We're going with FieldTurf, but maybe not until next year

[factman]

You have to take all the "grass" off before you can put
Field Turf down!

[hammb]

ok here are the pics i got today at the doyt~

Tis the end of an era.

It's a real shame we were able to maintain good grass for decades, but now suddenly we must get rid of it.

[Zom]

So. BG's rich turf tradition is getting carted away piecemeal by a bunch of grass assassins with a flatbed called the "Sod Squad". What a sodding way way to go. What ignomony. Where's the hearse?

[Flipper]

Kiss it goodbye, Grassholes!!!

J/K....I know how much this bothers you guys, yet I still can't resist taunting you. I'm an evil, immature bastard.. If it's any consolation, I'm going to mow the lawn, set some poisoned raccoon traps and burn some yard wast later on.. (great use of two vacation days). That puts me in direct control of fire, poison and a mechanized sharp object. That is a reciope for mayhem if I ever heard one!!

Tommorrow I'm digging some drainage trenches...if there's any mosquitos out, I might contract west nile or malaria...

[Zom]

Why, you evil immature b'stard. Next, you'll no doubt tell us that you buy tuna from suppliers that aren't fully committed to fishing methods which protect the environment and marine life.

[hammb]

Kiss it goodbye, Grassholes!!!

J/K....I know how much this bothers you guys, yet I still can't resist taunting you. I'm an evil, immature bastard.. If it's any consolation, I'm going to mow the lawn, set some poisoned raccoon traps and burn some yard wast later on.. (great use of two vacation days). That puts me in direct control of fire, poison and a mechanized sharp object. That is a reciope for mayhem if I ever heard one!!

Tommorrow I'm digging some drainage trenches...if there's any mosquitos out, I might contract west nile or malaria...

I'm getting a new (technically slightly used) zero turn Toro delivered tonight. So I'll be mowing too. I think I'll hold off on the poison & fire.

[moneymaker02]

ok here are the pics i got today at the doyt~

Tis the end of an era.

It's a real shame we were able to maintain good grass for decades, but now suddenly we must get rid of it.

You do know that Christopher said that the drainage system is broken because it's like 60 years old and it would cost more to replace it than put in field turf. That was the big factor in his decision to get field turf.

[Flipper]

The drainage system had a lifespan of 20 years. It is now 40 years old. Time to make the change...

[hammb]

I'm all for a new drainage system. I'd just rather cover it with SOD than FieldTurf.

[1987alum]

As if this day weren't going bad enough. Now I'm really depressed.

[Rightupinthere]

As if this day weren't going bad enough. Now I'm really depressed.

I couldn't see the pics at work. I shouldn't have looked.

I'm going to barf.

[Flipper]

Kiss it goodbye, Grassholes!!!

J/K....I know how much this bothers you guys, yet I still can't resist taunting you. I'm an evil, immature bastard.. If it's any consolation, I'm going to mow the lawn, set some poisoned raccoon traps and burn some yard wast later on.. (great use of two vacation days). That puts me in direct control of fire, poison and a mechanized sharp object. That is a reciope for mayhem if I ever heard one!!

Tommorrow I'm digging some drainage trenches...if there's any mosquitos out, I might contract west nile or malaria...

I'm getting a new (technically slightly used) zero turn Toro delivered tonight. So I'll be mowing too. I think I'll hold off on the poison & fire.

Zereo turn? A riding mower? you wuss...I do a couple of acres with a push mower that isn't even self propelled. Actually, I did use a tractor, but the trannny blew. I mowed it with the push mower for a couple months last year and dropped close to 30 lbs. I's a rreally crappy mower, so I have to rake the whole two acres or so to get the clippings off the lawn so I don't get too much thatch. Thatch is like jock itch to a lawn.

I'm gonna go burn stuff now...I'm not going to put poison in the animal trap. I'm afraid the little bugger will evade caputre and die elsewhere only to be consumed by one of my neighbors dogs. That could be very ugly... If I catch the little bugger I'm either going to kill him in the trap or take him several miles up the road and dump him off by some woods.

I hate raccoons...the little SOB has already mixed it up with my cat (at least I think it was a raccoon that she treed last weekend) and I really don't want to chance a rematch.

[transfer2BGSU]

As if this day weren't going bad enough. Now I'm really depressed.

Dear Lord,

We bow our heads and pray.

Pray for those that do not recognize that football is to be played on grass.

We pray for those lost souls that only see $$$ for possible use of our beloved Doyt Stadium for state high school football contests.

Please dear Lord, do not tell Doyt, Bo, or Woody what we have done to this once sacred, hallowed ground that used to be fun to go watch a football game at.

Now we become like the rest of the conference. Playing on fake grass with little rubber pellets that can come up from the ground and hit a player in the eye. For they do not remember the words of their own Mother, "It's always fun and games until someone gets their eye poked out!"

That game against Miami when football was played in all of its glorious elements - the mud, the rain, the wind (and how we were huddled in the Falcon Club tent in the south endzone) is all but a distant memory.

Alas, good-bye our good friend, real grass. Hammb, '87, and I will fondly reminisce about the days when real football was played at dear ol' BGSU.

And the good people said "Amen".

[Rightupinthere]

Dear Lord,

And the good people said "Amen".

The dear lord has a name: Doyt L Perry - and he's pissed too!

[It's the Journey...]

Please dear Lord, do not tell Doyt, Bo, or Woody what we have done to this once sacred, hallowed ground that used to be fun to go watch a football game at.

You do know Ohio Stadium had astroturph at least a few years Woody coached there, right???