used to it in Spring ball.

mjmorefield · Post by **mjmorefield** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:00 am

I pretend to be a golfer and can't hit balls on grass in the summer.

Why don't we enclose the South endzone with a new basketball arena. That would really change things. Not only for the Football team, but also for the indoor teams that would use the new Anderson.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:06 am

Bleeding, I admit my comparison to a golf course was meant to be over the top, but the logic still applies. Everyone on here was saying that Turf is so much better than grass. So I carried that out to encompass a sport that the turf means exponentially more than it does for football, and say if it is truly better then why don't they use it? Golf on turf magnifies it's differences with grass, but that doesn't mean that those same differences are not there in a football game, they're just more subtle. You say that a major part of golf is the ability to adapt to different turf conditions, and I agree. But isn't it fair to say that the ability to adapt to different turf conditions was a major part of football too? For whatever reason it seems perfectly okay to take that part of the game away, but why? I just heard Gale Sayers on the radio, when asked about Tomlinson as best ever, said that today's players don't have to play in different turf conditions because of the proliferation of better turf. He used that as a reason why he didn't think it was fair to compare LdT to the backs of the past.

I am a whiny bitch, I realize that. While I don't think FieldTurf is the devil, I take exception to the notion that it is so much better than grass. I don't like that after one terrible game we now want to rip it up and replace it with fake turf. We have been able to maintain a pretty nice grass surface for what 40, 50 years now? One really bad experience seems to be causing a lot of people to jump off the ledge and move to FieldTurf. My opinion, obviously in the minority, is that it is not "Better" than grass. It is acceptable, but I just hate the thought of moving away from a natural surface which has been so good to us, just as a knee jerk reaction to one game. Like I said, I LIKE the fact that adapting to turf conditions is part of football.